UTAH
Utah apparently ties with Mississippi for temperance laws. Here are some examples:
•Don’t swallow in Utah! Wine used in wine tastings in Utah must not be swallowed! 53
•There are no ordinary drinking establishments in Utah; full alcohol service is available only to dues-paying members of private social clubs or a limited number of restaurants that can't advertise, display, or mention the availability of alcohol beverages. 54
•It's illegal in Utah to advertise drink prices, alcohol brands, to show a "drinking scene," to promote happy hour, to advertise free food, or for restaurants to furnish alcohol beverage lists unless a customer specifically requests one. 55
VERMONT
Vermont is considering lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18. The governor “agrees that if 18 is the age at which all citizens are bestowed full rights and privileges of American citizenship it ought to be the legal drinking age.”
However, the federal government threatens to deny the state nearly $10 million dollars annually if it grants its adults the right to drink alcoholic beverages. 56
VIRGINIA
George Washington was apparently the largest distiller of whiskey in the new American nation during the late 1700s. In 1798, the year before his death, Washington’s distillery at Mount Vernon produced 11,000 gallons of whiskey and produced a profit of $7,500. That was an enormous sum of money over 200 years ago. 57
WASHINGTON
A new state law now specifically prohibits alcohol breath test readings from being barred from court just because they might be invalid or incorrect. The law makes it easier to get questionable, possibly inaccurate, breath-test readings admitted into court. 58
Apparently, prosecutors want to increase their conviction rates, regardless of the guilt or innocence of the citizens suspected of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
WEST VIRGINIA
In West Virginia, bars can advertise alcohol beverage prices, but not brand names. 59
WISCONSIN
In Wisconsin, an adult under the age of 21 who is married to one age 21 or older can legally drink with his or her spouse.
アメリカの歴史でアジア人を含め他の人種も差別されてきたが、それでも人口に占める犯罪率は黒人に比べ、かなり低いことから、単に差別を理由に出来ない。（凡人）
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AnonymousNEW27
White cretin commits a horrible crime, it's just his fault. Black man commits a crime, it's Jesse's fault, along with Sharpton's, and an entire group of people. Folks like to trumpet that blacks, (while only 13% of the population) commit a higher percentage of crimes. What they omit from these discussions is that blacks have been discriminated against nearly 100% of the time throughout American history.
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NEWS FLASH!! what your clouded racist paranoia mind won't see is that EVERY HUMAN BEING IS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST...100% of the time.. For being fat, skinny, gay, disabled, foreign, short, tall, old, young, male, female, you name it! So get over yourself in thinking that the entire world is against you. The only problem here is that you are so busy accusing everyone else of being a pig you can't see what a pig you have become. Now give your mirror a high five because a 3 year old white boy was killed by his white father.
THE NYCEO 17 hours ago I continue to say this and I will never stop saying it. GUNS are the problem here. Yes, throwing leaves and eggs on someone's car is vandalism BUT if guns weren't involved here then this situation likely ends with everyone being alive. GUNS are the reason a retired policman murders a man who was texting in a theater. GUNS are the reason why Jordan Davis was murdered by Michael Dunn because he was in a car playing loud rap music. GUNS are the reason why a neighborhood watchmen in Florida had the courage to go chasing behind a stranger at night in a gated community and murders him. So yes, kids vandalizing a car is wrong but whatever happened to just calling the police and letting them handle it? GUNS, that's what happened.
Cobra 16 hours ago I will continue to say this and I will never stop saying it . . . guns are "NOT" the problem here. Your post makes it sound like this "GUN" just got up on its own, went outside and started blasting away.
Got news for you. The irresponsible person BEHIND that gun is responsible for what he did with that object! Just like the irresponsible people who get drunk and kill far more people with their vehicles than are killed with firearms, should be blamed for those deaths. Those CARS didn't just drive off by themselves drunk and run over people. The irresponsible people behind those wheels did that.
