Archive for May 2011
Thousands surround gang fight on Carson Beach (Video)
Authorities say law enforcement officials converged on Carson Beach in South Boston and broke up fights involving youths from rival gangs.
Massachusetts State Police said in a statement that about 1,000 youth had gathered at the beach Monday afternoon during the third consecutive day of disturbances there.
One youth has been arrested for disorderly conduct and the others, ages 14-19, disbursed from the area. It is believed the youths arrived at the beach by train.
Jobbik accuses cabinet of racial discrimination
The cabinet’s agreement with the National Roma Authority to provide jobs for at least 100,000 Roma people before 2015 constitutes racial discrimination, Jobbik deputy caucus leader János Volner charged on Sunday.
He said his party cannot see how this could be put into practice without differentiating between job seekers on racial grounds.
This is obviously an attempt “to try to provide various benefits to Gypsies as opposed to the Hungarian population. These extra allowances will bring no kind of economic stimulus, and as a matter of course will have no bearing on the employment of Gypsies,” Volner said. He added this is merely a condition dictated by the EU.
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What Killed Female Aviator? Blame Navy’s Quota Policy
John Dalton
From 1995:
Quota-Meister John Dalton, secretary of the Navy, is starting to feel the heat for his prevarications about his race and gender policy, which has already led to the death of one female aviator.
The death last October of Lt. Kara Hultgreen in an F-14 crash was blamed by Dalton on engine failure. From newspaper reports based on naval documents, it now appears that Lt. Hultgreen was killed by Dalton’s quota policy, which allowed her to remain airborne after she had failed performance tests that would have washed a male out of flight school.The Navy has tried to cover up its different gender standards by insisting that pilot error did not cause Hultgreen’s tragic crash. To help make this case, male pilots selected to replicate Hultgreen’s crash in a ground simulator were ordered not to follow the mandatory procedures for averting a crash in situations comparable to the one that resulted in Lt. Hultgreen’s death. According to information obtained by Robert J. Caldwell of the San Diego Union, the simulator tests were rigged and the results were used by Navy spokesmen to absolve the late Lt. Hultgreen of pilot error.
Elaine Donnelly is president of the Center for Military Readiness and a former member of the 1992 Presidential Commission on Women in the Armed Forces. Shortly after the Navy started dissembling about the fatal crash, Lt. Hultgreen’s training records and performance reviews were leaked to Donnelly, who also obtained internal Navy investigative documents cataloguing a series of pilot errors culminating in the crash.
Los Angeles Pols Would Protect Illegal-Alien Criminals
In the latest act of treason from the illegal-alien lobby, Los Angeles city council members have announced they want the city to stop full participation in the federal Secure Communities program, which matches the fingerprints of local arrestees against the database maintained by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
The purpose of Secure Communities is to identify illegal aliens so they can be deported after they serve sentences.
According to the Los Angeles Times, council members Bernard C. Parks and Jan Perry are behind the effort to undermine federal enforcement of immigration laws. Los Angeles has been a sanctuary city for 30 years, and now its political leaders are trying to hamper efforts to deport illegal alien criminals.
The pair, along with the immigration lobby, is backing a bill that passed the assembly which limits the fingerprints state and local authorities can share to those of convicted felons.
Ted Poe, Michael McCaul warn of terror threat from foreign students in Texas
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, is shown in this undated photo made available by the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011.
Al Mohannad Ali, a freshman petroleum engineering major from Saudi Arabia at Texas Tech University, knows how tough it is to be a Saudi Arabian student in Texas in the era of Osama bin Laden.
“We are from a different culture, so you can expect us to be different,” said Ali, president of the university’s Saudi Student Association. “It doesn’t mean we’re dangerous (or that) we’re bad people.”
But a lot of Americans think it does. And the level of suspicion grew even more after the Feb. 23 arrest of a Saudi student in Lubbock, Texas, Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari. The suspect is awaiting trial in federal court on charges of attempting to make bombs for attacks on American targets.
Texas Tech University’s Saudi population “felt really nervous” after Aldawasri’s arrest, said Ali, and wants Americans to understand that the alleged terrorist is not typical.
