The Urban Grind

She’s now whining about how “America took my kids away from me.”

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (CBS/AP) — The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects told reporters that “America took my kids away from me” and wished she had never left Russia.

I wish you’d never left Russia either.

“Why did I even go there?” Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said, crying, after CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata asked if she regretted the move.

Why did our government let this trash in to begin with? Remember, this is a family that mooched off of American taxpayers. This woman also shoplifted over $1,600 worth of clothing from Lord & Taylor

The mother told reporters at that same press conference that she would be “happy” to give up her U.S. citizenship, and that she was “thinking about it.”

The Tsarnaev family emigrated to the U.S. a decade ago, but both parents returned to Russia last year.

Speaking of giving up U.S. citizenship, I think it’s about time we make it legal to strip the citizenship of (at least) naturalized individuals who commit heinous terrorist crimes.

If the media had done its job properly four years ago, we wouldn’t have gotten stuck with this Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson clone.

Anyway, here’s a 2002 video of Barack Obama speaking at the University of Chicago where he derided non-violence as something only for rich people who “got what they want.”

Here’s another video from the same speech where he played the race card by bemoaning the “prison industrial complex.”

Anyone who had bothered reading the right wing blogs four years ago would have known that Barack Hussein Obama was, and is nothing but a resentful race pimp with a huge chip on his shoulder (who was very open in his praise of Jeremiah Wright as well)! Despite being buffoons, black “leaders” like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton actually paved the way for Barack Obama. Our current White House occupant is nothing more than a slicker version of those two men, as this video shows.

In this clip, you’ll see Obama riling up the audience in an Ebonics accent, by complaining about how New Orleans was still not rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina, and thereby implying that white racism was to blame. Never mind that the Governor at the time was Kathleen Blanco, an incompetent Democrat who didn’t want the feds taking control of the evacuation effort. And let’s not forget whining Mayor Ray Nagin who never bothered using the city’s buses to evacuate his people. Instead he demanded Greyhound buses in a profanity laced rant. Yet despite all this incompetence, Obama blamed white racism. Yeah right!

You’ll also notice that Obama brought up the the Stafford Act, and how it was not waived for the people of New Orleans, which is a blatant lie.

I noted yesterday that in his 2007 speech in Hampton, Virginia, Barack Obama falsely claimed that the Stafford Act had not been waived for relief money appropriated to help New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Stafford Act requires that, absent a waiver, localities match a percentage of the money they receive in federal assistance.

Obama’s claim was false. A few weeks before Obama gave his Hampton speech, Congress had waived the Stafford Act in connection with $6.9 billion in federal aid for New Orleans.

But it gets worse for Obama. Neo-neocon points out that Obama was one of 14 Senators who voted against the waiver of the Stafford Act. So not only was Obama’s complaint false, it was one he would have lacked standing to raise, given his vote on the issue.

Now, Obama voted against the Stafford Act waiver because it was part of a bill providing funds for the war effort in Iraq. Apparently, Obama’s desire to make sure the surge failed and we lost to al Qaeda in Iraq trumped his concern for the good people of New Orleans. Or maybe it was all posturing, Obama’s specialty, since he knew the money would go to Iraq and the Stafford Act would be waived regardless of how he voted.

And of course Obama went on about how it was the government’s job to teach the residents of N.O. how to rebuild their city, and that it was their job invest in city businesses. Anyway, here’s the video.

Drug abusers from all walks of life can sign up for drug abuse programs that will help them with deal with their drug problem.

Under a new Florida law, people applying for welfare must take, and pass a drug test. Scott Cohen, writing for Time.com thinks this law is bad since it stigmatizes the poor.

Drug testing proponents like to argue that there are large numbers of drug users going on welfare to get money to support their habits. The claim feeds into long-standing stereotypes about the kind of people who go on welfare, but it does not appear to have much basis in fact.

Several studies, including a 1996 report from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, have found that there is no significant difference in the rate of illegal-drug use by welfare applicants and other people. Another study found that 70% of illegal-drug users between the age of 18 and 49 are employed full time.

What Mr. Cohen conveniently ignores is that this welfare money is coming from hard working, law abiding tax payers, who don’t want their money used to finance the drug use of bums. So as bad as drug use is, drug addicts who are employed full time are least flushing *their own* money down the toilet, as opposed to the money of other people, forcibly taken from them by the government.

