Saturday, September 28, 2002

More Coverage of Football player's Suspension
From the Cincinnati Post
From MyrtleBeachOnline
Boycott no closer to goal
This sounds a bit like a column to me. It lacked a direction. They only thing I got from it was the boycotters will not give up, which was obvious. They are making this a political campaign, not a protest. This is a permanent element to the City in my opinion. The only way it will end is for the BUF or the CJC to have dominance over City Hall. This is just a political movement, a power grab. This is a progressive populist movement. Social Conservatives teaming with economic progressives (Socialists) and making an authoritarian movement bent on a simple proposition: control of City Government, or death to the City. There is no middle ground. The BUF and the CJC want to create a city with a majority of black people, which is their goal. That is the manifestation of their black separatism. Anything short of that will be not end the boycott.
Timothy Thomas' Brother Arrested On Drug And Weapons Charges
Angela Leisure seems to not have done a good job in raising her children. One is dead, partially due to his belief in automatically running from the police, even though you supposedly did nothing wrong. Now her younger son is arrested on drug and gun charges. How could the activist community let this happen? The activists certainly knew this kid. Did they not try and help him? They may have tried, but failed. That failure will surely be blamed on the "White Man" at his trial. I wonder if Ken Lawson will be representing him.

Nate Livingston showed his apathy towards this kid:
"Cincinnati is a powder keg and if something had gone wrong on this arrest, it is likely that Cincinnati would explode in violence," said Nate Livingston.
Where was Nate to try and get this kid out of the drug world? Oh, I forgot, Nate has been in and out of jail. He is to busy with his own appeals to help the brother of Nate's adopted Martyr. He is more worried about tossing around that powder keg he is referring to, while the “Black Fist” has a constant blowtorch flamed up and ready to ignite a riot.
More from Akron Beacon-Journal and WXIX.
Robert C. Gates seems to regurgitating GOP talking points. He polished it up with a slam of the network news anchors, but otherwise this sounds like an application essay for an internship at the RNC. The real questions Robert should be asking are this: Why did Bush wait this long to change the civil service rules for these departments? Why were they not changed by executive order before? Additionally, what civil service rules apply for the FBI and the CIA? Can Bush Fire a bad Agent at will? I am sure it takes a few hearings to fire an FBI agent, but Bush thinks a Border Patrol Officer is more of a concern? I wonder why those questions are not addressed. I am laughing. I don't really wonder. I just like to think I wonder, because I will pull my hair out in rage if I don't hope that Administration is really trying to reform the FBI and CIA. I will not be holding my breath, nor stilling on any billboards until they do.
Brian James Kloetzel a contributor to the Miami Review is off on a couple of points in his latest column. One is his contention that the GOP will pick up seats in the House and Senate. I do not think any polling numbers support this contention. I think a good race-by-race analysis indicates the Dems will pick up a couple seats in the House, but not gain control, and the Senate will not change its balance. The other point is that I am most certainly not better off than I was 2 years ago. My 401(k) is in the shitter, 3,000 innocent people are dead thanks to foreign borne theocratic fascism, domestic theocratic fascism is on the rise in this country, my pay raises have been negligible in the last two years, and government secrecy has ballooned to an art form. My life is not unique either, so I would say we are on the "wrong track."

Friday, September 27, 2002

Colerain Football Player's Suspension Contested
The Judge made the right decision. The parents of this kid are over-reacting. The kid was charged with a crime. Schools can suspend him for behavior problems at any point. There is no review board he can appeal to for a school suspension. He must face the consequences of his actions. His parents have of course filed a $100,000 lawsuit against the school district. Opportunism at its worse. The kid's father is a Cincinnati Police officer. I am sure that this case got the attention it is getting and will get more because of the race of the kid. These parents have the earmarks of "not my child" syndrome. This "affliction" occurs on parents who are in denial of the actions of their children. They cannot and will not admit that their child could have done what he is accused of. Too many parents fear the bad appearances of their children over the behavior of their children.
Chris Anderson at Queen City Soapbox has some very interesting thoughts on the Hagen-Livingston incident, and insightful comments on Kathy Wilson's City Beat Column.