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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (12631)	8/3/2007 4:45:18 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224720

Minnesota Bridge Collapse due to lack of safety-transportation spending/vigilance by GOP. The GOP govbernor vetoed the funding bill just recently to keep from raising taxes on the very rich. The Sego Mine, New Orleans levees, now this bridge. See what happens when you give billionaires a huge tax cut they dont need and spend everything else on dishonest needless wars? You dont have enough money to fix our roads and bridges. Not to mention Social Security and universal health care. All this rightwing corruption leads to fiscal disaster. This past week you are seeing the market finally waking up and realising the Bush-cheney economy was a house of cards build on huge debt spending and giveaways to the top 1%. The average American family is in poor shape now, up to their eyeballs in debt and much more insecure than just 7 years ago. Health care is a huge problem too. Bushies have been replacing our US jobs with Chinese then flooding our country with unsafe toys and food. 1 million Chinese toys with lead paint had to be recalled. Where were the Bushies on checking the safety of toys, food, pet food, etc. etc. etc. Bushies do not believe in public safety, worker safedty or a clean environment. And they want to take away our right to sue if we get killed or maimed by a faulty product.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (12631)	8/3/2007 8:01:28 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224720

I couldn't bring it up...what did it say? Cops Link Black Muslim Group to Editor's Murder Friday , August 03, 2007 OAKLAND, Calif. — Police said they recovered firearms linked to the slaying of an Oakland journalist during a series of early morning raids Friday targeting members of a Black Muslim splinter group that operates a chain of bakeries. Colleagues said Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, 57, had been working on a story about Your Black Muslim Bakery before he was ambushed and slain Thursday morning near the Alameda County courthouse in downtown Oakland. Before dawn, officers raided the Muslim group's headquarters at the original bakery on San Pablo Avenue, as well as three houses in Oakland. They arrested seven people on charges including homicide, robbery and assault, including the son of the group's founder, but it was unclear if any of those charges were tied to Bailey's slaying. "The search warrant yielded several weapons and other evidence of value including evidence linking the murder of Chauncey Bailey to members of the Your Black Muslim Bakery," said Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan, who said the raids were part of a yearlong investigation into a variety of violent crimes. Homicide detective Lt. Ersie Joyner said "scientific evidence" had linked the firearms to Bailey's killing. Joseph Debro, an Oakland businessman who writes a column for the Post, said Bailey had recently asked him for information about Your Black Muslim Bakery's financial troubles for a story Bailey was writing. "To him it was just another story," Debro said. "He wasn't apprehensive or anxious about it at all. He said he was working on a bunch of stories and this was one." Your Black Muslim Bakery was founded in 1968 by the late Yusuf Bey as a haven for struggling urban families. It sells natural baked goods alongside books by Malcolm X and other black leaders. Bailey was a longtime reporter for the Oakland Tribune before becoming editor of the Post, a weekly newspaper geared toward the Bay Area black community, earlier this year. He had written stories for the Tribune about the bakery and its founder when Bey was facing rape charges in Alameda County. Most of those charges were later dropped, although one was still pending when Bey died in 2003. Bey's son, Yusuf Bey IV, who was in custody Friday, took over the original bakery and several franchises. In 2005, he was accused by police of being the ringleader in a group of black Muslims who smashed liquor bottles in Oakland corner stores and berated the Muslim owners for selling alcohol to the black community, because alcohol is forbidden by Islam. Your Black Muslim bakery has been plagued with financial problems for several years, culminating in a bankruptcy filing last October. In a declaration filed with the bankruptcy court on June 29, Yusuf Bey IV conceded he was "inexperienced in the business world," and had "received advice and consultation from those who had proven to me they did not have my best interests at heart." foxnews.com