Homeless in Arizona

How many people has NYPD cop Louis Scarcella framed for murder???

In the past couple of weeks I have been reading a lot of articles about Phoenix Police Detective Armando Saldate who is accused of framing Debra Milke for murder.

Detective Louis Scarcella seems to use the same technique for getting confessions as Phoenix Police Detective Armando Saldate who framed Debra Milke for murder. According to the news articles I have read they both make the confessions up out of thin air.

Kern County pigs videotaped beating man to death!!!

Kern County is just north of Los Angeles county, and Bakersfield is it's biggest city.

Sadly I suspect this happens much more frequently, but the cops always cover up their crimes. Well except in cases like this and the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles when the public accidentally video tapes the police crime.

If you remember the Rodney King beating the piggies lied and claimed that Rodney King was superhuman who was going to kill all the pigs that beat him up with his bare hands.

The following video is of pretty poor quality, I suspect because it was shot with a cell phone.

But the video does document a police murder. How often do you get to see crooked pigs murder someone!!!!

I am going to put putting all the future articles I collect on the murder of David Silva by the Kern County Sheriff's office into this URL.

Controversial Arizona laws rack up big legal fees

And that is a problem at all levels of government from cities and school districts to the Federal government.

Personally I suspect that at the Federal level almost all of the laws passed are unconstitutional based on the US Constitution's concept of a very limited Federal government.

We are told that Constitutions are there to limit the power of government, but when elected officials ignore the Constitution and pass these blatantly unconstitutional laws they don't even get a slap on the wrist for violating the Constitution. And as long as that is true I suspect the practice of routinely passing unconstitutional laws will continue.

Valley Metro Bus Strike Lawsuit

Here is the bus pass I purchased, but which I could not use on August 1 thru 4 in the cities of Chandler, Tempe, Mesa and Gilbert which had all of their bus service stopped by the bus strike.

Some of the bus service was stopped in Phoenix and Scottsdale too. But other bus unions also provide bus service in Phoenix and Scottsdale so bus service did not come to a complete halt in Phoenix and Scottsdale like it did in the other cities.

Also the light rail service, which is run by another union continued to provide service. I did ride once on the light rail during the strike, when I went to the First Fridays event in downtown Phoenix.

Here are photos of both sides of my bus pass, which I could not use during Aug 1 thru 4. The bus pass number seems to be # L31-0013125. I probably bought it at the APS office in Chandler.

IRS targets political enemies of President Obama????

IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups

Florida mayor candidate claims Jesus endorsement

Osaka mayor: Wartime sex slaves were necessary

This article where Osaka, Japan Mayor Toru Hashimoto has said that he thinks it is OK to force woman into slavery and use them as sex slaves is OK is proof of that.

I am not picking on the Japanese, there are just as many nutty criminals in American politics, if not more.

Feds welcome Indian engineers while running Mexican laborers of of town

But I find it silly as noted in this article that while the government is running low paid Latino workers who do our grunt work out of the country on the claim they steal jobs from Americans, while they are allowing thousands of highly paid Indians with H1B visas to come to American and steal jobs from American engineers.

These engineers from India often make $50 an hour or more.

Questions on employment law???

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Arizona Taxi drivers now subject to random drug testing

Then after I do find out which of the drug testing companies gave bribes, oops, I mean campaign contributions to the politicians that passed the law.

More blisters on my feet

Usually I start walking barefoot in March to get my feet in shape for the Arizona summers, but I haven't gone barefoot that much this year until now.

Don't worry the blisters will soon heal and turn into hard calluses which will protect my feet from the hot Arizona heat that will soon be here.

Arizona poll: Majority backs same-sex marriage, legalizing pot

I certainly am one of them.

Scottsdale Messy Yard cops condemn mans home!!!

From the way Scottsdale's top messy yard cop Steve Gallant talks in this article you would think Scottsdale Messy Yard cops are heroes for seizing Howard Mitchell's home for trivial messy yard crimes, instead of the tyrants they really are.

Lower drunk-driving limit to .05, federal board says

While the Federal government doesn't have the power to set the DUI limit in state governments it doesn't it by bribing them with Federal money if and only if they pass laws making the DUI limit what the royal rulers in the Federal government mandate.

When DUI was first invented in the early 1900's the legal limit was .15 in most states. That is almost twice the current .08 limit in most states and three times the new proposed legal limit by the Feds.

First the Fed's bribed the state government with Federal money to reduce the legal limit to .10.

Then they again bribed the state government with Federal money to reduce the legal limit to .08. And if this .05 limit is implemented I suspect they will also bribe the state governments again with federal money to get the legal limit reduced to .05.

Kelly Thomas' father 'totally disgusted' by Kern County beating

According to this article the Father of Kelly Thomas is totally disgusted by the murder of David Silva by Kern County Sheriff's thugs.

Pot Shops Ordered to Close in Garden Grove

Garden Grove is a suburb of Los Angeles in Orange County. It's just south of Anaheim and west of Santa Ana.

I have never really like Garden Grove, so I was suprised to hear that Garden Grove has the highest concentration of medical marijuana stores in Orange County.

Maybe next time I move back to LA, I will hang out in Garden Grove a lot more.

Kern County asks FBI to investigate police murder

This case may be slightly different because it was a high profile police murder, that was video taped by the public, just like the Rodney King beating.

Of course the cops in the Rodney King crime got off pretty easy, even if they did a few months of time in a country club prison.

If normal White folks who were not had committed that crime they would have done some serious time compared to what the cops got.

Arizona could deny resources for federal laws under bill

And of course a good place to start would be the insane "war on drugs", which is clearly unconstitutional per the 10th Amendment.

Tempe arson on Mill & 10th Street

Tempe cops want to arrest students who took drunk to hospital???

According to the article the Tempe Police want to arrest the students for their good deed.

Sadly the police seem more concerned with arresting people for silly victimless crimes then arresting people for real crimes that hurt people.

Richard Milhous Obama????

Well according to this article It looks like I am not the only person calling President Obama a clone of Nixon.

Obama, the uninterested president

In this article President Obama seems to blame the scandals at the IRS, the AP spying and the mess in Libya on other people.

Photo radar - it's all about revenue, not safety!!!!

Tucson cops get big pay raises!!!!

Pima County Supervisors order $135,000 guesthouse torn down???

Cops erase video of police murder in Bakersfield.

Based on my experience with crooked cops this doesn't surprise me the least bit. Every time I am stopped the police I take the 5th and refuse to answer any police questions.

Of course the cops always lie and tell me I don't have any 5th Amendment right to remain silent. And almost always the cops make up threats that bad, bad, bad things will happen to me if I don't answer their questions.

And most of the time the cops illegally search me looking for an ID, since I always refuse to them them my name.

The good news, is that even if the piggies erased the video of the Kern County sheriff's officers beating David Silva to death, frequently the file can be recovered.

Last if the police are so corrupt that they will erase the evidence that is needed to convict the 10 are so cops who beat David Silva to death, don't you think these crooked cops will also commit perjury and lie in court to convict people??? Or plant evidence to frame people???

Cops who murdered David Silva are the victims????

Well at least in this article it sounds like that is what the cops want us to believe!!!

This is typical when cops are caught committing crimes, they frequently paint themselves as the victim, not the criminal.

The murder of David Silva by the Kern County Sheriff's Office isn't any different. And sadly people frequently believe these fantastic big lies made up the the police.

