A prison inmate who was once accused of threatening to kill former President Bush, is facing new charges for threatening federal officials in Northeast Ohio. 41-year-old Clifton Cousins was already serving time in the Ohio Penitentiary for murder, arson and robbery when he caught the attention of federal authorities in 2004.
Federal prosecutors say Cousins, who is also known as Abdullah Jihad Al-Malik, was later convicted of threatening to kill President Bush. But they say Cousins was upset when Judge David Dowd in Akron refused to allow him to serve his state and federal sentences at the same time, so he allegedly mailed a menacing series of letters that threatened to kill the judge and his family. Authorities say he also threatened to blow up the federal courthouse in Akron.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Getz says one of the envelopes "contained a packet of white powder which the letter alleged was arsenic and basically there was additional threats to the judge related to destroying a federal building with a pipebomb."
Wednesday, a federal grand jury returned an eight count indictment against Cousins, accusing him of trying to intimidate the court. If convicted of the new federal charges, Clifton Cousins could see an additional 100 years tacked onto his current sentence.
A Washington state jury says a man convicted of killing the family of a National Guard sergeant who was serving in Iraq, then burning down the house in an attempt to conceal the crime, should be sentenced to death.
The King County Superior Court jury's decision was read by Judge Gregory Canova on Wednesday and was met by silence in the courtroom.
Conner Schierman was convicted last month of four counts of aggravated first-degree murder and one count of arson in the 2006 stabbing deaths of 28-year-old Olga Milkin, her two young sons and her sister.
No clear motive ever emerged from the trial.
The 28-year-old Schierman has said he had an alcoholic blackout, only to wake up in the Milkins' neighboring Kirkland home covered in blood with no idea of what happened.
Mr. Schierman has a pretty effective subconscious then, able to plan, act, and plan and act some more. I vote we send his subconscious to the electric chair for what it did. Mr. Schierman himself ought to go free, as he was a passenger in his own body, locked in a windowless back room far from the controls.
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It truly sucks to be a leftist. It sucks more to be an alcoholic leftist. Far worse still, are those who are continually made to suffer at the hands of leftist tools who always get cover of media blackout.
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It truly sucks to be a leftist. It sucks more to be an alcoholic leftist.
I'm hoping that many leftists wake up after November 2010 from their alcoholic blackout.
Surprises me the press wasn't able to spin this story into a "white supremacist racist homophobe loner Tea Party Michigan militia member."
Death penalty sounds right to me. Pic seems right to me.
LAGOS, Nigeria Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, long plagued by poor health, has died at age 58, almost three months after his vice president assumed control of Africa's most populous nation, Yar'Adua's spokesman said.
Yar'Adua died at 9 p.m. (2000 GMT) Wednesday at the Aso Rock presidential villa with his wife Turai at his side, presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi told The Associated Press, his voice cracking with emotion. Adeniyi did not give a cause of death. Got a feeling we're all gonna have the chance to be rich very soon, folks. Monitor your email...
A Muslim, Yar'Adua will be buried before sundown Thursday afternoon in his home state of Katsina, said Ima Niboro, a spokesman for Acting President Goodluck Jonathan. Niboro said Thursday also would be a national holiday and the country would observe seven days of mourning for Yar'Adua. So...Good Luck, Goodluck...
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All those years of treatment in Saudi must not have worked so well. Maybe he should have copied the Saudi leaders and gone to the Mayo Clinic instead?
[Al Arabiya Latest] Egyptian intellectuals slammed calls to ban the Arabian Nights tale hundreds of years after its emergence in the literary scene under the pretext of immorality and warned of the 'bedouinization' of Egyptian culture.
A recent republication of the centuries-old classic triggered controversy as a group of Egyptian lawyers called to ban the new version on the basis of depiction of sexuality and use of offensive language.
"I was shocked at the offensive phrases it contains," said Ayman Abdul-Hakim, member of Lawyers without Shackles, the non-governmental group that filed a complaint with Egypt's Prosecutor General calling for the withdrawal of the new edition from the market and for banning the book altogether.
