'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!'
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 approximately $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 prisoners 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 'Git-R Dun' kind of Sheriff.
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 As 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 can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
The RADIATORS: New Orleans
[Listen HERE]
The Power of the Weave
Retrieved by Pat Darnell
1988 Fish Head Music [c] | Zig-Zaggin' Through Ghostland, Ed Volker | Liner notes
...And so did the Drunk Uncle weave the tale of Ghostland to us Christmas kids, sitting on our nervous hands in the looming dark, our eyes growing wider as the whiskery words of the Drunk Uncle burned wider... "Ghostland, Ghostland! How can a poor mortal soul like me tell ye of Ghostland? It's the kingdom of the blind! Don't ever get lost in Ghostland. There are things that can see that you can't see!"
On our way home our winter shivers were not from the cold.
But it's Geronimo's tale that offers a way out to the lost in their dark hour of need; the medicine man avoided capture by scores of union soldiers for years and years because the soldiers moved in straight lines... Geronimo, he zigzagged!
He knew the power of the weave.
There's only one Earth, but the worlds we traverse are many. Blind Betty lights candles. There's wisdom in the wine; comfort for the fugitive. Oh, Drunk Uncle, there is a way out of Ghostland, and it's not a straight line.
To our mothers and fathers, and all the threads that led us here, we dedicate our song.
SAINT JAKE
Lyrics | Zig-Zaggin' Through Ghostland
by Ed Volker
One eye open, one eye closed
Jungle fever in the grip of my clothes
I pray the Lord, my soul to keep,
but He always gives it back to me.
Refrain:Check my sergeant, now he got stripes
Oh Yea, zig-zagging through Ghostland
Oh yea, call me the shadow when I move
Oh yea, zig-zagging through Ghostland
Who knows what evil lurks -- the shadows do.
Roars like a tiger in the broad daylight
But he's just a sheep, deep in his sleep
That's when I make my midnight creep
[Refrain]
I'm running silent, I'm running deep
First thing you learn, ...
...you better not make a peep
And if you move in a straight line
Them ghosts 'll barbecue your behind
[Refrain]
Friday, February 20, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
YouTube was a good idea... Bottom feed
YouTube and early onset Dinosaurism
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Tags: copyright, Google, Music Business, music industry, YouTube
OK, this is the big buzz running through my Reader today; YouTube is pulling audio from user generated videos. From ReadWriteWeb.
A growing number of videos now appear without sound and with a notice that these videos contained “an audio track that has not been authorized by all copyright holders.” It looks like YouTube is starting to implement audio fingerprinting software that automatically removes licensed audio tracks…
….YouTube always contacted its users when it was notified of copyright infringements, but now, it seems like this is an automated process. Predictably, the commenters on YouTube are outraged about this new policy….
In most every article I’ve seen about this, there is an assumption that the “music industry” somehow unified to force YouTube in to yanking the tracks. I haven’t seen anybody entertaining the idea that YT (Google) is doing this of their own accord.
…Most importantly, this move by YouTube, even though it makes perfect legal sense, might quickly put an end to the culture of remixes, mashups, and parodies on YouTube….
…In the end, this new policy will only alienate YouTube’s users, while doing nothing to help the struggling music industry. It would make a lot more sense for the music industry to provide a blanket license to YouTube so that users could use copyrighted sounds tracks on their homemade videos, while the record labels (or the artists) could get a share of the advertising revenue.
The backlash against the music industry is so firmly embedded in the collective brain that everybody automatically thinks; “those evil, rotten bastards, they’ve done it again”.
I’ve found, on the whole, that people have a misconception about the music industry. People think it’s a lot bigger business than it is.
When you talk about YouTube, you are really talking about Google. Google is a big business. Google is a bigger business than the music business. Google is the only player that has made big time money from the web. They have done this by performance based ad revenue and controlling the flow of traffic.
Now, if you do a search for any musical act that is anywhere near legit, multiple YouTube links show up on page one. Go give it a try if you have any doubt. Google is directing huge traffic to YouTube and YT was getting huge traffic before Google bought it. But, YouTube isn’t making the dough. The ads in the side bar of the search page are the bread and butter. When it comes down to seeing the whites of their eyes, Google isn’t going to risk that bread and butter for a division that isn’t profitable. Culture of remixes, mashups, and parodies be damned.
And, that’s the problem with the blanket license theory. Google isn’t going to want to pay a blanket fee out of revenue that isn’t enough as it is. They would like it to be performance based like the side bar, search ads. That hasn’t proven to be efficient.
The C Word-Criminalization
It’s the buzz word du jour among digital pundits. We have criminalized generations of young people. No doubt they will be emotionally scarred and guilt ridden for cramming their iPods full of free music.
Gerd on YouTube’s recent play…
Ouch. This will really hurt. Everyone. The amateur film makers, the artists, Youtube, us - the users. Yes, sure, I know: synchronization [the use of music in a public audio-visual production] is subject to a license by the writer, publisher, label, artist (and another dozen of parties), no matter how small the use. That’s the law.
BUT: where will this by-the-book implementation of these laws lead us? The answer is: criminalization.
Who is criminalizing who here?
If you make a video of your three-year-old opening birthday presents and you sync it to Velvet Underground’s “The Gift”, you aren’t trying to profit from it, it’s all in good fun, right? See, you could do that as much as you want. The problem is when you publish it on YouTube, Google is trying to make a buck off of it. Even if there isn’t an add next to your “creative work”, your second cousin Marie might take a look, chuckle and, while she’s at YouTube, she might decide to check out a clip by Crosby Stills and Nash. And, if someone is looking for The Velvet Underground on Google, your innocent clip is going to show up in the search, even though it’s only had 149 views.
Who is making you a criminal, the music industry or YouTube/Google?
It seems like the same people that have no problem spouting that the music industry needs to quit clinging to dinosaur business models and embrace free range, on demand, digital consumerism, that they need to forgo the money as the the new business models “develop”; those same people get weak in the knees at the prospect of not letting YouTube/Google and the users have the Ho Hos and eat ‘em too.
Here’s the news; in this era dinosaurs become dinosaurs at light speed and YouTube is showing the symptoms. YT peeling the audio isn’t going to end the culture of remixes, mashups, and parodies. It will just morph; go elsewhere. The new media whizzes are fond of YouTube because all the traffic is there, tied together in a neat little package. And, I can understand that because it’s convenient. But, it can’t sustain if it’s not turning the bucks.
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