das Land der freien

[Ivan_D]

Ovo je faza dva. Ne samo da su drzavne institucije poludele, vec su pocele i privatne. Neverovatno.

A meni budali bilo povremeno zao sto nisam otisao u Ameriku.


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/valedictorian-denied-diploma-speech-hell-134805221.html

High school valedictorian denied diploma over graduation speech

An Oklahoma high school valedictorian who used the word "hell" in her graduation speech in May has yet to receive her diploma.

Kaitlin Nootbaar graduated from Prague High School with a 4.0 grade point average, her father, David Nootbaar, told KFOR-TV. But school administrators told him that Kaitlin would have to submit a written apology in order to get her diploma.

"We went to the office and asked for the diploma and the principal said, 'Your diploma is right here but you're not getting it. Close the door, we have a problem,'" David Nootbaar told the network.

"She worked so hard to stay at the top of her class," he said. "This is not right."

In her speech—inspired by a similar address in "Eclipse: The Twilight Saga"—Kaitlin recounted how annoying it is to be constantly asked what she wants to do as graduation approached. "How the hell do I know?" she said, according to her father. "I've changed my mind so many times."

In the version she submitted to the school for approval, "hell" was "heck." But in the version she delivered at graduation, "hell" it was.

The school declined to comment. "This matter is confidential and we cannot publicly say anything about it," Prague schools Superintendent Rick Martin said in a statement to KFOR.



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mad_mike_j  •  19 hrs ago Report Abuse

    Great. Push the failures through and deny the Valedictorian her diploma. Seems right for this country lately.

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sillycibin  •  Greenville, South Carolina  •  18 hrs ago Report Abuse

    She should bow down and kiss the principals shoes while shes at it. Nobody should take a stand or attempt to change things or test cultural mores. We really need to teach her a lesson and put her in her place. Hopefully she won't get any ideas about challenging the ways things can be done. We don't need innovators. We need sheep.

[Hate mail]

Dude, that's Flyoverland.

[Ivan_D]

Istina. Mada ti, odatle, ce ti uskoro izabrati predsednika novog. Under the banner of heaven.

[Hate mail]

Wall Street will love (and pay for) it.

[Ivan_D]

OK, no flyover state this time:

California man still in prison two years after conviction overturned
Daniel Larsen had his felony conviction overturned more than two years ago. But the California man continues to sit in a California prison while the state attorney general appeals a federal magistrate's decision to release the 45-year-old from jail.

"It's reflexive, it's just what they do," Larsen's attorney Jan Stiglitz told Southern California Public Radio. "They have never been willing to sit down and interview our witnesses."

On Monday, the California Innocence Project and Larsen's fiancée delivered 100,000 petition signatures from individuals demanding an immediate release for Larsen. The California Innocence Project is a program at the California Western School of Law, which works to release wrongfully convicted men and women from prison.

So how did Larson end up in prison in the first place?

In 1999, he was convicted of being a felon in possession of a concealed weapon. Police witnesses claim they saw Larsen throw a knife under a car. He was already on strike two of California's "three strikes law," meaning he was then sentenced to a prison term of 27 years to life.

But in 2009, the California Innocence Project brought forward two witnesses to contest the police claims. Adding weight to the testimony, one of the witnesses is himself a former police chief. Both he and his wife testified that they never saw Larsen in possession of a knife.

"It's an eyewitness to the event," Stiglitz said. "One that was never produced at trial because Daniel Larsen's lawyer was constitutionally and practically deficient."

In response, a federal magistrate ruled that Larsen had been denied constitutionally protected rights to a fair trial and ordered him released immediately. However, the California Office of the Attorney General appealed that decision, saying Larsen neglected to file a federal habeas action within a one-year deadline.

"A federal habeas petition filed even one day late is untimely and must be dismissed," according to the appeal.

