A white valedictorian at Morehouse

Shouts out to this guy.
He is the first and a trailblazer.
I wonder why an all A's white dude would go to Morehouse.

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He must love him some chocolate!!!!!!

Yup

I agree with you Mr Pohl. I'm glad I don't have to deal with that too often. I can't stand it when people let their children run around the facility unmonitored let alone their dog Mr. Biggles.

Record Industry is shady

Did you know that the Record Industry said it was illegal to rip mp3 music from CDs last week. I was flabbergasted.

If that is the case, any person who transferred the contents from a CD to their ITunes account would be subject to the law. This also means that all music being played on mp3 players could only come from digital media sources like Apple and Rhapsody.

So basically, the RIAA decided to give all of their business to Apple and to Rhapsody.
Not too clever. People who rip mp3s buy CDs. Isn't that the goal of the RIAA? They make money when people buy CDs.

I guess they realized the error of their ways and recanted.

Ramifications

Now back to the rock vs yowder discussion.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_go_ot/cocaine_sentencing

There are something like 19,500 inmates that may be affected by this change in cocaine sentencing. I'm guessing there are at least 10,000 fatherless children out of that group and at least 6000 are below the poverty level. That is what the jacked up law did. The goverment caused the creation of more welfare recipients. Jacked up laws don't affect the current, they affect posterity.

Crack vs Powder

The government finally overturned this law.
The current guidelines would have put a min in jail for 22 years for crack. It would take 100 times that amount in powder for the same sentence. Talk about racial. This is infratructure style. This is what put so many of us in jail during the late 80s and 90s. This is how they reacted to crack. They locked everyone up instead of solving the problem, or even stopping the Iran Contra coke that started the epidemic. Locking everyone up to deter them from a problem does not fix the problem. It only postpones the inevitable.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071210/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_crack_cocaine