Had a great time at my buddy Phil's on Saturday! Good beer... great ribs... excellent friends including "He Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned"... and... the "killing" of a bottle of 12 year old Redbreast!
(*SIGH*)
God bless Sally for putting up with the bunch of us and for having been the Hostess With The Mostess!
(Oh, Maria... never fear... you too are consistently a Hostess With The Mostess...!!!)
Some damn fine potato salad as well... not to mention some mighty tasty sausage!
Some spirited discussion of the Zimmerman case...
A wee bit of outdoor singing past the bewitching hour... but no neighbor complaints and no cops!
Anyway... on to today's newsbites!
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/confirmed-gang-membership-up-40-under-obama-violent-attacks-on-whites-up-18/
Newt Gingrich correctly pointed out yesterday that gang membership has grown by 40% since Barack Obama was elected President.
There were approximately 1 million gang members in 2008 in the United States, an astonishing number. The FBI reported: Approximately 1 million gang members belonging to more than 20,000 gangs were criminally active within all 50 states and the District of Columbia as of September 2008.
* AND TODAY...?
Today there are at least 1.4 million gang members in the United States, an increase by 40% since 2009.
The FBI reported: Some 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs with about 1.4 million members are criminally active in the U.S. today. Many are sophisticated and well organized; all use violence to control neighborhoods and boost their illegal money-making activities, which include robbery, drug and gun trafficking, fraud, extortion, and prostitution rings. According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report, gangs are responsible for an average of 48% of violent crime in most jurisdictions, and up to 90% in others.
* KEEP READING...
Those would be troubling numbers with any group, or any other racial group anyway, but the Department of Justice’s statistics show that violent crimes against White non-Hispanics increased 18% from 2010 to 2011.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
This increased cannot be put down to an across the board increase in violent crimes, because during that same period, violent crimes against blacks only increased by 2%.
(*SHRUG*)
Serious Violent Crimes against whites, such as rape and murder, increased by 13%.
Serious Violent Crimes against blacks within that same period increased by only 4%.
Serious Violent Crimes against Hispanics "only" increased by 7%. (Overall crimes against Hispanics jumped by 42%.)
* WOW... I WONDER WHICH GROUP WAS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT? ASIANS, MAYBE...???
(*SNICKER*)
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-07-21/news/chi-chicago-crime-iphone-robbery-magnificent-mile-20130721_1_florida-girl-teen-girl-iphone
Two visitors to Chicago received a rude welcome to the city Friday when one was robbed by a group of city teens and the other was punched while trying to help, officials said.
* JUST "CITY TEENS." NO OTHER... er... DESCRIPTIONS?
The two visitors – a 15-year-old Florida girl and a 51-year-old Michigan woman – were both walking on the Mag Mile Friday evening when the older woman was robbed of her iPhone by a group of eight juveniles, officials said.
* THE FRIGGIN' MAGIC MILE, FOLKS...
* EIGHT... er... "JUVENILES"...
According to a police report, about 7 p.m. Friday in the 700 block of North Michigan Avenue, the teens grabbed and held [the robbery victim] while one of the teens took her iPhone from her pocket.
* "TEENS..."
After feeling her iPhone being pulled from the pack pocket of her jean shorts, Tammy grabbed the boy who took it by the backpack and held on until police got there two or three minutes later.
* WOW... NOW WE KNOW THE GENDERS...
"He just kept saying, ‘We didn't take your phone, you white b------, leave us alone,''' said [the crime victim].
"I don't think it was racial. I just think they targeted anyone whose phone they could get.'"
* AND MAYBE SHE'S RIGHT... BUT LET'S GO BACK TO WHO THE CRIMINALS WERE...
* SOUNDS LIKE THIS WAS THE TRIB'S WAY OF SAYING, "YEAH... YOUNG BLACK THUGS."
The Good Samaritan from Florida, during a telephone interview Saturday afternoon, said she was with her mother and had been taking a stroll on Michigan Avenue to look at the shops when they noticed three women, two of whom appeared to be in their 40s or 50s and one who looked to be in her 60s or 70s.
They were about 15 feet behind when they noticed three boys "creeping toward" the women, and one of the boys appeared to gesture to someone else, said the 15-year-old Florida girl. "All of a sudden seven more teens came and got close to the women," she said. Then she noticed one of the boys ripping an iPhone from a pocket of one of the three women, so forcefully that the victim said: "Give it back," but they denied they had it, said the girl. "The rest of them swarmed around her to disorient her," and began to become more physical and push the women against a small metal fence around some shrubs, the girl said.
* NICE...
With a rush of adrenaline, the Florida girl said she decided to step in, against her mother's wishes. "They felt endangered, but I'm a person who tries to help and I wanted to help the lady," she said. "My mom tried to stop me three times." The Florida girl screamed at them: "Give her back her phone," and a teen girl yelled back that they didn't have it. "That's when the girl charged at me" and punched her, hitting the Florida girl's head and ear, causing a big bump, bruising and swelling, she said.
Passersby noticed the ruckus and called police, who got there soon and arrested the teens, she said.