Stanford Law School professor Robert Weisberg told the L.A. Times he believes the attorney general's office is making an example out of Larsen's case in order to prevent an "onslaught" of similar claims from other prisoners. What they're saying is, this guy had his chances. At a certain point the music has to stop, and a case just has to be closed," Weisberg told the paper. "We're afraid that lots of people who were not unjustly convicted are going to be encouraged to frame their case as the injustice of the century."

Nonetheless, Stiglitz says he believes a proposed meeting will now take place with the attorney general's office sometime in the next two weeks.

"He's a believer now," Larsen's fiancée, Christina Combs, told the station. "With what's going on this week and over the past two weeks with the petition, he believes now. And he's coming home and he knows it."

[Hate mail]

Note to self: don't do strikes 1 & 2.

[Ivan_D]

Najbizarnije od svega je da se cela diskusija / ceo slucaj svodi na to da li je imao noz kod sebe ili ne (iako je cinjenica da nikakav prestup nije napravio), a ne preispitivanje sistema gde covek za puko posedovanje noza moze da dobije 27 godina do dozivotne.
Scary!

[Hate mail]

Note to Ivan_D: don't do strikes 1, 2 and 3 in California (i.e. don't be a felon in possession of a concealed weapon).

[Ivan_D]

Ja sad razmisljam, mene je strah da odem tamo i kao turista.
Prijatelj i ja planirali da idemo tamo u Aprilu ove godine, ali su meni iskrsle Ruskinjice, pa nismo. Easy choice there.
On i ja putovali vise puta zajedno i skoro uvek uzimali odvojene sobe, sto za njega nije finansijski problem, ali za mene jeste, pogotovo sto u poslednje vreme ne moze da se nadje hotel od 4 zvezdice za manje od 200 eura. Ali kad smo trebali da idemo u NYC on kaze da cemo deliti sobu, jer tamo ionako necemo da privodimo devojke jer je to tamo opasno. The word is out.

Ali stvarno, bez preterivanja, pricao sam kako sam bio u Turskoj na masazi - zbog toga bih u Americi verovatno mogao debelo da n@jebem, iako u zivotu ne bih uradio nesto protiv necije volje. Dovoljno bi bilo da joj se (maserki) to u jednom momentu svidi, a u sledecem ne, da se predomisli, pocne da je grize savest ili bilo sta pa da bude super z@jebano.
Drzali nedeljama coveka koji bi bio predsednik Francuske bez ikakvih dokaza, niemanda kao sto sam ja bi zivog sahranili bez problema.
Vec vidim kako bi mi neki dodeljeni advokat-stazista, jer ne bih imao para za boljeg, rekao: priznaj da si joj stavio ruku izmedju nogu, i nagodicemo se jer ti je ovo prvi prekrsaj i dobices 3 godine, a za 2 ce te pustiti  xrotaeye
Ili da idem na neki porno sajt a odande me to presmeruje na recimo ruski portal borbe pasa ili nesto drugo nelegalno i da to neko vidi pa da bude problem.
A o dovodjenju prostitutki u hotel ni da ne pricam.
I kako sad onda covek da ide tamo opusten?  xfoht

A tako sam voleo tu zemlju. Obozavao cak.

[Hate mail]

Ne. Ti si obozavao ono sto si sebi zamislio. Kao tzv. Hrvati sa tzv. Evropskom tzv. Unijom cca 1991.: mislili ljudi to Cetvrti Rajh (konacno!) kad ono tamo sve sami Jevreji rukovode (sad mitinguju protiv te uljudbe).

[Ivan_D]

Ne znam kako je sa Hrvatima i EU, ali cini mi se, a tako i izgleda po mnogim komentarima citalaca clanaka in question, da Amerika pre nije bila tako zajebana. Ali tko zna.

[Hate mail]

Amerika je odlicna za ljude koji izbegavaju opasnosti.

[Pijanista]

Amerika je pre bila zajebanija. I obican narod je pravio vise kriminala, i panduri su bili drskiji. Sad se popravlja, jos koju deceniju pa ce biti kao pola Kanade.

[Ivan_D]

here Hate, another one for ya. Condone this one.