According to Abdul-Hakim, the book, which was re-published by the state-run General Organization of Culture Palaces (GOCP), is "a waste of public money."
Meanwhile, the GOCP Supreme Publication Committee decided to print another edition after the first one was sold out and said in a statement that Arabian Nights is an invaluable cultural heritage that cannot be confiscated.
The decision marks an extremely powerful blow to all forces of darkness that conspire against freedom of expression and the prosperity of art in Egypt, said Ahmed Megahed, GOCP Chairman.
"The fact that the first edition was sold out shortly after it was issued shows that Egyptians are avid readers and that they will not be influenced by a bunch of people who take advantage of Islam in order to suppress freedom," he said.
Magahed added that the latest edition is based on an older version that was already revised by al-Azhar, the world's leading institution of Sunni Islam, and that there is nothing immoral or offensive about it.
A call to dismiss the complaint
Several Egyptian writers condemned the call to ban the book in a literary conference held Tuesday at the Cairo-based Writers' Union and called upon the Prosecutor General to dismiss the complaint.
The conference, entitled The Arabian Night and Levels of Reception, featured a group of Egypt's prominent intellectuals who all agreed that the ban of Arabian Nights is not an issue that only concerns writers, but rather one that concerns the entire nation and its legitimate right to preserve its cultural heritage.
"I am stunned at the conspiracies directed against this book which comes third after the Bible and William Shakespeare's plays in terms of the number of languages to which it was translated," said children literature writer Abdul-Tawab Yusuf.
Bedouinization
Professor of Sociology Mohamed Hafez Diab sees the fuss about the Arabian Nights as part of the phenomenon of the 'bedouinization' of Egyptian culture which has been taking place over a period of 30 years during which Egyptians of all echelons have been flocking to Gulf nations for work.
In his research "Sex and heritage: The case of Arabian Nights," Diab said that the extreme caution with which Arabs deal with sex is part of a culture of suppression that makes of sex a restricted area and its approach a sort of immorality.
Diab cited several literary works that tackled sexuality and whose writers were neither delinquents nor marginalized rebels.
"On the contrary, they were respectable people in the judiciary and jurisprudence fields in Egypt, Tunisia and other countries."
Arabian Nights, Diab added, should not be viewed as a work about sexuality as many tend to categorize it. It is, on the contrary, a work that tackles power relations.
"For example, the sexual relationship between the slave and the princess reveals how the marginalized are objectified and how in a repressive society the bodies of the members of royalty become a dream for the frustrated working class."
Through the relationship he has with his mistress, Diab explains, the slave finds a means to conquer to the ruling class that oppresses him and his people.
Diab described the complaint filed with the Prosecutor General as a manifestation of the deterioration of the culture of literature in a society that takes advantage of religion.
"The text has nothing against Islam. We are facing a group of imposters who claim they are defending Islam and are trying to make apostates of others."
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This is a hoot. The Egyptians as a people regard themselves as "sophisticated city folk" compared to the Bedouins, who they regard as impoverished backwoods 'Deliverence'-type banjo playing hillbillies.
Their upper classes are profoundly Francophile, and can imagine themselves discussing Sartre at some Left Bank coffee shop. So from their point of view, the comparison of the Arabian Nights with Shakespeare is not a stretch.
Sir Richard Burton's collected Arabian Nights is, from their point of view, close to 2000 years of post-Pharoic Egyptian history and culture.
The intellectual and upper classes would far rather dismiss Islam itself than despise it, just because some primitive Koran-thumper thinks it is "dirty".
[Al Arabiya Latest] Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the Libyan leader's liberal-leaning son, on Wednesday said a constitution is vital to Libya's prosperity and that resources were "wasted" on women who prefer to get married and stay at home rather than work.
