Now they've really given the immigrant
P.R. people something to work with. Two
new studies shine a whole new positive
light on immigrants. The studies come
just in time as congress gets ready to tackle
the problem of immigration. What effect will
these studies have on the current backlash
on immagration? I'm waiting to hear from you.
Two new studies by California researchers counter negative perceptions that immigrants increase crime and job competition, showing that they are incarcerated at far lower rates than native-born citizens and actually help boost their wages. A study released Tuesday by the Public Policy Institute of California found that immigrants who arrived in the state between 1990 and 2004 increased wages for native workers by an average 4%.
UC Davis economist Giovanni Peri, who conducted the study, said the benefits were shared by all native-born workers, from high school dropouts to college graduates, because immigrants generally perform complementary rather than competitive work. As immigrants filled lower-skilled jobs, they pushed natives up the economic ladder into employment that required more English or know-how of the U.S. system, he said. "The big message is that there is no big loss from immigration," Peri said.
"There are gains, and these are enjoyed by a much bigger share of the population than is commonly believed."Another study released Monday by the Washington-based Immigration Policy Center showed that immigrant men ages 18 to 39 had an incarceration rate five times lower than native-born citizens in every ethnic group examined. Among men of Mexican descent, for instance, 0.7% of those foreign-born were incarcerated compared to 5.9% of native-born, according to the study, co-written by UC Irvine sociologist Ruben G. Rumbaut.
Both studies are based on U.S. census data, which includes both legal and illegal immigrants. They were released just days before the U.S. Congress is to restart debate on major immigration reform legislation and as numerous states, including Texas, consider harsh measures against illegal migrants.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Some Places Never Change
Fifty-two years ago a little black kid in Mississippi wolf-whistled
at a white woman. That whistle caused the black kid his life.
The woman who pointed him out was never prosecuted in
the case until 2006. The end results are in the article below.
Feel free to comment and express your opinion.
A grand jury that looked into the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till -- a black teenager who was killed after he whistled at a white woman in the Mississippi Delta -- has refused to indict her, all but closing the books on a crime that galvanized the civil rights movement.
The district attorney in rural Leflore County had sought a manslaughter charge against Carolyn Bryant Donham, who was suspected of pointing out Till to her husband to mete out punishment for what was then a grave offense in the segregated South.
But the grand jury last Friday issued a ''no bill,'' meaning it found insufficient evidence, according to documents made public Tuesday.
Federal authorities decided last year not to press charges, saying the statute of limitations for federal charges had run out. Mississippi authorities represented the last, best chance to prosecute.
Till, a 14-year-old boy visiting from Chicago, was kidnapped from his uncle's home in the town of Money and shot and beaten after he wolf-whistled at Donham, a shopkeeper at the Bryant Grocery & Meat Market.
Three days later, his mutilated body was found in the muddy Tallahatchie River, weighted down with a cotton gin fan. His left eye was missing, and his right eye was dangling on his cheek. The body was identified only by a ring he was wearing.
His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who died in 2003, held an open-casket funeral in Chicago, and a photograph of Till's disfigured face in Jet Magazine had a powerful effect on public opinion, letting the world see what was happening in the South.
Roy Bryant, Donham's husband, and his half brother, J.W. Milam, were acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury in 1955. The two men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine. Both are now dead.
The FBI reopened the case in 2004 but decided in 2006 not to press charges. The case was turned over to local prosecutors, with the FBI suggesting they take a closer look at Donham. Some witnesses said a woman's voice could be heard at the scene of the abduction.
Simeon Wright, 64, a black man who was in the store that day with his cousin Emmett and said he heard the wolf-whistle, got the news from the FBI on Tuesday.
''You're looking at Mississippi,'' he told The Associated Press. ''I guess it's about the same way it was 50 years ago. We had overwhelming evidence, and they came back with the same decision. Some of the people haven't changed from 50 years ago. Same attitude. The evidence speaks for itself.''
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Final Call ?
So Minister Farrakhan has called this his final call.
So where do retired activist go, what do they do?
I bet he'll set himself up as an online consultant
and why not? After all he's a wealth of knowledge
and has much experience at condemning America.
There will always need to be a reminder to this
country that their are alternatives to the teachings
of Dr. King!
In a fiery speech promoted as his last, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan railed against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, calling on the black community to avoid military service at all costs.To join the military "would be the worst mistake you've ever made," Farrakhan told a packed Ford Field sports arena Sunday in downtown Detroit.
He continued, "America is preparing for war, for Armageddon."Sunday's speech was the first time Farrakhan has spoken publicly since undergoing a life-threatening surgery in January to correct damage from prostate-cancer treatment last year. It also came as Farrakhan struggles to bolster a religious organization that helped lead the nation's civil rights movement, but whose political and cultural influence is waning."It still has a tremendous amount of influence in black politics," said Vibert White, a former Nation of Islam minister who now is director of the public history program at the University of Central Florida.
"But in many ways, particularly on the broader national political arena, they are now somewhat irrelevant."Standing before thousands of curiosity-seekers and tearful Nation of Islam followers, the 73-year-old minister spoke with the strength and vigor of a man decades his junior. For nearly two hours, Farrakhan led a rally that was part religious revival, part fundraising pitch. He pounded the podium to punctuate points. His voice rose to a feverish growl to express his outrage, and fell to a hushed whisper at more somber moments.
Pointing out that his days as one of the country's most controversial voices in the national political discourse are coming to an end, Farrakhan told the audience, "My time is up."Still, he noted that his exit would not happen right away."There are many things in my heart that I need to express," Farrakhan said. "It will take many weeks, many months to tell it all."If this was his final public bow, Detroit was an ideal stage for it. The Nation of Islam was founded on these streets more than 70 years ago, and returned to its roots for its annual Saviors' Day, which commemorates the birth of founder Wallace D. Fard and wraps up a convention for Nation members.They've returned to a city plagued with problems that harken to the group's earliest days during the Great Depression.
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So where do retired activist go, what do they do?
I bet he'll set himself up as an online consultant
and why not? After all he's a wealth of knowledge
and has much experience at condemning America.
There will always need to be a reminder to this
country that their are alternatives to the teachings
of Dr. King!
In a fiery speech promoted as his last, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan railed against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, calling on the black community to avoid military service at all costs.To join the military "would be the worst mistake you've ever made," Farrakhan told a packed Ford Field sports arena Sunday in downtown Detroit.
He continued, "America is preparing for war, for Armageddon."Sunday's speech was the first time Farrakhan has spoken publicly since undergoing a life-threatening surgery in January to correct damage from prostate-cancer treatment last year. It also came as Farrakhan struggles to bolster a religious organization that helped lead the nation's civil rights movement, but whose political and cultural influence is waning."It still has a tremendous amount of influence in black politics," said Vibert White, a former Nation of Islam minister who now is director of the public history program at the University of Central Florida.
"But in many ways, particularly on the broader national political arena, they are now somewhat irrelevant."Standing before thousands of curiosity-seekers and tearful Nation of Islam followers, the 73-year-old minister spoke with the strength and vigor of a man decades his junior. For nearly two hours, Farrakhan led a rally that was part religious revival, part fundraising pitch. He pounded the podium to punctuate points. His voice rose to a feverish growl to express his outrage, and fell to a hushed whisper at more somber moments.
Pointing out that his days as one of the country's most controversial voices in the national political discourse are coming to an end, Farrakhan told the audience, "My time is up."Still, he noted that his exit would not happen right away."There are many things in my heart that I need to express," Farrakhan said. "It will take many weeks, many months to tell it all."If this was his final public bow, Detroit was an ideal stage for it. The Nation of Islam was founded on these streets more than 70 years ago, and returned to its roots for its annual Saviors' Day, which commemorates the birth of founder Wallace D. Fard and wraps up a convention for Nation members.They've returned to a city plagued with problems that harken to the group's earliest days during the Great Depression.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
Bush: Take From The Poor-Give To The Rich! Part 2
It was just last week that I talked about that knucklehead in
the White House and his cuts in healthcare. Well it looks as if
he is pressing forward with these cuts and at such a time
when peoples are setting sites on healthcare for everyone.
