Literately Speaking - Beyond Schenectady

This & That: Illegal, Pervs, and Anyone can be a Journalist

In New Haven Conn. the law of the land became a matter of choice recently. According to the Courant. "In July, New Haven rolled out the Elm City Resident Card. The program is designed to provide identification cards to those who may not have them, including ... illegal immigrants." This allows people who are here illegally to have access to bank accounts and public services which they do not legally have a right to.
Meanwhile Tyrone Williams has received additional charges including conspiracy and harboring illegal immigrants, which come to 33 years and nine months in prison. This is what Hew Haven is doing, harboring and conspiracy, and I want to know why the Law hasn't arrested Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and the New Haven Board of Aldermen.

On the perv front we have the Anglican Church of Canada and the U.S. Episcopal Church feign a desire for unity while rewriting the Bible to suit their whims. The Anglican leader Archbishop of Canterbury isn't rewriting the Bible for them and things will soon be coming to a head.
The conservative side stands on the obvious: the Bible straight out bars same-sex sex. The liberals expose their twisted logic on the premise: the overarching message of Scripture is full acceptance of all people, which is wishy-washy and disingenuous. The misleading premise suggests that conservatives will not accept all people, but nothing is further from the truth; they accept all people who wish to confess their sin and be saved by grace. The liberal acceptance, if indeed full, means that a person can deny their sin, continue in it, and still be in the will of God. The Bible makes it clear that a person can not deny their sin and have the truth in them.

The Big Gay Cruise is leaving Albany for a three hour tour on 8/25 to benefit AIDS.
The party includes drinking, drag show, and massages. Imagine a straight cruise to obtain funds for sexual abuse victims that included a strip act and body massages along with alcohol for its lubricating effects; sounds a bit twisted doesn't it. Well maybe the cruise is for the benefit of spreading AIDS and not prevention.

On the "Anyone can be a Journalist," we have Emily Fredrix, carried by the AP, writing that New York City has a minimum fine of $440 "for having a muffler or exhaust system that can be heard within 200 feet." This is aimed at motorcycles, and It says that if you can hear it beyond 200 feet, you are OK, but if it can be heard within that distance, you are going to be fined. So if you put your ear to the muffler and can hear it, you are breaking the law.
Additionally we have a local wanna-be who calls people who have paid for their crimes and have received their right to live back in free society "convicts." Now ex-convict is the right term, albeit still slanted. But the issue here in Schenectady County is the making of new laws to apply retroactively to past sex-offenders who have committed no new crimes; Schenectady wants to re-sentence them according to the new law. Calling these folks "convicts" does not exactly follow a rule of unbiased journalism.

posted by Smith @ 12:14 PM