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DrNutt posted:My favorite is that when confronted with the reality that drug testing resulted in very few positives, he continued to say "people on welfare are probably all on drugs". They'll just do what Utah did, and claim that every unfinished unemployment application was the result of drug testing scaring people away.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:
A couple years back there was one guy at work who'd often wore a shirt like this on casual days. Someone way higher in the company hierarchy loudly and publicly asked him 'if you say the magic words do the dragons come off your shirt and fight for you?  '.Never saw the shirt again after that.
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Feb 28, 2014 06:58
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Maybe he's going for the classy option: The 4 months or so I worked for Crunchyroll were pretty much a living hell.
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Feb 28, 2014 12:41
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Maybe he's going for the classy option:  those months, dammit! Make a thread in Ask/Tell. I wanna know about animu dweebs. 
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Feb 28, 2014 12:46
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This was in the comments of some joke article talking about the differences between Canada, the UK and the states.
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Feb 28, 2014 13:22
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Feb 28, 2014 13:54
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Maybe he's going for the classy option: I want to hear about this. Seconding a request for these glorious tales.
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Feb 28, 2014 13:59
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OptimusShr posted:
Haha yeah it's time for the patriots to unite and Connecticut is the first rally point. Even if this terrible image macro were true (who here was even able to read 'days away' without leaning super close to your monitor screen?), I would love to see a gang of the type of person who would show up to a 'patriot rally call' actually try and do something against the SWAT team featured in that image. What you should say in response is just make fun of them mercilessly. "Oh yeah? You shared it, so you're committing to keeping this from happening? How are you going to stop it?" As an aside, what a self-fulfilling prophesy. When this event inevitably doesn't happen because it's all bullshit, they can take credit for stopping it by sharing a dumb image on facebook.
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Feb 28, 2014 14:02
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Does anyone else wish this was true sometimes so these fucks would know what like to actually live in a police state?
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Feb 28, 2014 14:12
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Dr_Amazing posted:This was in the comments of some joke article talking about the differences between Canada, the UK and the states. Dozerfleet is kind of like that, yeah. There's definitely something wrong with him. He's like the lovely unpopular middle ground between Ullililia and Chris-chan. (have an hour-long podcast about him.)
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Feb 28, 2014 14:23
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I'm going for a grand slam here
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Feb 28, 2014 14:30
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Takoluka posted:I want to hear about this. Seconding a request for these glorious tales. There really weren't any glorious tales. It was about four months of answering customer service emails from people asking why we didn't have anime X or disputing their bans from the crunchyroll forum for posting anime porn. I did get to work from home so that was a plus, buuuut I also basically did the job for free for months before hand (I was briefly a forum moderator, but I believe now that they make a lot of money those are paid positions). I think I literally only got the job because I was one of like three people on their forum who could post in legible English and had a large amount of knowledge about random anime. At the time they had like, maybe two shows that were still releasing episodes and then maybe 20 that were cheap (I discovered the site because I wanted to free up the huge amount of space Fist of the North Star was taking up on my hard drive) and mostly bad. They didn't really have a lot of competition either, it was pretty much just Hulu at the time (before Hulu was poo poo so that's something). Most anime fans were torrenting all their poo poo so the people CR got were people who were A) Fans of bad Anime and B) Computer illiterate making it pretty much a sea of Facebook quality posts about TV shows featuring Japanese teenager mafia members who fight in supernatural fighting tournaments with the help of their magical demon baby (yes this is a real show). The people running the show seemed pretty normal if not really really busy all the time. It was basically in between when they had gotten a poo poo load of money (and deleted all the random illegal content they had) and when they figured out what to actually spend that money ON. Now they are basically just the US brand of TV Tokyo and no longer subsists on the fact that it's the only place to watch new episodes of Naruto (also the founders are all millionaires now I am sure). Honestly I have more odd stories from when I worked the groundskeeping crew for a bunch of public schools. It was at the fevered height of a local meth epidemic so my answer for the question "how many times have you seen dudes getting blown by semi-toothless women for meth." is "about five times".
