Subject: SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well.........
SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
Oh, there's MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe!
Maricopa County was spending approx. $18
million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe
offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay.
The animal shelters are now all staffed and
operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in
his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has pris oners who are
experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone
who'd like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the
street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog
shows.
The best part? His budget for the entire
department is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted a Weimaraner from a
Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered, and current on all
shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day we got
him. Cost us $78.
The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28
an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their
cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building
maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for
adopted animals.
I have long wondered when the rest of the
country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system, and copy some
of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where
inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food,
doing all the work and harvesting by hand.
He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which
provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery,
where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 - $8
for the Holidays, and plant it later. We have six trees in our yard from the
Prison.
Yup, he was reelected last year with 83% of
the vote.
Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again. He
painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural, that has a special hotline
phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal
aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn't doing enough in his
eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration
laws, started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling folks
back to the border. He's kind of a 'Gi t-R Dun' kind of S heriff.
TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO
HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF
AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (In Arizona ) who created
the ' Tent City Jail':
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving
and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped smoking and porno magazines in
the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but 'G' movies.
He started chain gangs so the inmates could
do free work on county and city projects.
Then He Started Chain Gangs For Women So He
Wouldn't Get Sued For Discrimination.
He took away cable TV Until he found out
there was A Federal Court Order that Required Cable TV For Jails So He
Hooked Up The Cable TV Again . Only Let In The Disney Channel And The
Weather channel.
When asked why the weather channel He
Replied, So They Will Know How Hot It's Gonna Be While They Are Working
ON My Chain Gangs.
He Cut Off Coffee Since It Has Zero
Nutritional Value.
When the inmates complained, he told them,
'This Isn't The Ritz/Carlton...... If You Don't Like It, Don't Come Back.'
More On The Arizona Sheriff:
With Temperatures Being Even Hotter Than
Usual In Phoenix (116 Degrees Just Set A New Record), the Associated Press
Reports:
About 2,000 Inmates Living In A
Barbed-Wire-Surrounded Tent Encampment At The Maricopa County Jail Have Been
Given Permission To Strip Down To Their Government-Issued
Pink Boxer Shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers
were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which
reached
138 Degrees Inside The Week Before.
Many Were Also Swathed In Wet, Pink Towels A
s Sweat Collected On Their Chests And Dripped Down To Their PINK SOCKS.
'It Feels Like We Are In A Furnace,' Said
James Zanzot, An Inmate Who Has Lived In The TENTS for 1 year. 'It's
Inhumane.'
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who
created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink,
and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday
that he told all of the inmates: 'It's 120 Degrees In Iraq And Our Soldiers
Are Living In Tents Too, And They Have To Wear Full Battle Gear,
But They Didn't Commit Any Crimes,So Shut
Your Mouths!'
Way To Go, Sheriff!
Maybe if all prisons were like this one
there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be
punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their
parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they ca n get back in to
live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for
themselves.
'Uranium For Iran Nuke In 2009'
Geoff Meade, defence correspondent
Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits a uranium enrichment facility
The think tank's Mark Fitzpatrick made the announcement at today's launch of its annual global review of military powers.
During 2009, Iran will probably reach the point at which it has produced the amount of low-enriched uranium needed to make a nuclear bomb.
Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies
"But being able to enrich uranium is not the same as having a nuclear weapon."
However, the survey reports doubts over US Intelligence estimates that Iran halted its work on nuclear weapons six years ago.
This points to Tehran's continued development of long-range ballistic missiles able to reach targets in Israel and beyond.
The IISS recommends a mixture of carrot and stick as the best international response.
It concluded a dual policy of engagement and sanctions, testing possibilities for Iranian cooperation while adopting targeted containment strategies, is the best way to deal with Iran's nuclear programme.
Foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said: "Several think-tanks have come to the same conclusion.
"The intelligence agencies are more reluctant to put a time frame on it, and the report itself says having enough enriched Uranium to build the warhead is not the same as building the warhead itself."
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Nuclear-Weapon-From-Iran-Within-A-Year-Expert-Says-Country-Will-Have-Enough-Uranium-For-Warhead/Article/200901415211260
Pelosi: Fewer babies = stronger economy
Charlie Butts and Jody Brown - OneNewsNow - 1/27/2009 6:00:00 AMBookmark and Share
Central birth-control pillsHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi stirred up a hornet's nest by promoting the idea of spending of millions of dollars on birth control and abortion as part of the economic stimulus package.
