Wednesday, 24 October 2012

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!


My mum forwarded me this email and I think it is GREAT! Our jails should be like this!!!!! I'd vote him in :o)
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You may 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 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. 


Yup, he was re-elected 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 jail.
**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.....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 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.

Sunday, 29 July 2012

My Gorgeous Sister

Nana & The Rock Choir

Nana has joined the Rock Choir! She does all sorts of events and shows and this year she was singing in Woodley Shopping Centre! Go Nana!!

Monday, 4 June 2012

Queen's Jubilee Party

I went up to Birmingham with Jez for the bank holiday weekend. Kez had a Jubilee party and we all had a good catch up. Drunk way too much wine but had a good old dance to all the old tunes! Good times :o)

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Feeling......

Good!!! I have not felt this good for a loooooooooong time. Got all my meds sorted and the fibro under control. New vit supplements are working a treat!! And I feel back to being me again! Kadyn is a little comedian! Plus to top it all off met a lush new fella! All good on the home front then!!!!! :-) xx

Monday, 5 March 2012

Lost Mo Jo!

I've lost my mo jo! I can't find it anywhere! I was doing so well on my fitness pal and then had a really bad fibro week and it just seems to be continuing. I can't get my healthy head back on.....just wanna eat crap which I'm sure doesn't help how I feel. If you find my mo jo anywhere - please send it back to me :o) xxx

No Gold?

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
(Maurice Setter)

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Tired.com

I'm so tired! I can't even explain how tired I am. Not the tired like you get when you have been partying all night or if you had a bad nights sleep. The type of tired that you feel like there are lead weights attached to your eye lids. Like someone has drugged your drink with some kind of horse tranquilizer, the type when it feels like someone is squashing your head together. The type when you wake up in the morning and spend all day looking forward to bedtime just so you can go to sleep. The type that fills you with guilt cos you want to be a fun mum that has energy to play but all you want to do is close your eyes in a nice dark room and listen to absolutely nothing! I do NOT want this crappy Fibromyalgia and it's chronic fatigue! I wish it would GO AWAY!

Friday, 20 January 2012

On a roll....or should I say salad!

Day 2 of healthy eating plan and looking forward to this salad. Blimey.....not sure what has happened to me lol xx


Monday, 16 January 2012

What will be will be....

"Sometimes we struggle so vigorously with
a vision of how things are "supposed to be"
that we lose sight of what is "meant to be"."