Kern County makes lame excuses to justify the murder of David Sal Silva

• "I cannot speculate whether they acted appropriately or not"
• "Baton strikes were used, but what I don't know ... if they ... caused death"
• Youngblood said the baton is a less lethal weapon
• Youngblood noted that no cause of death has been determined

I wonder if Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood would be making these same lame excuses if we had a video of 10 Black men beating up a cop with billy clubs???

APS, solar industry at odds on value of power from rooftop units

Obama used IRS to terrorize conservative groups???

Phones to be further examined for video of Bakersfield man's fatal beating

Normally this is a trivial task, but the cops probably also know how to make it a lot harder to recover the files, since they do this stuff all the time.

Using treaties to flush the Constitution down the toilet???

According to the Constitution any treaties the Federal government enters into have priority over other normal laws Congress passes.

I suspect the President and Congress are trying to twist that around to say that unconstitutional treaties give Congress and the President unlimited power.

Pretty much like how the government has twisted the "interstate commerce" clause in the Constitution to say that it gives Congress unlimited power.

I think in the case the Goldwater Institute is saying Congress can only include things in treaties that are not forbidden by the Tenth Amendment.

Before this article I have read stuff saying that the gun grabbers in Congress would love to enter a UN Treaty that requires the US to ban guns, and use that as a backdoor to flush the Second Amendment down the toilet.

Of course this article says that Congress can't make any treaties that would ban guns, because that is forbidden by the Second Amendment.

Obama administration sounds like Sgt Schultz - "We know nothing"

That's 100 percent BS. If people working for the President commit crimes, the President should be 100 percent responsible for their actions, even if the President was unaware of the crimes.

Of course I suspect that Obama was involved and in fact ordered the IRS to investigate his political enemies. And in the Libya scandal I suspect Obama ordered his employees to lie about the incident to make his administration look better.

Phoenix, Tucson elections "rigged" for special interest groups???

And of course those special interest groups tend to be the police and fire department employees and unions.

In Phoenix 40 percent of the budget goes to the police and 20 percent to the fire department.

Feds declare 3 versions of synthetic pot illegal

And of course as usual the government is the cause of the problem, not the solution to the problem.

Past presidents have sent IRS after critics

Sadly the American government is corrupt and has been corrupt for decades, if not centuries.

Obama’s second term clouded by controversies

IRS, AP scandals bring tea partyers, ‘lamestream media’ together

Emanuel dodges own rules in accepting campaign gifts

IRS-style abuses endemic to Obama’s view of government

It's a waste of time calling the police???

And K. Andrew Bedwell didn't even mention that before letting you report your crime the cops will force you to prove that your are not a criminal by demanding a drivers license and a social security card so they can verify that you don't have any warrants out for your arrest.

Nor did K. Andrew Bedwell mention that when somebody calls 911 to report a pot smoker they will probably send out 3 squad cars in an attempt to arrest the people committing that victimless crime

500+ years of screwing the Indian

I bet the American government is getting good at this. They have had 500+ years of experience screwing the American Indians.

Mesa Mayor Scott Smith a financial conservative???

But when you read articles like this it sounds like Mesa Mayor Scott Smith spends your tax dollars like a drunken sailor.

Mesa Mayor Scott Smith is responsible for bringing the super expensive light rail pork to Mesa.

Mesa Mayor Scott Smith has shoveled millions?? in corporate welfare to several Christian Universities which he has brought to downtown Mesa. All of that corporate welfare to religious entities is almost certainly unconstitutional.

Ex-Compton fire official charged with arson, theft

Organization of American States - Time to legalize drugs????

The article says these countries are considering decriminalizing drugs.

Illinois Senate approves bill to legalize medical marijuana

More on that draconian Illinois medical marijuana bill

Drug war police corruption in Utah???

Trust us, we are no longer corrupt!!! Arizona National Guard

Yavapai sheriff’s deputy loses job over Prescott bar brawl

According to this article one of the crooked cops who was involved in that police beating is going to be fired.

I am not going to hold my breath on a corrupt cop being fired till it is actually a done deal, because cops rarely get punished for their crimes and usually get off with a slap on the wrist at most.

I suspect the cop will appear this, and as I just said, get off with a slap on the wrist at most.

Hospital sticker shock

Because of tax laws, a large number of people don't directly pay for their medical expenses, but instead get tax free medical insurance from their employeer.

While it may be called "free medical insurance", it is neither "free" nor "insurance".

While it is billed as "insurance" it is effectively prepaid medical expenses.

And it certainly isn't free. A reasonable health plan often costs the employer $1,000 or more a month, which means the employee ends up getting a smaller pay check.

Andrew Walter wants to boot socialist Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema

Normally I would support an atheist running for Congress, but atheist Kyrsten Sinema is probably the worst Congressperson in Washington D.C if you ask me.

Kyrsten Sinema seems to be a socialist who never met a tax she didn't love.

While a member of the Arizona Legislator Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema seemed to be a big time supporter of the police state by introducing a law that would have gutted Arizona's medical marijuana law (Prop 203) by slapping a 300 percent tax on medical marijuana.

Kyrsten Sinema is also a gun grabber.

Andrew Walter wants to boot atheist Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema

Normally I would support an atheist running for Congress, but atheist Kyrsten Sinema is probably the worst Congressperson in Washington D.C if you ask me.

Kyrsten Sinema seems to be a socialist who never met a tax she didn't love.

While a member of the Arizona Legislator Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema seemed to be a big time supporter of the police state by introducing a law that would have gutted Arizona's medical marijuana law (Prop 203) by slapping a 300 percent tax on medical marijuana.

Kyrsten Sinema is also a gun grabber.

Kyrsten Sinema becomes a Republican???

Gun control: Cartridge ID law to take effect

But sadly Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema is from Arizona and we have to put up with her gun grabbing attempts here.

While California is the second or third worst police state in America when it comes to gun controls, Arizona is probably the most liberal state in the nation when it comes people still having their Second Amendment rights.

In Arizona any adult is allowed to carry a concealed weapon. H*ll, in the People's Republic of Kalifornia they are frequently not even allowed to carry a weapon openly.

2 Reasons to attend Comic Book Conventions???

Marijuana is NOT a significant factor crashes???

But this article points out that marijuana doesn't even come close to impairing your driving skills like liquor does.

Anybody that has smoked pot knows that pot doesn't mess up your bodies motor skills like booze does.

Politicians and cops are addicted to Federal pork???

As H. L. Mencken said:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

Shana Ellis and Robin Arredondo Savage shovel the BS on Tempe!!!!

Emperor Obama knew the IRS was harassing his enemies????

Ron Paul slams Boston police in Marathon bombing

Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down.

These were not the scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic, but rather the scenes just over a week ago in Boston as the United States got a taste of martial law. The ostensible reason for the military-style takeover of parts of Boston was that the accused perpetrator of a horrific crime was on the loose. The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.

How a jet engine works

And when you say turbine, a turbine is just one of those stinking turbines we used to install on the roofs of homes to suck the hot air out of attics in the summer.

The air created by burning the air and the fuel in the jet engine moves the windmill or turbine, and the output of the turbine, or windmill is used just like the crankshaft on an auto engine to do the work.

A jet engine or turbine has three parts.

The first part is the compressor which compresses the air. It usually looks like the blades on a windmill, but it is used to compress the air.

The second part is the combustion chamber. In the combustion chamber the compressed air is mixed with the fuel and burnt.

The third part is the turbine, which is just like a stinking windmill.

The burning fuel, air mixture blows past the turbine, spinning it, just like the pistons of a car engine turn the crankshaft.

Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges

SF cops say f*ck the 4th and 5th Amendments!!!

It's illegal to ask a person if they can do the job????

