With unemployment at 16%, and maybe even at 20%, we are in a lot of trouble. Once rising taxes start having more of an impact on the business, unemployment will go even higher. We are about to see once and for all exactly what an unchecked liberal agenda will do the economy and this Country. It ain't gonna be pretty.

The video report spends a bit of time talking about the difficulties that convicts are having in the job market. Yeah well, surprise, surprise. There are consequences, and in this job market, with millions of people unemployed, why hire a convict stock your shelves or sweep out your store or serve your customers when you can hire an over qualified college graduate to do it? The way things are going, you could probably hire an ex-policeman to do it.

I know, it's hard to get worked up about criminals who can't find a job, especially since some of us are looking ourselves and most of us know at lease one person who is now looking. But if you don't care about all those criminals, you should, but not for the reasons they're talking about in the report.

Just the other day my very good friend Rodg had a post up about a group of self proclaimed anarchists who are planning what they call "the Coming Insurrection." The post prompted an interesting discussion that did not necessarily stay on topic, as sometimes happens, and I'm going to duplicate my contribution to the discussion here:

Earlier this week here in Miami, we had a guy pulled over by a couple of trolls with a phony police light on their dash. They robbed him, beat him, and left him on the side of the road.

With actual unemployment numbers up at around 16%, crime is going to go right throught the roof. All states are laying off police and court personnel. LEO response time is going to be worse then ever and only the really bad stuff is going to be prosecuted anyways. We're gonna have to protect ourselves as best we can in the coming shit storm.

If these insurrectionists wanna gang up and go after the 0bama army of community organizers, well, I'd be tempted to pop some popcorn and turn on the TV.

I believe the real problem is, that 0bama will label anything they do as right wing extremism, and use it to take our guns and our rights away, just I believe as he'll use any moslem terrorist attack on US soil to do the same thing.

Call me paranoid.

The insanity of the crime wave going on here in South Florida is unbelievable. Home invasions are becoming pretty much a daily thing. Grocery shopping is putting your life on the line. They follow you home and get you when you're carrying your groceries into the house. At the end of May, a man was shot several times while he was mowing his lawn, two guys tried to rob him, he put up a fight and they shot him.

Very early this past Easter, I think I narrowly escaped a mugging myself outside of the local 7-11. I was coming out, a little after 8am. I had 2 bottles of coffee (starbucks mocha frap) in one hand and my wallet and keys in the other. As I came up on my truck, reflected in the window, I saw this black guy running right at me with one hand in the air, and something in his hand, it could have been anything. I didn't think, I just dropped the coffee, snatched the door open and jumped in the truck as quick as I could. Pulled the door shut and locked it. I looked out and he had turned around, was running the other way. I think the bastard was gonna hit my head with what was in his hand, a sap or a coosh or whatever, and snatch my wallet except I got lucky and saw him, got in the truck too quick for him.

And you know what? If he had hit me in the back of the head, he likely would have collapsed my skull. I just can't absorb a blow to the back of my head, not since I had brain surgery. My skull would simply cave in and I would probably die.

At the time, I was very calm about it. I just put the key in the ignition and drove away. I went down the road to the gas station and bought myself some more coffee, went home. But the thought kept coming back to me, I think I could very well have died right there in that 7-11 parking lot. Later that day, it caught up to me, I got the shakes and I actually cried for a bit.

I suppose he might have been lost, maybe he just needed directions and tried to catch me before I got in my truck. Maybe I overreacted and imagined the danger. Could be, but I don't think so and can't bring myself to go anywhere near that 7-11 again.

Anyways, the point is, crime is on the rise, and cities and states are laying off law enforcement and court personnel. The prosecution of criminals is happening less and less, and according to the report in that video up there, the next cost saving step is to reduce the number of prisoners presently incarcerated. To empty the prisons. This way, the city and state doesn't have to feed, clothe and house thousands and thousands of criminals.

The report in that video talks about prisons being emptied and how those thousands and thousands of criminals in that one state are going to swell the ranks of the unemployed, as if that's the only thing that matters. As if those criminals are all perfectly rehabilitated and are going to spend their time looking for a job. Yeah. Right.

What that report doesn't talk about is those thousands and thousands of criminals in that one state translates to millions of criminals across the country.

What that report doesn't talk about is that prisons are going to be emptied and millions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of criminals already on our streets. Because that's the reality of what's going to happen.

What is doesn't talk about is how the prisons are going to be emptied, and millioins of criminals are going to swell the ranks of criminals already on our streets at a time when we have less and less police officers on the streets to catch them.

What is doesn't talk about is that millions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of criminals already on our streets at a time when we have less and less police officers to catch them and less and less court personnel to prosecute them.

What is doesn't talk about is that millions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of already criminals on our streets at a time when we have less and less police officers to catch them, less and less court personnel to prosecute them, at a time when we are not locking them up anyway because the cities and the states are emptying the prisons because they claim they can't afford to keep criminals locked up in the first place.

If your house is burglarized, if you're mugged, or raped, or otherwise the victim of crime, do you think anyone is going to care? Do you think your local police force is going to have the manpower to investigate? And if they do investigate, and if they actually catch the troll that did it, do you think they're gonna lock your troll up at a time when they're emptying the prisons of every other troll who was convicted of doing the same thing last year or the year before or even last month?

Bernie Madoff they'll keep in prison until he croaks. But the troll who raped your neighbor's daughter when he robbed their house? They're letting him out early.

