It’s Now Official. George W. Bush Is Useless. January 12, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in 2nd Amendment & CCW, Courts and Judiciary.comments closed
He has now turned traitor on the one issue both his (few remaining) friends and (many) foes thought he would never turn on. His JustUs Department is siding with the gun-banners and the city of Washington, D.C. in the case in front of SCOTUS relating to the constitutionality of their handgun ban.
It’s wishing for too much, but it wouldn’t bother me in the least if both Bush and Cheney were impeached tomorrow and convicted by the Senate the next day, in order to make Nancy Pelosi the President. That way, we would have the enemy we can see instead of the enemy we can’t. And with a Democrat in charge, membership in the Council of Conservative Citizens and the rest of the organizational right-wing would skyrocket.
The Cost of Stopping Crime Is Dear January 12, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, Illinois & Metro East.comments closed
Illinois House votes to revive anti-crime program
Illinois lawmakers have voted to re-instate an anti-crime program that was cut from East St. Louis and other communities last year by Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
However, the Illinois House vote on Thursday to revive the scuttled CeaseFire program faces opposition in the Senate, where leaders have stood behind Blagojevich in his ongoing budget battle with lawmakers.
CeaseFire, which cost $250,000 per year in East St. Louis, was part of Blagojevich’s controversial $460 million budget cut in the fall. Workers in the East St. Louis program responded to shootings with marches, midnight barbecues to calm the community, prayer vigils, counseling and referrals to agencies that help with social needs. They even provided job listings to the unemployed.
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CeaseFire Illinois began in Chicago in 1995 as an attempt to reduce violence within the city and then spread through the rest of the state. CeaseFire started in East St. Louis in November 2004. Mendoza’s bill would give CeaseFire programs $12.5 million statewide.
How does doing those things cost a quarter of a million a year in East St. Louis and $12.5 million a year statewide? Actually, even without this program, it wouldn’t cost anything for criminals to stop committing crimes. And if that doesn’t pan out, the only solution that has worked isn’t very expensive, either.
Also fancy that the only two cities specifically mentioned here are East St. Louis and Chicago. Why isn’t there an Operation CeaseFire in Vandalia, or Metropolis, or Jerseyville, or Effingham, or Mount Vernon, or Staunton?
