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Immigration Offenses Make Latinos New Majority in Federal Prisons, Report Says
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino…For the first time - Latinos make up more than half of all federal felony offenders sentenced so far this year, a major demographic shift swollen by immigration offenses, according to a new government report.
Latinos already outnumber all other ethnic groups sentenced to serve time in prison for federal felonies.
The report released Tuesday shows that Latinos reached the milestone by making up the majority of all federal felony offenders sentenced in the first nine months of fiscal year 2011, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Latinos comprised 50.3 percent of all people sentenced in that time period, blacks 19.7 percent and whites 26.4 percent.
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popfodders is a news junkie or has some sort of neurotic internet condition. Finding and posting all this BS is just not normal.
- just a few resources, fun to play..********
- I just watched a ridiculous movie called Limitless. He just reminded me Bradley Cooper there.Beeswax
- just a few resources, fun to play..
- ukit0
- relevant.Ramanisky2
- don't laugh, that brother is RICH RICH RICH!********
- that's not what life is about.severian
- no, but that's what running a country is about. $********
- BonSeff0
wants Nancy to return his glasses
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@ aldebaran
Here are a few of my metal and energy stocks, if you really want to know dude:
Silver Wheaton Corp (NYSE:SLW) good
Range Resources Corp. (NYSE: RC) decent
Braskem S.A. (NYSE: BAK ) good
Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR) good
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) has been kind to me- also thinking of Gerdau: http://finance.yahoo… cheap now********
- Brazil is where the metal riches lay.********
- Interesting. Do you bother with bonds? You seem like an aggressive investor.aldebaran
- Sounds cliche, but I diversify. I don't trust one versus the other. I do things based upon logic, or try to dude. I have a few B's********
- With governmental regulations being tossed around like crazy, I don't know whom to invest in these days. Pisses me off...********
- I suppose that's the reason for my distaste with Obama. Maybe it's personal, but ohh well... I see's it as I see's it.********
- Funny, as I do have a bunch of Apple stocks and happy to see it flourish. Albeit, it seems as if it's viewed as some sort of********
- liberal pride company or some shit.********
- Wish I got on board with Apple when it was cheap. But I'm not much a speculator.aldebaran
- It's a crapshoot, I'm not talented bro.********
- take advice from a broker pal of mine********
- also thinking of Gerdau: http://finance.yahoo… cheap now
- fooler0
so last night after work I was in line for gas and there was a late model ford ranger with a ladder rack on top in front of me.
I notice he has a custom magnetic vinyl across his entire rear tailgate that reads... "O"ne "B"ig "A"ss "M"istake "A"merica in red white and blue, 432pt MS Serif letters.
I thought was I was behind "poopfollowers" but a guy that looked like a 70 year old, 300lb, 6'5" version of Harry Caray complete with the big old person dark sunglasses over his regular glasses got out.
I wanted to engage him and ask what his thoughts of the GOP debate were going to be and what possibly has Obama done to him directly that made him put that huge statement on his car.
But then he realized his gas latch was on the other side and had to stretch the nozzle over and around his ladder rack barely making it to the hole and was pumping the gas with the nozzle upside down to make it in. I then realized he must not be the brightest bulb to strike up a political conversation with if he can't even remember what side his trucks gas tank was on.- Haha .. A couple of sammiches short of a picnic basketRamanisky2
- popfodders: opiate of the assesTheBlueOne
- did I mention it was all CAPS slanted italic so you know he meant business,fooler
- might be rhetoric, but it doesn't mean it's untrue. funny how that works sometimes. karma's a bitch********
- 74LEO0
Remember this guy?
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Thursday night’s show by President Obama struck me as...
By Karl Rove
Presumptuous: He demanded – 17 times – that Congress immediately pass a bill no one has seen.Tired: The speech contained little new, just mostly recycled ideas or extensions of current programs that haven’t worked.
Small: Its proposals, while expensive, offer little hope of really jump-starting the economy.
Mind-boggling: Mr. Obama wants to drains hundreds of billions from Social Security for another stimulus.
Slippery: It will all be paid for, the president said, but it’s up to a Congressional committee to figure out how.
Misleading: These were just GOP ideas. Really? Republicans have proposed another $450 billion stimulus bill, Mr. Obama?