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Feb 28, 2014 14:30
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these are all from the same guy, who is a friend of a guy i've posted on here before.    
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Feb 28, 2014 15:40
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Wait till these laws are used by a Muslim taxi drive to refuse service to drunk passengers, or something along those lines.
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Feb 28, 2014 16:02
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Honestly I have more odd stories from when I worked the groundskeeping crew for a bunch of public schools. It was at the fevered height of a local meth epidemic so my answer for the question "how many times have you seen dudes getting blown by semi-toothless women for meth." is "about five times".
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Feb 28, 2014 16:22
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Drug tests for jobs are generally in areas where being impaired would be dangerous to you and those around you, or at least severely impact your ability to do the job. People on welfare don't really have that issue. Also, if you deny a drug addict the ability to pay for their habit, what exactly are they going to do for money other than lots and lots of petty crime? Safety nets don't just benefit the people being caught by them, they benefit the whole of society by keeping those held up by the safety net from either starving in the streets or becoming career criminals. There's a goddamn reason why the biggest producers of opium poppies and coca leaf are countries with serious endemic poverty. Once again, even from the hyperconservative point of view, it doesn't really add up.
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Feb 28, 2014 16:42
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"If you want to live in a libertarian paradise so much, why don't you move to Somalia?"
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Feb 28, 2014 16:45
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Fatkraken posted:Drug tests for jobs are generally in areas where being impaired would be dangerous to you and those around you, or at least severely impact your ability to do the job Not in America, drug tests are for all jobs. In fact, the lower down the totem pole you are, the more likely you are to be drug tested as part of your hiring process. $65,000 a year manual writing work with a defense contractor? Nah, no drug test. $9/hr grocery clerk job at a supermarket? Piss into the cup motherfucker.
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Feb 28, 2014 16:52
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Most jobs I've had they don't even bother drug testing. It's expensive and a lot of businesses don't seem to really care if a low level employee is doing drugs as long as they don't find out. That's been my experience, anyway.
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Feb 28, 2014 17:51
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Amused to Death posted:Not in America, drug tests are for all jobs. In fact, the lower down the totem pole you are, the more likely you are to be drug tested as part of your hiring process. $65,000 a year manual writing work with a defense contractor? Nah, no drug test. $9/hr grocery clerk job at a supermarket? Piss into the cup motherfucker. This goes with the fact that the more money you make, the less you actually have to work. That $9/hr employee is not allowed to sit down, other than during their breaks(which they might not even be allowed to take) and has to account for all their time. That 65k/yr job? Can easily get away with take a 4 hour lunch then going home.
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I would vote for drug tests for all welfare recipients so those who were addicted to narcotics, alcohol or other substances could be offered free, effective rehabilitation and long term addiction care services, gain access to clean needles and safe medical grade versions of their addictive substance, with no criminal repercussions and the results kept entirely confidential and only accessible by medical professionals, and with the option of opting out.
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Feb 28, 2014 18:10
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I've had to take a drug test as a pre-employment requirement job I've ever had, and I'm in IT. I never really thought about it besides "oh well they need for me to do it and who wants to get high in the middle of the working day anyway?". But I've learning something today.
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Feb 28, 2014 18:13
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Fatkraken posted:I would vote for drug tests for all welfare recipients And you'd still be a monster for it because it'd still be an invasive and anxiety causing thing to submit people to when it's been proven over and over that there is no benefit to it since the number of people it catches is tiny (190 total in florida, I believe). Not to mention that you're going to be including people that are legally entitled to be taking medicine (inc medical marijuana in states that allow it) for their health issues that are the reason for their being on welfare, so chances are you'll submit them to extra anxiety and worry. As someone on 'welfare' (UK benefits) for health reasons, the most soul destroying thing in the world is seeing that dreaded brown envelope that signifies I'm about to be submitted to some kind of stress just because politicians are annoying cunts. It can send my anxiety and depression into a spiral of worry and self-hate for 2-3 weeks, even if it's nothing serious once opened. Even a double super promise that 'it'll only be for good things' wouldn't make that anxiety go away.