"Contraception," argued Pelosi, "will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government." Her comments came on ABC's This Week when asked by host George Stephanopoulos how expanding "family-planning services" to the tune of millions of dollars will stimulate the economy. OneNewsNow sought reaction from Susan Fani, director of communications for the Catholic League.
"It's quite shocking, actually, that the Speaker of the House -- who claims to be Catholic -- would go on national television and claim that contraception would reduce the cost to the government," exclaims Fani. "It's just beyond words, really."
Pelosi has five children and six grandchildren. Catholic League president Bill Donohue finds her comments revealing. "We have reached a new low when high-ranking public office holders in the federal government cast children as the enemy," he offers in a press statement. "But at least it explains their enthusiasm for abortion-on-demand."
pregnant womanWill the spending on "family-planning services" help dig America out of its economic doldrums?
"That's not going to help grow the economy," Fani responds. "It doesn't even make sense as a prospect for helping this country through our economic crisis. So it's wrong on so many different levels, and just shows...a very flawed thought process."
American Life League calls Pelosi's remarks "a betrayal" of her Catholic faith, and the Christian Defense Coalition says it is "unthinkable" that she would try to stimulate the economy by "seeking to reduce the number of children."
America needs to produce 2.1 children per couple to keep up with births to support the population -- and that rate is not being maintained. Economies in Europe have been especially hurt by a drop in birth rates.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=398956
Senator Warns White House Will 'Create Crisis' and 'Panic' to Push Stimulus
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., criticizes mainstream media for not reporting loads of pork in proposed legislation.
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
1/27/2009 5:04:03 PM
Is the new Obama administration taking cues from the Bush administration to get Congress to act? It certainly seemed that way to, South Carolina’s junior Republican senator, Jim DeMint.
DeMint, speaking Jan. 27 at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., explained the Obama administration will “create crisis and widespread panic” just like its predecessor in order to get Congress to act expeditiously.
“I’ve been around long enough to know whenever someone tells me I have to make a decision right now, my response is no,” DeMint said. “That clears it up right away and I think more and more the Bush administration and now this administration knows that they’re not going to get a quick reaction out of Congress unless they create crisis and widespread panic. And that’s going to be their M.O. to get Congress to act.”
Another senator, James Inhofe, R-Okla., explained the Bush administration used a similar tactic, under the direction of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, to get the $700-billion TARP bailout bill passed by Congress back on Oct. 4, 2008.
DeMint said some Republicans now regret they voted for the TARP package, even though there is no way to gauge what might have happened had it not been passed.
“I think there’s a lot of buyer’s remorse among Republicans who voted for the bailouts of all kinds last year,” DeMint said. “And, it’s hard to prove that, some of them are saying, ‘It didn’t work out so well, but it’d been a lot worse if we hadn’t.’ It’s hard, it’s hard to argue that unless you know anything about how business works.”
“And then it’s obvious that what we did was inject a whole lot of uncertainty into the marketplace,” DeMint said. “So no, I don’t think there’s discord because of that, uh, and I really don’t blame my colleagues. If you got the President and the Secretary of the Treasury coming in saying, ‘The world economy is going to collapse next week if we don’t do something.’”
DeMint criticized the mainstream media for not conveying the message that some congressional Republicans are trying to spread about this package –that it’s filled with big-government wasteful spending projects that will do little to “stimulate” the economy.
“Well, it’s a good question and a lot of us are saying that,” DeMint said. “It’s not being picked up at all by the mainstream media and that’s why again, we’re going to have to take our message through you to the people, Rush Limbaugh, anyone who will talk about what’s really in the bill. We don’t need to make it up. It’s like they’re in a different reality. They’re talking about a bill, that when you look at it, there’s no resemblance to what they’re talking about.”
DeMint said it will take grassroots efforts to put the brakes on this stimulus package and he admitted he has seen it from constituents that are concerned about the bailout culture in Washington, D.C.
“So if we can just get the truth to the American people, or just a segment of the American people, I think you’ll, you’ll see a groundswell of anger, again because there’s, there’s a real fatigue out there on these bailouts,” DeMint continued. “I think even people who are normally not that political are coming up to me and they just sense that we’re running this country into a ditch. I’ve never seen people so anxious and so – well, I mean they grab my arm. They’re no longer single issue people. They just say, ‘Thanks for fighting. What can I do?’ I’ve heard that at least a hundred times. That’s – we just need to let people know the truth and think that they’ll get engaged.”
http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090127165919.aspx
This one is over looked (probably on purpose because the news broke on the day of the inauguration (coronation) of our President. Strange timing or convenient timing. One news source i saw claimed when you add this one to other recent lapses in security (tjmax, being one of them) it would not be surprising if one and ten peoples using credit and debit cards has not had there personal information stolen , maybe not used yet, but be watchful of your bills.