I don't know... send a girl to college to become an engineer, and you'll never have to hire a plumber to fix a leaky faucet. That would pay off awfully fast. Let her study English lit. and mathematics and you won't have to hire a tutor for your idiot sons. Send her to medical school and your children will grow up healthy and strong, and your parents will live long and happily. The investment in training women who end up staying home may not pay off for society, but the woman's family certainly benefits.
Analysts say Islam, who took a central role in ending Libya's long stand-off with West, has unsettled the country's old guard with proposals for political and economic liberalization.
"We need a constitution. You cannot run a country without having a constitution, without basic laws. It's a must," Gaddafi told a conference in Cairo.
Libya has no formal constitution and on paper is ruled according to a system of grass-roots socialism set out in Muammar Gaddafi's "Green Book," which outlines his philosophy and views on how countries should be governed.
Saif al-Islam, who studied at the London School of Economics
Oh dear. Does he really want to admit that?
and has spent years cultivating an image as a reformer, has been seeking to gather support for a constitution, according to Libyans close to ruling circles, but has encountered resistance from hardliners with vested interests in the current system.
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"Sword of Islam" doesn't really make people less nervous, you know. You might consider a name change.
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NEWS KERALA/TOPIX > EX-SOVIET GENERAl [Marshal Zhukov himself] REVEALS STALIN AND USSR WERE NEARLY DEFEATED BY NAZI GERMANY IN 1941.
Lest we fergit, STALIN + GENERALS > [paraph] Neither the Soviet Union, Great Britain, or the Nations of Europe, ALONE OR IN JOINT, COULD DEFEAT HITLER + NAZI GERMANY/WEHRMACHT. Iff it wasn't for PEARL HARBOR, the best STALIN could hope for would be MIL STALEMATE DEEP INSIDE THE USSR, wid German forces occupying large areas of Russia.
Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac (FRE) said Wednesday it needs more taxpayer funds after posting a $6.69 billion loss in Q1. The latest request will push total government aid to Freddie and sister firm Fannie Mae (FNM), both under gov't conservatorship, to $136.5 billion.
Freddie said it expects to ask for more taxpayer funds as the red ink continues to flow. And why not? The Treasury late last year essentially wrote the two quasi-public firms a blank check for future losses.
Freddie and Fannie helped finance the massive explosion of subprime home loans. Because of their implicit (now explicit) government guarantees, they expanded and leveraged far beyond what truly private firms could get away with.
Rep. Barney Frank declared in 2003 he was willing to roll the dice,' dismissing fears that Freddie and Fannie could suffer major losses and destabilize credit markets. Even after those Cassandras turned out to be right, Frank and his colleagues continue to ignore the problem: Democrats' sweeping financial overhaul bills somehow fail to address Fannie or Fannie at all.
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Won't fail; too many Democratic ex-officeholders depend on them for their sinecures ...
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What Steve said. Rahm pocketed $300,000 for a four-month stint as a Freddie Mac director in IIRC 2001. No doubt Obey et al are lining up their next Fannie-Freddie gigs as we speak. Not exactly Goldman but then, the workload's far lighter, esp if you're a figurehead "director" directing nothing at all.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The Washington Post has announced it is exploring the possible sale of its highbrow magazine Newsweek as the weekly continues to suffer big losses. Newsweak is highbrow? Who knew?
"The losses at Newsweek in 2007-2009 are a matter of record," Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald Graham said in a statement, Newsweek reported. "But it's not because of editorial policy or because we employ Jonathan Alter or anything..."
"Despite heroic efforts on the part of Newsweek's management and staff, we expect it to still lose money in 2010," he said. "We are exploring all options to fix that problem." "Except for changing editorial policy, firing staff that large numbers of Americans find offensive, changing layout, changing marketing methods..."
Similar to other US magazines, the New York-based weekly has come across with a sustainable decline in print advertisements. What the hell is a "sustainable decline"? Who the hell writs this stuff? Jonathan Alter? Howard Fineman? Eleanor Clift?