“We have our own black sheep like everyone else,” he said.
Some members of Congress believe too many of these “black sheep” have slipped through the cracks and could threaten America’s homeland security. They readily cite the cases of several of the 9/11 terrorists and Faisal Shahzad, widely known as the Times Square Bomber, who entered the U.S. legally on student visas.
Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., has introduced legislation that aims to end student visa program abuse by potential terrorists by significantly tightening reporting requirements for students and universities alike. Teaming up with Bilirakis are two Texas Republicans, Reps. Ted Poe and Michael McCaul.
Oslo: ALL Sexual Assaults ending in Rape committed by Non-Westerners (Video)
Report: Over a third of students entering college need remedial help
Cheyanna Wilson got a B in “College Algebra” in high school but still had to take a remedial math course at Malcolm X College.
Cheyanna Wilson graduated from Chicago’s Curie High School with a 3.0 grade-point average that included a B in a “College Algebra” class.
At Malcolm X College, where she enrolled to earn an associate’s degree in accounting, she did not meet basic math requirements. Before she could take accounting classes, she needed to take — and pay for — a non-credit remedial math course.
“I’d be in the math class I need to graduate now” if not for the remedial class, said Wilson, 21. As many as one-third of students entering higher education need to take some sort of remedial or developmental course, a class in the basics of reading, English or math covering material they should have learned in high school, according to a recent report by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based policy group. While most four-year private and public universities offer remediation, the bulk of remedial work is done by community colleges, whose doors are open to anyone with a high school diploma or GED.
“It’s like a track meet where you have [students] run another lap to get to the start line instead of moving toward the finish line,” said Bob Wise, Alliance president.
SCOTUS Makes It Official: California A Failed State
The controversial US Supreme Court decision (pdf) that could ultimately force California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates is more than a shockingly broad exercise of judicial power. It is also an official declaration by the highest constitutional authority in the land that California meets the strict test of state failure: it can no longer enforce the law within its frontiers.
Let there be no mistake: when you produce so many criminals that you can’t afford to lock them up, you are a failed state. Virtually every important civil institution in society has to fail to get you to this point. Your homes and houses of worship are failing to build law abiding citizens, much less responsible and informed voters. Your schools aren’t educating enough of your kids to make an honest living. Your taxes and policies are so bad that you are driving thousands of businesses away. Your management systems must be fouled and confused to the max for you to create something so dysfunctional, so wildly beyond your means, that the Supreme Court of the United States (wisely or foolishly is another question) starts to micromanage your jails.
California used to be the glory of this country, the dream by the sea, the magic state. Now it produces so many criminals it can’t pay to keep them locked up.
Sesame Street’s pinko puppets brainwash our kids
The antics of these TV puppets promote civil disobediance, says Shapiro
The TV series Friends undermined family values; Sesame Street taught ethnic minorities about civil disobedience; Happy Days had a subtle anti-Vietnam subtext; and the 1980s cop show MacGyver tried to persuade pistol-packing Americans that guns are bad. That, at least, is the considered opinion of Ben Shapiro, an investigative author and right-wing columnist who will publish a detailed exposé tomorrow telling how Hollywood producers, writers and actors have been secretly using TV to promote what he calls a “radical” left-leaning political agenda.
Shapiro’s book, Primetime Propaganda runs to 416 pages and revolves around comments by 70-odd industry heavyweights who he approached for interviews. The book promises to “profile the biggest names in showbusiness over the past 50 years” and includes a series of “gotcha” moments, in which the architects of the best-watched TV shows of modern times tell how they tried to use the medium of broadcasting to, as Shapiro puts it, “shape America in their own leftist image”.
“I was shocked by the openness of the Hollywood crowd when it came to admitting anti-conservative discrimination inside the industry,” Shapiro told The Independent on Sunday. “They weren’t ashamed of it. In fact, some were actually proud of it.”
The book’s contents will only add weight to allegations – often aired by conservative Americans – that Hollywood is the exclusive domain of leftie propagandists. Earlier this year, Republicans called for funding cuts to the public broadcaster NPR after one of its executives was secretly taped calling supporters of the Tea Party “racist”.
