Young Man Arrested At Local Graduation For Dress Code Violation?

A young man was arrested at the Ruskin High School Graduation Ceremony which was held at the Community Church of Christ in Independence.

Police said the man, who seems to be wearing a polo shirt and slacks, became angry when he was told he wasn't dressed appropriately and that he couldn't attend the graduation. A witness to the arrest emailed the above photo to KMBC 9 news.

Does anyone see anything wrong with the way that this young man was dressed? We certainly don't. We would like to see a copy of the "dress code" that made several people be turned away from entering. By the looks of this photo, we have a feeling many were wrongfully stopped from attending their son, daughter, grandchild or loved one's graduation ceremony. It seems like every year an incident like this occurs as schools pick and choose who to enforce their dress code against.

Unless this guy clearly violated some part of Ruskin's dress code that said "No Polo shirts and slacks allowed" we would like to see Ruskin High School apologize to this individual and any others who have complained for being wrongfully turned away. Along with the fact that there are only a limited amount of seats, thereby causing many loved ones to miss out on an important event, this is the exact reason why graduations should not be held at the Community Church of Christ in Independence.

Racism In The Secret Service: Emails Found Joking About Killing Rev. Jesse Jackson

The AP and WBBM-TV Chicago (a CBS stations) are reporting that The Secret Service could be in hot water as racist and pornographic emails are found being sent around by the agency's top brass. One of the emails even joked about the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife being killed by a missle.

"The Secret Service e-mail, WBBM-TV obtained from a court filing in Washington, was titled 'The Righteous Reverend,' and jokes about the deaths of Jackson and his wife when a missile strikes their plane," the station reports. "The e-mail ends with, it 'certainly wouldn't be a great loss and probably wouldn't be an accident either.'"

The emails were sent by the former Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Detail, as well as the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago field office.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson as you can imagine is stunned by such findings and has now demanded that all emails containing information regarding him and his family be declassified and released to him for review. As you know, Rev. Jackson was protected by Sercet Service detail during his bid for the Presidency.

The report not only shows that there could be more to the story, but it also shows how thick racism still remains in our society and government.

Hopefully, with a push from Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., Congress will continue investigating all potentially racist emails sent through the agency.

Democrat Travis Childers Wins Trent Lott's Mississippi District: A Sign Of Things To Come In November

Republicans throughout the country are stunned by what just happened, even as predictable as it may have been. You can be sure that The Bush Administration along with Washington Republicans including Senator John McCain are not sleeping well tonight. Enter Republican Sam Graves worst nightmare...

The AP is reporting that Democrat Travis Childers has just won Trent Lott's old seat 54% - 46% over George Bush Republican Greg Davis.

Before last night, the seat was held by The GOP for 14 years and was considered a "Rock Solid" district for Republicans. If you recall, earlier this year, Democrats also captured the Illinois district long represented by former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, who resigned from Congress, then earlier this month, a Democrat also claimed a seat in Louisiana that Republican Rep. Richard Baker left. All three seats considered very safe; that was until election night.

Consider this a sign of things to come in November. No Republican district is a rock solid one in 2008. America wants change and in November we will get exactly that.

Congratulations to Travis Childers and his campaign staff for a job well done! Congratulations to Democrats all over the country!! Let's take this momentum all the way through November!

Karl Rove Refuses To Testify Before Congress

Over the last few months Karl Rove has been on a media tour appearing on just about every conservative program in the country in order to answer any questions regarding his experience with The Bush Administration and even his role in the political prosecution of the former Alabama Governor, Don Siegelman, a Democrat. During his media tour, Rove has had no problems answering softball questions from his media friends yet for some odd reason he has had a big problem answering questions before Congress as they continue their investigation into the Steigelman case.

This week as the deadline passed for Mr. Rove to voluntarily testify before Congress, his lawyer sent a letter stating that he refuses to testify before Congress but he will answer any questions in writing or in private as long as it is not under oath or in public. Does this guy honestly think that he is above our democracy? Who is he to tell Congress what he will do?

Because of Rove's mockery of our democracy, Congress must now subponea him forcing him to come before the House Judiciary Committee. Naturally, Mr. Rove will attempt to declare executive priviledge but can he?

We don't think so. Legally he is very limited to how he can use such an order especially due to the fact that he pretty much waived Executive Priviledge to speak to his conservative buddies in the media.

While all of this is going on, news has came out with more detail showing that last fall Scott Bloch, Chief of U.S. Office of the Special Counsel, stopped an investigation that was led by his own task force. As the investigation was being shut down, feds began raiding his office and his home, a clear sign that the government knows and wants whatever material Bloch has regarding this case and any other political witch hunt he has helped cover up.

We say subponea them both. It's about time Karl Rove and Scott Bloch opened their mouth in how they have used corruption to witch hunt Democrats.

