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Category: Crime
Crime: violation of government’s laws
Firenze Sage: Post racial president in action
Barack Obama backs a controversial campaign by progressives to regulate schools’ disciplinary actions so that members of major racial and ethnic groups are penalized at equal rates, regardless of individuals’ behavior.
His July 26 executive order established a government panel to promote “a positive school climate that does not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools.â€
“African Americans lack equal access to highly effective teachers and principals, safe schools, and challenging college-preparatory classes, and they disproportionately experience school discipline,†said the order, titled “White House Initiative On Educational Excellence.â€
Because of those causes, the report suggests, “over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are college-ready across a range of subjects.
http://www.pepperlaw.com/publications_update.aspx?ArticleKey=2299
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Now let’s see this in action. Unjustly punish Joe Asian and a black thug will more likely graduate?
JAJ48@AOL.COM
Firenze Sage: Water, water everywhere [Ramadan enforced in Kuwait]
No leniency for Islamic non-believer drinking water in public in Kuwait. Law against drinking water in public during Ramadam  is enforced in Kuwait.
DUBAI: It is illegal to drink or eat in public in Kuwait during the holy month of Ramadan, where Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.
Over the weekend, Kuwaiti police said they made the first arrest of someone who failed to abide by their strict conditions during the holy month.
Police have indicated that a police patrol saw an “Asian drinking water from a bottle during the day.â€
 Under Kuwait law, anyone caught drinking or eating in public during fasting times is detained and held until after the Eid holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. Â
But what about children, the elderly, the sick and Islamic non-believers? http://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/08/01/5-myths-and-facts-about-ramadan-fasting
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What does the sidewalk cafe lobby have to say? Â
JAJ48@AOL.COM
Firenze Sage: $65 million dollar paper weight [IRS fine for stuffed bald eagle]
Relinquish carcass of the bald eagle [part of Canyon art wok by Rauschenberg] to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unless prove bird was taken from wild prior to 1940. Won’t turn over carcass? Then pay $65 MILLON fine to the IRS.
Under the terms of the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the 1918 Migratory Bird Act, it is a felony to “possess, sell, purchase, barter, transport, import or export any bald eagle — alive or dead.†Because the art work Canyon by Robert Rauschenberg included the carcass of a bald eagle that could not be sold, he estate, advised by three experts, valued the work at zero.
The Art Advisory Panel to the IRS at first decided that Canyon was worth $15 million. When the Estate refused to pay the Advisory Board then raised the value to $65 million.Â
The IRS demands $29.2 million in taxes and $11 million in penalties because the heirs “inaccurately†stated its value. http://www.akdart.com/abuse.html
The IRS has an “Art Advisory Panel,†that provides expert advice on the value of art works involved in estates. It was the panel that decided it was worth $65 million. Stephanie Barron, a member of the panel and an art curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said that, “It’s a stunning work of art and we all just cringed at the idea of saying that this had zero value. It just didn’t make any sense.â€
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/07/24/canyon-controversy-blame-the-advisers-not-the-irs/
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If your husband could be sold, he’d be worth a price beyond rubies. So IRS will now tax you for possessing this masterpiece while knowing that the slave trade is illegal.
JAJ48@aol.com
Firenze Sage: Mayor of New York urges police everywhere strike for gun control
Knee jerk reaction to massacre by NY Mayor: Bloomberg urges that police everywhere strike until gun control is passed.Â
MAYOR BLOOMBERG:Â “Well, I would take it one step further. I don’t understand why the police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say, we’re going to go on strike. We’re not going to protect you. Unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe.
“And we’re doing everything we can to make their job more difficult but, more importantly, more dangerous, by leaving guns in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, and letting people who have those guns buy things like armor-piercing bullets.”
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OH!  What a great idea. [Bloomberg urges police to strike for gun control.] After 24 hours, even idiots like this love the police. Â
JAJ48@aol.com Â
Firenze Sage: Fast and Furious FUBAR [Attorney General Holder]
FUBAR stands for …. and that is what Attorney General Holder did concerning Fast and Furious:Â
After 18 months of stonewalling, hem-hawing, national headlines and a contempt charge for Attorney General Eric Holder, the U.S. government finally unsealed its grand jury indictment case against those involved with the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry today.