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SybilVimes posted:And you'd still be a monster for it because it'd still be an invasive and anxiety causing thing to submit people to when it's been proven over and over that there is no benefit to it since the number of people it catches is tiny (190 total in florida, I believe). Read the post again. He said optional.
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serbp posted:these are all from the same guy, who is a friend of a guy i've posted on here before. Ironically, you can - be simplifying and streamlining the administrative systems, removing the profit motive, and controlling market shares, you can lower prices significantly.
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LeJackal posted:Ironically, you can - be simplifying and streamlining the administrative systems, removing the profit motive, and controlling market shares, you can lower prices significantly. Okay what the gently caress is up with your avatar text?
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Since this esteemed individual has political aspirations (Most recently running for a city council spot in Long Beach, CA), I don't feel the need to censor his name. This guy posts poo poo like this all the time and I'm tired of it (you should have seen him during the high points of the immigration debate or the previous election cycles). Unfortunately he usually posts trash like this and then deletes it a little bit later, so I'm starting to take screen caps for posterity. Your Young Republicans Committee chairman and future elected leader!
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Feb 28, 2014 19:40
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Segmentation Fault posted:Okay what the gently caress is up with your avatar text? Somebody trotted out the old canard about guns=penises in the context of armed mothers or something, and I ran with it and the premise of the image as a feminist statement. If force, violence and independence in the context of self-defense are masculine concepts inside the backwards and sexist gender-roles of yore, then one could say that guns represent capacity for force (masculine) and that goes 1:1 with the penis. Therefore a woman armed with a gun now has a 'penis' which empowers her to break out of her limiting gender role as a passive invalid and act forcibly with violence in order to secure her safety and independence, actions/capability that a rigidly sexist culture would expect of a man. Taking offense to this line of thought, someone with more dollars than wit burned  to give me some red text.
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The Casualty posted:Since this esteemed individual has political aspirations (Most recently running for a city council spot in Long Beach, CA), I don't feel the need to censor his name. This guy posts poo poo like this all the time and I'm tired of it (you should have seen him during the high points of the immigration debate or the previous election cycles). Unfortunately he usually posts trash like this and then deletes it a little bit later, so I'm starting to take screen caps for posterity. What was the racial slur? Was it "roundeye" or "white devil" (assuming the ambassador to China is white)? Those are the only ones I'm familiar with.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:29
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Eulogistics posted:What was the racial slur? Was it "roundeye" or "white devil" (assuming the ambassador to China is white)? Those are the only ones I'm familiar with. Might have just been laowai being taken as a negative. Happens.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:42
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Eulogistics posted:What was the racial slur? Was it "roundeye" or "white devil" (assuming the ambassador to China is white)? Those are the only ones I'm familiar with. Racist  ...It was banana. Gary Locke is a 3rd generation Chinese and was called banana by a newspaper there.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:43
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To be fair, that seems more like the sort of story that kinda tells itself.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:45
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Two people just shared that "Sheriff Joe Arpaio is great!" thing. I know it won't do anything to change their minds, but does anyone have that huge counter-argument that shows how terrible of a person he is? I'm on mobile so I'd never be able to find it myself.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:47
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He was Asian American and called a "rotten banana" as well as "a guide dog for the blind" and "plague" according to the article.
