Big Ol' Smitty

Look at this motherfucking rap connoisseur.

Not 'round here. I got people with advanced degrees making $6.50/hr where I'm working. About 7.3 million people make the minimum wage.

You was a ballerina, I got the pictures I seen ya.

Raising the minimum wage spikes the unemployment rate almost ever single time its done. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The last time it was raised we added 11 million jobs over the next 4 years. However, I think stuff like the earned income tax credit is better because the minimum wage puts the entire burden on employers of low skill workers.

There's no correlation between where doctors decide to practice and state liability laws.

Medical malpractice costs make up about one half of one percent of total health care costs.

Er, no...I searched in vain.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1187030&page=1 Espionage Case Breaches the White House Accused Marine Worked in Vice President's Office By BRIAN ROSS and RICHARD ESPOSITO Oct. 5, 2005 — Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history. Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney. Federal investigators say Aragoncillo, a naturalized citizen from the Philippines, used his top secret clearance to steal classified intelligence documents from White House computers. In 2000, Aragoncillo worked on the staff of then-Vice President Al Gore. When interviewed by Philippine television, he remarked how valued Philippine employees were at the White House. "I think what they like most is our integrity and loyalty," Aragoncillo said. Classified Material Transferred by E-Mail Officials say the classified material, which Aragoncillo stole from the vice president's office, included damaging dossiers on the president of the Philippines. He then passed those on to opposition politicians planning a coup in the Pacific nation. "Even though it's not for the Russians or some other government, the fact that it occurred at the White House is a matter of great concern," said John Martin, who was the government's lead espionage prosecutor for 26 years. Last year, after leaving the Marines, Aragoncillo was caught by the FBI while he worked for the Bureau at an intelligence center at Fort Monmouth, N.J. According to a criminal complaint, Aragoncillo was arrested last month and accused of downloading more than 100 classified documents from FBI computers. "The information was transferred mostly by e-mails," said U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie at the time of Aragoncillo's arrest. Since that arrest, officials say Aragoncillo has started to cooperate. He has admitted to spying while working on the staff of Vice President Cheney's office.

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Disregard the above. "Takeover" is best.

I know you asshole.

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=73807

Good news for those who don't like torture! The McCain Amendment passed the Senate, despite Bill Frist's best efforts.

That he was captured or that he infiltrated the White House?

I don't know what kinda parties you're going to.

... Are we talking about the same guy here? Tom Delay is at least somewhat crooked. His party had to change the ethics rules so he could remain majority leader. Everyone around him (Abramoff, other TRMPAC guys) has been indicted. Hell, Abramoff, who has payed for some of Delay's junkets, is even being questioned in connection with mob murders. How are "conspiracy to launder money" and "money laundering" "nebulous charges"?

Um, children? I don't think we had any children at Abu Ghraib. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hersh (speech): Also, http://www.sundayherald.com/43796 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I am having a hard time fathoming this and am somewhat skeptical. If there is photographic evidence well then this potentially disasterous but I cannot imagine our servicemen, even with a mob mentality, stooping so low. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican, South Carolina): And keep in mind: www.aclu.org/torturefoia

Torture Memo http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4989422/

That's why I said ceteris paribus--"all other things being equal." And you make a good point. I would also suggest that poverty is an infinitely better indicator of "criminality" than race. 1/4 of American arrestees are black. 1/4 of America's poor population is black.

Sometimes Hispanics are considered white. That's why some statistics you will see have categories like "White (Non-Hispanic). I would say that Hispanics are lumped in w/whites in this stat.

Indeed.

I'm not following you... I'm saying that if you physically removed all white people from the US, ceteris paribus, the crime RATE would go UP.

No, it doesn't. If you eliminated all white babies, the crime rate would actually go up.

I think what we've all learned here is that violence is nature, no matter what the organism.