How to set back your race
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BigDaddyBuk said:
Hmmm, that does not reflect reality
U obviously did not give much thought to what u wrote lol. If what u'r saying is true, then the whole balance structure of society would be in the complete reverse where whites would be the minority and blacks the majority. Everything would be in the complete reverse. It's wishfull thinking though lol
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S.D. murder trial focuses on chain saw
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A hardware cashier testified that a deaf woman accused of dismembering a rival bought a chain saw two days after the victim disappeared.
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Daphne Wright, 43, the first female defendant in a South Dakota capital punishment case, is charged with kidnapping and killing her lover's friend, Darlene VanderGiesen, on Feb. 1, 2006.
Denee Daniels, a cashier at Ace Hardware store, said Wednesday that Wright paid cash for a $52.99 electric chain saw the morning of Feb. 3, 2006, and came back that afternoon to buy oil for the blade.
According to prosecutors, Wright became upset when her girlfriend, Sallie Collins, befriended VanderGiesen, 42. The three women were deaf and knew each other through the deaf community.
Detective Keith Gries also took the stand Wednesday, saying he saw striations, or lines, on the concrete floor of Wright's basement. Prosecutors have said those lines are similar to the type of damage a chain saw would leave.
Detective Steve Schaefer testified that when he searched Wright's basement, he spotted what turned out to be fragments of bone and tissue matching VanderGiesen's DNA on the wall of a room. He said the fragments were similar to flecks he had seen during autopsies.
"What I have seen on the saw blade after they have conducted the autopsy was very similar, I felt, to what I saw on the wall of this small room," Schaefer said.
He also testified that as investigators peeled away fresh blue paint from the room's floor, he smelled petroleum.
Prosecutors said part of VanderGiesen's body was burned. Her remains were found in a Minnesota ditch and a Sioux Falls landfill.
Lt. William Fluit also testified that orange carpet found near VanderGiesen's remains in the landfill matched some carpet in Wright's basement.
An autopsy determined VanderGiesen was killed either by suffocation or a blow to the head. Wright was arrested Feb. 10 after a search of her basement yielded bone fragments, muscle and fat that matched DNA taken from VanderGiesen's toothbrush.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A hardware cashier testified that a deaf woman accused of dismembering a rival bought a chain saw two days after the victim disappeared.
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Daphne Wright, 43, the first female defendant in a South Dakota capital punishment case, is charged with kidnapping and killing her lover's friend, Darlene VanderGiesen, on Feb. 1, 2006.
Denee Daniels, a cashier at Ace Hardware store, said Wednesday that Wright paid cash for a $52.99 electric chain saw the morning of Feb. 3, 2006, and came back that afternoon to buy oil for the blade.
According to prosecutors, Wright became upset when her girlfriend, Sallie Collins, befriended VanderGiesen, 42. The three women were deaf and knew each other through the deaf community.
Detective Keith Gries also took the stand Wednesday, saying he saw striations, or lines, on the concrete floor of Wright's basement. Prosecutors have said those lines are similar to the type of damage a chain saw would leave.
Detective Steve Schaefer testified that when he searched Wright's basement, he spotted what turned out to be fragments of bone and tissue matching VanderGiesen's DNA on the wall of a room. He said the fragments were similar to flecks he had seen during autopsies.
"What I have seen on the saw blade after they have conducted the autopsy was very similar, I felt, to what I saw on the wall of this small room," Schaefer said.
He also testified that as investigators peeled away fresh blue paint from the room's floor, he smelled petroleum.
Prosecutors said part of VanderGiesen's body was burned. Her remains were found in a Minnesota ditch and a Sioux Falls landfill.
Lt. William Fluit also testified that orange carpet found near VanderGiesen's remains in the landfill matched some carpet in Wright's basement.
An autopsy determined VanderGiesen was killed either by suffocation or a blow to the head. Wright was arrested Feb. 10 after a search of her basement yielded bone fragments, muscle and fat that matched DNA taken from VanderGiesen's toothbrush.
