| Sheriff Joe |
by billbellevuene |
2004-07-14 14:20:59 |
Man, I love this guy. I just got this in my e-mail and thought I'd share it for anyone else online that's Republican.
> > You've probably heard of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of the Maricopa County
> >jail in Arizona and know most of the story, but keep reading to the end
> >for a GREAT update on "Sheriff Joe".
> >
> > 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;
> >He took away their weights; He 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 but 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 is a good one......"This isn't
> >the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it,
> >don't come back."
> > He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes
> >into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by
> >a Democrat, he replied that a democratic
> >lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails
> >in the first place.
> > You have to love this guy!!
> > More on the AZ 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 1/2 years. "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 darned mouths." |
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To bad more sheriffs won't take a few pages out of | by shorty82 | 2004-07-14 14:26:37 |
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If prison were the reason for crime | by mortaine | 2004-07-14 14:33:36 |
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Sherrif Joe | by mhenry67 | 2004-07-14 14:35:53 |
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Say what?! | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:13:13 |
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OK, maybe I said that wrong. | by shorty82 | 2004-07-14 17:35:52 |
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You're still talking from a lack of | by thewrongcrowd | 2004-07-14 17:49:44 |
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He also | by Kickstart | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Thats iffy, KS.... | by imperito | 2004-07-14 15:24:35 |
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You agree with who? | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 15:46:35 |
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Agree with... | by imperito | 2004-07-14 15:48:47 |
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You are insane. | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 15:51:21 |
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I'm curious. | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 15:56:49 |
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I'll take that one! With another, loaded, | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 16:07:32 |
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Just time to answer one... | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 16:33:58 |
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Wait a second... | by snowblind | 2004-07-14 16:44:27 |
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No. | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 16:47:26 |
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No, that's not what he said. | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 16:48:33 |
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Because | by snowblind | 2004-07-14 16:56:09 |
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I'm not going to answer that rubbish. (n/t) | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 16:57:51 |
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Right, | by snowblind | 2004-07-14 17:01:46 |
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What point exactly are you claiming to make? (n/t) | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 17:39:29 |
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He claimed that? Really? | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:02:18 |
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If I claim | by snowblind | 2004-07-14 17:10:16 |
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This was not his claim. | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:17:10 |
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Of which | by snowblind | 2004-07-14 17:19:35 |
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Are we not all judges... | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:25:53 |
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Possibly because there were some slurs | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 16:56:28 |
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Re-read EXACTLY what I said | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 16:58:53 |
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Sorry, but my opinion stands, there. | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 17:13:05 |
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Well to some extent... | by imperito | 2004-07-14 17:24:40 |
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Please point out... | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:28:24 |
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Not him... | by imperito | 2004-07-14 17:39:14 |
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Ah yes... | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:45:42 |
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Illiad, I'd like to point out that I disagree with | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 18:40:12 |
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The religious fundies here lack vision, K. | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 16:45:34 |
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I'm disappointed in you, KS. | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 16:45:55 |
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You have never proven that it causes greater harm. | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 16:49:44 |
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Dude, I call Bulls**t. | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:08:20 |
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And again I think you misread something. | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 17:24:03 |
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What happens... | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:29:48 |
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That is where society and the individual | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 17:47:17 |
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But but but... | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:56:34 |
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We're simply not going to agree on this. | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 18:00:27 |
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And it is closed minds like yours | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 17:57:05 |
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I'll refer you to my reply to Illiad, and note | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 18:04:00 |
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It *is* a valid comparison though. | by thewrongcrowd | 2004-07-14 18:09:57 |
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I said one detox. I also said that at the point | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 18:18:30 |
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Some responsibility. | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 18:30:30 |
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Context not neglected... | by thewrongcrowd | 2004-07-14 18:37:03 |
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Note that you call "confrontational" | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 18:11:31 |
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You know better than that, dude... | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 16:44:03 |
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I noticed that you missed part. | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 16:52:33 |
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I will not stop you from punching me in the face | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 16:54:38 |
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Your analogy is incorrect. In the case under | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 17:03:04 |
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Ok, a better analogy | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 17:07:31 |
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Closer, but still has a small hole... | by imperito | 2004-07-14 17:30:20 |
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Said drug user is no more | by thewrongcrowd | 2004-07-14 17:41:45 |
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If you made it "give" (to keep the analogy | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 17:30:20 |
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So if I give you a gun... | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 17:41:04 |
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In my opinion, yes. | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 17:52:43 |
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Ok, so how about we sell clean needles | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 17:59:09 |
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*goes back in time a bit... | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 18:00:23 |
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Can I join you? I don't have a time machine! | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 18:05:34 |
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While it *would* be fun to see you kicking | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 18:12:50 |
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Bummer. (n/t) | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 18:19:24 |
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Perhaps not... | by imperito | 2004-07-14 17:04:41 |
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*punches Kickstart in the face* | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 17:59:19 |
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*stops you* | by Kickstart | 2004-07-14 18:03:13 |
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Shenanigans! | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 18:08:41 |
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No, I saw that part... | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 17:00:37 |
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Because | by imperito | 2004-07-14 16:08:31 |
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Degenerates? | by Illiad | 2004-07-14 16:40:05 |
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and apparently | by tigermouse | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Sigh... | by imperito | 2004-07-14 15:39:47 |
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They are all links | by tigermouse | 2004-07-14 15:49:46 |
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LART again! | by Naruki | 2004-07-14 16:36:45 |
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No matter where else we may disagree, | by Evil_Minion | 2004-07-14 17:56:46 |
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Sheriff "Joke" | by carl52 | 2004-07-14 16:43:57 |
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Anybody else find it funny... | by Ravenlock | 2004-07-14 20:38:51 |
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That is suspicious, but he may of had a reason not | by shorty82 | 2004-07-14 20:59:53 |
