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This could be your big upward move . . .

. . . unless you have already been characterized by your current employer or in the media as "a knucklehead" or "a complete idiot."

Colombian Escort Speaks About Secret Service Scandal - NYTimes.com

TIGER WOODS DEDICATES FINAL MASTERS ROUND TO HIS SON, "WHAT'S-HIS-NAME"

Augusta, GA 4/8/12: (Disassociated Press) 



TIGER WOODS DEDICATES FINAL MASTERS ROUND TO HIS SON, "WHAT'S-HIS-NAME"



Tiger Woods, announced today that he was dedicating his final Masters' round to his son, whose name he could not recall to reporters. 


"I'm gonna lose this tournament," Tiger said, adding, "It's only fitting that I associate my poor play with my son. He is pretty much guaranteed to be a loser, since I give up on fatherhood in exchange for bedding every prostitute I could get hold of."


"Oh, and I'm gonna go back to my old name, too. 


"From now on, call me Eldrick Tont - El Tonto for short."

Endless Detention for Many Immigrants

Rep Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has this to say about the detention of immigrants across the US:

 “The Obama administration’s new detention manual is more like a hospitality guideline for illegal immigrants.  The administration goes beyond common sense to accommodate illegal immigrants and treats them better than citizens in federal custody.  The new detention manual contains extensive and customized details for each illegal immigrant’s stay, regulating everything from the salad bar to recreational activities to medical care.  Illegal immigration already costs American taxpayers billions each year and these increased regulations force them to keep an open tab for illegal immigrants. 

SOURCE:
Smith: Deportation Manual a Hospitality Guideline for Illegal Immigrants


Lamar Smith's misleading, cruel comments simply ignore the harsh reality imposed by the US on detainees.


If a government is going to detain people - including legal permanent residents - many awaiting administrative or judicial proceedings which could free them - the government must care for them.


Mr. Smith's broad, uneven, arrogant critique ignores the life-threatening medical conditions, which burden many detainees (as well as prison inmates). 


Mr. Smith takes no note whatsoever of the deaths of persons in US detention, including deaths occurring in miserably run state and local facilities, to which detainees are farmed out.


For  a fact-based look at the context which Lamar Smith ignores, see:

• Locked Up Without End: Indefinite Detention of Immigrants Will Not Make America Safer by Michael Tan, IPC Special Report, October 6, 2011.

• System of Neglect - As Tighter Immigration Policies Strain Federal Agencies, The Detainees in Their Care Often Pay a Heavy Cost

  
  
  
  
  
  

THE STINK BUGS ON THE BALTIMORE COUNTY COUNCIL

June 7, 2011 - Three months ago today, five members of the Baltimore County Council told the immigrant residents of Baltimore County that they had no representation on the Council:


http://stm-in-md-11.blogspot.com/

TODD HUFF FOSTERS RACIAL DIVISIONS IN BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD

Todd Huff, a Baltimore County Councilman, does not think the residents of Baltimore County are racially divided - enough.


This is why he is enthusiastically pushing for a statewide referendum on a bill - the DREAM Act - passed by the Maryland General Assembly in 2011. The DREAM Act would permit kids who complete high school in Maryland and are academically qualified, to attend a Maryland Community College, paying in-state tuition. This is fair, since these kids are already Maryland residents.


Mr. Todd Huff does not think so. He wants to forbid these - mostly Latino - high school students from attending college in Maryland, as Maryland residents - which they are. 


Mr. Todd Huff wants to send a message to these kids, many of them resident here for most of their lives, many of them with no memories of life in any other country. But never you mind all of that.


Mr. Huff, Councilman for District 3, wants to send them a racially explosive message: 


GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.


The children Mr Huff and his GOP colleagues have targeted are the children of parents, who are not legally in the US.


We are talking about kids, here, like ones I know, who stayed in school, studied hard. Some of them have even applied for and were accepted at a state university and began to attend classes - only to be told that they could not continue because they are "ilegal."


If these kids should be blocked from going to college, where do we draw the next line? 


Should these kids not get medical care if they are sick? 


Should their little sisters and brothers not be allowed to go to K-12? 


Why is it good policy to tell bright Maryland residents they are not wanted here - except in low paying, menial, dead-end employment?


Why is it OK to racially divide the community like this? 


Mr Huff needs to meet these kids. 


Mr. Huff needs to tell them to their eager but now-disappointed faces, that he does not want them around - except maybe to trim his lawn. 


Shame on Mr Huff and on all other politicians and office holders, who believe in maintaining and enlarging the racial divide.   


SOURCE: 
Council Majority Supports Repeal of In-state Tuition for Illegal Immigrants - Towson, MD Patch

THE GOP's AYN RAND BUDGET

PAUL RYAN BUDGET LINKED TO AYN RAND: 

According to thinkprogress (see Source, below) Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) architect of the GOP's 2012 budget plan, is a devotee of Ayn Rand and especially of her Atlas Shrugged.


Although Conservative columnist Ross Douthat  has dismissed the connection the Ryan-Rand connection, thinkprogress points out:


- Ryan was a speaker at the Ayn Rand Centenary Conference in 2005, where he described Social Security as a "collectivist system" and cited Rand as his public service inspiration.


- He has at least two videos on his Facebook page in which he heaps praise on the author. "Ayn Rand, more than anyone else, did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism" 


- Ryan's budget plan comports with Ayn Rand's world view. 


Examples: 


- He guts Medicare, Medicaid, and a whole host of housing,food, and educational support programs. 


- Then he uses approximately half of the money freed by those cuts to reduce taxes on the most wealthy Americans. 


Ayn Rand, Ryan has written, explained the morality of Capitalism" to him (see above)


Ayn Rand thought of altruism as "evil" and wrote that highly successful individuals are morally superior to others.


No surprise that the Ryan-Rand budget plan seems a logical plan to Paul Ryan and the GOP.


SOURCE:  http://pr.thinkprogress.org/

But what about the reactors in Virginia?

Maryland press and media reports today (Mar 15, 2011) declare that Maryland's nuclear reactor at Calvert Heights (on the eastern shore, next to Delaware) is perfectly safe.

That's good to know . . . but what about Virginia?

Prevailing winds over MD indicate we receive the air that has passed over Virginia, West Virginia, etc. This means, we need to KNOW what's up with the nuclear power plants in Louisa and Surry County and the power plants under military supervision at Ft Belvoir and the active duty ships and subs which receive nuclear reactor installation at Newport News, VA.

Newport News is also the site where deactivated nuclear ships and subs are housed. These last are "deactivated" not fully "decommissioned" since the navy must wait at least fifty years before it is considered safe to disassemble these reactors.

No worries. Right?

For more info, here is a website:

Nuclear Power in Virginia