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HOUSTON – The teenage boy charged with capital murder in the satanic killing of a girl in Clear Lake made a court appearance Tuesday in Harris County and new gruesome details were revealed including confirmation that the crime was sparked by Satan worship.
The 15 year old victim, Corriann Cervantes, was strangled, sexually assaulted with a curtain rod, stabbed with a screw driver, hit with an ashtray and toilet lid. Court documents says puncture wounds were found on her face and an upside down cross was carved on to her abdomen.
Prosecutor John Jordan says 17 year-old Jose Reyes told another juvenile that he could sell his soul to the devil by killing the 15 year-old girl they'd been hanging out with in an empty apartment. He says the girl went to the apartment willingly and investigators don't believe the murder plot was hatched until after the three were there.
"The juvenile inquired (to Reyes) if he committed murder if that would initiate him into him being able to sell his soul to the devil and Mr. Reyes said yes. After that the brutal murder and torture occurred," Jordan said.
Jordan says both Reyes and the other juvenile participated in the killing. They are said to have been caught because family members turned them in to police.
"Thank goodness family members have integrity and decided to cooperate with law enforcement because that led to his eventual arrest," Jordan said.
Reyes will be tried as an adult but he is not eligible for the death penalty.
"Under the law if someone is 17 years-old and they are convicted of capital murder they would get a life sentence and possibly be eligible for parole in 40 years," Jordan said.


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The 411 Movies Top 5 09.06.13: Top Superhero Actors
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From Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Christian Bale as Batman to Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Christopher Reeve as Superman and more, the 411 staff counts down their top five superhero actors of all time!
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Honorable Mentions: Dolph Lundgren- The Punisher, Chris Hemsworth- Thor, Tobey Maguire- Spider-Man, Billy Zane- The Phantom, Hugh Jackman- Wolverine (he
Wesley Snipes- Blade
I seriously doubt that most people outside of the comic book nerd world knew that
was a movie based on a comic book character before it hit theaters. I had a vague idea of who Blade was, but I wasn't as familiar with him as I was with the Punisher or Batman. So when the Stephen Norrington directed movie hit movie screens in 1998 I had no preconceieved notions as to what Blade was supposed to be like. And I was blown away. Snipes took the character and made him a stern faced, single minded killing machine. I didn't expect to see Blade leaping around, in camera, destroying every vampire thing in sight. And I didn't expect Snipes to be as big of a badass as Blade. Snipes just inhabits the role and makes you believe that he really could drive around the world killing vampires. He really is that good. I'm sure Marvel will eventually remake Blade into something else and have someone else play him as Snipes is getting older, but will the actor inhabit the character likes Snipes? Doubtful.
Michael Keaton- Batman
No one wanted Michael Keaton to play Batman back in 1989. Everyone thought it was a joke, a seriously bad idea, and an impending disaster. How the hell could Mr. Mom
Batman? Ridiculous. But then the actual movie came out and suddenly director Tim Burton's choice of having Keaton star as Batman was brilliant. He didn't look ridiculous wearing the heavy rubber armor, the ears, and the cape. He was dangerous. Still the best movie Batman some twenty plus years later.
Robert Downey, Jr.- Iron Man
When it comes to the Iron Man character, Robert Downey, Jr.
really is
Iron Man. I know that doesn't sound all that special on this list since everyone on it has managed to become the character he's playing, but Downey, Jr. has also managed to make Iron Man perpetually cool. He's inherently charismatic, even when he's being a douchebag. And there doesn't seem to be any slow down in terms of Downey, Jr's popularity as Iron Man. You need to have that since that's what the Iron Man character is all about: smarts, charisma, douchebaggey you sort of tolerate because he's probably just given you a job. Marvel will probably try to recast the character soon since the company won't want to pay Downey, Jr. what he's actually worth. I doubt it will work. I doubt audiences will be able to accept it.
Christopher Reeve- Superman
First off, Reeve actually looked like Superman, so right there you know that you're dealing with something bigger than other movies and other performers. Reeve probably wasn't happy with the typecasting back then, but his performance in four major movies is what made him known throughout the world. It's what people still remember about him,. He was just an incredibly believeable hero. And that's what you have to have, an inherent integrity that just oozes everywhere when it comes to Superman. The character won't work without that integrity.
Ray Stevenson- The Punisher
The Punisher is not a happy person. He is a perpatually downbeat entity. But then when you look at what the Punisher does you don't expect him to be a smiley face kind of guy. He is a nonstop killing machine. And it's all in the eyes. Lundgren, who before Stevenson
the Punisher, had that. You could tell that he was tormented, destroyed, and sort of going through the motions in terms of killing. But then Stevenson upped the ante and provided a kind of integrity that Lundgren couldn't produce on screen in the character (Thomas Jane clearly didn't havr it). The Punisher was suddenly a little more than a non-stop killer.
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5. Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit-Girl,
The big question for me when Mark Millar's comic was first brought to the screen is how his foul-mouthed sociopath ten-year old could possibly be brought to life. Moretz answered that with a resounding "yes" as the utter highlight of the film. Yes, it was jarring seeing this kid cursing worse than a sailor while slicing up guys with sword and blowing them away with guns but Moretz also showed the heart deep down of a kid robbed of a childhood and doing what she thought best. The somewhat disappointing sequel gave her more material as she tries to live a normal life only to realize that for her, "normal" is donning a costume to kick some serious ass. Either way, Moretz is great at the action scenes, letting you buy her able to smash up a Russian amazon and the dark humor that makes these movies memorable.
Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man
It's arguable that without the casting of Downey Jr,
Iron Man
and thus the entire current awesome Marvel movie library, would not exist as huge hits. The way he vanishes into the role is stunning, this is Tony Stark walking right off the comic book pages, not just in looks but also the performance of a genius who loves flaunting his rich lifestyle. The scene where he puts together the armor ("Oh, yeah. I can fly.") is still great, you get his love doing it all and creating this and that's carried through the sequels, Downey showing the whirlwind mind of Stark at work. He can show strength, as in
but still nice as the loveable jerk who can be a hero despite himself and a guy to be happy to have on our side.
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine
Way back in 1999, there was a lot of fan debate on this pick. Having the most popular X-Man played by a completely unknown Aussie who happened to be six feet tall? Today, of course, you can't imagine anyone else in the part. Jackman just totally nails Logan, the snarling, the mood and how he carries himself as a man ready to go off at any moment. This is a man who's lived over a century, lost so much and yet still pulled into fighting for what he knows is right. He may heal fast but he feels the agony still and Jackman sells that even in the so-so solo spin-off movies. But when he gets into Wolverine mode (like going into full beserker rage on soldiers in
), he's truly the best there is at what he does and a key reason the entire saga works.
2. Jackie Earl Haley as Rorscharch,
Fans can argue the merits about the adaptation of the classic graphic novel. But one thing we can all agree on is how Haley was an inspired and brilliant choice for the story's most popular character. The walk, the costume, the way he moves and his voice...that is
how I always imagined Rorscharch sounding and Haley brings him to life perfectly. The point where he tells a room of convicts "I'm not locked in here with all of you.
all locked in here with ME" is terrific as you can see just how twisted a real-life crimefighter would be and yet root for him in his brutal black-and-white view of the world and helps elevate the entire film just with his amazing role as a truly disturbed yet oddly noble character.
Christopher Reeve as Superman
Most today don't realize how much of a rush there was of actors wanting to play the Man of Steel back in the 1970's. From John Travolta to Sylvester Stallone, they lined up but Richard Donner took a chance on a little-known actor like Reeve. It turned out to be a brilliant move as his lack of previous credits worked wonders for the role. His Superman is powerful but yet relatable, smiling even as he busts crooks and determined to do the right thing, despite what others think of him. But the true brilliance is his Clark Kent. The way he carries himself with a slouch, a different voice and makes the bumbling, mild-mannered persona so natural that for the first time ever you can buy people not looking past the glasses and seeing the truth. But his Superman truly soars, a legacy still untouched by others and makes the entire movie work.
