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But what about Biggie?
link via The Agitator, Cynthia McKinney brings America.… the
SEC. 4. TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR RECORDS COLLECTION AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES.
- (a) In General- (1) Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Archives shall commence establishment of a collection of records to be known as the `Tupac Amaru Shakur Records Collection.’ In so doing, the Archivist shall ensure the physical integrity and original provenance of all records. The Collection shall consist of originals or record copies of all Government records relating to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur, which shall be transmitted to the National Archives in accordance with section 2107 of title 44, United States Code. The Archivist shall prepare and publish a subject guidebook and index to the collection, including the central directory described in paragraph (2)(B), which shall be available to the public and searchable electronically.
And
SEC. 5. CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
- (a) Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Archives shall appoint an independent Citizens Advisory Committee, subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C., App.), as defined in App. 2, from candidates solicited from and nominated not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act by non-governmental organizations from the Society of American Archivists, the National Bar Association, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc., and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, the civil rights, civil liberties, entertainment and African American community, which will consist of appointees–
- (1) who have not had any previous involvement with any official investigations into the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur,
- (2) who were never employed or engaged by any Federal, state or local intelligence or law enforcement agency which is covered in the scope of this Act’s search for records related to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur,
- (3) who shall be impartial private citizens, none of whom is presently employed by any branch of the Government, and
- (4) who shall be distinguished persons of high national professional reputation in their respective fields who are capable of exercising the independent and objective judgment necessary to the fulfillment of their role in ensuring and facilitating the review, transmission to the public, and public disclosure of records related to the life and death of Tupak Shakur,
- (A) who possess an appreciation of the value of such material to the public, scholars, and government, and
- (B) who include at least three scholars in current history, at least 3 members of the civil rights community, at least 3 experts on civil liberties, and at least one member of the immediate family of Tupac Amaru Shakur.
IIRC I think there is only one immediate member of Shakur’s family.
I think we saw the gutlessness of the Republicans with the failure of the Coburn amendment. If this makes it though Congress I suggest we hand the keys to the country to Walmart and call it a day.
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Weird stuff
They now have vanilla flavored toothpaste, which I like a good bit. It’s like brushing your teeth with cookies.
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Not even wrong
In this article by Joe Conason on Salon. Conason makes so many errors it’s best just to point you to the Agitator’s take on the matter. I thought Salon was a serious publication. Oh well.
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Lines of the moment
Those who would wish to take Jimmy Carter and his ideas seriously will find little assistance in this book.
It’s a soothing gargle of antiseptic mouthwash prior to flossing with a razor blade.
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Weird Site
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One day he’ll be Senator The Cable Guy
A decent, but overly analytical profile of Larry the Cable Guy in Slate. He is one of the few comedians out there that still tells occasionally tells jokes in the Borscht Belt tradition instead of funny anecdotes and observations.
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Are the French even trying?
We enter day 11 of the European intifada.
So now the French cops found a Molotov Cocktail factory and rioters are shooting at cops and attacking firemen. They seem to be doing a successful job of ghettoizing (or creating their own autonomous areas) themselves. I suppose the French will eventually call in the military once this whole thing starts to lose steam and then call it a triumph of civilization.
One of the commenters over at the Belmont Club observed:
But are letting the burnings and insurrection go on so as to give the Muslims plenty of rope to hang themselves. Perhaps a decision exists within the French government that Muslim labor is not needed when less criminally-inclined, less subversive alternatives exist in Latin America, India, Asia……and that they have decided Islam cannot assimilate and the riots are a good way of convincing the public of that fact..
Which is an interesting thought. Not practical, and a bit too clever. It also ignores the (I think) obvious observation that when you pay people to stay out of the economy you create an underclass and breed resentment. I would imagine that would happen with most immigrant groups.
Also from Belmont
Car burning is spectacular, serious enough to get attention yet — and this is the vital point — not serious enough to provoke lethal force
which is probably true. That means these things can go on forever and probably continue for another week or two. All of this points to large gains for le Pen’s far right party whenever their next election happens.
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Zell
Zell Miller has a good idea from a (IMHO) a faulty premise in the AJC.
Why does everyone insists on thinking of the Plame affair as a grand epic?
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Quick round up
- It’s now six nights of rioting in Paris.
- Secret CIA detention camps around the world. I’m reminded of Wretchard’s line one time that when Truman ordered Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed, he had “the sand” to do it under his own name.
- I finally got the proper wireless adapter for my Tivo, which I got to work without incident. Sadly it uses Wep, but with 3-4 totally unprotected networks around me I would imagine I’m not worth pursuing.
- It’s amazing how much lists and visual sign of progress can affect one’s mood.
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Before I forget to post about these
From an Agitator post about a senator naming a building after himself (much like Cynthia McKinney and Memorial Drive).
It’d be swell to see the GOP sweeped out 1994-like next year. Not that the Democrats would be any better — or worse. I’d just like to see the Republicans get smacked around a little for their arrogance. But it won’t happen. They’ve (a) passed incumbent-protecting McCain-Feingold, and (b) gerrymandered the bejesus out of the congressional map to make sure they’re immune from accountability.
He leaves out the Roe Effect but beyond that has it about right. When will people come around to term limits?
And infrared sniper detection is cool.
You would think that five nights of rioting in Paris would be bigger news, but you’re wrong. You would also think that people would bring up the fact that the rioting is happening in Algerian immigrant neighborhoods but it seems to be not that way.