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Damn...who's that peeking in my window?

The new law Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is referring to would expand the government's authority to intercept without a court order the phone calls and e-mails of people in the United States who are communicating with people overseas. Gregory Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, predicted that the bill's approval would lead to the monitoring of ordinary Americans by the National Security Agency, which conducts most of the government's electronic surveillance. "If this bill becomes law, Americans who communicate with a person abroad can count on one thing: The NSA may be listening," he said. Your right to privacy and your civil liberties? Negro please...we must do this or those terrorist folk want to come here and kill you. For more analysis, I turn to Keith,

If you still don't get it, here is a more detailed assessment of the surveilance issue. http://consortiumnews.com/2007/080207.html

Rumor has it that the State of TN will likely be taking over several local schools for its students lack of academic achievement. Those schools are Airways Middle, Carver High, Cypress Middle, East High, Fairley High, Frayser High, Geeter Middle, Hamilton High, Kingsbury High, Sherwood Middle, Southside High, Treadwell Elementary, Treadwell High, Vance Middle, Westside Middle, Westwood High, and Winchester Elementary. Wait, wait, damn, those are all predominately black schools. Boy am I in shock. I mean, how can this possibly be? Whose fault can this possibly be? School board? Maybe the teachers? Could be the students themselves? Hmmm...the Parents? Naw, couldn't be, gotta be those undevoted (is that a word?) teachers.

I think there are a lot of hard working teachers in the Memphis City Schools. They are very dedicated, and very motivated, and who really put their heart into trying to drop knowledge on their students. But they can't do it alone. Often all their hard work is for naught because their absolutely no academic reinforcement from the parents. It's downright pathetic. How can you expect a child to truly learn when in most cases their own parents don't value education. But value and encourage ish like this.