The Ten States That Profit Most From Sin

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/14/ten-states-profit-most-sin_n_861854.html

10. New Jersey

Most Profitable Sin: Lottery ($924 Million)

Revenue From Sin: $2.123 Billion (8th Highest)

Total State Revenue: $49 Billion (8th Highest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 4.34%

9. New Hampshire

Most Profitable Sin: Tobacco ($170 Million)

Revenue From Sin: $248 Million (12th Lowest)

Total State Revenue: $5.5 Billion (3rd Lowest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 4.54%

8. Illinois

Most Profitable Sin: Tobacco ($827 Million)

Revenue From Sin: $2.157 Billion (7th Highest)

Total State Revenue: $2.157 Billion (7th Highest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 4.55%

7. Michigan

Most Profitable Sin: Tobacco ($1.08 Billion)

Revenue From Sin: $2.242 Billion (6th Highest)

Total State Revenue: $45.7 Billion (10th Highest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 4.91%

6. Pennsylvania

Most Profitable Sin: Gambling ($1.32 Billion)

Revenue From Sin: $3.547 Billion (2nd Highest)

Total State Revenue: $70.4 Billion (4th Highest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 5.04%

5. South Dakota

Most Profitable Sin: Lottery ($117 Million)

Revenue From Sin: $212 Million (11th Lowest)

Total State Revenue: $3.8 Billion (The Lowest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 5.63%

4. Indiana

Most Profitable Sin: Gambling ($875 Million)

Revenue From Sin: $1.628 Billion (10th Highest)

Total State Revenue: $26.7 Billion (23rd Highest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 6.11%

3. Delaware

Most Profitable Sin: Lottery ($275 Million)

Revenue From Sin: $659 Million (25th Lowest)

Total State Revenue: $8.7 Billion (11th Lowest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 7.55%

2. Rhode Island

Most Profitable Sin: Lottery ($345 Million)

Revenue From Sin: $706 Million (22nd Highest)

Total State Revenue: $8.1 Billion (9th Lowest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 8.66%

1. Nevada

Most Profitable Sin: Gambling ($835 Million)

Revenue From Sin: $1.01 Billion (13th Highest)

Total State Revenue: $7.9 Billion (12th Lowest)

Percent Total Revenue From Sin: 12.83%

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http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37682/is-it-ethical-to-profit-from-a-serial-killers-art-behind-the-john-wayne-gacy-show-uproar/

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/7450-donald-trump-depended-on-federal-largesse-to-build-his-empire

Top 29 Cities To Visit In 2011 (PHOTOS)

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Eating Off the Grid

This is ultimate eco-eating. This man hasn't eaten store bought food in 2 years. He lives of nature -- and roadkill ...


La Campesina Project's new fields are a year old, and the off-grid farm plan is well under way. La Campesina Project is a community supported agriculture venture


Organic living Grass house off the Grid Canada 2008


Off the Grid - 62min Documentary
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A Family Farm in the Midst of Suburbia
... to save money, stopped watering the front lawn and started preparing to plant crops there. He is able to laugh now partly because his property became quite beautiful, but also perhaps because of the independence it gives him.

"The world has become more dependent on supermarkets, on corporations, on the gasoline station, on government, and we're just trying to do it ourselves," said Dervaes. "We're trying to make ends meet -- we're trying to put food on our table just like pioneers did in the old-fashioned west not so long ago."
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=4863733&page=1

Movie looks at 9/11 through a child's eyes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/05/eveningnews/main20060246.shtml?tag=exclsv

Pakistani Military Faces Scrutiny as Unfolding Evidence Suggests Direct Role in Harboring bin Laden

Pakistan Claims It Warned CIA of Bin Laden Compound
The Pakistani government is claiming it warned U.S. intelligence two years ago about the compound where bin Laden was killed. In a statement, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said it had shared intelligence with the CIA about the compound since 2009. The statement says, "The fact is that this particular location was pointed out by our intelligence quite some time ago to the U.S. intelligence." Meanwhile in Pakistan, hundreds of people took part in protests Wednesday criticizing the United States for conducting unilateral attacks inside Pakistan’s borders.
Protester: "We want to convey that we are insecure. Today Americans came, they did what they wanted to. Tomorrow India will come and will do what they want to. Where is our security?"

Numerous questions have been raised on how Osama bin Laden could have been living in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad just down the street from Pakistan’s premier military academy. CIA Director Leon Panetta has reportedly said Pakistan was either "knowledgeable or incompetent" when it came to bin Laden’s whereabouts. Some evidence has emerged to indicate that the Pakistani military may have had a direct role in harboring bin Laden. Meanwhile, the Pakistani government is claiming it warned U.S. intelligence two years ago about the compound where bin Laden was killed. We go to Pakistan to speak with Graeme Smith, an award-winning foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada. He was in Abbottabad yesterday investigating the mystery behind the bin Laden compound.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/5/pakistani_military_faces_scrutiny_as_unfolding

UCLA undergrads predicted where Osama bin Laden was hiding — 2 years ago

More than two years before President Obama declared “mission accomplished” on Osama Bin Laden, a class of UCLA geography undergraduate students accurately predicted the world’s former most-wanted terrorist hideout location.

Led by professors Thomas Gillespie and John Agnew, the students used satellite imagery and geographical theories to create a probabilistic model, which gave an 89.9 percent chance that Bin Laden was hiding out in Abbattabad, Pakistan — the exact location where US Navy SEAL operatives successfully found and killed the al-Qaeda leader on Sunday.

The students accomplished their work so well that their study was published in the prestigious MIT International Review under the title “Finding Osama bin Laden: An Application of Biogeographical Theories and Satellite Imagery.” (PDF)

http://my.news.yahoo.com/ucla-undergrads-predicted-where-osama-bin-laden-hiding-164516284.html

Did Geographers Predict Where Bin Laden Would Be? Not Exactly

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/05/04/135989551/did-geographers-predict-where-bin-laden-would-be-close-but-not-exactly

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'BIN LADEN IS NOT A TROPHY'
Obama Says Risks Of Releasing Death Photo Outweigh Rewards
Osama Bin Laden Pictures Will Not Be Released, Obama Decides (UPDATED)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/04/osama-bin-laden-pictures_n_857568.html

Photos from the Bin Laden Compound
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEATH AND INJURY BELOW

http://www.reuters.com/subjects/bin-laden-compound

Reuters Defends Decision To Publish Bin Laden Compound Photos

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/04/bin-laden-dead-photo_n_857772.html

Will Ferrell As George W. Bush Responds To Osama Bin Laden's Death, Sort Of (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/04/will-ferrell-as-george-w-_n_857374.html

Osama bin Laden's family maintain discreet silence over al-Qaida leader's death
Wife and eight children held after raid as sources close to extended family say many relatives hope death will close family chapter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/03/osama-bin-ladens-family

Obama: I won't release bin Laden death photos

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20059739-503544.html?tag=cbsContentWrap;cbsContent

Michael Moore To Piers Morgan On Bin Laden: 'We've Lost Something Of Our Soul'
Michael Moore doubled down on his criticism of the killing of Osama bin Laden, telling CNN's Piers Morgan on Thursday that, while he is glad bin Laden is gone, America "lost something of [its] soul" in killing him without putting him on trial.



There have only been a few times in Andy Rooney's life when someone's death has been the occasion for rejoicing. Osama bin Laden's death is one of those times!

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