Bush's action just goes to show how really out of tune he is
with the people.
WASHINGTON — At a time when states are striving to expand healthcare coverage, the Bush administration is pressing ahead with plans to cut nearly $4 billion in aid for public hospitals and other providers of last resort for the uninsured. The cuts would affect hospital funding provided by Washington as part of Medicaid, the federal-state program known in California as Medi-Cal.
It serves more than 55 million low-income people, including the working poor, elderly nursing home residents with few financial resources, and many children of low-income parents. In addition, it has provided funds for hospitals and other healthcare institutions that serve large numbers of uninsured patients. Public hospital officials said California institutions could lose $500 million a year under the reductions, with the Los Angeles County public health system taking an estimated annual cut of $200 million.
"It's equivalent to shutting down all the outpatient clinics we own and operate, as well as those we contract with in the community," said county health chief Dr. Bruce Chernof.The cuts are prompting sharp protests from governors and dozens of lawmakers, partly because they represent an end run around congressional defenders of the aid program. After failing to get Congress to approve the reductions last year, the administration is now trying to impose them through a regulation that does not require action on Capitol Hill.
"The administration is moving forward with these proposed changes without any input from Congress or governors," the National Governors Assn. complained Friday in a letter to congressional leaders. In an unusually direct challenge to the administration, the governors asked Congress to pass legislation that would block the rule from going into effect.
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the White House and his cuts in healthcare. Well it looks as if
he is pressing forward with these cuts and at such a time
when peoples are setting sites on healthcare for everyone.
Bush's action just goes to show how really out of tune he is
with the people.
WASHINGTON — At a time when states are striving to expand healthcare coverage, the Bush administration is pressing ahead with plans to cut nearly $4 billion in aid for public hospitals and other providers of last resort for the uninsured. The cuts would affect hospital funding provided by Washington as part of Medicaid, the federal-state program known in California as Medi-Cal.
It serves more than 55 million low-income people, including the working poor, elderly nursing home residents with few financial resources, and many children of low-income parents. In addition, it has provided funds for hospitals and other healthcare institutions that serve large numbers of uninsured patients. Public hospital officials said California institutions could lose $500 million a year under the reductions, with the Los Angeles County public health system taking an estimated annual cut of $200 million.
"It's equivalent to shutting down all the outpatient clinics we own and operate, as well as those we contract with in the community," said county health chief Dr. Bruce Chernof.The cuts are prompting sharp protests from governors and dozens of lawmakers, partly because they represent an end run around congressional defenders of the aid program. After failing to get Congress to approve the reductions last year, the administration is now trying to impose them through a regulation that does not require action on Capitol Hill.
"The administration is moving forward with these proposed changes without any input from Congress or governors," the National Governors Assn. complained Friday in a letter to congressional leaders. In an unusually direct challenge to the administration, the governors asked Congress to pass legislation that would block the rule from going into effect.
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Friday, February 23, 2007
Nuclear Sucide Bombers
I try to stay away from world issues after all the
people of color in this country have more than
enough to deal with. However the situation with
Iran and their pursuit of a nuclear program makes
the hair on the back of my neck stand up. If the
Iranians have access to enriched uranium car and
sui+cide bombings take on a whole new meaning. The
Russians need to stop trying to be the power brokers
they once were and change their passive resistance to
U.N. efforts. After all Iran is a neighbor.
Iran has accelerated its program to enrich uranium and defied a United Nations Security Council deadline to suspend nuclear activities, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said here Thursday. The report by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed that Iran recently began installing the first of 3,000 gas centrifuges in a heavily fortified, underground chamber at its Natanz plant and that it planned to "bring them gradually into operation by May 2007.
A facility that large, if it functions properly, could produce enough highly enriched uranium in a year to build a nuclear warhead. A senior U.N. diplomat here cautioned that the Iranian schedule was "fairly optimistic" and said that the highly sensitive linked centrifuges, called cascades, may not be operational before the fall.The six-page report is almost certain to trigger a push by the Bush administration and its European allies for stiffer U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
The intensifying confrontation now moves to London, where major powers will meet Monday to consider a range of actions against Iran.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Berlin, said the United States was determined to "use all available channels and the Security Council" to draft a new resolution aimed at halting Tehran's nuclear activity.The report "shows that Iran has not changed its behavior, has not changed its views and is continuing on the path of defiance," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said in Washington.
But Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters at the United Nations that sanctions were not a solution. "We should not lose sight of the goal, and the goal is not to have a resolution or to impose sanctions," he said. "The goal is to accomplish a political outcome of this problem."
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people of color in this country have more than
enough to deal with. However the situation with
Iran and their pursuit of a nuclear program makes
the hair on the back of my neck stand up. If the
Iranians have access to enriched uranium car and
sui+cide bombings take on a whole new meaning. The
Russians need to stop trying to be the power brokers
they once were and change their passive resistance to
U.N. efforts. After all Iran is a neighbor.
Iran has accelerated its program to enrich uranium and defied a United Nations Security Council deadline to suspend nuclear activities, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said here Thursday. The report by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed that Iran recently began installing the first of 3,000 gas centrifuges in a heavily fortified, underground chamber at its Natanz plant and that it planned to "bring them gradually into operation by May 2007.
A facility that large, if it functions properly, could produce enough highly enriched uranium in a year to build a nuclear warhead. A senior U.N. diplomat here cautioned that the Iranian schedule was "fairly optimistic" and said that the highly sensitive linked centrifuges, called cascades, may not be operational before the fall.The six-page report is almost certain to trigger a push by the Bush administration and its European allies for stiffer U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
The intensifying confrontation now moves to London, where major powers will meet Monday to consider a range of actions against Iran.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Berlin, said the United States was determined to "use all available channels and the Security Council" to draft a new resolution aimed at halting Tehran's nuclear activity.The report "shows that Iran has not changed its behavior, has not changed its views and is continuing on the path of defiance," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said in Washington.
But Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters at the United Nations that sanctions were not a solution. "We should not lose sight of the goal, and the goal is not to have a resolution or to impose sanctions," he said. "The goal is to accomplish a political outcome of this problem."
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tag Team
While Barack Obama was greeting voters and kissing babies
the Rev. Jesse Jackon eased on into Hollywood to seek more
diversity in the movie industry. Now that a foot has secured
an opening in the door Jesse wants to open it a little more
for people of color. This strategy by Jackson is sure to work
but for whom? Well only time will tell. We'll keep an eye on
this situation and see how it unfolds. In the meantime what
you think?
As seemingly half of Hollywood converged on a fundraiser for Democratic presidential aspirant Sen. Barack Obama, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was huddled elsewhere with Universal Studios president Ron Meyer over his own campaign -- to increase industry diversity.``We must go to each of the companies and agencies and urge them to make the industry open up and expand the market and the opportunities,'' Jackson said Wednesday during an hour-plus interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
the Rev. Jesse Jackon eased on into Hollywood to seek more
diversity in the movie industry. Now that a foot has secured
an opening in the door Jesse wants to open it a little more
for people of color. This strategy by Jackson is sure to work
but for whom? Well only time will tell. We'll keep an eye on
this situation and see how it unfolds. In the meantime what
you think?
As seemingly half of Hollywood converged on a fundraiser for Democratic presidential aspirant Sen. Barack Obama, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was huddled elsewhere with Universal Studios president Ron Meyer over his own campaign -- to increase industry diversity.``We must go to each of the companies and agencies and urge them to make the industry open up and expand the market and the opportunities,'' Jackson said Wednesday during an hour-plus interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
``After all, we once did not know how big baseball could be until everyone could play. Right now, with the systemHollywood, we don't know how big the entertainment market can be until everybody is able to participate.''
Jackson's Tuesday meeting with Meyer and his planned sessions with various studio heads, talent agency executives and others are part of a continuing campaign by the civil rights leader's Rainbow Coalition to press for greater diversity in Hollywood's casting process and studio hiring. Citing data like a recent UCLA report showing low numbers of minority-oriented film roles, Jackson aims to convince industry elite that increased casting and hiring of minorities will broaden the creative scope of Hollywood entertainment and thus its revenue base.
``Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth,'' he said. ''So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.''
Still, Jackson acknowledges the stepped-up campaign might seem oddly timed, considering that black actors are considered favorites to take home Oscars in three of four acting categories.
``I'm afraid that these three or five excellent actors and actresses will send a wrong signal,'' Jackson said. ``There's no doubt that some who watch Sunday night will say, 'We're over the mountain,' but they will not see the lack of a feeder system into the infrastructure.
``The issue here is the pipeline. We can focus on the three to five actors up on top, but the industry is comprised of the executives and the artists and the producersHollywood.''
And don't get him started on the
``They have like 40 people on their board of governors, and only one is a black person,'' Jackson said. ``The Academy needs to reflect America itself, and this is an archaic arrangement.''
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Thats Way Too Much Money For A Black Man!
Thats just what the Supreme Court seems to be
saying on this tobacco award and to add insult to
injury the court is attempting to further insulate
the tobacco and other large corporations from
future large awards. This type of ruling is just
what we can expect from this current panel of
sitting Supreme Court justices.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday put new limits on large verdicts intended to punish corporate wrongdoers when it overturned a $79-million punitive jury award against cigarette maker Philip Morris. In a 5-4 opinion, the court said companies could not be punished for harm they might have inflicted on thousands of people based on a lawsuit brought on behalf of one person.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer said that these others were "essentially strangers to the litigation," and that it was unfair to punish the corporations for any harm they might have suffered.The ruling could have a broad effect, because multimillion-dollar punitive verdicts against companies are often based, at least in part, on the jury's belief that an untold number of victims were hurt by defective products or corporate fraud.
However, the wording of the opinion, which seemed to puzzle two of the dissenting justices, appeared to leave open other avenues for plaintiffs to seek large punitive awards.Typically, a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit seeks money to compensate him or her for an injury or a loss. But sometimes, a lawyer asks the jury to go beyond compensation and to punish the defendant for wrongdoing. Lawyers for corporations and insurance firms long have wished for limits on these punitive verdicts because they can be wild cards. On occasion, an apparently minor lawsuit involving a single person results in a huge verdict when an angry jury decides to punish a large corporation.
The Supreme Court has moved over the last decade to put some limits on these verdicts. For example, the justices said four years ago that the amount of punitive damages rarely should exceed 10 times the actual damages. In Tuesday's decision, the majority took an extra step by limiting how the punitive damages could be calculated. For the first time, the justices "hold explicitly that the jury may not punish for the harm caused to others," Breyer said.
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saying on this tobacco award and to add insult to
injury the court is attempting to further insulate
the tobacco and other large corporations from
future large awards. This type of ruling is just
what we can expect from this current panel of
sitting Supreme Court justices.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday put new limits on large verdicts intended to punish corporate wrongdoers when it overturned a $79-million punitive jury award against cigarette maker Philip Morris. In a 5-4 opinion, the court said companies could not be punished for harm they might have inflicted on thousands of people based on a lawsuit brought on behalf of one person.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer said that these others were "essentially strangers to the litigation," and that it was unfair to punish the corporations for any harm they might have suffered.The ruling could have a broad effect, because multimillion-dollar punitive verdicts against companies are often based, at least in part, on the jury's belief that an untold number of victims were hurt by defective products or corporate fraud.
However, the wording of the opinion, which seemed to puzzle two of the dissenting justices, appeared to leave open other avenues for plaintiffs to seek large punitive awards.Typically, a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit seeks money to compensate him or her for an injury or a loss. But sometimes, a lawyer asks the jury to go beyond compensation and to punish the defendant for wrongdoing. Lawyers for corporations and insurance firms long have wished for limits on these punitive verdicts because they can be wild cards. On occasion, an apparently minor lawsuit involving a single person results in a huge verdict when an angry jury decides to punish a large corporation.
The Supreme Court has moved over the last decade to put some limits on these verdicts. For example, the justices said four years ago that the amount of punitive damages rarely should exceed 10 times the actual damages. In Tuesday's decision, the majority took an extra step by limiting how the punitive damages could be calculated. For the first time, the justices "hold explicitly that the jury may not punish for the harm caused to others," Breyer said.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Turning Back The Hands Of Time?
The Supreme Court gets back into the swing of things today
and it looks as if race relations could be set back thirty years.
How so you say? Well Justice Anthony Scalia could now be a
major shot-caller and he's always dissented on issues of
affirmative action and has called for a ban on the use of race
as a decision-making factor by government agencies, public
universities and other public schools. So just be ready to call
on your neighborhood congressman when the race issue
doesn't go our way. Read on.
It has been two decades in the making, but this is the year Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most outspoken dissenter, could emerge as a leader of a new conservative majority.Between now and late June, the court is set to hand down decisions in four areas of law — race, religion, abortion regulation and campaign finance — where Scalia's views may now represent the majority.
In each of those areas, the retirement of centrist Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her replacement with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. figure to tip the court to the right. That would give the 70-year-old Scalia the chance to play a part that has largely eluded him: speaking for the court in major rulings. Scalia does not see shades of gray in most legal disputes; instead, he favors clear rules and broad decisions. A series of broad-brush rulings could put Scalia's stamp on some key American social issues.
A Scalia-led majority would move to outlaw the use of racial guidelines to achieve integration, allow a greater role for religion in public life, more tightly regulate abortion, and strike down campaign-funding laws seen as constricting free speech. It is a prospect dreaded by liberals, and eagerly awaited by many on the right."I'm looking forward to the next 10 to 12 years," said Terry Eastland, the publisher of the conservative Weekly Standard. Though his majority opinions have been few, Scalia has been anything but silent in his long career.
His influence has been considerable, especially for a generation of lawyers inspired by his championing of "originalism" — strict adherence to the original meaning of the words in the Constitution. "Justice Scalia has had a bigger impact off the court than on it," said law professor Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina.
"In his speeches and his opinions, he is trying to reach a wider audience." Scalia does not grant media interviews, but in recent years he has spoken regularly at colleges and law schools, and he rarely fails to make news with an off-the-cuff comment. When asked to explain his role in the Bush vs. Gore decision that halted Florida's recount in the 2000 presidential race, his standard rejoinder is: "Get over it."
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and it looks as if race relations could be set back thirty years.
How so you say? Well Justice Anthony Scalia could now be a
major shot-caller and he's always dissented on issues of
affirmative action and has called for a ban on the use of race
as a decision-making factor by government agencies, public
universities and other public schools. So just be ready to call
on your neighborhood congressman when the race issue
doesn't go our way. Read on.
It has been two decades in the making, but this is the year Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most outspoken dissenter, could emerge as a leader of a new conservative majority.Between now and late June, the court is set to hand down decisions in four areas of law — race, religion, abortion regulation and campaign finance — where Scalia's views may now represent the majority.
In each of those areas, the retirement of centrist Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her replacement with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. figure to tip the court to the right. That would give the 70-year-old Scalia the chance to play a part that has largely eluded him: speaking for the court in major rulings. Scalia does not see shades of gray in most legal disputes; instead, he favors clear rules and broad decisions. A series of broad-brush rulings could put Scalia's stamp on some key American social issues.
A Scalia-led majority would move to outlaw the use of racial guidelines to achieve integration, allow a greater role for religion in public life, more tightly regulate abortion, and strike down campaign-funding laws seen as constricting free speech. It is a prospect dreaded by liberals, and eagerly awaited by many on the right."I'm looking forward to the next 10 to 12 years," said Terry Eastland, the publisher of the conservative Weekly Standard. Though his majority opinions have been few, Scalia has been anything but silent in his long career.
His influence has been considerable, especially for a generation of lawyers inspired by his championing of "originalism" — strict adherence to the original meaning of the words in the Constitution. "Justice Scalia has had a bigger impact off the court than on it," said law professor Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina.
