Colorado court rules marijuana smokers may be fired

Medical and recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado, but federal law says employers can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug, ruled a Colorado appeals court Thursday.

By Steven K. Paulson,?Associated Press / April 25, 2013

Brandon Coats works on his computer at his home in Denver. Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient, was fired from his job in 2010 as a telephone operator at Dish Network after testing positive for marijuana. The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday, April 25, 2013, upheld the firing of Coats.

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Medical and recreational marijuana may be legal in Colorado, but employers in the state can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug, even if it was used off duty, according to a court ruling Thursday.

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The Colorado Court of Appeals found there is no employment protection for medical marijuana users in the state since the drug remains barred by the federal government.

"For an activity to be lawful in Colorado, it must be permitted by, and not contrary to, both state and federal law," the appeals court stated in its 2-1 conclusion.

The ruling concurs with court decisions in similar cases elsewhere and comes as businesses attempt to regulate pot use among employees in states where the drug is legal. Colorado and Washington state law both provide for recreational marijuana use. Several other states have legalized medical use. Police departments have been especially concerned since officers are sworn to uphold both state and federal laws.

The Colorado case involves Brandon Coats, 33, a telephone operator for Englewood, Colo.-based Dish Network LLC. Coats was paralyzed in a car crash as a teenager and has been a medical marijuana patient in the state since 2009.

He was fired in 2010 for failing a company drug test, though his employer didn't claim he was ever impaired on the job.

Coats sued to get his job back, but a trial court dismissed his claim in 2011. The judge agreed with Dish Network that medical marijuana use isn't a "lawful activity" covered by a state law intended to protect cigarette smokers from being fired for legal behavior off the clock. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, more than half of all states have such laws.

Dish Network did not return a call seeking comment.

Coats' attorney, Michael Evans, issued a statement saying the ruling has wide implications for Colorado marijuana laws.

"This case not only impacts Mr. Coats, but also some 127,816 medical marijuana patient-employees in Colorado who could be summarily terminated even if they are in legal compliance with Colorado state law," Evans noted.

Evans plans to ask the state Supreme Court to review the case.

Morgan Fox, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, called it a setback.

"It's unfortunate, considering how much support there is for medical marijuana, that employers don't see this like any other medication," Fox said.

The Marijuana Policy Project said the ruling appears to be limited to state law because it does not fall under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

Judge John Webb dissented in the split decision, saying he couldn't find a case addressing whether Colorado judges should consider federal law in determining the meaning of a Colorado statute.

Marijuana supporters say the courts are discriminating against them because Colorado's Lawful Off-Duty Activities law protects workers being fired for legal behavior off the clock, citing cigarette smoking as a protected activity.

The court said lawmakers could act to change the law to protect people who use marijuana, but there have been no plans to do that at the state Capitol.

Colorado's amendment legalizing recreational marijuana doesn't give people a constitutional right to smoke pot and doesn't protect users from criminal prosecution, from being fired or from other negative consequences. Backers said smoking off the job was a gray area and warned people to be familiar with their employers' drug policies.

The Washington state Supreme Court also has found that workers can be fired for using marijuana, even if authorized by the state's medical marijuana law.

Last year, a federal appeals court ruled against a cancer survivor in Battle Creek, Mich., who was fired from his job with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. after failing a drug test for marijuana. Joseph Casias had a medical marijuana card and said he used pot to alleviate symptoms of an inoperable brain tumor.

According to the Marijuana Policy Project, the California Supreme Court also has ruled that people could be fired for testing positive for marijuana. The Legislature passed a bill to change that in 2008, but it was vetoed.

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Associated Press writers Colleen Slevin, Peter Banda and Eugene Johnson contributed to this report.

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IBM CEO Rometty urges employees to act faster: WSJ

(Reuters) - IBM Corp's Chief Executive Virginia Rometty told employees the company had become too sluggish and unresponsive, after it posted weak first-quarter results, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing IBM's internal video message addressed to its employees.

The technology services company posted on Thursday a rare quarterly earnings miss as a sliding yen hurt earnings from Japan and it failed to close a number of major deals, especially in Europe and the United States.

Rometty set a new rule. If a client has a request or question, IBM must respond within 24 hours, the newspaper reported she said in that call. She addressed the call to over 434,000 employees worldwide.