Little new information was revealed, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) provided media with confirmation that Border Patrol agents, using guns that fired bean-bags, not bullets, were used stop a dangerous, well-armed rip crew outfitted with U.S. Operation “Fast and Furious†AK-47s.
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This is why Holder is being held in contempt. He stonewalls the search for why this fiasco was allowed and who is responsible
jaj48@AOL.COM
Firenze Sage: How to get out of the drunk tank [West Africa]
Mali, West Africa:Â A Timbuktu man accused of drinking alcohol was given 40 lashes Monday by members of an Islamist group that has seized the north Malian city and imposed Islamic law there, witnesses said.
“A young man has just been lashed 40 times for drinking alcohol. The whipping took place in the Timbuktu market,” a resident told AFP by phone.
A man and woman accused of having a child out of wedlock were given 100 lashes each in Timbuktu on June 20, and Ansar Dine has destroyed all the city’s bars.
Another Islamist group, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), has burnt cigarettes, whipped smokers and forbidden people to play football or watch television in territory under its control, provoking violent protests in May in the northern city of Gao.
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Well so far we have no smoking, drinking, sex, sports,or tv. Only whip making remains acceptable.
JAJ48@AOL.COM
Firenze Sage: Fairy Dust Law [foie gras law in CA]
Love foie gras?
Made illegal by CA law, one restaurant in San Francisco located on federal law questions legality of state law.
Experts can’t agree on whether a restaurant located on federal land in California can legally subvert a new state law banning the sale of foie gras.
Evan Lee, a professor at UC Hastings College of Law who specializes in constitutional and criminal law, said there is nothing simple about federal exemption in the case of foie gras.
“So far, there is nothing I can find that makes it explicit,” he said.
“There’s no doubt there is something magical about being on federal land. But you still need Congress to sprinkle its fairy dust.
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 Thank you professor, but do you really think you should be paid for this explication?  Of course you do. You’re  a lawyer.Â
JAJ48@aol.com   [attorney at law in CA]
In San Francisco a restaurant that served foie gras after the CA law:
Some restaurants in CA are providing foie gras free:
Aptos Psychologist: killers of Terry are immigrants without papers?
Names matter. What are we to call the 5 men accused of killing border partrol man Brian Terry Dec. 14, 2010? Are they immigrants without documentation? Immigrants seeking a Dream? Illegal aliens? Fugatives from justice?
What is their legal status?
The 5 men entered the United States with a plan to “arm themselves with fire arms”
Now we know their names: Jesus Rosaro, Favela-Astorga, Ivan Soto-Varraza, Heraclo Osario-Meza and Manuel Osorio-Arellanes who is in custody. There is a $1 MILLION reward for any information that leads to their capture.
Have you noticed how language has evolved to describe persons who illegally enter from Mexico? Illegal aliens became ‘immigrants without documentation’ and lately simply ‘immigrants not by choice’ when referring to those covered by the Dream Act. The language we use to describe persons entering without permission has ‘evolved’ similar to how President Obama attitude towards gay marriage ‘evolved’.
Some things we don’t know: Why leave guns at the scene of the crime? Why no way to trace the guns? Who in the Justice Department was in charge of Fast and Furious? When did Eric Holder first know about Fast and Furious? Why does it take 18 months to get an indictment out of Holder’s Justice Department. Is that because of Holder?
So what do you think we should call these men who shot and killed a border patrol person?
Firenze Sage: Frogs praise Allah! [Egypt’s first fatwa after Muslim Brotherhood’s victory]
Muslim Brotherhood’s Muhammad Morsi just won the presidency in Egypt.
The first legal action taken, the very first fatwa to appear by Egypt’s highest fatwa council, addresses—not social, political, or economic issues in Egypt—but rather frogs.
Specifically, the fatwa bans Muslims from hunting and killing frogs to sell to those nations that dine on the amphibians.
As the fatwa explains, according to Islam’s prophet Muhammad as recorded in a hadith, a frog’s “croaking is praise [to Allah].â€
Accordingly, “a number of jurists [fuqaha] have relied on this [hadith] to forbid the eating of frogs, under the notion that ‘that which is banned from being killed, is forbidden from being eaten.’â€
written by Raymond Ibrahim of the PJ Tatler  http://www.pjmedia.com/tatler
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Now if only we could find a fatwa banning Christian killing. JAJ48@aol.com
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Go PJ Tatler for more info on the Muslim Brotherhood’s first fatwa after victory.