Arrogant: He refused to consult in advance with anyone on the Hill, even refusing a meeting request from the House Speaker and Majority Leader.
Self-centered: The only job he’s really concerned about is his own. If he really wanted a bipartisan package, he would have worked with Republicans to come up with one.
Unnecessary: The president would have been better off traveling the country this week to lay out proposals, surrounded by people he could claim would might benefit.
Completely political: Before he spoke, Mr. Obama sent supporters an email titled “Before I head to the Capitol” that ended with “You should donate today.”
Hyper-partisan: This speech – especially its angry tone – was aimed at setting up the Republicans for blame next fall. Then he’ll say the economy would be better if the GOP has just done what I ordered them to do.
Misguided: Mr. Obama is betting his re-elect on a massive spending bill.
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed the show.
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Mr. Obama employed the same old tired rhetoric...... And almost incomprehensibly, he promised the union throng that ‘the union movement’-- the same full partner to the problem -- would be at the center of his latest economic stimulus.
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OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT - 6 STEPS TO CREATE JOBS
http://www.friendsoftheuschamber…
http://www.uschambersmallbusines…Tweet and ReTweet!
- utopian0
Hey Pops, I know that you are looking for a job.
Romney is looking for Web/Print designers!
Just looking out, peace.
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961 days in, Obama becomes sick and tired of someone dawdling about jobs
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/…Speaking on behalf of millions of Americans who've grown angry and frustrated over the president's 32-month ineffective inactivity on the job creation front, President Obama on Thursday told members of Congress they really have to do something about the crummy employment situation -- and do it quickly.
Citing the plight of millions of struggling Americans whose wishes for jobs Obama ignored for most of the 961 days he's been in office while chasing shinier healthcare and financial reforms, Obama said it was time that Congress stop blaming others. He said it was time members take responsibility for their inaction and halt their phony partisan games and political circus acts that pervade Washington culture.
Because the Americans Obama hasn't been listening to are really hurting now. And -- who's....
....counting? -- but it's only 424 days until Nov. 6, 2012. No plan yet to pay for Obama's ideas. But he wants immediate passage of his American Jobs Act anyway.
Obama, whose Democratic spending priorities have pushed the national debt beyond $14,000,000,000,000, said it was important to curb spending and keep to the deficit reduction plan agreed to earlier this summer while also investing in, you know, many important things.
He then provided a joint session of Congress with a broadly ambitious list of goals that sounded to many people very much like a lot more spending, like, say, the $787 billion economic stimulus bill of 2009 that didn't stimulate much of anything except that national debt.
With the national debt already increasing $3 million every minute of every day, Obama wants to repair and modernize 35,000 schools. Obama wants $35 billion to go toward salaries for teachers, firefighters and police.
Obama wants $140 billion largely to update roads and bridges. Obama wants another $245 billion in business and individual tax relief. He also wants to extend unemployment benefits.
And he wants it all right now. Seriously. Now that his Martha's Vineyard vacation is over, this situation is urgent.
- Look at this fucking moron, attempting to reconcile on something he's been ignoring for 1000 days.********
- Look at this fucking moron, attempting to reconcile on something he's been ignoring for 1000 days.
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Obama's drivel: Empty suit
OBAMA'S SPEECH: The simple math
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/…
President Barack Obama took to the ultimate bully pulpit Thursday night and delivered a concise lesson in the abject failures of liberal economics.Before a joint session of Congress, the president told us that government won't be the facilitator of jobs but rather their creator and commander, which long has been government's fatal conceit. One estimate pegs the cost of the new "stimulus" package at $450 billion with supposed future cuts to cover the cost.
Once again, Mr. Obama attempted to put the brightest spit shine -- "This is simple math," he said -- on the usual platitudes of "progressivism."
There's the latest grand design to create jobs by rebuilding America's public infrastructure. Never mind that spending on infrastructure, in absolute terms and as a percent of GDP, was, in 2008, the highest since 1981. Pay no attention to the crash behind the curtain of the same year.
An "infrastructure bank"? More government diktat-nomics, a sop to the nation's flailing labor unions, which, paid "prevailing wage," will shaft taxpayers even more by artificially inflating the projects' costs.