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Chris Evans, The Human Torch
I know, I know, people hated the Fantastic Four films, but honestly I didn't think they were that bad. I hated what they did with Dr. Doom in the first one, didn't care too much for Ioan Gruffudd as Mr. Fantastic and couldn't stand Jessica Alba as Sue Storm. However, I thought both Michael Chiklis as The Thing and Chris Evans as The Human Torch were both fantastic casting choices. Honestly, Chris Evans is a good Captain America, but he was perfect as Johnny Storm. He had the right attitude and played Johnny exactly how I imagined he should have been played. He was probably the best thing about the movie.
Ron Perlman, Hellboy
The fact that Guillermo Del Toro can't get anyone to chip in to make Hellboy 3 is a crime. Both of the movies in the series were great with the second just an incredible experience. As for Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman was just perfect in the role. He embodied the frustration that Hellboy faces and is just a great anti-hero, perfectly balancing the demon side and the hero side into one of the most fun characters to appear in a super hero movie in a long time. Ron Perlman IS Hellboy.
Christian Bale, Batman
I remember the first time that I saw
American Psycho
. It was one of my first experiences watching an adult Christian Bale in a movie (I saw him in Newsies in a college journalism class before this). Anyway, watching him play Patrick Bateman, a self obsessed businessman with a secret he was hiding made me immediately think that he could be a perfect Bruce Wayne if they ever re-booted the Batman franchise. Lo and behold, that is exactly what happened and I was happy to see that I was right. He was a perfect Bruce Wayne, not too aloof and not comical, while also not as dark and depressed as Michael Keaton was. Christian Bale got it just right and is up there just above Val Kilmer as my favorite portrayal of the character.
Hugh Jackman, Wolverine
I know that a lot of people are tired of Wolverine in the movies, but honestly Hugh Jackman as Wolverine is still one of the most entertaining characters in any of the X-Men movies. He is just perfect as Logan, and I can't think of anyone other than Hugh Jackman that I can see playing Wolverine now. He has the perfect sarcastic humor, the perfect violent tendencies and it just – I'll say it a third time – perfect in the role. I honestly don't believe that the X-Men franchise would have taken off like it did if not for Hugh Jackman's portrayal of Wolverine. He was that good.
Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man
I said that Hugh Jackman was perfect as Wolverine, but I can't think of anyone other than Robert Downey Jr. in the role of Iron Man. Sure, Marvel said they want to be able to pull a James Bond and change out actors over the years to keep the characters moving, but Iron Man is the one character that will make that difficult. It has been proven that a lot of people can play The Hulk. I am sure they could find another Thor or Captain America as well without too much trouble. However, unlike those characters, Robert Downey Jr. is Tony Stark and he is the reason that Iron Man is the most popular of all the franchises in the Marvel universe. Some balk at how much money he is getting for the roles, but I honestly believe that without Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man would not have been as good and Marvel would never have reached the level it did in the movies.
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As a child I felt the tug of God on my heart. First Christian Church in Roswell, New Mexico, had a heritage of supporting missionaries and had a long roster of members who had entered full-time Christian service. Although it was a large downtown church, I was running the radio broadcast equipment and the lighting console while still in elementary school. I made a profession of faith and was baptized on Easter of 1952. During my high school years, I developed the habit of praying in the chapel at the church in the morning before I went on to school. Sometimes, I would pray in other churches. God blessed my studies with good grades and enjoyable classes.
At summer camp, I studied worship and liturgy and hung out with the preachers' kids. It was only natural that I would feel the call of God on my life. I made a public declaration of my calling in church one Sunday morning in the Spring of 1960 and started making plans for college and seminary
My first term in college I became seriously ill and returned home. Upon recovery, I entered the family business and became entangled in the cares of life. A few years later, I would rededicate my life to Christ and go back to college. Again, it seemed that the cares of life and my recent marriage would hinder my preparation for ministry. However, God had other plans. I was asked to preach for Westridge Christian Church on All Saints Day, 1969. It was a Sunday morning service. That evening I preached again, this time for my friend, Rev. Rolland Waters at Peoples Baptist Church. In the months that followed I ministered in various Baptist and Pentecostal churches in the area.
1970 found me involved in radio ministry being heard on two local radio stations every week. A local meeting of Seventh Day Friends was formed. I was involved with a Friends meeting while in college so I became pastor and the organist from the local Foursquare church became our church musician. Another young pentecostal preacher, Ernie McAdams, served as my assistant pastor. We first met on Saturday at Peoples Baptist Church and soon remodeled a pair of houses into our own church building with the adjacent house serving as the office and my study We advertised 24 hour relief referrals and soon becoming a seven day church instead of seventh day.
In January of 1971, I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost at Dove Ranch in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was an ecumenical charismatic retreat operated by Father Tom Bigelow, a former associate of Dennis Bennett, the Episcopalian minister sometimes credited as being the Father of the charismatic movement. Enthused by what I saw and experienced, I returned to Roswell intent on operating a similar retreat there. We acquired a large house across the street from a local oilman's office who coincidentally was in partnership with George Otis a few years later doing petroleum exploration in Israel using the Bible as a geological map. Before we were able to open the retreat center, changes in the local economy caused me to find myself in Los Angeles, California, not many months later.
The Jesus People Movement was in full swing, Duane Pederson was blanketing the streets of Hollywood and the beaches of the South Bay with his Hollywood Free Paper telling the old, old story to born-again hippies and bikers for Jesus. These were the days that Lonnie Frisbee brought his simple message to any who would listen. Pat Boone and others were baptizing new believers in swimming pools and at the beaches up and down the California coastline. Brant Baker was having healing meetings on Saturday nights at Pastor Billy Adams' First Foursquare Church in Long Beach. His flyers were tacked up on telephone and power poles advertising "In Person GOD" and God the Holy Spirit did show up regularly, healing people of all manner of sickness and disease. With an anointing similar to Kathryn Kuhlman's, Brant and his Shekinah Fellowship acquired the old West Coast Theater across the street from the Convention Center on Ocean Boulevard. I eventually opened the East Long Beach Street Mission, a drop-in place where you could watch those early broadcasts of TBN, have some free coffee and donuts, and hit Anaheim Street or PCH with some gospel tracts that we printed right there.
Back and forth across the western states a few times more brought me back to Southern California one last time working with Reverend Glen Chambers at Calvary Temple on Broadway and Manchester in South Central Los Angeles. As his right hand man in the late seventies and early eighties, I rubbed shoulders with numerous well known evangelists and musicians. I also held Bible studies and prayer meetings in Long Beach, supplied food to an orphanage in Mexico and distributed literally tens of thousands of gospel tracts on the streets of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
In 1983, Resurrection Tabernacle was founded in my home town of Roswell, New Mexico. Zuma Huggins, the organist who had helped me in 1971 joined with me again and we had an opening revival with guest musicians and evangelists, including Brother Chambers' younger brother Johnny, who had ordained me in the Midwest Revival Church in 1977. During the next two years, I ministered in numerous Baptist, Pentecostal, and charismatic churches, served as secretary of the local evangelical ministers alliance and as Director Of Development for a small local Christian college, and volunteered on audio and video controls at a small Christian television station.
