Recently in Government Category

We are often taught to give the disabled extra accommodation to help them better fit into the mainstream workplace.  We are encouraged to be extra kind to the disabled because of their unfair and frail state of living.  We are often surprised when we learn the disabled can be just as devious and evil as their able-bodied peers.  David Paterson is the current, non-elected Governor of the State of New York -- he came into power when Eliot Spitzer was ousted over a hooker scandal -- and as a Black and Blind man, we put as much hope in David Paterson as we did Barack Obama to bring some safety and sanity back to governance.

When many around the world imagine the American Mid-West, they think of white picket fences and golden, homespun values.  We, who grew up in the Middling West, know the brutal reality of the Plains states, and here's evidence of violence against Blacks in Omaha, Nebraska stretching back to September 29, 1919.

Tom Casady is currently the Chief of Police for Lincoln, Nebraska.  As a child of Lincoln, I enjoy reading his fantastic blog called, "The Chief's Corner."  I was recently alarmed when I read an article written by Tom that rehashed the offensive/silly/inappropriate email usernames people use to inquire about employment with the Lincoln Police Department.  I was shocked to see the email usernames of applicants revealed in public on Tom's blog because that is in the least a violation of privacy for those making an inquiry, and perhaps, even a more serious ethical violation of a vested public city official.  I was unable to find the recent article that shocked me, but doing a search on Tom's site led me to a dead link for this page written on December 2, 2008 where Tom Casady revealed live email usernames of the inquirers -- figuring our the entire email address is not that hard and often doing a Google search on a unique username alone can reveal a lot.  I have blurred the email addresses contained in that article:

The NSA are at it again.  They're watching your email and finding you guilty of impure and dangerous thoughts.

We don't like to use the word "crippled" today -- because we prefer to gloss over that historic, condemning, label with "disabled" -- but the Government Accountability Office recently reported that schools are now restraining and punishing crippled children just because they are disabled.

Why is Dick Cheney sowing the whirlwind with his scare talk about Guantanamo and torture and the treat to America if his policy of torture and incarceration is abandoned?

In Kabul, Afghanistan, women are being newly incarcerated in their marriages even as the USA tries to free the country.