Kupis nesto bona fide, tome posle vise decenija poraste vrednost i onda ti to drzava otme

http://news.yahoo.com/judge-says-10-rare-gold-coins-worth-80-152750965--abc-news-topstories.html

Judge Says 10 Rare Gold Coins Worth $80 Million Belong to Uncle Sam


A judge ruled that 10 rare gold coins worth $80 million belonged to the U.S. government, not a family that had sued the U.S. Treasury, saying it had illegally seized them.

The 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle coin was originally valued at $20, but sold for as much as $7.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in 2002, according to Courthouse News.

After President Theodore Roosevelt had the U.S. abandon the gold standard, most of the 445,500 double eagles that the Philadelphia Mint had struck were melted into gold bars.

However, a Philadelphia Mint cashier had managed to give or sell some of them to a local coin dealer, Israel Switt.

In 2003, Switt's family, Joan Langbord, and her two grandsons, drilled opened a safety deposit box that had belonged to him and found the 10 coins.

When the Langbords gave the coins to the Philadelphia Mint for authentification, the government seized them without compensating the family.

The Langbords sued, saying the coins belonged to them.

In 2011, a jury decided that the coins belonged to the government, but the family appealed.

Last week, Judge Legrome Davis of the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania, affirmed that decision, saying "the coins in question were not lawfully removed from the United States Mint."

Barry Berke, an attorney for the Langbords, told ABCNews.com, "This is a case that raises many novel legal questions, including the limits on the government's power to confiscate property. The Langbord family will be filing an appeal and looks forward to addressing these important issues before the 3rd Circuit."

The family said in its suit that in another seizure of the 1933 double eagle, the government split the proceeds with the owner after the coin sold for $7.59 million in 2002, according to Coinbooks.org.

[Hate mail]

Ha! Pa nije bona fides.

Vidis da lepo kazu da je blagajnik "uspeo nekako da da ili proda" nekoliko tih zlatnika tom Izraelu.

Covek ukrao drzavno vlasnistvo. Ovaj drugi kupio ukradeno. Ovi treci "nasledili" ukradeno.

Kao kad bi ja ukrao nekome kola pa posle 10 godina dosao kod njega da mi proceni vrednost tih kola.

A on potegne pa uzme kola i istera me iz avlije.

Jos pozove policiju da me uhapsi (sto ovde nisu mogli da urade jer su 1933. prestupnici verovatno vec mrtvi).

Za ovaj drugi slucaj (split the proceeds) nema dovoljno informacija.

Nice try, though.

[Ivan_D]

Nije bas tako kao sto pricas. Vise je ovako: ukradem ja kola i prodam ti ih za neku normalnu cenu. Ti nista nisi ukrao. Ti niti znas da su kola ukradena, niti zelis da razmisljas o tome. I onda posle deset godina dodje vlasnik kola i otme ti ih.
Tako ne funkcionise svet.

A da funkcionise onda bi mogli da ispravljamo razne nepravde od ko zna kada, od onih kolonijalnih do nekih sasvim licnih. Ali kao sto rekoh - tako ne funkcionise svet.

[indie]

[Hate mail]

I sta kazes, "tako ne funkcionise svet"?

Znam ja da "svet ne funkcionise". To smo doktorirali.

Ovaj mali primer iz clanka zorno govori o tome da Amerika funkcionise.

[Hate mail]

I sta kazes, dodje vlasnik?

[E]

 :)

[Ivan_D]

ja sam uvek imao osecaj za pravo, if not za pravdu.   :mrgreen:
Secam se kao da je bilo juce, Juzni Banat, 2. osnovne jedan klinac iz susednog razreda ukrao drugom lampu, onu na siroku bateriju od 4.5V, i prodao drugom. Uciteljica, Ksenija im se zvala uciteljica (Ksenije su hrpile u moj zivot k'o leptiri i sove), natera klinca koji je kupio lampu da je vrati vlasniku. On kaze hoce, ali ako mu ovaj od kojeg je kupio vrati pare. Ovaj novce naravno potrosio. Ova ga svejedno natera da vrati lampu i jos dosla kod nase uciteljice i prica joj "zamisli te drskosti, hoce da vrati, ali ako mu vrati pare".