I didn't make that up. This article says that is true per the "Americans with Disabilities Act"

With that in mind, it's a wonder more people aren't exercising their Second Amendment rights to get rid of government tyrants who pass all these silly, unconstitutional laws, not to make America a better place to live, but to pay back the special interest groups that helped them get elected.

A fair trial when the judge was a prosecutor????

Maybe U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin whom this article is about will give you a fair trial.

But there are many judges who think their role is to rubber stamp and convict anyone the police says is a criminals. A lot of these judges are former prosecutors, who also thought it was their job to railroad anyone who the police said was a criminal.

Nobody cares about Bakersfield police murder???

When I first read about the murder in the LA Times I thought it would quickly spread across America, making people angry as h*ll.

I was wrong. As of today, I have not even seen an article about the murder in the Arizona Republic.

A welfare program for drug testing companies???

How to Legalize Pot

Mayor Lewis and Barney sound like tax and spend terrorists

High court to weigh in on legislative prayers

Jobs for animal cruelty cops????

California Senate acts to clarify legality of medical cannabis

Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor's biotech firm

In this article Richard J Danzig seems to have helped him self to $334 million of that corporate welfare.

Mayor Lewis and Barney sound like tax and spend terrorists

But from the article it seems like the only thing they want to do is help themselves to every last penny in your wallet.

Obama uses smoke and mirrors to balance the budget???

Read this article to hear some of the whoppers that Obama is telling us.

If I was trying to get my boss to double my departments budget from $1 million to $2 million and I only succeeded in convince him to give me a 50 percent increase and a budget of $1.5 I would say my budget increased by 50 percent.

The crooks in our government would take that same scenario and pretend that they reduced their budget by 25 percent, even though the budget actually increased by 50 percent.

The creative lie they spin is they say they wanted increase the budget from $1 million to $2 million budget.

But they forget about the existing budget of $1 million and pretend that the existing budget is the $2 million they want.

Then when they only get a budge of $1.5 million they pretend that because it is 25 percent less then the budge they wanted, that they decreased spending by 25 percent.

We love to call them stupid morons who can't do math, but they are not idiots. They are crooks who lie to us because sadly most people won't look at the math behind their lies and just assume that they are being honest about reducing the budget by 25 percent, when in reality the crooks got a 50 percent budget increase.

Obama administration mistakes journalism for espionage

Sadly as time goes on Emperor Obama is beginning to look more and more like Richard M. Nixon, the worst President I can remember.

Read more about what seems to be Richard M Obama in this article.

Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

Scottsdale give $15 million in corporate welfare to PGA????

Sadly this editorial by the Arizona Republic doesn't find anything wrong with that, despite the fact that the $15 million in corporate welfare might be a crime.

Data Doctors: Maximizing your mobile battery life

Maximizing your cell phone's battery life

LAPD Officer Accused of Lewd Acts with 2 Girls

According to the article Los Angeles Police Department Officer Miguel Schiappapietra arrested on charges of molesting two young girls.

The 10 most bizarre things about the IRS scandal

Goldwater Institute fights tyrants on Arizona Board of Cosmetology

The Arizona Board of Cosmetology is accused of forcing Lauren Boice to comply with a bunch of petty, silly, and unneeded rules and regulations.

San Francisco vice squad cop sentenced to 14 years in federal prison

This corrupt piggy says he is not guilty because he committed these crimes as a cry for help while in a depressed and suicidal state.

I wonder if I start robbing Circle Ks will I be able to get away with it if I claim I was depressed and in a suicidal state like Officer Norm Wielsch says he was???

Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment

Government bureaucrats do it all the time and so should you.

The real problem is when you are detained by the police the questions are frequently rigged or asked in a manor that any answer you give will be an admission of guilt, and that answer will be used against you in court.

Susan Sanchez, is a public defender for the Maricopa County Attorneys office who used to give "Know Your Rights" talks for Phoenix Copwatch. She tells us that when you pulled over and asked by the cop

"How intoxicated are you on a scale of 1 to 10"

Most people who have had only one beer don't realize that if they say they are only intoxicated at a level of 1 on a scale of 1 to 10 are admitting that they are legally drunk.

That is because under Arizona law even if you are slightly intoxicated, you are still guilty of DUI. And saying you are only intoxicated at a level of 1 on a scale of 1 to 10 is admitting you are drunk and the cop and prosecutor will use it against you in court.

The only correct answer to that question is zero, but the cop didn't tell you that you could use zero as an answer. The cop told you to give an answer of 1 to 10, and any of those answers is an admission of guilt - even if you don't know it.

Of course you and I know the question is a bunch of BS, but sadly the prosecutor will take the answer you gave to this BS question and ask the jury to convict you with it.

So it's best to refuse to answer any and all police questions, just like this high level bureaucrat at the IRS is doing in this article.

Rep. Juan Mendez - I’m an atheist

Sadly Arizona's other Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema refuses to publically admit she is an atheist, and instead says he has "no religion".

Kyrsten Sinema when she was a member of the Arizona Legislator tried to slap a 300 percent tax on medical marijuana, which doesn't make her too popular among those of us who want to legalize marijuana and end the insane and unconstitutional war on drugs.

FBI names Benghazi suspects — but no arrests yet

I wonder if under treaties the America government has signed that we have the authority to kidnap people in foreign countries who are accused of crimes against the USA and bring them to American, put them on trial in a kangaroo court and then imprison them???

I kind of doubt it.

Also if the American government would obey international law and quit invading countries like Iraq and Afghanistan we wouldn't be hated world wide and have problems with people attempting to burn down our embassies.

I saw two UFO this morning

I saw both planes as I walking back to the city at 4:30 in the morning.

I couple of days ago the newspapers said that the military was having Homeland Security exercises in Arizona and not to be surprised if we say fighter planes in the sky.

I wonder if this could be related to that.

I saw both planes within a few minutes of each other.

The first plane looked like a huge array of white lights used to light a football field.

I wondered why are all those lights in the sky and what are they.

The bright white lights suddenly went out and I could then see the red lights on the plane.

It was in the southwest part of the sky.

The second plane I saw looked like a huge box kite. It was flying very slowly and it appeared to be very large, as big as a 747.

It was in the southeast ksy.

It was long and skinny.

Perhaps it was a drone.

I saw both of them about 4:45 am.

The last UFOs I saw turned out to be a weather balloons. I saw it at night and it was high in the sky and wasn't where any of the planets are normally at.

At first I thought it could have been a supernova, even though I know that supernovas are very rare.

Medicinal pot is coming. Why it's NOT time to worry

No when you smoke a joint of marijuana it won't cause you to rape 6 women.

In this editorial Eric Zorn talks about medical marijuana which looks like it will be coming to Illinois very soon.

Kerpen: Government can't be trusted with our health

Court strikes down Arizona's 20-week abortion ban

In this article attempt to deny a woman her right to an abortion is shot down by an appeals court.

IRS big wig takes the 5th and refuses to answer Congress's questions.

Cops/FBI kill bombing suspect during questioning

If Ibragim Todashev had been smart and took the Fifth and refused to answer any police questions from the FBI he would be alive to day.

Texas judge says lesbian couple can’t cohabitate

In this article a Texas judge tells a lesbian couple they can't live together.

Elgin deputy police chief charged with identity theft, misconduct

In this article an Illinois police chief is accused of identity theft.

In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters

When you read this article Emperor Obama also seems to be a clone of Richard M. Nixon.

Caffeine withdrawal symptoms???

This morning I had a horrible headache until I was able to get my fix of caffeine.

Did you know that back in 1914 when they made drugs illegal that caffeine was on the list of drugs they wanted to make illegal????

