Gonzales High School in Texas will force students who don’t follow the rules to wear prison-like jumpsuits in a controversial move this coming school year. The school has new navy blue jumpsuits that students will wear if they break the dress code.The report said that violators will be forced to wear the jumpsuit for the day.

Some parents said the jumpsuits will make students feel like prisoners but the district said it’s just a way to keep the children dressed appropriately for school. A school board official said it’s “worth a try” because it’s a way to keep the district’s conservative values intact. Some students said the plan may backfire on the school.

“I talked to some of my friends about it and they said they are not going to obey the dress code just so they can wear the jumpsuit,” high school student Jordan Meredith. Yeah, some kids just won’t follow rules no matter what. Before the jumpsuits students who didn’t follow the code had to sit in the office and wait for their parents to bring them clothes or face in-school suspension.In reality, I think this is very heavy-handed, but who knows what happened to force the school to do this. I am ambivalent on this one. What say you?

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Well, another pastor has bitten the dust. This is such a heinous crime that if he is found guilty, he deserves the death penalty. The alleged murderous scumbag is Pastor Anthony Hopkins, who was leading a revival in a small church on the outskirts of Jackson, Ala., when police discovered the body of a woman, presumed to be his wife Arletha Hopkins, stuffed in a freezer at his house in Mobile. According to the Press-Register, the police acting on a tip given by Hopkins’ daughter, the eldest of eight children, said they knew where to look and what they were likely to find when they searched the Rylands Street house. He was also charged with sexually abusing his eldest daughter.

Mobile Police Chief Phillip Garrett said that the corpse looked like it had been in the freezer for “quite a while.” He said that it is unclear exactly how long she had been in the freezer , but nobody has heard from Arletha Hopkins in more than three years.

Funny, it seems as though he had a premonition of what was to come because he spoke about forgiveness during his last sermon. Hopkins told the congregation that his eldest daughter had left the house.”He said he told her she had to do what she had to do,” Jackson said. Looking at his seven children, “He asked them to forgive him for his sins: past, present and future.” If he is guilty of killing his wife and of the rape and sodomy of his daughter, he deserves to the death penalty in no uncertain terms. What is going on in this country? So many people have lost their way.

The 5.4 earthquake that hit Los Angeles yesterday is no laughing matter. But Judge Judy managed to steal the show. This video has been making its way aroung the Internet today. Judge for yourself….

This is a story that is about to get ugly. According to the NY Daily News, Alan Rocoff, a lawyer close to the Brooklyn Democratic machine is suspected of stealing $218,000 from an East Flatbush church in a mortgage foreclosure deal.

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office is probing allegations that Alan Rocoff, the court-appointed referee for the foreclosure, refused to turn over the money to the Faithway Deliverance Center.

“My father founded the church with his own money and couldn’t make the mortgage payments. When the property was foreclosed and sold, we were supposed to get what was left over,” said Robert Booker Jr., son of the founding pastor of the Pentecostal church at 2525 Snyder Ave in an interview with the Daily News. Pastor Robert Booker Sr., who founded the church in 1978, died in May after struggling in the courts for more than five years to collect the debt.

Five different judges have heard the case and ordered Rocoff to pay up, but he hasn’t; nor has he been charged. Foreclosure referees, often appointed through connections with judges, are typically paid $1,000 for what amounts to two hours’ work. It involves collecting and then depositing the cash proceeds of a sale with a court clerk for eventual disbursement.

Rocoff was appointed referee by his friend Brooklyn Civil Court Judge Michael Garson, who later admitted stealing $163,000 from an aunt’s bank account. Garson was kicked off the bench. He quit the bar, reimbursed his aunt’s estate and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor to avoid jail. Birds of a feather, flock together!

According to the Daily News, the church property was sold on Nov.26, 2002, in foreclosure for $301,000. There was $218,556 left after the mortgage and other debts were paid. “A check in that amount was deposited in Greenpoint Savings Bank account in Cherry Hill, N.J., but Rocoff said he didn’t know where the money was, and told other stories about what happened to to it,” said Rubin Ferziger, who replaced Rocoff as referee on the case.

Here’s the most ridiculous statements he has made to date: Rocoff claimed the Mafia stole his bank accounts and files. Two years ago, he voluntarily suspended himself from the bar, saying he is medically unable to practice law. That’s because he is a damned crook. Described by a former associate as a “shadowy figure out of the Truman Democratic Club,” Rocoff was a confidant of jailed former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman. Somehow I hear Rikers Island calling out to him.