NY Times Article On MO Voter ID Bill Uses Republican Thor Hearne From Fake American Center for Voter Rights As Source

A NY Times Article involving Missouri Republican voter ID bill failed to inform readers that their one pro-voter ID source, Thor Hearne, was the head of the scandal filled, fake, Republican front group "American Center for Voting Rights".

Thor Hearne formed the organization in St. Louis and was busted publicly for promoting fake voter fraud hysteria to try to pass a now unconstitutional voter ID law in Missouri to swing the Missouri Senate race for Republican Jim Talent.

The ID law was found to be unconstitutional, protecting voter rights leading Democrat Claire McCaskill to a narrow victory.

This voter ID law goes even further than the one rejected in 2006, demanding proof of citizenship to vote. The bill in 2006, was expected to prevent close to 200,000 Missourians from voting. This legislation would prevent close to 300,000 Missourians from voting.

Thor is now attempting to cite California and Arizona as examples of where illegal immigrants have swayed elections. Though like in 2006, there is no proof of such claim. Additionally, the New York Times article failed to mention the significant difference in immigrant population between California and Arizona.

It also failed to mention that in the last ten years there has been few, if any, cases of voter fraud in Missouri and only 100 nationwide out of the millions that have voted.

Foreclosure Crisis Hits The Hamptons

It is being reported that over 120 homes are now in the beginning faze of foreclosure as the mortgage crisis hits "The Hamptons".

It's sad that it may take some of the nations richest people to be hit by foreclosure before President Bush, Republican John McCain and the Republicans actually admit we are now in a mortgage crisis and recession.

Some of those high rollers hitting foreclosure:

*Janice Becker, a regular on the Southampton village social circuit, is facing foreclosure on her multimillion-dollar Wyandanch Lane property.

* Advertising veteran Ransel Potter is defaulting on a $1.8 million mortgage on an Amagansett parcel.

* Real-estate honcho John Conroy is in lis pendens for a $3.5 million mortgage on a Bridgehampton spread on West Pond Drive.

* Former UBS executive Marc Warren is in lis pendens on a $1 million mortgage for a Mitchells Lane pad in Bridgehampton.

* Investor Roger Thanhauser is trying to sell a home on Main Street in East Hampton village to avoid foreclosure.

Missouri Legislature Pushing To Stop Latinos, Working-Class/Low Income Citizens and Seniors From Registering To Vote

Here is the sign of widespread Republican panic.

Newspapers and media outlets all over the world including The New York Times are reporting that The Missouri Legislature will vote this week on a constitutional ammendment that will attempt to intentionally disenfranchise the many Latino citizens, working-class/lower income citizens, and senior citizens seeking to vote.

The ammendment which is expected to pass in the Republican controlled Missouri Legislature and Senate will make it legal for authorities to ask voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote and when arriving at their local voting location; a move that will open the door to widespread voter prejudice and disenfranchisement.

In the wake of record setting voter registration drives almost every major media outlet is reporting that this ammendment could be passed as a way to stop the many who won't be voting Republican in November from casting their ballot and/or being able to register.

Opponents including many university professors, civil rights groups, voting rights advocates, international election fraud prevention groups, as well as Democrats including The Missouri Secretary of State, Robin Carnahan, are estimating that the ammendment could disenfranchise up to 240,000 registered voters who would be unable to prove their citizenship.

In Arizona, the only state that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, more than 38,000 voter registration applications have been thrown out since the state adopted its measure. According to the election data obtained through a lawsuit filed by voting rights advocates and provided to the New York Times, of the 38,000 ballots tossed out more than 70 percent of those registrations came from people who stated under oath that they were born in the United States.

“Everyone has been focusing on voter ID laws generally, but the most pernicious measures and the ones that really promise to prevent the most eligible voters from voting is what we see in Arizona and now in Missouri,” said Jon Greenbaum, a former voting rights official at the Department of Justice and now the director of the voting rights project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,

Lillie Lewis, a 78 year old voter who lives in St. Louis and spoke at a news conference last week organized to oppose the amendment, said she already had a difficult time trying to get a photo ID from the state, which asked her for a birth certificate. Ms. Lewis, who was born in Mississippi and said officials of that state sent her a letter stating that they had no record of her birth.

“That’s downright wrong,” Ms. Lewis said. “I have voted in almost all of the presidential races going back I can’t remember how long, but if they tell me I need a passport or birth certificate that’ll be the end of that.”

In 2006 another voter ID ammendment was voted on requiring ID. Eventhough The State Supreme Court struck it down as unconstitutional in all more than 70,000 legal voters were still disenfranchised by poll workers unaware of the high courts decision.

We at The KC Blue Blog strongly oppose any such ammendment and ask our local media outlets, bloggers and voters to stand up against such disenfranchisement by contacting your local elected official and writing letters to all statewide papers.