"Where we haven't transformed rapidly enough, we struggled," Rometty said in the video published on IBM's internal website, reviewed by the newspaper. "We have to step up with that and deal with that, and that is on all levels."

IBM was not immediately reachable for comment on the report.

IBM blamed a poor performance by its sales force for some of the shortfall for the poor quarterly results. But analysts said it was not just one quarter - the company's sales have been weakening consistently, dragging down results with or without the changes in the yen.

Rometty said IBM needs to speed its shift to new computing models to get back on track, the Journal reported citing the video. (Wall Street Journal article: http://link.reuters.com/dah67t)

IBM also reassigned one of its most senior executives, the head of its computer hardware business, following a sharp drop in first-quarter sales at the unit, the Journal reported citing a person familiar with the matter.

(Reporting by Thyagaraju Adinarayan in Bangalore; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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Children routinely injured or killed by guns, U.S. study shows

Apr. 23, 2013 ? While gun control issues usually surface after major incidents like the fatal shooting of 20 elementary school students in Newtown, Connecticut, a new U.S. study shows that children are routinely killed or injured by firearms.

The study, conducted by the Colorado School of Public Health, Denver Health and Children's Hospital Colorado, was published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). It examined trauma admissions at two emergency rooms in Denver and Aurora over nine years and found that 129 of 6,920 injured children suffered gunshot wounds.

"In 14% of these cases children managed to get access to unlocked, loaded guns," said the study's lead author Angela Sauaia, MD, Ph.D., at the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "In an area with so much disagreement, I think we can all agree that children should not have unsupervised access to unlocked, loaded guns."

The study shows that at least 14 children between the ages 4 and 17 are injured by firearms every year in the Denver metro area alone. That number excludes those found dead at the scene. It also doesn't count those who did not go to the emergency department, so Sauaia believes the injury rates exceed 14 or about 2 percent of all trauma admissions.

The number of gun injuries to children has changed little over the years.

According to state data, Colorado firearm death rates for children were 2.2 per 100,000 in the year 2000, 1.9 per 100,000 in 2009 and 2.8 per 100,000 in 2011.

"People tend to only pay attention to gun safety issues after these mass killings but this is happening all the time to our children and it's totally preventable," Sauaia said. "Are we as a society willing to accept that 2 percent of our children shot each year is an acceptable number?"

Sauaia, an associate professor of public health, medicine and surgery, studied child trauma admissions from 2000-2008 at Children's Hospital Colorado and Denver Health Medical Center. She found those who had been shot suffered significantly more severe wounds than children hurt with other objects and that the severity of the firearm injuries in increasing

At the same time, 50 percent of shooting victims required intensive care. And 13 percent died compared to 1.7 percent of children hurt in non-firearm incidents. The majority of those shot were adolescent males whose injuries were often self-inflicted.

Sauaia did not include the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School, which killed 12 students and injured another 21, in her study. The 2012 Aurora theater shootings, which killed 12 and wounded 58 last year, were also left out.

"When we examined the data we found that 7 percent of the injuries to children were related to violence and of those 38 percent were related to guns," she said. "If the injury was gun related, the odds of dying were 10 times greater than from any other kind of injury."

Sauaia and her colleagues had done another study in 1993 that found that 42 percent of people who died from trauma incidents in Denver were killed by guns. That compared to 26 percent killed in car accidents.

She conducted both studies entirely without federal funding.

"There is little money to do gun research, which is unfortunate," Sauaia said. "But the point we can all agree upon is that, no matter what side of the gun divide you fall on, we need to store these weapons safely to protect our children from death or serious injury."

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'console-ification' of PCs means for gamers - Giveaway of the Day

Brad Chacos @BradChacos

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Traditionally, gamers have voluntary segregated themselves into two camps: console gamers and PC gamers. Hostility between the two runs irrationally deep, and rare is the gamer who?s willing to proclaim allegiance to both sides. Either you?re part of the Alliance, or you?re part of the Horde.

But the times, they are a-changin?.

Convergence is the buzzword of the day, and it?s rearing its head big-time in the gaming world. On one side, the upcoming PlayStation 4 console sports a suspiciously computer-esque core. On the other side, a wave of new technologies is bringing a remarkably console-like experience to PC gaming. The lines are beginning to blur. Mr. Miyamoto, tear down that wall!