Following this, I ministered in different churches in New Mexico and Oklahoma before founding St. Dometius' Orthodox Mission in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and St. Michael's Orthodox Mission in Las Cruces, New Mexico under the direction of my brother, Bishop Symeon Seraphim Holdridge of Denver. In the late 1990's I spent some time at the monastery with him.
Having made some friends in the Midwest, I ministered in Kentucky and Indiana and volunteered at churches and food banks that needed help with electrical and refrigeration needs.
Returning to New Mexico, I was appointed chaplain to the electrician's union, ministered to thousands of construction workers at the Intel construction site in Rio Rancho, New Mexico and pastored a small church I helped build overlooking the Rio Grande River in West Albuquerque not too far from where I had been baptized in the Holy Ghost thirty years earlier.
My wife Judith died in January 2000. I remarried and in March of 2002 left Albuquerque and God's House Church of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World where I was an associate minister and moved to Owensboro, Kentucky, with my new wife, Joyce, and my two high school age children that were still at home with us. The Lord put us in a huge old house that we used as home, church, office and 24/7 food bank. 24/7 Jesus Church Inc. was chartered by the State of Kentucky on September 26, 2002. Three other ministers serve on the board with me. By June of 2004, we were feeding a hundred different families every week and providing the only 24 hour emergency food in the area. We left the food pantry in Owensboro in the hands of faithful friends in June of 2004 and relocated to Fort Worth, Texas, settling in the southwestern part of the D-FW Metroplex. Since then, I have worked with some well known ministries while maintaining our own web presence at www.24-7JesusChurch.net, a highly ranked website that reaches the world with revival, having received about 500,000 hits from over 160 countries since March of 2003.
On September 17, 2005, Archbishop Michael Wrenn consecrated me as a bishop in the Celtic Anabaptist Communion. Joyce went on to Glory in June 0f 2006. Although I miss her very much, I am still committed to having a true 24/7 church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and believe that a fellowship of house churches joined to a central facility may very well be the direction God is leading me in. Anything you can do to help me bring this dream into reality will be greatly appreciated.


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SheldonLock said...
New Skin =/= New Models.
This. There is a difference.
The reason Anduin looks a little awkward is because they put this 'teenage' skin over an adult human model, and, knowing what we know about how bad the human male model looks in this game, it can only look so good when you dress it up.
Hm. Touching up the look for player characters'll tougher than I thought. New skins won't cut it if they'll only turn out like this, so we'll probably need total model overhauls, something I highly doubt will happen with Cataclysm.
No, the Anduin model is not the default human male. It may have been built off of the default human model, much like how Varian's was, rather from scratch, but it is not simply a the default human male with new textures.
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Leader Continues to Point to Progress on Immigration Reform
March 16, 2009 - Posted by Katherine Vargas
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Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV) has once again reiterated his vow to push strongly for immigration reform this year, stating that immigration reform can be part of the solution to our economic woes. Univisión reports on his recent speech at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Legislative Conference,
Senator [Reid] highlighted the contributions of the Hispanic community to the U.S. and stated that immigration reform is part of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan.
"I have been firmly committed to immigration reform for a long time now, look no further than the angry messages and letters I receive to prove it", said [Senator] Reid.
... [Senator] Reid confirmed that commitment still exists to continue working until passage of comprehensive immigration reform legislation that includes legalization for the estimated 12 million undocumented living in the country. "I remain hopeful. I am committed in offering this year comprehensive immigration reform that is strong, practical and fair".
— Líder del Senado Habló de Reforma, March 12, 2009 (Translation by Katherine Vargas)
Immigration policy experts and advocates are echoing the chant of "yes we can" pass immigration reform, as we recently told online magazine AlterNet,
"The prospects for reform are very good if advocates continue to build power and make it happen," he [Doug Rivlin of the National Immigration Forum] told me. "The Obama administration can read election results."
The pieces that will move forward immigration reform are finally coming together. Leaders who are central to the effort to get laws and procedures fixed and legislation passed — including President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel— have acknowledged that addressing immigration reform is not just good policy, but also good politics.
H-2A: Shedding Some Light on Midnight Regulations
March 16, 2009 - Posted by Katherine Vargas
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Just hours after being sworn in as the nation's first Latina Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis announced that she would suspend the Bush administration midnight regulations of the H-2A program. Advocates for farm workers have been warning that the regulatory changes would have weakened wage and worker protections for participants in the H2A agricultural temporary worker program, thereby threatening the rights and working conditions of all workers in U.S. agriculture. The New York Times reports,
The new rules cut the wages that many of these workers will receive and reduced the amount that growers had to reimburse these workers for their travel. They also eased administrative burdens by letting employers simply attest that they had met various program requirements.
Erik Nicholson, a national vice president of the United Farm Workers, applauded Ms. Solis's decision, calling the Bush rules "some of the worst setbacks for farm workers in decades." He added, "They meant worse wages and worse housing conditions for these workers and worse discrimination against American workers."
The last-minute changes were an attempt by the departing administration rushing to make its mark and slap a band-aid solution on the program to satisfy certain constituents. The changes would have not only encouraged more abuse of workers, but it would also have made a flawed program even worse. Labor Secretary Solis commented announcing the suspension of the new regulations,
In December, Ms. Solis, then a California representative, condemned the regulations. "With many families already burdened by this bad economy," she said, "our nation cannot afford these guest worker program changes. There is no question that the guest-worker program needs significant overhaul, but slashing wages and reducing basic rights for the most vulnerable workers in our country, especially hardworking Latino farm workers, is not the answer."
— Labor Secretary Proposes Suspending Farm Rules, March 14, 2009
The time has come to examine midnight decisions in the light of day. We applaud the Labor Secretary's swift actions to reverse these ill will H-2A rules and we encourage the Administration to do a thorough review of the past Administration's immigration policies and programs that provide no real solutions but instead, aggravate the chaotic immigration situation. An overhaul of our immigration system that puts in place immigration laws that are realistic and enforceable, legalizes an often-exploitable workforce, responds to our labor and economic needs, keeps families together, and upholds our values as a nation will be the only long-term solution to our immigration problems.
Sheriff Arpaio in the spotlight of the Department of Justice
March 12, 2009 - Posted by Katherine Vargas
By now, you should be pretty familiar with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and not necessarily for his outstanding performance in the FOX reality show but for community complaints about his orchestrated publicity stunts; the latest one involved parading shackled pre-trial detainees through the streets of Phoenix and into a segregated facility called "Tent City". Locally and nationally, immigration and civil rights groups have firmly condemned Sheriff Arpaio's antics and the abuse of his 287(g) agreement —the program that empowers local authorities to enforce federal immigration law — resulting in civil rights violations, racial profiling and excessive use of force, not to mention costly lawsuits.
Just hours before the formal presentation of 38,000 petition signatures *calling for a federal investigation of Sheriff Arpaio's immigration enforcement actions, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will initiate an investigation. The Arizona Republic further reports,
The U.S. Justice Department has launched a civil-rights investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office after months of mounting complaints that deputies are discriminating in their enforcement of federal immigration laws.
…Officials from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division notified Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday that they had begun the investigation, which will focus on whether deputies are engaging in "patterns or practices of discriminatory police practices and unconstitutional searches and seizures."
Finally Sheriff Joe is receiving the attention he deserves! This is the first step for restoring adequate federal oversight of immigration enforcement actions, the article also points to the groundbreaking nature of the investigation,
An expert said it is the department's first civil-rights probe related to immigration enforcement.
The Justice Department frequently receives racial-profiling complaints against police departments, but investigations are rare, said David Harris, a University of Pittsburgh lawprofessor and racial-profiling expert.
"The fact that this has come to their attention and they have announced their intent to investigate is highly significant," Harris said. "It says there is enough there to be investigated. It's not an iffy case that (can be ignored)."