I guess coffee and caffeine laced soda drinkers like me should be happy that caffeine didn't make the list.

If the would have happened we would be demonizing people that drink coffee and cola drinks today, just like our government masters and the police demonize heroin addicts, cocaine and marijuana users.

Look at that guy on the keyboard typing up those articles about crooked cops and politicians. He belongs in prison because he is (gasp) a caffeine addict. I bet everything he says is a lie caused by his illegal caffeine use.

Jupiter, Venus and Mercury to line up this weekend

Last night I think I saw Venus and Jupiter, but I couldn't find Mercury.

But as I mentioned before I did see a couple of UFOs in the sky. No not the kind with little green men in them, but planes which I had never seen before.

But on Thursday and Friday I did see the these planets line up.

It starts just before the sun sets. You firs first see Venus, which is always the brightest star, or really planet in the sky.

Next you can see Jupiter which is about 3 fingers above and to the left of Venus. Jupiter is usually the second brightest star or planet in the sky.

And last Mercury comes out which is about 1 finger to the right of Venus and a little bit above Venus.

In about 20 or 30 minutes as the earth rotates both Venus and Mercury disappear or set like the sun does and all you can see is Jupiter.

Here is a cool animated video of how Venus, Mercury and Jupiter will look like from May 20 to June 20.

Glendale police chief threatens to "Burn down store" of drug dealer

If you or I threatened to burn down the store or home of a police officer who committed crimes against us, we would almost certainly be sitting in prison now for the crime.

But Glendale assistant police chief Greg Dominguez thinks his slap on the wrist punishment was far too harsh and is appealing it.

Should legislative prayers be open to atheists?

So don't count on our elected officials to stop these illegal and unconstitutional practices of mixing government and religion.

National Guard reforms are just 'posterior covering'

So don't count on our elected officials to stop these illegal and unconstitutional crimes committed by members of the Arizona National Guard.

Will Humble Shakes Down Midwifes???

In this article government tyrant Will Humble seems to be doing the best he can to use the force of the government to terrorize women who use midwives.

Look, I don't know if midwives are real honest to goodness medicine or if it is medical quackery. But I think our royal government nannies should but out of the picture and let the women who want to use them make that decision on their own.

Cops assume you are guilty till proven innocent???

Phoenix police battle for proof in 2 fatal crashes

While that certainly goes against both the Arizona and US Constitutions that sounds like the standard opperation procedure of the police in this article.

Marijuana causes another death!!!!!

Man gets 340 years for victimless crimes

Marijuana prevents diabetes????

Of course don't expect drug war tyrants Will Humble or Jan Brewer to add diabetes to the list of illnesses that can be treated with medical marijuana in Arizona any time in the future.

They would both rather continue to throw people that smoke marijuana in prison.

Gilbert’s 1st medical-marijuana dispensary prepares to open

While some people think Gilbert, Arizona is a hick hillbilly town full of cows, it is actually bigger then Tempe.

But of course the elected officials in Gilbert are just as tyrannical as those in other cities.

AG: 4 Americans killed since 2009 in drone strikes

Gilbert High coach won’t be charged in assault investigation

Did you expect anything different???

Some business owners resist providing employees with contraceptive coverage

This article addresses that issue.

While I am an atheist and I think the concept of some silly God in the sky who watches our every move 24/7 is just a silly superstition, I still think that freedom of religion is a damn good idea, even if it is just a bunch of superstitious rubbish.

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s defense plan detailed

Amanda Bynes arrested on marijuana charge

I guess not. According to this article the piggies in New York City busted Amanda Bynes for the victimless crime of smoking a little pot.

American military propaganda efforts ineffective???

Who knows, maybe the USA is an evil commie government. Even if our royal government rulers in Washington D.C. are not commies they certainly are an evil govenrment that has murdered hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world with our evil wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

And in this article you can read how the American military spends millions, and probably billions of our tax dollars trying to justify this American tyranny.

LAPD detective sentenced to 20 years for beating wife to death

According to this article former Los Angeles police homicide detective Dan DeJarnette was sentenced to 20 years in prison for beating his wife to death.

Next time you read in a newspaper from some police propaganda spin master that it is impossible for cops to commit crimes or lie remember this article.

And if that doesn't convince you I have posted thousands of these articles of corrupt cops and politicians who have screwed the public while pretending to be "public servants" over the last few years.

Mexican gets 284 days in jail for possession of a pen in Arizona!!!!

Luz Ruiz Rascon is another victim of Arizona's racist elected officials which includes Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery.

Luz Ruiz Rascon only crime was making up a fake social security number to get a job, and I don't even consider that a crime.

Sheriff Joe's goons turned that victimless crime into several felony charges which included identity theft and forgery.

She eventually copped a plea to illegal possession of forgery instrument, which is a bunch of big words to say she is a criminal who used a ball point pen to sign her employment papers.

The article says that if Luz Ruiz Rascon had been a White person she would have gotten at most 90 days in jail.

Court - Sheriff Joe guilty of profiling Mexicans

But us folks in Maricopa County and Phoenix who have been terrorized by Sheriff Joe thugs for the last 20 years don't need to be told that, his boot has been on our necks.

The rise of the fourth branch of government

And at the same time these members of Congress who are doling out pork and cash can deny giving special treatment to the people who gave them campaign contributions by saying "I didn't write those laws. Those laws were created by some unnamed federal bureaucrat in some unnamed federal agency. I am shocked at how those unnamed, unaccountable bureaucrats are wasting out tax dollars [but of course they never will pass any laws to stop it, because they agree with those unnamed, unaccountable bureaucrats who are helping them rob us taxpayers blind]"

Government also frequently works like this at the state, county and city levels too. When elected officials can blame unelected bureaucrats for their decisions it makes it a lot easier for them to rob us blind and get reelected at the same time.

It's not about safe food, it's about pork for special interest groups.

I suspect these silly laws are mostly to help American producers of meat prevent Mexican and Canadian producers from competing with them. And I also suspect that these same America producers of meat bribed their Congressmen, oops, I mean gave campaign contributions to their Congressmen to get the laws passed.

Obama, No more drone murders!!! Honest!!! Trust me!!!

Obama, No more drone murders!!! Honest!!! Trust me!!!

Marijuana laws are racist????

I am sure he is right.

For that matter I suspect almost all the laws are selectively enforced against Blacks.

Sadly the criminal justice system in America is a racist system and Black, Latinos and Indians are screwed by the system.

CeaseFire complains police interfere with group's push to ease gang conflicts

I suspect the cop don't like any group that threatens their the security of their high paying, do nothing jobs by reducing crime.

Of course if there are less murders in Chicago, that means we need less cops, and the police unions certainly don't want that.

Drop off unwanted drugs at Mesa Police substations

Why the h*ll are the Mesa cops playing garbage men now???

I suspect it's just a propaganda move to help increase the war on drugs, which is just a jobs program for overpaid do nothing cops.

Arizona sheriff illegally used racial profiling, judge rules

In this article the courts have finally got around to admitting that Sheriff Joe is a racist *sshole who violates the civil rights of minorities.

But don't count on anything changing.

Sheriff Joe won't be sent to prison where he belongs.

He is just being told to stop violating the rights of Mexicans and Latinos, an order he will almost certainly refuse to obey.

Judge rules against 'America's toughest sheriff' in racial profiling lawsuit

Judge Finds Violations of Rights by Sheriff Joe

Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos

NYPD street stops called profiling, big change sought

The legal definition of arrest is when the police detain a person for any reason and that person is not free to leave or go. If a cop stops you to write a traffic ticket under this definition you have been arrested while the cop wrote you the traffic ticket.