Also, why shouldn’t welfare recipients have to undergo drug tests when many working people have to also get tested in order to get hired?

Apparently, $174,000 a year plus generous health benefits and pensions is not enough for these grossly overpaid mooching bums on both sides of the aisle. Here’s what RINO Congressman Steve Southerland had to say about his salary:

“He said his $174,000 salary is not so much, considering the hours a member of the House puts in, and that he had to sever ties with his family business in Panama City. Southerland also said there are no instant pensions or free health insurance, as some of his constituents often ask him about in Congress.
“‘And by the way, did I mention? They’re shooting at us. There is law-enforcement security in this room right now, and why is that?” Southerland told about 125 people in an auditorium at the Westminster Oaks retirement community. “If you think this job pays too much, with those kinds of risks and cutting me off from my family business, I’ll just tell you: This job don’t mean that much to me. I had a good life in Panama City.’

“…He added that ‘if you took the hours that I work and divided it into my pay,’ the $174,000 salary would not seem so high.”
Southerland, a freshman, ran a family funeral home business in Panama City and earned about $90,000 before joining Congress in January.

His feelings are shared by Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy.

His sentiments were not unlike those expressed by Sean Duffy, a Republican representative from Wisconsin, when he said in March it was a “struggle” to pay his mortgage and student loans with his congressional salary. “At this point, I’m not living high on the hog,” Duffy, a father of six, said. (Compared to his colleagues, Duffy is one of the least wealthy members of Congress.)

And last but not least we have Aztlanist California Donkey Congresswoman Linda Sanchez.

At the height of the debate over a possible government shutdown last spring, Linda Sánchez, a Democratic representative from California, said during an MSNBC interview that she was living “paycheck to paycheck” on her congressional salary. And she wasn’t the only one. Renee Ellmers, a Republican representative from North Carolina, was asked if she would forgo her pay in the case of a shutdown. Ellmers declined, saying, “I need my paycheck.”

So who forced these people to run for public office? If $174,000 a year, with generous health benefits and a pension is too meager for them, why don’t they just take another job in the private sector? Let’s see how they would feel about an 80 hour work week at roughly half the salary or less. I personally think their salaries should be reduced, at least by half. If they don’t like it, let them quit. On another note, I can’t believe people actually elected these whiners to public office.

For the life of me, I just can’t understand why it is that people insist on texting, or yapping away on their cell phones while driving. What on earth is so important that they can’t wait to get home to discuss? If it’s an urgent matter, why not pull over somewhere? When you drive, your hands should be on the wheel, and you should be concentrating on the road. Why is that so hard for people to accept?

Anyway, the reason I bring up texting is this bit of news about a California celebrity plastic surgeon who died because he was too busy texting rather than paying attention to his surroundings.

A plastic surgeon-to-the-stars who sculpted some of Tinseltown’s most famous faces and boobs was killed when he drove his car off a California cliff while sending a text message, cops said yesterday.

Dr. Frank Ryan — a 50-year-old Beverly Hills surgeon best known for his repeated work on reality-TV star Heidi Montag — was pronounced dead after his Jeep rolled 200 feet down an embankment off the Pacific Coast Highway Monday afternoon.

I liked these comments on the article:

Losing a cosmetic plastic surgeon is hardly a tragedy. Losing one in the self-indulgent act of texting while driving has a nice touch of humor.

The world has lost a silicone Mother Teresa

No sympathy here . Just another case of , ” The rules don’t apply to me , I’m above it all ” I’m just glad he didn’t run into a station wagon filled with kids .

Such a same. So many more boobs need fixing.

Let me just say, there’s nothing American about the ACLU. All they do is use our civil liberties against us in favor of terrorists, murderers, pedophiles, drug dealers illegal aliens, and now, drug addicted housing project residents.

FLINT — Drug testing public housing tenants as a condition for getting an apartment apparently won’t happen here without a fight from the American Civil Liberties Union.

Three months after the executive director and chief executive officer of the Flint Housing Commission told The Flint Journal he’s interested in establishing a drug-free property in which residents are routinely tested for substance abuse as a lease condition, the ALCU said not so fast.

“We strongly urge you to reconsider this idea because it is unconstitutional, it unfairly singles out poor people for privacy violations, and there are more effective means to address drug abuse,” said Greg Gibbs, a Flint attorney, and Michael J. Steinberg, legal director of the ACLU of Michigan, in a letter to Rod Slaughter, CEO of the Housing Commission.