It is also estimated that Newsweek has also lost much of its readership as online news has become more popular. Newsweak is just as available online as anything else. Could it be content?... No. That can't be it.
The Newsweek together with Slate and other titles belonged to the Post Co. reported an operating loss of USD 29.3 million last year. Hmmm... What can they have in common?
Newsweek was launched in 1933 and the Post Co. bought it in 1961. There's currently $233 in Rantburg's Pay Pal account. Kick in to help me buy Newsweak and fire Howard Fineman!
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"Highbrow" - that's hilarious. When I was younger, Newsweek and Time were the very canonical definition of middlebrow.
What gets me is that the Grahams put it up for sale by saying they didn't know how to make it stop losing money. Way to demonstrate that marketing acumen there, Donald! Go ahead and talk down the property in the sales pitch!
They'll be lucky to get a dime over liquidation value if that's their attitude.
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If the National Enquirer buys Newsweek then the editorial quality and accuracy will both go up.
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I am hoping that Rush Limbaugh buys it, makes Ann Coulter its Executive Editor, and staffs it with conservative writers from Red State middle America.
It would fill up the corridors of our hospitals with liberals suffering from everything from nose bleeds to aneurysms.
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Why buy a separate copy of Newsweak when everything in it is an exact copy of what you would find in Time? Theres room for one Democrat party organ periodical, but not two. If they want to make money, then they should consider making something different from everyone else. Dare I suggest that they emulate Foxnews and give people an alternate voice from what everyone else is saying. If they did, you could justify buying one over the other. I know its crazy, but you could (dare I say it) compete with one another in the marketplace of ideas...
Naaaaaaaahhhh.
That said, does anyone actually buy magazines anymore? Specifically why would anyone buy a news magazine for news thats already a week old by the time you get it? And on top of that, why would anyone buy a news magazine when you already know what the writers are going to say before they say it. Ive been doing a bit of "signals analysis" on the writers at Newsweak and Time. For some time now, Ive been convinced that the "writers" are not actual writers, as in "people who write" they are actors who portray writers. Their written content is output that comes from a computer program that was commissioned by the Democrat party. You feed it a subject and it regurgitates the platitudes, half baked ideas and the utopian bongwater that forms the core of the logic of the left. Take any subject matter and you can almost see the flowchart that leads you through decision point and logic arrows but always puts you in:
"It Was Reagan screwed it all up",
"Right Wing America Threatens All Life On Earth"
"The only thing stopping the ERA from finally becoming law is that man down the street with the gas guzzling Hummmer"
"Bush was standing on the oxygen hose of wounded Lady Liberty when he lied to us about Iraq (and he was drunk too)"
The program assures that there are no "incidents" such as happened in the past where an actual writer would notice that their long held leftist arguments didn't actually hold up under scrutiny and would then step outside the party line and say something like "welfare is bad and it needs reform". The other added benefit of the "generator" is that anyone can be a "Writer". How else do you explain the celebrity content at the Huffpo? You don't think the half wit Hollywood actors actually wrote that stuff do you? They might believe it, but they believe just about anything, except the idea that "America is a good thing".
That of course, is where they draw the line.
The reason why the "generator" is necessary is that this sort of "Free Thinking" cannot be allowed under any circumstances, lest the "lumpen proletariat" start to get the idea that they can actually think for themselves and decide whats right and wrong without proper guidance from party central.
Howard Fineman? He's Chet Handley, summer stock player from Chautauqua. Got his start in "the Front Page" and really liked the role of "Big Time Writer". I dont think Chet is even aware what the "generator" program has written under his characters byline. Eleanor Clift? come on, the central casting office worked overtime on that one. They found that actress working the swing shift at Krispy Kreme in Moline Alabama. You have to admit,its a great role, the mad shrieking harpy. Not since George Costanza's mother has an actress been able to get away with that kind of mindless shrieking on the stage. ( I think Elsa Lanchester would've been better, but she was not available.)