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ThatPazuzu posted:He was Asian American and called a "rotten banana" as well as "a guide dog for the blind" and "plague" according to the article. Oh, so he's being called some kind of race-traitor, I imagine. Postal Parcel posted:Racist In my defense, I thought it was still that dude that tried to run for President last election and got knocked out of the Republican Primary. EDIT: I just read the editorial myself. "Eventually, the peel will give way from the yellow to show its white core, and eventually turn the stomach-turning color of black". Oh wow. Eulogistics has a new favorite as of 20:54 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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This drivel seems to be doing the rounds at the moment: A 14-year old allegedly wrote this poem, apparently in the spirit of Jonathan Reed's "Lost Generation." As with all things on the Internet, its authenticity is in doubt, but its message is powerful. Our generation will be known for nothing. Never will anybody say, We were the peak of mankind. That is wrong, the truth is Our generation was a failure. Thinking that We actually succeeded Is a waste. And we know Living only for money and power Is the way to go. Being loving, respectful, and kind Is a dumb thing to do. Forgetting about that time, Will not be easy, but we will try. Changing our world for the better Is something we never did. Giving up Was how we handled our problems. Working hard Was a joke. We knew that People thought we couldn’t come back That might be true, Unless we turn things around (Read from bottom to top now) I have ESL students who could write something more profound and more coherent.
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kannonfodder posted:Two people just shared that "Sheriff Joe Arpaio is great!" thing. How about the fact that there's an entire (and lengthy) wiki page dedicated to nothing but controversies regarding him and department. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maricopa_County_Sheriff%27s_Office_controversies#Lawsuits_filed_by_Joe_Arpaio_and_the_MCSO I mean, Jesus Christ quote:Richard Post was a paraplegic inmate arrested in 1996 for possession of marijuana and criminal trespass. Post was placed in a restraint chair by guards and his neck was broken in the process. The event, caught on video, shows guards smiling and laughing while Post is being injured.[citation needed] Because of his injuries, Post has lost much of the use of his arms.[85] Post settled his claims against the Sheriff's office for $800,000.[86]
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This just in: Gun owners on campus=African-Americans in the '60s! (Context: Congress in my state is debating on a bill that would allow guns to be carried on college campuses.)   BIGOTRY BIGOTRY PROGRESSIVES 
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kannonfodder posted:Two people just shared that "Sheriff Joe Arpaio is great!" thing. It's an old post by a goon whose username at least used to be HidingFromGoro, but be warned that as far as I know it's now old enough that a lot of the links are broken, so if you're going to go all-out with it you may want to find some updated links first. Let me tell you about Joe Arpaio. If you're lucky enough not to live in AZ like I do, you might not know about Joe Arpaio. He's the Maricopa County Sheriff signed a promise(1) to serve only one term when he was elected in 1992. He's still the Sheriff. When it comes to drug warriors, this guy doesn't mess around. He's got a self-propelled howitzer with "Sheriff Arpaio's War on Drugs" painted on it, with some tasteful lightning bolts added for effect. He'll kill your dog and burn your house down(2) if you get in his way (while simultaneously crushing your neighbor's car with an armored personnel carrier). He's got that tent jail in the desert, where you have to wear old-timey striped uniforms with pink underwear, eat substandard food, and work on chain gangs but at least he provides rebar for you(3) (pdf) to make it easier for to beat other inmates to half to death. If you don't want to read the pdf, the gist of it he got fined over $600,000 because the rebar had been used as weapons before, and he still chose not to secure them from the inmates. The judge said "...among other things, the Sheriff and his deputies had actual knowledge that prisoners used rebar tent stakes and tent poles as weapons and did nothing to prevent it." Furthermore, "the Sheriff admitted knowing about, and in fact intentionally designing, some conditions at Tent City that created a substantial risk of inmate violence." Your tent-mates are the least of your worries, however. Joe will beat you death even if you're blind(4) (and destroy evidence in a cover-up attempt), although to be fair to Joe he really only beat that guy partway to death- he only died after being left unattended in a cell for 6 days from the perforated intestine and broken neck he got from the beating- last time he gets picked up for