I was taught that it was illegal for the police to detain a person or arrest a person unless they had either "probable cause" or "reasonable suspicion".

While lawyers and judges can argue for weeks about what these terms mean in a nutshell "probable cause" means a cop saw you commit a crime and thus can arrest or detain you for that crime.

"Reasonable suspicion" means that you match the description of a person who just committed a crime and a cop can arrest or detain you to determine if you are the person that committed the crime.

So with that in mind it is illegal for the police to stop and detain a person simply because they look suspicious.

My understanding of the Fourth Amendment is that it is illegal for the police to search anyone, unless the the police have a search warrant, or the person is arrested for a crime.

There is one exception to that from the case of Terry v Ohio, in which the Supreme Court said it is legal for the police to give a person a pat down search on their outer garments looking for weapons, if the police want to question the person.

Amanda Bynes: 'Sexually harassed' by police officer

Sex-offender data is used to collect money and intimidate

I have always disliked the governments requirement that sex offenders are required to register with the government and have their personal information placed in online databases that anybody can view on the internet.

I think the governments intent is to humiliate, belittle and intimidate the alleged sex offenders and it doesn't serve any legitimate function of protecting public.

Last the term "sex offender" is misleading. If you get arrested for taking a leak in an alley under Arizona's laws you are considered a "sex offender" and required to register under this stupid law.

Drivers licenses for illegals???

From the article it sounds like the main purpose of the law is to raise revenue for the state of Nevada and that the law has absolutely nothing to do with making people who drive safer.

But hey, isn't that what government is all about, raising revenue for our royal elected officials and the special interest groups that helped get them into power????

4th Sunday Atheist Meetups???

These guys move around a lot.

It used to be at the Boulders on Broadway, which is on Roosevelt and Broadway.

Now it's at

Four Peaks Brewery
2401 S. Wilson Street
Tempe, AZ

Four Peaks Brewery
1340 E 8th Street
Tempe, AZ

Sheriff Joe Arpaio - We don't racially profile Mexicans

Probation Ben Arredondo - Prison for for CEO John Junker

Feds seek prison for ex-Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker

Another corporate welfare program on Tempe Town Toilet???

Congressman Harry Mitchell says crook Ben Arredondo is like Abe Lincoln????

A ton of weed in Manhattan Beach????

Text of atheist prayer given in Arizona House

Republican Rep. Steve Smith - Atheists can't pray????

AZ lawmaker opens session with atheist 'prayer'

Atheist Lawmaker Addresses House With His Own Prayer

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell

Game and Fish cop embezzles $13,600

But don't count on it. If this is like other police crimes John G. Romero won't be charged with any crimes, and if in the case of hell freezing over and he actually is a accused of a crime he will get a slap on the wrist at most.

Sure Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne wants to repeal Arizona's medical marijuana laws and continue to send pot smokers to prison, but don't count on Tom Horne to throw crooked cops in prions.

Arizona groups sue over pot-dispensary deadline

Did John McCain illegally sneak into Syria???

I kind of doubt that Syria would let John McCain legally into to their country if his mission is to rally the folks that are trying to overthrow them.

So I suspect that John McCain is a hypocrite who is against illegal immigration to the US, but thinks he is above the law and can do what he wants.

Of course personally I think that any crime that involves illegally crossing a border is a victimless crime which shouldn't be a crime.

Prison guards sell drugs for prisoners????

Let's face it the unconstitutional war on drugs is impossible to win and corrupts the government and the police.

Sex-abuse investigations rip open Catholic Church's secret files

Read more in this article about the secret files the Catholic Church keeps on their sex abusers.

How do you spell revenue??? Photo radar bandits!!!!

In this article you can read about how the crooks that run Washington, D.C. to rob their serfs using photo radar bandits.

Phoenix tries to screw victims of light rail construction???

Tempe ambulance contract now a no-bid process

Controversies dog Game and Fish Department

Feds don’t look good draped in the Fifth

It seems like the author of this editorial agrees with me on that.

Kickbacks as 'a natural part of business' at Fannie Mae alleged

Throwing Money at Nukes

It's not about protecting us from evil commies that want to invade the USA, but rather exacting billions of dollars from the taxpayers of the USA and putting that cold hard cash into the special interest groups that helped our Senators and Congressmen get elected.

And in this case that is mostly about the member of the military industrial complex.

Transparency isn't coming easily to Obama White House

Garcetti: Recreational pot use is question for voters

I don't know if newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is lying and just flapping his mouth in an attempt to get votes, or if he really means it.

Postal Service is on its last legs, with little help in sight

Congress loves to tell us that the Post Office is operated like a private business but that is a big lie!!!!

I suspect part of the problem is that Congress knows if it gives the 574,000 or so US Post Office employees big salaries for jobs which a high school kid could do working at minimum wage the members of Congress will get those 574,000 votes for the pork they shovel to US Post Office employees.

I think the starting salary of a mailman is now around $50,000 a year. That is a salary that entry level college computer science grads make.

Most people don't know it but Federal law makes it illegal for the private sector to compete with the US Post Office, unless they 1) deliver the mail for FREE, or 2) charge 3 times, that's THREE times the rate that the US Post Office charges for the same service.

Despite that unlevel playing field both the UPS (United Parcel Service) and FedEx compete with the US Post Office and kick butt.

FBI operates child porn website????

If child porn is as sick and evil as our government masters claim it is why on earth is the FBI running a child porn website?????

Arizona Guard whistle-blowers get to speak at Capitol

Goldwater Institute threatens suit over Phoenix practice of ‘spiking’ pensions

From this article it sure sounds like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a liar who will say anything to get elected.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton Stanton lied to the public when he had campaigned and said he would end this practice in this article.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton also lied to the public when he campaigned and said he would end the temporary Phoenix sales tax, which mostly goes to the Phoenix police and fire departments.

It sure looks like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton doesn't support the people that elected him, but rather is owned by the special interest groups in the Phoenix Police and Phoenix Fire Department unions.

I suspect those 2,400 retired Phoenix cops and firefighters vote for Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton because he supports their government pork.

Innocent man freed from prison gets master’s degree

Remember our government masters tell us they would rather have 100 guilty people get off then have one innocent person sent to prison.

That is 100 percent bullsh*t!!!! The police routinely frame innocent people and send them to prison.

As of last month more then 300 people have been released from death row when DNA testing proved they were framed by the police for crimes they didn't do.

I suspect the 300 number is just the tip of the iceberg and that there probably tens of thousands of innocent people who are in prison who were framed by corrupt cops.

Arizona sued over ban on abortions based on sex, race

In this article our government masters don't want to use that common sense on this issue. Instead they think abortion is wrong and are planning on using the force of the government to prevent woman from having abortions.

Judge: Joe Arpaio heeded his supporters, not the law

Sadly Sheriff Joe still doesn't get it.

He thinks because he has a gun and a badge he can do anything he feels like.

Marijuana Use Causes Brain Damage Confirmed???

Personally I think the article is 100 percent hogwash!!!

Police: Scottsdale chef found with marijuana

In this article the Scottsdale police are wasting our tax dollars shaking down an alleged pot smoker who was stopped for the victimless crime of having an obscured license plate???

I suspect the pot was found when the police were in the process of stealing his car. In Arizona if you are stopped by the police and don't have a valid car registration or insurance we have some silly draconian police state laws that allow the police to steal your car until you "prove your innocent". These laws don't serve any valid purpose other then allowing the police to raise money for themselves by legally stealing cars from people.

