We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
We dedicate this piece to all of those who are still seething about McCain. This will soothe the injured heart: Anderson and Roe piano duo with Saint-Saens' The Swan. (h/t, Classical Virtuoso)
The poster asking the question on the Lolita repost brings up a noticeable modus operandi of MF. Many highly charged topics are often driven more deeply down "the chain" by a sudden blizzard of post that usually draw no comments at all.
Seems that way.
Why do you think a study from Harvard ,Standford, and Penn State would show that African Americans are look at in this day and age as apes?
"Lolita Revisited" is not (i think) a repost -- it's a 'revisited' subject.
As in, say, "The Renaissance, Revisited" might be the title of a first-ever Renaissance post, and would indicate that the theme of the post is that there are some possibly new angles on the story of the Renaissance.
LM, it makes me tired, depressed, and exhausted. As in, okay, fine, what am i 'spose to do, grab a shotgun and head downtown blasting away at--what, all non protestant Europeans? I'm already donating and voting conservative, and posting my pissant conservative notions on the web -- what else? I've added four conservative kids to the population, all save the youngest paying lotsa taxes--if they'd take an old beatup fart, i'd go overseas and shoot at AQ -- what else is there? yes yes yes, we got race problems, we got immigrant problems --who doesn't know them inside out already? here's a secret -- ALL the races got problems--all the immigrants too -- in fact, all people everywhere got problems--and always have and always will.
Illegals Costing US Taxpayers
More Than Iraq War
2-4-8
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers.
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report.
12 The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States".
Total cost is a whooping... $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!