—Arpaio to be investigated over alleged violations, March 11, 2009
We welcome the DoJ investigation and hope that it will further push the Administration and Congress to address immigration reform. As long as our immigration system remains in its current dysfunctional state, local authorities (like Sheriff Arpaio) will continue to exploit the confusion for their own political and publicity goals.
*You can view videos from today's press event presenting the 38,000 petition signatures at: http://www.americasvoiceonline.org/blog/entry/two_videos_from_todays_arpaio_event/
What's bad for the country is bad for New Jersey too
March 10, 2009 - Posted by Katherine Vargas
Immigration news from last week focused on the misguided implementation of the 287(g) agreement — a program by which local law enforcement engages in enforcing federal civil immigration law. Independent reports, government reports and a House Homeland Security Committee hearing found that the program lacked adequate federal oversight resulting in enforcement priorities being out of whack. Unfortunately, despite concerns on the efficiency of the 287(g) program raised by advocates, Congress and the Government Accountability Office, some localities still believe that 287(g) is the way to go. Such is the case of Morris County, NJ, where local Mayor Donald Cresitello is pushing to allow local police to become deputized immigration officers even as Morris County authorities struggle to protect the trust of the immigrant community, the North Jersey Star Ledger reports,
Call it catch 287(g).
Morris County authorities are trying to reach out to Latino immigrants who are victims of domestic violence to protect them and prosecute their abusers. But a number of victims fear making complaints because they think they or the abuser on whom they are economically dependent will be deported.
[Prosecutor] Bianchi … pointed out illegal immigrants are key witnesses in crimes involving homicide and a variety of other offenses that are protected by his office.
In turn, advocates highlight the damaging effect in the community when local police perform two different – and at times, conflicting —duties,
Despite the assurances, Diana Mejia, a member of Wind of the Spirit, an immigration rights organization in Morristown, was not convinced 287(g) would not be a factor [in deterring victims to approach authorities].
"There is an environment of being afraid," she said. "People don't want to speak out about the way they feel. Honestly, we need to build again the community trust, and to build the community trust, we need to come back and have a relationship with the police and all the law enforcement -- and I don't know how that is going to happen because it's getting worse."
— Deportation fears in Morris County hamper efforts to probe domestic abuse, March 9, 2009
Sadly enough, we can point to specific examples where local authorities chose to be enforcers of immigration law instead of protectors of victims or witnesses of crime. A story in the Orlando Sentinel describes how Rita Cote was detained by Florida police when she made an emergency call to report that her sister was being violently assaulted by her partner. Instead of pursuing the domestic violence complaint and apprehending the alleged abuser, the police arrested Ms. Cote because she couldn't provide proof of legal immigration status. As expected, advocates called foul:
"No one should have to remain in the shadows and in danger because they fear that their one call to 911 could lead to their deportation, rather than to their deliverance from violence," said Jeanne Smoot, public-policy director with the Tahirih Justice Center, a group in Falls Church, Va., that helps immigrant women in domestic-violence situations.
— Immigration groups seek release of mother of 3, February 26, 2009
Amidst criticism of the 287(g) agreement, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has called for broad review of the program and is drafting changes to "clarify the roles and responsibilities of local authorities". In the meantime, localities are still implementing the enforcement program based on their own (misguided) interpretation while a few others are seeking to be part of this club, despite the financial burdens caused by multiple lawsuits and civil complaints.
In Monmouth County, NJ, a statewide coalition of immigration advocacy and civil rights groups is pushing back against the County's intended enlistment in the 287(g) program. In their online sign-on petition, advocates stress how enrollment in the program is counterproductive and fiscally irresponsible,
Across the country, the 287(g) program has proven to be a costly and counterproductive initiative. Its many problems include the high unanticipated costs for local jurisdictions, deteriorating relations between police and the communities they are entrusted to protect, racial profiling of local residents, and numerous lawsuits over resulting discrimination.
Sheriff Guadagno attempts to justify the program by stating that her concern is "the safety of Monmouth County residents," yet study after study disproves the myth that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes. In fact, Guadagno's own 287(g) application to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicates that a mere 1\% of the average jail population in Monmouth County jail is foreign born. Yet despite this, and the fact that local enforcement screens for immigration status when someone is charged with an indictable offense, Sheriff Guadagno plans to invest valuable resources on a failed program with a high human and economic cost. Indeed, studies have proven that 287(g) programs have the effect of deterring victims from coming forward and reporting crimes to proper law enforcement officials.
— Rescind 287(g) Application In Monmouth County, NJ
Unless leadership in Washington provides a clear roadmap on how it's going to deal with our immigration troubles, pressure to shift the responsibility of immigration law enforcement to local governments will continue to rise.
Pelosi says the time is now to Fix our Immigration System
March 09, 2009 - Posted by Katherine Vargas
As reported earlier, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) has launched a national listening tour to hear testimony from families who have been impacted by the failed policies of our immigration system. The "Family Unity" tour will visit 17 cities including Phoenix, El Paso, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and Orlando among others. During Saturday's prayer event at St. Anthony's Church in San Francisco, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joined fellow Members of Congress to denounce immigration raids and deportations that have tear families apart and to call for an overhaul of our immigration system. The San Francisco Chronicle reports,
Pelosi, who has said securing U.S. borders is a top priority, used the forum to call for a comprehensive immigration program that recognizes the broad contributions immigrants have made to the fabric of the country.
"Our future is about our children," Pelosi told a crowd of mostly Latino families at St. Anthony's Church.
No matter if those families arrived two days ago or centuries ago, Pelosi said "that opportunity, that determination, that hope has made American more American."
She said, "Taking parents from their children ... that's un-American.
—Pelosi: End raids splitting immigrant families, March 8, 2009
We applaud Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her leadership in supporting the CHC's efforts bring light into the shameful consequences of not fixing our dysfunctional immigration system — including the approximate 5 million U.S. citizen children who risk being left behind if their parents are deported.
Meanwhile, in San Bernardino, California, Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) provided insight into the principles behind this national tour, as reported by the San Bernardino Sun,
Spearheaded by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., the tour is meant to show the effects of the nation's immigration policy.
Gutierrez, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Immigration Task Force, urged attendees in Ontario to sign petitions asking for comprehensive immigration reform.
We will go from city to city, church to church and present the president with no other alternative than to listen to the majority's voice," Gutierrez said.
—Tour tries to put face on deportation, March 7, 2009
Joining these efforts to emphasize the urgency and moral imperative for immigration reform, is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg who recently wrote an Op-Ed piece in El Diario/La Prensa – the largest Spanish language newspaper in New York – calling for an immigration policy that is "based on reality" and asking leadership in Washington to not use the recession as another excuse for not addressing our immigration troubles,
"One of the most important steps that Washington can do to promote economic growth in the long term is to fix our broken immigration system …[to] fully recover the state of our economy would require a national immigration policy that is based on reality, not on politics.
…An immigration policy based on reality means abandoning the misguided idea that we can deport the 11 million people who live here without visas. Not only would it be impossible, it would destroy many families and it would worsen our economic recession.
… We can not allow for the economic recession to pose as another excuse for inaction on immigration. As the Obama administration confronts the many current challenges, we hope to work with the President and Congress to create an immigration system that would strengthen our economy, protect our borders and honor our values" (Translated)
—Una Política Migratoria Basada en la Realidad, March 9, 2009
Laurels to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the CHC and Mayor Bloomberg for putting politics aside and calling for a solutions-approach to our immigration woes. We hope that their colleagues in Congress and the Obama Administration would soon follow suit.