Colo. marijuana regulations signed into law

The bad news is government tyrants are now passing a bunch of silly laws to micromanage the lives of people that smoke pot, in addition to passing laws that shake down pot smokers with outrageous taxes on marijuana.

Read more about it in this article

Amanda Bynes pot charges going up in smoke

If you read this article it sure looks like it.

Woman framed for having 12 pounds of pot in Mexico????

If a cop doesn't think he will get a fair trial what chance does a civilian have???

Wow if a cop can't get a fair trial when his police buddies make false charges against him do you really think a civilian can get a fair trial????

Irrefutable proof of global warming

Preuba irrefutable del calentamiento global

Ruling prompts changes at MCSO

Yea, sure!!!!

Give Sheriff Joe 30 days and he will be telling the media "I got a gun and a badge and there ain't not stinking judge that is going to tell me how to do my job".

A 23 percent VAT tax on everything you buy???

Milton Cormier calls it a "Fair Tax".

I will have to disagree with Milton Cormier on that.

There isn't a "fair tax" any more then there is a "fair rape" or a "fair armed robbery" or a "fair mugging".

Taxes are stealing period.

Just because some crooks in 3 piece suits who call themselves Congressmen vote to steal your money doesn't make the thievery right.

Stealing is stealing even it it is done by crooks in Washington D.C. who wear 3 piece suites.

Planets are playing musical chairs

But they sure are moving around rapidly and changing positions.

In a span of a little more then a week all 3 of the planets have moved to new positions.

Former Phoenix prison guard convicted of sex abuse

Here is the article.

Uncle Thompson supports the police state in NYC???

I made fun of New York mayor candidate William C. Thompson Jr. by calling him an "Uncle Tom", but he isn't any different then the other politicians that sell out the people they pretend to serve for the special interest groups that help get them elected.

It doesn't matter if we are White, Black or Latino, the politicians still sell us out for the special interest groups that help them get into power. And one of the biggest of those special interest groups are the men in Blue, the cops, along with their union brothers the firemen.

Here is the article about New York mayor candidate William C. Thompson Jr support of the police state in New York City.

$1 million bail for a silly prank!!!!

Read more about it in this article.

Disneyland vendor linked to Toontown blast due in court

Some IED incidents I was involved in????

Lucky for me that Homeland Security didn't exist when I committed these victimless crimes.

If the police thugs in Homeland Security had been around in those days, I would probably be sitting in prison for the rest of my life for those harmless incidents which the cops would have turned into major felonies.

Will Arpaio finally become a sheriff?

Cops draw blood from teenager suspected of smoking pot

I guess the Fourth Amendment is now null and void in Tucson, Arizona.

Did SB 1070 drive Pro’s Ranch Markets out of business????

$81 million fine for pouring bleach down the drain???

In this article it sounds like the government is shaking down WalMart for an $81 million fine for the evil, evil, evil crime of pouring bleach into a toilet.

Jesus, don't these government nannies have any real criminals to hunt down????

Medical marijuana ingredient prevents brain damage in mice

In this article marijuana seems to prevent brain damage in mice.

AZ Governor Jan Brewer drug war hypocrite!!!!!!

Jan Brewer has done everything she possibly can to flush the will of the people down the toilet and get Prop 203 over turned. Prop 203 is Arizona's medical marijuana law.

Despite the fact that Jan Brew would love to send medical marijuana users to prison, in this article she pretends to be happy that a woman who was held on trumped up drug charges in Mexico was released.

Father of Chechen killed in Florida says FBI murdered him

Montgomery weighing retrials for Arias, Milke

Read more about it in this article.

Mandatory DUI tests unconstitutional????

Microsoft Marijuana????

Hey Jamen Shively, if you succeed I will gladly buy a few kilos from you. Marijuana is much safer then booze!!!

Medical marijuana will cause the downfall of Western Civilization???

What rubbish.

Mexican President Vicente Fox backs pot legalization in US

I believe that Vicente Fox moved to the USA and now teaches at Harvard or some other big wig yuppie college on the East Coast.

Cops beat up teenager for looking at them funny???

Gee, that reminds me of growing up. I used to get in trouble all the time for "acting funny"!!!!

If I knew what "acting funny" was I would have never committed the crime.

I suspect the real problem was my father is an *sshole who would use any excuse to yell at me and call me names.

I never remember getting beaten by my father for the heinous crime of "acting funny", although I was beaten a number of other times with a belt for trivial crimes.

Sometime around the 3rd or 4th grade I remember being beaten for not getting all A's and B's on my report card.

I remember my dad made my lay down on the living room floor in front of the Christmas tree and and beat me with a belt for that sin.

6 years in prison for a prank that hurt no one???

Jesus, don't these pigs have any REAL criminals to hunt down????

Yanira Maldonado freed from Mexican jail

According to this article she was freed by the Mexican government and is back in the USA.

Judge Snow's Decision Damns Not Just Arpaio, but All of Maricopa County

Atheists Want Representative Steve Smith to Apologize

The article says atheists want Arizona Representative Steve Smith for treating atheists scum because of their lack of belief in a supernatural diety.

Of course if the royal twits in the Arizona State Legislator would realize that both the Arizona Constitution and US Constitution forbid mixing God and government none of this would have happened.

The laws against drugs kill people????

But in this article his flunking of a silly drug test, led to his death, which may have been another murder by the police.

Sure sometimes drugs cause problems for people, but the laws against drugs cause far worse problems then the drugs cause.

If My Data Is an Open Book, Why Can’t I Read It?

Americans and Their Military, Drifting Apart

On in this article the American military is the cause of the problem, not the solution to the problem.

Cop lies about man pulling a knife on him???

SB1087 or SB 1087 is pretty much just a government welfare program for companies that make their money giving drug tests.

According to an article in the Arizona Republic the 13,000 or so taxi cab drivers in Arizona will be required to get random annual drug tests, which these companies that give drug tests will charge them about $100 for, bringing in about $1.3 million in revenue.

While the taxi cab drivers are required by law to take the drug tests, and the companies that employ them are required to have a copy of the drug tests on file the tests are totally meaningless and even if the employees flunk the test, the companies that hire them are not prevented from hiring them.

Bottom line is the test are not needed, nobody cares about the results, the people of Arizona won't benefit one way or another from the tests, and the only people that will stand to benefit from the tests, are the companies who will charge each taxi cab drive about $100 every year to take the silly unneeded test.

I suspect the companies that give drug tests bribed, oops, I mean gave campaign contributions to the elected officials who passed this stupid law which is nothing more then a government welfare program for corporations that give drug tests.

That bill appears to be SB 1087.