Meni je jedinom u razredu to tada izgledalo sasvim normalno da covek hoce svoje novce da bi vratio bateriju.

A ti Hate sto si god-fearing, government-obeying, model-citizen, tebi svaka cast i ti zivi svoj zivot kako hoces. Ali to sto ti i ja ne bismo ukrali neciji auto ne znaci da neko ko ukrade auto 3 puta treba da dobije dozivotnu robiju.

[Hate mail]

Ali demokratski izabrani zakonodavac je to tako propisao. Sta cemo sa tim?

[Ivan_D]

Nista nije u kamenu zapisano. Losi zakoni treba da se menjaju. A ovde imas priliku da iznes argumente za i protiv. To da je zakonodavac tako odredio nije argument vec iznosenje cinjenice koje je besmisleno.

Zasto ti mislis (ako mislis) da je OK sto su tim ljudima oteli te zlatnike?

[Hate mail]

Pa zbog cinjenica. Koje su upravo to (cinjenice) jer nisu besmislene. i koje su kao takve poroti bile jedina vodilja.

A res iudicata...

[Pijanista]

Ti niti znas da su kola ukradena, niti zelis da razmisljas o tome. I onda posle deset godina dodje vlasnik kola i otme ti ih.

Sreca tvoja da ne znas, pa samo moras da vratis kola. Inace bi verovatno otisao u zatvor. I naravno, vratio kola.

P.S. Vlasnik i otme u istoj recenici. O tempura......

[E]

genuine enthusiast  xrofl

Only one previous owner: auto-trading the Only Fools and Horses way - BBC

[Ivan_D]

Dobro, 'ajmo ovako Pijanisto, ti meni ukrades 100 dinara, odes kupis burek i pojedes ga. Ti si svorc skroz na skroz i nemas da mi vratis pare niti bilo sta drugo da mi das. Ja onda odem na policiju i policija ode kod pekara i otme mu 100 dinara da bi vratila tebi.
Mislis da bi se tako nesto desilo ikada igde?

@Hate to sto je porota tako odlucila i dalje ne znaci da je to ispravno. To su samo ljudi a pitanje novca izaziva vecu neobjektivnost nego drugi slucajevi na sudu. Zasto bi neko dobio 80M$ kad ja moram da rintacim kao zubni tehnicar za 2400$ mesecno? E vala bas nece dobiti!

Inace pricao mi kolega za slucaj gde je neko utajio porez, ali neku super-malu sumu, par hiljada dolara i zavrsio u zatvoru. Tuzilac je imao pitch tipa "ne placajuci porez on direktno pomaze teroriste jer to je novac koji mi koristimo za borbu protiv terorizma. nasi momci ginu u Iraku/Afganistanu, a on im direktno krade novac"   :roll:

[Hate mail]

Res iudicata je tako snazno hrupila...

[Pijanista]

Nije isto kad ti neko plati burek parama ili u naturi.

[E]

 :roll:    

[Hate mail]

Evo jos jedne familije sa ilegalno iskovanim (tako pise u clanku) novcicem kojeg prodaju na aukciji za $2.5 M.

Za sada se vlasti nisu oglasile; valjda cekaju da im uzmu i novcic i $2.5M...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MILLION_DOLLAR_NICKEL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-01-29-06-07-07


Jan 29, 6:07 AM EST

Humble nickel from 1913 likely to fetch millions

By STEVE SZKOTAK
Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A humble 5-cent coin with a storied past is headed to auction and bidding expected to top $2 million a century after it was mysteriously minted.

The 1913 Liberty Head nickel is one of only five known to exist, but it's the coin's back story that adds to its cachet: It was surreptitiously and illegally cast, discovered in a car wreck that killed its owner, declared a fake, forgotten in a closet for decades and then found to be the real deal.

