Trouble-That's something Rodney King knows something about.
Seems he can't even ride his bike down the street minding his own
business then trouble rears it's ugly head. The story below
explains it all and after reading it let us know what ya think.
The troubles of Rodney King -- whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers and their subsequent acquittal touched off riots in 1992 -- continued late Wednesday night when he was shot in shoulder with pellets likely fired from a shotgun while biking in San Bernardino, police said today.
After interviewing King at the hospital this afternoon, police said he reported that two suspects, a man and a woman, approached him and demanded his bicycle. When King rode away, he was shot.
FOR THE RECORD:
Earlier versions of this article said King was shot in Rialto, and with a pellet gun.
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He was recovering from a minor shoulder injury today, according to San Bernardino police Lt. Scott Paterson. Initially, Rialto police said King was shot in the face, upper torso and back.
King called Rialto police at 11:40 p.m. and told them he had been shot at 5th Street and North Meridian Avenue in San Bernardino before pedaling his bike home, according to Rialto police Sgt. Don Lewis.
"We sent a couple of officers out to his address here in Rialto, but he didn't really tell us a whole lot other than he'd been shot," Lewis said. "It looked like birdshot, looked like long-distance shot."
Lewis said Rialto police turned the incident over to police in San Bernardino when King said he had been shot in that community.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Congress Battles Over English Only
Well I for one think that if I must work with someone
then we must be able to communicate for safety reasons.
Another good reason would be to prevent alienation in
the work place. I could probably go on and on but after
all this is America and the language of the land is English.
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A government suit against the Salvation Army has the House and Senate at loggerheads over whether to nullify a law that prohibits employers from firing people who don't speak English on the job. The fight illustrates the explosiveness of immigration as an issue in the 2008 elections.
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then we must be able to communicate for safety reasons.
Another good reason would be to prevent alienation in
the work place. I could probably go on and on but after
all this is America and the language of the land is English.
What do you think? Check out the article below.
A government suit against the Salvation Army has the House and Senate at loggerheads over whether to nullify a law that prohibits employers from firing people who don't speak English on the job. The fight illustrates the explosiveness of immigration as an issue in the 2008 elections.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are pushing hard to protect employers who require their workers to speak English, but Democratic leaders have blocked the move despite narrow vote tallies in the GOP's favor.
For more than 30 years, federal rules have generally barred employers from establishing English-only requirements for their workers. But Senate Republicans have won passage of legislation preventing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from enforcing the rules.
House Democratic leaders, meanwhile, have promised Hispanic lawmakers that the language issue is a nonstarter and the resulting impasse has stalled the underlying budget bill, which lawmakers had hoped to send to President Bush this week.
The EEOC has come under assault from lawmakers such as Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., after the agency filed suit earlier this year against a Salvation Army thrift store in Massachusetts that had fired two Hispanic employees for speaking Spanish while sorting clothes.
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California Supreme Court Wants Speedy Executions
The California Supreme Court on Monday called for a constitutional amendment to ease the backlog in the state's death penalty system, which takes an average of 17 years to execute a condemned convict -- twice the national average.
The amendment would permit the state's high court, which has had exclusive oversight of capital appeals since California became a state in 1850, to transfer review of some death penalty cases to lower courts. Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who announced the proposal, said he wanted the Legislature to put the amendment on the November 2008 ballot.
The system's delays and ensuing backlogs are bad for the condemned inmates, prosecutors and the public interest "in finality and enforcement of the law," George said in a phone interview Monday.
Currently, the state's seven Supreme Court justices spend about 20% to 25% of their time and resources on capital cases, he said. The "ever-increasing backlog . . . threatens to overwhelm the Supreme Court's docket," George said.
The proposal follows a small but significant chorus of voices calling for change in what they describe as a "dysfunctional" system that renders capital punishment as little more than an illusion.
The state has the nation's largest death row population, with 667 inmates -- 652 men at San Quentin and 15 women at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla -- but only a few have exhausted their appeals, which can last decades.
California has executed 13 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978. In the meantime, more than 50 condemned prisoners have died of old age, suicide or prison violence.
The state would have to execute five prisoners a month for the next 11 years to clear inmates now on death row. And the backlog is likely to grow: Thirty people have been on death row more than 25 years, 119 for more than 20 years and 408 for more than a decade.
The amendment would permit the state's high court, which has had exclusive oversight of capital appeals since California became a state in 1850, to transfer review of some death penalty cases to lower courts. Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who announced the proposal, said he wanted the Legislature to put the amendment on the November 2008 ballot.
The system's delays and ensuing backlogs are bad for the condemned inmates, prosecutors and the public interest "in finality and enforcement of the law," George said in a phone interview Monday.
Currently, the state's seven Supreme Court justices spend about 20% to 25% of their time and resources on capital cases, he said. The "ever-increasing backlog . . . threatens to overwhelm the Supreme Court's docket," George said.