We need to focus on what is REALLY behind the problem . . . irresponsible PEOPLE in our society are the problem. Autos, knives, guns, etc. are the items used by KILLERS. Stop demonizing the objects and start demonizing the monsters behind them!
THE NYCEO 16 hours ago You don't have the intellect to understand this so let's just agree to disagree. Every time I post on this subject there is always at least one person like you who seems offended by it. So be it. One day you will up and see the larger issue here.
Older Wiser 15 hours ago Intellect? This man's life has been destroyed. He is being charged with a Terrorist Act? What about these 5 feral youths who were terrorizing him? It was 1AM and these people were out terrorizing their community and destroying property. So you even have a clue what the acid in a raw egg does to the paint on a car?
Markus Csak 14 hours ago Wow, aren't you a piece of work! Resorting to name calling because someone doesn't agree with your view? You are no more superior than Cobra, just because you feel you have a valid point. Debates are good, but not when it is reduced to 3rd grade name calling.
SuperWitty Smitty 15 hours ago When irresponsible people have access to a loaded gun: that's a BIG problem. No gun + no killing. When irresponsible drinkers want to drive, we stop them, because the car is what will kill. Same logic: the angry person gets a gun, the gun does the killing. Regulate guns (similar to how we regulate cars) and we will have fewer shootings. 2nd amendment my eye.
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KingChris 15 hours ago So smarty pants... how do we or the NRA stop irresponsible people from purchasing fire arms!? What do you propose!?
Cobra 14 hours ago The NHTSA has been pretty consistent in reporting over the last few years that out of the roughly 250 million cars in this nation, we consistently have about 30 thousand plus auto deaths per year. The FBI statistics consistently show that out of the roughly 300 million guns in this country we have FAR fewer gun deaths than with autos and those gun deaths are consistently going DOWN!
Here are the numbers for firearm deaths in America per year per our official FBI statistics:
You're entitled to your own opinions . . . but not your own facts. There are more guns and few deaths with them, than there are with autos. The numbers aren't even close. In the tragic case here, we simply have an irresponsible man far more than these particular objects. We are clearly far more irresponsible with our cars than we are with anything else and far more deaths result each year because of it.
Chris Crap 14 hours ago what if someone didn't have access to alcohol and drove after drinking at the juice bar instead...would they have killed the family of 4? Should we ban alcohol? What if football was banned too? would chad stover still be alive? Should we ban boating and swimming? i bet a lot of children die from drowning too. Swimming is NOT necessary to survive.
SuperWitty Smitty 12 hours ago Please note that we have many regulations for selling and using alcohol; possibly more regulations than we do for guns. Not sure which is involved in more deaths, but they surely go together, don't they?
Older Wiser 9 hours ago What if Mr. Noble had run out of his home and simply punched the girl in the head and killed her? He would have been using physical force to stop a felony being committed against him. Would he had been charged with murder?
SuperWitty Smitty 8 hours ago The reason guns are used in the majority of homicides (and suicides) is that they're so effective and efficient when it comes to killing. Punching, stabbing, choking all require a physical commitment and true desire to complete the task. A gun requires a momentary contraction of muscle, from a distance. No muss, no fuss, no chance to re-consider- BOOM and it's done.
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Number of U.S. millionaires hits a new record: study
The number of American households with a net worth of $1 million or more has reached 9.6 million, up 600,000 from 2012, according to Spectrem Group. The mega-wealthy, with $25 million or more in net worth, have also grown.
By Phyllis Furman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, March 14, 2014, 8:30 PM
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The number of American households with a net worth of $1 million or above has hit a new record, according to a study. The study also says 60% of investors with a net worth of $5 million or more plan to use their millions to invest in the stock market this year.
The rich keep getting richer — and now there are way more of them, too.
The number of American households with a net worth of $1 million or above has hit a new record: 9.6 million, a surge of more than 600,000 from 2012, according to a new study from Spectrem Group.