"In his speeches and his opinions, he is trying to reach a wider audience." Scalia does not grant media interviews, but in recent years he has spoken regularly at colleges and law schools, and he rarely fails to make news with an off-the-cuff comment. When asked to explain his role in the Bush vs. Gore decision that halted Florida's recount in the 2000 presidential race, his standard rejoinder is: "Get over it."
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Monday, February 19, 2007
So Where Do We Get Our Future Military Leaders From?
I oppose the current war in the middle east and wish for it to
end soon. I also oppose those who want to remove the options
that young people have to seek a better way of life. In order to
maintain our freedom and the liberties that we take so much for
granted we must maintain a strong military. Teachers should
teach children about the other peoples of the world and not use
them to express their own personal views. I personally would
rather see them armed in the military than to be armed in our
streets.
FIRST SGT. OTTO HARRINGTON — tall, muscular, his head cleanshaven — has soldiered through battles in Bosnia, Kuwait and Somalia. He has patrolled Korea's DMZ.
None of that prepared him, though, for the attacks he has faced as senior teacher in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights, where students and teachers have launched a crusade against military recruiting and JROTC.
Harrington blames their campaign for cutting the number of cadets at Roosevelt by 43% in four years, from 286 to 162. Some teachers urge students not to sign up for JROTC, he said, and have worked to end involuntarily placement in the program.
"They seem to think I'm some evil, horrible soldier down here trying to sacrifice our kids to Iraq," Harrington said in describing the increasing tensions on the Eastside campus.
The program's critics see JROTC as a Trojan horse targeting students in low-income minority schools with high dropout rates. "We are a juicy target," said Roosevelt social studies teacher Jorge Lopez.
At Roosevelt and other schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the anti-JROTC movement has helped drive a 24% drop in enrollment since 2003-04, Harrington and his critics said. The decline runs counter to enrollment nationwide, which grew 8% to 486,594 cadets between 2001 and 2006, fueled by a 57% jump in federal funding, according to the Department of Defense.
Roosevelt's "Rough Rider Battalion" was once among JROTC's finest, a powerhouse that routinely bested rivals in citywide competitions. In 1990, when the program had 400 cadets, the battalion's girls' drill team won the national championship.
JROTC students have uniforms and attend one cadet class each day, learning skills that include financial planning, map reading and how to give a PowerPoint presentation.
The Department of Defense-sponsored program, which is in 30 of L.A. Unified's 61 high schools, also includes physical education, target practice and marching drills. JROTC participants have no obligation to join the military, but students who complete the program are entitled to higher starting pay if they enlist.
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end soon. I also oppose those who want to remove the options
that young people have to seek a better way of life. In order to
maintain our freedom and the liberties that we take so much for
granted we must maintain a strong military. Teachers should
teach children about the other peoples of the world and not use
them to express their own personal views. I personally would
rather see them armed in the military than to be armed in our
streets.
FIRST SGT. OTTO HARRINGTON — tall, muscular, his head cleanshaven — has soldiered through battles in Bosnia, Kuwait and Somalia. He has patrolled Korea's DMZ.
None of that prepared him, though, for the attacks he has faced as senior teacher in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights, where students and teachers have launched a crusade against military recruiting and JROTC.
Harrington blames their campaign for cutting the number of cadets at Roosevelt by 43% in four years, from 286 to 162. Some teachers urge students not to sign up for JROTC, he said, and have worked to end involuntarily placement in the program.
"They seem to think I'm some evil, horrible soldier down here trying to sacrifice our kids to Iraq," Harrington said in describing the increasing tensions on the Eastside campus.
The program's critics see JROTC as a Trojan horse targeting students in low-income minority schools with high dropout rates. "We are a juicy target," said Roosevelt social studies teacher Jorge Lopez.
At Roosevelt and other schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the anti-JROTC movement has helped drive a 24% drop in enrollment since 2003-04, Harrington and his critics said. The decline runs counter to enrollment nationwide, which grew 8% to 486,594 cadets between 2001 and 2006, fueled by a 57% jump in federal funding, according to the Department of Defense.
Roosevelt's "Rough Rider Battalion" was once among JROTC's finest, a powerhouse that routinely bested rivals in citywide competitions. In 1990, when the program had 400 cadets, the battalion's girls' drill team won the national championship.
JROTC students have uniforms and attend one cadet class each day, learning skills that include financial planning, map reading and how to give a PowerPoint presentation.
The Department of Defense-sponsored program, which is in 30 of L.A. Unified's 61 high schools, also includes physical education, target practice and marching drills. JROTC participants have no obligation to join the military, but students who complete the program are entitled to higher starting pay if they enlist.
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Friday, February 16, 2007
Now All I Need Is A Laptop
This is the most ambitious plan of money that I
think will be well spent to hit Los Angeles in years.
The thought of the city covered with wireless
internet access is mind boggling. This is a project
that will greatly benefit the entire city rich or poor.
Thank you Mayor for thinking and acting on our future!
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa outlined plans Tuesday to blanket Los Angeles with wireless Internet access in 2009, in what would be one of the nation's largest urban Wi-Fi networks.
The L.A. Wi-Fi initiative would give Los Angeles residents, schools, businesses and visitors uninterrupted high-speed Internet connections — for work, research, Web browsing or even phone calls.
More than 300 municipalities nationwide already have launched plans for similar networks based on the Wi-Fi technology that has become popular at coffee shops, bookstores, public parks and countless other so-called hot spots.Such networks are operating in parts of such cities as Anaheim, San Jose, Philadelphia and Portland, Ore."With L.A. Wi-Fi, we are dedicating ourselves to the idea that universal access to technology makes our entire economy stronger," Villaraigosa said.
Municipal Wi-Fi networks cost on average $125,000 per square mile to set up and maintain, depending on building heights and the city's terrain, according to city officials. At that cost, the price tag for covering Los Angeles' 498 square miles could reach more than $62 million.Internet providers and equipment makers have estimated such costs at about $40 for every home covered by the network. That would work out to almost $54 million in Los Angeles.
Villaraigosa said he expected to create a public-private sector partnership and would seek bids as early as this fall. He is forming a working group and plans to hire an expert to iron out details of the ambitious project.The winning bidder would probably pay for the installation, while the city would donate space for antennas on city buildings, light poles and other structures.Wi-Fi network operators could try to make their money back in several ways, including showing ads on the free or low-cost service and promoting their higher-speed offers at market prices.
Some cities also pay to put municipal workers who are in the field, such as police and firefighters, on the system."This is pretty amazing," said Esme Vos, who founded MuniWireless.com, an authority on municipal projects nationwide. "It's a large area, yet an urban project. That's kind of new."
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think will be well spent to hit Los Angeles in years.
The thought of the city covered with wireless
internet access is mind boggling. This is a project
that will greatly benefit the entire city rich or poor.
Thank you Mayor for thinking and acting on our future!
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa outlined plans Tuesday to blanket Los Angeles with wireless Internet access in 2009, in what would be one of the nation's largest urban Wi-Fi networks.
The L.A. Wi-Fi initiative would give Los Angeles residents, schools, businesses and visitors uninterrupted high-speed Internet connections — for work, research, Web browsing or even phone calls.
More than 300 municipalities nationwide already have launched plans for similar networks based on the Wi-Fi technology that has become popular at coffee shops, bookstores, public parks and countless other so-called hot spots.Such networks are operating in parts of such cities as Anaheim, San Jose, Philadelphia and Portland, Ore."With L.A. Wi-Fi, we are dedicating ourselves to the idea that universal access to technology makes our entire economy stronger," Villaraigosa said.
Municipal Wi-Fi networks cost on average $125,000 per square mile to set up and maintain, depending on building heights and the city's terrain, according to city officials. At that cost, the price tag for covering Los Angeles' 498 square miles could reach more than $62 million.Internet providers and equipment makers have estimated such costs at about $40 for every home covered by the network. That would work out to almost $54 million in Los Angeles.