The proposal follows a small but significant chorus of voices calling for change in what they describe as a "dysfunctional" system that renders capital punishment as little more than an illusion.
The state has the nation's largest death row population, with 667 inmates -- 652 men at San Quentin and 15 women at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla -- but only a few have exhausted their appeals, which can last decades.
California has executed 13 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978. In the meantime, more than 50 condemned prisoners have died of old age, suicide or prison violence.
The state would have to execute five prisoners a month for the next 11 years to clear inmates now on death row. And the backlog is likely to grow: Thirty people have been on death row more than 25 years, 119 for more than 20 years and 408 for more than a decade.
California Supreme Court Wants Speedy Executions
The California Supreme Court is calling for lower courts
to help it assist in speeding up the appeals of those condemned
to be executed under the states death penalty. This will most
certainly affect those of color on death row. Read the article
below and ring in with your comments on this issue,
The California Supreme Court on Monday called for a constitutional amendment to ease the backlog in the state's death penalty system, which takes an average of 17 years to execute a condemned convict -- twice the national average.
The amendment would permit the state's high court, which has had exclusive oversight of capital appeals since California became a state in 1850, to transfer review of some death penalty cases to lower courts. Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who announced the proposal, said he wanted the Legislature to put the amendment on the November 2008 ballot.
The system's delays and ensuing backlogs are bad for the condemned inmates, prosecutors and the public interest "in finality and enforcement of the law," George said in a phone interview Monday.
Currently, the state's seven Supreme Court justices spend about 20% to 25% of their time and resources on capital cases, he said. The "ever-increasing backlog . . . threatens to overwhelm the Supreme Court's docket," George said.
The proposal follows a small but significant chorus of voices calling for change in what they describe as a "dysfunctional" system that renders capital punishment as little more than an illusion.
The state has the nation's largest death row population, with 667 inmates -- 652 men at San Quentin and 15 women at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla -- but only a few have exhausted their appeals, which can last decades.
California has executed 13 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978. In the meantime, more than 50 condemned prisoners have died of old age, suicide or prison violence.
The state would have to execute five prisoners a month for the next 11 years to clear inmates now on death row. And the backlog is likely to grow: Thirty people have been on death row more than 25 years, 119 for more than 20 years and 408 for more than a decade.
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to help it assist in speeding up the appeals of those condemned
to be executed under the states death penalty. This will most
certainly affect those of color on death row. Read the article
below and ring in with your comments on this issue,
The California Supreme Court on Monday called for a constitutional amendment to ease the backlog in the state's death penalty system, which takes an average of 17 years to execute a condemned convict -- twice the national average.
The amendment would permit the state's high court, which has had exclusive oversight of capital appeals since California became a state in 1850, to transfer review of some death penalty cases to lower courts. Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who announced the proposal, said he wanted the Legislature to put the amendment on the November 2008 ballot.
The system's delays and ensuing backlogs are bad for the condemned inmates, prosecutors and the public interest "in finality and enforcement of the law," George said in a phone interview Monday.
Currently, the state's seven Supreme Court justices spend about 20% to 25% of their time and resources on capital cases, he said. The "ever-increasing backlog . . . threatens to overwhelm the Supreme Court's docket," George said.
The proposal follows a small but significant chorus of voices calling for change in what they describe as a "dysfunctional" system that renders capital punishment as little more than an illusion.
The state has the nation's largest death row population, with 667 inmates -- 652 men at San Quentin and 15 women at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla -- but only a few have exhausted their appeals, which can last decades.
California has executed 13 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978. In the meantime, more than 50 condemned prisoners have died of old age, suicide or prison violence.
The state would have to execute five prisoners a month for the next 11 years to clear inmates now on death row. And the backlog is likely to grow: Thirty people have been on death row more than 25 years, 119 for more than 20 years and 408 for more than a decade.
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Battle On Two Fronts!
The battle against hate crimes and housing foreclosures is
being waged on two fronts by the Reverend Jesse Jackson
and Al Sharpton. The two will take their latest causes to
Washington D.C. and New York. Check out the article below
and tell us what you think about these issues.
Two civil rights activists are attempting to call attention to two prevailing problems affecting the black community. Rev. Jesse Jackson will march on Wall Street next month to protest subprime adjustable-rate mortgages that have sent many poor Americans – of all races – into foreclosures. Meanwhile, Rev. Al Sharpton plans to march in the Nation's Capital today against the rise of noose hangings and other hate crimes following the Jena 6 incidents in Louisiana.
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being waged on two fronts by the Reverend Jesse Jackson
and Al Sharpton. The two will take their latest causes to
Washington D.C. and New York. Check out the article below
and tell us what you think about these issues.