You don't really think that she believes the stuff she says, do you?
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[Al Arabiya Latest] everal dozen youths hurled petrol bombs on Wednesday at stores and banks in central Athens as thousands protested against a government austerity drive, according to an AFP correspondent.
Youths smashed store windows and bus stop shelters with iron bars with no sign of police at the site before joining marches of demonstrators converging on the parliament to protest draconian spending cuts and tax hikes.
A protestor also threw a petrol bomb near the parliament. One bank branch in central Athens caught fire after it was hit by petrol bombs. According to people, three people were killed and 20 remain trapped inside the bank.
Earlier, police fired tear gas on protestors as demonstrations against a unprecedented austerity drive drew 25,000 people in Athens and 20,000 in Thessaloniki amid a general strike, police said.
In Athens, officers sprayed protestors with tear gas as they tried to break through a police line in front of the parliament amid a nationwide general strike.
In Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, police fired tear gas at protesting youths as they threw rocks against shops and banks.
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Three generations of leftists using the education system to indoctrinate people with the idea that it is the responsibility of agencies outside of one's self to provide a bulletproof income stream have come home to roost.
Lick it up, Europe.
I hope that we can prevent this here. November can't come early enough.
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Don't be so disparaging of the actual poor. Those assholes throwing firebombs aren't *hungry*, they're radicalized black-masked anarcho-communists, birkenstock stormtroopers.
This is the petit New Class rioting in defense of their privileges.
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Predictably, the lamestream media is labeling the crowds causing the Greek mayhem as simply youths, demonstrators, Protestors, or the overly vague people. One would think an important aspect of this story is that these riots are organized and carried out by Communist allied Union Workers and their far-left affiliates. Guess the journalists don't to distract from that violent Tea Party vibe.
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They're not "protestors". They're TERRORISTS.
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Molotov-throwing crowds qualify for return fire.
[Dawn] A tumble in global stocks spreads to Asia on Wednesday as fears heightened that Greece's debt woes could spread to other countries, which pushed the euro down to one-year lows against the dollar.
Shares in Europe are expected to open little changed, stabilising after the FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European shares dropped 3 percent to a two-month closing low on Tuesday.
The MSCI index of Asia ex-Japan stocks fell nearly 2 percent, with Shanghai and Hong Kong hitting seven-month and nine-week lows, respectively, as scepticism over the 110 billion euro ($142 billion) bailout plan intensified.
The euro, which suffered its steepest one-day loss since last June in the previous session, notched another one-year low at $1.2936 before recovering slightly. Traders expected the single currency to remain under pressure.
"One gets the feeling that the euro zone is turning out to be a basket case and of course rumours about Spain and Portugal's sovereign debt aren't helping. I suspect the market wants to take the euro to as low as $1.25 in the short term," said Joanthan Cavenagh, currency strategist at Westpac in Sydney.
Markets in Japan, Korea and Thailand were closed for holidays.
Risk aversion lifted the dollar up, with its index gaining 0.26 percent on top of a 1.4 percent rise on Tuesday. That was the biggest daily gain so far this year and took the index to the highest since May 2009.
Oil extended losses falling towards $82, following the steepest one-day percentage loss in three months on Tuesday, on rising inventories and a firm dollar.
"A combination of worries including contagion to Spain and Portugal, policy tightening in China, debt concerns in the UK and Japan, all threaten to undo the positive message from economic data," Mitul Kotecha, head of global FX strategy at Credit Agricole said in a note to clients.
The immediate attention remains on Greece and growing scepticism about Greece's ability to carry out austerity measures in the face of rising domestic opposition, Kotecha said.
In Athens, striking public workers challenged Greece's bailout-for-austerity deal, starting a 48-hour national strike that shut down ministries, tax offices, schools, hospitals and public services.