shoplifting. Don't count on a wheelchair earning you any sympathy from America's Toughest Sheriff, either. If you go to jail as a paraplegic on a 1-gram marijuana possession charge and ask for a catheter to piss in, you might just leave as a quadriplegic(5) after you get a 6-hour ride in a restraint chair followed by a guard breaking your neck. Hey, at least the chair ride didn't kill him like it killed Scott Norberg(6), right? Well, it might not have been the chair- it could have been the stun guns or the towel shoved in his mouth. Joe Arpaio personally conducted an investigation of that incident and "surprisingly" found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the officers involved. The lawsuit found differently to the tune of $8 million, possibly because he got caught destroying evidence again. A man of principle, Joe publicly addressed Norberg's family and stated that he essentially got what he deserved because he was a drug addict and besides only bad people are in jail anyway. Mentally-handicapped(7)? Too bad, you might get killed in the chair too- on a loitering charge. Hope you don't have diabetes(8), cause you ain't getting insulin even if you go and die on him, like Deborah did. Yeah, Joe sure does love him some wrongful-death lawsuits(9), combined with all of his other suits, he's a defendant in almost fifteen hundred cases- if they all come to settlement, Maricopa taxpayers could pay up to $50 million. Criticizing him in the newspapers or on the Web might get you locked up(10). Smokin Joe and his deputies work hard outside of jail too, what with all the racial profiling and immigration crackdowns(11); so you know they play hard(12) too- nothing takes the edge off like getting a happy ending from a hooker while on the clock. Oh, it was a "sting," and sure, 60 of the 70 cases got thrown out due to that gross misconduct, but hey, got to break some eggs you know. My next Arpaio fun fact really stretches the imagination. He staged his own assassination attempt(13), involving blowing up his personal $70,000 armored vehicle with a pipe bomb. He created an elaborate sting culminating in a televised arrest of the "assassin," who was quickly released when courts saw that he had been entrapped and most of the plot was in fact fabricated by Arpaio. But what would Joe be without a sidekick? Meet Andy Thomas(14), Joe's District Attorney who took a break from editing his own Wikipedia entry(15) to prosecute a 16-year old boy (seeking a *ninety year* sentence- without parole) for showing a Playboy to some of his classmates. Oh, he was arrested in an early morning tactical raid and his family held at gunpoint; the family would go on to spend over $250,000 in legal fees and even when the child porn charges were thrown out he *still* tried to get the boy listed as a sex offender. Andy's other adventures include spending $2 million of taxpayer money on TV commercials about himself. Not campaign commercials, just pointless self-promotion commercials. He had a "crime-prevention book" published, which was also largely self-promotion and included portraits of himself in it. Looking at his wiki entry now, there are some curious edits which weren't there the last time I checked, so maybe he's had some down time lately to brush it up. Let's hear Joe in his own words- "Well you know, they call you KKK. They did me. I think it's an honor. It means we're doing something."(16) "I spend $0.40 day on inmates, and $1.50 on dogs, the dogs get air conditioning." 1 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2008/09/29/20080929arpaioprofile0929.html 2 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-08-05/news/dog-day-afternoon/full 3 http://www.cofad1.state.az.us/opinionfiles/cv/cv010239.pdf 4 http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2008/04/14/20080414mcsoallegations04142008-CR.html 5 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1997-01-23/news/jailers-show-a-paraplegic-who-s-boss/1 6 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-01-14/news/the-8-million-victim/ 7 http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1305836.html 8 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-12-20/news/inhumanity-has-a-price/3 9 http://www.websupp.org/data/DAZ/355904-DAZ.pdf 10 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003661135 11 http://www.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=798765 12 http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/?sty=23162 13 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-08-05/news/the-plot-to-assassinate-arpaio/ 14 http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/print?id=2791529 15 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-02-28/news/andrew-thomas-maricopa-county-s-top-prosecutor-burnishes-his-wikipedia-page/ 16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFTUQ71Aq0o
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gradenko_2000 posted:But I've learning something today. You're hopped up on goofballs right now, aren't you?
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