This was sent in by a reader, so I thought I would share it with you:
Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign the read
“Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed. Once in the restaurant my
server was wearing a “Obama 08′ tie, again I laughed–just imagine the
coincidence.
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him
that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood
there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his
tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. The
server angrily stormed from my sight.
I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server
inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was
grateful. At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I
realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but
the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even
though the actual recipient needed the money more.
I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept
than in practical application.
This woman calls the police because she feels intimidated or violated over a Join The Klan Flyer, but Whites have to listen to a Black Panther say that he hates Whites and wants to exterminate the White Race………
The handouts don’t threaten a specific group or target any particular ethnicity. Instead, they bear a likeness to the Uncle Sam “I want you for the U.S. Army” posters and depict a hooded Klansman with the text:
The KKK wants you! Join today and help us win back your rights that have been given to others in the name of political correctness.
While they might be offensive, the fliers are not illegal, Gruber said. Still, he said, he understands people’s frustration and fear.
He said the police have some leads and are taking the posting of the fliers seriously.
Etesta Hudson, who is black, called police Monday after she found one of the fliers posted on her apartment door. She told authorities she saw the flier as direct intimidation. more
“We are seeing the dawn of a new era of the current Democratic leadership trying to muzzle free speech and the First Amendment,” retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, a Fox News analyst, told HUMAN EVENTS. “It may be the most invasive intrusion that we have seen in our history. There will be more of these tactics to follow.”
Said retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, one of Fox’s first defense analysts, “It’s an affront to freedom of speech. As retired officers, we’re private citizens and can say anything we want under the First Amendment. The whole thing was to explain to the American people what was going on in war and analyzing it.”
Democrats have more in store to try to muzzle conservatives. They talk of reactivating the so-called Fairness Doctrine in which federal government bureaucrats monitor radio and TV programs and rule on their fairness. Conservatives say the real goal is to kill right-leaning talk radio.
Talk radio is the one medium conservatives can turn to for their point of view amid a sea of liberal dogma from the New York Times, Washington Post, Public Broadcasting, the TV networks and Hollywood. If the government forces Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to present liberal points of view, ratings will slip and the shows might be taken off the air.source
The technology companies’ move, which follows criticism that the companies were assisting censorship of the internet in nations such as China, requires them to narrowly interpret government requests for information or censorship and to fight to minimise cooperation.
The initiative provides a systematic approach to “work together in resisting efforts by governments that seek to enlist companies in acts of censorship and surveillance that violate international standards”, the participants said.
In a statement, Yahoo co-founder and chief executive Jerry Yang welcomed the new code of conduct.
“These principles provide a valuable roadmap for companies like Yahoo operating in markets where freedom of expression and privacy are unfairly restricted,” he said.
“Yahoo was founded on the belief that promoting access to information can enrich people’s lives, and the principles we unveil today reflect our determination that our actions match our values around the world.” source
Sholom Rubashkin, 49, a powerful member of the Hasidic Jewish community and former head of the kosher plant Agriprocessors, was taken into custody Thursday morning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
He faces three counts: conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens for profit; aiding and abetting document fraud; and aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft.
If convicted, the first two counts carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and fines of up to….source
NORWAY — The stabbing drama suddenly played out around the Gunerius shopping complex around 9am Tueday. One witness said he and his wife were walking down the pedestrian street Brugata after a theater visit when a man came walking “quietly and calmly ” towards him. “Suddenly he raised his arm and he was holding a big Rambo-like knife,” the man told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). My wife yelled ‘RUN’ and we ran into a nearby cafe and yelled for everyone to stay inside and call the police.”
The knife-wielding man proceeded to go on a stabbing spree, randomly assaulting passersby including one woman who was stabbed in the throat, a man whom he stabbed in the arm and another man waiting for a tram in Storgata. More>>>>>>
If ever there was an example of racial double standards its right here. We have seen several cases of Obama effigees hung in trees, only to hear about criminal charges and investigations to find the perpetrators. Yet here you have the effigy of a White woman being hung from rooftop and there is no outcry… Not that I am a McAmnesty Palin supporter, don’t confuse me there. However, it is funny to watch the police scramble anytime one of their pets has been offended by “racism”. Source>>>
Shabazz is chairman of the New Black Panther Party’s Philadelphia chapter. In black beret atop dreadlocks and a black military uniform, he spends most weekdays near City Hall condemning “crackers” and exhorting black passers-by to rise up against their “slavemasters” - and to give him $2 for the party’s semi-annual newspaper.