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The group filed a class action lawsuit in 1999 when the state attempted to impose mandatory drug testing of all welfare recipients, which led to a settlement that allowed the state to require testing only when there was reasonable suspicion of drug use by individuals.

“We wanted to get a letter out to them before they initiated a policy like that,” Gibbs said. “We really believe that kind of testing is a violation of the 4th Amendment.”

Now can someone please explain to me why getting paid by working taxpayers to sit on your rear end all day and do drugs is a “civil liberty?”

While I certainly feel bad for the people killed and hurt, I have to say it’s starting to remind me a little bit of Hurricane Katrina. Granted the Hatians didn’t know this was coming. But just like the situation in New Orleans, where thugs turned on the people trying to help them.

First off, a teenage boy working for the Haitian born rapper Wyclef Jean was carjacked and murdered

The violence that has gripped Haiti in the wake of the massive earthquake has claimed the life of at least one aid worker — a teenage boy killed working for Haitian born-rapper Wyclef Jean’s charity, according to reports.

“Somebody wanted to carjack him,” Jean told London’s Telegraph.

The boy, whose name wasn’t released, was shot dead as he was leaving a Port-au-Prince cemetery after dropping off corpses, the paper reported.

And two Dominican workers were shot as they were giving out food in the increasingly dangerous city, the country’s police told MSNBC.

The severity of injuries to the victims was unclear.

And just like New Orleans, the police in Haiti are nowhere to be found. Haitian youths have been seen wandering the streets wielding machetes.

Furthermore, UN doctors and nurses at a field hospital were ordered to evacuate due to security concerns, leaving CNN’s Sanjay Gupta and his camera crew to watch over the patients.

Naturally the left is blaming the pervasive poverty of Haiti on America.

But here’s one sane voice speaking out on the situation in Haiti:

Meet Latrica Ryan, a twenty nine year old stay at home mother (yeah right) who already has ten children.

FLINT, Michigan — With 10 kids and no vehicle, Latrica Ryan is used to juggling.

Going to a movie or out for dinner is a like plotting a major tactical undertaking. Not that such outings happen that much.

“It would really be nice if I could take my kids where they needed to go, instead of having to find them a ride,” Ryan said. “And when we do go somewhere, I have to pay four or five people (for gas) to get us all there.

“I have booster seats and car seats. It’s a lot.”

Ryan, is a 29-year-old single stay-at-home mother of five sons and five daughters, who range in age from 2 months to 13 years.

Transportation isn’t the only issue Ryan has to deal with.

The Flint woman said she sometimes needs help providing her children with clothes and food.

“As they get older, it’s becoming harder and more expensive to buy them clothes,” Ryan said. “I try to keep the older kids looking nice because I don’t want them to be teased at school.

“And they don’t starve,” she said. “But there are times when I start running low on food and I have to call for help.”

Ryan may not be able to take her kids on a fancy vacation, but with the help of organizations such as FACED Corporation, she is able to ensure that her kids’ basic needs are met.

The Flint-based agency has helped Ryan clothe and feed her children, as well as pay utility bills.

“It started off with diapers and bus passes.” Ryan said of her first encounter with FACED 10 years ago. “Now, Retinea (Dye, a maternal and infant health advocate at FACED) will give me a ride to doctors’ appointments for my kids. She’ll take me to their schools. She’s always there when I need her.”

FACED is a faith-based community outreach agency that focuses on assisting the low-income. Dye said the agency helps educate mothers on parenting and provides them with things such as maternity clothes, baby clothes, other baby items, counseling and support groups.

Dye said the agency has even helped pay security deposits for housing.

Tough times have brought more people into the agency in search of help.

“We’re getting more calls for assistance with utility bills because the price of gas had gone up,” Dye said. “We can only (help) so many people, so we’re referring them to other agencies.”

Dye said FACED has reached its limit of aiding 50 families. The agency is in need of donations to continue assisting families.

“In between (Women, Infant and Children) appointments, moms run out of formula, and they turn to us,” Dye said. “Sometimes we have what they need and if we don’t, we have to refer them to other agencies.”

Even without a car, Ryan manages to stay involved in her children’s school life, volunteering and meeting with teachers to check on their progress.

Most of Ryan’s 10 children are in school and six are on the honor roll, she said.

“They’re good kids,” she said.