BP CEO quits over gay affair
British Petroleum's Chief Executive John Browne
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil major BP Plc said Chief Executive John Browne had resigned with immediate effect after a UK court lifted an injunction preventing a newspaper group from publishing details about his private life.
"In my 41 years with BP I have kept my private life separate from my business life," Browne said in a statement on Tuesday.
"I have always regarded my sexuality as a personal matter, to be kept private. It is a matter of deep disappointment that a newspaper group has now decided that allegations about my personal life should be made public," he added.
Browne said he had had a four-year relationship with Canadian citizen Jeff Chevalier who had told his story to Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Evening Standard.
Browne, who had been due to step down in July, said he had decided to leave now to "avoid unnecessary embarrassment and distraction to the company."
One analyst, who declined to be named, said: "It is an ignominious end to a glorious career."
Browne did acknowledge in a personal statement that he had lied in his initial witness statement about how he met Chevalier. While he had quickly retracted this "untruth," a BP source said it was this that made Browne feel compelled to resign.
Justice David Eady told the High Court he had taken into consideration Browne's admission he had lied for his decision after a legal battle that had lasted four months in private.
"I am not prepared to make allowances for a 'white lie' told to the court in circumstances such as these," Eady said.
Browne will be succeeded by his designated successor Tony Hayward, the company said.
REVIEW OF EVIDENCE
Browne said allegations in court documents disclosed on Tuesday were "full of misleading and erroneous claims.
"In particular, I deny categorically any allegations of improper conduct relating to BP," Browne added.
BP Chairman Peter Sutherland said Browne had told the company of allegations over the limited use by Chevalier of BP computer and staff resources.
"At John's explicit request, the board instigated a review of the evidence. That review concluded that the allegations of misuse of company assets and resources were unfounded or insubstantive," Sutherland added in the statement.
Browne will also be hit financially as a result of his early resignation.
As well as losing his agreed entitlement to a year's notice including a bonus of up to 1.3 times his annual salary, worth more than 3.5 million pounds ($7 million), he also foregoes inclusion in a long-term performance share plan with a maximum potential value of some 12 million pounds.
Browne is also expected to leave the board of U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs Group, where he has been a director since 1999, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Goldman Sachs declined to comment.
Shares in BP closed 0.4 percent lower at 563 pence.
British Petroleum's Chief Executive John Browne
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil major BP Plc said Chief Executive John Browne had resigned with immediate effect after a UK court lifted an injunction preventing a newspaper group from publishing details about his private life.
"In my 41 years with BP I have kept my private life separate from my business life," Browne said in a statement on Tuesday.
"I have always regarded my sexuality as a personal matter, to be kept private. It is a matter of deep disappointment that a newspaper group has now decided that allegations about my personal life should be made public," he added.
Browne said he had had a four-year relationship with Canadian citizen Jeff Chevalier who had told his story to Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Evening Standard.
Browne, who had been due to step down in July, said he had decided to leave now to "avoid unnecessary embarrassment and distraction to the company."
One analyst, who declined to be named, said: "It is an ignominious end to a glorious career."
Browne did acknowledge in a personal statement that he had lied in his initial witness statement about how he met Chevalier. While he had quickly retracted this "untruth," a BP source said it was this that made Browne feel compelled to resign.
Justice David Eady told the High Court he had taken into consideration Browne's admission he had lied for his decision after a legal battle that had lasted four months in private.
"I am not prepared to make allowances for a 'white lie' told to the court in circumstances such as these," Eady said.
Browne will be succeeded by his designated successor Tony Hayward, the company said.
REVIEW OF EVIDENCE
Browne said allegations in court documents disclosed on Tuesday were "full of misleading and erroneous claims.
"In particular, I deny categorically any allegations of improper conduct relating to BP," Browne added.