It's a cold hard world out there, and it's getting colder and harder by the minute. I'm armed, but the cold, hard reality of life is, on Easter morning, my weapon would not have done me the slightest bit of good. I could not have gotten it into my hand and into a position to protect me in time to save my life. I got lucky, that's the plain and simple truth.

If your ass needs saving, you're gonna have to save it yourself, as best you can, because your government is too busy saving polar bears to worry about you. That's what the liberal agenda calls for and that's what this government is spending your money on, squandering away your future and putting your personal safety on the chopping block.

On the February 14 last year Mr Alva-Nunes desperately rushed his son to A&E for a second time.

Doctors spent 20 to 30 minutes with him before sending him home with painkillers and antibiotics.

Three days later Fabio lost consciousness at home in Redhill and paramedics were called.

His mother, 36, told the Daily Mirror the paramedics decided to take him into hospital after three hours.

It was then more than 24 hours until Fabio was taken to Evelina Children's Hospital in south London where he died.

This is what Fabio looked like when he died:

Mrs Alves-Nunes told the Daily Mirror: "We held his hand as he slipped away."

Mr Alves-Nunes, 36, told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "We'll remember our little boy like this, his eyes so swollen he could barely see, his body covered in open weeping sores, his favourite pyjamas soaked through with blood, sweat and pus.

"He was hallucinating and so wiped out from the pain and dehydration he could not even lift his own head.

"We knew something was terribly wrong. So why didn't two doctors and three nurses?"

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, said it accepted there were sytematic failings, but denies they contributed to Fabio's death.

Indeed, that's why on the hospital report, all of the names of all of the people who took "care" of Fabio during his hospital stay were "blanked out."

Well hey, at least Fabio got to visit the hospital, and he was seen by a health care professional before he died. He received his fair share of bargain basement health care courtesy of the government. In the end, that's what really matters, isn't it?

I saw a headline that said show business did it, but that was likely just a contributing factor. There was something that killed him, and if you want to know what that something was, well, the answer is probably right here, and it's probably going to piss off a lot of people. Somehow, the truth always seems to manage to do just that.

But really, if you have even a lick of common sense left, you'll understand, and if not, I guess you'll just get pissed off.

I'll tell you this, my doctor is a Jew, an Ashkenazi Jew. As am I.

Call me crazy, but I certainly would not choose to have a doctor who was likely admitted to medical school solely on the basis of skin color with test scores that would have resulted in automatic rejection if said skin color happened to have been white.

And before you want to call me a racist and tell me that Conrad was well edjumacated at the Meharry Medical College, please note that Meharry is a private, historically black college dedicated to educatiing black people. And please, first remember who prescribed and then administered the poisonous cocktail that stopped Michael Jackson's heart, and then, listen to the 911 call.

You'll hear a man telling the 911 operator that Jackson is unconscious on the bed, and that someone is doing chest compressions on him. The first thing the operator tells him is to move Jackson off the bed, since a hard surface is required for proper chest compression. The 911 operator is then told that the someone doing the CPR is none other then the brilliant cardiologist who had no idea that all he was doing to Jackson was pushing him into the bed springs. That's the first thing they teach you in CPR, a firm surface is required. You would expect a cardiologist to know that, but who knows, maybe they don't teach that part at Meharry.

No wonder the good doctor "beat it" after Jackson died.

Here's a surprise... this video has been banned by YouTube.

Photographs.

Word is that 119 members of Tehran University faculty have resigned in protest of the attack on Tehran University last night. Among them is Dr Jabbedar-Maralani, who is known as the father of Iranian electronic engineering. They have asked for the resignation of Farhad Rahbari the appointed president of Tehran University, for his incompetence in defending the University's dignity and student lives.

A year ago I was homeless, a little violent, a little crazy. I was living on the street and stabbing people in the face over crystal meth deals. And then I got paid 20 dollars to vote six times for Barack Obama, under six different names, and I was born again into six different men, one of whom was actually a woman, two of whom were dead, and one of whom was Donald Duck. Amen. Praise be Barack.

Today the glory of Barack Obama fills every corner of my life and it can fill yours too. People ask me all the time, "Jim, How can I be touched by the grace of Obama?" The answer is simple. All you have to do is believe. And pay up. Because Barack Obama needs your money. He can't do anything without your money.

Why should I give Barack Obama my money, you might be asking yourself?

I know you want the answer to that question, if fact, I know you can't wait to hear it. That's why you're gonna click right here to get it.

What a hateful ugly thing. Why not put that on the cover on Time Magazine?

Maybe sting stole it, he could use a little extra! ahahahaha.

Dang, but he looks like Robin Williams.

Just six months after a $500 million renovation, The Fontainebleau was left with an eight-foot hole in its lobby ceiling and ankle-deep water in its night club.

''It was literally like a waterfall, coming in from the ceiling,'' said Amy Kates of Rochester, N.Y., who is staying at the Fontainebleau while her husband attends an orthopedic conference there.

Kates said the hotel staff had blocked off the area under the ceiling leak, and were pushing the water off the lobby's bow-tie tile floor and out the front door.

"Then the ceiling caved in.''

Now... what if that ceiling had collapsed just a few months earlier, say... in March?

Oh well.

That's Newsweek editor Evan Thomas, first calling President Reagan "parochial, chauvinist and provincial," and then declaring on MSNBC: "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."

I saw that at Ace of Spades and all I could think was, stop the damm planet, I wanna get off.

WTF is happening to this country?

UPDATE:

Good Lord. Even John Stewart is choking on it. Wait for the last line...

Oh my. That was hilarious.