Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona

I have heard of this guy, sheriff briefly before. Now with a bit more information I think that he might just have something. 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.
The sheriff has 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."

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.
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 da**ed 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. Like in our case with no health insurance for the past few years. We are struggling to find employment with healthcare. Not quite right in a great country like ours. I thought that this was worth sharing. Hope you think so too.

Our Freedoms

I have just read and signed the petition: "Homeland Security scheming to track every American - Submit comments now!" Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and join me in signing the petition. It takes just 30 seconds, but can truly make a difference. We are trying to reach 5,000 signatures - please sign here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/633571619

Here is the information about tracking Americans.....
I have found that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched an attack on our privacy rights and personal freedoms.

DHS is aiming to issue a national identity card, known as Real ID, to every American. The national ID card could dictate how you travel, what government buildings you can and cannot enter and whether or not some of your financial transactions would be authorized. Doesn't that concern anyone else other than me?

I really think that America does not need this costly "big brother" nightmare. Consider the following problems this would start:

The Real ID card would enable routine tracking of individuals and send us towards a surveillance type society.
This scheme opens the floodgates to invade the privacy of ordinary, law-abiding citizens which is the majority of all Americans.
The creation of a single interlinked database which would would create one-stop shopping for identity thieves, in otherwords this would help them to do crime.
The Real ID will make it easy for any business to save your personal information and sell it to other companies. I smell greed rearing its head in this case.
People whose religious beliefs forbid them from having their pictures taken or using a social security card will be forced to obey this law to participate in our society. Isn't this a form of persecution?
This Act creates huge administrative burdens for each state and will cost Americans over $23 billion through higher taxes and licensing fees. It provides no federal funds for implementation. More money out of our pockets!
The Department of Homeland Security is accepting comments on the Real ID Act. The number of comments will be watched by many influential Members of Congress, not just your own. So why don't we weigh in and let the power of the people speak again.

Help stop this summer's gas price gouging

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Hi,

How can you face another summer where a day trip to the lake, amusement park, or the beach costs you way too much to make the trip? It's shaping up to be just that if we don't tell our people, our employees, Congress to stand up to Big Oil compainies now.

There is a bill in the House this week that could make gas price gouging a federal crime, so we won't have to pay more while the oil companies rake in record profits. I signed a petition to urge my representative to pass this bill this week -- you can join in this effort at the link below?

http://pol.moveon.org/stoppricegouging/

Thanks will be in order if we stand together and tell them No More!