The previous high-water mark was 9.2 million in 2007. Total net worth does not include the value of a primary residence, according to Spectrem’s annual Affluent Market Insights Report.
Millionaires are making a comeback after seeing their ranks shrink to as low as 6.7 million in 2008 when the recession hit.
Since then, they’ve benefitted from a rebounding stock market and recovering real estate values.
“Most of the financial damage done by the recession has been erased by recent record-high markets in 2013 as well as a continued rebound in the real estate markets,” said George Walper Jr., president of Spectrem Group.
“In terms of the affluent investor, it’s fair to say they have finally recovered from the economic downturn.”
Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Millionaires are on the rise again after seeing their ranks shrink to as low as 6.7 million in 2008 when the recession hit. All sectors of the rich are seeing their numbers grow.
Those with $5 million or more in net worth reached a record high of 1.24 million from 1.14 million in 2012.
There were just 840,000 who fit that bill in 2008.
The ranks of the mega-wealthy are also getting fatter: those with $25 million or more in net worth grew by 15,000 to 132,000 in 2013.
That’s way up from the 84,000 in this gilded class that were around back in 2008.
So how will they be spending their millions?
Sixty percent of investors with a net worth of $5 million or more intend to invest in the stock market this year, the study found.
More than 50% of the $5 million-plus club said they’re willing to invest outside the U.S., with an increased interest in investing in China.
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Martin Themartian 27 minutes ago
Chris Atkins, you apparently need a little schooling in the complex study of statistics. I understand, some people can only understand the most simple concepts in life, so don’t feel inferior due to your low intelligence.
“The White on White Crime rate is 92%”
The percentage is basically irrelevant. If one Eskimo killed another Eskimo, and that single murder accounted for all Eskimo murders that year, the Eskimo on Eskimo crime rate for murder would be 100%. That doesn’t mean that Eskimos, as a people, are a threat to other people or other Eskimos.
Now, the African American community murders at 6 times the rate of the white community. 6 times. The African American community is responsible for over 4000 murders a year. If they only murdered at the same rate as white folks, the African American community would only be responsible for 600 murders a year.
To put this into perspective, the African American community is so violent beyond the rate of every other race that approximately 3600 people are murdered each year. This is approximately the number of lives lost in 9/11.
As far as white folks committing crimes, other white folks don’t immediately cry “racism!!!” when they are caught by law enforcement. We don’t feel any solidarity. We are glad they are locked up.
“98% of all serial killers in the last 30 years have been White Males.”
Yes, no surprise. It takes some measure of intelligence and planning and self control to elude capture by the police while committing serial murders. African Americans have this strange habit of posting their crimes on social media.
“61% of all documented rapes are perpetrated by Whites.”
This should come as no surprise. The white population is 6 times that of the African American community, yet African Americans manage to rape the same number of women each year. Imagine if the population numbers were reversed. The United States would look like, well, the continent of Africa. (Silence. Crickets chirping.)
Bank robberies, the same as serial killers.
“92% of all documented cases of child molestation and incest occurs in the White population .
” The key word is documents. The white community actually knows who the fathers are, and cares about the welfare of all children, so we take these crimes seriously. Child molestation and incest in the African American community is so endemic that it is considered normal and not reported.
Glad I could fix that
for you.
joanne glenn 20 minutes ago
Excellent Martin, excellent work!!!! i couldn't come up with those stats but i knew the ratios were off when they (black people) say that white people blah blah blah. so thank you.
Chris Atkins 18 minutes ago
You white Devils just hate the truth..
Chris Atkins 8 minutes ago
Martin is an idiot and he does not have the intelligence to rebuttal any of the facts I put forth. Whites always throw out bogus stats, but hate when they are presented with cold hard facts.
Chris Atkins 17 minutes ago
The White Man stands guilty as charged!