BP Chairman Peter Sutherland said Browne had told the company of allegations over the limited use by Chevalier of BP computer and staff resources.
"At John's explicit request, the board instigated a review of the evidence. That review concluded that the allegations of misuse of company assets and resources were unfounded or insubstantive," Sutherland added in the statement.
Browne will also be hit financially as a result of his early resignation.
As well as losing his agreed entitlement to a year's notice including a bonus of up to 1.3 times his annual salary, worth more than 3.5 million pounds ($7 million), he also foregoes inclusion in a long-term performance share plan with a maximum potential value of some 12 million pounds.
Browne is also expected to leave the board of U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs Group, where he has been a director since 1999, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Goldman Sachs declined to comment.
Shares in BP closed 0.4 percent lower at 563 pence.
Charleston real estate developer Thomas Ravenel will become the newest member of the South Carolina Budget and Control Board when he is sworn in as State Treasurer January 10.
Ravenel, 44, was born in Charleston, the youngest of six children, and educated in Charleston public schools. His father is former U.S. Representative and State Senator Arthur Ravenel for whom the new Ravenel Bridge in Charleston is named.
Thomas Ravenel earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1985 from The Citadel. After graduation, he sold real estate for four years. In 1991, he earned a Masters in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina, with an emphasis in Finance and Real Estate.
In 1992, he founded Ravenel Development Corporation, a commercial real estate development company, and moved it the next year to Atlanta where he began to concentrate on retail projects including freestanding, single-tenant stores and strip-mall developments. He returned to Charleston in 1995. As an owner/ developer, he has completed 65 successful retail projects in ten states. The company is currently developing a 408,000 square foot retail center anchored by the new Super Wal-Mart in Moncks Corner at the intersection of US Hwy 52 and US Hwy 52 Bypass in Berkeley County.
During the 2006 campaign, Ravenel said his priorities were increasing earnings on state deposits by liberalizing the state’s collaterization requirements, as well as investment options for the Treasurer’s Office, investing more of the state’s deposits in South Carolina banks, including the local government investment pool, as well as supporting the Governor’s efforts on restructuring.
Ravenel is active in national and state organizations that promote pro-growth economic policies such as The Club for Growth and the Free Enterprise Fund. He is a member of the French Huguenot Church of Charleston. In his free time he enjoys tennis, boating and traveling.
Oh oh............breaking news !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on Tue, Jun. 19, 2007
Ravenel suspended in wake of cocaine charges
State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel was indicted on federal drug charges Tuesday and was suspended from office by Gov. Mark Sanford.
Ravenel, 44, and Michael L. Miller of Mount Pleasant are charged with one count each of conspiracy to possess and intent to distribute cocaine.
Miller already is in state custody on charges of trafficking cocaine. Ravenel is scheduled to appear July 9 in federal court in Columbia for arraignment, U.S. Attorney Reggie Lloyd said.
Ravenel, a Republican, was elected treasurer in November. The charge filed Tuesday said he has “knowingly, intentionally and unlawfully possess(ed) with intent to distribute” cocaine since at least late 2005.
The case grew out of a Charleston Police Department investigation into narcotics, State Law Enforcement Division Chief Robert Stewart said.
The Charleston police asked for SLED’s assistance in that investigation, Stewart said.
“Information was developed that state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel allegedly was involved in this illegal activity,” Stewart said at a news conference.
Stewart asked the FBI and U.S. attorney to join the investigation April 1, once the case involved a statewide elected official who “administers the use of vast public funds.”
Lloyd described Miller as a drug dealer. He stressed Ravenel was not charged with selling cocaine.
Under federal law, a charge of intent to distribute cocaine can mean a defendant acquired the drug and gave it to others.
Lloyd would not say to whom Ravenel allegedly gave cocaine.
No snitching?????Efforts to reach Ravenel were unsuccessful. He is represented by Columbia lawyer Joel Collins, according to Scott Malyerck, communications director for the treasurer’s office. Efforts to reach Collins also were unsuccessful.