He is one of the most recognizable black militants in a city known, since the days of MOVE, for its vocal black-extremism community.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate activity globally, listed the New Black Panther Party as among the most active and tough-talking of black-separatist groups.
Black Hebrews also have grown increasingly active in recent years, according to the SPLC, especially in Philadelphia, where robed street preachers shout out their beliefs daily near City Hall, the Convention Center, Germantown Avenue and other heavily trafficked areas.
Followers of the movement claim that African-Americans are God’s true chosen people because they, not the people traditionally known as Jews, are the real descendants of the biblical Hebrews.
Their views, while often just as extreme, tend to be couched in religious rhetoric about “Edomites” (the descendants of Esau) and such terms that barely slow the stride of most passers-by.
But Shabazz is more blunt in his views:
* On whites: “I’m about the total destruction of white people. I’m about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy. . . .”
* On Jews: “I don’t care how much they try to promote the Jewish Holocaust. The African people have suffered a hell of a cost. . . . ”
* On Barack Obama and voting: “He’s a puppet on a string. I don’t support no black man running for white politics. I will not vote for who will be the next slavemaster.” Besides, he added, Obama is “a Negro who doesn’t even support reparations for black people in America.”more
DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria threatened Wednesday to cut off security cooperation along the Iraqi border if there are more American raids on Syrian territory, and the U.S. Embassy announced it would close Thursday because of a mass rally called to protest a deadly weekend commando attack.
Thousands were expected to participate in the government-sanctioned protest. Though authorities usually keep Syria under tight control and Americans have generally been welcomed, violence against U.S. and European interests at protests has erupted in the past.
“The U.S. Embassy will be closed on Oct. 30th due to past demonstrations which resulted in violence and significant damage to U.S. facilities and other embassies,” the embassy said on its Web site.
It also said an American school in the Syrian capital would temporarily shut its doors Thursday and warned U.S. citizens in Syria to be vigilant.
The Syrian government already ordered the closure of the school and an American cultural center linked to the embassy. In Washington, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Syria formally notified the U.S. that the cultural center should shut down immediately and the school by Nov. 6. Source>>>
…….denial of access to Obama’s birth certificate would be authority granted pursuant to Section 338-18 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, a provision the anonymous source claimed was designed to prevent identity theft.
Still, the source told WND confidentially the motivation for withholding the original birth certificate was political, although the source refused to disclose whether there was any information on the original birth certificate that would prove politically embarrassing to Obama.
The source also refused to answer WND’s question whether the original document on file with the Department of Health was a hospital-generated birth certificate or a registration of birth that may have been filed subsequent to the birth.
The anonymous source made clear the Hawaii Department of Health would immediately release Obama’s original birth certificate, provided Obama requested the document be released, but the Department of Heath has received no such request from the senator or from anyone acting officially on his behalf.
WND also found on microfilm in the Honolulu downtown public library a notice published under the “Births, Marriages, Deaths” section of the Honolulu Sunday Advertiser for August 13, 1961, on page B-6, noting: “Mr. and Mrs. Barack II Obama. 6085 Kalanianaole-Hwy, son, Aug. 4.”
In searching through the birth notices of the Honolulu Advertiser for 1961, WND found many birth notices were published between one and two weeks after the date of birth listed.
The notice in the Honolulu Advertiser does not list the hospital where the Obama son was born or the doctor who delivered the baby.
In a startling development, Obama’s Kenyan grandmother has reportedly alleged she witnessed Obama’s birth at the Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.source
Due to years of violence, hate and just being plain criminals, many
Skinheads have projected a very bad public-image, which has been
bought into by the likes of Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman,
which, in turn, has produced some very bad publicity. It is sad to
say, but we bring it on ourselves, if we allow it to happen. The
things we do, what we say and how we act need to be positive,
inspirational and victorious. However, a lot of Skins, who I would
call so-called Skins, have been proud of the assassin, out-of-control
image. I will admit that I was, too, but I now know that it is time
for change.
