Urban Poverty Law Center

President B. H. Obama and his side kicks would have us believe the dreaded sequestration of the growth of new spending slated to kick in in a few days would have some really dire consequences to our already struggling economy and to vital governmental services. The list of what a sequestered $44 billion will impact: Air Traffic Control will shut down in the busiest airports, commercial flights would be canceled, transportation by air would be crippled. Meat inspectors would have to shut down the meat packing plants. The Pentagon would lay off 800,000 civilian contractors. The State Department could not provide adequate protection for Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi. The Armed forces would down size by 600,000 uniformed personnel. Local teachers, fire and police protection would be curtailed. School lunches for poor children would be halted. Things that would not be impacted: The president and his family's profligate use of Air Force One and the $1.8 billion...

Of course Americans have become used to lying politicians.  Bill Clinton and his female assistant, HR laid down one whopper after another back in the 90's, which is the last decade we tired to right this sorry-assed state of affairs that has become American politics.  Newt Gingrich and his republican hoard rode into town and found the power to intoxicating to resist business as usual after a few years. Meanwhile the new press takes more and more prominence and any possible watch dog function the old press once did as vital service for the people who in their work a day lives do not have the time nor the inclination nor the sources to preform is left undone.  Back room deals and skulduggery, inside trades and intern buggery is all left in the dark.  It is as though our politicians wear an invisible cloak. The Press!  Send in the press! Headline September 11, 2012   Ambassador Chris Stevens And Three Americans Killed In Benghazi The lousy locust at De...

I do not call for a prayer circle for just any old ailment.  Susan Blunderdoss, our secretary here at UPLC, has an 18 yr old son, Jeremy, who is a senior at West Carroll High School.  He is a gifted child and plays the tuba for the marching band. Those of you who follow these pages closely know already of Jeremy's affliction, but for you new comers and slackers and those who got here by accident, I will give you a thumbnail to get you up to speed. Jeremy seemed to be a normal child until he saw a program hosted by Carl Sagan when he was 10 yrs old where Dr. Sagan intimated that the earth was bombarded by billions and billions of meteors from outer space.  Jeremy's affliction started immediately after that program.  He would no longer walk in a strait line, he zigged and zagged and hesitated and often took two steps backwards then one right then three left in no particular pattern, which made taking him anywhere very challenging.  He did this to avoid being s...

Is this what a free society resorts to when all other options for big government growth have failed?  "Mr. President, the people have decided to stop productive work and live lives of leisure on the handouts of governmental largess." "I will raise the minimum wage to entice some more back into the work force." "Sir, the break even minimum wage is $18/hr when food stamps, rent subsidies, health coverage and the free phone is factored into the equation." "And the people know this?" "Yes sir." "This is more serious than I first thought." Such are the problems facing our geniuses in DC.  This is not your grandfather's generation we are dealing with here in America.  The current generation with its hand out includes the mentally and physically challenged which we cared for in each prior generation and the nouveau laxed. Just who are these people in the nouveau laxed generation?  They are our children.  The ch...

No doubt about it, President Obama is the greatest orator since Adolf Hitler who brought the German people out of their post WWI funks and delivered retribution for reparations to the responsible parties with his theatrics and exaggerated hand gestures and oral gesticulations!   The only thing more respectable than his talk was his war machine.  Ja? Obama, with his teleprompter can move mountains with the finest soothing baritone voice since Barry, what-is-name, White?  "Baby Love?"   With just his big old jug-eared head twisting back and forth from right tele-p to left tele-p, as if in cadence with spectators at center court for the finals of Wimbledon, the audience is lulled into a trance like state where the words are not important, just the sounds emitted from this man's craw carry the day. Can anyone who watched the speech quote one line?  I know I can not.  You see the speech was meaningless as is most political talk.  It is fi...

Kim Jong un, the diminutive and portly young leader of the North Koreans is playing into the globalists plans to keep each hemisphere of the globe in some sort of political turmoil so they can get their apparatus in place to take over control of the world through one world government!  Asia is fracted by Kim's nuclear ambitions.  Africa is a given for perpetual turmoil with its history of despots and thugs which is as much in the nature of Africans as biting is to the female mosquito.  It is who they are.  It is what works in a highly competitive environment.  Nice guys finish last in Africa. Israel v Palestine and all the country states placed in the Mideast by the globalists after WWII has kept that area in fits of violence with no progress towards peace and  unification for over 70 years.  Castro and Chavez have kept the heat on over on our side of the ponds but only to the extent the gnat bothers the elephant.  It seems only ...