There's the plan to yet again extend unemployment benefits (a "policy" that only extends the term of unemployment) and another to throw more candy to states (that eat it by the bagful before breakfast, then complain of the stomachache).
There's the payroll (Social Security) tax cut extension for workers, which history shows (because of its recidivist temporary status), will be stashed, not spent, and won't "create" a single job.
Then there's the proposed companion tax credit, payroll and otherwise, for employers who create jobs. It's supposed to be a "demand stimulus." But as economist Donald J. Boudreaux notes, "Inflation-adjusted personal consumption expenditures in the U.S. today are higher than they were in the third quarter of 2007 (the quarter before the recession began).
"The problem isn't that consumers aren't spending; it's that businesses aren't investing ... because of Congress' and, especially, the administration's fetish for top-down, command-and-control, debt-financed 'governance' of the economy -- an enterprise-quashing recipe made only more poisonous by Mr. Obama's soak-the-rich speechifying."
Which he continued to do last night.
President Obama's proposals are nonstarters based on economic non sequiturs born out of political desperation. They are simply more interventionist lies to cover over the lies of the last failed government intervention. And that, tragically, is "the simple math" of Barack Obama's failed presidency.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/J…Speaking in the months after her husband's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy was so upset with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that she told a friend and interviewer that she could barely look at images of him.
"I just can't see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man's terrible," Mrs. Kennedy said, as part of an oral history series of interviews released this month.
- have a listen...********
- You're a racist fucking douchebag. It must be nice to be safe and say these things behind a computer screenTheBlueOne
- no, I'm stating what Jackie O said bro... jackie O!********
- have a listen...
- BonSeff0
the house has shot down everything since the GOP took the majority. all they have done is obstruct. They have no plan. they love the high unemployment rate. they want to keep it there until Nov 2012.
but yea, blame the president on policy that needs to be legislated through congress.
fucking idiot.- you're so full of fucking shit and know you are wrong and are just angry about your own party. admit it for once...!********
- wrong about what? supporting our president? eat shitBonSeff
- ha ha the fact that he sucks as this job assface... admit it. EMPTY SUIT, get fucking real********
- how quickly you forget about nearly falling into another great depression. you asshats give him zero credit.BonSeff
- I love how you point fingers, he is the EXECUTIVE CHIEF and sucks at his job. Just as your buddy TheBlowHard********
- how I point fingers? That's rich.
You don't understand how things work on the hill, jackass.BonSeff - This isn't a dictatorship, moron. bills have to be passed through congress, and originate in the GOP controlled house.BonSeff
- i hope your face catches on fire and someone puts it out with an ice pick.BonSeff
- haDrBombay
- wow, how original and I love the threats, shows your maturity level********
- you're so full of fucking shit and know you are wrong and are just angry about your own party. admit it for once...!
- DrBombay0
don't engage the troll.
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Fact check on Obama's claims
http://www.startribune.com/polit…President Obama's claim: "Everything in this bill will be paid for. Everything."
The facts: Obama did not spell out how he would pay for the measures contained in his nearly $450 billion American Jobs Act, but said he would send his proposed specifics in a week to the new panel charged with finding budget savings. White House aides suggested that new deficit spending in the near-term to try to promote job creation would be paid for in the future, but they did not specify what would be cut or what revenues they would use.
Essentially, the jobs plan is an IOU from a president and lawmakers who may not even be in office when the bills come due. Today's Congress cannot bind a later one for future spending. A future Congress could simply reverse it. So there is no guarantee that programs that clearly will increase annual deficits in the near term will be paid for in the long term.
Obama's claim: "Everything in here is the kind of proposal that's been supported by both Democrats and Republicans, including many who sit here tonight."
The facts: His proposed cut in the Social Security payroll tax does seem likely to garner GOP support. But there are a lot of other proposals that already have generated Republican opposition. For instance, Obama makes a pitch anew to end Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, which he has defined as couples earning more than $250,000 a year or individuals earning more than $200,000 a year. Republicans have blocked what they view as new taxes. As recently as last month, House Republicans refused to go along with any deal to raise the government's borrowing authority that included new revenues, or taxes.
- Not a single fact in that entire stream of shit.zarkonite
