Another 1st Place for the Penile State

Which can now be said to be truly earning the name this blog has bestowed upon it:

MIAMI - Florida's prison population has topped 100,000 for the first time, making it only the third state in the nation to break into six digits after California and Texas.

The Department of Corrections said the number was reached Thursday. At 100,000, Florida's prison population roughly equals incarcerating one out of every four residents of Miami, or almost all the citizens of Gainesville, home to the University of Florida. More... Many Happy Returns!

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A Round of Bronxian Cheers for the Penile State

 A report out today puts the Sunshine State near the very bottom - ranking 50 out of 51 - in the nation for children's health care. Orlando Sentinel, May 2008.

Florida ranks dead last in a national report card rating access to emergency care, according to a study released Tuesday by the American College of Emergency Physicians. Palm Beach Post, Dec. 10, 2008.

Florida ranks 50th in nation in education funding; local districts foot much larger portion. Palm Beach Post, April 2, 2008.

Florida Healthcare System Ranks 50th, Says Florida Health Insurance Analyst. It's Florida Time, May 29, 2008

Study: Florida Ranks 50th In High-School Graduation Rates ...

Source:

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS291US304&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=florida+ranks+50th+in+health

An additional Bronx kudos for newspapers that fail to maintain web pages where their reports of public welfare appear.

Happy Holidays - The Mgmt.

What, him worry?

Iraqis Rally in Support of Man Who Threw Shoes at Bush

Penile State assists The Stupids

MIAMI — An obscure ballot initiative in Florida intended to end a legacy of bias against Asian-Americans was defeated Tuesday, apparently because voters incorrectly assumed it would prevent illegal immigrants from owning property.

Had it passed, the initiative, known as Amendment No. 1, would have removed from the state’s Constitution language adopted in 1926 allowing the Legislature to prohibit foreigners who were barred from citizenship — Asian-Americans at the time — from owning land. 

On the Web site of one group, Americans for Legal Immigration, a member wrote that it should be left standing because “ ‘illegal aliens’ should not have ‘rights’ like U.S. citizens have. The only right they should have is deportation!”

The group’s president, William Gheen, did not respond to e-mail messages seeking comment but Enos Schera, 81, who posted the message, said that he was “1,000 percent” satisfied that the law remained in place.

He is a founder of Citizens of Dade United, a Miami group opposing illegal immigration, and he said he knew the provision’s history but hoped that keeping it on the books would encourage lawmakers to prevent all illegal immigrants from owning property.

“They’re buying up the whole country,” he said. more

My O My

Polis, Polite, Police...Fascist

This, especially the comments thread, says a good deal about Murka. A fine country to be from. 

Far from.

  

Bombers need not be terrorists: Palin

footnotes: 

1. McCain's famously shiteating grin is somewhat dim.

2. "By his own admittance" - to the hospital? 

You Decide: Does McCain Support Bush or Not?

Let's hear what you decide:

Little Havana is Changing

"The Republican party that I knew and loved has left me behind, so this year I'm voting for change, I'm voting for Barack Obama," said 60-year-old Carlos Saladrigas. BBC

"I, I, I see Russia from my house"

courtesy Andrew Sullivan

Flaming asshole poses as "Journalist" in Florida

Reality TV like it oughta be:

Joe Biden was asked questions by Orlando WFTV "Journalist" Barbara West on Thursday that read like a set of Karl Rove-wannabe talking points. At one point the Senator actually stopped to ask, "Are you joking? Is this a joke? Or is that a real question?" 

You will be shocked...shocked to learn that West's Husband is a GOP Media Consultant.

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A bit of sense in Sarasota

Oct. 19th, 2008

Incompetent AND Malicious

Florida's GOP lawmakers blamed for early-voting lines

Saying early voting cost too much money with rules that weren't uniform, Republican legislators led a charge three years ago to set new statewide standards limiting the number of polling sites and their hours of operation.

Those revamped rules trimmed early voting from 12 hours per workday to eight.

During the first presidential election since Gov. Jeb Bush signed the bill in 2005, the new law's impact can be seen throughout South Florida: exhausting lines at polling sites in Miami-Dade and Broward that led voters to miss work, senior citizens to beg for chairs and voting advocates to question whether some are being disenfranchised. more via Digby

Penile state: small and limp

St. Louis, Oct. 19, 2008: Crowd estimated at 100,000




Tampa, Oct. 20, 2008: Crowd estimated at 8,000





Must be some kind of southward devolution...