If anything, the Cowart and Schlesselman caper is awakening Skinheads
to the need to be organized, disciplined and protective. So, where do
we start? Start with our group-activities and public-behavior. How
are we going to do it? Start at the same place where those calling
themselves “Skinheads” created a bad-image. Schlesselman, for
example, sported a goatee and was not the clean-cut, trim,
hippy-opposite, which would qualify him to be a Skinhead, in the
first place. So, if you look like a hippy or gang-banger, you are
going to act like one. So, clean up — and, while you’re at it, tone
up — your body. Read more »
Now keep in mind that this is all public information and anyone of us with time and persistence could compile such a list. But should a newspaper be involved in shaming people into voting?
“The tactic is dirty,” one of those persons, Terrence Alexander, told a reporter in a piece that ran on WTVF NewsChannel 5 in Nashville. “I think they should have had the decency to at least call me.”
Alexander, for instance, said he intended to vote but needed a ride and assistance because of a severe medical condition. “I had a ride supposed to come to get me through the election services. No one ever showed up,” he said.
The list has also spurred outrage among some political bloggers, with one calling it “intimidation,” or, at the least, “pseudo-intimidation.”
Miller-Perry, who did not immediately return a phone message for comment Thursday, told the Nashville station that it “hurts” when registered voters don’t actually vote.
“We need to live up to the civil rights that have been given to us,” she said.
This is not the first time the paper has run a list of non-voting people. In a race for U.S. Senate two years ago, the list apparently encouraged registered voters to vote in the election. Miller-Perry said turnout in one district shot up to 65% from 37% in a previous election.
“Sometimes when you embarrass people they do the right thing,” she said.source
Rip Daniels: I don’t know of anyone else whop would have the
perspective to talk about the neo-Nazis, who were plotting to kill
Barack Obama. I receive his magazine, “All The Way”. Richard Barrett,
leader of The Nationalist Movement, there in Learned, Mississippi.
Good morning, Mr. Barrett.
Richard Barrett: Good morning, Rip. Thanks for having me.
Daniels: It was tragic that these people were plotting to kill
Senator Barack Obama, don’t you agree?
Barrett: Well, all this culture of murder and assassination. It all
actually started with Rosa Parks, who said, “Just don’t obey the laws
you don’t like. I have been saying for years that “Diversity Equals
Death” and “Integration Equals Murder”. I noticed in the Associated
Press this morning, in reporting on that issue, they went to the
hometown, there, in Helena, Arkansas, of one of the boys, and they
interviewed a colored man, and he said, “the whites feel that way and
the Negroes feel that way.” So, I feel that we need solutions, Rip,
and the solution is, “Let’s say ‘no’ to the black-power,” “Let’s say
‘no’ to the integration,” “Let’s say ‘no’ to the hate,” and, maybe,
we can get back to some law and order in this country.
Daniels: I guess, then, that you don’t see any problem with these
guys attempting to kill eighty-eight Negroes and behead fourteen and,
then, go on to kill Barack Obama? Read more »
Is it a Freudian slip, intentional gaffe or a mistake? Voters are sure to have opinions, and one politician pointed out that the letters “s” and “b” are not exactly keyboard neighbors.
“Of all the letters to hit by mistake,” County Democratic Chairman Tom Wade said. “Unfortunately it is a mistake which negatively impacts our Democratic candidate for president.”
The typo was first reported Friday on timesunion.com, and quickly grabbed national attention.source
A West Hollywood Halloween display showing a likeness of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin hanging by a noose has caused a furor among some residents who reported it as a hate crime, authorities said Monday.
But Los Angeles County sheriffs officials said the mannequin sporting a beehive hairdo, glasses and a red coat does not rise to the level of a hate crime because it was part of a Halloween display.
ACORN, a group with a checkered past is finally getting the bad name it deserves. ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, is a behemoth in the voter registration world that masquerades as a non-partisan community organizing group. Its practice of registering phony names for voting purposes has just begun to attract national headlines and FBI investigators this fall, but ACORN’s sordid history of fraud and partisan electioneering dates back to its founding in Arkansas in the 1070s.
Given ACORN’s long relationship with Barack Obama, its widely investigated activities in this election are particularly significant. Obama worked for the organization’s political arm, Project Vote, in 1992; advised the group on legal matters in 1995; and donated over $800,000 from his campaign for “voter registration” efforts to an ACORN-affiliated organization this year. MORE>>>>>>>
When we think of childhood today, we think going to school, engaging in afternoon activities, spending weekends with family and friends and going on summer vacation and sporting tournaments. Pastimes include reading a book, listening to music, talking to friends on the phone, playing video games and surfing the Net. It is a time of doing some chores to help mom and dad around the house. But it is mostly a time of enjoying a young life!
