“We have 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the people in prison. Either we’re the most evil people on earth, or we’re doing something wrong . . . I saw more drug use at Georgetown University Law Center when I was a student there than I’ve seen anywhere else in my life. And some of those people are judges.”

     ~ Senator James Webb

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  1. Hmm, what do you think of this? A good friend just sent it:

    Chicago politicians really know how to play the game!

    At the top right hand corner of Page 17 of the New York Post of January 24th, 2009, was a short column entitled “Replacing Michelle” in the National Review “The Week” column. Here it is, word for word, as it appeared:

    Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run “programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting”.

    In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 – nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator.

    Oh did we mention that her husband had just become a US Senator? He sure had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact.
    Way to network Michelle!

    But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?

    We can think of only one explanation: Senator Roland Burris’s wife wasn’t interested.

    Let me add that Michelle’s position was a half time, 20 hour a week job.
    And to think they were critical of Blagoyovich’s wife for taking $100,000 in fuzzy real estate commission.

    My thoughts: How did this bit of quid pro quo corruption escape the sharp reporters that dug through Sarah Palin’s garbage and kindergarten files?

    Unbelievable!

  2. re:Quote of day, & numbers in prison; in contradistinction to Ms. Graham’s obviously lop-sided-leftward opinion, we have, if anything, too few illegal border crossers (they are NOT immigrants) in jail, or deported (what part of ILLEGAL don’t you understand). But, to the point; it is certainly because we have a free society, albeit decreasingly so, that people feel that punishment can be avoided, or, is not so severe that one can take more liberty with their offenses that could nearly anyone else, anywhere else in the world. We could put a serious dent in prison population if we chose punishment as is common in other countries. Thankfully, last I heard, the US judicial system, with all its faults, has not sawed off anyone’s head lately and posted it to the internet.
    Perhaps we need more indoctrination to socialism and relativism in our Government schools?

  4. While employed as a civil servant for the Army, I managed items of supply. One of those items was a general illumination lightset (a string of light sockets with an overpriced set of boxes). After hurricane Hugo ripped through south Florida, we were out of stock and awaiting delivery from our only source of supply, the Federal Prisons Industries. I called the prison to speak to the floor manager on getting an improved delivery schedule. He informed me that if I wanted a better delivery schedule, send him better prisoners. Maybe the demand for prison made goods have fallen off so sharply that it’s too expensive to feed the slave labor.

  5. I’m going to guess the problem might be:
    (1) the increase in the number of detained illegal immigrants, particularly by private prisons (see excerpt below); or
    (2) the disproportionate number of African-American men incarcerated (six times more than white men), or
    (2) the disproportionate number of African-American men sent to prison for drug-related offenses (13 times more than white men).
    But what the proposed solution that would be proposed, I’m not sure.

    References: http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/64, and http://www.corpwatch.org
    ———————————-
    GEO Group, Inc.: Despite a Crashing Economy, Private Prison Firm Turns a Handsome Profit,
    “GEO reported impressive quarterly earnings of $20 million on February 12, 2009, along with an annual income of $61 million for 2008 – up from $38 million the year before. But the company’s share value is not the only thing that’s growing. Behind the financial success and expansion of the for-profit prison firm, there are increasing charges of negligence, civil rights violations, abuse and even death.
    “Detaining immigrants has become a profitable business, and the niche industry is showing no signs of slowing down. The number of undocumented immigrants the U.S. federal government jails has grown by at least 65 percent in the last six years. In 2002, the average daily population of immigration detainees was 20,838 people, according to ICE records. By 2008, the average daily population had grown to 31,345.
    “Since 2003, more than a million people have been processed through federal immigration lockups, which are part of a network of at least 300 local, state and federal lockups, including seven contracted detention facilities. GEO operates four of those seven for-profit prisons.”

  6. Okay folks, its time to guess the dialectic. In other words, a problem is being defined (i.e. framed) by DC. The question is, what’s the solution that they have already planned to give the public, that’s my concern. DC doesn’t publicize problems unless they already have a solution that they want the public to accept. So, I ask again, what is the dialectic, and what do you think the proposed synthesis of that dialectic is?

    I don’t see it yet, but I’m sure if we put our collective brains together we’ll figure it out. C’mon, it’ll be fun.

  7. 1 John 5:19 We know we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the [power of the] wicked one.

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