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Raw Video: Obama Sings Al Green
Posted by admin in Mix Up TV, Political Mix on January 23rd, 2012
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Kills Another Inmate: Footage of Beating
Posted by admin in Mix Up News, Political Mix on December 24th, 2011
Video Shows Altercation with Combative Inmate: MyFoxPHOENIX.com
Once again, Sheriff Joe’s staff kills another innocent person. Ernest Atencion was booked on December 15th, 2012, but little did he know, this was going to be his last day of life. During his stay at the 4th Avenue Jail in Phoenix, AZ, this innocent man’s life was sadly taken away. He left Sheriff Joe’s jail a dead man with brain damage and on life support leaving his family with no option but to pull the plug.
“Deputies hold Atencio down, his face up against the floor. That’s when you see a detention officer make three forceful movements near what looks like his head. Another officer taps his fellow detention officer on the shoulder and he stops.”
As you can see in the video, his lifeless body was left for 15 minutes before deputies realized he was not breathing. Those blows to the head caused brain damage, which eventually killed him.
Sheriff Joe is a murderer and should be forced to resign. This has happened one too many times and is unacceptable behavior! Sheriff Joe is a RACIAST PIECE OF SHIT!!!
Joe Arpaio Birther Posse Probes President Obama’s Birth Certificate
Posted by admin in Political Mix on September 19th, 2011
by SteLemons – Sept. 19, 2011 9:12 AM
New Times – Phoenix
In a bizarre new stab at courting conspiracy nuts who believe President Barack Obama is a Kenyan, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has empowered a “birther posse” to look into claims by wackadoodles such as World Net Daily’s Jerome Corsi that Obama’s birth certificate from Hawaii is a forgery.
Yes, I know, it’s hard to believe, but even after the president made the unprecedented move earlier this year of having his original, long form birth certificate from Hawaii released to the public, there is still a stubborn passel of flat-Earther lunatics who refuse to accept that Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States, and thus qualified to hold the highest office in the land.
Ironically, as CNN has reported at length, it’s actually the computer-generated short form certification of live birth which is a legal document, and Obama’s people made that document public during the 2008 campaign, in hopes of quashing the kookery.
But, of course, that wasn’t enough for the crazies. Neither were public statements made by Republican Chiyome Fukino, the now-former Director of the Hawaii Department of Health, that Obama’s original, long form birth certificate was in the state’s possession, that she had examined it, and that, yes indeed, Obama was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961.
So earlier this year, Obama petitioned to have his long form certificate of live birth released, thus shutting up pseudo-birthers such as Donald Trump who’d been using the issue as political fodder to cast doubt on Obama’s legitimacy.
But as with the 9/11 “truth” movement, which believed that the 9/11 terror attacks were an “inside job” by the George W. Bush White House, there’s no amount of evidence that can convince a devoted conspiracy nut. So now the birthers claim that the long form is a fake, a claim that is thoroughly dealt with by the birther-debunking Web site the Fogbow.
Ever attuned to new ways of garnering media, even if it makes his office and by extension all of Arizona a laughingstock, Sheriff Joe played host last month to birther king Corsi and members of the Surprise Tea Party. That meeting has now borne fruit, as Arpaio has promised that his until-recently-defunct Cold Case Posse will take on the birther cause and do its own investigation.
The online wingnut rag World Net Daily recently reported that “five elite” investigators had been assigned this snark hunt, would report back to Arpaio their findings.
This from WND:
“The Cold Case Posse is a good place to put this investigation,” Arpaio said. “The individuals on this posse have been sworn in by me and I have granted them the authority required to conduct this investigation.”
Arpaio explained to WND that in the final analysis, all decisions stop with him.
Kill Joe Arpaio- New Song
Posted by admin in Mix Up TV, Political Mix on October 26th, 2010
Crocodiles respond to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s attack! A San Diego band responds with “First off, we’re not threatening him. [Charles weighs] 135 pounds and [is] hardly a man of violence. Maybe if the song was called ‘I’m Gonna Kill Joe Arpaio,’ he’d have a case but what we are attacking is the attitudes and policies he represents. In reality, we’re keeping our fingers crossed that his much-deserved heart attack comes soon; the world can always use one less racist. Karma is a bitch, Joe.”
Joe Arpaio’s office misused up to $80 million, Maricopa County Says
Posted by admin in Political Mix on September 23rd, 2010
IOU's.. They're as good as money!
by Yvonne Wingett - Sept. 22, 2010
The Arizona Republic
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday was placed under budget restrictions by the Board of Supervisors after a new report detailed misspending that county budget officials said could be between $60 million and $80 million over five years.