The implications of a shared gaming backbone could span a whole series of articles, but this is PCWorld, not Game Informer. As such, we?ll limit our scope thusly: What does this titanic technology shift mean for you, die-hard PC gamer?
Diff?rent strokes
PS4 controllerThe PlayStation 4?s controller: Nowhere near as complex as a full QWERTY keyboard.

Computers maintain some crucial advantages over consoles, including overall customizability and control-scheme complexity, as well as the absence of a central Nintendo-esque gatekeeper for the ecosystem. That said, consoles hold a number of advantages over gaming PCs, too. Most revolve around their sheer simplicity.

?You plug a console in to your power plug and TV, and you?re good to go,? TechHive executive editor Jason Cross pointed out while we were discussing the topic. ?Every game works the way it?s supposed to without configuration. You turn it on and you?re up and running in seconds. You can?t mess it up. You can?t delete a critical file. There?s no game your system isn?t good enough to run well.?

All are valid points, and PC gaming doesn't currently offer any of the benefits mentioned above. But it may be able to soon, thanks largely to the efforts of Valve and Nvidia.
The best of both worlds

Valve is already a legendary game developer and it runs Steam, the premiere digital distribution service for PC gaming. The late 2012 launch of Steam?s Big Picture mode?which transmogrifies the traditional Steam interface into a living room-friendly 10-foot interface similar to YouTube Leanback?paved the way for easily playing games on your big screen. And, now, Valve?s upcoming Steam Box venture bodes even more portentously for so-called PC consoles.
Steam?s Big Picture mode was made for HDTV viewing.

Most of the details are still nebulous, but the Steam Box ideal revolves around small, quiet PCs built to fit in with your receiver, Blu-ray player, and Xbox 360. Because Steam Box is more a series of certification blueprints than anything else, many manufacturers will be able to build them. Valve?s Gabe Newell says Steam Boxes will fall into three categories:

Good?A ?good? Steam Box seems highly reminiscent of the Ouya Android console. Costing around $100, it would run only casual Web or mobile games. Newell also wants these "good" iterations to double as gaming set-top boxes of sorts, streaming games that are being run on more-powerful, traditional PCs to your TV.

Better?Valve will reign over the approved specs at this tier, and its own Steam Box will be of the ?Better? variety. These ?consoles? should cost around $300 (good luck with that) and contain CPUs and graphics processors powerful enough to play most recent titles at solid frame rates. Since most TVs top out at 720p or 1080p, that shouldn?t be too difficult to achieve.

Best?Beefy and boisterous, these represent the current status quo in PC gaming, without any size or spec restrictions. If manufacturers bother to get a certification for this class of machine, they?ll likely be Steam Boxes in name only rather than viable living room alternatives.

Having Big Picture mode, a roughly $300- price point, and a Steam Box certification plan would go a long way toward bringing PC gaming into the living room. The price point is especially noteworthy.

?If you come out with a PC that?s going to be twice as much money as a typical game console, I think that you?re going to have a very tough time gaining marketshare, no matter how powerful the hardware or how many games you have available,? says Lewis Ward, a gaming-focused research analyst at IDC.

All that said, a pair of GeForce-branded solutions from Nvidia?a company that is also looking to crack the living room with its Project SHIELD handheld?could do even more to console-ify PCs by keeping it simple, stupid.
Streamlined simulations in the cloud

Driver maintenance and settings optimization have long been two of the biggest pains in PC gaming. Simply put, making sure your games are running as sweetly as possible is a headache. Nvidia?s nascent GeForce Experience changes that.

The cloud-connected software pings Nvidia?s servers to automatically check for driver updates?hallelujah! But, more crucially, it also scans your PC?s hardware configuration, and then checks it against Nvidia?s crowd-sourced database to intelligently optimize the graphics settings in your games. You read that right: With GeForce Experience, you?ll never have to slog through tedious tessellation options to achieve tip-top frame rates again.
NvidiaNvidia?s GeForce GRIDcan deliver a full-blown PC gaming experience on any connected device, including smart TVs.

At least, that?s the theory. GeForce Experience is still getting its sea legs. The technology currently works with only a limited number of titles and Nvidia?s last three generations of graphics cards, so it?ll be a while before we get a feel for its full potential.