What was it like being a child during the Viking Age, a thousand years ago? Well, it certainly wasn’t like being a child today. For one thing, there weren’t any books, television, video games or computers! And because most children of the Viking Age had to work along with their parents, they had very little childhood at all.
At ten years of age, Viking children were considered to be adults. During their childhood, they didn’t attend school. There just weren’t any schools in Viking times. The printing press had not yet been invented and books, other than religious ones found only in churches and monasteries, did not exist for ordinary people to read. Educating children the way we do today wasn’t possible. And, it really wasn’t necessary. At a time when providing the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter took most of every waking hour, there would not have been time for school anyway.
Just because there weren’t any schools doesn’t mean that children weren’t educated. By the age of five, Viking children were expected to work to support the homestead. Children were required to learn the jobs of the adults. Since most Vikings were farmers, both boys and girls were expected to keep the family farm going.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Nathan Bedford Forrest was a millionaire slave trader, a ruthless Confederate general, an early Ku Klux Klan leader — and the namesake of what is now a majority African-American high school.
After almost a two-year delay, the Duval County School Board next week will consider whether to change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School to Firestone High, after the street it sits on. The board joins other Southern districts that have hotly debated whether to strip Confederate leaders’ names from schools and other buildings.
The squabble is part of the modern South’s never-ending soul searching over the Civil War and its legacy, a discussion that often finds Forrest at the center.
“This guy was a brutal monster,” said Steven Stoll, an adjunct sociology instructor at Florida Community College who is white and supports changing the name of the high school. “Why would you want to keep honoring a person like this? It is an insult to black people.”
LEHIGH ACRES: Deputies set up a perimeter in the hunt for the last of three men who broke into a home on 18th Street SW Tuesday morning. All the suspects, who have not been identified yet, are now in custody. A woman and two children were in the home when they say the three men broke in.
The victims hid in the closet and called 9-1-1 at 11:59 a.m. They then slipped out of the house. When deputies got to the home, they say the three teenage suspects jumped into a car and drove off. After a short chase the trio ditched the car and tried to run. The sheriff’s office then set up a perimeter along Gunnery Road, where deputies used K9 units and the helicopter in the search. Deputies caught the first two quickly, and the third after the search. Johnny Glover, 19, Joshua Pulley, 15, and Tadarian Gary, 16, are charged with Armed Occupied Burglary. Deputies say more charges are pending.
They say two of the three men were armed when they broke into the home. Continued>>>
DETROIT – Kwame Kilpatrick was sent to jail for four months Tuesday for his part in a sex-and-text scandal and the judge chastised the disgraced ex-mayor for arrogance and disregard for the rule of law. Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner’s sentence was the finale to the scandal that destroyed Kilpatrick’s reign at City Hall and threw local government into disarray for months.
“At a time when this city needed transparency, accountability and responsibility, you exhibited hubris and privilege at the expense of the city,” the judge said.
He ruled that Kilpatrick not be given an opportunity for early release. But county sheriff’s spokesman John Roach said in a subsequent statement that Groner didn’t have the standing to order Kilpatrick not receive time off for good behavior.
The judge’s ruling “does not override Michigan Statute that says a sheriff shall credit all sentenced county jail inmates with one day good time for every five days served, provided the individual is a model inmate,” Roach said. Kilpatrick, 38, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, admitting he lied about an affair with his chief of staff while testifying in a civil lawsuit in 2007. He also pleaded no contest to assaulting a sheriff’s detective. Source>>>
Washington – In the name of protecting its forces in Afghanistan and now Iraq, the United States appears to have begun to step up a bold gamble: conducting raids in countries it believes are not doing enough to fight extremist militants.
But taking such actions in Pakistan and now Syria may involve high diplomatic risks and offer limited military gain, say experts outside the military. “It could be morally justifiable, legally justifiable, and strategically a mistake,” says Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
For the past few months, there have been reports of US airstrikes inside Pakistan as violence increased in neighboring Afghanistan. Over the weekend, the US reportedly conducted a strike inside Syria’s shared border with Iraq.