MasterCard, Visa warn security breach may compromise data
Visa and MasterCard have begun notifying member banks around the nation to contact patrons whose card accounts may have been compromised in the Heartland Payment Systems data breach.
Robert Baldwin, Heartland's President and CFO, said in a USA TODAY interview that Visa and MasterCard are "instructing many card issuers" to offer fraud-monitoring protection, replace cards, or do a combination of both for customers whose card purchases were processed by Heartland. "We're heartsick over this," Baldwin said.
Heartland disclosed Tuesday that intruders cracked the system it uses to process 100 million card transactions per month from 175,000 merchants. Heartland began investigating late last fall, tipped by Visa and MasterCard; but its tech staff was stumped. "We brought in a forensic auditor and worked for over a month, and only last week we found proof that our system had been breached," Baldwin said. "Up to that point we had no internal data suggesting any breach."
The case could turn out to be the largest data breach yet reported. Anyone who used a payment card at one of the restaurants or retailers that rely on Heartland to process card transactions could be at risk. These merchants include "independent business people in towns and cities across America," including some franchise chains, "but not any corporate names anybody would recognize," Baldwin said. Heartland has been unable to ascertain "a specific start and end date" for the intrusion, and has not been able to determine how many transaction records were stolen, he said.
Security and privacy experts say Heartland should assume all accounts that made transactions when the intruders were on the system are compromised. "Are we talking two weeks or two months?" says Roel Schouwenberg, senior antivirus researcher at Kaspersky Lab. "With proper forensics they should be able to conclude the maximum number of possible victims."
Whatever the number, it will be costly. Retail giant TJX set aside $197 million in reserves to deal with the 2007 theft of 94 million records. "This is TJX on steroids," says Paul Davie, COO of database management company Secerno.
Heartland should feel urgency to notify everyone who could be a victim, says Todd Davis, CEO of LifeLock, a fraud-monitoring service. "Victims are sitting naked, not knowing whether to take extra steps to protect themselves," he says. "The default should be toward notifying all possible victims."
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/credit/2009-01-21-visa-mastercard-credit-security-breach_N.htm
Very sad that this can happen in this Country
WWII Veteran Freezes To Death In Own Home
Bay City Electric & Light Restricted Power To Man's Home After He Did Not Pay Bills
BAY CITY, Mich. -- TV5 and WNEM.com has learned about new circumstances surrounding Marvin Schur’s death.
A limiter on Schur’s electric meter is being blamed for the man’s death. Now Bay City said it will notify customers before their power is shut off.
Michigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox said Tuesday he would review the case.
One local lawyer said the question remains: Who is accountable in the war veteran’s death?
http://www.wnem.com/news/18566890/detail.html
This one sounds a lot Politics as usual, or pay for play, Acorn helps Obama win so what is the response, very predictable.
Republicans Object to Stimulus Dollars for ACORN
Republicans say voter registration and community groups like ACORN could be eligible for funding under the Democrats' economic stimulus bill.
Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that ACORN, the low-income advocacy group under investigation for voter registration fraud, could be eligible for billions in aid from the economic stimulus proposal working its way through the House.
House Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement over the weekend noting that the stimulus bill wending its way through Congress provides $4.19 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities."
He said the money was previously limited to state and local governments, but that Democrats now want part of it to be available to non-profit entities. That means groups like ACORN would be eligible for a portion of the funds.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told FOX News Tuesday that the money could be seen as "payoff" for groups' political activities in the last election. ACORN generally supports Democratic candidates and actively backed President Obama last year.
But he said the funding is just one example of frivolous spending items in the $825 billion package.
"It's just a long list of spending items. Not a real economic stimulus job creation bill," Vitter said. "It's line after line after line of favorite liberal spending programs, and it amounts to a big government bill -- not a job creation bill."
Democratic leaders in the House have already dropped federal funding from the bill for new contraceptive services and ongoing programs to stop sexually transmitted diseases after Obama told them that it did not fit in with the job-creating objectives of the package.
Obama plans to meet with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill Tuesday to hear some their input on the package. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama is open to suggestions.
"If there are good ideas -- and I think he assumes there will be -- we will look at those ideas," he said Monday.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/27/republican-leaders-raise-concerns-acorn-stimulus-dollars/
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