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Damn, that was well said.

Mix that article with enough fuel oil and you should have the makings of a good truck bomb.

This data appears in Education Week's annual report, "Quality Counts." Across the nation, the average non-graduation rate for black students is 45%. These numbers are surely the same year in and year out, which means that every June in America, largely unnoticed and unremarked upon, almost half the nation's black kids wash over the falls of our urban school systems.

Astonishing. It would certainly appear that there is an undeniable, urgent need for school choice for black students.

Un freaking believable.

TA-DAAAA! I give you Janet Reno for vice.

That goes without saying. But what I want to know is, who's gonna be Al's running mate???

So, would this guy be happier if we waited long enough for Iraq and some of the others to build large stores of WMD and then really be at their mercy? He doesn't seem to understand that a knee-jerk flurry of terrorist attacks, while potentially tragic, is far more desireable than letting them pick and choose at their leisure...

Bingo!

Good grief. Get on with it already.

Perhaps this guy's article is 100% BS-free.

Nick! You need to tune up that BS-meter! Mine was ringly loudly all through the very first paragraph:

The last American war on terror failed to catch the perpetrators and its flailing ruthlessness instead eroded trust in government. The present war is heading in the same direction: as the World Economic Forum reports in its run-up to Davos, a year of fighting terror has produced a world in which most people - including Americans - mistrust their government and do not believe it represents them.

BS! BS! BS!

This will worry enlightened minds hoping for democracy's success; it also stands, like the last war, to cost a great deal of money without improving security.

Yeah, right. We've destroyed the terrorists' main nest in Afghanistan, driven them pretty much underground, foiled dozens (if not over 100) terrorist plots on US interests, arrested or killed hundreds of 'em, there hasn't been a major terrorist attack on the US since 9/11 and yet we "haven't improved security." What a load of horse dung.

Not to mention that anarchism did die off, apparently around 1920, even though immigration was not re-liberalized until 1965. Well, what the hell killed it???

Reid Collins is a former CBS and CNN news correspondent.

It appears there's hope.

There, there. We apologizes for our meanspiritedness... yessss, we doesssss!

Anyone who would peep at that girl, or her mom, isn't mentally competent enough to be held accountable for his or her actions...

It's standard operating procedure for sons of bitches who have not yet reached their 18th birthday to do what they like, smirking, "I'm not 18 yet, so I can't be treated like an adult."

More interesting than funny. The dictatorialism of little functionaries knows no bounds.

The little Hitlers at the Maryland Bureau of Vital Statistics literally stole my daughter's last name from her. When she was born, we didn't have her first names selected yet, so we had to later file a paper whose clearly-defined only purpose was to add given names. We carefully and properly followed the instructions, to the letter.

Instead of doing what she should have done, the administrative dweeb we had the bad luck to draw stripped off our daughter's family name completely and assigned a middle name as her last name.

When we pointed out the error, they said, in essence, "I'm sorry, that's the way it is. You didn't fill out the form properly. You should have written in the last name in as well [even though the blank was very clearly ONLY for GIVEN names, and even though the form gave NO authority whatsoever for anybody to change or remove a family name]. If you want this changed, you'll have to go to court and get a court order to do it."

Part of it was sheer cussedness, but my wife and I are convinced to this day that part of it was just racism (we're white, and the functionary who screwed up the birth certificate was black). It was like, "Take that, Whitey."

And it's not like we weren't nice in dealing with the stupid jerk of a woman. We never acted impolitely in any way; we simply politely requested that the mistake that the state employee had made be put right.

In the end, we had to appeal the thing all the way up to the #&*@(#*! State Registrar -- the top executive in charge of the State Bureau of Vital Statistics -- in order to get our daughter's last name back!!

Story #2:

Last week, I went to the local Social Security office to get a social security card for the same daughter. While I was waiting, a boy around 12 (nice-enough kid) came into the front door. The armed security dweeb (this particular functionary was a stupid-looking white guy aged about 35, just to show you I'm not picking on black functionaries in particular) kind of threw his weight around and acted like a big-shot "security man" in front of the boy, whose mother was parking the car. "She'd better hurry," said the armed security officer. "It's almost 4 o'clock, and I'm lockin' that door at 4 o'clock."

"She's just parking the car," the boy said, intimidated and just a bit pleadingly. "She'll be here in just a minute."

"She's got 30 seconds," said Mr. Armed Security Man. (I actually thought he was just kidding the boy a little bit).

He then walked to the front door, arriving there at the same moment the boy's mother did. He blocked the door, refused her admittance, and turned out her son -- all because she arrived one or two seconds "too late."

As he walked back to his station, he shook his head and said out loud, with an obvious self-satisfied smirk, "Rules is rules."