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Another viewpoint of Greek woes:Markets view the EU-IMF package for Greece as a politically-shaped response that cannot work because it shuts off the twin cures of debt restructuring and devaluation, leaving the burden of adjustment on the Greek people. If Greeks come to view the plan as a rescue for foreign banks and funds as many already do there is no chance of carrying the nation through five years of harsh austerity.
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I heard financial commentator, Stuart Varney, this morning say that what is going on in Greece can't happen in the U.S. because there is not a such a tradition here. I don't share the same view. It could happen here. The economic conditions are very similar.
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because there is not a such a tradition here. I don't share the same view. I don't share the view either. The USA has its own version of the Free Lunch Party, which essentially denies that bills-have-to-be-paid-or-else.
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Everything our Government has done was simply painting over rotten wood. Yes it can happen here and is more likely to happen the more we operate like Europe. China is the one to watch. I call them a paper tiger. They have toxic assets (female donkeys) much worse than what we had or have. I have been concerned about our economy for some time now but it seems most people believe our government- that things are improving. So as long as the cool aid drinkers spend then things aren't so bad as they could be.
One of the nation's biggest labor organizations announced today it will boycott Arizona.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) said its 2.2 million members will not attend any meetings or conventions in Arizona as long as the new immigration law is in place. Will they also boycott organizing there?
"On behalf of working families and the more than 8 million residents of Arizona, we will not back down until the Arizona state legislature, the courts or the Federal Government invalidates this dangerous and discriminatory law," said Eliseo Medina, SEIU Executive Vice President.
SEIU joins other civil rights groups, including National Council of La Raza, in boycotting the state.
Tourism is a significant part of Arizona's economy, and boycotters hope that staying out of the state will pressure the legislature to repeal the law.
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has urged a boycott of his own state.
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Why are these idiots speaking on behalf of me and the 70% of the other Arizona residents that support this law????? Will someone sue them for me? I did not authorize them to speak on my behalf! And Darth, I will have cold beer when you get here!
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Sounds like the story where the Br'er Rabbit said to the Br'er Fox: Please don't throw me in the briar patch.
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Stay in touch, we will get together for a beer.
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I note that at the source, this article has four pages of comments, and I saw only one opposed to the law. If this keeps up, the AZ tourism industry could get swamped with bookings.
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Vacation? Dang, I want to MOVE to AZ. If only I could convince Mrs Mundi. She doesn't handle the heat so well which is just plain odd for anyone of the Mundi clan.
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She would love the North country, around Flagstaff. They have just finished up the ski season at Snowbowl. Elevation 6,900 ft. Only 60,000 people in the city, and that many again in the surrounding area.
http://www.arizonasnowbowl.com/
The air is crystal clear, and the sky is full of stars, if you like astronomy. It's on the southern edge of a huge Ponderosa pine forest. Home of Northern AZ University.
Lots of wildlife, just a couple hours from the Grand Canyon, near Meteor Crater, Sunset Crater, Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon, and if you get too chill, Phoenix is an hour and a half downhill on the freeway.
I think it might be time to consider banning burqas and niqabs at airports altogether, as they are starting to be in government buildings, as a matter of security. Dubai Air, Afghan Air, Saudi Air, etc. (whatever their actual names are) can build a little airport all their own, and handle their own security. But there's no reason the rest of us should have to worry.
Five male students were asked to leave Live Oak High School this morning because they were wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school could not be reached for comment, but one student said administrators called the T-shirts "incendiary."
"They said we were starting a fight, we were fuel to the fire," said Matt Dariano, a sophomore.
The five teens were sitting at a table outside during their brunch break around 10:10 a.m. when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two boys to take off their American flag bandannas that they were wearing on their heads. In the same conversation, student Dominic Maciel said, Rodriguez told the group to "walk with him to the office."
Dariano called his mother Diana, who spread the word to the other parents and all arrived soon after to have a conference with Rodriguez and Principal Nick Boden.
Maciel said they were told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home. Maciel said they were told it wouldn't be considered a suspension but Rodriguez did not want any fights to break out among Mexican students and the group showing their American pride.