It all adds up to an expected sale of $2.5 million or more when it goes on the auction block April 25 in suburban Chicago.

"Basically a coin with a story and a rarity will trump everything else," said Douglas Mudd, curator of the American Numismatic Association Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colo., which has held the coin for most of the past 10 years. He expects it could fetch more than Heritage Auction's estimate, perhaps $4 million and even up to $5 million.

"A lot of this is ego," he said of collectors who could bid for it. "I have one of these and nobody else does."

The sellers who will split the money equally are four Virginia siblings who never let the coin slip from their hands, even when it was deemed a fake.

The nickel made its debut in a most unusual way. It was struck at the Philadelphia mint in late 1912, the final year of its issue, but with the year 1913 cast on its face - the same year the beloved Buffalo Head nickel was introduced.

Mudd said a mint worker named Samuel W. Brown is suspected of producing the coin and altering the die to add the bogus date.

The coins' existence weren't known until Brown offered them for sale at the American Numismatic Association Convention in Chicago in 1920, beyond the statute of limitations. The five remained together under various owners until the set was broken up in 1942.

A North Carolina collector, George O. Walton, purchased one of the coins in the mid-1940s for a reported $3,750. The coin was with him when he was killed in a car crash on March 9, 1962, and it was found among hundreds of coins scattered at the crash site.

One of Walton's heirs, his sister Melva Givens of Salem, Va., was given the 1913 Liberty nickel after experts declared the coin a fake because of suspicions the date had been altered. The flaw probably happened because of Brown's imprecise work casting the planchet - the copper and nickel blank disc used to create the coin.

"For whatever reason, she ended up with the coin," her daughter, Cheryl Myers, said.

Melva Givens put the coin in an envelope and stuck it in a closet, where it stayed for the next 30 years until her death in 1992.

The coin caught the curiosity of Cheryl Myers' brother, Ryan, the executor of his mother's estate. "He'd take it out and look at it for long periods of time," she said.

Ryan Myers said a family attorney had heard of the famous 1913 Liberty nickels and asked if he could see the Walton. "He looked at it and he told me he'd give me $5,000 for it right there," he said, declining an offer he could not accept without his siblings' approval.

Finally, they brought the coin to the 2003 American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money in Baltimore, where the four surviving 1913 Liberty nickels were being exhibited. A team of rare coin experts concluded it was the long-missing fifth coin. Each shared a small imperfection under the date.

"The sad part is my mother had it for 30 years and she didn't know it," Cheryl Myers said. "Knowing our mother, she probably would have invested it for us. She always put her children first."

Since its authentication, the Walton nickel has been on loan to the Colorado Springs museum and has been publicly exhibited nationwide.

The coin will be up for grabs at a rare coin and currency auction.

Todd Imhof, executive vice president of Heritage, said the nickel is likely to attract lofty bids that only a handful of coins have achieved at auction. A 1933 double eagle, a $20 gold coin, holds the U.S. record: $8 million.

Imhof expects the Walton nickel to generate some buzz.

"This is a trophy item that sort of transcends the hobby," he said. "It's an interesting part of American history and there are collectors who look for something like this."

Ryan Myers said he's not keen on selling the nickel.

"First of all, it had been in the family for so long," he said. "It's not like something you found in a flea market or something you just found."

Cheryl Myers said they're often asked why they held on to the coin for a decade after they learned it was authentic instead of immediately cashing it in.

"It was righting a 40-year-old wrong," she wrote in an email. By allowing the American Numismatic Museum to display it for the past decade, it was honoring Walton's wishes.

"It has been quite a ride," she said.

[Jelence]

Ono sto ti Ivane ne kontas (re: ovih coins sto su oduzeti, i sl) je da da law is not about justice.

Law is all about rules.

Imas set of rules i ono sto se na sudu dokazuje je ko je postovao pravila a ko nije.

Justice does not come into picture at all.