The charges come the day after Ravenel attended a dinner at an upscale Columbia restaurant. There, he seemed “not to have a care in the world,” said former state Revenue Department director Burnie Maybank, who hosted the dinner at Saluda’s in Five Points. “It’s just a shocker.”
Malyerck said he did not know the indictment was coming and declined to comment on it. He said Ravenel had meetings outside of his state office Tuesday.
“The work of the treasurer’s office goes on,” he said. “Our banking, investing and management practices go on.”
Malyerck said staff will manage the office until Sanford names an interim treasurer, who will serve until the case is resolved. If Ravenel is acquitted or charges are dropped, he can reassume the post. If he is convicted or resigns, the office becomes vacant, and the General Assembly will elect a new treasurer. Ravenel’s term runs through 2010.
Sanford moved quickly to suspend Ravenel, an ally.
“Given the grave nature of these charges and what is alleged in this indictment, we’re left with no choice but to suspend Treasurer Ravenel immediately,” Sanford said in a statement, adding he plans to name an interim treasurer soon.
Ravenel rose quickly to prominence in S.C. politics, aided by his valuable pedigree as the son of former U.S. Rep. and state Sen. Arthur Ravenel of Charleston.
Thomas Ravenel first ran for public office in 2004, seeking the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate. The multimillionaire real estate developer put thousands of his own dollars into the race, finishing a close third in the Republican primary. Ravenel then endorsed the eventual winner, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-Greenville.
More recently, Ravenel mulled a 2008 challenge to U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from Seneca, before changing course and running for treasurer in 2006.
Ravenel barely won the GOP primary over state Sen. Greg Ryberg, R-Aiken, and former House Majority Leader Rick Quinn, R-Richland.
Ryberg, endorsed in the primary by Sanford, is considered a top candidate to be named interim treasurer. Efforts to reach Ryberg late Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Should the office eventually become vacant, Quinn said Tuesday he would consider running. “I’d have to consider it.”
Ravenel defeated veteran incumbent Grady Patterson, a Democrat, in November. Patterson had been treasurer for 36 of the past 40 years.
“It’s my hope for Thomas Ravenel and the people of this state that the charges don’t hold true,” Patterson said in a statement.
The S.C. Democratic Party said Ravenel was an “embarrassment.” “In only a few months, Thomas Ravenel has gone from spoiled, rich kid buying his way into office to common street criminal,” Democratic chairwoman Carol Khare Fowler said.
Ravenel also was a state director for Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 the GOP presidential bid. The Giuliani campaign said Tuesday Ravenel had left the campaign.
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[font=Arial,Helvetica]Al Gore III Arrested[/font]
07-05-07
Al Gore III, the son of former vice president Al Gore, was released after being arrested on suspicion of drug possession early yesterday after being stopped for allegedly speeding on a freeway south of Los Angeles, according to an Orange County, Calif., sheriff's official.
The 24-year-old was allegedly driving his environmentally friendly hybrid car at about 100 mph when he was pulled over. A search of the vehicle yielded prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin and Adderall, as well as a small amount of marijuana, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. No prescriptions were found for the medication.
Gore was booked into the Inmate Reception Center in Santa Ana, Calif., on $20,000 bail. Amormino told Reuters that Gore -- who fully cooperated with law enforcement after being stopped -- was placed in a holding cell with an unknown number of people.
"There are no special privileges," Amormino said.
Yesterday's arrest wasn't Gore's first brush with the law. He was arrested in 2002 for suspected drunken driving and again in 2003 on a marijuana charge.
Calls and e-mails from The Washington Post to a representative for the elder Gore were not returned.
07-05-07
Al Gore III, the son of former vice president Al Gore, was released after being arrested on suspicion of drug possession early yesterday after being stopped for allegedly speeding on a freeway south of Los Angeles, according to an Orange County, Calif., sheriff's official.
