Racism comes to the NCAA Foul Line SMU Style

MoonHowler

From loope21.com:

Kansas State coach Frank Martin always makes it a point to recruit a Latino high school ball player from overseas every year.

Martin, who is Cuban, knows that the islands of Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and countless others have talent that many U.S. coaches pass over.

But when he brings these players to the states, the last thing he’d ever expect was the treatment one of his players received at the foul line in the school’s opening game of the NCAA Tournament yesterday.

Freshman point guard Angel Rodriguez, who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, was at the foul-line when the Southern Mississippi University {sic} band began chanting “Where’s your green card?”

Holy cow!  Are college students from University of Southern Mississippi   really this rude and ignorant?   Puerto Ricans are American citizens.  They don’t need green cards.  Even if they did, who is really that  rude? 

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Keli Goff exposes attack on the Girl Scouts of America

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This past winter there have been been attacks on the Girl Scouts of America  because of some affiliation with Planned Parenthood.  How absurd.  Indiana Rep. Bob Morris excoriated the 100 year old Girls Scouts of America for being a tool  for  Planned Parenthood.  Nothing could be further from the truth. 

 Keli Goff explains the role of Girl Scouting in developing self esteem and goal setting.  Almost every successful woman has some track record of being a Girl Scout. 

More than condoms or the Pill or ‘don’t do it,’ girls with self-esteem and goals are the least likely to get pregnant and are the least likely to be promiscuous.  What organization helps promote self esteem and teaches goal setting?  The Girl Scouts. 

To read more about the Planned Parenthood/Girl Scout dust up, click here. 

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Happy 100th Anniversary, Girl Scouts of America! 

 

 

Rural Crescent on the Chopping Block for Faux Parkland!

Elena

 

Have you ever heard the old adage,” if you believe this, I’ve got some swampland in the desert to sell you ” !

Classic Concepts Developer, Mark Granville-Smith is trying to sell us some swampland in the desert.  He will be asking tomorrow, March 20th, to initiate a full study into trading his 306 acre parcel in the Rural Crescent for high density housing.  He would request that 30 homes be turned into 102 homes.  And what, I know you are asking, is he willing to exchange for this quadrupling of homes?  A “park” that he can’t build on anyway!

Exhibit A clearly shows, in green, the high density housing in the middle of the parcel of land.  Surrounding this area is a creek with various streams running through the edge of the proposed deveopment area.  This area is called an RPA(resource protection area) and you cannot legally build on an RPA.  He is “giving” us land that he can’t use.

This proposal includes running a major road plus a lengthy and hazardous alternative sewer system through not only an extremely environmentally sensitive area, but through multiple streams and a large creek which create the headwaters to the Occoquan Reservoir watershed and your drinking water supply.

However, what taxpayers WILL be able to do is pay for the degradation that is sure to come when this area is disturbed by a road and over a hundred houses.  Why will taxpayers be footing the bill?

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. —

Prince William County is preparing to play its part in the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
The problem is, officials don’t know exactly how to prepare due to a lack of guidance from the federal and state governments, Prince William Watershed Management branch chief Marc Aveni stated.

The state has placed a Feb. 1 deadline on how the county will tackle this issue, which also includes reducing impervious sub­stances (i.e. parking lots) and deciding who will foot the bill.  There is also a potential financial impact to the county should it not comply. Penal­ties could be several thousands of dollars per day, per violation, Aveni said.

Several homebuilders active in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed have been hit with penalties in the last few years. The Ryland Group Inc. was fined $625,000 to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations at its construction sites, including those in the watershed.
“The county is looking what it can reasonably do with its resources towards [meeting] this goal,” Aveni said. “…We are doing everything we possibly can, and at the same time, not bankrupting our citizens.”

 

I have an idea how to prepare, DON’T approve projects like Mid County Parks and Estates as a starting point!

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John McCain flip flips over lady issues

MoonHowler

According to the Huffington Post:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview on Sunday that he opposes a controversial bill moving through the Arizona legislature that would let employers restrict health insurance coverage of contraception to only those cases when a woman can prove a need for it because of a medical reason, such as endometriosis or an ovarian cyst.

The GOP-sponsored bill, which would put some women in the uncomfortable position of having to explain to their boss why they use birth control, already passed in the state House of Representatives and was endorsed by a Senate committee last week. McCain said, however, it has little chance of becoming law.

“I am confident that that legislation will not reach the governor’s desk, and if it did it would be vetoed,” McCain said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It certainly doesn’t reflect, in my view, the majority view of the people of Arizona.”

 

The question becomes, how far is John McCain willing to go with letting women make their own decisions about  personal issues?  It seems that McCain is not at all consistent on letting women make their own morally appropriate choices.  He is not pro-choice and he voted for the Blunt Amendment which is remarkably similar to the Arizona Contraceptive Bill.  McCain’s wife and daughter need to get hold of him and beat him like a rented mule, as the old saying goes.  “Lady Issues” are going to rule the day and next election and it won’t be pretty.