In The News: Thanks this morning to ChrisM, my MP3Angel, for supplying the news and commentary audio files. » President Obama will go to the US-Mexican border today and speak in El Paso, Austin and to the Border Patrol at the border. The administration has shifted tactics and will begin putting the immigration law pressure on the employers. » The flooding on the Mississippi River continues with a crest expected this afternoon. The high waters have caused all the creeks, stream and small rivers that feed it to back up and they have no levees or other flood protection. The weather and flooding has affected the planting of corn throughout the Midwest with only about 30% of the normal planting in the ground. » The Pakistanis are saying they have no problem with a US interrogation of Osama bin-Laden's three wives but they aren't Pakistani. One is Yemeni and the other two are Saudis. The Pakistani government would just as soon repatriate them to their home countries and let the US talk with them about access to the women. The Pakistani government intends to bulldoze the site of the bin-Laden compound. » US Navy chaplains will now be allowed to perform same sex marriages on bases in states that allow it. There IS resistance. » California got the money for their fast rail from the federal government and have plans for a Central Valley line and one on the Pacific coast. » Newt Gingrich intends to announce he will run for president on the Republican ticket in 2012. » The last flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavor has been re-scheduled for next Monday. In OTHER News:

May 4th, 2011 Income Inequality In U.S. Worse Than Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Ethiopia By Zaid Jilani As ThinkProgress has repeatedly noted, crucial services and public investments for Main Street America are being gutted as taxes on the richest Americans are the lowest they've been in a generation. Yet many Americans may not know exactly how unfair this is, as the country has grown increasingly unequal at the same time. Using data from the CIA Factbook based on the Gini coefficient a measure of income inequality within a society ThinkProgress has assembled the following graph, which demonstrates that the United States is now about as economically unequal as Uganda and more unequal than countries like Pakistan or the Ivory Coast. [More]

States Making It a Crime to Investigate Agribusiness Abuses "Several states, including Minnesota, Iowa and Florida, are considering legislation that would make it a felony for activists and journalists to carry out undercover investigations of agribusiness operations ..." More

A word from the people who have been fighting terrorism (NO quotes intentional) since 1492:

Geronimo's Name Used in bin Laden Operation an Insult to Indigenous Resistance The code name Geronimo , used during the US navy seals special operation that resulted in the reported death of Usama bin Laden, references the 19th-century Chiracahua Apache who spent his life fighting the encroachment of the states of Mexico and the US. into indigenous territory. [In Full]

There IS an active protest in progress...

Members of the Native American community have spoken out against the assignation of the name Geronimo to the operation to capture and kill Osama bin Laden. They’re asking users to change their Twitter and Facebook pictures to that of legendary Apache leader Geronimo as a form of protest and to honor him. o o o Native American leaders, including those from the tribe that descended from Geronimo’s tribe, and descendants of the Apache leader have asked President Barack Obama to issue a formal apology and explanation. [In Full]

This is Razer Raygun saying 'Happy Motoring America...' Enjoy it while you can. (...and try not to let your government kill too many 'dusky natives' in the process OK?) -30-
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