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Lance Armstrong hosted the espy awards last week and at the ceremony, he said,"All their players (France) tested positive ... for being a** holes," the seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong was quoted as saying in the Los Angeles Daily News on Friday. BTW, I'm not French!

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Did you know ANTI-illegal groups are growing all over the country???
Comments Post a Comment Send This Page Anti-Illegal-Immigrant Groups Multiply AR Articles on Immigration Fade to Brown (May 2003) Waging War on America (Jun. 1998) Halting the Flow (Aug. 1995) More news stories on Immigration Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Daily News, August 12, 2006 Retired utility worker Charles Warren worries his quality of life is slipping and says that illegal immigrants are to blame. The 55-year-old retiree complains about day laborers waiting for work outside the nearby Home Depot, saying they give his neighborhood ?a Third World look.? ?Ten or 15 years ago, the neighborhood wasn?t like this,? Warren said. ?The states are overpopulated, there is oversprawl, and immigration is contributing to this.? After seeing a television commercial that blamed many of California?s woes on illegal immigrants, Warren immediately donated $50 to the sponsoring group, Californians for Population Stabilization. And he?s not the only one. Since the Santa Barbara-based group aired the commercials, it has collected thousands of membership applications. Other anti-illegal-immigrant groups have watched their rolls and coffers swell, from California to New York. Most of the organizations are small affairs, started by one or two people, such as California Coalition for Immigration Reform or Save Our State. Other groups, such as CAPS or Numbers USA, which center on population control, provide statistical data and research-oriented services. But anti-illegal-immigrant groups say growing interest is a wider backlash against pro-immigrant street protests that swept the country last spring and frustration with federal officials whose immigration-reform bill has stalled. Critics warn that the upsurge in activity - also being replicated among pro-immigrant groups - is evidence of a growing anti-illegal-immigrant sentiment sweeping the United States. They say the rhetoric used by those border restrictionists, such as the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and CAPS, teeters on alarmism rather than focusing on the country?s broken border system. And, they fear, it is dangerously fanning the flames of hate. ?We are in the midst of an anti-immigrant wave that periodically affects California, whether it be the 1880s with the anti-Chinese immigrant stance, the 1950s with Operation Wetback or in the 1970s in California when we used to see headlines with thousands of aliens crossing into California all the time,? said Harry Pachon, president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, a think tank that focuses on Latino issues. One group, the Arizona-based Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a civilian volunteer group patrolling the border, says it has collected $600,000 for a proposed border fence. The American Border Patrol, another civilian group that turns immigrants crossing the U.S. Mexican border over to authorities and is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, says donations are up 25 percent. And in San Diego, a newly formed Minuteman group went from just two members late last year to 200 today. ?People are joining us so fast because they are frustrated with our government,? said Jeff Schwilk, the group?s founder. ?They see all the wrangling, all the political posturing, and I think people are fed up with the inaction of their government.? {snip}

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Consequences of off-duty DUI's by L.A. sheriff's deputies?
The Los Angeles Daily News reported that sheriff's deputies who are caught driving while intoxicated while off-duty miss no more than 15 days of work(http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7845791). How do they work while their driver's licenses are suspended? Do they have another deputy drive them to crime scenes? If a regular person is caught driving while intoxicated and needs to drive to get to or from work, the period for which they are prohibited from driving and must miss work is longer than 15 days. Is it less for sheriff's deputies? Why? Unfortunately, this is not a joke. Please click the link to the newspaper article before you assume that I am making up this story.

