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What Policy Makers Don’t Know About the Hood.

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There are some cats, and I repeat some, that don’t trip off doing a bid.

Their rationale is I got caught let me do my time, stand tall and I will
get out when I get out. I thought of this when reading an article a
HOT MINUTE ago about a dude that allegedly shot a police officer
and was quoted as saying “let me get on my way” in response to
the charge that he may be facing the death penalty.

The killer of a Pittsburg police officer said in court Friday that he was fine with being sentenced to death but had no interest in hearing from the slain man’s family, telling a judge, “Let me get on my way.”

“I’m not asking for sympathy,” Alexander Hamilton, 20, said in a Martinez courtroom before formally being sentenced to die for killing Officer Larry Lasater after robbing a bank in 2005. “I got the death penalty. I ain’t got no problem with that.”

But he told Judge Laurel Brady of Contra Costa County Superior Court that he didn’t see any point for testimony by the slain officer’s family. “Let me get on my way, plain and simple,” he said.

This got me to thinking about how POLICY makers don’t see
that the threat of jail time ISN’T a deterrent to some, a substantial some,
to committing crime.

Stick up kids is out to TAX. The stick up kid rationale is “if I get caught, then
I will deal with it then.”

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In other Frisco news, the City has instituted gang injunctions.

SAN FRANCISCO (Dec. 5, 2005) — City Attorney Dennis Herrera today announced a groundbreaking municipal-federal partnership to pursue civil injunctions against gangs in San Francisco in an effort to stem the rising tide of gang-related violence plaguing City neighborhoods.

Civil gang injunctions — which have been used with remarkable success in Southern California since 1980 — involve civil lawsuits against gang members to prohibit conduct that constitutes a public nuisance, including loitering, carrying pagers, blocking traffic, vandalism, trespassing, conduct associated with drug trafficking and a variety of other activities.

Ummmmmmmmmmm. Ok.

The ACLU ain’t having it.

The ACLU is asking the Court to continue the hearing and direct the City to provide constitutionally adequate notice to all the individuals whom it intends to serve with the injunction so that they may have the opportunity to appear in Court and contest the allegations against them.

?To issue this injunction on October 30th would deprive persons of due process rights and give the police a roving community warrant to impose these probation-like restrictions, and potential criminal penalties, on anyone they consider a gang member or associate.?

The injunction will impose a 10:00 pm curfew and other restrictions on anyone who is served by the police with the order, regardless of whether they have their day in court.

The bug out is that the recently ‘Frisco GANGS have claimed responsibility for
KILLING FEWER people, which has resulted in lower murder statistics.

The last gang-related homicide occurred in May, Northern Police Station captain Croce Casciato said. Police say the reasons for the decrease in violence are varied, but few can argue against its scope. The alleged gang members who have been targeted maintain that they ? not outside forces or the injunction ? are most responsible for the turnaround.

Thats some bugged out sh*t.

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Vallejo gets a Black Mayor.

I wonder if E-40 gonna perform at the inauguration?

Vallejo‘s mayor is finished after less than 48 hours on the job.

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The city’s new mayor is former Solano County Supervisor Osby Davis, according to results posted Thursday by the county elections department.

Both candidates were tied on election day, but elections officials declared Cloutier, 45, the winner after tallying all absentee ballots.

Davis, 62, asked for a recount, and the results showed that he finished with 5,718 votes to Cloutier’s 5,715.

Now tell me that every vote don’t count!

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Spice 1 got shot in front of his momma ‘nem house today.

Bay Area rapper Spice 1 is recovering in an East Bay hospital after being shot in his car outside his parents’ Hayward home, authorities said Thursday.

The rapper, 37, whose given name is Robert Green, was shot in the chest about 12:30 a.m. Monday in an SUV on the 26000 block of Chiplay Avenue, said Hayward police Lt. Reid Lindblom.

Green told officers that he was sitting in his Cadillac Escalade when someone came up to the window and shot him through the glass. He suffered a collapsed lung, his family said.

Damn homie.
Spice 1 has one of them ‘ol school rappin’ names.

When I first did a google search for him the Spice Girls came up.
Eeewww. Creepy.

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Why you think some cats ain’t trippin’ off a bid?
What would it take policy makers to see that jail
time is seen as a necessary evil?

Or is it the case that policy makers really ain’t trippin’
off of whether crime is being reduced?

It’s just like the part in American G’ster where old boy
says a whole lotta lawyers, judges and poilice officers
would lose thier jobs if the war on drugs ended?

Gang injunction. Ye or nay?

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Biz Markie Getting some Nickelodeon Cake

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So I am doing the normal troll of news websites and I come across this piece
on Biz Markie teaching kids to beat box on this show called Yo
Gabba Gabba on Nick Jr.

Ya’ll notice how the logo looks like Yo! MTV Raps.

Here is the Halloween edition with Biz in a costume.

While I am HAPPY to see he is getting cake.

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dressed up and essentially dancing for food.

Why does he look Roger from Whats Happening?

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Is it sad for the Biz or are you just happy that he eatin’ ?

As an artist does, taking a job like this affect your credibility?

Or is the notion, if you gotta eat, you gotta eat?

