Moody Eye View

A woman was shot by two police officers late Thursday in south Yuba City, CA  after she approached them with a shotgun and refused to put down her weapon, according to a department press release.

Victoria Helen Roger-Vasselin, 67, was shot by two Yuba City officers and pronounced dead at the scene.

Police were called to the 700 block of Mariner Loop after a census worker was confronted by residents who pointed a firearm at the worker and said they would not answer any questions.

When officers arrived, a man answered the door armed with a handgun. As the officers dealt with him, Roger-Vasselin approached with a shotgun and ignored the officers’ orders to put down the weapon. She advanced and continued to point the shotgun at the officers in a threatening manner, at which point the officers fired their service weapons.

Neighbors said Victoria, before she was killed by police, told the Census worker that her luxury  houseboat did not fall within the jurisdiction of the Census… The Census Worker called in for clarification but everyone was at lunch or break. Victoria’s husband said he was upstairs in his study at the time, but was able to see everything..

There were 784,764 U.S. residents who described their race as white and black in the last census. But that number didn’t include Laura Martin, whose father is black and mother is white.

“I’ve always just checked black on my form,” said Martin, a 29-year-old university employee in Las Vegas. She grew up surrounded by black family and friends, listening to black music and active in black causes — “So I’m black.”

Nor did it include Steve Bumbaugh, a 43-year-old foundation director in Los Angeles, who also has a black father and white mother. “It’s not as if I’d have been able to drink out of the white and colored water fountains during Jim Crow,” he said. “And I most assuredly would have been a slave. As far as I’m concerned, that makes me black.”

Friday was the deadline to mail 2010 census forms. Although the results are expected to show an increase in the number of multiracial people, some African-Americans with one white parent are deciding to simply “stay black.”

This is only the second census to allow people to identify themselves by more than one race. About 7 million people, or 2.4 percent of the U.S. population, chose that option in 2000.

Exhibit A is President Barack Obama. He declined to check the box for “white” on his census form, despite his mother’s well-known whiteness.

Obama offered no explanation, but Leila McDowell has an idea.

“Put a hoodie on him and have him walk down an alley, and see how biracial he is then,” said McDowell, vice president of communications for the NAACP. Put a polo shirt on him and see how biracial he looks at Harvard…

“In the Illinois state Senate, Senator Obama voted 130 times ‘present.’ That’s not yes, that’s not no.

Occam‘s razor, is  the conclusion, that the simplest solution is usually the correct…

Information technology problems at the U.S. Census Bureau could cause inaccuracies in this year’s constitutionally mandated count of the U.S. population, according to government auditors.
  
The Census Bureau is specifically having problems with two IT systems.  One is the Paper-Based Operational Control System (PBOC), which is the computer database where Census Bureau field operatives upload the data they collect from people who did not mail responses to the bureau. 
 
The second is the Decennial Applicant Personnel and Payroll System (DAPPS), which is the system used to keep track of, and pay, the more than 600,000 temporary federal workers who help conduct the Census operations.

During the hearing, Goldenkoff warned that “little time is left” to correct the IT problems that affect the NRFU.
  
Goldenkoff pointed out that not addressing the IT problems could result in the Census costing more than the estimated $14.7 billion figure.
 
“It certainly will affect cost if you want to be totally precise about it,” Goldenkoff told CNSNews.com.

Fast forward… Can’t read the doctors prescription/ can’t pay the doctors correctly/can’t stay on budget/can’t provide precision.. coming to a clinic near you…..