Supervisors will forward the county’s research to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for review. That office is conducting a separate abuse-of-power grand-jury probe of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, his employees and others. The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined comment.
Sheriff’s interim Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan blamed many of the problems on an antiquated personnel system, but acknowledged the Sheriff’s Office was not sure how much money from a restricted jail-tax fund was improperly used to pay for deputies to work in other areas of the agency. Misspending from that fund was one of the key complaints against the agency, because money from the fund may be used only for specific purposes.
“The $80 million figure, I think, is pure hyperbole, and I thought it was a vicious attempt to make Sheriff Arpaio look like he’s a poor manager,” Sheridan said in an interview.
The findings could prompt changes in several areas within the Sheriff’s Office, including how prisoners are extradited, how inmate property is handled by county employees, and how supervisors and county budget officials provide future oversight.
County Manager David Smith acknowledged top county administrators were partly to blame because of a lack of strict oversight. Deputy County Manager Sandi Wilson, who oversees the county’s $2.2 billion budget, said administrators for years have run the county on a “trust policy.”
“We trust departments to do the right thing, to follow countywide policies, and then we verify that, to the extent we can, through audits,” she said. “But even if we had audits, some of this wouldn’t have been caught.”
As legal, political and administrative disputes have embroiled the nation’s fourth-most-populous county in recent years, county officials said the Sheriff’s Office refused to let auditors examine their books on a number of matters.
Wilson maintained her office’s estimates of misspending are accurate, but said county officials need additional records from the Sheriff’s Office to pin down an exact figure.
“There’s going to have to be a lot of explaining to show us that it’s significantly less,” she said.
Hoping to prevent further misspending, the board starting next month will retroactively monitor transactions from the sheriff’s detention fund, the agency’s largest pot of money. Inappropriate spending will be charged to the sheriff’s general fund, which is not restricted. Also, by October, the board will require all sheriff’s officials to verify job assignments to ensure they are being paid from the proper fund. County officials will also hold hearings and ask sheriff’s officials to testify about the agency’s spending.
County and sheriff’s administrators say they are working together to resolve the problems. But the prospect of county administrators overseeing more closely how the Sheriff’s Office allocates resources does not sit well with sheriff’s officials who have fought county administrators on that for over a year.
Sheriff’s documents subpoenaed by the board, court records and other public information helped the county Office of Management and Budget conclude there was abuse of public funds and county policies. Areas affected included:
• Detention funds - The Sheriff’s Office spent money restricted to detention operations for functions not allowed by law. That money comes from a general sales tax approved by voters. It is to be used for jail items such as food, detention officers’ salaries and equipment. County officials said money from the fund has paid for salaries for deputies working patrol, public-corruption investigations and other assignments. County budget officials believe the $16 million annual discrepancy could go back five years, totaling $80 million.
• County credit cards - Sheriff’s officials charged “unusual expenses” to county-issued credit cards. Expenses included thousands of dollars in food; a hotel-room upgrade with a spouse; upgrades to first-class airfare; $5,414 to lodge and entertain officials from Honduras; multiple extradition trips for an employee totaling $62,750; stays at luxury hotels; a $2,215 expense at the Disneyworld Yacht Club Resort; and $1,684 for a portable generator for parade lights on a military tank.
Many of those findings were revealed last summer by an Arizona Republic investigation into credit-card spending by the Sheriff’s Office. County officials also noted the Sheriff’s Office did not provide some financial records on hotel stays in Belize, Puerto Rico, and $3,030 spent on plane tickets and a resort stay in Honduras. The county recently imposed strict credit-card rules on sheriff’s employees, and reported that credit-card charges plummeted.
Iraq combat over but U.S. troops still in danger
Posted by admin in Political Mix on September 14th, 2010
by Rania El Gamal – Sept. 13, 2010
Camp Speicher, Iraq
(Reuters) – U.S. Staff Sergeant Kendrick Manuel swung his rifle over his shoulder and grumbled about being viewed as a “non-combat” soldier in Iraq.
“When NBC talked about the last combat troops are gone, they made it sound like everything is basically over,” he said, after escorting a 19-truck convoy through a part of northern Iraq where roadside bombs and mortar attacks are still a danger.
“To us it was like a slap in the face, because we are still here … we are still going in harm’s way every time we leave out of the gate,” Manuel said at a U.S. military base, Camp Speicher, near Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit.
On August 31, the U.S. military formally declared an end to its combat mission in Iraq, 7-1/2 years after the invasion that removed Saddam and led to sectarian warfare and a fierce insurgency in which tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed. More than 4,400 U.S. soldiers have been killed since 2003.
