Gangs and Tattoos are Protected, but Anaheim high school cancels events found to be demeaning

Truth and Satire are now the "Enemy of the People!"

Anaheim high school cancels events found to be demeaning - latimes.com

After complaints, 'Seniores' and 'Señoritas' events at Canyon High in Anaheim Hills, where students wore costumes demeaning to Latinos, are canceled.

And Illegal Aliens aren't demeaning?

By Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times

August 22, 2012

"Seniores" and "Señoritas" events held at an Anaheim high school — in which students dressed as gang members and a pregnant woman pushing a baby stroller — have been canceled after officials concluded the activities were demeaning toward Latinos and their culture.

The events, which have been held for at least three years at Canyon High School, took place during senior activity week in June and were approved by campus administrators, according to school district officials.

The event was canceled after the Orange Unified School District launched an internal investigation in June in response to two complaints filed by former students.

"I conclude there was a lack of oversight/supervision and that the school administration should not have allowed this activity," Aileen M. Sterling, executive director of secondary education for the district, wrote in an Aug. 10 letter summarizing her inquiry.

"Even if strict guidelines were provided," Sterling said, "the result would still lead to hurtful and demeaning messages about the Mexican culture and to the students of the Mexican, Hispanic and Latino descent." [Poor Mexicans!]...

And the answer to this was the usual BS:

Campus administrators will undergo diversity and sensitivity training, and the school will offer an ethnic studies class for students and hold an International Week activity in the 2012-13 school year, according to Sterling.

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Michelle Obama: 'Get to the Polls on November the 2'

Always on the Dumbest and Dimmest Person List.

Michelle Obama: 'Get to the Polls on November the 2' | The Weekly Standard

What is really unclean? Muslim Dog Day Afternoon

Remember, Obama eats dog!

Which laws and cultures prevail? Apparently Muslims have terrorized enough of the weenie west into cultural submission.

Muslim Dog Day Afternoon | FrontPage Magazine
by Arnold Ahlert On August 23, 2012

The Muslim proscription against “unclean” animals received state-enforced validation last Saturday in Toronto at the annual Al-Quds Day rally held in the city’s Queen’s Park. 47-year-old Allan Einstoss, who was accosted by a Muslim demonstrator while walking among the crowd with his dog, is considering legal action after being held by the police after the assault, while the man who attacked him was not even questioned. Police on the scene reportedly chastised Einstoss for being “insensitive” to the Muslim protestors with the presence of his canine companion in the public park. “I was detained. They had me in handcuffs,” Einstoss told Front Page Magazine. “They trampled all over my rights.”

Al-Quds Day is an annual international event created in 1979 by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini to mark the end of Ramadan. It is anti-Semitic in nature, calling for the destruction of Israel and the creation a Palestinian state. Einstoss, who attended the event with his 77-year-old father and 16-year-old son, also brought along Cupcake, his 165 pound English Mastiff. Cupcake is a registered therapy dog slated to begin visiting veteran patients at Sunnybrook hospital this October. At the rally he was on a leash, and wearing an Israeli flag around his neck.

Einstoss said he was attending the rally as a “concerned citizen,” unaffiliated with any group. He was amongst the crowd when two Muslim women approached him to ask about his dog. According to Einstoss, he was then approached by a male Al-Quds demonstrator who told him he was “not allowed to go near our women.” Einstoss then asserted his right to go anywhere he pleased, but turned to walk away. At that point he said he was “punched in the chest” by a second male demonstrator, and that someone also kicked his dog.

Einstoss responded by shoving the man who punched him. He was immediately grabbed by several police officers and put in handcuffs. “The cops jumped me, and dragged me off in front of my 77-year-old father and 16-year-old son. They cuffed me for half an hour, and patted me down,” said Einstoss. “The two cops told me I was being arrested for assault and inciting a riot. One of them also mentioned that I was being insensitive to others. They threatened me with a weekend jail, before offering me a deal: they would free me if I agreed to be escorted out of the park.” He complied and left the area.