Another Nvidia initiative could negate the need for GeForce Experience entirely. Nvidia?s GeForce GRID promises far greater cloud gaming potential than forebearers like OnLive and Gaikai. The ability to simply and seamlessly play games on any piece of hardware?console, tablet, PC, smart TV, whatever?is the Holy Grail of gaming. Nvidia will have to conquer bandwidth and latency concerns in order for GRID to take off, however, as well as prove that there?s actually consumer demand for cloud gaming?something OnLive, sadly, has yet to do.
Under the hood

The biggest effect on PC gaming might have nothing to do with computers becoming more streamlined or showing up in the living room, though. Instead, the biggest shock to rock the PC gaming ecosystem may come from the increased computerization of consoles.

As we?ve discussed in depth before, Sony?s upcoming PlayStation 4 console packs an eight-core AMD APU at its heart, and Microsoft?s upcoming Xbox 720 (for lack of a better name) is said to sport a similar chip. If that?s true, all the major home consoles will share the same x86 backbone as traditional PCs.

That could be good, or it could be bad. Theoretically, the shift could put an end to shoddy console ports, as developers will use the same base-level tools to create console and computer games alike. AMD hardware may enjoy a surge in popularity as many new games are optimized for the APUs at the core of the consoles. Heck, one could even envision a proliferation of games designed for a shared multiplayer experience across multiple platforms, ? la the recent Skulls of the Shogun game.
MicrosoftIs ?Skulls of the Shogun? a template for the PC game of the future?

?I think what we?re going to see is a convergence of triple-A, 3D PC games and triple-A, 3D console games, so that more games will be released on multiple platforms going forward,? IDC?s Ward says. ?The back end will be more like PC game development. Converting a game to the right executable format or a specific UI will be relatively painless, so it?ll make sense to release titles on as many platforms as possible.?

One could also envision a few nightmare scenarios related to that. What if, for example, more PC games start sporting streamlined (read: dumbed down) interfaces for easier console portability? Or what about the possibility of face-melting graphics becoming less face-melting in future software generations as more games are built with console hardware in mind?

Ward says not to worry?precisely because premiere Crysis 3-style PC blockbusters are already a rarity.

?There are a lot of low-end gaming laptops and desktops out there that are nowhere near as powerful as consoles or high-end gaming PCs,? he says. ?So you?ve already got a range of computers that have been out there for five or so years, with a wide range of technical capabilities, and game developers and publishers already try to hit a sweet spot in the install base of active users.

?Most developers already don?t really go up to the real ceiling [of PC gaming technology], since it?ll inherently limit their market,? says Ward
One potential result of a shared x86 backbone: More cross-platform Mass Effect, less power PC-optimized Crysis 3.

I tried contacting several cross-platform game developers?from the biggest of the big companies to the popular little guys?to get a feel for their perspective, but no one would speak on the record. The few people I managed to even get on the phone clammed up once they realized the thrust of my questions.

?We?d prefer not to participate in this particular interview because the console transition is such a hot-button topic and we?re generally taking a wait-and-see approach,? one anonymous big-name indie developer told me. ?We don?t like to speculate about this stuff, though we find all of it very, very interesting and I think you?ve asked a lot of great questions here.?

Geez, thanks. Every other developer said something similar (compliments on my reporting style aside).
Not today, not tomorrow, but one day

We?re teetering on the precipice of a new tomorrow for PC gaming. All of these technologies are still in their infancy, but it?s obvious that some sort of convergence is coming.

PCs will no doubt lead the bleeding edge of performance gaming for years to come, technology-wise, but will that matter if games are designed for ubiquitous platform portability? What does the future actually hold? Even the people making games don?t know the answers to these questions.

Consoles and PCs and pixel-pumping tablets like the Razer Edge each handle control so differently that full-blown convergence seems difficult to ever imagine. Nonetheless, the underlying seeds for at least a basic sort of unification are being laid right now. Someday?not today, not tomorrow, but someday?the dividing wall will crumble, and PC fanboys and console fanboys will have no choice but to lay down their pitchforks and torches and call themselves just plain gamers.

On that day, we?ll all be part of the Horde.

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What planets are made of: Findings establish counterintuitive potential planet-forming materials

Apr. 24, 2013 ? A team of researchers led by Artem R. Oganov, a professor of theoretical crystallography in the Department of Geosciences, has made a startling prediction that challenges existing chemical models and current understanding of planetary interiors -- magnesium oxide, a major material in the formation of planets, can exist in several different compositions. The team's findings, "Novel stable compounds in the Mg-O system under high pressure," are published in the online edition of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The existence of these compounds -- which are radically different from traditionally known or expected materials -- could have important implications.