Her oldest child is thirteen, which means Latrica got herself knocked up at fifteen or sixteen. Notice that no mention is ever made of a father, or fathers, or of Latrica ever having been married. Nor does this sorry attempt of a sob story ever mention Latrica ever having had a job. Yet readers are supposed to feel bad because she has no washer and dryer! Why doesn’t she just close her legs, get up off her back, and get a job?

We already know that Obama wants to gut our military and make nice with all the dictators of the world instead. But Obama also has a soft spot for domestic criminals, especially if they’re minorities.

One of the first things Obama would do as president is repeal mandatory minimum sentences for crack and other drug offenders to “reduce the ineffective warehousing” of such criminals, according to his website. He favors “drug rehabilitation” over incarceration for even “a second-time offender,” according to a 2007 interview he gave to the Michigan Chronicle, Detroit’s second-largest African-American newspaper.

Decriminalizing pot is also on the table. “We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws,” said Obama, who admits to smoking weed and doing “a little blow” as a young man.

As an Illinois state senator, Obama voted to weaken penalties on gangbangers who deal drugs in schools.

He also wants to rehabilitate inmates through prison-to-work programs. Obama’s pet charity, ACORN, has such a program. It hired 59 inmates at its Las Vegas office this year. They proceeded to fraudulently register voters using the names of Dallas Cowboys football stars. A police affidavit quoted a supervisor describing them as “lazy crack-heads” who just wanted money for drugs.

ACORN and Obama have been working to restore voting rights for felons, which would be another priority of his administration. “At a minimum,” Obama told the black Detroit paper, “those who serve their sentences should be re-enfranchised.”

In Illinois, he unsuccessfully sponsored a measure to expunge some criminal records. He thinks they are used as a “stigma” against blacks.

Obama also wants to outlaw police use of racial descriptions as a means to capture suspects, including Middle-Eastern terrorists. As a U.S. senator, he’s already co-sponsored federal legislation to ban “racial profiling.”

At the same time, he wants to limit your right to protect yourself from criminals by permanently banning assault weapons, among other gun-control measures to de-”cling” you from your guns.

As a state lawmaker, Obama supported a ban on the sale and transfer of all forms of semi-automatic firearms, along with a bill limiting handgun purchases to one a month. In a 1996 questionnaire supplied by a liberal Chicago nonprofit group, he answered “yes” to supporting legislation to “ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.”

Obama fought a bill in the Illinois senate that would send youth who commit a second violent felony to prison. He fought to keep even the most violent juvenile offenders out of the adult system.

Instead, “We must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime,” he said at the Denver convention. One ladder he has in mind is funding contractors who train “ex-felons on projects that can benefit the community as a whole: insulating homes and offices to make them energy-efficient, perhaps.”

Terrorists could also catch a break. “I would vote to repeal the U.S. Patriot Act,” he said in 2003. Now he says he would merely repeal the parts of it that are “just plain wrong,” whatever those are.

Obama, who would as president have the power to pardon criminals, isn’t a big fan of U.S. laws in general, at least not as currently written. He thinks they are racist, along with the courts.

“We have certain sentences that are based less on the kind of crime you commit than on what you look like,” he told Howard University students last year. “It’s time to seek a new dawn of justice.”

“Laws are sometimes malleable,” he wrote two years ago, and he plans to “fix” what he sees as a “broken” criminal justice system. And he favors judges with the “empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American.”

That worries some legal analysts. “If Obama wins,” warns Northwestern University law professor Steven Calabresi, “we could possibly see the abolition of capital punishment and mass freeing of criminal defendants.”

In fact, Obama in the 1996 questionnaire responded “no” to supporting capital punishment. His website now calls for unspecified “reform” of the death penalty, which he contended in his book “does little to deter crime.”

Obama will, however, get tough on “hate crimes.” He plans to pack the criminal section of Justice’s Civil Rights Division with African-American prosecutors, and make “hate crime a priority.”

He will “reinvigorate federal civil-rights enforcement” by prosecuting alleged civil-rights abuses by local officials, such as the Jena, La., district attorney. “As president,” his website says, “Obama will ensure that the section vigorously pursues such cases.”

Now can someone please explain to me how exactly a person “falls into” a life of crime? Is there someone going around threatening to kill the families of all these young men if they don’t rob, rape, maim or kill? Whatever happened to free will, which all human beings possess? How about staying in school, getting a job, working hard, and keeping your pants zipped up?

Why haven’t McCain and Palin gone after Obama on this?