First let me say, I am not a Catholic, but I am confirmed in the Episcopal Church.  Episcopalians sprang from the Church of England, a creation of King Henry the VIII who nationalized the Catholic church in England and took its sizable property holdings to fund his war with the French. An Episcopalian is similar to a Catholic but without all that guilt, and with very little priest on alter boy sex.  I was an acolyte in my youth and was not attractive enough for our priest.  He never made a move.  Seems I am one of the unfortunates who are not attractive to either sex.  I got that from Uncle Martin on my mother's side of the family.  We share a hideous asymmetry of facial features and cap that off with an exaggerated under bite with an extremely weak chin (we both sport full beards just to look awful) and the English curse of horribly crooked teeth with a greenish-yellow hue that no amount of bleaching will correct and that is my life...

One cannot turn on a television or radio without hearing a report about the giant manhunt ongoing in the west for 33 year old former navy special ops ex-LA cop, Christopher J. Dorner.  He is accused of killing three people based on a slight meted out to him in 2008 when he was fired from the LAPD for complaining the cops were corrupt in LA and racist. I am not here to debate who is right and who is wrong here.  The LAPD have a role to play in California and far be it from me to be critical having never walked a mile in their shoes.  Dealing with dirtballs and near-do-wells and low information voters has to take a toll on one's outlook towards fellow man. Anyway, the rub of this treatise is here. His burned out truck was found near the mountain community of Big Bear in California.  Inside were camping equipment, and several of his weapons.  His body will be found within a few miles of this vehicle next fall when the hunters take to the woods. To quote Dr....

Back from the barnicle laden barges of Barcelona, my jet lag nearly exhausted, cured by several 12 hr naps and a fifth of Jack Daniels Old No. 7 whiskey and my Ukranian massusse, Svetlanna Gorbachev. I am whole again which makes me think, and as I find myself ever more isolated by age and temprament, I realise I am alone inside my thoughts 99 percent of the time.  Thank God Almighty, I am meddling good company. When my father and mother cohabited back in the 50's and 60's I was witness to many a good argument.  Both being of sound mind and better than average wits, the verbal barbs flew like arrows from Cupid's bow at an eighth grade prom during the first lights down low slow dance. I could tell from the tenor the cards were stacked in mother's favor.  I do not recall what the disagreement was over, but I distinctly recall what my father's retort to mother was when he finally conceded defeat. "You are much nicer when you have a lining in your ut...

I must admit I am not a football fan, but I am at least social enough to attend a party to celebrate one of America's greatest finales for the "Bread and Circus" circuit, the Superbowl.  The game is the circus, and the bread is the advertising revenue it generates for the venerable old broadcast hold out of the early days of television, CBS. The game was the predictable "Lance Armstrong" like affair where the white team got way ahead of the team in red, then the lights went out for a while and then the entertainment went up for me anyway with the highly intelligent conversation among the former football players trying to parrot what was being played in their ear pieces.  Then a cheerleader would be tossed 50 ft into the air tumbling like the ill fated space shuttle which broke up over Texas a little over a decade ago and I would wonder her fate as her landing was blocked from view. When play resumed the white team let up on the red team and let the score com...

Senator Bob Menendez has been accused of flying off to the Dominican Republic on a pals private jet and having sexual relations with an under aged goat.  Now before you say "ooough!"  It was I am assured by the proper authorities a nanny goat and not a billy goat.  The goat only complained in public when Senator Menendez failed to uphold his end of the bargain by not paying full price for the sweet-meat.  Business is business and a deal is a deal be it flesh or money, reneging on a business deal is poor form and can lead to a lot of problems.  The Obama Secret Service in Columbia found how loud the whores could scream when they were short changed for services rendered.  These guys should know you have to pay full price if you want truly secret service.  And the country looks on and sighs, good grief what a bunch of amateurs!  Pay the poor whore.  What are you saving your money for anyway, a BMW? Now Senator Menendez has fallen prey to b...

I have one question for Chuck Hagel and John Kerry. Did either of these fine gentlemen catch yellow-headed bumble bees when they were in grade school? We did.  An acquaintance during my childhood informed us you could catch yellow-headed bumble bees and they would not sting you.  We spent many a summer day capturing them with on flowers using a mason jar and then carefully tying a piece of thread around the narrow section between their thorax and abdomen.  We would then tie the 3 foot long thread to a belt loop on our person and take the bees for a flight. I recall a memorable day when in the spring I caught and tied a bee and brought it to school for show and tell.  The hallways were cleared by the bee for my passage.  You see not everybody knew the bees with yellow heads were harmless.  The bees were fairly powerful and I suspect a hundred bees could likely lift a small child off the ground.  We did not ever test this hypothesis.  Sometime...