"For decades it was believed that MgO is the only thermodynamically stable magnesium oxide, and it was widely believed to be one of the main materials of the interiors of the Earth and other planets," said Qiang Zhu, the lead author of this paper and a postdoctoral student in the Oganov laboratory.

"We have predicted that two new compounds, MgO₂ and Mg₃O₂, become stable at pressures above one and five million atmospheres, respectively. This not only overturns standard chemical intuition but also implies that planets may be made of totally unexpected materials. We have predicted conditions (pressure, temperature, oxygen fugacity) necessary for stability of these new materials, and some planets, though probably not the Earth, may offer such conditions," added Oganov.

In addition to their general chemical interest, MgO₂ and Mg₃O₂ might be important planet-forming minerals in deep interiors of some planets. Planets with these compounds would most likely be the size of Earth or larger.

The team explained how its paper predicted the structures in detail by analyzing the electronic structure and chemical bonding for these compounds. For example, Mg₃O₂ is forbidden within "textbook chemistry," where the Mg ions can only have charges "+2," O ions are "-2, and the only allowed compound is MgO. In the "oxygen-deficient" semiconductor Mg₃O₂, there are strong electronic concentrations in the "empty space" of the structure that play the role of negatively charged ions and stabilize this material. Curiously, magnesium becomes a d-element (i.e. a transition metal) under pressure, and this almost alchemical transformation is responsible for the existence of the "forbidden" compound Mg₃O₂.

The findings were made using unique methods of structure prediction, developed in the Oganov laboratory. "These methods have led to the discovery of many new phenomena and are used by a number of companies for systematically discovering novel materials on the computer -- a much cheaper route, compared to traditional experimental methods," said Zhu.

"It is known that MgO makes up about 10 percent of the volume of our planet, and on other planets this fraction can be larger. The road is now open for a systematic discovery of new unexpected planet-forming materials," concluded Oganov.

This work is funded by the National Science Foundation and DARPA.

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AT&T Q1 2013 earnings: $3.7 billion income on revenue of $31.4 billion

AT&T just posted its earnings for the first quarter of 2013, and the market couldn't help but ding the company, which is now trading down in after hours markets. The business as a whole posted a net income of $3.7 billion, which is slightly up from $3.6 billion one year ago. Meanwhile, company revenues took a slight hit, which sit at $31.4 billion -- down 1.4 percent from the previous year. In terms of the company's wireless business, though, there's plenty of reason for optimism. The company was able to snag an additional 296,000 postpaid subscribers and put a solid 1.2 million people on smartphone plans during the quarter. For those keeping track, smartphone sales now account for 88 percent of AT&T's postpaid handsets. Unsurprisingly, the company is making more money than ever off of its data plans, which account for $5.1 billion of the company's business. As for the wireless segment as a whole, income is up 21 percent and AT&T is pulling in revenues of $16.6 billion with a 28 percent profit margin.

Encouraging signs were also revealed for U-verse, as the company's broadband service netted an additional 731,000 internet subscribers and 232,000 television subscribers during the quarter -- its best performance in two years -- for a grand total of 8.7 million subscribers. Naturally, one segment of Ma Bell's business isn't looking too hot, and that's the traditional wireline business, as revenues have fallen 10 percent from the previous year. Given the size of this segment, and the weakening demand for the service, it's easy to understand why investors might be slightly uneasy, even in light of all the encouraging news.

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Politics, Priorities, Psychology and Hope WITHIN The Black ...

Dear THE BLACK (Progressive) Agenda Is Safe - Right Through These Doors

Dr Boyce Says: (5:25 mark)

1. Fight For Our Right To Have .......................A Good Education?
2. Fight For Our Right To Have........................A Job?
3. Fight For Our Right To ...............................Get Out Of Prison?

Sir - I do not consider you "ignorant and manipulative" like most of the "Embedded Black Fox Confidence Men" - but you are no less complicit.

WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED that the "Embedded Confidence Men" told "The Blacks" that THEIR VOTES ARE GOING TO BE STOLEN - during the run up to the "Presidential Election Of 2012" - only to go back into "Obama Promotion Mode" today?

