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1 in 100 adults in the US is currently in jail. That’s amazing.

The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.

Using updated state-by-state data, the report said 2,319,258 adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the start of 2008 — one out of every 99.1 adults, and more than any other country in the world.

The steadily growing inmate population “is saddling cash-strapped states with soaring costs they can ill afford and failing to have a clear impact either on recidivism or overall crime,” the report said.

I am absolutely blown away by the nastiness of the Obama troops toward Hillary Clinton. That crap will backfire on them bigtime. Hillary still leads in the states that matter, the ones that actually vote democrat, last time I checked.

Barak gives a good speech and talks a good line of cross-the-aisle reaching out. But when the rubber hits the road, and the shady Republican media militia worms dark into the psyche of the American people, he will be crushed, not by John McCain, but by America’s distrust of a Liberal rookie, coke-snorting, pretty word spouting, no track-record Johnny-come-lately. As someone else has said, Barak may have a higher potential ceiling than Hillary, but he also has a much lower potential floor.

Barak, in a decade or so, you might be half the woman Hillary Clinton is. So VP is a good role for you for now. Watch as the first line plays for another couple seasons. Then you’ll be ready to move up.



For decades critics of the current American economic paradigm have warned that the prosperity of the middle class is fabricated and illusory. They have said that the gap between rich and poor was widening, that things are getting worse for the average person, not better. That deficits, both personal and state - will catch up with subsequent generations.

Now the situation is finally coming to a head, and reality is showing its face… as documented in the New York Times of all places.

The underlying problem has been building for decades. America’s median hourly wage is barely higher than it was 35 years ago, adjusted for inflation. The income of a man in his 30s is now 12 percent below that of a man his age three decades ago. Most of what’s been earned in America since then has gone to the richest 5 percent.

Yet the rich devote a smaller percentage of their earnings to buying things than the rest of us because, after all, they’re rich. They already have most of what they want. Instead of buying, and thus stimulating the American economy, the rich are more likely to invest their earnings wherever around the world they can get the highest return.

The problem has been masked for years as middle- and lower-income Americans found ways to live beyond their paychecks. But now they have run out of ways.

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Nothing this big is accidental. So now we begin the run-up to the November presidential elections. The Democrats are still deciding which of their candidates will take the nomination, but the Republican race is sewn up. John McCain, a hawk, will be the nominee. All of a sudden, six and half years after the Sept. 11th attacks, a show trial begins.

Hartmann said Mohammed is accused of being “the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks,” which he allegedly proposed to bin Laden as early as 1996. According to the charges, he obtained the funding for the plot and oversaw the entire operation, including the training of the hijackers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Hartmann said the trials will be “as open as possible” and that the accused will have the right to call their own witnesses, cross-examine prosecution witnesses and see the evidence presented against them.

“There will be no secret trials,” he said.

The trials will not be televised, but families of the victims will be given access to video of the trials. Undoubtedly that video will leak out and be the hottest thing on YouTube since Britney went nuts and shaved her head.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty. The timing of these executions will be interesting.