Does Roanoke have a gang problem? Read on
The News Review:
- Does Roanoke have a gang problem? Read on
- Al-Qaeda, Eric Rudolph and Anti-Abortion Murderers.
- Iraqi Cleric Hails Amnesty Idea
- Garden party
- Sheets signs 4-year, $38.5 million deal
Does Roanoke have a gang problem? Read on
Roanoke Times – Apr 16, 2005
City government isn’t using the anti-gang legislation passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 2003 and 2004. Is city government passing up federal and state government funds that can be used to combat this problem? Yes. In the scheme of things, is there any difference between a “home-grown” gang such as VH1, LTP or NRTS and a national gang? No. After all, the Crips, the Bloods and such started out as “home-grown” gangs. Have Roanoke’s gangs achieved the three main things gangs want in their marked territories: power, money and prestige? Yes. Are young children being recruited into Roanoke’s gangs? Yes, as early as elementary school…
In the scheme of things, is there any difference between a “home-grown” gang such as VH1, LTP or NRTS and a national gang? No. After all, the Crips, the Bloods and such started out as “home-grown” gangs. Have Roanoke’s gangs achieved the three main things gangs want in their marked territories: power, money and prestige? Yes. Are young children being recruited into Roanoke’s gangs? Yes, as early as elementary school. Do Roanoke’s gangs have female affiliation? Yes. Do Roanoke’s gangs have a membership ritual? Yes, for both boys and girls.
Al-Qaeda, Eric Rudolph and Anti-Abortion Murderers.
Magic City Morning Star – Apr 16, 2005
He raises important issues with which I agree, except his last points. I quote:”It’s important to remember that we needn’t look to foreign groups like al-Queda to find those who hate America – people who believe their religious beliefs trump both the law and human life. This country has its own crop of home-grown terrorists, zealots who believe their god has sanctioned the acts of murderers”. Cutter (although he may realise it) does not point out that his two mentioned types of terrorists, are exactly the same in nature. They both believe that God has given them the right to murder and kill; that God has made them judge of all; that the laws of the state MUST be subservient to the law of God…
The people he mentions are in exactly the same mold as the other terrorists he mentions. They are all terrorists, backing up their claims by reference to God. Now as to his statement that these home-grown terrorists believe that their god has sanctioned the acts of murderers, he has in fact explicitly demonstrated that these same terrorists are exactly like all those ‘non religious’ Americans, who believe that their god – ‘human rights’, gives them the right to murder the innocent, defenseless and unwanted. If you can kill an unborn child because it is unwanted, and it’s presence is an inconvenience, it is not a big step to do the same to the aged. In fact, the ‘zeal’ of the abortion activists, inherently identifies them as zealots, and given that there is no ‘true sentient God out there’, (as the atheists believe), God is then nothing more than a core value with which one identifies and which justifies or condemns certain behaviours, and as such, ‘human rights’ can legitimately be defined as a ‘god’. In this case, the abortionists and the murderous terrorist anti-abortionists, are both murderers justifying themselves by faith in their own particular ‘gods’.
Iraqi Cleric Hails Amnesty Idea
Washington Post – Apr 16, 2005
Overtures such as Talabani’s have shown no sign of winning over Sunni hard-liners. Although insurgent attacks had eased somewhat after the elections, a spate of bloody bombings and other attacks killed dozens of Iraqis Wednesday and Thursday. At the same time, it is uncertain whether the Shiites and ethnic Kurds who hold sway in the new legislature would support a conciliatory stance toward home-grown insurgents. On Friday, a car bomb exploded near a U. military convoy in western Baghdad, killing one Iraqi civilian and injuring five others. An American soldier was also injured.
Garden party
Guardian Unlimited – Apr 16, 2005
Given the plethora of restaurants in Kent committed to local produce, there is also a direct visual connection from landscape to the plates of food placed in front of you. Read’s restaurant, outside Faversham, reflects this. The chef, David Pritchard is committed to seasonal dishes using home-grown vegetables and local meat and fish. David and his wife Rona used to run a popular restaurant in what was once a supermarket before buying the dilapidated manor, which they have restored with care. A Michelin star has glowed over their endeavours for the last 15 years; perhaps it is the confidence that this accolade bestows that creates an atmosphere that is relaxed, unfussy and although effortlessly smart and stylish, somehow familiar and homely. Guests are encouraged to walk around the house and grounds, including a substantial kitchen garden watered from an ingenious underground Georgian reservoir fed by rain running off the ample roof. After a delicious meal of Romney Marsh lamb with braised onions and sweetbreads, we took a turn around the grounds and discovered that, with the help of Brogdale, they have replanted fruit varieties that might have been cultivated in the garden in 1778, when the house was built.
Sheets signs 4-year, $38.5 million deal
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Apr 16, 2005
For Attanasio, it was a message to the fans of Milwaukee as well as the rest of the baseball world that he intends to put his money where his mouth is. “This is really exciting,” Attanasio said in a telephone conversation from his office in Los Angeles. “Now, you’ve got Ben and Geoff Jenkins, two home-grown players, with long-term deals. “We’ve started to bring up the kids (from the farm system), starting with J. And we added some veteran players this year, Carlos Lee and Damian Miller, who have been very effective.