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red dog 1's JournalIs Solitary Confinement Rehabilitation or Torture?...by Don Siegelman
"I am writing as a federal prisoner, a former Attorney General and Governor of Alabama in a response to Attorney General Eric Holder's comments.
Attorney General Holder gave hope to many of America'a 2,000,000 inmates and their families
resolving that "We must do better to bring our justice system in line with our values."
One of the many reforms that need to occur concerns the overuse of solitary confinement
NPR reported recently that some 4,000 California inmates are in solitary confinement, some for up to twenty years
Isolated, four walls..Out only an hour each day.
More common are the hundreds of thousands of inmates who are incarcerated for lengthy sentences for non-violent crimes.
I am one of those, but I write not about my case, but to highlight much bigger systemic problems
and possible solutions based on my personal experience as a state Attorney General, Governor and someone who has seen the criminal justice system from the other side of the fence.
There are many changes that need to be made to bring our justice system in line with our values, like stopping the overuse of solitary confinement
But a looming deadline puts campaigning for "applying sentence reductions retroactively"
at the front of the line
The deadline for input about retroactive sentencing from the public to the
U.S. Sentencing Commission is June 1st, THIS SUNDAY.
As a result, if you have not done so already, I am asking that you write a short e-mail or
post card to the U.S. Sentencing Commission asking that they apply sentence reductions retroactively."
Send your note or e-mail to:
http://www.ussc.gov/contact-us/
More info on the Siegelman case or to make a donation to help Don:
http://www.donsiegelman.org/
Wall Street Rewards Bernanke & Geithner For Stiffing You
By
Jim Hightower
WALL STREET REWARDS BEN AND TIM FOR STIFFING YOU
"Not only has the Wall Street bailout restored the banksters who wrecked our economy to full prosperity, it's also paying off very handsomely for the bank overseers who orchestrated the bailout.
For example, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve for six years, Ben Bernanke led the bucket brigade that poured trillions of public dollars into Wall Street's vaults.
So, he's now on a global "Show Me Some Love" tour, pocketing up to $400,000 for each speech he delivers to the financial giants he rescued with our money.
Then there's Timmy Geithner, who's chief responsibility for the New York Fed has been to regulate Wall Street's reckless banks so their greed wouldn't cause a nationwide financial crisis.
But - oops!- they did exactly that on Timmy's "see-no-evil" watch.
Still, having proven himself a banker's man, Geithner was promoted to be President Obama's Treasury Secretary...There, he insisted that the government's priority must be rescuing greedy bankers with taxpayer dollars, rather than saving the millions of American homeowners stuck with bloated mortgages, facing wage cuts and joblessness, and who were sinking into deep debt and poverty.
But, being a banker's man, Geithner was not punished for his inept and morally-deplorable policies.
Rather, he was richly rewarded with a top executive position as - what else? - a Wall Street banker.
Now he has published a book about his years of public screw-ups..Oh...sorry, I meant
"public service"
Concluding that he was correct and courageous, Geithner's book should have been titled
Heckuva job, Timmy!
This is Jim Hightower saying...So Wall Street prospers, Ben and Tim wallow in wealth --
and the real economy remains mired in the ditch of joblessness, low wages, household debt,
and rising anger at the Wall Street/Washington cabal of self-serving elites who shoved them into that ditch."
http://www.jimhightower.com/node/8345#.U4YhsHI5mTM/
Another blond joke
A blond was given a cell phone from her boyfriend as a birthday present
The next day, he calls her and asks her how she liked her birthday present.
"Oh I love it," the blond says, "It fits right in my purse, and your voice sounds so clear,
but how did you know I was at Walmart?"
A rabbi walks into a bar
A rabbi walks into a bar with a frog on his shoulder, and the bartender says, "Where'd you get him?"
The frog answers, "Brooklyn..There's hundreds of them."
Guy Walks Into a Bar
A guy walks into a bar and sits at a table, tells the waitress "I'll have a Bloody Mary and a menu."
When she returns with his drink, he asks "Still servin' breakfast?" When she says "Yes" he replies "Then I'll have two eggs - runny on top and burnt on the bottom, five strips of bacon,
well done on one end and still raw on the other, two pieces of burnt toast and a cold cup of coffee."
Indignantly the waitress says "We don't serve that kinda stuff in here."
Guy says, "Funny..that's what I had in here yesterday."
Irish Joke
Milo says to Paddy,
"Close your curtains the next time you're shagging your wife. the whole street was watching
and laughing at you yesterday."
Paddy replies:
"Well, the joke's on them stupid bastards because I wasn't even home yesterday."
The Deaf Wife Problem (Joke)
Ed feared his wife Peg wasn't hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid.
Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family doctor to discuss the problem.
The doctor told him there was a simple informal test the husband could perform to give the doctor a better idea about her hearing loss.
"Here's what you do," said the doctor, "Stand about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone, see if she hears you.
If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response."
That evening, his wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he was in the den.
He says to himself, "I'm about 40 feet away, let's see what happens."
Then, in a normal tone, he asks "Honey, what's for dinner?"
No response.
So the husband moves closer to the kitchen, about 30 feet from his wife, and repeats:
"Peg, what's for dinner?"
Still no response.
Next, he moves into the dining room, where he's about 20 feet from his wife, and asks
"Honey, what's for dinner?"
Again he gets no response.
So he walks up to the kitchen door, about 10 feet away, "Honey, what's for dinner?"
Again there is no response.
So he walks right up behind her, "Peg, what's for dinner?"
"For God's sake Ed, for the FIFTH time, CHICKEN."
The Little Girl and the Construction Crew
A young girl was looking out the window at the construction crew who were beginning to build a house on the empty lot next door.
She watched with amazement as they poured the cement for the foundation and decided to go outside to get a better view.
The construction workers waved to her, and she waved back.
Soon she was talking to them and asking questions about the work they were doing.
They enjoyed talking to her as much as she enjoyed talking to them.
After a while, they gave her little jobs to do around the site.
At the end of the week, they gave her a check for the work she had done.
When she showed the check to her mother, her mother suggested that she take the check to the bank and open her own account.
At the bank, she proudly handed the check to the teller.
The teller asked her where she had gotten the check from, and she told the teller that she had been helping the men building the house next door.
"Oh my," the teller replied, "Will you be helping them again?"
"Yes," the little girl replied, "As soon as the assholes from Home Depot deliver the fucking sheet rock."
Politico's Poll Showing Democrats In Trouble This Midterm Election is a Total Crock
Source:
Politicususa.com
By Justin Baragona
May 19, 2014
This week, political news site Politico released a poll showing that Democrats are at a seven-point disadvantage against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.
The poll is supposed to reflect voter sentiments in the most competitive House and Senate races this year.
For the House races. the poll shows that Democrats trail Republicans by 9 points. 39%-30%.
As for the Senate, Republicans hold a seven-point advantage, 43%-36%.
This poll seems to predict a gloomy outcome for the Democrats in November.
It is certainly possible that Republicans can gain control of the Senate and retain their majority in the House.
However, this poll is s total crock.
It is always important to look into the methodology used by a poll to see how credible it is.
In this instance, the poll was tilted heavily in Republicans' favor from the outset, creating the results that we see.
The claim of the poll is to show "competitive" House and Senate races, so the interviewees were only from those areas.
Yet the poll shows that 39% of the respondents are Republicans, 34% stated that they're Democrats....Only 26% identified as Independents.
Compare this with the country at large, where 31% identify as registered with the Democratic Party, 25% identify as Republican, and 42% claim to be Independents.
Read more:
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/19/politicos-poll-showing-democrats-trouble-midterm-election-total-crock.html
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