Reason and Racism: A Tale of Two Floridas
March 07, 2009 - Posted by Douglas Rivlin
We call your attention to two newspaper articles in Florida this week. One is an editorial that ran March 6 in the Fort Myers News-Press arguing forcefully for immigration reform. The other is a news item from March 5 in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale about the continuation of Haitian deportations. They paint an interesting picture in contrasts.
The News-Press editorial charts a middle ground, calling for an enforcement-centric approach to immigration, but also calling on its readers to contact Members of Congress to demand immigration reform.
"We have failed to adopt sensible, enforceable rules for admitting newcomers to what we proudly call a nation of immigrants.
We need reform because we need immigrants - legal immigrants with rights and hopeful futures, admitted under a fair system, energetically enforced for the sake of American security and sovereignty. But we need to admit our hypocrisy.
We rightly insist that immigrants and employers obey the laws, but we still do not adequately enforce those laws.
Border security has improved but is still far from tight. Workplace raids have increased, but employers have not been held seriously accountable for hiring illegal workers.
Too many Americans, including consumers, benefit from the illegal employment of people from impoverished countries willing to work in the shadows for low wages."
If you read the whole piece, you can see the editorial board is really struggling with this issue. They repeat myths like "we make illegal immigration attractive with a no-questions-asked policy on health care, education, food stamps and other benefits." Umm, immigrants in the country illegally haven't been eligible for food stamps or most benefits beyond K-12 education and emergency medical care for more than a decade, and the unintended consequences of too many questions create red tape that makes some U.S. citizens ineligible for these services in the process.
And the editorial makes a nod towards "enforcement-first," an approach that hasn't been working for two decades and which is hard to distinguish from mass-expulsion. But the thrust of the editorial is that it is time for the American people to demand reform that includes a sensible legal immigration system, a way for most of the people here to become legal, and enforcement to make sure everyone is playing by the new set of enforceable rules.
"Now is a good time for a new administration to renew the attempt to fix this broken system. Experience suggests that Obama will have to put enforcement first. But liberalization is essential, too.
Urge our leaders in Washington to act."
—Let's get honest about immigration, March 6, 2009
Over on the Atlantic/Caribbean coast in Fort Lauderdale, in the Miami Metroplex, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel ran a short news piece on deportations to Haiti.
"Days after President Barack Obama's inauguration, advocates wrote to him and the new head of the Department of Homeland Security, asking that they stop deporting undocumented Haitians and allow those already here to stay legally.
The answer arrived Tuesday: No, for now.
"At this time, DHS intends to continue to coordinate the removal of Haitian nationals to Haiti," wrote Susan Cullen, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Policy and Planning."
—U.S. will continue to deport Haitians, March 5, 2009
It is unfortunate that the Department of Homeland Security does not see fit to extend Temporary Protected Status to Haitian nationals given the economic conditions and natural disasters that have devastated that Caribbean nation. It is also, unfortunately, nothing new given America's approach to Haitian immigrants over the years, despite the best efforts of advocates and Congressional leaders like Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL).
However, the reaction unleashed on the message board of the Sun-Sentinel is not just unfortunate, it is startling. Let's be clear, I don't think most people troubled by legal and illegal immigration are racists, however, many of the most vocal anti-immigration advocates surely are. And when the immigrants in question are black, Katie bar the door!
The article quotes Randy McGrorty, chief executive officer of Catholic Charities Legal Services in Miami, about his impressions of the Haitians in his community:
They're bright people. They're fair people…I remain optimistic the policy will change once they understand the need for change.
Which elicited this comment in the paper's comment board from a chatter subtly named "Deport Them" of Miami:
Dude, what are you smoking???? All the haitians that I've come across, which is alot, are morons. They have no brains. It's like they left it at haiti or something. They are rude, inconciderate, selfish, and nasty people. They take dead peoples names and make it their own so they can continue to live here illegally. There's a reason why their country is in hell, and they are the reason for it. Good people, my behind.
A chatter named "Common Sense" adds:
Haitians are not fit for a Western civilized culture. Anyone who has been around them knows and understands what i'am saying. This is not a racist comment just fact!
Here are a few otherschoice additions:
"Uncle Tom" of Lakeland: get those useless pieces of garbage out of our country. they aren't even here legally. it's a no brainer. heck, get rid of ALL the haitians and this state of ours will be drastically improved. the only thing they can do efficiently is spread AIDS and speak that monkey talk. they are more like primates than human. animals. the best thing for haitai is drop a bomb on it. soul less animals.
"Flagrante Delicto" who chats via AOL: What do you expect from a country where the majority don't even have a 6th grade education? They are lucky enough to get to ride in the back of a dump truck, let alone drive it.
"Reality" of Miami (responding to another's comments): Tina, you are either Haitian or have never experienced Haitians destroying your life. They are destroying the quality of life in South Florida. They are dirty, uneducated, violent and poor. Why should we let them be here and suck our system as they commit crime. We don't want them in our neighborhoods anymore. If you love them so much, invite them to stay at your house!
And if you are not Haitian and feel left out of this hate festival:
"Kumar" of Free Soil, Michigan: The Miami Cubans are racists with over-inflated senses of self-worth. The rest of this country wishes they would all float back to Havana.
"Super Gator" of Miami: Not saying Cubans or Haitians are pieces of cake, most are actually pieces of something else, but I think if we're going to deport anybody, I think we should deport Muslims/Arabs/anything in between. Send 'em all back on one large magic carpet.
My, my my. Granted, people say some crazy stuff on newspaper chat boards, but when people think they are essentially anonymous, they also speak their minds. When Lou Dobbs, Mark Krikorian, Willard T. Fair, or any of the other leaders of the opposition to immigration reform speak, we should ask them how they can stand shoulder to shoulder with the people making these comments and still sleep at night.
Peel back the layers of the anti-immigration onion and you find a lot of bitterness, and like an onion, it will make you cry.
The Reviews are in on 287(g): "Hated It!"
March 05, 2009 - Posted by Katherine Vargas
The General Accountability Office (GAO) the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, released a report Wednesday that is highly critical of the program known as 287(g), a program by which local law enforcement engages in enforcing federal civil immigration law – in other words, the law that has turned some local police into ICE agents. On the same day, the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing to address the worrisome findings of the report.
For immigration advocates, the notion that the program was misguided and wrongfully implemented was already old news. They have warned the public time and time again about the lack of federal oversight of the program, thus allowing enforcement cowboys – like reality star Sheriff Arpaio — run loose. The Charlotte Observer reports,
[The report] was created to address serious crimes, such as gangs and narcotics smuggling... But some local law enforcement agencies nationwide have used the program – known as 287(g) – to deport immigrants for minor crimes such as speeding. ..
"We could have told them that a long time ago without having to go through the cost of the report," said Angeles Ortega-Moore, executive director of the Latin American Coalition in Charlotte.
"The intention was to grab hard criminals, but the unintended consequences were they were really targeting minor traffic offenders."
— Deportation program nets minor offenders, March 5, 2009
Justice Strategies, a nonprofit research group had an insightful analogy about these efforts to combine civil immigration and criminal enforcement in their latest report on 287(g) agreements:
"Residing in the US without proper documentation is a civil immigration violation, but it is not a crime. Imagine if the IRS empowered local police to check the tax records of every person stopped for a traffic violation to see if their filings have ever violated civil tax laws. If the police started filling our jails with people who might have made a mistake on their tax filings, citizens would be outraged. Yet under 287(g), people are jailed when their civil immigration status is in question."
—Local Democracy on ICE: Why State and Local Governments Have No Business in Federal Immigration Law Enforcement, February 2009
So instead of targeting dangerous criminals as originally indented, local law enforcement agencies decided to shift their valuable resources to chase after bystanders, immigrant workers and traffic speeders?