Takodje je sam postupak na sudu set pravila i to ti je kao sahovska partija. Ko bolje igra on pobedi. Naravno, ti mozes da kazes da nije fer da tamo neki NN pobedi Ananda. Fer ili ne fer, skalp je pao i to je otprilike to.

[Jelence]

PS. E, da, i jos nesto. Zabrinjavajuce je sto ti se ne svidja drzava u kojoj bi te gepili ako se bavis protivzakonitim radnjama. (Sta drugo covek da ti kaze onda nego "za tebe je brale Srbija obecana zemlja")

Niko tebi ne brani da privedes nesto u hotelsku sobu prilikom posete NY. Jebavanje nije zakonom zabranjeno, kupovina vagine jeste.

Prosto mi je neverovatno koliko je tvoj mozak nesposoban da prihvati taj koncept.

[Hate mail]

Meanwhile, in Atlanta:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57566488-71/man-allegedly-follows-gps-directions-to-wrong-house-shot-dead/


And the comments...

"I spent a solid, unbroken five years living in the third world and had gotten used to a definition of normal based on people being decent to one another. Coming back to the States was one heck of a shock. One in three adults own a gun, politics are devoid of moderation and at the raging extremes, people get into endless heated arguments about which super advanced smartphone is worse than the other, and people push other people under trains out of prejudice.

    The rest of the world thinks that while the U.S. has a lot of great stuff and some great opportunities, but for the culture, they think we are stark raving mad. This is some bizarre kind of normal. It's like Dodge City in the 1870s.
Posted by Okay_a_Username (59 comments )
    January 29, 2013 7:12 PM (PST) "

[Hate mail]

CHICAGO (CBS) – A teenage girl–an honor student who had just performed at President Obama's inaugural–was gunned down Tuesday afternoon in the Kenwood neighborhood, just blocks from the high school she attended.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/29/15-year-old-girl-shot-and-killed-in-kenwood-neighborhood-park/

:shock:

[Ivan_D]

wth

CBS 2's Mike Parker reports the victim, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, was taking shelter from the rain with a group of 10 to 12 teenagers under a canopy in Vivian Gordon Harsh Park on the 4500 block of South Oakenwald Avenue around 2:30 p.m., when someone jumped a fence, ran up to them, and opened fire.

[Hate mail]

Ummm, it's Chicago.

[Ivan_D]

http://www.b92.net/tehnopolis/internet.php?yyyy=2013&mm=02&nav_id=690160

"Time Warner Cable" planira da privremeno suspenduje internet konekciju onima za koje se sumnja da skidaju kopirajtovane materijale

:shock:


Sto rece neko "New American dream is to leave America"

[Hate mail]

Sva sreca pa postoji konkurencija.

[Mirabella]

Samo za Ivana  :)

http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-ranked-10th-most-miserable-city-residents-180600308.html

[Daisy]

Samo za Ivana  :)

http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-ranked-10th-most-miserable-city-residents-180600308.html

#20 Youngstown, OH
The scrapyard above is in the spot of what once was one of the busiest steel mills in the U.S. Youngstown has been trying to recover since the exodus of steel began 25 years ago. There has been a net migration of residents out of Youngstown for 21 straight years.

#19 Gary, Ind.
Gary was called the murder capital of the U.S. in the 1990s, but violent crime is down dramatically in Gary in recent years. It is still plagued by high foreclosures and a migration out of the city.

#18 Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Poughkeepsie residents must endure crummy weather and long commutes to work. Their average commute of 31.9 minutes is the sixth highest in the U.S. Property tax rates are also onerous.

#17 Cleveland, Ohio
Only Detroit and Flint have had a faster exodus rate out of the city than Cleveland over the past 3 years.

#16 Atlanta, Ga.
The housing crisis hit Atlanta hard with home prices off 42% since 2007 and foreclosure rates among the highest in the U.S. Another misery for Atlanta residents: traffic.

#15 Atlantic City, NJ
In 2010, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie visited the gambling mecca and proclaimed: "Atlantic City is dying." Casino revenues have been in a downward spiral, which contributed to a recent unemployment rate of 14.4%.