WHERE WERE YOU?????..........................Telling The Masses Of Negroes That THE BLACK ATTORNEY GENERAL WOULD NEVER ALLOW Their Vote To Be Stolen? ?AND IF They Were Fearful That A POLICE MAN, STANDING IN FRONT OF THE POLLING PLACE Then They Probably Beat The Hell Out Of Some Member Of The Black Community - AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY DOESN'T NEED THEIR VOTE - Only THE DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVE FUNDAMENTALISTS DO?

1. How Do You VOTE FOR YOUR SALVATION And Get A GOOD EDUCATION - Unless There Is A Dependency On SOME EXTERNAL FORCE OUTSIDE OF YOUR COMMUNITY?
2. How Do You VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATION With The Hopes For A JOB That Is Near Your Community - Unless SOME ECONOMIC PRINCIPLE Of "Value Add" / "Supply And Demand" Is Molested? ?Does VOTING INCREASE THE MARKET VALUE That You Have To Offer Someone To EXCHANGE YOUR COMPETENCIES In Exchange For A SALARY - OR, Dr Watkins Are You Telling Us That THE NATION Should VALUE THE LABORER - By Spiking His SALARY Using $17 TRILLION DEBT MONEY? ?
3. Of Those "Mass Incarcerated" That You Speak Of - Arrested By OUT OF DATE LAWS - How Many Of The FAVORABLE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS That The Black Community Has VOTED FOR With Pride - KEEP ARRESTING NEGROES Under These Same Statutes? ?IF OBAMA Can IGNORE THE "DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT" BECAUSE HE SAYS THAT IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL - HOW MANY NEGROES HAVE TOLD THE LOCAL DA, POLICE CHIEF, Judge OR SHERIFF That The Voted For To NOT "MASS INCARCERATE ANY MORE YOUNG NEGROES" - Lest They Feel The WRATH Of The CONGREGATION?

WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP THE "CONFIDENCE SCHEME" IN 2012 WHEN IT COUNTED?

WHAT DID DR BOYCE WATKINS EXPECT AS THE "OPERATIONALZATION OF THE BLACK AGENDA" THAT WAS FRAUDULENT IN THE FIRST PLACE?

December 2012 - Yes I remember. ? "The Black Progressive Thought Leadership" went to Washington DC and did a number upon the "Black Community Development Consciousness" that as MORE DESTRUCTIVE than the "White Republicans in January 2009" went to the same restaurant to plot to make Obama a ONE TERM PRESIDENT.

The Republicans succeeded in RILING UP "THE BLACKS" - keeping them on the defensive, to ensure that they FAILED at their "racist scheme".
In the mean time:

• Africa was bombed by the US Government - but the Negro needed to be silent lest the Right Wing win
• The American Negro - after 50 years of investments of his valuables in the scheme voiced by Bayard Rustin but expertly executed by Dr Ronald Daniels - STILL suffered from unemployment that was double that of his "Perfect 1.0 White Reference".
• For the first time in American history - the US COMMANDER IN CHIEF was said to be a VICTIM OF RACISM - this despite the fact that he had full faith and confidence of the OFFICE -to impose any US Foreign Policy, Military, Or Economic Sanction upon ANY OTHER NATION - in the name of the United States - AND NOT GET ARRESTED for doing so

This so called "Black Leadership" convinced the "Americanized Negro" to fuse their BLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONSCIOUSNESS into the Oval Office.

Dear Sir - that "Quality Black Education" that you have vacated the local institutions and now look toward the White House to provide to you......................................

HERE IS YOUR QUALITY BLACK EDUCATION - THE "PROTECTORS OF BLACKNESS ARE HAPPY AND APPEASED" ...................................NOW YOU GET IT INSTANTIATED WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY!!!!

He Became A Scholar By LOOKING INTO THE FAVORABLE PRESIDENT'S EYES

THE ANSWER TO YOUR CHALLENGE - DR BOYCE

EITHER you use your inside contacts to schedule every single Black male represented in this latest report with an individual session to TOUCH OBAMA'S HEAD and thus become A-STUDENTS...........................

OR YOU WORK TO PUT A STOP TO THIS FOOLISHNESS - DISALLOWING the "BLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONSCIOUSNESS" to be STOLEN INTO POLITICS - USING THE NEGRO BY TAKING HIS VALUABLES!!!!

LIMIT what "The Negro" EXPECTS to be addressed through VOTING and INSTEAD BE HONEST by telling him WHAT HE MUST DO MORE LOCALLY lest his pockets continue to get picked!!

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