SB1087 drug testing records; taxi drivers

Senator Judy Burges
Republican District 22
jburges@azleg.gov
Senate
1700 W. Washington
Room 302
Phoenix, AZ 85007

Phone Number: (602) 926-5861
Fax Number: (602) 417-3104

According to this link these elected officials also voted for the bill:

• Ed Ableser
• Judy Burges
• Steve Farley
• Barbara McGuire
• Bob Worsley
• Steve Pierce
• Rich Crandall

• Ed Ableser
• Nancy Barto
• David Bradley
• Judy Burges
• Olivia Cajero Bedford
• Rich Crandall
• Chester Crandell
• Adam Driggs
• Steve Farley
• Steve Gallardo
• Gail Griffin
• Katie Hobbs
• Jack Jackson Jr.
• Leah Landrum Taylor
• Linda Lopez
• John McComish
• Barbara McGuire
• Al Melvin
• Robert Meza
• Rick Murphy
• Lynne Pancrazi
• Steve Pierce
• Michele Reagan
• Don Shooter
• Anna Tovar
• Kelli Ward
• Bob Worsley
• Steve Yarbrough
• Kimberly Yee
• Andy Biggs

In what looks like a House vote on the bill these elected officials voted for it:

• Stefanie Mach
• Debbie McCune Davis
• Javan "J.D." Mesnard
• Catherine H. Miranda
• Steve Montenegro
• T.J. Shope
• Thomas Forese

In this reading of the bill these elected officials voted for it:

• Brenda Barton
• Juan Carlos Escamilla
• Rick Gray
• Victoria Steele
• Sonny Borrelli
• Karen Fann

• Eddie Farnsworth
• David M. Gowan Sr.
• Albert Hale
• Martín J. Quezada
• Andy Tobin
• Bruce Wheeler
• Rick Gray
• Bob Robson

• John Allen
• Lela Alston
• Brenda Barton
• Sonny Borrelli
• Paul Boyer
• Kate Brophy McGee
• Chad Campbell
• Mark A. Cardenas
• Heather Carter
• Doug Coleman
• Lupe Chavira Contreras
• Andrea Dalessandro
• Jeff Dial
• Juan Carlos Escamilla
• Karen Fann
• Rosanna Gabaldón
• Ruben Gallego
• Sally Ann Gonzales
• Doris Goodale
• David M. Gowan Sr.
• Rick Gray
• Albert Hale
• Lydia Hernández
• John Kavanagh
• Jonathan Larkin
• Debbie Lesko
• David Livingston
• Phil Lovas
• Stefanie Mach
• Debbie McCune Davis
• Juan Mendez
• Eric Meyer
• Catherine H. Miranda
• Ethan Orr
• Lisa Otondo
• Jamescita Peshlaka
• Justin Pierce
• Frank Pratt
• Martín J. Quezada
• Bob Robson
• Macario Saldate IV
• Andrew Sherwood
• T.J. Shope
• Steve Smith
• Victoria Steele
• Michelle Ugenti
• Bruce Wheeler

• Eddie Farnsworth
• Thomas Forese
• Adam Kwasman
• Javan "J.D." Mesnard
• Darin Mitchell
• Steve Montenegro
• Justin Olson
• Warren Petersen
• Carl Seel
• David W. Stevens
• Bob Thorpe
• Kelly Townsend
• Andy Tobin

According to this web page the bill amends ARS 41-2097 to say

A. An owner of a livery vehicle, taxi or limousine licensed through the department shall have available for inspection at all times by the department written evidence of a criminal background check and drug testing records of any driver operating a livery vehicle, taxi or limousine for the owner, whether as an employee or lessee. The criminal background check and drug testing shall be completed before the driver is engaged as an employee or lessee. Drug testing records shall include preemployment drug testing results and random annual drug testing results for the driver, whether as an employee or lessee.

They are:

• House Rules
• House Transportation
• House Commerce

A welfare program for drug testing companies???

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Corporations that sell poisons and industrial chemicals

Arizona Taxi drivers now subject to random drug testing

Arizona Taxi drivers now subject to random drug testing

Posted: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:31 am

By Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services

For the first time ever, drivers of taxi cabs and limousines in Arizona will soon be subject to random drug testing.

Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday signed legislation which will require those who own or lease out taxis and other vehicle for hire to screen applicants for drugs at the time they are hired or allowed to lease one of the vehicles. That is on top of an existing requirement for a criminal background check. And drivers also will be subject to random tests at least once a year.

The measure takes effect later this year.

Kevin Tyne, director of the Department of Weights and Measures, stressed this is not some new government program with the state going out and stopping drivers. Instead, he said it's designed to make the owners of these vehicles more responsible.

But he said it is up to them to decide what to do with that information: Nothing in the new law prohibits a company from hiring or refusing to fire a driver who tests positive. That mirrors the existing laws on background checks, with no prohibition against hiring certain felons.

Tyne said, though, this is a big step for Arizona.

"Nearly every other jurisdiction that regulates and oversees and licenses 'for hire' vehicles like taxis and liveries and limousines have some sort of a basic drug testing requirement,'' he said. "Arizona was noticeably absent in that regard.''

He said many people use taxis and limousines, both local residents and visitors.

"Patrons ought to have some basic sense that the driver has at least been drug tested,'' Tyne said.

The legislation is unrelated to the mishap Saturday where five people riding in a limousine on the San Mateo Bridge south of San Francisco were killed in a fire. The cause of the blaze remains under investigation and there has been no indication at this point that the driver, who also was burned, was in any way responsible.

California officials said it appears the vehicle, which was licensed for eight passengers, had one more than the permitted number. There appears to be no similar laws in Arizona governing how many passengers can be in any particular vehicle.

‘R-rated’ movies for your child?

Letter: ‘R-rated’ movies for your child?

Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 7:09 pm

Letter to the Editor

Just an advisory note to all Maricopa County Regional Library User parents: unless you put a parental control on your child’s library card, any child can check out any DVD, even sexually explicit “R-rated” movies. Please monitor your child’s library card and activity for their protection, especially over the summer months. It is our duty to protect our children.

Mary Sevigny

Gilbert

Questions on employment law???

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Law says what former employers may disclose

By John J. Balitis Fennemore Craig Sat May 11, 2013 5:19 PM

What kind of information is a former employer allowed to reveal to a prospective employer? After an interview process with a potential employer, the company practically guaranteed me getting hired. But later, the HR person called and told me that they were not going to hire me and indicated the decision was made after contacting my previous employer — with whom I had personal differences that led to my departure. I have not committed any illegal act and my performance reviews have been positive. Can my former bosses ruin my chances of getting hired by personally criticizing me to other companies?

Arizona’s blacklisting statute regulates what information employers may disclose about employees and former employees.

Under the statute, certain employers are immune from liability for communicating to prospective employers, in good faith, truthful information about a former employee’s education, training, experience, qualifications and job performance. They also are immune from liability for disclosing, in good faith, the reason for terminating a former employee, as well as his or her professional conduct or evaluations. These disclosures are presumed to be in good faith if the disclosing employer has less than 100 workers or, if larger, has a regular practice of making such disclosures.

The presumption of good faith in the statute is rebuttable by showing that the employer disclosed the information with actual malice or with the intent to mislead. For the purposes of the statute, actual malice means knowledge that the information was false or was provided with reckless disregard of its truth or falsity.

If you can rebut the presumption that your former employer disclosed information about you in good faith, you then may have a claim against the former employer for defamation or interfering with your prospective employment relationship.

Notwithstanding the protection that the blacklisting statute affords to employers, many businesses will direct all requests from prospective employers to be handled by human-resources personnel, who will provide only a neutral reference, such as the dates of employment. Employers that follow neutral reference policies consistently naturally reduce their risk of liability to former workers.

— Compiled by Georgann Yara

Flies hate the smell of basil.

Flies hate the smell of basil. To discourage them, place pots of basil at doorways and windowsills and on the kitchen counter. Don't have enough sun for potted basil? Put dried basil in a small muslin pouch, rubbing it occasionally to keep the scent strong.

Cats love catnip. Mosquitoes? Not so much. According to Science Daily, catnip repels mosquitoes more effectively than DEET. Grow it in your garden or apply undiluted catnip oil to the skin for up to two hours of protection.

Spiders are not fond of citrus. In a spray bottle, mix water and unsweetened lemon or lime juice. Wipe your countertops with the mixture or spray down doorways and windowsills. You can deter spiders in your garden by spreading around lemon, orange, or lime peels.

