Expanding urban America and dissolving suburban bedroom communities of conservative Republican voters has long been a goal of the Democrats. Demographics do matter.
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The life chances of a child are determined by her zip code?
Really?
Not having (both)a mom and dad who care? No matter how hard she works? No matter how hard mom and dad work? Being dependent on the government is not a factor?
Really?
The ZIP code?
Who knew, when the postal service instituted the ZIP code so many years ago, that it would turn out to be the basis for discrimination!
[sarc off] A bureaucratic rule, not a law passed by Congress. Social engineering by fiat. Executive fiat. I dont care for it.
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Where's that in the Constitution? Citation please.
#5
Have noticed that the, er, "blend" of both my job and home communities seems to be changing. Doing absolute wonders for property values and home sales..../sarc
#8
Would that it were Nimble. This involves low income types ... the little people, primarily black and Latino, and leading to those Trayvon/Zimmerman type encounters.
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whites and asians won't be able to get Fed-backed mortgage loans in areas that don't have enough of "our people"
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#10
Why waste a chance to turn the whole nation into Detroit.
[Bangla Daily Star] Mired in controversy, the government-appointed Chairman of Grameen Bank, Khondaker Muzammel Huq, has resigned, a finance ministry official confirmed.
Huq submitted his resignation to Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday and cited personal reasons for his resignation, the source informed with The Daily Star.
Under media focus since his appointment following the government's removal of Dr Muhammad Yunus as the managing director of the Nobel Prize winning microlender, Huq hit newspaper headlines many times for controversial moves that many experts deemed unwarranted and harmful to GB.
In September last year, he formed a five-member committee without consulting the bank's nine borrower-directors, to appoint a managing director for the GB.
A recent move to advise the government to restructure the most successful microcredit organization of the country also earned the authorities strong flak.
Huq recently kicked up controversy again by saying that an amount of Tk 10,000 crore was supposed to be transferred from Grameenphone to Grameen Bank but the money never came.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three suspected robbers were beaten to death at Raonaut village under Kapasia upazila in Gazipur in the early hours of yesterday.
The dear departed are Ramjan, 25, son of Nayamat Ali of Kamalpur village in Mymensingh district; Masum, 22, of Palan area under Haridebpur in the district's Kaligonj upazila; and Babul, 24, of Raynanda village in the upazila.
Quoting the locals, Md Delowar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kapasia Police Station, said a group of robbers numbering 12 had stormed into the house of Niranjan Das at Mirar Tek in the village around 4:30am.
The robbers chopped the house owner and his mother as they tried to resist the robbery attempt, the OC added.
Hearing the hue and cry, locals rushed to the house. Announcement was also made using the loudspeaker of a local mosque.
The robbers also chopped one Russel when they were fleeing.
Locals, however, managed to catch a member of the gang named Ramjan. They beat and stabbed him, leaving him dead on the spot.
Later, in the morning, the locals found another two dacoits named Babul and Masum on the rooftop of a house in the village, and gave them a sound beating before informing the police.
On information, police rushed to the spot around 10:30am, recovered the dead, and rescued the injured.
The rescued were taken to Kapasia Upazila Health Complex. But the on-duty doctors declared them dead.
Police also seized choppers, knives, and sticks from the spot that were used by the robbers.
The bodies were sent to Gazipur Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsies.
Murder cases accusing unnamed villagers will be filed, OC Delowar said at 5:45pm.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
