Still unpacking (and will be a for a while) so I’ll be brief, but needless to say this story is tragically true. I’m amazed there are even other government agencies in the running for the most inept ever under George W. Bush. Let’s give them a hand, folks. No, seriously. Give people a hand… lord knows FEMA’s not.
New book coming to the store soon…. so for now join the list.
The www.tmcm.com site took a bit to refresh with the new cartoon - and for some reason it wouldn’t show the new cartoon until after I uploaded it. Now it’s loaded and up and all that stuff.
This is 8 of 8. Next week I’ll have 9 of 8, then 10 of 8… etc. till I finish the story.
From Para Justicia y Libertad!:
Congratulations to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who has become the first woman to be elected president in Argentina’s history. Kirchner, 54, is the wife of current President of Argentina, Néstor Kirchner and a former senator for Buenos Aires Province. In the Oct, 2007 general election, Mrs. Kirchner, she ran for president of Argentina, representing the ruling Front for Victory party, a center-left Peronist party.
Fernández is the second woman to be elected leader of a South American nation in two years, after Michelle Bachelet, who became Chile’s president last year. […]
Her election extends the trend of left-leaning elected governments in Latin America, although she is more moderate than the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez. Mrs Kirchner is expected to maintain her husband’s friendly relations with Chavez.
Fernández has vowed to continue the work of her husband after winning a presidential election widely seen as a referendum on his economic policies. She has fiercely rejected the pro-market policies of the 1990s, which she blames for the 2001 crisis.
A message from Miami activist Max Rameau:
Miami *CopWatch* and the Haitian American Grassroots Coalition invites you
to a candlelight vigil to commemorate the life of Garcia “BG” Beaugris and
demand justice for him and his family. BG was brutally shot and killed by
Miami-Dade police on Friday just a few feet from his North Miami home. BG’s
death will likely be remembered as one of the most brutal police killings in
recent memory.
The Vigil is set for *Tuesday, October 29, 2007* at
*5:30pm*on the corner of
*128**th** St. and NE 7**th** Ave*., just off of West Dixie Highway.
According to multiple eye witnesses, BG was shot once in the chest and then
twice again as he lay wounded on the ground, at virtually point blank range,
while he was talking to friends just 100 feet from his home.
Miami-Dade “jumpout” police rolled up on several young black males talking
to one another next to BG’s home. After searching the teens and finding
nothing, Miami-Dade cop Christopher Villano verbally harassed and then
physically attacked BG, ultimately shooting him dead.
The community is gathering to commemorate the life of BG Beaugris and to
demand justice for him and his family. We demand the immediate arrest of
Christopher Villano, with the appropriate charges of murder, and the end to
the “jumpout” police programs in low income black communities.
BG’s death will be remembered as one of the most notorious police shootings
in Miami-Dade County. Join the fight to stop police brutality and win
justice for BG Beaugris.
What: Candlelight Vigil for BG Beaugris
When: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 5:30pm
Where: 128th St. and NE 7th Ave. (just off of West Dixie Highway), North
Miami, FL
Why: an unarmed BG Beaugris was shot dead by Miami-Dade police
forward,
Max Rameau
CopWatch
a project of the Center for Pan-African Development
Page 4 of “Tongue-tied” is now up at Modern Tales. I have succumbed to a sore throat and pink eye, so I didn’t have it in me to color it. But I will have it colorized by next Monday’s installment, which will also be in color.
Justice delayed is better than none at all, I guess. From Feminist Law Professors:
Today the Georgia Supreme Court ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson. Wilson was sentenced to 11 years in prison (with a mandatory 10-year sentence) for receiving, at a time when he was 17, oral sex from a 15-year old girl. The Georgia legislature subsequently changed to 12 months the maximum sentence available in similar cases involving consensual sex acts between teens.
Mr. Wilson’s successful Petition for Writ of Certiorari is here. A copy of the Court’s decision is here. For news reports, see here and here.
Mr. Wilson has been in jail for 21 months.
-Bridget Crawford
See also this post on The Debate Link.
Francis Holland calls this “a victory for the afrosphere.” I don’t know enough about the Georgia Supreme Court to know if this is true, but I’d certainly like it to be true.
Meanwhile, conservatives have their own spin on the Wilson case.
(I previously blogged about Wilson’s case here.)
Megan McArdle writes:
I don’t know why Matt should find this remarkable:
Still, the main psychological point remains that there’s a remarkable tendency to equate advocating that others engage in risky acts of physical violence with the idea of possessing courage and strength as personal characteristics.
After all, we’ve already internalized the notion that advocating taxing other people in order to give their money to someone else is somehow morally akin to charity.
I find the “taxing other people” argument — which conservatives and libertarians use frequently — bewildering. “I think people, but not me, should go to Iraq and risk death,” just ain’t analogous to “I think all taxpayers, me included, should pay for a generous safety net.”
In a followup post, Megan implies that liberals only favor using wealthy people’s money to pay for social programs. Poppycock.1 I’m hardly high-income, but I pay taxes. So do most liberals and leftists. And although liberals and leftists2 favor raising taxes on the wealthy, not all rich people are republican.3
Note also that SCHIPP, which is paid for from cigarette taxes, has received enthusiastic support from lefties — even though smokers are not an especially wealthy group.
Yet the idiotic “liberals want to spend other people’s money” idea is commonplace among conservatives .