The 24-year-old was allegedly driving his environmentally friendly hybrid car at about 100 mph when he was pulled over. A search of the vehicle yielded prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin and Adderall, as well as a small amount of marijuana, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. No prescriptions were found for the medication.
Gore was booked into the Inmate Reception Center in Santa Ana, Calif., on $20,000 bail. Amormino told Reuters that Gore -- who fully cooperated with law enforcement after being stopped -- was placed in a holding cell with an unknown number of people.
"There are no special privileges," Amormino said.
Yesterday's arrest wasn't Gore's first brush with the law. He was arrested in 2002 for suspected drunken driving and again in 2003 on a marijuana charge.
Calls and e-mails from The Washington Post to a representative for the elder Gore were not returned.
kayanation said:
MAJOR CO-SIGN
The first 30 posts in this thread make for great reading; I wasn't using the board at the time, so I'm just now seeing it with the recent bumps.
I absolutely despise it when a Lou Dobbs constantly details random or particularly useful (in slandering a people) stories about illegal immigrant crime to build his case against illegal immigrants. I hate it. I've seen Bill O'Reilly do the same on TV, you hear Mike Gallagher/Savage and many others do it on the radio.
I was very young at the time of Willie Horton, but I agree with Buk's sentiment in a post early in this thread. I just happened to be thinking about Chris Rock's act about two hours ago, his famous routine when he says that, when he's at an ATM late at night, "I'm not looking for the media! I'm lookin' for niggas!" but never asks, Why is that? Stereotyping corrupts many white and black minds and it's great to dispell myths.
Slinging mud at mudslingers just dirties up everything. It's called "lowering yourself to their level." The thread made a dramatic drop in quality when it came to a pagent models cocaine use and whatever sensational Dahmeresqe stories followed it.
We ain't nothin' but mammels. It's easy to find people of every race to prove that point... That's why it doesn't prove much else.
Peace
I THINK YOU BROTHERS NEED TO WAKE UP
WHO EVER SAID THAT BLACKS
MAKE UP 50 % OF THE PRSION POPULATION
IS BLIND
WE MAKE UP 80% -90% OF THE PRSION POPULATION
TO PROVE MY POINT
JUST GO TO YOUR LOCAL STATE OR CITY JAIL
AND ASK
AND THE REASON WHY KEEP DEALING WITH THIS BULL SHIT
BECAUSE THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS UNDER MARSHALL LAW
TO PROVE MY POINT
THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE RIDING
COUNT HOW MANY TIMES YOU SEE THE POLICE
IF YOU SEE THE POILCE MORE THE 10 TIMES DAY
MY POINT IS PROVING
AND 60-75% OF THE PEOPLE ARE LOCK UP
ARE NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS
I WENT TO TRAFFIC COURT 3 TIMES BY MYSELF
AND FOUR TIMES WITH OTHER PEOPLE
AND WE MADE UP
98% OF THE CASES
EVERYTIME WE WENT
its racism to the 3rd power
we need to fight it to gether
or let go
WHO EVER SAID THAT BLACKS
MAKE UP 50 % OF THE PRSION POPULATION
IS BLIND
WE MAKE UP 80% -90% OF THE PRSION POPULATION
TO PROVE MY POINT
JUST GO TO YOUR LOCAL STATE OR CITY JAIL
AND ASK
AND THE REASON WHY KEEP DEALING WITH THIS BULL SHIT
BECAUSE THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS UNDER MARSHALL LAW
TO PROVE MY POINT
THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE RIDING
COUNT HOW MANY TIMES YOU SEE THE POLICE
IF YOU SEE THE POILCE MORE THE 10 TIMES DAY
MY POINT IS PROVING
AND 60-75% OF THE PEOPLE ARE LOCK UP
ARE NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS
I WENT TO TRAFFIC COURT 3 TIMES BY MYSELF
AND FOUR TIMES WITH OTHER PEOPLE
AND WE MADE UP
98% OF THE CASES
EVERYTIME WE WENT
its racism to the 3rd power
we need to fight it to gether
or let go
JUST GO TO YOUR LOCAL STATE OR CITY JAIL
AND ASK
Should I knock first?