Count 1: Invasion of America: Guilty
Count 2: Killing the American Indians: Guilty
Count 3: Enslaving Blacks: Guilty
Count 4: Destroying the Ozone layer: Guilty
Count 5: The biggest Murderer throughout history: Guilty
Count 6: The Biggest Rapist throughout history: Guilty
Count 7: The Greatest Child Molester: Guilty
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Chris Atkins 16 minutes ago
Most of the murders taking place in major cities are gang related. It has nothing to do with race. Gang related crime has been a problem going all the way back to the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's. During those times the gangs were Irish, Italian, Jewish, Polish, etc. The murder rate among these gangs was very high. In fact, the White gangs during those eras invented the whole concept of drive by shootings. The gangs of the past focused on robberies and burglaries. Today, most of the gangs are Black and Hispanic. They focus more on drug dealing and gun running as a way to finance their crime enterprise. However, instead of isolating the gang menace, the mainstream media focuses on all black males as the face of crime. Additionally, today's Gang culture is used to feed the multi billion dollar Beast known as the PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX by producing a steady stream of 1st time and repeat offenders. Hence, there is no real effort to try to eradicate the gangs because many people are getting paid as a result of their existence.Reply 0
Chris Atkins 13 minutes ago
If we are going to talk about crime per capita, then consider the fact that Whites make up just 20% of the population of the world but they have committed 85% of the worst atrocities against humanity throughout history. FACT! History proves that 20% of the world's population, the so called Whites, have committed the most violent, murderous and heinous acts throughout history. This cannot be denied or refuted! Whites have even brought the entire world to the brink of destruction with their weapons of mass destruction. Another Fact! From slavery to Genocide, Whites have proven to be the most violent. 20 million whites killed by other whites under Stalin and Nazi Germany was White on White Crime. In America, the White on White crime rate is 92%.. 94% of all documented cases of child molestation and incest occurs in the White population. This is a Fact! It is an epidemic. They butchered the Native Americans, Enslaved The Blacks and Then Built Churches on Stolen Land and proclaimed "In God We Trust." Sadly, America was built on violence. America's foundation is violence. America glorifies gangsterism and gangsters like Jesse James, John Gotti, Ma Barker, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Dutch Shultz, Bugsy Siegel, John Dillenger, Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly etc, The end result are men like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, James Holmes and many more. But America degrades Gangsta Rap. That's hypocritical. Even the Kennedy's made their fortune from Bootlegging and violence. And some of the other Robber Barons did as well.
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日本のヒーローの象徴はなんといっても赤穂浪士の忠誠。アメリカのHeroは正義と権力の糾弾にある。それによって大衆の被害者救済にある。なるほど民主的である。忠誠よりも正義が勝つということだ。
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Whistleblower who caused $9 billion JP Morgan fine speaks out for first time
'I could lose everything,' said Alayne Fleischmann, a former transaction manager and attorney at the firm. 'But if we don't start speaking up, then this really is all we're going to get: the biggest financial cover-up in history.'
BY Marc Weinreich / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS / Published: Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:33 AM / Updated: Friday, November 7, 2014, 11:05 AMA.
Canadian-raised Alayne Fleischmann spent two years at JP Morgan and revealed the innerworkins of the bank to federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Her details led to the firm paying out one of the largest fines in U.S. history.=pic(LinkedIn)
The Cornell Law grad who caused JP Morgan to pay out $9 billion last year — one of the largest fines in U.S. history — spoke this week about what led her to blow the whistle in 2008 and reveal what she said was “massive criminal securities fraud” to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Alayne Fleischmann, the Canadian-raised attorney at the bank, talked to Rolling Stone about how she tried to warn her managers about the fundamental dangers in re-selling sub-prime mortgages without at least warning investors about the inherent risks attached to making such investments.
‘You can't securitize these loans without special disclosure about what's wrong with them," Fleischmann recalled telling a managing director at the bank. "And if you make that disclosure, no one will buy them."
Fleischmann, who started out as a transaction manager at the bank, said that people at the firm assumed that she wouldn’t speak to friends, family or the media about what she saw during her two years there.
They were right, but only for so long.