Villaraigosa said he expected to create a public-private sector partnership and would seek bids as early as this fall. He is forming a working group and plans to hire an expert to iron out details of the ambitious project.The winning bidder would probably pay for the installation, while the city would donate space for antennas on city buildings, light poles and other structures.Wi-Fi network operators could try to make their money back in several ways, including showing ads on the free or low-cost service and promoting their higher-speed offers at market prices.
Some cities also pay to put municipal workers who are in the field, such as police and firefighters, on the system."This is pretty amazing," said Esme Vos, who founded MuniWireless.com, an authority on municipal projects nationwide. "It's a large area, yet an urban project. That's kind of new."
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Not Easy To Be A Kid In The USof A
Not all looms well in this country according to a survey done by
UNICEF. If you can believe this, the United States and Britain
placed last among the wealthiest countries. You say how can
this be? Just check out the article below.
The United States and Britain ranked as the worst places to be a child, according to a UNICEF study of more than 20 developed nations released Wednesday. The Netherlands was the best, it says, followed by Sweden and Denmark.UNICEF's Innocenti Research Center in Italy ranked the countries in six categories: material well-being, health, education, relationships, behaviors and risks, and young people's own sense of happiness.
The finding that children in the richest countries are not necessarily the best-off surprised many, said the director of the study, Marta Santos Pais. The Czech Republic, for example, ranked above countries with a higher per capita income, such as Austria, France, the United States and Britain, in part because of a more equitable distribution of wealth and higher relative investment in education and public health.
Some of the wealthier countries' lower rankings were a result of less spending on social programs and "dog-eat-dog" competition in jobs that led to adults spending less time with their children and heightened alienation among peers, one of the report's authors, Jonathan Bradshaw, said at a televised news conference in London. "The findings that we got today are a consequence of long-term underinvestment in children," said Bradshaw, who is also professor of social policy at York University in England.
The highest ranking for the United States was in education, where it placed 12th among the 21 countries. But the U.S. and Britain landed in the lowest third in five of the six categories.The U.S. was at the bottom of the list in health and safety, mostly because of high rates of child mortality and accidental deaths. It was next to last in family and peer relationships and risk-taking behavior.
The U.S. has the highest proportion of children living in single-family homes, which the study defined as an indicator for increased risk of poverty and poor health, though it "may seem unfair and insensitive," it says. The U.S., which ranked 17th in the percentage of children who live in relative poverty, was also close to last when it comes to children eating and talking frequently with their families.
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UNICEF. If you can believe this, the United States and Britain
placed last among the wealthiest countries. You say how can
this be? Just check out the article below.
The United States and Britain ranked as the worst places to be a child, according to a UNICEF study of more than 20 developed nations released Wednesday. The Netherlands was the best, it says, followed by Sweden and Denmark.UNICEF's Innocenti Research Center in Italy ranked the countries in six categories: material well-being, health, education, relationships, behaviors and risks, and young people's own sense of happiness.
The finding that children in the richest countries are not necessarily the best-off surprised many, said the director of the study, Marta Santos Pais. The Czech Republic, for example, ranked above countries with a higher per capita income, such as Austria, France, the United States and Britain, in part because of a more equitable distribution of wealth and higher relative investment in education and public health.
Some of the wealthier countries' lower rankings were a result of less spending on social programs and "dog-eat-dog" competition in jobs that led to adults spending less time with their children and heightened alienation among peers, one of the report's authors, Jonathan Bradshaw, said at a televised news conference in London. "The findings that we got today are a consequence of long-term underinvestment in children," said Bradshaw, who is also professor of social policy at York University in England.
The highest ranking for the United States was in education, where it placed 12th among the 21 countries. But the U.S. and Britain landed in the lowest third in five of the six categories.The U.S. was at the bottom of the list in health and safety, mostly because of high rates of child mortality and accidental deaths. It was next to last in family and peer relationships and risk-taking behavior.
The U.S. has the highest proportion of children living in single-family homes, which the study defined as an indicator for increased risk of poverty and poor health, though it "may seem unfair and insensitive," it says. The U.S., which ranked 17th in the percentage of children who live in relative poverty, was also close to last when it comes to children eating and talking frequently with their families.
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Will That Be Visa Or Mastercard Amigo!
Now this I think is an excellent idea for two reasons. First it will
keep more dollars from migrating south of the border and instead
of boosting Mexico's economy it should help out the good ole USA.
Second it sends a signal to Washington that immigration is an
issue that they have to handle and not border states or the
private business sector. It's time we stop letting potential tax
revenue fund other countries coffers. Nuf said read on.
Bank of America said Tuesday that it was issuing credit cards to Spanish-speaking immigrants who may not have Social Security numbers, triggering complaints that the nation's largest retail bank is tacitly endorsing illegal immigration.The bank described the program as a pilot, limited for now to 51 branches in Los Angeles County, and said it could go national this year.
The credit cards are not aimed specifically at illegal immigrants, a bank spokeswoman said, but instead people who lack solid credit histories. Even so, the bank was bombarded with angry phone calls. On Capitol Hill, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) accused the lender of aiding terrorists, while the Department of Homeland Security worried that the program could be exploited by criminals.
"At face value the program seems to be problematic," said Russ Knocke, a department spokesman. "It seems to be lending itself to possibilities of perpetrating identity theft or creating more risk for money laundering." The bank's program may be controversial, but it also vividly demonstrates that businesses view the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants not as lawbreakers but as customers. Other major banks including Wells Fargo & Co. and Citibank have launched similar initiatives to gain customers in the burgeoning Latino community.
Wells Fargo began a pilot program last year in Los Angeles and Orange counties to offer home mortgages to immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least two years. The customers are allowed to identify themselves using taxpayer numbers issued by the Internal Revenue Service instead of Social Security numbers. That's the same type of identification number an immigrant can use to obtain a credit card under Bank of America's pilot program. Wells Fargo may follow Bank of America's lead on credit cards.
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keep more dollars from migrating south of the border and instead
of boosting Mexico's economy it should help out the good ole USA.
Second it sends a signal to Washington that immigration is an
issue that they have to handle and not border states or the
private business sector. It's time we stop letting potential tax
revenue fund other countries coffers. Nuf said read on.
Bank of America said Tuesday that it was issuing credit cards to Spanish-speaking immigrants who may not have Social Security numbers, triggering complaints that the nation's largest retail bank is tacitly endorsing illegal immigration.The bank described the program as a pilot, limited for now to 51 branches in Los Angeles County, and said it could go national this year.
The credit cards are not aimed specifically at illegal immigrants, a bank spokeswoman said, but instead people who lack solid credit histories. Even so, the bank was bombarded with angry phone calls. On Capitol Hill, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) accused the lender of aiding terrorists, while the Department of Homeland Security worried that the program could be exploited by criminals.
"At face value the program seems to be problematic," said Russ Knocke, a department spokesman. "It seems to be lending itself to possibilities of perpetrating identity theft or creating more risk for money laundering." The bank's program may be controversial, but it also vividly demonstrates that businesses view the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants not as lawbreakers but as customers. Other major banks including Wells Fargo & Co. and Citibank have launched similar initiatives to gain customers in the burgeoning Latino community.
Wells Fargo began a pilot program last year in Los Angeles and Orange counties to offer home mortgages to immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least two years. The customers are allowed to identify themselves using taxpayer numbers issued by the Internal Revenue Service instead of Social Security numbers. That's the same type of identification number an immigrant can use to obtain a credit card under Bank of America's pilot program. Wells Fargo may follow Bank of America's lead on credit cards.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Bush: Take From The Poor-Give To The Rich!
I ran across this article and after reading it I thought
is this fool in the White House really trying to live up
to the name Lame-Duck president? He wants to make
major cuts in medicare which will affect thepoor and
at the same time give tax-breaks to the wealthy that
don't need it. Somebody get me a rope!
The budget President Bush proposed Monday calls for the deepest Medicare cuts of his six years in office and falls short in expanding health coverage to uninsured children — a top priority for congressional Democrats this year.Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt acknowledged the budget's austere tone, but said action was needed to rein in programs growing at an unsustainable pace.
