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Slaying suspect once found sanctuary in S.F. (click here)
The man charged with killing a father and two sons on a San Francisco street last month was one of the youths who benefited from the city's long-standing practice of shielding illegal immigrant juveniles who committed felonies from possible deportation, The Chronicle has learned.
Edwin Ramos, now 21, is being held on three counts of murder in the June 22 deaths of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. They were shot near their home in the Excelsior district when Tony Bologna, driving home from a family picnic, briefly blocked the gunman's car from completing a left turn down a narrow street, police say.
Ramos, a native of El Salvador whom prosecutors say is a member of a violent street gang, was found guilty of two felonies as a juvenile - a gang-related assault on a Muni passenger and the attempted robbery of a pregnant woman - according to authorities familiar with his background....
Cindy, while compassion is important when accepting those that cross our borders illegally, there are profound issues with sovereignty that cannot go ignored.
The fiscal burden placed on states by these immigrants cause challenges to the 'idea' of sancutary when it causes undo hardship upon the citizens of those states. The citizens of the USA should not be slaves to the lack of good economy in other countries. To insure that all people involved in illegal immigration, both sides of the issue are protected, the focus has to shift to what causes illegals to seek movement and how to stop it.
Families from South America expose themselves to great dangers to achieve movement toward the borders of the USA, sometimes at the encouragement of the countries in which they are citizens. Exporting the poor to the USA by these countries enslaves American citizens within their own borders to economic strife and job loss. If people make it to the USA they automatically receive aid. That is a disincentive for other countries to solve their problems so much as encourage negligence and violence.
Currently, Wall Street has become comfortable with 'complaining' when the going gets tough while they export their businesses and deny the USA a viable and vibrant economy. At the same time, the countries that receive these 'exported jobs' are not the ones that cause the burden of illegal immigration to the USA. The private industry of the USA have the best of all worlds; they export to 'cheap labor' in Asia for their 'service jobs' while receiving 'cheap labor force' from Mexico, Latin and South America. This is a hideous set of circumstances for the USA while the taxes on private industry don't contribute to the very social programs these illegals receive.
There is a lot to be done, Cindy. We need changes in the way private industry in the USA treat the American people and the USA Treasury. These crimes by illegal immigrants are only a 'superficial symptom' of the greater problem. Can you return our country to us? We need people that can.
Three men shot and killed in Oakland - one by police (click here)
(07-25) 06:44 PDT OAKLAND -- Two men were shot and killed overnight in Oakland, while a third man was fatally shot by police during a confrontation, authorities said.
The names of the three men slain were not immediately released. The slayings brought to 77 the number of killings in the city so far this year.
The first homicide was reported at about 11:50 p.m. Thursday, when a 37-year-old man was shot and killed at East 17th Street and Seminary Avenue in East Oakland. The victim was shot near a makeshift memorial for a homicide victim earlier this year, authorities said.
At about 2 a.m., a 24-year-old man was shot and killed near 81st Avenue and Plymouth Street in East Oakland.
The officer-involved shooting happened at about 3:50 a.m. near Fruitvale Avenue and East 17th Street in the city's Fruitvale District. A suspect was shot during a traffic stop and taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he was pronounced dead....
Controller says he won't cut workers' wages (click here)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's bombshell plan to slash the pay of state workers and lay off thousands of other employees to ease a looming cash shortage brought on by the state's budget impasse faces the same obstacle that arose five years ago during a state fiscal crisis: a state controller unwilling to cooperate.
While the governor is poised to order the cuts on Monday, state Controller John Chiang, who is responsible for disbursing state workers' paychecks, said Thursday that he will refuse to go along with the governor, setting up a political standoff and a possible legal fight.
"The authority to issue people's paychecks is mine. I have both constitutional and statutory authority," said Chiang, a Democrat. "Frankly, (the governor) is just trying to make me do something that's improper and illegal."...
Cindy, stop this silliness. Stop UC Berkley from cutting down a long beloved grove of trees. This is hideous. Those trees are sacred. There have been all kinds of ceremony and dedication that has occurred there. A Congressional Dedication to the site would stop the coveted building plans of administrators that are out of touch with the University Community!
Berkeley council debates appeal of UC ruling (click here)
(07-24) 21:51 PDT Berkeley -- Angry shouts of "Shame! Shame!" erupted in the Berkeley City Chambers Thursday night after the council declined to appeal a court ruling against the city allowing UC Berkeley to build an athletic training center next to Memorial Stadium.
The conflict has drawn wide attention because of a 20-month protest by tree-sitters at the project site who have demanded that UC preserve the grove of more than 80 oaks, redwoods and other trees next to the stadium.
The city had sued - along with stadium neighbors and a tree preservation group - to block the project. The other two plaintiffs plan to appeal the case.
The council decided in closed session, and the boos came after Mayor Tom Bates announced the panel lacked the necessary five votes to authorize an appeal. He said the council has 58 days to change its mind....
Cindy, what are you going to do to faciliate sovereignty protections of Silicon Valley while companies battle for profits in places outside the country? There have been record number of mergers and take overs in recent years within the USA. An example is !nBev (click here). The soveriegnty of the USA is challenged by the fact that American Companies are dwindling to the purchasing power of companies on other continents.
This election is huge that encompass the practices of this administration and the 'carte blanc' enabling by primarily Republican legislators. Can you take them on in a 'real way?' I believe you can.
Microsoft defends costly quest to tap into rich Web media vein (click here)
Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times
Friday, July 25, 2008
(07-25) 04:00 PDT Redmond, Wash. --
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended his company's large and so far unrewarded investment in online search and advertising, arguing that Microsoft is the only real threat to Google and that a major "ante" in search is the best shot at a $1 trillion market for Internet media.
Speaking during Microsoft's annual presentation to investors and Wall Street analysts, Ballmer said the company wasn't currently talking about a deal with Yahoo to combine forces against Google.
"Does that mean that nobody will ever talk to anybody again? I suspect the answer is no," Ballmer said in remarks at the company's headquarters in Redmond.
Ballmer was in the awkward position of explaining both why Microsoft wanted Yahoo so much that it offered $47.5 billion for the company and why it later walked away from a deal at the same price....