She didn’t say a word because she had signed a non-disclosure agreement when she left the firm six years ago. Like anything, however, there was fine print, and she felt that she was allowed to talk to federal prosecutors because of her role as the central witness to potential criminal activity.
“The assumption they make is that I won't blow up my life to do it,” she said. “But they're wrong about that.'
Jamie Dimon remains CEO of JP Morgan Chase after leading the firm during now-proven criminal activity.=pic(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Fleischmann explained in the report that some 40% of randomly-sampled mortgage holders with the bank had inflated their incomes in order to be approved for loans.
In one case, she investigated a manicurist who claimed to be earning $117,000 per year. According to Fleischmann’s calculations, the woman would have worked 488 days in a single year to earn that amount.
“And that's with no overhead," Fleischmann said. "It wasn't possible."
The bank was guilty of accepting countless applications of this nature, she said.
Despite her efforts to raise the red flags internally to her manager, she was continually shot down.
“If you sent him an e-mail, he would actually come out and yell at you,” she said. “The whole point of having a compliance and diligence group is to have policies that are set out clearly in writing. So to have exactly the opposite of that – that was very worrisome.'
JP Morgan Chase is the largest bank in the U.S., with total assets of $2.5 trillion.=pic(MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS)
After speaking with the SEC, federal prosecutors put together a case that resulted in the bank paying out $9 billion.
Outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder publicly stated that the Department of Justice wanted to send a clear signal that one’s profit does not exempt him or her from the law.
“'No firm, no matter how profitable, is above the law, and the passage of time is no shield from accountability.'
Fleischmann said she knows that she puts herself at risk for losing a lot by revealing the inner workings of JP Morgan
"I could be sued into bankruptcy," she said. "I could lose my license to practice law. I could lose everything. But if we don't start speaking up, then this really is all we're going to get: the biggest financial cover-up in history."
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It is a priceless story of the happy ending like that.
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Missing 2-year-old Michigan girl ‘loved it in the woods’: official
Brooklyn Lynn Lilly was found Thursday after a 19-hour search, and told her rescuers she enjoyed her adventurous night in the woods. A photo captured of her after she was found shows an adorable smiling Brooklyn wrapped in a gray sweatshirt.
BY Corinne Lestch / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS / Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:31 AMA.
Tawas City Assistant Fire Chief Jeffery Seyfried captured this photo of Brooklyn Lynn Lilly moments after she was found by a Michigan State Police Canine Unit.=pic=Courtesy Jeffery Seyfried
The adorable 2-year-old missing Michigan girl who was found Thursday just wanted to play in the woods.
Brooklyn Lynn Lilly, who was found in a leafy area near a creek after spending an adventurous night in the woods, told her rescuers that “she loved it in the woods,” said Tawas City Fire Department assistant chief Jeffery Seyfried, according to MLive.
The precocious little girl started giggling the moment she was found, and a photo snapped by Seyfried shows her wearing a big grin while she’s wrapped in a gray sweatshirt.
She was dirty and had a cut on her nose.
“It was a rough night, but the moment that she was found was something special,” said Seyfried, who took the photo with his phone.
“She was bundled up in her jacket and when the team walked up to her, she started giggling," he continued. "She actually told one of the guys that she loved it in the woods.”
The blond, blue-eyed girl was found about three-quarters of a mile from her home in Tawas City after a 19-hour search. Her family was still processing the ordeal.
A photo taken of Brooklyn before she disappeared on Wednesday.=pic=Michigan State Police
“I’m still shocked,” said Alecia Cook, the girl’s step-aunt.
A cousin added that she was happy Brooklyn was found safe and sound.
“It’s just overwhelming joy,” Jen Mitchell told the paper. “It was frustrating that we weren’t able to help, but the police did a great job.”
Seyfried said he helped search for a missing older man earlier this year, but this case was different.
“...This was with a 2-year-old,” he said. “You just never know what could happen to someone that young. I’m glad that she was safe and unharmed.”