Use a 50/50 solution of vinegar and water to wipe down countertops and other surfaces—anywhere you've spotted ants. For best results, repeat this several times a day. Doing so destroys the scent trails that ants use to navigate.

A pair of barn owls and their brood can eat over 3,000 mice in a nesting season. Attract them to your property with an owl box, if a quiet rafter or tree crook is not available. Should the food supply be dependable, the same owls may return season after season.

Wasps are incredibly territorial and will not build a nest within 200 yards of another one. So build or buy your own fake nest! It’s like a scarecrow for wasps. Hang one in the front yard and one in back, and you’re done.

Alternately salting and vacuuming your floors will kill flea eggs. But since fleas have a three-day reproduction cycle, you have to be diligent: Salt every day for nine days and vacuum every third day. Don’t forget to empty the vacuum every time, or the live ones will crawl right back out again!

Cinnamon bark oil has been shown to control dust mites. Mix several drops into a 50/50 solution of water and denatured alcohol. Spray bedding, carpets, and any other places dust collects. Added benefit? Your house will smell like cookies!

Trap fruit flies with this simple approach: Fill a glass three-quarters full with vinegar or cider vinegar, then add six to eight drops of dishwashing liquid, and fill to the top with warm water. Gruesomely effective.

Who could call Bambi a pest? A gardener. Many have had luck deterring deer with Irish Spring soap. Hang it or spike it to a stake near things that deer like to eat. Alternatively, sprinkle shavings or small chunks on the ground.

Letter: Science says meat-eating doesn’t add to global warming

Letter: Science says meat-eating doesn’t add to global warming

Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:37 am

Letter to the Editor

Reader David Rich seems to be in full-flight hysteria as he preaches against eating meat (We can mitigate effects on our planet, May 26). He claims 97 percent of scientists think global warming is “human caused.”

What Rich doesn’t tell you is that 9,029 Ph.D. scientists have signed petitions stating, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of greenhouse gasses is causing ... catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”

Rich shudders that meat consumption causes greenhouse gasses, as if they were somehow bad. But plant life requires the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, which in-turn releases oxygen to us carnivores. Furthermore, NASA’s Langley Research Center collated data proving that greenhouse gases block 95 percent of harmful solar rays from reaching our planet, thus reducing the heating impact of the Sun.

The global-warming myth continues without credible evidence to support it. Three years ago the curtain was pulled away from the wizards who were caught doctoring data to “prove” their claims of imminent doom.

Despite this kind of alarmist fakery, Rich wants us to stop eating hamburgers to stop global warming. How nicely this dovetails with a new program by the United Nations calling for the harvesting of insects to substitute for meat consumption. According to their study, “Edible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security,” bugs are actually nutritious and environmentally friendly. As part of its drive for global so-called “sustainability,” the UN suggests we eat bugs instead of burgers.

P.J. O’Malley

Mesa

Employment questions

Bayer Aspirin??? No Bayer Heroin!!!!

Tempe proposal would ensure vacant-land owners maintain property

Website hacked by Homeland Security???

Government employees vs registered voters

1914 Harrison Narcotic Tax Act

1937 Marihuana Tax Act

both acts were tax acts intended to make ALL drug illegal

1937 firearms tax act $200 tax on a gun that costs $10???

1914 Income tax 1% tax 10% max?

tobacco taxes

liquor taxes

sinema 300 percent tax on medical pot

Send out "Learn English" emails

Homeless guy thrown off the bus!!!!!

It was the guy with the PHD in Chemistry who was kicked off the bus nobusrideforyoujerk.html

Know your rights forum??? For NORML???

NORML Free Clinic for poor patients???

NORML Free Prescriptions for poor patients

Learn JQuery!!!

Vince fired him for incompedence????

No emails, not talks, not nothing, vince just fired him.

1) email to people

2) put in the correct places

3) remember "spending others people money" is a polite way of saying stealing.

they are a bunch of crooks in congress

Can you trust the government to fairly tax marijuana??

Fair taxes are an oxymoron.

1914 Harrison Narcotic Tax Act

1937 Marihuana Tax Act

both acts were tax acts intended to make ALL drug illegal

1937 firearms tax act $200 tax on a gun that costs $10???

1914 Income tax 1% tax 10% max?

tobacco taxes

liquor taxes

sinema 300 percent tax on medical pot

escholzia californica

amapola de california

a legal drug????

grab the other articles in igles and español and do a blurb on it. www.paisanomagazine.com

Use this article when I sue Valley Metro for a refund on my bus pass

Valley Metro: CEO approved lack of minimum service

When will Emperor Obama use his drones to commit another murder????

Where was that photos shot at????

Most modern cell phones will allow you to record the location of any photos you shoot by embedding meta tags which contain the GPS location the photo was shot in the photo's files.

Will some people, like those phony baloney libertarians, David, Ernie and Mike will accuse me of giving this information to the cops, I am sure the cops already have this information and know how to extract the GPS information from you photos.

A few months back software billionaire John McAfee made the news on this issue when he was a fugitive and was releasing photos to the media.

Some hacker took the photos and extracted the GPS information and determined that John McAfee was lying about the location he claimed the photos were shot at.

Tempe City Logo???

Tempe Town Lake causes nothing but problems for local residents

Messy yard cops shake down Tempe barber Dan Armijo

Dan Armijo runs Nash’s Valley Fair Barber Shop which is over on Southern and Mill Avenue at 115 E. Southern Ave in Tempe.

Hey Dan Armijo, I would come by your shop and get a haircut, but hell, I haven't gotten a hair cut since the early 1990's.

I don't need a hair cut any more then you need a jackbooted messy yard cop at your barber shop.

Jack Lowell's got a peace sign in his front yard

I suspect it is driving the Tempe messy yard cops nuts.

Social Security - How to get your loot

Even if Social Security is a Ponzi scheme designed to screw you, you can get a few cents out of every dollar the government stole from you back.

Here is a series of articles by the Arizona Republic on how to do that.

My Will

Spanish Ordinal Numbers

The Spanish Alphabet

B is referred to as be grande ("big B") and the V as ve chica ("little V"). U is sometimes topped with a dieresis or umlaut, as in vergüenza.

"RR" (erre doble) was once considered as a separate letter. "CH" was also considered a separate letter.

Spanish Language Newspapers & Magazines in Phoenix

Map of the Phoenix Canal System

Cops try to murder homeless people???

Marijuana, grown in a National Park near you!!!!

And of course that means they are now growing their marijuana in American National Parks which are closer to the final destination of their drug users in the USA.

Babes from the Los Angeles Times

Libertarian Party Platform April 5, 2011

Books on my reading list

They are mostly computer geek books, or books that document the history of evil government deeds.

A Table of Contents for Homeless in Arizona

IBM mainframe computers???

COBOL, TSO, CICS, IMS, TSO, SPF, VM/CMS, VSAM, ISAM whats all that stuff?

I am a rock?

Recycle Plastic Bags - Throw a monkey wrench into the recycling program???

I hate those annoying government recycling programs which always lose money and the only environment they make better is the wallets of the special interest groups the government let run the program.

After reading this article I may just start recycling all my plastic bags!!!!

More articles on Kyrsten Sinema

Here are some other articles on Kyrsten Sinema - Kyrsten Sinema. 1 2 3 4

If you love taxes and hate guns your will probably love Kyrsten Sinema. If you think most people are too stupid to run their own lives and that most people need a government nanny to tell then how to live you will probably get along with Kyrsten Sinema real well. If you think that marijuana should be effectively illegal by taxing the krap out of it you will probably love Kyrsten Sinema and her proposed 300 percent tax on medical marijuana.