Syrian officials say the US sent four US helicopters across the Syrian-Iraqi border on Sunday to carry out a raid against suspected militants. Damascus claimed that the attack, reportedly carried out by US Special Forces units, resulted in the killing of eight civilians near the border town of Abu Kamal.
Syrian officials described the incident as a violation of international law and a “terrible crime.” Source>>>
WASHINGTON – An impatient White House is serving notice on banks receiving billions of dollars in federal help to quit hoarding the money and start making more loans. White House press secretary Dana Perino told reporters Tuesday that the Bush administration is trying to “get banks to do what they are supposed to do,” which is lend money. Though there are limits on how much Washington can pressure financial firms, she noted that banks are regulated by the federal government.
Perino said that the administration is watching lending activity very closely and working with the banks to step it up. She said that Anthony Ryan, Treasury’s acting undersecretary for domestic finance, was delivering a speech in New York on Tuesday that made this point. Meanwhile, layoffs, plunging home prices and tumbling investments have pushed consumer pessimism to record levels in October, a private research group said Tuesday. Wall Street shook it off, though, focusing instead on higher global markets amid optimism the Federal Reserve will ease interest rates further. Source>>>
The Brooklyn mom accused of beating her 11-year-old daughter to death with a mop handle was charged with murder Monday night, and her boyfriend was arrested for manslaughter.
“I didn’t kill her!” Florencia Vazquez yelled in Spanish as the two suspects were led out of the 75th Precinct late Monday night. Boyfriend Andres Pavon-Balderas looked stunned and managed only a “yes” when asked if he was innocent.
Cops said Vazquez, 36, admitted breaking the mop handle over daughter Alejandra and also told detectives she abused the girl’s older sister, law enforcement sources said.
Alejandra was sent from her father’s home in Mexico to live with her mother last month. Her older sister, Imelda, 14, had already been removed by child welfare services from their East New York apartment Vazquez shared with Pavon-Balderas, 28. Vazquez abused Imelda, forbidding her from going to school and trying to force her to work, the sources said. “They argued and the mother beat this 14-year-old girl and pulled out her hair,” a police source said. Source>>>
The Obama campaign is accusing Republicans of trying to disenfranchise black voters in Detroit and other cities by using home foreclosure lists to turn them away from polls on Election Day. The charges were initially raised by Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters of the Congressional Black Caucus, promoting Obama and the Democratic National Committee to sue the Michigan GOP.
Last month, Waters, D-Watts — who fanned the flames of the deadly Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, earning her the nickname “Kerosene Maxine” - demanded the FBI investigate the rumors. Waters helped fuel the 1992 riots in her South Central District of Los Angeles by shouting, “No Justice, no peace,” along with the rioters, whose murderous behavior she said she found “somewhat understandable.”
James Carville and other Democrat activists have already hinted at similar riots breaking out in heavily black cities in the event Obama, the first African-American presidential nominee, loses the election. Senior NAACP official Hilary Shelton said blacks would get angry if they felt disenfranchised because of voting irregularities. “On Election day,” she said, “You may have some tempers flare.” FULL STORY>>>>>
Before the year is up, nearly 45 million people will get more than a sermon at their churches — they’ll get a brochure titled “Why We Should Be Concerned About Christian Zionism.”
The brochure says Christian Zionism “fosters fear and hatred of Muslims and non-Western Christians” and “can lead to the dehumanization of Israelis and Palestinians.” Its distribution reflects the concerns of Christians who are trying to combat what they call the growing influence of Christian Zionism in the U.S.
“If we don’t speak up against it — Christian Zionism — then people will think we don’t care or that we agree with it,” said the Rev. John Hubers, supervisor of mission programs in the Middle East and South Asia for the Reformed Church in America.
The Reformed Church in America is one of the 35 Christian church bodies that make up the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, which wrote the brochure and began distributing it this month.
“To say we’re dehumanizing Israelis and Palestinians with our support for Israel dehumanizes us,” said David Brog, executive director of Christians United for Israel, one of the most prominent Christian Zionist organizations in the United States. The group was started in 2006 by controversial televangelist John Hagee, senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio.
But what exactly do Christian Zionists believe?
Christian Zionists say they believe that the creation of Israel was ordained by God.