#14 Milwaukee, Wisc.
Winter weather in Milwaukee can be brutal with average lows of 13 degrees in January. Property tax rates also rank among the highest in the U.S.

#13 Camden, N.J.
New statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau labelled Camden the most impoverished city in the U.S. with 42.5% of residents living below the poverty line.

#12 St. Louis, Mo.
St. Louis and Detroit are the only two metros to rank in the bottom 50% in each of the nine metrics of misery we considered. St. Louis' worst scores are on net migration.

#11 Toledo, Ohio
Job growth has been anemic in Toledo and residents are voting with their feet by leaving the city. The net migration rate out of the city was the nation's fourth highest behind Detroit, Flint and Cleveland.

#10 New York, N.Y.
Taxes are always a hot button issue in New York, whether it revolves around banks paying their share (rally above) or the taxes that residents face, which are the highest in the U.S. New Yorkers also rank first when it comes to the longest commutes.

#9 Lake County, Ill.
The Chicago suburb is one of the richest counties in the U.S., as measured by per capita income. But home prices are down 29% over the past 5 years. Other drawbacks: long commutes and lousy weather.

#8 Stockton, Calif.
Stockton became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy protection last year. The city is burdened with the highest foreclosure rate in the U.S. and ranks among the five worst for unemployment and crime.

#7 Warren, Mich.
Troy and Farmington Hills are part of the government-defined Warren metro division. Like Detroit, the Warren metro has seen home prices collapse--off 53% the past five years.

#6 Vallejo, Calif.
The city finally emerged from bankruptcy at the end of 2011 after nearly 3 years. Problems remain with high levels of foreclosures and unemployment.

#5 Modesto, Calif.
Foreclosures continue to plague Modesto with 6,859 foreclosure filings in 2012, according to RealtyTrac. It represents 3.8% of homes, which is the third highest rate in the U.S. Recent unemployment was 15%.

#4 Chicago, Ill.
Chicago has passionate supporters, but residents must endure the misery of long commutes, plummeting home prices, brutal winters and high foreclosure rates. The migration rate out of Chicago is the sixth worst among the 200 largest metros.

#3 Rockford, Ill.
A three decade decline in the manufacturing base has hurt Rockford's economy and kept unemployment high. The metro's recent 11.2% unemployment rate is one of the highest rates in the U.S. Another burden: high property tax rates.

#2 Flint, Mich.
Flint has been demolishing homes as the city shrinks with residents leaving in search of jobs. Only Detroit has a higher net out-migration rate. Flint ranks third worst for violent crime, behind Detroit and Memphis.

#1 Detroit, Mich.
Violent crime in the Detroit metro was down 5% in 2011, but it remains the highest in the country with 1,052 violent crimes per 100,000 people, according to the FBI. Home prices were off 35% the past 3 years, which is the biggest drop in the U.S.

[Pijanista]

Kurata sreca:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/15/health/organ-transplant-rabies-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[Hate mail]

http://www.yourjewishnews.com/2013/02/25981.html

[Hate mail]

http://www.bradfordokeefe.com/obituaries/Harry-Stamps/#/Obituary

[Hate mail]

I wish I could see pictures of those "teens" (If Obama had teens they would probably look like them...).

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/22/teen-carjackers-lock-woman-8-in-trunk-for-2-days-police-say/?intcmp=trending#ixzz2OHllM1mE

[Mirabella]

Uz koje vino li je sluzio?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/22/california-chef-who-confessed-to-cooking-wife-gets-15-years-to-life/?intcmp=trending

[Mirabella]

Lepse lice Amerike, koje se svakodnevno vidja ali se cesto i svesno prenebregava (od strane Evrope narocito).

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57570865/act-of-sportsmanship-gives-texas-high-schooler-shot-at-glory/

Update, posto je ovaj snimak emitovan na 60 Minutes pre neku nedelju, ovaj mali Montanez je dobio stipendiju nekog univerziteta, na njihovu inicijativu.