U.S. networks such as NBC showed what the U.S. military labeled the last combat brigade rumbling into Kuwait. Soldiers whooped and shouted on camera that the war was over.
Yet, there are still six brigades made up of 50,000 troops in Iraq, ahead of a full withdrawal at the end of 2011. Their focus is to assist and advise their Iraqi counterparts, not lead the fight against insurgents, but they remain heavily armed and face frequent threats.
On September 7, two U.S. soldiers were killed and nine wounded when an Iraqi soldier opened fire on them at an Iraqi commando base.
The hype around the change of mission, which allowed President Barack Obama to say he was fulfilling a pledge to start ending the unpopular war, set off complaints among some soldiers left behind who were no longer viewed as combat troops.
U.S. military convoys are still shot at and bombed, and bases are mortared, despite a change in the name of the U.S. mission from Operation Iraqi Freedom to Operation New Dawn.
“That doesn’t really change a thing, it is still dangerous,” said 22-year-old Specialist Byron Reed, on his second deployment in Iraq, as he prepared to escort a convoy to Camp Speicher from Balad air base in Salahuddin province.
Manuel said changing the mission’s name meant little if any of his soldiers were to be killed by a roadside bomb.
“If a life is gone, it is gone,” he said. “As long as we are going in harm’s way, it (the war) is not over for us.”
LITTLE REAL CHANGE
U.S. soldiers said there had been little change in their mission since September 1. Most U.S. military units switched their focus to training Iraqi troops and police when they pulled out of towns and cities on June 30 last year.
While overall violence has dipped sharply in the past two or three years, Iraq is still a fragile place and al-Qaeda-linked insurgents and Shi’ite militia are active. Furthermore, tension has been heightened by the failure of politicians to form a new government six months after an inconclusive election.
“We do present a big target for the enemy, we still get attacked, just not as frequently,” said Lieutenant Colonel David Gooch, an infantry battalion commander, at Balad, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.
“Over the last week, I think we probably got attacked, say, five times. Those attacks are becoming less lethal I guess you would say, because we have some really good vehicles as you can see,” he said, standing in front of a U.S. army MRAP — Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected trucks.
Medical marijuana measure on Phoenix ballot raises questions
Posted by admin in Political Mix on September 12th, 2010
by Michael Clancy – Sept. 12, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
Phoenix officials are discussing how to deal with a November ballot measure that would legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
Phoenix has taken no position on the matter, but City Councilwoman Peggy Neely and Debra Stark of the City Manager’s Office are studying how the measure could be implemented if it passes.
The measure would allow terminally or seriously ill patients to qualify for medical marijuana with a doctor’s approval, permit qualifying patients or their caregivers to purchase it, and even allow them to grow it if a registered marijuana clinic is not nearby. It would also create ID cards and establish penalties for false cards.
Neely has met with neighborhood activists and village planning-committee members, and she asked the city’s planning staff to review the issue and be prepared to evaluate steps the city should take if the ballot issue passes.
The review would include laws in 14 other states where medical marijuana is legal.
City staff has formed a team of representatives from the City Manager’s Office, Planning and Development, and Law departments, to look at the ballot language and prepare options for regulating the land use.
The recommendation is to restrict clinics to C-3 zoning areas. The zoning, the highest level of commercial categories, is largely situated around Deer Valley Airport and the industrial areas of south Phoenix, but patches of C-3 zoning dot the entire city. Much of it runs along major roads, including Grand Avenue, Camelback Road and Bell Road.
The staff also suggested restricting greenhouses or growing facilities to industrial zoning, A-1 and A-2.
Steve Fox of the Medical Marijuana Project, a lobbying and information group in Washington, D.C., said most laws give general guidance to cities on zoning restrictions. The Arizona proposal says cities may employ “reasonable” zoning restrictions. Cities generally have attempted to keep both dispensaries and growing areas away from residential districts, Fox said.
Eric Johnson of Mesa, who describes himself as a marijuana activist, attended one of the meetings.
He said he supports tight restrictions on the growing, selling and use of medical marijuana, and he hopes to open a dispensary.
“I want to provide a safe environment for people to get their medicine,” he said. “Safe and legal.”
He said the clinics should be near hospitals and doctors’ offices to be convenient for patients.
At a meeting of a City Council subcommittee last week, members brought up numerous concerns, some of them involving public safety.
Councilman Tom Simplot asked about possible associations of dispensaries with pharmacies and other medical providers. Councilwoman Neely asked whether cities could restrict the number of clinics.
Neely said she hopes to have a plan to present to the Phoenix Planning Commission by the end of September or early October.