Two civil rights activists are attempting to call attention to two prevailing problems affecting the black community. Rev. Jesse Jackson will march on Wall Street next month to protest subprime adjustable-rate mortgages that have sent many poor Americans – of all races – into foreclosures. Meanwhile, Rev. Al Sharpton plans to march in the Nation's Capital today against the rise of noose hangings and other hate crimes following the Jena 6 incidents in Louisiana.
Rev. Jackson hopes his New York rally, scheduled for Dec. 10 with similar marches the same day in other cities, will press the financial community and the government to relax terms of subprime adjustable-rate mortgages to head off a massive wave of home foreclosures he says will likely hit poorer communities hardest.
Jackson, who has long accused the finance industry of steering minorities to subprime loans, told the Sun-Times that a rally of "borrowers marching on lenders" will be held under the banner "Save our houses -- choose restructuring over foreclosing."This Article Continues Here
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Thousand May Soon Be Released!
It looks as if thousands held in federal prison will be
released as a result of having their sentences reduced.
Federal sentencing laws regarding powder cocaine and
rock cocaine have been flawed by the fact that those
possessing rock cocaine (Mostly minorities) got more
time than those possessing powder cocaine. (Mostly
whites) Read the following article and let us know
your thoughts.
Under pressure from federal judges, inmate advocacy groups and civil rights organizations, federal authorities are considering a sweeping cut in prison sentences that could bring early release for thousands of federal inmates.
The proposal being weighed by the U.S. Sentencing Commission would shave an average of at least two years off the sentences of 19,500 federal prisoners, about 1 in 10 in the 200,000-inmate system. More than 2,500 of them, mainly those who have already served lengthy sentences, would be eligible for release within a year if the rule is adopted.
Such a mass commutation would be unprecedented: No other single rule in the two-decade history of the Sentencing Commission has affected nearly as many inmates. And no single law or act of presidential clemency, such as grants of amnesty to draft resisters and conscientious objectors after World War II and the Vietnam War, has affected so many people at one time.
The far-reaching move is aimed at addressing what is seen as an unfair disparity in federal cocaine laws dating to the mid-1980s that have imposed much harsher punishment on crack cocaine users and dealers than in powder cocaine cases. About 80% of those sentenced on federal crack charges every year are African American.
The Justice Department is warning of dire consequences if the proposal goes through, including the possibility that returning thousands of serious drug offenders to the streets would compound a recent increase in violent crime across the country.
"The unexpected release of 20,000 prisoners . . . would jeopardize community safety and threaten to unravel the success we have achieved in removing violent crack offenders from high-crime neighborhoods," the department said in a letter to the commission this month.
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released as a result of having their sentences reduced.
Federal sentencing laws regarding powder cocaine and
rock cocaine have been flawed by the fact that those
possessing rock cocaine (Mostly minorities) got more
time than those possessing powder cocaine. (Mostly
whites) Read the following article and let us know
your thoughts.
Under pressure from federal judges, inmate advocacy groups and civil rights organizations, federal authorities are considering a sweeping cut in prison sentences that could bring early release for thousands of federal inmates.
The proposal being weighed by the U.S. Sentencing Commission would shave an average of at least two years off the sentences of 19,500 federal prisoners, about 1 in 10 in the 200,000-inmate system. More than 2,500 of them, mainly those who have already served lengthy sentences, would be eligible for release within a year if the rule is adopted.
Such a mass commutation would be unprecedented: No other single rule in the two-decade history of the Sentencing Commission has affected nearly as many inmates. And no single law or act of presidential clemency, such as grants of amnesty to draft resisters and conscientious objectors after World War II and the Vietnam War, has affected so many people at one time.
The far-reaching move is aimed at addressing what is seen as an unfair disparity in federal cocaine laws dating to the mid-1980s that have imposed much harsher punishment on crack cocaine users and dealers than in powder cocaine cases. About 80% of those sentenced on federal crack charges every year are African American.
The Justice Department is warning of dire consequences if the proposal goes through, including the possibility that returning thousands of serious drug offenders to the streets would compound a recent increase in violent crime across the country.
"The unexpected release of 20,000 prisoners . . . would jeopardize community safety and threaten to unravel the success we have achieved in removing violent crack offenders from high-crime neighborhoods," the department said in a letter to the commission this month.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
P-Diddy Skated On This One
What is it with P-Diddy that he has to be puttin hands
on folks? The guy has proven himself as a money maker
so why does he have to prove that he's tough too? Because
he believes his own press and has become a legend in his
own mind. My bet is that when he was coming up as a
youngster he had very few fades because he was your
typical wallflower, you know, the laid back type that
kept his mouth shut and his head in a book. Yeah, he
got bullied at times but more than likely someone was
there to bail him out.
So now that he's got fortune and fame and not to mention
a staff of hired guns now he can be the big bully on the block.