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My Fico Score and 50 Cent

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So I am on myFico.com, mad as f*ck because I am learning
about how my credit score is different from my fico score.
And of course FICO scores NOT CREDIT SCORES,
are used by banks to evaluate our credit worthiness.

So I am reading the message board and the issue of rappers
and implicitly Black people mismanaging their money arises.

I was like Holy Sh*t. Im sittin’ up here, doing me, and racism,
50 cent just bubbles on one of the message boards.

In fact, this blog post, just kinda hopped in to my lap. LOL.
So here is the first question that started it all,

bobkelly wrote: Can anyone explain why one’s income has no bearing on a FICO score? Seems to me that this plays a big part in creditworthiness, yet FICO doesn’t use income (or net worth) as part of their formula in creating a FICO score.

Then a response.

Does having a Ferrari make one a better driver than owning a Hyundai? More income doesn’t necessarily make you a better money manager. Ask Michael Jackson.

Then this one. DING DING DING DING.

Or ask any rapper

The commenter gets called on it.

ask any rapper?

And said commenter responds hella flip.

Professionals in the rap music industry. Millions in income, terrible credit, bankruptcies, but lots and lots of income. lol.

Then the analysis of the statement.

That is stereotyping. It gets magnified to the media when it happens. But *most millionaire rappers are good money managers or have good accountants. But like many of us, some rappers dont have credit knowledge till someone explains it to them. So all at once you have all of this money. Your first instinct is to spend on ever dreamed of. Then your next album does terrible. You have spent all of youor savings and now you are up to your armpits in debt. You owe on your $200,000 on you AMX BLack and you income from your album is 15,000. BK is your best option. I know this from my brother who works in the music industry with several famous musicians(not just rappers). This enzyme works by causing sufferings to the concentrated tissues by creating blockings in the way of blood cost levitra supply. Apparently at this time the plant was crowned with a straightforward nickname: learningworksca.org cialis tadalafil Horney Goat Weed. Intake of Spermac capsule improves ejaculatory commander cialis force and climax intensity. The doctors are located all over Australia utilizing Dorn Method Therapy within their every day clinic, obtaining emails exactly where these people describe the outcome they got using this therapy with their customers and with that I undoubtedly desire order generic cialis to keep working with my own trainings.

* Im not really feeling this most. I would not accept such
statement without sufficient evidence, however, the commenter’s
defense of negro rappers is duly noted. 🙂

And then came this weird, well 50 is an exception to the rule,
so rappers don’t really mismange there money argument.

Well, considering 50 cents the #1 rapper in 2006 in terms of sales, and also the #1 rapper in terms of revenue is almost worth 3/4 of a billion dollars because he sold his likeness to Glauceau as opposed to taking upfront fee……..and just picked up more than $400 million when the company was sold to Coca Cola. Glaceau is the maker of Vitamin Water and was sold to Coca Cola for nearly $5 billion. So, I guess you can ask him about money management, or maybe you can ask, Jay-z or Puffy aka Sean Combs aka P. Diddy, ……. and how was that money earned, not rapping, but through shrewed business dealings. Just because a kid has a hard life and sees an avenue to take rapping as a ways out, doesn’t mean, he’s financial irresponsible or ignorant, alot of those same kids, just were born in different circumstances and given the opportunity will and do succeed, and alot of them are smarter than you or I. The point, being a rapper has nothing to do with financial irresponsibility, except if your name is MC Hammer. But take a page from Warren Buffet and I paraphase, “I am not special, I was just born with the right circumstances with the right family and guidance, sheer luck. And it so happens I have a skill that makes money in our society, now drop me in the middle of a jungle and I tell you this skill would be of no use.”

They would have been better served by mentioning that
Larry King, Walt Disney, Francis Ford Coppola, Burt Reynolds
and Milton Hershey, have all filed bankruptcy.

The bottom line is that SOME PEOPLE mismanage their money,
30 thousandares and billionaires.

AND, SOME people manage their money well, 10 thousandares
to billionaires.

Duh.

Read the Times, Post or WSJ business section.

But as my momma say,”thats too much like right”. When my folks told
me that Donald Trump is in the f*cking learning annex
NOT because of what he is worth BUT because of the interest
on the loans that he took out in the shady ’80’s.

Happily, Dealmeister Donald says he’s now fine, he
has a $2.5 billion fortune – although his company still
has $1.8 billion in debts and his casinos lost tens of
millions in 2003. It’s all a question of scale.

I am not saying that he doesn’t have any sound financial
advice. What I am saying is that old boy is damn near on he
back of Soy Milk cartons giving advice because the interest
on his 1980’s loans is f*cking egregious and n*ggas
ain’t gonna re-fi that ‘ish cuz loan interest is a cash cow.

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What do you think of the commenter’s statement about rappers?

What did you think when you learned Hammer burned through
all that cake?

Please remind me why people still sign record deals?

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100 Hundred Worst High Schools in America.

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I found the 100 Best High schools in America. Apparently.

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I thought, sh*t, why don’t we rank the WORST SCHOOLS.

It would be fly.

We could list the principals names.

The Superintendents.

The number of police employed by the district.

The number of suspended students.

The number of 12th graders, the number of graduates.

SH*t would be hot.

The Best Deserve recognition and the worst deserve a chance to
improve, NO?

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What is the worst school in your city and why?

Why are school rankings so emotional?

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