Add to these concerns the eroding trust of the community who as a result of this dual role of the police— one day fighting crime, another day acting as immigration officers —might be afraid of contacting the police when they are victims or witnesses of a crime.
Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief J. Thomas Manger, a witness at the hearing, emphasized the idea of community security as reported by The Washington Post,
Police Chief J. Thomas Manger warned members of the House Committee on Homeland Security that the program could severely undermine trust between police and immigrant communities.
"Public safety increases when people have trust and confidence in local police forces," Manger said. "The bottom line is local law enforcement needs to work closely with our immigration authorities, but we cannot do their job for them."
—Immigration Program Stirs Clash Of Views, March 5, 2009
We applaud Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) for initiating efforts to assess the efficiency of the program. As I mentioned during an interview with California newspaper La Opinión, a thorough review of the program is urgently needed but this might not be enough…
"Pensamos que se necesita no sólo una revisión exhaustiva del programa, sino un compromiso por parte de la administración del presidente Obama sobre la dirección de las políticas migratorias en este país, para asegurarnos de que este tipo de programas no operen de manera errónea", dijo Vargas.
El DHS falla en objetivo de sus arrestos, March 5, 2009
(Translation: We need not only a comprehensive review of the program but also commitment by President Obama to provide clarity on his Administration's immigration policy, so we can avoid these programs that are so often wrongfully implemented.)
Legislative Update for March 5, 2009
March 05, 2009 - Posted by Maurice Belanger
Omnibus Appropriations: As you may recall, the best Congress could manage last year for funding the government this year was a bill to fund most agencies through the first six months of the fiscal year, ending this month. Congress is now in the middle of passing another "omnibus" appropriations bill (where funding for several agencies is wrapped up in one big package). That bill will fund the government through the end of the fiscal year (September 30). The House has already passed its version. Among other things, the bill contains $730 million for English language Acquisition (through Fiscal Year 2010) and nearly $68 million for "integrated English literacy and civics education" services is earmarked from the pot that goes to state Adult education grants. The existing E-Verify and Employment-Based fifth preference programs are extended until the end of the Fiscal Year. (They would otherwise expire this month.) In a separate action, the House voted to extend to the end of the Fiscal Year two additional programs: religious workers visas and visas for doctors in underserved areas and to provide doctors for underserved medical areas. The Senate may take that bill up separately or may add it in to the omnibus.
The Senate is considering the omnibus, and may vote on it on Thursday. Technically, failure to adopt the omnibus and sign it into law by Friday, March 6 would lead to a government shutdown or a series of resolutions to keep the government limping along until the Omnibus is completed.
Detention Conditions: On February 26, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard introduced H.R. 1215, the Immigration Oversight and Fairness Act. The Act would give ICE's detention standards the force of law. It would also provide special protections for unaccompanied minors. You can read more about the bill in Rep. Roybal-Allard's Press Release.
Text of the bill can be found here.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security held a hearing on health services for ICE detainees on March 3. Although ICE has plans to detain 100,000 more immigrants, witnesses from ICE said they were not asking for additional funds for health services.
Administrative Update for March 5, 2009
March 05, 2009 - Posted by Maurice Belanger
State and Local Enforcement of Immigration Laws: On March 4th, the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing on ICE's "287(g)" program, to determine whether the program has been targeted as intended—to remove non-citizens who might pose a danger to the community. This program, named for the provision of law which authorizes it, allows state and local police agencies, under contract with ICE, to enforce immigration laws as specified in Memorandums of Agreement between the participating local agencies and ICE.
Among others, the Committee heard from a witness from the Government Accountability Office, which released a report on 287(g) earlier this year. GAO found that ICE lacks controls to ensure that the program is being used as intended. In fact, GAO found that 4 of the 29 state/local program participants it examined used the program to pick up individuals for minor infractions. (Speeding was named as an example.) The report is available here.
Also testifying were representatives of two police agencies in adjacent Maryland counties, representing opposing views. Chief Thomas Manger, of Montgomery County, represents a jurisdiction with a large foreign-born population. In his testimony, he expressed the concerns of the Major Cities Chiefs, an association of police executives representing the largest cities in the United States and Canada. All of the testimony, as well as a recording of the hearing, is available on the Homeland Security Committee's Web site.
You can read the Forum's statement on the hearing in our Press Release.
You can also read more in two related articles from the Associated Press and the Arizona Republic.
The President's Budget for 2010: On February 26th, the President released an outline of his budget for Fiscal Year 2010. More details remain to be released (in April). In the section on the Department of Homeland Security, the budget document mentions that ICE will get $1.4 billion, and $110 million will be spent for the expansion of E-Verify. Without specifics, the document says that the budget "supports strengthening the delivery of immigration services by streamlining and modernizing immigration application processes."
For the Justice Department, the budget includes funds to expand the Community Oriented Policing program and $145 million to strengthen the Civil Rights Division. There are additional funds to support "law enforcement and prosecutorial … efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, and prosecute illegal immigrants and other criminals" (but no details on what that means).
In general, in the immigration arena, the increased allocation for enforcement-related programs (E-Verify, for example) seems to be on auto-pilot, indicating that a new direction in immigration policy has yet to be outlined.
On the other hand, there are other signals in the budget that are positive. The Labor Department will get more money for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, for the Wage and Hour Division, and for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs—all offices that enforce worker protection laws. While these components are not directly immigration related, increased enforcement against unscrupulous employers is thought by many to be a better approach than worksite raids targeting workers.
Homeland Security Oversight: On February 25th, Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security. In her prepared testimony she gave the Committee an update on her Action Directives (mentioned in a previous update). You can watch the hearing on the Committee's video archive here.
E-Verify would not preserve jobs, no matter how many times Lamar Smith says so
March 04, 2009 - Posted by Katherine Vargas
Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) continues his crusade to undermine efforts to fix our dysfunctional immigration system. Like many other restrictionists, he is quick to show what he is against — against providing health care for legal immigrant children, against speedy economic recovery with new burdens on businesses and workers through mandatory use of the flawed E-Verify program— but what solutions is he for?
The closest answer comes from a series of opinion pieces sent to newspapers around the country, all with a "fear your immigrant neighbor" framework. In The Washington Times last month, Rep. Lamar Smith, after an extensive comparison of immigrant workers to burglars, wrote:
E-Verify … [is] a sure way to protect jobs for U.S. citizen and legal immigrant workers alike, and ensure their jobs aren't stolen by illegal immigrants.
…E-Verify immediately confirms 99.4 percent of work-eligible employees. …Congress should not just extend E-Verify; it should mandate the program for all businesses with more than five employees and make it permanent. —Smith: Keep E-Verify System, February 8, 2009
At first glance, one might believe all the functional benefits from mandatory implementation of E-Verify. Unfortunately for Rep. Smith, a close examination of the program discloses an inconvenient truth. Jim Harper from the CATO Institute, a public policy research institute, exposes the reality behind these numbers:
[T]he DHS mantra of 99.5 percent accuracy was debunked long ago. The government doesn't actually know the status of the 5.3% of workers that the system bounces out, an issue the Christian Science Monitor explored last summer.
I examined the numbers in detail here, also last summer. The 0.5% error rate that DHS acknowledges is the known error rate. Others bounced out of the system DHS assumes to be illegal aliens. This is almost certainly wrong, and the program is denying legal workers the ability to earn a living, as the Christian Science Monitor reported.— The Washington Times and Debunked Statistics, February 27, 2009
Despite multiple reports documenting the shortcomings of E-Verify - including an independent study commissioned by USCIS highlighting the high error rate of E-Verify database, a GAO report identifying vulnerabilities to employer fraud and misuse, and a CBO report estimating a decrease in federal revenues by $17.3 billion over 10 years due to the number of workers leaving the formal economy and working in the untaxed underground economy – some Members of Congress continue to push for a program that is not yet ready for primetime.
