* Now that Alabama has signed the country’s toughest state-level immigration laws, that now puts Missouri two states behind. C’mon people, let’s get crackin’.
* On that subject, the anti-Arizona girlcott has been a big flop.
* On that subject again, SCOTUS has ordered the 3rd Appellate in Philly to give the Hazelton, Penn. immigration ordinances a second hearing — Previously, a three-judge panel of the 3rd knocked most of it back on constitutional grounds.
Thankfully, Hazelton’s new Mayor, Joseph Yannuzzi, who replaced Lou Barletta after his “third time’s a charm” try to topple Paul Kanjorski for Congress, is picking up right where his precedessor left off.
* Oh, isn’t that sweet?
My foot. Makes me want to give up my lunch.
Lost in all the hubbub is that the Supreme Court in the Plessy decision actually used the construction of the 14th Amendment. Within a week (?) of sending the 14th Amendment to the state legislatures for ratification (some of them ratifying it not so willingly), the same U.S. Congress enacted segregated schools in the District of Columbia.
* Didn’t I tell you a few days ago to expect more and frequent news about Obama’s Enron-style accounting? Behold.
* I agree with Beck. I understand this is also the NRA’s official position.
* The cat fight is on. Except the party doing the “cattin” on behalf of Bachmann is Ed Rollins.
Pardon me? What has he ever done? Manage Reagan’s ’84 49-state landslide? Hell, a monkey could have done that. Better economy, lower unemployment, lower inflation, lower taxes, and (at the time) a tamer Soviet Union.
* Young whites think Obama is no longer cool? Exhibit (RIA)A.
* I consider this a feature, not a bug. At least when we’re talking about the older “truants.” Their not being in school marginally makes things better for those that want to learn and those that want to teach.
The CPS reaction is that the parents need to be better educated about truancy laws and the negative consequences of habitual truancy. Aside from the fact that a lot of parents of CPS students aren’t the brightest bulbs in the box, this would only help with very young truants. Note that the article says that about 900 CPS first graders are chronically truant. For high school students, they’re old enough and can do enough for themselves such that what their parents do or don’t do, within a relevant range of sensibility, doesn’t much matter.
Notice that there are more chronically truant CPS students (40k) than the entire SLPS enrollment (32k).
* Recent black mob hate attacks against white Chicagoans and relative insouciance from the CPD (they’re calling these mob actions “infractions”) have Chicagoans looking for another solution:
The Guardian Angels do not carry weapons but are trained for three months in hand-to-hand combat in a rigorous self-defense course.
Fuentes says they are not out there profiling anybody and says, “people have a right to walk and to assemble” but if a mob is in the process of committing a crime or intimidating people, Fuentes says the first thing they will do is follow the group and see if the actions continue. If so they will call police or make a citizen’s arrest.
You know hand to hand combat. They have guns. Guess who’s gonna win. Methinks the Guardian Angels need their own guardian angels.
“Not out there profiling?” That’s why the real police with real guns are ineffective. What makes you think you and your T-shirt banditos trained in hand to hand combat will make things any better?
The article claims that the “Guardian Angels” have made a number of citizen arrest. If they’re unarmed, they couldn’t have arrested anyone too dangerous. Probably some dangerous thug on the lam who is in arrears on a bunch of traffic tickets.
* GOP’s WMD? Yeah, this is sorta like putting a toddler behind the control panel of a hydrogen bomb.
For one, they won’t use it, because it involves being “racist,” and for the other, they can’t use it in good conscience because, in spite of what this book probably doesn’t say, Bush 43 specifically deserves a good chunk of the blame. The only way it would work is if someone we’ve never heard of comes out of nowhere to win the Republican nomination, and that someone is well outside the GOP’s banal lamestream on race issues, and this someone has a lot of his own money to spend, because s/he would surely be a pariah, as such a person winning the Republican nomination wouldn’t be way too much different than a hostile corporate takeover. Like I said a few weeks ago, someone “coming out of nowhere” to win a party’s nomination for President is more a Democrat thing.
* It’s 2000 all over again. At least it is among certain black Chicagoans and their attitude toward this Obama fellow. Not black enough, n’est pas? Not down for the struggle.
* Remember that receipt from that supermarket in Michigan that got some good play in our little segment of the blogosphere, the one that showed that someone bought a bunch of lobster and porterhouse steak with food stamps?
Turns out that that “someone” turned right around and sold all that stuff for cash, at about 50 cents on the dollar.
And it’s not who or what you think.
It says here he’s 33. That’s a pretty hard looking 33. He probably needed the money for meth.
* Busted: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee — A mouthpiece of Middle Eastern Arab and Muslim governments.
There is probably a whole book full of Federal laws that can be used to shut it down. Some time in the past, I’m sure some Congress wasn’t too keen on the idea of foreign governments funding “private” lobbying outfits as an end-run around the formal foreign relations channels, and translated their frustrations into formal law.
* Age twenty-eight seems to be a line of demarcation about the attitude that young adults have toward debt. Before 28, it’s “oh cool I can get lots of stuff.” After 28, it’s “oh shit, I’m never gonna have a good enough job to pay that big principal balance back.”
* SPLC sues heavily black Jackson, Miss. school district. My dog in this fight is the fight itself.
* “It’s becoming increasingly clear that our efforts to rein in the narcotics trade in Latin America, especially as it relates to the government’s use of contractors, have largely failed.”
You’re right, Claire McCaskill. It has failed. That’s because you’re so naive as to think that all that spending was meant to “rein in the narcotics trade.” Once you readjust your mindset, and “grow” in your job, as the Beltway insiders like to say, you’ll realize that these programs are a roaring success. Because their purpose is to make certain people and certain companies rich.
* Plenty of room in Africa.
But you know what? Most Africans would in a heartbeat leave Africa for most any one of those countries that could fit inside Africa, if they could.
* “I just want people—men, and men of color in particular—to hear my story and know that their children need them and that it’s their responsibility to be there for them. We have to step up as men and do our part. There are no excuses.” — Dwayne Wade.
It helps if you have a boat load of money, because the family court systems in this country are very much biased toward women when it comes to custody decisions in divorce cases, even ones as certifiable as his ex-wife.
A nickel’s worth of free advice for Mr. Wade as he navigates the waters of single fatherhood — Papa don’t let your man child grow up to take his talents to South Beach.