Well Mr. Combs you need to wise up cause you can only skate
so much before the judicial system nails you and remember
the ice is getting mighty thin baby! Check out the article below
and feel free to comment.
Sean "Diddy" Combs is no longer under investigation by the NYPD following allegations that he roughed up longtime friend Steven Acevedo during an incident last month at Manhattan's Kiosk nightclub.
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on folks? The guy has proven himself as a money maker
so why does he have to prove that he's tough too? Because
he believes his own press and has become a legend in his
own mind. My bet is that when he was coming up as a
youngster he had very few fades because he was your
typical wallflower, you know, the laid back type that
kept his mouth shut and his head in a book. Yeah, he
got bullied at times but more than likely someone was
there to bail him out.
So now that he's got fortune and fame and not to mention
a staff of hired guns now he can be the big bully on the block.
Well Mr. Combs you need to wise up cause you can only skate
so much before the judicial system nails you and remember
the ice is getting mighty thin baby! Check out the article below
and feel free to comment.
Sean "Diddy" Combs is no longer under investigation by the NYPD following allegations that he roughed up longtime friend Steven Acevedo during an incident last month at Manhattan's Kiosk nightclub.
"I've been informed by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office that after a thorough investigation, they have made a decision not to authorize any arrests in connection with the incident involving Mr. Combs and Steven Acevedo on Oct. 13," Diddy's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said in a statement to E! News.
"I want to commend the D.A.'s office and the New York City Police Department for conducting a thorough and very fair investigation into this incident and not allowing this private disagreement between two acquaintances to turn into a criminal charge."
Acevedo, 31, had filed a police report accusing Diddy of punching him in the face during an argument over a woman. Acevedo reportedly suffered a bloody nose and swollen lip, according to the New York Post.
Meanwhile, Diddy is still the subject of a $5 million lawsuit brought by hip-hop promoter James Waldon, who claims he was assaulted by Diddy's bodyguards at a New York club last June.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
NAACP Sues Restaurant!
Looks as if the NACP has hooked it's self a live one this
time. Seems that a Myrtle Beach Floridia restaurant has
decided to ignore the law and continue the practice of
racial discrimination. Read the article below an feel free
to put in your cents.
*The NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of a Friendly's Restaurant in Myrtle Beach claiming they close shop and serve a limited menu from the sidewalk during an annual black biker rally, but keep the doors open with a full menu during a biker rally attended mostly by whites.
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time. Seems that a Myrtle Beach Floridia restaurant has
decided to ignore the law and continue the practice of
racial discrimination. Read the article below an feel free
to put in your cents.
*The NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of a Friendly's Restaurant in Myrtle Beach claiming they close shop and serve a limited menu from the sidewalk during an annual black biker rally, but keep the doors open with a full menu during a biker rally attended mostly by whites.
"The limited and substandard services available on the sidewalk in front of the Friendly's only reinforced the message that African Americans are separate and unequal," said the lawsuit, filed Tuesday (Oct. 30) in U.S. District Court in Florence.
Other issues raised in the lawsuit include the fact that food served outside the restaurant and advertised by a handwritten sign did not mirror the menu available inside; and that the owners of the restaurant did not offer ice cream for sale during the black biker weeks, which are held around Memorial Day.
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Friday, November 2, 2007
Whites Get Richer-Blacks Get Poorer!
The economy has gotten better but for whom?
Recent data is showing that whites are getting
richer and blacks are getting poorer and I'm sure
that this is just not occurring In the nations capitol.
Something must be done to spread the wealth of
this nation or times of the sixties will rear it's ugly
head. Check out the article below and feel free to make
suggestions on this grave situation.
Over the last decade Washington, D.C. has been undergoing an economic boom which ironically appears to have made the nation's capital whiter and whiter while increasing numbers of Blacks remaining in the city have become poorer and poorer.
In 1957, Washington, D.C. became the first major American city to achieve a majority Black population. By 1970, the African American percentage of the city's population had reached 70 percent.
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Recent data is showing that whites are getting
richer and blacks are getting poorer and I'm sure
that this is just not occurring In the nations capitol.
Something must be done to spread the wealth of
this nation or times of the sixties will rear it's ugly
head. Check out the article below and feel free to make
suggestions on this grave situation.
Over the last decade Washington, D.C. has been undergoing an economic boom which ironically appears to have made the nation's capital whiter and whiter while increasing numbers of Blacks remaining in the city have become poorer and poorer.
In 1957, Washington, D.C. became the first major American city to achieve a majority Black population. By 1970, the African American percentage of the city's population had reached 70 percent.
However, according to 2006 Census data the percentage has now declined to 57 percent. Meanwhile, in a report released last week by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, nearly one of every Black five residents of the city lives in poverty - the highest percentage in nearly a decade.
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