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Taxpayers may be covering octuplet mom?s bills?
Hospital where 33-year-old gave birth asking state to reimburse its costs LOS ANGELES - A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman?s 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California?s taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red. Even before the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets last month, she had been caring for her six other children with the help of $490 a month in food stamps, plus Social Security disability payments for three of the youngsters. The public aid will almost certainly be increased with the new additions to her family. Also, the hospital where the octuplets are expected to spend seven to 12 weeks has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state?s Medicaid program, for care of the premature babies, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cost has not been disclosed. Word of the public assistance has stoked the furor over Suleman?s decision to have so many children by having embryos implanted in her womb. Harsh criticism toward the mother ?It appears that, in the case of the Suleman family, raising 14 children takes not simply a village but the combined resources of the county, state and federal governments,? Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten wrote in Wednesday?s paper. He called Suleman?s story ?grotesque.? On the Internet, bloggers rained insults on Suleman, calling her an ?idiot,? criticizing her decision to have more children when she couldn?t afford the ones she had, and suggesting she be sterilized. ?It?s my opinion that a woman?s right to reproduce should be limited to a number which the parents can pay for,? Charles Murray wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Daily News. ?Why should my wife and I, as taxpayers, pay child support for 14 Suleman kids?? Slideshow Whoa, baby Find images of famous multiples, including the Dilley sextuplets, the McCaughey septuplets and the Chukwu octuplets. more photos She was also berated on talk radio, where listeners accused her of manipulating the system and being an irresponsible mother. ?From the outside you can tell that this woman was playing the system,? host Bryan Suits said on the ?Kennedy and Suits? show on KFI-AM. ?You?re damn right the state should step in and seize the kids and adopt them out.? A call to Suleman?s publicist Mike Furtney was not immediately returned. In her only media interviews, Suleman told NBC?s ?Today? she doesn?t consider the public assistance she receives to be welfare and doesn?t intend to remain on it for long. Also, a Nadya Suleman Family Web Site has been set up to collect donations for the children. It features pictures of the mother and each octuplet and has instructions for making donations by check or credit card. Suleman, whose six older children range in age from 2 to 7, said three of them receive disability payments. She said one is autistic, but she has not disclosed the other youngsters? disabilities, and refused to say how much they get in payments. In California, a low-income family can receive Social Security payments of up to $793 a month for each disabled child. Three children would amount to $2,379. The Suleman octuplets? medical costs have not been disclosed, but in 2006, the average cost for a premature baby?s hospital stay in California was $164,273, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The average cost for just one cesarean birth in 2006 was $22,762 in California. Eight times that equals $1.3 million. For a single mother, the cost of raising 14 children through age 17 ranges from $1.3 million to $2.7 million, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is struggling to close a $42 billion budget gap by cutting services, declined through a spokesman to comment on the taxpayer costs associated with the octuplets? delivery and care. Suleman received disability payments for an on-the-job back injury during a riot at a state mental hospital, collecting more than $165,000 over nearly a decade before the benefits were discontinued last year. Some of the disability money was spent on in vitro fertilizations, which was used for all 14 of her children, Suleman said. Suleman said she also worked double shifts at the mental hospital and saved up for the treatments. She estimated that all her treatments cost $100,000. A dozen states, including California, have laws requiring insurance companies to cover infertility treatment, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But California does not require insurers to cover in vitro procedures. It?s not clear what type of coverage Suleman has. In the NBC interview, Suleman said she will go back to California State University, Fullerton in the fall to complete her master?s degree in counseling, and will use student loans to support her children. She said she will rely on the school?s dayc DO YOU THINK ITS RIGHT THE THE TAX PAYERS DOLLARS ARE PAYING FOR THIS? DONT THINK MORALLY BUT ECONOMICALLY.... TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK

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Is this modern day liberalism at its finest?
Liberalism--using the state to force others to pay to raise your children...all 14 of them. LOS ANGELES ? A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman's 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California's taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red. Even before the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets last month, she had been caring for her six other children with the help of $490 a month in food stamps, plus Social Security disability payments for three of the youngsters. The public aid will almost certainly be increased with the new additions to her family... ..."It appears that, in the case of the Suleman family, raising 14 children takes not simply a village but the combined resources of the county, state and federal governments," Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten wrote in Wednesday's paper. He called Suleman's story "grotesque."... ..."It's my opinion that a woman's right to reproduce should be limited to a number which the parents can pay for," Charles Murray wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Daily News. "Why should my wife and I, as taxpayers, pay child support for 14 Suleman kids?" ..."From the outside you can tell that this woman was playing the system," host Bryan Suits said on the "Kennedy and Suits" show on KFI-AM. "You're damn right the state should step in and seize the kids and adopt them out..." ...In her only media interviews, Suleman told NBC's "Today" she doesn't consider the public assistance she receives to be welfare and doesn't intend to remain on it for long... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090212/ap_on_re_us/octuplets No, I am not suggesting that she have an abortion. I am suggesting that she should of never had the embryos implanted in her womb, especially when shouldn't couldn't afford it and knew that she would have to rely on an insolvent state to force others to pay for her children.

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