What If I have warrants maybe ill call first.
to kewlphucker ,
play all the games you want
but white people are still in control
and black people
think if you act and behave like white people
that will change their mind about us
blacks need to accept that
white people dont like us or respect us
unless we are singing and dancing
or playing sports
then we judge or brothers and sisters
the samway they do
we need to look at ourselves
and judge our self
before we can judge someone else
but if you have a better suggestion
then im all ears
play all the games you want
but white people are still in control
and black people
think if you act and behave like white people
that will change their mind about us
blacks need to accept that
white people dont like us or respect us
unless we are singing and dancing
or playing sports
then we judge or brothers and sisters
the samway they do
we need to look at ourselves
and judge our self
before we can judge someone else
but if you have a better suggestion
then im all ears
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Education son.
And by reading some of your post you need some I suggest you start with spelling that seems to be your weak point.
to kewlphucker,
you can read what i say
but you ducking the whole point
instead of answering my statement
you call youself attacking me
with a b.s. joke
why dont you be a man
and attack the same cops
who pull you over
because you are black
instead of watching sports
run for your city council
if you cant break bread with me
with out the b.s.
keep your opinions to yourself
(we need to look at ourselves
and judge our self
before we can judge someone else)
you can read what i say
but you ducking the whole point
instead of answering my statement
you call youself attacking me
with a b.s. joke
why dont you be a man
and attack the same cops
who pull you over
because you are black
instead of watching sports
run for your city council
if you cant break bread with me
with out the b.s.
keep your opinions to yourself
(we need to look at ourselves
and judge our self
before we can judge someone else)
Great post.....Great read.
ALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace Wednesday after getting caught in a call-girl scandal that shattered his corruption-fighting, straight-arrow image, saying: "I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work."
The wiretaps were necessary as part of the investigation into whether Spitzer violated the Mann Act, which makes transportation of someone across a state line for prostitution a federal crime, the official said. Authorities in Washington now are weighing whether to prosecute Spitzer for soliciting and paying for sex — a felony in the District of Columbia, the official said.
Whether U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor, who prosecutes federal and local laws in the District of Columbia, will bring charges against Spitzer likely depends on the plea deal the governor is negotiating with the government in New York, two senior law enforcement officials said.
In a statement issued after Spitzer's resignation, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said there was no deal with the fallen governor: "There is no agreement between this office and Governor Eliot Spitzer, relating to his resignation or any other matter."
Spitzer, a first-term Democrat, built his political reputation on rooting out government corruption, and made a name for himself as attorney general as crusader against shady practices and overly generous compensation. He also cracked down on prostitution.
His hard-charging ways earned him the nickname “Sheriff of Wall Street.” Time magazine named him “Crusader of the Year,” and the tabloids proclaimed him “Eliot Ness.”
Cheers on Wall Street
As news of his resignation spread on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, some traders applauded. One trader said some firms even cracked champagne open in celebration — a ritual usually saved for if the Dow Jones industrials hit a milestone.
The square-jawed graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law was sometimes mentioned as a potential candidate for president.
He rode into the governor’s office with a historic margin of victory on Jan. 1, 2007, vowing to stamp out corruption in New York government in the same way that he took on Wall Street executives with a vengeance while state attorney general.
His term as governor has been fraught with problems, including an unpopular plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and a plot by his aides to smear his main Republican nemesis. The prostitution scandal, some said, was too much to overcome.
White House press secretary Dana Perino responded to Spitzer’s resignation by repeating that President Bush views it as a “sad situation” and has Spitzer and his family “in his thoughts and prayers.”
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