Detractors say Christian Zionism fosters the belief that the return of Jews to Israel has fulfilled one of the steps that will set the stage for Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ to Earth. These detractors say Christian Zionists want to hasten that end time by promoting conflict in the Middle East. Source>>>
Surge in Iraqi immigration expected: Non-profits worry they lack the resources to provide sufficient help for the newcomers. The Chicago area is poised to become a top destination for Iraqi war refugees, according to Illinois officials who worry about finding housing and jobs for the newcomers in a struggling economy.
In the first years of the war, fewer than 200 Iraqi refugees came to Illinois, but more than 1,000 have landed in the state in the last year, and nearly 1,400 more are expected in the next 12 months. Efforts by U.S. officials to admit Iraqis by the thousands could lead to 20 years of Immigration on par with the area’s roughly 30,000 Vietnam War refugees, said Ed Silverman, who directs the Illinois Bureau of Refugee and Immigrant Services. Source>>>
Forrest High School in Jacksonville opened as an all-white school in the 1950s, getting its name at the suggestion of the Daughters of the Confederacy. They saw it as a protest of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that eventually integrated the nation’s public schools.
Now, blacks make up more than half of the student body.
Two 17-year-old seniors at the school say the consensus among students is to leave the name alone.
“As students, (the name is) not a big deal to us,” said Jamal Freeman, a black student, who noted it would cost a lot to change uniforms for the band and sports teams, nicknamed the Rebels.
Sabrina Lampp, a white student, said a change “takes all the memories away.”
Jacksonville has three other schools named after Confederate generals, none as sensitive as Forrest.
“He got a bad rap,” said L.A. Hardee, a member of the board at Jacksonville’s Museum of Southern History. “He was an honorable man. People don’t take into consideration the times. It’s a Southern thing. They ought to keep the name.” source
What about the White Victims of a heinous crime committed by other ethnic groups that they don’t deem “Hate Crimes” unless of course you are dealing with problems/issues/crisis with someone who is queer. I placed a link on queer, because it talks about Homophobia/Hate Crimes.
I’ll list a few victims that where and are Hate Crime Worthy:
Nine murders and two rapes last year were reported as hate crimes, compared with three murders and six rapes in 2006. Of the offenses classified as hate crimes against persons in 2007, nearly 52 percent were assaults and 47 percent involved intimidation. Nearly 63 percent of known offenders were white and 21 percent were black.
In response to the FBI report, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called for “a renewed national commitment to prevent criminal behavior motivated by prejudice.” Although religion-based crimes decreased, it noted, the number of reported anti-Jewish crimes rose slightly, from 967 in 2006 to 969 last year. Crimes against Hispanics also increased for the fourth year in a row, the ADL said, with 595 such incidents reported in 2007, up from 475 in 2004.
“While we welcome the fact that reported hate crimes declined slightly in 2007, violent bigotry is still disturbingly prevalent in America, with nearly one hate crime occurring every hour of every day of the year,” ADL director Abraham H. Foxman said in a statement. more
So, the 29-year-old pregnant Winton Hills mother of six told police she did what she often did to make the food last – she bound her children’s wrists and ankles with plastic handcuffs to keep them from “hoarding food.”
“These kids, mind you, are (ages) 4 and 5,” Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Calambas said Thursday. “They are thin.”
That was part of the evidence that could send Ross and her boyfriend, Christopher Gray, 31, to prison for 10 years each. Ross was convicted Thursday of using plastic flex cuffs to bind the ankles and wrists of two of her children, and for waiting two weeks to take her son for treatment after the 4-year-old burned his hand. Source>>>
The Dallas Housing Authority soon will begin accepting applications for court-ordered rental assistance available to black residents who want to live in predominantly white neighborhoods.
The DHA is required to offer the vouchers only to blacks as part of a court settlement to address past discrimination. And the agency could not find enough takers on its general waiting list for rent assistance, which includes 8,000 applicants of all races. Source>>>
It’s for the good of the country and for those who’re bitter for a reason and armed because they’re scared.
Jonathan Valania
is editor in chief of the blog Phawker.com
As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until we come to our senses. Seriously, I just don’t think we can be trusted to exercise it responsibly anymore.
I give you Exhibit A: The last eight years.
In 2000, Bush-Cheney stole the election, got us attacked, and then got us into two no-exit wars. Four years later, white people reelected them. Is not the repetition of the same behavior over and over again with the expectation of a different outcome the very definition of insanity? (It is, I looked it up.)
Exhibit B is any given Sarah Palin rally. Continued>>>