"A very clear priority of the budget has been to reach balance in 2012," he told reporters Monday, "and that has forced many of the hard decisions." Consumer and industry groups — including AARP, the American Medical Assn., the American Cancer Society, the Alzheimer's Assn. and the California Hospital Assn. — roundly criticized Bush's plan, and their opposition signaled that it was unlikely to gain traction. Rep. Pete Stark (D-Fremont), chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on health, dismissed the budget as "an exercise in make-believe intended to incite partisanship, not invite policymaking.
"Separately, Bush's proposed tax deduction of up to $15,000 for health insurance ran into more problems after an independent analysis concluded that most of the tax break would go to higher-income households that already have private insurance.Bush had outlined the plan last month in his State of the Union message. But a study by the Lewin Group, a healthcare consulting firm, found that only about 21% of the tax breaks would go to families with at least one uninsured member. A little more than half the benefit would go to families earning $75,000 or more.
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is this fool in the White House really trying to live up
to the name Lame-Duck president? He wants to make
major cuts in medicare which will affect thepoor and
at the same time give tax-breaks to the wealthy that
don't need it. Somebody get me a rope!
The budget President Bush proposed Monday calls for the deepest Medicare cuts of his six years in office and falls short in expanding health coverage to uninsured children — a top priority for congressional Democrats this year.Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt acknowledged the budget's austere tone, but said action was needed to rein in programs growing at an unsustainable pace.
"A very clear priority of the budget has been to reach balance in 2012," he told reporters Monday, "and that has forced many of the hard decisions." Consumer and industry groups — including AARP, the American Medical Assn., the American Cancer Society, the Alzheimer's Assn. and the California Hospital Assn. — roundly criticized Bush's plan, and their opposition signaled that it was unlikely to gain traction. Rep. Pete Stark (D-Fremont), chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on health, dismissed the budget as "an exercise in make-believe intended to incite partisanship, not invite policymaking.
"Separately, Bush's proposed tax deduction of up to $15,000 for health insurance ran into more problems after an independent analysis concluded that most of the tax break would go to higher-income households that already have private insurance.Bush had outlined the plan last month in his State of the Union message. But a study by the Lewin Group, a healthcare consulting firm, found that only about 21% of the tax breaks would go to families with at least one uninsured member. A little more than half the benefit would go to families earning $75,000 or more.
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Monday, February 12, 2007
White Man Speak With Fork Tongue
There are vast deposits of uranium just waiting
to be dug up and at the current market price it could
mean great wealth for the Navajo indians. The only
problem is the last time this dangerous mineral was
mined people got very sick and died. Other problems
devleoped that the Navajos needed help with but their
cries instead fell on deaf ears. The question today is
should they allow their lands to be mined once more?
Read On.
During the Cold War, uranium mines left contaminated waste scattered around the Indians. Homes built with the material silently pulsed with radiation. People developed cancer. And the U.S. did little to help.
Mary and Billy Boy Holiday bought their one-room house from a medicine man in 1967. They gave him $50, a sheep and a canvas tent.For the most part, they were happy with the purchase. Their Navajo hogan was situated well, between a desert mesa and the trading-post road. The eight-sided dwelling proved stout and snug, with walls of stone and wood, and a green-shingle roof.The single drawback was the bare dirt underfoot. So three years after moving in, the Holidays jumped at the chance to get a real floor.
A federally funded program would pay for installation if they bought the materials. The Holidays couldn't afford to, but the contractor, a friend of theirs, had an idea.He would use sand and crushed rock that had washed down from an old uranium mine in the mesa, one of hundreds throughout the Navajo reservation that once supplied the nation's nuclear weapons program. The waste material wouldn't cost a cent. "He said it made good concrete," Mary Holiday recalled.
As promised, the 6-inch slab was so smooth that the Holidays could lay their mattresses directly on it and enjoy a good night's sleep.They didn't know their fine new floor was radioactive.Fifty years ago, cancer rates on the reservation were so low that a medical journal published an article titled "Cancer immunity in the Navajo."Back then, the contamination of the tribal homeland was just beginning. Mining companies were digging into one of the world's richest uranium deposits, in a reservation spanning parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were chiseled and blasted from the mountains and plains. The mines provided uranium for the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to develop an atomic bomb, and for the weapons stockpile built up during the arms race with the Soviet Union. Private companies operated the mines, but the U.S. government was the sole customer. The boom lasted through the early '60s. As the Cold War threat gradually diminished over the next two decades, more than 1,000 mines and four processing mills on tribal land shut down.
The companies often left behind radioactive waste piles and open tunnels and pits. Few bothered to fence the properties or post warning signs. Federal inspectors seldom intervened.Over the decades, Navajos inhaled radioactive dust from the waste piles, borne aloft by fierce desert winds.They drank contaminated water from abandoned pit mines that filled with rain. They watered their herds there, then butchered the animals and ate the meat.Their children dug caves in piles of mill tailings and played in the spent mines.And like the Holidays, many lived in homes silently pulsing with radiation. Today, there is no talk of cancer immunity in the Navajos.
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to be dug up and at the current market price it could
mean great wealth for the Navajo indians. The only
problem is the last time this dangerous mineral was
mined people got very sick and died. Other problems
devleoped that the Navajos needed help with but their
cries instead fell on deaf ears. The question today is
should they allow their lands to be mined once more?
Read On.
During the Cold War, uranium mines left contaminated waste scattered around the Indians. Homes built with the material silently pulsed with radiation. People developed cancer. And the U.S. did little to help.
Mary and Billy Boy Holiday bought their one-room house from a medicine man in 1967. They gave him $50, a sheep and a canvas tent.For the most part, they were happy with the purchase. Their Navajo hogan was situated well, between a desert mesa and the trading-post road. The eight-sided dwelling proved stout and snug, with walls of stone and wood, and a green-shingle roof.The single drawback was the bare dirt underfoot. So three years after moving in, the Holidays jumped at the chance to get a real floor.
A federally funded program would pay for installation if they bought the materials. The Holidays couldn't afford to, but the contractor, a friend of theirs, had an idea.He would use sand and crushed rock that had washed down from an old uranium mine in the mesa, one of hundreds throughout the Navajo reservation that once supplied the nation's nuclear weapons program. The waste material wouldn't cost a cent. "He said it made good concrete," Mary Holiday recalled.
As promised, the 6-inch slab was so smooth that the Holidays could lay their mattresses directly on it and enjoy a good night's sleep.They didn't know their fine new floor was radioactive.Fifty years ago, cancer rates on the reservation were so low that a medical journal published an article titled "Cancer immunity in the Navajo."Back then, the contamination of the tribal homeland was just beginning. Mining companies were digging into one of the world's richest uranium deposits, in a reservation spanning parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were chiseled and blasted from the mountains and plains. The mines provided uranium for the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to develop an atomic bomb, and for the weapons stockpile built up during the arms race with the Soviet Union. Private companies operated the mines, but the U.S. government was the sole customer. The boom lasted through the early '60s. As the Cold War threat gradually diminished over the next two decades, more than 1,000 mines and four processing mills on tribal land shut down.
The companies often left behind radioactive waste piles and open tunnels and pits. Few bothered to fence the properties or post warning signs. Federal inspectors seldom intervened.Over the decades, Navajos inhaled radioactive dust from the waste piles, borne aloft by fierce desert winds.They drank contaminated water from abandoned pit mines that filled with rain. They watered their herds there, then butchered the animals and ate the meat.Their children dug caves in piles of mill tailings and played in the spent mines.And like the Holidays, many lived in homes silently pulsing with radiation. Today, there is no talk of cancer immunity in the Navajos.
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
Will I Get My Forty Acres And A Mule?
At one time in my life I voted for Jesse Jackson strictly
because he was a black man and it was one brother helping
another. It was the right thing to do or so I thought at the
time. Now many years later and many years older again I'm
faced with this decision. Would I vote for Obama because he's
my black brother? The answer at this time is No! The reason
is I am just not familar enough with the man's politics and
actions. I know he talks a good game but what successful
politician doesn't? Besides I live in Los Angeles Obama is from
Chicago. You check out the article then feed me some input.