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Watch Out - 15 Black Males commit assault, violent robbery on VCU's main campus | Richmond Times-Dispatch

Too often the case, too often covered up.

UPDATE: Group commits assault, violent robbery on VCU's main campus | Richmond Times-Dispatch

By: TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF | Times-Dispatch 
Published: August 22, 2012
Updated: August 22, 2012 - 11:05 AM

RICHMOND, Va. --

Police were searching today for a group of about 15 young men and women believed to have committed an assault and a violent robbery in rapid succession on Virginia Commonwealth University's main academic campus in downtown Richmond.

Neither victim was seriously injured in the two attacks, which occurred along Shafer Street on the Monroe Park campus about 2:55 a.m.

VCU and Richmond police described the assailants as a group of 15 black males between the ages of 17 and 22.

The first victim, who is not a VCU student, reported being punched without provocation by a member of the group while getting out of a vehicle at Shafer and West Grace streets.

Moments later, the group encountered the second victim, a VCU student, at Shafer and West Franklin streets. The student told police one member of the group made a comment about his boots before the victim was punched in the back of the head and knocked to the ground.

Once on the ground, the victim was told by one of the assailants, "Give me everything you've got."  The victim was punched again in the neck and a pack of cigarettes was stolen from his pants pocket, police said.

Work gets in the way of being a celebrity again - Ghostwriting Accusation Leveled at Fareed Zakaria

There just isn't enough time in the world to write when sucking up to Lib politicians and making anti-conservative quips on TV interferes with serious research and writing. Isn't that what free interns are  good for anyway?
He's in good company with the likes of such luminaries as Alex Haley, Stephen Ambrose, Doris Kearns Goodwin and that great author and speech writer, Joe Biden. 
All became dazzled by the cameras before them and became the hackneyed publicity hounds they actually were all along.

Ghostwriting Accusation Leveled at Fareed Zakaria | Observer
By Daniel D'Addario 8/21 2012

Time editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria has lately been the subject of much chatter among colleagues past and present—some of it rather unpleasant for the marquee pundit. And whileTime and CNN have done a review of his work and are satisfied that no further issues remain, it doesn’t look like his problems are over just yet: One of his former colleagues atNewsweek has asserted to Off the Record that he ghostwrote a piece that ran under Mr. Zakaria’s byline.

After being accused of plagarizing The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore recently, Mr. Zakariaexplained himself to the New York Times’sChristine Haughney: he claimed to have conflated his notes from Ms. Lepore’s piece—apparently copying a passage from the article into longhand—mistaking her thought patterns for his own. Ms. Haughney added, in a veiled aside, that Mr. Zakaria, formerly the editor of Newsweek International, “said he never had an assistant write a column in 25 years and that he began using a research assistant for his column only in the last year.” Maybe so.

However, Jerry Adler, who took a buyout from Newsweek but remained on as a contract science writer says that in 2010 he was commissioned to write an introductory letter, going out under Mr. Zakaria’s byline, for a stand-alone commemorative issue on the environment pegged to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Knowing full well that the piece would go out under Mr. Zakaria’s name, the two-time National Magazine Award finalist says, he wrote the five-paragraph piece, never discussing it with the putative author. “He made some changes, maybe. But he didn’t say, ‘Do this and don’t tell anyone.’ It came to me through channels.”

(Disclosure: this reporter was a college intern at Time in 2007 and at Newsweek in 2009, but did not work or interact in any capacity with Mr. Zakaria in either case.)

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Ironic - George Orwell is 'too Left-wing’ for a statue, BBC tells Joan Bakewell

He told us what we were about to receive.
The ex-socialist who hated the liberal-fascism of the totalitarian collective state that mushrooms around us. And the irony is BBC is an enabler that mostly supports the liberal-fascist state!

George Orwell is 'too Left-wing’ for a statue, BBC tells Joan Bakewell - Telegraph

When the George Orwell Memorial Trust proposed a statue of the writer for outside the BBC’s new headquarters it expected an enthusiastic response.