The Rev. Al Sharpton defended the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has come under fire for his recent crude off-air criticism of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.”We have all made mistakes. We have all erred, and we ought not try to sugar coat when we err,” Sharpton told a gathering of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in this New Orleans suburb. “But we should not throw away everything when we err, and to say that Rev. Jackson made a mistake is correct, but to act like Rev. Jesse Jackson is not pivotal to our movement, our history … is wrong.”"Jesse Jackson,” he added, “is somebody.”

Sharpton applauded Obama’s success and promised to do what he could to get him elected. But he also said there is room for more than one leader in the ongoing fight for civil rights. He called Obama, a product of the civil rights movement, not the end to it. “The bias in the media is they try to act like we can’t have multiple strategists,” Sharpton said. “We have never had a one-man movement.”

So, herein lies the problem, the appearance of a double standard and that it was okay for Rev. Jackson not be treated the same way as Imus or even the rappers who use the N-word. It is okay for Sharpton and Jackson to castigate people who would speak against blacks in derogatory terms. This is why people cannot take them seriously and literally tune them out when they speak. For what it is worth, Sharpton has made some valid points on all fronts, but to imply that we should give Jackson a pass because of his contribution to the civil rights movement is insulting. He should be held to the same standards he holds others to. This is not a do-as-I-say and not-as-I-do issue. Jackson is a hypocritic, plain and simple.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is at it again….. According to the Louisiana Weekly, they targeted a string of gas stations in the state and those who support the organization’s efforts to protest the damaging effects the rising cost of fuel is having on American families.

“The Southern Christian Leadership Conference – on behalf of the powerless and poor people of this nation – thinks that the skyrocketing gas prices are an injustice to everyday, ordinary citizens,” the Rev. Byron Clay, National Vice President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, told The Louisiana Weekly. “We feel that the gas prices are being manipulated and we are sick and tired of it. We concluded that enough is enough and decided to take some actions.”

These actions will include a March on Washington on Saturday, August 23, organized by a broad-based coalition of organizations that includes the SCLC, AFL-CIO and the National Baptist Convention of America, Clay said. “Gas prices are going up and people are being forced to choose whether to buy groceries or pay for gas, whether to pay their light bill or buy gas to get to and fro,” Clay said.

Clay said rising gas prices are having a “domino effect” that is causing some Americans to lose their jobs because they are no longer able to afford to drive to work. Loss of employment in turn has on exacerbated the ongoing mortgage foreclosure crisis, he said. Short-term solutions and responses to the gas crisis have included increased commuting, canceled summer vacations, the utilization of bicycles, motorbikes and public transportation to get to and from work and an increase in the number of people working from home offices.

“There would have been no New South without the SCLC, in fact there would have been no New America without the SCLC,” Clay told The Louisiana Weekly. “We have made tremendous progress over the years politically as evidenced by Black governors, a Black senator who is now running for president. We have state senators, capitalists throughout the country and Congressmen representing us across the nation as well as Black mayors. Politically, we have made some significant steps but we still have a long way to go.

“We have made some steps economically – because now you have African-American entrepreneurs who are getting contracts and are now prime contractors – but we still have a long way to go,” he continued. “We have improved socially, but we still have a long way to go. “The Ku Klux Klan no longer has the guts to openly lynch us, but we must remember that that mentality and that spirit still lives. Oftentimes, we find that we’re being lynched through the judicial system. African Americans and poor people don’t have access to resources, don’t have access to influence the power, so oftentimes they’re railroaded by the system. There are some inequities in the judicial system that need to be corrected. Equality is not a systematic movement of all things Black to all things white, but it is an emphatic movement from all things that are wrong to all things that are right. It is the task, charge and mission of the SCLC to redeem the soul of America in whole – not in part, but in whole – and it is our vision and our hope that as we re-embrace and recapture the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. that justice will truly run down as water and righteousness as a mighty stream.”

You be the judge of this. Personally, I think a march on Washington over gas prices, which is squeezing everyone, no matter your race, is a bit much. I also like the fact that he has taken credit for his organization supposedly creating the New South and getting rid of the Ku Klux Klan. Yes, so I suppose nobody else, white or black, played a role in this. This is coming from the same organization that said Michelle Obama was being treated as such because she had “slave blood” running through her veins. Am I disputing their contributions in the civil rights struggle, no way, but let’s be real….

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