Illinois state Sen. Rickey Hendon served eight years alongside Barack Obama in the state Capitol and plans to endorse him today when Obama launches a bid for the White House. But that does not mean Hendon has set aside the long-simmering doubts that he and other black leaders hold about a man who could become the first African American to occupy the Oval Office."I can endorse someone now and change my mind next week," Democrat Hendon said from Springfield, Ill., where U.S. Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) will kick off his campaign at the old state Capitol.
"I'm going to look at how he runs his campaign. I'm going to look closely to see if he raises the issues that are important to my people."
For many black activists in Obama's adopted home state, who might be expected to form the core of his political base, a central question still looms about the man who has risen speedily over 11 years from state lawmaker to U.S. senator to a sensation in the 2008 presidential campaign: As he works to appeal to voters across the nation, will Obama stand firm for black people and black causes? Some of the questions arise from Obama's upbringing in Hawaii, remote from the urban struggles of Chicago's black neighborhoods, and from his heritage as the son of a white American mother and black Kenyan father.
Obama is like a "plaid quilt" in which people of different races see themselves, said Eddie Read, chairman of the Black Independent Political Organization. He fears this may leave Obama insufficiently committed to fighting for the black community."He would not be the black president. He would be the multicultural president," said Read. "A black president would fight for black economic and political power."Obama's appeal to white voters leaves some black activists questioning the depth of his links to the black community, said Conrad Worrill, director of inner-city studies at Northeastern Illinois University.
"When white folks begin to put their arms around a black person, there's always suspicion," he said. "The question is: Will this generation of new, college-trained beneficiaries of the black political power movement in America fight for black political interests?"The debate over how to regard Obama was on display in Washington last week, on the sidelines of Democratic National Committee's winter conference. One of Obama's closest black supporters called a meeting of African American activists to encourage support for him.
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because he was a black man and it was one brother helping
another. It was the right thing to do or so I thought at the
time. Now many years later and many years older again I'm
faced with this decision. Would I vote for Obama because he's
my black brother? The answer at this time is No! The reason
is I am just not familar enough with the man's politics and
actions. I know he talks a good game but what successful
politician doesn't? Besides I live in Los Angeles Obama is from
Chicago. You check out the article then feed me some input.
Illinois state Sen. Rickey Hendon served eight years alongside Barack Obama in the state Capitol and plans to endorse him today when Obama launches a bid for the White House. But that does not mean Hendon has set aside the long-simmering doubts that he and other black leaders hold about a man who could become the first African American to occupy the Oval Office."I can endorse someone now and change my mind next week," Democrat Hendon said from Springfield, Ill., where U.S. Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) will kick off his campaign at the old state Capitol.
"I'm going to look at how he runs his campaign. I'm going to look closely to see if he raises the issues that are important to my people."
For many black activists in Obama's adopted home state, who might be expected to form the core of his political base, a central question still looms about the man who has risen speedily over 11 years from state lawmaker to U.S. senator to a sensation in the 2008 presidential campaign: As he works to appeal to voters across the nation, will Obama stand firm for black people and black causes? Some of the questions arise from Obama's upbringing in Hawaii, remote from the urban struggles of Chicago's black neighborhoods, and from his heritage as the son of a white American mother and black Kenyan father.
Obama is like a "plaid quilt" in which people of different races see themselves, said Eddie Read, chairman of the Black Independent Political Organization. He fears this may leave Obama insufficiently committed to fighting for the black community."He would not be the black president. He would be the multicultural president," said Read. "A black president would fight for black economic and political power."Obama's appeal to white voters leaves some black activists questioning the depth of his links to the black community, said Conrad Worrill, director of inner-city studies at Northeastern Illinois University.
"When white folks begin to put their arms around a black person, there's always suspicion," he said. "The question is: Will this generation of new, college-trained beneficiaries of the black political power movement in America fight for black political interests?"The debate over how to regard Obama was on display in Washington last week, on the sidelines of Democratic National Committee's winter conference. One of Obama's closest black supporters called a meeting of African American activists to encourage support for him.
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Saturday, February 10, 2007
Wait Just A Minute Governor!
California's prison problem is a mess so instead of dealing
with it they want to import it elsewhere. California wants
to be a shot caller when it comes to politics and other social
issues but lacks a spine to correct the prison problem. The
problem has now become an infected sore and the powers
to be can only find a band-aid to put on it. Time is running
out a federal judge will step in in June and may free
thousands of inmates.
Attorneys for two California prisoners on Wednesday asked a federal court to block Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from forcibly transferring convicts to private lockups in other states.The challenge comes less than a week after the governor ordered the mandatory moves to relieve overcrowding, which he said had reached crisis levels in most of the state's 33 prisons.
Close to 400 California inmates already have transferred voluntarily to private prisons in Tennessee and Arizona under a program that began in November. Schwarzenegger authorized the mandatory moves because so few convicts had agreed to go. In papers filed with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman asked for an order barring the forced transfers of inmates David Diaz and Paul Blumberg — and others in similar circumstances.
On Wednesday, a three-judge panel issued an order instructing the Schwarzenegger administration to file a response before a hearing Feb. 20. The order also said the court had been assured Diaz and Blumberg would not be forcibly transferred before then.
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with it they want to import it elsewhere. California wants
to be a shot caller when it comes to politics and other social
issues but lacks a spine to correct the prison problem. The
problem has now become an infected sore and the powers
to be can only find a band-aid to put on it. Time is running
out a federal judge will step in in June and may free
thousands of inmates.
Attorneys for two California prisoners on Wednesday asked a federal court to block Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from forcibly transferring convicts to private lockups in other states.The challenge comes less than a week after the governor ordered the mandatory moves to relieve overcrowding, which he said had reached crisis levels in most of the state's 33 prisons.
Close to 400 California inmates already have transferred voluntarily to private prisons in Tennessee and Arizona under a program that began in November. Schwarzenegger authorized the mandatory moves because so few convicts had agreed to go. In papers filed with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman asked for an order barring the forced transfers of inmates David Diaz and Paul Blumberg — and others in similar circumstances.
On Wednesday, a three-judge panel issued an order instructing the Schwarzenegger administration to file a response before a hearing Feb. 20. The order also said the court had been assured Diaz and Blumberg would not be forcibly transferred before then.
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Friday, February 9, 2007
Healthcare: Making Strange Bedfellows!
Healthcare in this country is becoming an embarassment
and should not be an issue in America the richest nation
in the history of the world. It is such an issue that now
even bitter enemies are joining forces to end this fiasco.
An unusual new coalition of big employers, labor unions and politicians united Wednesday to push for "quality, affordable" healthcare for all Americans by 2012. The proposal adds to growing pressure on Congress, President Bush and statehouses across America where governors including California's Arnold Schwarzenegger are calling for a major overhaul of health insurance coverage.
The idea united some bitter adversaries Wednesday and indicates that there is business support for change.Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, joined with one of its biggest critics, the Service Employees International Union.AT&T Inc. signed on along with its major union. Silicon Valley is represented by chip maker Intel Corp. So are both major political parties.
"The fact they even got to the same table to talk about this in the first place is pretty amazing," said Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, a national nonprofit organization that represents large concerns such as Exxon Mobil Corp., IBM Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co. The proposal was short of specifics but had four broad themes: universal health coverage by 2012, better preventive care and disease management; more efficient healthcare delivery, and cost-sharing by workers, employers and governments.
The initiative, dubbed Better Health Care Together, also guarantees that healthcare will take on an even larger role in the 2008 presidential campaign."This is yet another indication that, save for Iraq, healthcare will be near or at the top of the political agenda for 2008," said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a group that advocates overhauling healthcare.
The chief executive of Wal-Mart urged quick action. "Unfortunately, the current healthcare system doesn't work for many Americans," H. Lee Scott Jr. said at a news conference in Washington. "We need to change the current system and we need to start now."
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and should not be an issue in America the richest nation
in the history of the world. It is such an issue that now
even bitter enemies are joining forces to end this fiasco.
