The prison has an annual expenditure of $ 903,614 per inmate, a budget greater than that assigned to U.S. maximum security prisons, which annually spend about $ 70,000 per prisoner.

What!?

I'm hoping that number is artificially inflated. They can't claim all the expentitures at Guantanamo are being used toward prisoners, right? I'm really, really hoping that's how they arrived at that figure.

I did not know that. I had always assumed the Catholic church adjusted their stance several years after Luther. Thanks for the insight. :-)

Gotcha. That definitely clears up what impression you're trying to create.

All caps are CERTAIN to make your point in a reasonable manner...

Diablo, are you sure you're not Lutheran? That whole "saved by Grace" thing seems awful Lutherany of you. ;-)

Just what did / does the Katrina area have in so much abundance that lead to that horror story....that Oklahoma DOES NOT.....what could it be ?

Jazz music
Cajun influence
Formerly owned by the French
Voodoo
French names
Shrimp
Access to the ocean
An influx of drunk college students on Mardi Gras

This is a fun game! Do you have more?

#31 | Posted by Kreator at 2013-05-22 05:39 PM | Reply | Flag: missed the point

Weiner is a truth speaking liberal that any state would be lucky to have as their mayor.

Lack of proofreading? Stupidity? Trolling? Self-retorting retort? You be the judge!!

I wonder how the clean up will compare to Katrina? I bet those in Oklahoma wont need as much help or caring for.

#39 | Posted by boaz at 2013-05-21 05:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Population of Oklahoma (the entire state, mind you, not just the area affected by the tornado): 3.815 million

Population of New Orleans metro area (just New Orleans, now, and not the entire area affected by Katrina): 1.2 million

Now, I know the first number is bigger than the second, and as tragic as this tornado was, I'd wager that far more people were affected by Katrina than this tornado.

THE 'FOOLISH' PEOPLE OF OK PUT THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE THAT YOU EAT

I don't like eating plates. The glass is too crunchy.

ba-DUMP-chk

Thank you. I'll be here all week.

This is a private company enforcing its own standards of behavior. I thought right-wingers were all about letting the free market decide how to handle itself?

I think the distinction is that few people identify with a strictly "white culture," whereas other races have cultural features. Thus, it's more about culture than skin color. Since there's not necessarily a clear "white culture," I think it'd be a better comparison to create, say, scholarships for German Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, etc., where cultural features can be distinguished. "White Pride" I believe sounds racist, and rightfully so, but "German Pride" does not, even given the Nazis and their ilk. Of course, too much pride in something like race or nationality, features that you have no control over, is also a recipe for disaster, but I don't think a little bit hurts.

Seems there's been more years of discrimination against whites now then there were years of slavery...

#5 | Posted by reitze at 2013-05-15 06:40 PM |

Am I the only one to pick up on this nugget of overreactive hyperbole?

I usually see both sides of an argument here. It's rare for me to come across something so mind-numbingly stupid as the above statement.

They would most likely give Gosnell a medal there, too.

Yep. Because letting two people who are in love declare their commitment to each other and reap some legal benefits is totally on par with what that monster did. Statements like this is why people think pro-lifers and anti-gay marriage people are psychos.

As a religious person myself, I understand your religious objections, but rationally, we don't live in a theocracy. Religiously I'm very torn about homosexuality, but politically I have never been able to see an argument against gay marriage. If you take religion out of it, there's just no reason not to allow it. None.

There are so many things in that article that made my head spin:

First, what exactly DOES insect poop look like? I mean, every living thing poops (except for Catherine Zeta Jones), but to be able to recognize large insect poop in the middle of the night while clinging to a nearly vertical rock in the middle of shark-infested waters? That takes a special kind of scientist.

And then - to be an expert on insect breeding boggles the mind. I truly admire someone with enough knowledge to be able and willing to nurse something like that back to life.

Not to mention the fact that the last 24 of these things were found alive living in just one area under one bush for who knows how long.

And the fact that they pair off and spoon when they sleep? I got warm fuzzies!

Of course, when I started the article, I thought they were accidentally discovered by rock climbers in the middle of the night, and I was trying to imagine accidentally coming across a few of those things whilst clinging to that rock in the middle of the night. Can you imagine? You put your fingers over a precarious hold, feel something crawling across them, peek your head up to see that thing nestling against your hand? *shivers*

I think the word "actor" here is being used loosely. Actors know (or should know) that you never, never, never appear with a prop weapon outside of a tightly controlled environment. They're lucky nobody was killed.

I don't know whether to be depressed now or happy. Thanks DR and Zach for the deep conflicting emotions!

A really nice song and beautiful gesture, though. Very poignant and touching lyrics.

I can't believe there are people questioning the cops in this video. You can clearly see the guy get hit and then continue to try to aim his weapon at the police. At that point, I'd think the proper response would be to make sure he can't fire the weapon any more, however you'd need to do it.

My in-laws kiss on the lips - man to woman and woman to woman. I always felt weird about it, though, so I've refrained, but now I'm the weirdo who doesn't kiss anyone.

On my side of the family, my dad and his brother kiss their mother on the lips, but it seems to have stopped at that generation because after about fifth grade, I didn't kiss either of my parents on the lips anymore.

I kiss my son on the lips, but he's two. I haven't figured out at what point I should stop doing that, but I know I'm not there yet.

Mitt Romney was 2012's John Kerry. Has this occurred to nobody else? The alternative candidate so bad that a sub-par president gets re-elected? And both from Massachussetts, too! And the hair!? And fake tans!?!?! This stuff writes itself!

#7-
Shhhh.... you'll lose your conservative credibility....

;-)

taco bell is cheaper than a bullet and the meat is of equal quality as a squirell

If I was a squirrel, I'd be insulted.

#35 - Thank GOD. I can sleep easier now! ;-)

By the most recent data, the average white family had about $632,000 in wealth

Well, THAT'S depressing. Looks like I've been slacking quite a bit.

My grandmother told me that her grandparents forbade her then young mother to speak German in the house after they emigrated from the Old World -- even though the parents barely spoke English. The kids grew up not knowing German, but spoke perfect English and became very successful and productive citizens.

I love stories like these. My own grandparents were in a different situation. My paternal grandparents were both fluent in German (my understanding is that they were fluent in different dialects, which is also interesting to me - apparently they'd speak German around the house, but it wasn't always easy because of the dialects) despite having been born in the US. I don't think my grandmother received education beyond 8th grade, but my grandfather worked his way through school to a doctorate degree and taught at every level of school except kindergarten. He was supported by his family at home who were building bridges in Nebraska during the Depression to help pay for his schooling. At any rate, you can see there that bilingualism and "American" values were both celebrated, not one to the exclusion of the other.

My maternal grandparents were a different story. My mother tells me that her mother, when she was little, had her grandmother living with them. The grandmother had come over from Germany. Every time my grandmother would sit down to start working on English homework or to practice the piano, her grandmother would dump out water which would require my grandmother to stop what she was doing to fetch more from the well. I may have the details wrong, but you can see the gist of it - Great great grandmother Dylanfan was not too keen on English or music education for little girls. And yet within a generation, everyone seemed to be functioning pretty normally.