The Clown Sheriff Of Maricopa County Arizona

Posted on January 5, 2009
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Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio is a joke. Only, he’s not very funny, nor is the fact that he keeps getting himself elected as Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona–a county that includes Phoenix.

This disgrace to a badge likes to be called “America’s toughest sheriff”–and is noted for his meanness and horrible treatment of prisoners –though not yet convicted–he throws into his jails.

He even had journalists arrested and jailed because they wrote about him in a negative way, according to a New York Times report.

He has cost the county tens of millions in settlement fees from lawsuits brought by mistreated prisoners in “his care.”

And now, reports the Times, this joke of justice is getting his own reality television show courtesy of, who else, Fox.

“Smile, You’re Under Arrest,” is the name of the program in which all sorts of “pranks” are staged to haul “nonviolent offenders with outstanding warrants in or near Phoenix to justice,” says the paper.

“I don’t care how you do it, I just want to put these guys in jail,” says this jerk in the series very first episode.

This is what the people of the county re-elected him five times for?

The TV show should be cancelled, and so should the Sheriff’s tenure.

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Times Of London Gives Rave Review To “No Time To Think”–Rosenberg/Feldman Book

Posted on January 2, 2009
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The august Times of London has given a very good review to No Time To Think, the new book about the menace of media speed by Howard Rosenberg and yours truly.

Link is to the full Times review.

If you are interested in the impact 24/7 news and the Internet are having on us all, No Time To Think is the book for you.

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Jesus Christ Are They Kidding? Hamas Makes Crucifixion Legal!

Posted on December 31, 2008
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Nothing like keeping with the Christmas spirit than making crucifixion legal!

Hamas, according to the Jerusalem Post, has “marked the Christmas season by passing a Shari’a criminal code for the Palestinian Authority. Among other things, it legalizes crucifixion.”

Now there’s a progressive movement for you.

Guess they have gotten tired of slowly slicing off heads and other keen ways of sending enemies (and sometimes friends?) to their maker.

You can always count on a good crucifixion to get the old blood flowing…or dripping as the case may be!

The idea apparently is to use it against so-called “enemies of Islam.”  Let’s see, that would be, in their view, your Christians and your Jews.

Well, God knows there are enough of them in the Middle East to keep cross makers burning the midnight oil to keep up with production.

A word of caution to Hamas–which controls the Gaza Strip and is now at what appears to be all out war with Israel–you better be careful whom you nail to the cross.

You just may start something you can’t finish.

Sometimes, crucifixions can lead to surprising and unexpected results–like, Christianity.

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The Day The Earth Should’ve Stood Still As Financial/Credit Crisis Spreads

Posted on December 29, 2008
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Who needs sci-fi flicks like The Day The Earth Stood Still when we are living through an actual, ever expanding global crisis. Only this one is of our own making and we can’t point the finger of blame at any extraterrestrials, bless their green skinned frames.

As one Reuters article points out, 2008 will be noted for having one of the biggest stock market falls on record–though the biggest yearly drop still was back in 1931 during the Great Depression.    Which reminds me…not to be difficult….but why do we call it the GREAT Depression?  Nothing great about it unless you happened to have been one of those lucky enough to have made a killing during those years….and, make no mistake about it…some did.

If you stop and look back at this previous year, it is pretty amazing when you think about it:  how what began as a mortgage crisis involving relatively few homeowners in the U.S., is now a world-wide credit crisis fueling a deepening recession in this country and in parts of Europe and Asia as well.

Hard to find an industry left untouched….cars, travel, manufacturing, financial, the list goes on and on.

Come to think of it…maybe we should welcome some alien who can make the Earth stand still for just one day…then we can better see the mess we have brought upon ourselves.

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Wal-Mart Takes Bite Of The Apple: But No Discount On iPhone???

Posted on December 26, 2008
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Now we know who is boss!

For years, we’ve been told that Wal-Mart, the biggest store in every universe known and unknown, could bring merchants to their knees, insisting on lower prices so it could sell discounted goods to its mostly blue-collar customers.
But Apple Computer apparently has that licked.
Wal-Mart has announced it will start selling the iPhone Sunday.
However, contrary to numerous reports that it would offer it at a cheaper price –it will not.
Wal-Mart plans on selling the 8 G model for $197 and the 16 G model for $297—exclusive of the 2 year AT&T slave contract you are forced to buy in order to use the stupid thing!
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The BiggerPockets Real Estate Show tackles Madoff & Housing Bailouts

Posted on December 22, 2008
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Hey folks. We just recorded the latest edition of the BiggerPockets.com Real Estate Show (sort of), and in it, chat it up about a potential housing bailout and the Bernard Madoff scandal (Ponzi scheme). We’ve got some interesting solutions for these issues that we think you’ll agree need to be put into play. Check it out!

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