Anita Singh 8-21-12

However, not everyone appeared enamoured of the plan.

According to Baroness Bakewell, who is backing the campaign, Mark Thompson, the Corporation’s outgoing director general, said the statue could not be erected on BBC premises because Orwell was “too Left-wing”.

Orwell worked as a BBC journalist, producing radio programmes at Broadcasting House during the Second World War before leaving to publish Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Mr Thompson’s remark will surprise critics of the BBC, who have long accused the corporation of liberal bias.

Lady Bakewell said the exchange took place earlier this year.

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Hard to do, but sometime there is no choice - Backing the NYPD—by Accident

Juveniles are not yet full citizens and should never be treated as such.
That is where the schools and streets have gone wrong since the 1960's. That helped to make the crime exposition possible!

Backing the NYPD—by Accident by Heather Mac Donald - City Journal
A New York Times story reveals, without quite meaning to, how much the poor value policing.

21 August 2012

A recent column by New York Times reporter Ginia Bellafante inadvertently tells the truth about the public-safety desires of the poor—and thereby undermines the Times’s relentless crusade against the New York Police Department. The main thrust of Bellafante’s article is an attack on New York City for “inadequately . . . rank[ing] the needs of the poor” in its budget priorities. Her evidence is the allegedly slow pace with which the New York City Housing Authority has installed security cameras in its housing projects and the “mere” $51 million that it has allocated for doing so. That sum, Bellafante contends, compares poorly with the cameras now “commonplace to see . . . affixed to office buildings and expensive co-ops” (those cameras are privately funded, but who’s counting), with the “hundreds of millions of dollars for the development of lush tourist-luring green spaces like Brooklyn Bridge Park and Governors Island” which the city is planning, and with a proposed $20 million to assist with Carnegie Hall’s renovation.

Bellafante’s claim that the city stiffs the poor is sheer delusion. New York’s poverty infrastructure has no national parallel. No other American city provides housing on demand to every childless adult and single-mother-headed household claiming homelessness, for example, to a tune historically of about $1 billion a year. Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and the South Bronx teem with city-funded nonprofit agencies that send out armies of social workers and case managers in the name of poverty reduction. Mental health services, youth services, AIDS housing and AIDS counselors, family-preservation services—all roll forth from the city’s coffers. The city’s massive hospitals corporation is geared almost exclusively to low-income residents; its public-housing system is the nation’s largest. Special-education students in the public schools are surrounded by expensive paraprofessionals and aides. The mayor’s Center for Economic Opportunity and Young Men’s Initiative pour millions more into the poverty-industrial complex. Whether these billions accomplish anything is a different question, of course.

There is one city program for the poor, however, that has measurably improved the quality of life in distressed neighborhoods: policing. Violent crime is the most regressive of all taxes, since it falls heaviest on poor minorities, as University of California at Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring observes in The City That Became Safe. New York’s data-driven, proactive style of policing is government’s most progressive social program, for its benefits accrue disproportionately to those same minorities. 

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The "Truth to Power" Grafter. Jarrett uses influence and political influence for massive personal gain.

This is key component to political graft. Jarrett also tried to get the Olympics to come to Chicago. The Obama Dog and Pony Show failed in this scheme where Jarrett had planned to get the rights to 'build' the Olympic Village on 'condemned' land, then turn it into her personal graft center through public influence.
Here are "luxury" units as part of her investment, built by a non-profit, grossly appreciated for her gain, and suspiciously under assessed through her political influence.
Not bad for not doing a days real work!

White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett’s real-estate investment jumped in value between 2010 and 2011, documents show WLS 890AM

BY: Andrew Stiles
August 21, 2012 5:00 am

Senior White House adviser and long-time Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett’s role in a number of controversial Chicago housing developments has garnered her investments worth millions of dollars while highlighting the administration’s extensive business ties to presidential donors.

Before joining the Obama administration in 2009, Jarrett was president and chief executive officer of the Habitat Company, a real estate development firm founded by major Democratic donor Daniel Levin. Before that, she served three years as commissioner of the Chicago Department of Planning and Development under Mayor Richard Daley.

