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Ken S. Tucker wrote:
On Apr 5, 12:33 pm, george wrote:
On Apr 6, 4:07 am, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:50:55 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote:
I take it you heard the one about the inmates in a prison
Oh, you must be referring to the fact that the states of
California Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan and
Oregon
spend more on prisons than education.
http://www.aclunc.org/news/opinions/prison_vs.
_education_spending_r
ev...
For the first time, and unique among large states,
California
will soon spend more on its prisons than on its public
universities. It has been projected that over the next
five years, the state's budget for locking up people
will
rise by
9
percent annually, compared with its spending on higher
education, which will rise only by 5 percent. By the
2012-
2013
fiscal year, $15.4 billion will be spent on
incarcerating
Californians, as compared with $15.3 billion spent on
educating them. Yet, despite this historic increase in
prison
funding, leading legislators -- including supporters of
the increase -- and even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's
office
agree
that this is simply throwing good money after bad, given
the rank mismanagement plaguing California's corrections
system. More prison spending will mean better pay for
the
highest paid, most politically influential prison
personnel in the nation, as well as more prisons, but no
one is certain it
will
result in a better corrections system. ...
Who is going to make it right? Even public officials who
know
this budget priority is wrongheaded refuse to fight it,
preferring to pander to prison personnel and afraid of
appearing "soft on crime." The Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.
once observed: "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it
safe?'
Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity
comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' "
"But," King added, "Conscience asks the question 'Is it
right?' " ...
http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/...s_detail.aspx?
initiat
iv...
http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/report_detail.aspx?
id=
35904
More than 1 in 100 American adults are behind bars.
And when it comes to our nation's military spending vs
education spending ...
Great segue here :-)))).
You know Larry, it's people like you who find the face of
Jesus
in
the ice cream sundae you just bought at the local Dairy Queen
:-))
and watch in horror as your religious icon just melts away
under
the
light of day :-)))))
I had some little thing with a white head, that may
have been bertie, land on my ice cream, so I flicked
it off and a cat ate it.
So you guys figure bertie is recycled pussy poop.
Yeah that makes sense to me.
Ken
Sorry, but no hidden or implied Bertie's intended.

OK, that's a little too zen even for me.

Bertie
I don't believe you :-))

Nope, still don't understand it.Even a dozen german beers haven't
opened my eyes.


bertie
I would be thinking a dozen good German lagers would be closing your
eyes instead of opening them, but I would agree that contemplating
the
fine art of Zen might require a few more beers; at least for me
anyway.

Yeah, exactly., good night though. Met up with a few old FE's i used
to
fly with in another life. Excellent stuff!



Bertie

I miss those nights; good friends; good booze; flying talk; good times
..


Yeah. It was. i met a guy tonight from another crew who displays a
Stearman with an R 985 on the nose. interesting talk.
Very good fun with the FEs though. A breed apart.



Bertie