Have you ever been to Phoenix? Scottsdale? Tempe? How could you possibly classify Maricopa County as: “one of many third-world countries that dot the USA” is also beyond me… Phoenix is one of the fastest and largest cities in the country, and contains several of the most desirable communities in the “USA”…

Ignorant.

I’ve never expressed any view supporting the Confederacy in any way, so go easy… I happen to hold virtually identical views on federalism as Edwin Meese, Janice Rogers Brown, and my first con law professor, Clarence Thomas.. and I fail to see why precisely this ideological association and identification should place me in the wilderness of ostracism…

I’m finishing my second year of law school, I work in federal and in State courts, and I’m in the top 25% of my class… not the most stellar record it may be, but I’m pleased to have six-figure job offers.

You submit that because I happen to extern for a governor-appointed judge I agree with the views of Sheriff Joe? Quite an attribution of guilt by association, and a marginal association indeed… Where exactly have I defended or advocated what Sheriff Joe is or has advocated? As I recall… all I have written is “a tremendous amount of crime flows directly from illegal-migrant activity.”

How this endorses Sheriff Joe’s views is beyond my limited capacities…

Actually the $41M is just the total of all the money that Maricopa County has paid out simply to settle or pay off the lawsuits against Arpaio in the last 16 years. He screws the taxpayers in other ways too.

If you want conspiracy theories, you should probably ask about why someone who claims to be saving taxpayers money keeps running over budget by doing things like drastically increasing the amount of overtime pay requested (despite hiring more staff):

http://www.aznews.us/sheriff_arpaio_is_more_than_$1_million_over_over_time_budget.htm

Amen, brother…here’s a nice little article demonstrating just what a third-world country Maricopa County is.

http://phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-12-20/news/inhumanity-has-a-price/1

The taxpayers of that county have paid out, as of December 20 of last year, around $41 million in lawsuits purely as a result of their idiot sheriff and his gang of clowns. Joe Arpaio has been the subject of more legitimate lawsuits than any other county sheriff in the United States.

New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, for example, collectively housed more than 61,000 inmates per day last year. From 2004 through November of this year, these same county jails had a combined 43 prison-conditions lawsuits filed against them in federal courts.

In the very same three-year time frame, despite housing a mere 9,200 prisoners per day, Sheriff Arpaio was the target of a staggering 2,150 lawsuits in U.S. District Court and hundreds more in Maricopa County courts.

With a fraction of the inmate population, Arpaio has had 50 times as many lawsuits as the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston jail systems combined.

Based on records produced under the Freedom of Information Act, a review of federal and state records and a comparison with other correctional facilities, the picture that emerges is clear: Cruelty costs.

Funny how the Maricopa County court system never sees fit to hold their own law enforcement accountable for what they do. But I guess so long as he’s protecting the “best of (your) own culture” $41 million extorted from taxpayers, some unjustified inmate deaths, and a potential health care epidemic is a small price to pay…right Benjamin?

That’s the same county where their sheriff is such a chikenshit little coward that he felt the need to buy an armored personnel carrier to protect himself and his men. And being really incompetent, his men once forgot to set the parking brake on the damn thing and it rolled down a street and crushed a car.

Maricopa county is one of many third-world countries that dot the USA. Places where the government officials exercise despotic control. Places to be avoided, in other words.

Wow…so you work with Maricopa County’s court system, huh? Impressive. Considering your neo-confederate views that goes a long way towards explaining why their court system is such a sham…

http://phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-01-24/news/the-wrong-driver/1

…aside from the fact that the people there keep reelecting a corrupt sheriff who thinks it’s acceptable to beat prisoners to death.

Why would the RP campaign ever communicate with someone of your ilk? Think of the legitimacy that would shroud your site with… you could ask him if it is true that he sent out fliers advocating collectivism with Joe Stalin or Rooselvelt’s face on them and you wouldn’t get a response.

“I don’t agree with Paul’s immigration positions to begin with, but they are what they are. Sending out a mailer that effectively characterizes every illegal immigrant as a tatooed member of MS-13 like they guy on the mailer is both factually wrong and clearly meant to appeal to the worst in people.”

Working in Maricopa County crimminal courts here in lovely Phoenix, I can tell you that a tremendous amount of crime flows directly from illegal-migrant activity. One particularly brutal murder of a teenage girl from the past year by a Coyote comes to mind… If you have ever lived on a border-town, you will realize the tremendous divergence in the value systems of our two proud cultures. It is not racist to wish to preserve our own system of government, our own voluntary associations, and the best of our own culture.

There were reasons for it. However, I wouldn’t worry too much about it…the primary race is basically over so there’s not much reason to keep discussing Paul-related stuff so I imagine it will peter out.

It’s good to see you back here, though (seriously)…I was wondering if you were going to pop by again.

Or maybe it’s more centsless than that. We’ve suffering with the boom-bust cycle of a completely fiat currency system for over 35 years now. Anyone who’s ever driven a 35 year old Fiat knows how unreliable the system is bound to be.

But never fear, just like any other group that’s deeply in debt, we can spend our way out of it…right? :-)

I’d prefer MGS4, myself :p.

Ah, but does MGS4 have endless hordes of the undead in a mall where almost everything can be used as a weapon against them, and does it feature miniature chain saws? HA!!! Thought not…nothing beats chopping up endless hordes of the undead with a miniature chain saw. :)

Actually, by the time the general election rolls around I’ll probably be well into my second or third iteration of GTA IV.