Jarrett currently owns an 11-percent equity interest in Kingsbury Plaza, a 46-story luxury apartment complex developed by Habitat between 2005 and 2007 at a cost of more than $100 million.

She valued the investment at between $1 million and $5 million on her 2011 financial disclosure form, up from $250,001 in 2010. A Jarrett spokesmantold the Washington Times that the investment was “a direct result of her 13 years working for Habitat.”

Cook County records show the Kingsbury property is worth around $27.2 million, but thanks to a series of legal appeals beginning in 2003, the land and building are assessed at a much lower value for tax purposes. Since 2008, the property has been designated a “special commercial structure” and is taxed at a value of just $6.8 million, or 25 percent of the actual value.

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"What color chili do like?" - White House Sets Ground Rules for Local Interviews

How about -What chill are you putting on the economy today, instead?
Dr. Goebbels didn't do it any more slyly:
Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things than I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths.

• Speech by Joseph Goebbels on 9 January 1928

White House Sets Ground Rules for Local Interviews | The Blog on Obama: White House Dossier

 KEITH KOFFLER on AUGUST 21, 2012, 11:20 AM

The White House is doing something with its local TV interviews that it could not easily get away with in encounters with the White House press corps, which President Obama has been studiously ignoring: choosing the topic about which President Obama and the reporter will talk.

In interviews with three local TV stations Monday, two from states critical to Obama’s reelection effort, Obama held forth on the possibility of “sequestration” if he and Congress fail to reach a budget deal, allowing him to make his favorite political point that Republicans are willing to cause grievous harm to the economy and jobs in order to protect the rich from tax increases.

Obama Monday threw the White House press corps a bone by suddenly appearing in the briefing room for 22 minutes and taking questions from a total of four reporters. It was his first press conference at the White House – albeit in miniature – since March, and only his second of the year. Obama before Monday had taken exactly one substantive question from White House reporters since June.

But the three other interviews Obama also held Monday pointed to the advantage he gets by focusing on local press, with whom he has been speaking more regularly.

Under sequestration, if a budget deal is not reached by the end of the year, harsh automatic spending cuts will occur. Each of the network reporters were from cities with major military facilities that could be unduly impacted if sequestration occurs.

Two of the reporters were from Norfolk, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida, both presidential battleground states. The third was from San Diego.

The reporters mostly made no effort to hide the arrangement. 

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From our foremost thinker, Charles Murray: Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem

Charles Murray examines the cloud now hanging over American business
—and what today's capitalists can do about it.


Charles Murray: Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem - WSJ.com
July 30, 2012

By CHARLES MURRAY

Mitt Romney's résumé at Bain should be a slam dunk. He has been a successful capitalist, and capitalism is the best thing that has ever happened to the material condition of the human race. From the dawn of history until the 18th century, every society in the world was impoverished, with only the thinnest film of wealth on top. Then came capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. Everywhere that capitalism subsequently took hold, national wealth began to increase and poverty began to fall. Everywhere that capitalism didn't take hold, people remained impoverished. Everywhere that capitalism has been rejected since then, poverty has increased.

Capitalism has lifted the world out of poverty because it gives people a chance to get rich by creating value and reaping the rewards. Who better to be president of the greatest of all capitalist nations than a man who got rich by being a brilliant capitalist?

Yet it hasn't worked out that way for Mr. Romney. "Capitalist" has become an accusation. The creative destruction that is at the heart of a growing economy is now seen as evil. Americans increasingly appear to accept the mind-set that kept the world in poverty for millennia: If you've gotten rich, it is because you made someone else poorer.

What happened to turn the mood of the country so far from our historic celebration of economic success?

Two important changes in objective conditions have contributed to this change in mood. One is the rise of collusive capitalism. Part of that phenomenon involves crony capitalism, whereby the people on top take care of each other at shareholder expense (search on "golden parachutes").

But the problem of crony capitalism is trivial compared with the collusion engendered by government.

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