WE have a busy day. So let's get cracking. ABCDEFG:
Hear the tale of the B.I.G.First, I'd like to give you the ABC's of the recent death of rap star The Notorious B.I.G.
B.I.G. was an AKA for a VIP gunned down in L.A., possibly with an AK-47, in his GMC. Despite an IV by an M.D., B.I.G. was DOA.
LAPD was on the scene PDQ but B.I.G.'s buds weren't talking, which is SOP. So they're trying to ID suspects via DNA while B.I.G.'s fans talk about his latest LP on AOL and TV. Some want the FBI, DEA and ATF on the case ASAP because J.Q. Public has OD'd on all this gangsta B.S.
There are rumors that B.I.G. doesn't RIP but is merely AWOL in order to beef up sales of his new CD, which has a mysterious title (Re: "Life After Death"). Conspiracy theorists (i.e.: ET-huggers, X-Filers, etc.) think B.I.G. foe Tupac Shakur also is MIA and not DOA in a shooting with a similar M.O.
FYI: both rappers' CDs are NO. 1 with a bullet.
Bury their hearts at bended knee: It was with bended knee and $107,000 that Indians from two poor Oklahoma tribes sought an audience with America's political party of compassion. The money given to the Democratic National Committee apparently bought access to the White House, but the pleas of the Cheyenne and Arapahos to have land taken by the federal government returned to their tribes fell on deaf ears.
The Democratic Party bills itself as the party that cares about all cultures and the downtrodden. You'd be hard-pressed to find another culture more downtrodden than these groups of Indians, who've had to scrape enough money together to win a personal meeting with Bill "Feels Their Pain" Clinton.
Unfortunately, the Indians had to go through Nathan "Swims With Sharks" Landow, a long-time Democratic fund-raiser for VP Al "Stiff As Tree" Gore. Unfortunately for the Indians, the new age, culturally sensitive lobbyist Landow not only demanded a $100,000 retainer and $10,000 a month fee for representing the tribes in negotiations with the government, but he also made a threat that could have come out of the mouth of a 19th-century railroad robber baron. He warned that if the Indians did not give him a personal cut of all mineral development rights, they would never get their land back.
This episode, if true, is one of the sorriest in the history of U.S. government/Indian relations because it took place in these times of supposed cultural enlightenment. It should make us all feel sick and embarrassed that clowns such as Landow have access to the highest office in the land.
Ninety-four strikes and you're out: Two Hawaii men with a record of 156 arrests between them are in custody for the time being. Don't count on them staying there, despite records that include robbery, theft, possession of illegal guns and drugs.
The newspaper ran their names when they were arrested this week but I won't run them here. The names I wish I could run are the names of all the anonymous bureaucrats and paper-pushers who kept putting guys like this back on the street. One had a record of 94 arrests. Think about that. Ninety-four arrests.
Don't you think that after being freed after, say, his 50th or 60th arrest that he began to figure the system couldn't hurt him?
It doesn't take a village, folks, to stop crime. It takes a law-enforcement system where there's accountability, not buck-passing. You can start by finding out specifically who let these two characters through the revolving door 156 times.
Then make them call all of the pair's victims and explain their unusual theories of crime-fighting.