The boys said they thought turning the American flag inside-out was disrespectful, so all went home.
Dariano said Rodriguez indicated to him that while other students were wearing American flags, the group of five was "the easiest target to cause trouble."
"We were not going to start a fight. We wanted to show our pride," Dariano said. "In light of all of this, there are people with painted flags in red, green and white and yet the boys can't wear the American flag," Diana said.
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Apparently 'moose caught an earlier version of the story. Datelined 2:11pm, the online story is heavily pro- kids' speech and pro-US, with a quote indicating that the school district supports the kids' showing the American flag:
Five Live Oak High School students' First Amendment rights were challenged this morning when they were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school chose not to comment on the situation, but one student said an official called the T-shirts incendiary."
"They said we were starting a fight, we were fuel to the fire," said sophomore Matt Dariano.
The Morgan Hill Unified School District issued this statement: "In an attempt to foster a spirit of cultural awareness and maintain a safe and supportive school environment, the Live Oak High School administration took certain actions earlier today. The district does not concur with the Live Oak High School administration's interpretation of either board or district policy related to these actions.""
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"The district does not concur with the Live Oak High School administration's interpretation of either board or district policy related to these actions."
Neither does that rag called The Constitution that too many folks have decided to use as a doormat.
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i think he did the right thing, its better to deal with being called racist, than dealing with a hate crime, and somebody's death because you didnt do anything to prevent it.
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i think he did the right thing, its better to deal with being called racist, than dealing with a hate crime, and somebody's death because you didnt do anything to prevent it.
The rational extension of that line of thought is that everyone should be locked up or locked down to prevent the possibility of a crime. The ultimate police state.
But to many Mexican American students at Live Oak, this was a big deal. They say they were offended by the five boys and others for wearing American colors on a Mexican holiday.
"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day," Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. "We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July."
I think its time for Annicia to go back to Mexico. And I wonder what her immigration status is.
As for an apology, the boys and their families say, "fat chance."
You mean the someone actually asked them to apologize for wearing the US flag on US Soil?
"I'm not going to apologize. I did nothing wrong," Galli said. "I went along with my normal day. I might have worn an American flag, but I'm an American and I'm proud to be an American."
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my response to the principal would've been..."and why would my wearing the official flag of this country in a U.S. public school be cause for a safety concern?" That's the root problem these administrators need to fix.
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"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day."
Hold the bus here folks. Its not that the American flag itself is offesnsive. There were plenty of American Flags waving in the Cinco de Mayo parades. Its only offensive when anglos do it.
Embrace Multiiculturism!
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Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a holiday held on May 5 that commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.[2][3] It is celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla and in the United States.
This is about a battle fought on foreign soil by two armies, neither of which were US forces. It's only a state, not national, holiday even in Mexico. So what does it have to do with citizens of the United States? ....other than another left wing program of power through division. Obviously, the assistant principal doesn't grasp 'inclusiveness' if it involves excluding.
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poor babies, I guess the Mexicans shouldnt have attacked Texas way back when. Then they wouldnt have forced us to take Mexico City. As it turns out, they're lucky to still have ANY land left to call Mexico.
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Is anything, I mean anything at all, headed in the right direction in this country? We're screwed!
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#23
Is anything, I mean anything at all, headed in the right direction in this country?
I hear you. I was never pessimistic about this country's future before the last 12 months-- not during the Carter era, not during the declinist rage days/LA riots/recession of '91-92, not after 9/11.
