Thursday, January 03, 2008
A Documentary
sans politikin’, it seems
Good Stuff.
[I had trouble with the loading on this—likely just a Mac Thang™. ...or not.]
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
From Boyd's EM Theory...
to the OODA loop
Go. Read. Now.
Report back.
Boys will be 'boys'
cretins will be dead
Two brothers who were injured when a tiger attacked them at the San Francisco Zoo had slingshots on them at the time...
An empty vodka bottle was also found in a car used by Amritpal Dhaliwal, 19, and his brother, Kulbir, 23, on the day of the mauling, which left 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. dead
Now they’re playing with a deadly snake.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Weird?
or Just Me™?
Tough to take an AP [Dissociated Press] article at face value, but is this writer trying to denigrate the program? or the photographer? or just being a PITA?
CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) - Children are more likely to shield their faces than to smile when Daniel Santillan points his camera.
Santillan’s photos aren’t for any picture album or yearbook—they help prove that Mexican youngsters are illegally attending public schools in this California border community....Calexico’s rapid growth outstripped school resources, resulting in overcrowding and prompting demands that Mexican interlopers be ousted. Taxpayers complained their children were bused across town because neighborhood schools were full, even after Calexico voters approved a $30 million construction measure in 2004. Portable classrooms proliferated.
The 62-year-old Santillan (pronounced sahn-tee-YAHN) was hired in He is an unlikely enforcer. Posters of Cesar Chavez and Che Guevara adorn the walls of his ranch-style home. The Vietnam War veteran and labor activist is an outspoken advocate of amnesty for illegal immigrants and fills water jugs in the desert for Mexicans who trek across the border illegally.
He parks his old Toyota Echo at the border two or three mornings a week, often in a handicapped spot that his bad knees allow him to occupy. He photographs some of the hundreds of students who exit the inspection building and walk to class.
Some hide their faces when they see his 6-foot-5, 310-pound frame. Sometimes he follows students to school.
Many of the students know him. Others in town are not always sure what he is up to. A new police officer once ran his name through a database of sex offenders. A talk-radio host warned listeners that an odd- looking man at the border might be looking for children to kidnap.
Some students taunt him. Friends have called him a hypocrite. Santillan reminds them that he is only enforcing school residency rules, not immigration laws. Still, he says, “You’ve got to have hell of a tough skin."
And a hearty cheer for the residents of Calexico!
Fernando Torres, a former mayor, was upset when the district said his grandchildren would have to transfer because there was no room in their neighborhood school. “It’s not right” for U.S. taxpayers to build classrooms for Mexican residents, he said. The district eventually relented.
Pat Riotic
"I'm from the Gubbbmint...
and I’m here to heeeeelp you."
New smoking bans on private property: CA, IL, Fwants!, Germany
Illinois now requires all retailers and wholesalers to start selling “fire-safe" cigarettes, which are designed to go out by themselves if not being smoked
Election Day voter registration law.
The stakes were upped for first-time drunken drivers, who will now have to pass a breath test every time they start their car. The law requires an estimated 30,000 first-time offenders to blow into devices that measure blood-alcohol content. If alcohol is detected, the car will not start.
IL: Counties may now establish drug schools as an alterative to traditional prosecution for drug offenders.
Kindergartners and 1st graders must undergo mandatory eye examinations.
Drivers must provide at least 3 feet of space between a vehicle and a pedestrian or bicyclist when passing
The Honolulu Liquor Commission [is] offering to arm parents with free saliva testing strips they can use to see whether their children have consumed alcohol.
AZ: The law threatens to take business licenses from companies caught twice knowingly hiring undocumented workers.
CA: can’t talk on your cell phone while you’re driving [unless ya use one of those Uhura ear thingies… *eye roll*] ...prohibit anything that would impair the recognition of a license plate by an electronic device...
I’m exhausted already from all this “help.”
Happy New Speak Year.
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