In a recent opinion piece for Politico, Rep. Smith argues that immigrant advocates are engaging in "stealth legislative efforts" to allow immigrant works to keep working at "the expense of American workers" (Diligence helps resist stealth amnesty, March 2, 2009).
Yet he fails to address the unintended consequences to legal workers by the mandatory implementation of E-Verify. Again, Jim Harper provides insight into the troublesome impact of expanding this employment verification program:
"[W]e must consider the error rate in federal government databases. In December 2006, the SSA's Office of the Inspector General estimated that the agency's "Numident" file—the data against which Basic Pilot checks worker information—has an error rate of 4.1 percent. Every error resulted in Basic Pilot's providing incorrect results
At that rate, 1 in every 25 new hires would receive a tentative nonconfirmation. At 55 million new hires each year this rate produces about 11,000 tentative nonconfirmations per workday in the United States — a little more than 25 people per congressional district, each day of the working week, all year long." — Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification: Franz Kafka's Solution to Illegal Immigration, March 6, 2008
During these tough economics times, the country seeks leadership from Congress to get back on our feet, create more jobs and stimulate the economy. Expanding a program that would cost U.S. citizens and legal workers their jobs is not only an impractical band-aid solution to our immigration troubles, but it would further slow our economic recovery.


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I am a gimp. a crip, disabled with cerebral palsy. The story of me lurching up the mountain begins not on the mountain, but with one of the dominant images of disabled people, the supercrip. A boy without hands bats .486 on his Little League team. A blind man hikes the Appalachian Trail from end to end. An adolescent girl with Down syndrome learns to drive and has a boyfriend. A guy with one leg runs across Canada. The nondisabled world is saturated with these stories: stories about gimps who engage in activities as grand as walking 2,500 miles or as mundane as learning to drive. They focus on disabled people "overcoming" our disabilities. They reinforce the superiority of the nondisabled body and mind. They turn individual disabled people, who are simply leading their lives, into symbols of inspiration.
Supercrip stories never focus on the conditions that make it so difficult for people with Downs to have romantic partners, for blind people to have adventures. for disabled kids to play sports. I don't mean medical conditions. I mean material, social, legal conditions. I mean lack of access, lack of employment, lack of education, lack of personal attendant services. I mean stereotypes and attitudes. I mean oppression. The dominant story about disability should be about ableism, not the inspirational supercrip crap, the believe-it-or-not disability story….
"A Supercrip Story" an excerpt from Exile and Pride by Eli Clare
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The Bathroom.
A reason why many disabled people stay home instead of catching that after work cocktail at the trendy new spot with coworkers.
I had the misfortune recently of dealing with this issue at a popular restaurant in Chicago.
I couldn't get through the front…
Cop Arrests Disabled Woman for Sitting
" A disabled Atlanta woman says she was sitting outside and waiting for the ice cream man when a cop showed up and ordered her to move. When she refused—because she wasn't in anyone's way, or doing anything wrong—the cop allegedly threw her to the ground. Then he bought her a medium-sized cone.
Wait no, sorry: the officer—one Kenneth Thomas—did not buy his charge, 40-year-old Shequita Walker, any ice cream cones or other novelties, but instead arrested her for disorderly conduct. Apparently she was acting in a "disorderly" manner by being a disabled woman who was asserting her right to sit in a metal chair, in a vacant lot, with three other people while waiting for a frozen dessert. Her attitude, if gone unchecked, could have inspired other emboldened disabled ice cream lovers in Atlanta to stick it to The Man and, who knows, led to a riot or something.
Thomas…grabbed Walker's wrist and twisted her arm, causing her to fall to the concrete, unable to get up on her own, Walker said…An ambulance was called to transport Walker to Grady Memorial Hospital, where she received treatment for a shoulder injury sustained when she hit the ground, Grossman said.
After her release from the hospital, Walker got to spend the night in jail—pretty much for no reason, because the charge against her was dropped. Oh, and because she didn't do anything illegal.
She was doing nothing illegal by sitting outside waiting for the ice cream man. They dropped all charges yet, the police officers are getting off scotch free?!
Damn this.
Excuse me, but what the fuck is going on in this damn country.
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Don't you dare tell me what you would do if you were in my position…because you're not.
Fuck your water aerobics class or that vegetarian juice diet that you swear by.
I'm not interested in the medicines you would take, the many miles you would drive to see a 'special lupus' doctor to fix you if…
Venus Williams diagnosed with Sjogrens Syndrome and Kim Kardashian diagnosed with psoriasis.
A valid question.
the beasts without teeth who wanna eat me alive...: A lot of the time, when I'm speaking about my disability →
people tend to call me over-dramatic and harsh.
I could agree that I'm a bit harsh when it comes to my comparisons between myself and abled bodied individuals. However, over dramatic is something I simply don't agree with. If anything, I'm not dramatic enough….
A Supermodel With Lupus: The Big Myth About Chronic Illness... →
Being sick sure is the life, I'm telling you.
How can a girl have gotten so lucky?!?!??!?!?!?! Screw the lottery, getting a chronic and incurable condition is so much better than that.
Sick Leave—On those cold Monday mornings when Mother Nature has dumped six inches of snow on the ground,…
For The Chronically Screwed...: Strength →
It amuses me when people say "oh, you're so strong. I wouldn't be able to deal with a chronic illness. I just wouldn't."
It's as though, a few years ago, I looked in the mirror one day and said "I'm so strong. You know what? I think I could deal with something that majorly fucks with my…
"I Had Polio. I Also Have Sex" - Op-Ed →
I SPOKE at an AIDS conference not long ago, and after the talk, someone asked me how I had contracted H.I.V. "Well," I replied, "sexually." Staring at my crutches, which I have used since I got polio as a child, she exclaimed, "But how?"
The assumption that all disabilities — of hands, feet, hearing, sight — somehow also affect the ability and desire to have sex is common. It would be comic if it didn't have such serious consequences: people with disabilities are rarely exposed to sex education and are almost never considered in need of information about H.I.V. and treatment for it.
As a result, although people with disabilities are just as likely to be sexually active as people without, our H.I.V. infection rate is up to three times higher.


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Hello, welcome to The Snarky Psychic, a little blog dedicated to the greatest show on TV, Psych!
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Liam James was, and always will be, little Shawn. The new kid doesn't cut it for me.
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Last night at the Golden Globes, Lena Dunham said, "I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married."
Thanks to Lena and boyfriend Jack Antonoff (lead guitarist of rock band Fun. and co-founder of The Ally Coalition) for standing up for equality!
They're so cute.
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Isaac King, of South Carolina, married Lydia Sitton, and settled in Tennessee. Their children were Joshua, Abraham, Sarah, and Joseph. Joshua, Abraham, and Sarah settled in Lincoln County, Mo., in 1817. Joseph married Elizabeth Yates, and settled in Montgomery County, in 1823. They had six children Conrad, Isaac, John, Charles, and Sarah. Mr. King built a horse mill, which was run principally by his wife. He took a great deal of interest in politics, and was elected Justice of the Peace and Captain of militia.
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MLA Source Citation:Bryan, William Smith A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri: With Numerous Sketches, Anecdotes, Adventures, Etc., Relating to Early Days in Missouri. Also the Lives of Daniel Boone and the Celebrated Indian Chief, Black Hawk, with Numerous Biographies and Histories of Primitive Institutions. Bryan Brand & Company. 1876. AccessGenealogy.com. Web. 21 September 2014. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/missouri/biographical-sketch-of-isaac-king.htm - Last updated on Feb 12th, 2013
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This gigantic Ashoka pillar is made of polished sandstone and stands at a height of 10.6 meters. The pillar was originally erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in 3rd century BC but was later moved to the Allahabad fort by the Mughal emperor Jahangir.The Pillar had a Persian inscription of Emperor Jahangir inscribed on it to commemorate his accession to the throne.
