Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

Now triple his secret service!

We have mentioned this topic before, but did you know that Obama is actually an “inadequate Black male”?

Who knew?

A billboard prominently displayed throughout the Virginia Republican State Convention in Richmond, where party faithful picked as their Senate nominee the author of such a beautiful display of tolerance, former Governor Jim Gilmore.

Gone are the days when the Coconut Caucus had to pretend to get along with the Black Caucus, and do joint “minority” stuff, like civil rights.

Now they are new best friends with the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) and have been holding hands on a bunch of issues, like the farm bill, (mutual love of rice, one key factor).

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) today joined with leaders of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) to applaud the nutrition benefits for minority communities in the Farm Bill Conference Report being debated on the floor of the House today.

Right now, 38 million American do not have enough to eat. That’s nearly 11% of the population of the US,” said Congressman Joe Baca (CA-43), Chair of the CHC.

“The impact to communities of color (Blacks not included) is twice as much, and that is why we have taken extraordinary steps to expand the Nutrition title of this bill. This bill also has a historic commitment to diversity in the Agriculture industry.”

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The NY Times discovers ICE! It’s a clash of titans!

Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face

He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman university. She was “a totally Virginia girl,” as she puts it, raised across the road from George Washington’s home. Their romance, sparked by a 2006 meeting in a supermarket in Rome, soon brought the Italian, Domenico Salerno, on frequent visits to Alexandria, Va., where he was welcomed like a favorite son by the parents and neighbors of his girlfriend, Caitlin Cooper.

But on April 29, when Mr. Salerno, 35, presented his passport at Washington Dulles International Airport, a Customs and Border Protection agent refused to let him into the United States. And after hours of questioning, agents would not let him travel back to Rome, either; over his protests in fractured English, he said, they insisted that he had expressed a fear of returning to Italy and had asked for asylum.

Well where is the Latino angle, you say?

“We have a lot of government people here and lobbyists and lawyers and very educated, very savvy Washingtonians,” said Jim Cooper, Ms. Cooper’s father, a businessman, describing the reaction in his neighborhood, the Wessynton subdivision of Alexandria. “They were pretty shocked that the government could do this sort of thing, because it doesn’t happen that often, except to people you never hear about, like Haitians and Guatemalans.”

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