But now I'm increasingly of the belief that we are headed into a period of turmoil, economic contraction, and political incompetence that will leave my young children facing nothing but bad options when they leave school. The main cause? This pervasive, ironclad, bulletproof US political culture we have of BS, of fibs n fairytales, of near-total intellectual dishonesty on issue after issue-- our Mexico debacle, our pensions debacle, our imported oil debacle, the capture of our regulatory apparatus by crony bankers etc. I complained today to my local city councilman's office-- she's the Asst Mayor and head of all budgeting proposals for the city-- about a persistent crime problem in our part of town that's associated with illegal immigrant kids with rap sheets as long as your arm. I was told that there's absolutely no chance of deportation, that the city refuses to enforce the laws re illegal immigration ("it's not our responsibility"), that they proudly resist any movement at all toward Arizona's approach, and that the police presence-- already woefully inadequate, and consisting mainly of dopey kids recruited as rookie cops-- in our city will likely be cut back significantly anyway.
This is political failure at all levels-- a national government that refuses to secure the border, a state government that is in the pocket of corrupt union hacks voting themselves pensions of $250,000/yr or more, and a local government that proudly shelters illegal immigrant criminals. And nothing, nothing at all, will change in the next decade because neither party gives a damn about challenging the status quo or telling truth to the Mexico lobby in this country.
This is decadence. This is precisely what causes great nations to become banana republics.
At the heart of the problem lies the media. The medium does control the message, and the media have long since fallen to the Left, on your side of the Atlantic as it has mine. No one should ever underestimate the power of propaganda, and it's the media that pushes the political culture we have of constantly BS, of fibs n fairytales, of near-total intellectual dishonesty on issue after issue. The Left can't defend itself against the truth, but by controlling the media it can deny the truth until enough people believe the lies.
It's testament to their influence that the left-wing media even manage to persuade people that there is a right-wing threat from the likes of Fox. Laughably absurd, yet pushed so persistently that a great many people believe it.
Without the protective shield provided by the media, left-wing politicians wouldn't survive a generation.
#27
Changing the conversation doesn't help. Even when the citizens dare to speak the truth, to call BS, to heap scorn on the fibs n fairytales and to point out the blindingly obvious, you still have stonewalling by the political class.
The public opposes amnesty/open borders by a huge margin, and it doesn't matter to the political class, who are determined to force us to swallow, yet again (remember 1986?), 12 million unskilled illiterates imported from Mexico, without a vote, without anything resembling an honest or intelligent discussion of the issue. To them it's not even a topic for debate, and it will never be put to a vote.
They-- BOTH parties, with few exceptions-- are determined to pander to the latino/lefty illegal-symp vote, the national interest be damned. You can tell by the way elected officials calmly, smilingly and patronizingly dismiss out of hand any suggestion of border control or enforcement or deportation. The clear sub-message is, These ideas are nuts, beyond the pale, nonstarters that only a crank would entertain!
The ONLY solution-- and it's a longshot at best-- is a political realignment around a third party that will defend our borders and the integrity of our public finances. There is utterly no hope so long as tweedledum and tweedledee monopolize the national debate.
#28
well, a simpler solution is to repeal the Great Society and the War on Poverty that Lyndon Johnson foisted upon the nation. We fought the war on poverty and won. This is the only country where the biggest problem afflicting the "poor" is obesity. If you eliminate welfare it would greatly reduce the attractiveness of this country to illegals. Further, if the Government were really serious about cracking down on illegals, it would require proof that anyone wiring money outside the country had the legal right to be in the country. Instead everybody, even the post office, gets a piece of the remittance trade.
#29
Hard to accept and/or believe that we have gotten to this point. Really? That we're even having this conversation is unf***ingbelievable to me.
We need to get the Pledge of Alligence back in vogue and show respect to our country at every game, show, event and especially our schools.
This isn't okay, to stop Americans from wearing with pride shirts with the flag emblem on them, to not incite violence from students that may dislike them is very wrong. It's backward, those that would incite the violence need to be disciplined, not the students wearing the flag emblems. Any school official that endorses this mindset needs to be severely reprimanded for these wrongful actions immediately, and this shouldn't be tolerated.
Now to impliment this action. We need to make alot of changes and now.
Remind me again; so there are citizens that are angered by citizens wearing American icons? Oh yeah right, they must not be citizens.
We need to wear with pride our alligence to our country!!!
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