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Golfing World: An inside look at Wegmans LPGA
Golfing World takes an inside look at the Wegmans LPGA Championship at Monroe Golf Club in Pittsford, NY.
Major splash: Martin talks about British Open victory
2014 Ricoh Women's British Open winner Mo Martin talks about her victory with 2015 U.S. Solheim captain Juli Inkster. Watch Morning Drive everyday on Golf Channel.
Munoz: Irons key to opening 65 at Kingsmill
Juli Inkster interviews Azahara Munoz about her Round 1 performance at the Kingsmill Championship.
Cover controversy: Strong takes on Paulina issue
Stacy Lewis and Juli Inkster speak out against the cover of the Golf Digest May 2014 fitness issue featuring Paulina Gretzky. Rex Hoggard, Paige Mackenzie and Matt Ginella have the discussion. Watch Morning Drive 7AM ET.
Wie's stinger could avoid Birkdale's wind, rough
With the wind and the rough both up at Royal Birkdale, Michelle Wie will be leaning on her stinger this week at the Women's British Open in hopes of winning back-to-back major championships.
Nice start: Meadow finishes third in pro debut
Stephanie Meadow will never forget her debut as a professional.
Creamer, Inkster return home for Swinging Skirts
Inkster and Creamer will tee it up at Lake Merced Golf Club in Thursday's start of the inaugural Swinging Skirts Classic in San Francisco with family and friends out to cheer them on.
Inkster: Contending in final Open would be gravy
PINEHURST, N.C. – Juli Inkster says she doesn't need to contend for the title to make her last U.S. Women's Open memorable, but ... "It would be nice, but I don't think it's important," Inkster said after opening Thursday with a 1-over-par 71. "I'm OK with the decision. I like this golf course, ...
Stage is set for dramatic Sunday at U.S. Women's Open
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A tournament unlike any other in women's golf
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I'd eliminate the cardio day completely, and tweak the diet to make do. Take out the calorie burn that the cardio gives you and subtract that even from the days you don't work out. For 600 calorie cardio burn, subtract 200 daily for the three rest days. I'd also not devote a whole day for abs. It will take an additional 10 minutes with your daily routine to work the abs. Just add it to one or two of the work-out days.
That leaves you with two workouts over four days. I'd split the days into chest (add. triceps), legs, shoulder (add. deltoids) and back (add. biceps). That's four days worth of workout. Abdominal exercise can be done on the days of chest + another session if you want. A healthy split would be -,1,2,-,3,-,4 (in the respective order of sessions I've explained).
Muscle recovery depends on rest and nourishment. For nourishment, get a reasonable amount of protein and carbohydrates following the workout. I'd eat prior to the workout too, although just a small snack will do. Keep yourself hydrated and make sure to stay with the homeostasis. Your body will only recover if it knows you're going to be putting yourself through the training all over again.
In other words, eat (appropriately), drink (water) and sleep (plenty). Additionally, keep track of your workouts. Some people have bodies that react better to slow and long workouts, which work over the body continually, while for others short, super-intense workouts give better results. You know your body better than anybody else, so you'll have to figure out what works for you.
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Exclusive: Homestead Daycare Employee Resigns After Spanking Allegations
CBS4 has learned a "longtime" employee of a Homestead day care facility has resigned after two mothers have complained that their three-year-old daughters were spanked by that same employee.
Embattled Dade Schools Police Chief Demoted
Miami-Dade Public Schools is hanging out the 'Help Wanted' sign for a new chief of police.
Officer Speaks Out Against Schools Police Chief Hurley Amid Allegations
Two veteran Miami-Dade Schools Police officers are suing Chief Charles Hurley, saying he hounded them for sex. One officer says Hurley requested sex in her office.
Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Hurley Accused Of Sexual Harassment
The former head of Miami-Dade Schools Police is facing allegations of sexual harassment from two women under his command.
Arrest Made In Carol City High Vandalism Investigation
CAROL CITY (CBS4) – A person suspected of vandalizing Carol City High School on Memorial Day has been arrested. Miami-Dade Schools police confirmed that Carol City High student 18-year old Jireh Moore was taken into […]
Career Criminal Caught On Camera By School Police
Surveillance tape at a Coral Gables school lead to the capture of a man who Miami-Dade Schools Police said is a career criminal who has targeted both a middle school and a hospital.
Police Arrest Injured Attempted School Robber
The would-be thief who was looking to steal copper from a Miami-Dade school when he fell and injured himself was arrested.
Thief Injured Attempting To Steal Copper Wire From School
A thief apparently looking to steal copper from equipment on the roof of a Miami-Dade school fell more than two stories, a debilitating plunge that left him unable to walk, apparently with a broken hip or leg.
Miami Man Charged With Stealing From Elementary School
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SPOKANE, Wash. -- Whitworth rallied from a 13-point second half deficit, but could not finish the comeback in a 69-68 loss to UC Santa Cruz during the Quality Inn Oakwood Whit Classic on Friday night in the Whitworth Fieldhouse.
Kayla Johnson, a first-year player from Colfax, posted a double-double in her first career contest with 19 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Pirates in the season opener.
It was Whitworth opening a 13-point lead in the early going as Taylor Taylor scored seven points to help the Pirates grab an 18-5 lead. But the Banana Slugs (1-1) rallied to tie the score 23-23 on a three-pointer by Danielle Mofsowitz. Mofsowitz made four threes in the first half to key UCSC to a 45-41 lead at the break.
The Banana Slugs kept the momentum going into the second half. Another Mofsowitz three-ball helped UCSC open a 55-45 lead, then a three-pointer by Melody Barooni extended the advantage to 60-47 with 14:26 left to play in the game.
The Whitworth defense tightened up, holding UCSC scoreless over the next 7:50 and the Pirates used a 15-0 run to grab a 62-60 lead. Johnson scored four baskets during the rally.
The Banana Slugs regrouped and went back ahead 69-66 on an inside basket by six-foot post Lydia Andrews. After an exchange of possessions, Whitworth's Emily Guthrie had a good look at a three-pointer that could have tied the game with six seconds left. It went halfway down and out and was rebounded by Taylor who made two free throws with four seconds to play. UCSC then ran out the rest of the clock.
In addition to Johnson's double-double, Whitworth got 10 points each from Taylor and Emily Travis.
Mofsowitz led the Banana Slugs with 18 points and Zakiya Sharpe scored a dozen off of the bench.
Whitworth plays Northwest University on Saturday at 4:00 p.m., while UCSC takes on Whitman at 2:00 p.m.


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Time: August 2, 2013 from 6pm to 7pm
Location: Glen Arbor Town Hall
Street: M-22
City/Town: Glen Arbor
Website or Map: http://www.glenarborart.org/
Phone: 231 334 6112
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Sixty artists will scatter throughout Glen Arbor for the second annual "Quick Draw: Artists Paint the Town." This event, part of the Glen Arbor Art Association's weekend Plein Air Paint Out, concludes with a sale, 6-7 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Town Hall on M-22.
The participating artists warm up with a 2 ½ hour "Quick Draw" painting session all over Glen Arbor. Visitors are welcome to stroll around the village and watch artists at work. ""Quick Draw" paintings and drawings will be for sale "off the easel."
For more information, call the Glen Arbor Art Association, 231-334-6112.