An unusual new coalition of big employers, labor unions and politicians united Wednesday to push for "quality, affordable" healthcare for all Americans by 2012. The proposal adds to growing pressure on Congress, President Bush and statehouses across America where governors including California's Arnold Schwarzenegger are calling for a major overhaul of health insurance coverage.
The idea united some bitter adversaries Wednesday and indicates that there is business support for change.Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, joined with one of its biggest critics, the Service Employees International Union.AT&T Inc. signed on along with its major union. Silicon Valley is represented by chip maker Intel Corp. So are both major political parties.
"The fact they even got to the same table to talk about this in the first place is pretty amazing," said Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, a national nonprofit organization that represents large concerns such as Exxon Mobil Corp., IBM Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co. The proposal was short of specifics but had four broad themes: universal health coverage by 2012, better preventive care and disease management; more efficient healthcare delivery, and cost-sharing by workers, employers and governments.
The initiative, dubbed Better Health Care Together, also guarantees that healthcare will take on an even larger role in the 2008 presidential campaign."This is yet another indication that, save for Iraq, healthcare will be near or at the top of the political agenda for 2008," said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a group that advocates overhauling healthcare.
The chief executive of Wal-Mart urged quick action. "Unfortunately, the current healthcare system doesn't work for many Americans," H. Lee Scott Jr. said at a news conference in Washington. "We need to change the current system and we need to start now."
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007
No Home-No Energy-No Assistance!
You know with the low income housing problem thats going on
across the country the recent cuts in the energy programs the
two situations go hand in hand. If you have no home then you
have no gas or electric bills. Therefore you don't need assistance.
You know Bush may not be that dumb after all. So what do y'all
think?
Under a 2005 energy bill signed by President Bush, an array of programs was promised more money. But when Bush unveiled his new budget Monday, some of these programs — including energy assistance for low-income families and energy efficiency — lost out.The promises of more federal dollars clashed with fiscal reality as a deficit-minded Bush sent his first budget to a Democratic-controlled Congress. The president's spending proposals are certain to provoke fights as energy policy moves back to prominence on Capitol Hill amid heightened concerns about global warming and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Bill Prindle, acting executive director of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, said Monday that the president's budget "sacrifices important efficiency programs.""Efficiency is the first fuel in the race for energy security," Prindle said, urging Congress to scrap the president's proposals. "If we don't get our energy demand under control, none of the president's or anyone else's clean-energy proposals will be able to catch up."
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Although the proposed $1.24-billion budget for the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is slightly higher than the administration proposed in its last budget, it represents a cut of $237 million, or 16%, from the amount proposed for the current year in a bill moving through Congress."The good news is that Congress has signaled its intent to make energy-efficiency programs a priority, notwithstanding the budget request of the administration," said Kateri Callahan, president of the Alliance to Save Energy.
Bush proposed more money for some of his favorite initiatives: promoting technology to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants, and for ways to revive the nuclear-power industry, which has been at a virtual standstill since the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island reactor in Harrisburg, Pa. And he followed through on his State of the Union proposal to reduce gasoline consumption, calling for more spending to develop home-grown alternative fuels — such as ethanol made from wood chips, switch grass and other biomass.
That proposal appears to enjoy bipartisan support in Congress, especially from farm-state lawmakers.Drawing the most criticism were proposals to cut the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to about $1.8 billion, from the nearly $2.2 billion expected to be allocated in 2007, and to cut the weatherization program — which helps the poor insulate their homes — from the proposed $242 million for the current fiscal year to $144 million.
across the country the recent cuts in the energy programs the
two situations go hand in hand. If you have no home then you
have no gas or electric bills. Therefore you don't need assistance.
You know Bush may not be that dumb after all. So what do y'all
think?
Under a 2005 energy bill signed by President Bush, an array of programs was promised more money. But when Bush unveiled his new budget Monday, some of these programs — including energy assistance for low-income families and energy efficiency — lost out.The promises of more federal dollars clashed with fiscal reality as a deficit-minded Bush sent his first budget to a Democratic-controlled Congress. The president's spending proposals are certain to provoke fights as energy policy moves back to prominence on Capitol Hill amid heightened concerns about global warming and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Bill Prindle, acting executive director of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, said Monday that the president's budget "sacrifices important efficiency programs.""Efficiency is the first fuel in the race for energy security," Prindle said, urging Congress to scrap the president's proposals. "If we don't get our energy demand under control, none of the president's or anyone else's clean-energy proposals will be able to catch up."
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Although the proposed $1.24-billion budget for the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is slightly higher than the administration proposed in its last budget, it represents a cut of $237 million, or 16%, from the amount proposed for the current year in a bill moving through Congress."The good news is that Congress has signaled its intent to make energy-efficiency programs a priority, notwithstanding the budget request of the administration," said Kateri Callahan, president of the Alliance to Save Energy.
Bush proposed more money for some of his favorite initiatives: promoting technology to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants, and for ways to revive the nuclear-power industry, which has been at a virtual standstill since the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island reactor in Harrisburg, Pa. And he followed through on his State of the Union proposal to reduce gasoline consumption, calling for more spending to develop home-grown alternative fuels — such as ethanol made from wood chips, switch grass and other biomass.
That proposal appears to enjoy bipartisan support in Congress, especially from farm-state lawmakers.Drawing the most criticism were proposals to cut the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to about $1.8 billion, from the nearly $2.2 billion expected to be allocated in 2007, and to cut the weatherization program — which helps the poor insulate their homes — from the proposed $242 million for the current fiscal year to $144 million.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
It's Still Shoot First-Ask Questions Later!
There are still parts of Cali where the law enforcement
shoot first then ask questions later. How is it that armed
police officers fear for their lives when dealing with two
unarmed black men? Read on and let me know your
take.
A prominent Los Angeles-based civil rights attorney filed two wrongful-death lawsuits against the city of Riverside on Monday in the shooting deaths of two unarmed men. Brian Dunn, an attorney with the law firm founded by the late Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., filed the lawsuit in District Court, alleging that the civil rights of Lee Deante Brown and Douglas Steven Cloud
were violated when they were shot last year by Riverside police officers.
"We believe that both of these deaths were unnecessary," said Dunn, who also represented the family of 13-year-old Devin Brown in a highly publicized wrongful-death suit against the city of Los Angeles."They're indicative of a pattern of excessive force," he said. "In both of these situations, they did not pose a threat to the officers that justified a use of deadly force."
The lawsuits were filed in Riverside on behalf of the families of Brown and Cloud, and did not specify monetary damages. The police officers involved in the shootings are named in the lawsuits. Steven Frasher, a Riverside police spokesman, referred all inquiries to the city attorney. Phone calls to City Atty. Gregory Priamos were not returned. Riverside police officials said that in both fatal incidents, the officers said they fired because they feared for their lives.
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shoot first then ask questions later. How is it that armed
police officers fear for their lives when dealing with two
unarmed black men? Read on and let me know your
take.
A prominent Los Angeles-based civil rights attorney filed two wrongful-death lawsuits against the city of Riverside on Monday in the shooting deaths of two unarmed men. Brian Dunn, an attorney with the law firm founded by the late Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., filed the lawsuit in District Court, alleging that the civil rights of Lee Deante Brown and Douglas Steven Cloud
were violated when they were shot last year by Riverside police officers.
"We believe that both of these deaths were unnecessary," said Dunn, who also represented the family of 13-year-old Devin Brown in a highly publicized wrongful-death suit against the city of Los Angeles."They're indicative of a pattern of excessive force," he said. "In both of these situations, they did not pose a threat to the officers that justified a use of deadly force."
The lawsuits were filed in Riverside on behalf of the families of Brown and Cloud, and did not specify monetary damages. The police officers involved in the shootings are named in the lawsuits. Steven Frasher, a Riverside police spokesman, referred all inquiries to the city attorney. Phone calls to City Atty. Gregory Priamos were not returned. Riverside police officials said that in both fatal incidents, the officers said they fired because they feared for their lives.
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