* AND STILL... NOTE... THE NEWSPAPER STILL REFUSES TO IDENTIFY THE "YOUTHS" AS BLACK... OR HISPANIC... OR...
* STILL... DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY SERIOUS DOUBTS ABOUT THE... er... "COMPOSITION" OF THE... er... "YOUTH"... er... "GROUP?"
* DOES ANYONE DOUBT THAT THE VICTIM WAS WHITE...? (APPARENTLY A SUFFERER OF "WHITE GUILT" AS WELL AS BLACK CRIME!)
http://watchdog.org/96500/illinois-rewarded-for-misspending-only-52-million-on-food-stamps/
Since Illinois has seen an explosion in the number of people receiving food stamps, even a slight error costs taxpayers millions.
In this instance, a mistake rate of less than 2% means $50 million is misspent.
That’s the hard truth behind the press release lauding Illinois for having a 98.3% accuracy rate for its Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
Just more than 2 million people in the state, or 16% of the population, are enrolled in the federally managed SNAP. Washington D.C,. sent Illinois $3 billion for SNAP last year.
* WONDERFUL...
(*SIGH*)
Ted Dabrowski, vice President of policy for the Illinois Policy Institute, says Illinois has seen food stamp rolls grow by double digits. “The more people you add and the bigger the program gets, the more cumbersome it gets. The more difficult it gets to manage. And you have money being given away that shouldn’t be given away,” said Dabrowski.
[According to] Dabrowksi, Illinois saw its food stamp population jump 11.5% last year.
* THE OBAMA RECOVERY, DON'T YOU KNOW...
(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)
The food stamp rolls have also seen a significant national rise. Since 2011, nearly 2 million more people have signed up for food stamps each year.
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
* FOLKS... THEY'VE MADE IT EASIER TO BECOME A FREELOADER. I'D GO SO FAR AS TO SAY THEY ENCOURAGE IT. (OR HAVEN'T YOU EVER SEEM AN "AD" FOR SNAP?)
Figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that 47.6 million people Americans receive some type of food stamp assistance.
* HMM... I THINK THEY'RE QUOTING OLD FIGURES; PRETTY SURE IT'S OVER 49 MILLION PRESENTLY. (I COULD BE WRONG...)
The average payout per person is about $133 dollars a month. The average payout per family is about $275 dollars a month.
(Dabrowksi said Illinois is the “middle of the pack” nationally in total recipients, but noted the state was second in the nation in food stamp growth last year. “We had a growth of 11.5% of the number of people on food stamps,” Dabrowksi said. “Only Wyoming was worse.”)
Dabrowksi said Illinois needs to add more jobs to get more people off food stamps.
* REALLY...??? HE SAYS THAT, DOES HE...?!
By growing the economy, more people can get away from government programs and allow the state to help those who truly need help, he said.
* WOW... THIS MAN SHOULD BE DICTATOR!
Illinois is being awarded $4 million by the USDA as recognition of it 98% accuracy rate. Smith said she doesn’t know how Illinois will spend that money.
* HOW'BOUT THEY GIVE IT BACK TO THE BROKE-ASS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/it_on_y22owkLpsldSAjDVC9isjM
Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city.
* OUTFRIGGIN'STANDING!
The feds say the moveable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion welfare program for impoverished Americans.
* REALLY...?!?! THEY SAY THAT, DO THEY...???
A spokeswoman for the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service said welfare benefits are reserved for households that buy and prepare food together. She said states should intervene if people are caught shipping non-perishables abroad.
* UH-HUH. (EVEN ARIZONA...? 'CAUSE YA KNOW... CAN'T HAVE STATES "INTERFERING" IN MATTERS INVOLVING FEDERAL SUPREMACY... LIKE INTERSTATE & INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT...)
(*SMIRK*)
The United States spent $522.7 million on foreign aid to the Caribbean last fiscal year, government data show.
* THE UNITED STATES WHICH HAS TO BORROW SOMETHING LIKE 43/46-CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR IT SPENDS...
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Still, New Yorkers say they ship the food because staples available in the States are superior and less costly than what their families can get abroad.
* FUCK... THEIR... FAMILIES!
* FUCK... THEM...!!!
“Everybody does it,” said a worker at an Associated Supermarket in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. “They pay for it any way they can. A lot of people pay with EBT.”
* GEEZUS FRIGGIN' CHRIST...
Workers at the Pioneer Supermarket on Parkside Avenue and the Key Food on Flatbush Avenue confirmed the practice. They said food-stamp recipients typically take home their barrels and fill them gradually over time with food bought with EBT cards. When the tubs are full, the welfare users call a shipping company to pick them up and send them to the Caribbean for about $70. The shipments take about three weeks.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Last week, a woman stuffed dozens of boxes of macaroni and evaporated milk into a barrel headed for her family in Kingston, Jamaica. She said she didn’t have welfare benefits and bought the food herself.
* AND THAT'S FINE...! LAUDABLE...!!! GOD BLESS THIS WOMAN!
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