Alaskan crude oil sucks. It's dirty and difficult to process into usable fuel. That's why we hardly bother to do so. We ship it to the Japanese, who have a couple of refineries that almost work for that sort of thing.
Sheriff Joe.
"Vermin, filth, medical care suggestive of POW camps, chronic mismanagement, the wanton destruction of records, and a steady parade of corpses in Maricopa County jails have cost taxpayers an astonishing — and until now, undisclosed — 41.4 million dollars.
Joe Arpaio has perpetuated his reign as "America's toughest sheriff" with an open checkbook."
A man of the cloth who did outreach work in a certain county facility once told me that "Arpaio is an asshole and in real life he's not like what you see on TV." Strong words coming from someone who wore the collar, but he was in a position to know.
New York has Michael Corleone, Chicago has Al Capone, and we have Sheriff Joe. Such a nice bunch of characters. Very special.
Speaking of special...
"During my short tenure at AVMT I have been surrounded by what on the surface appears to be the ultimate all-American family. In reality, I am working for a very sad, lonely woman whose marriage of convenience to a U.S. Senator has driven her to: distance herself from friends; cover feelings of despair with drugs; and replace lonely moments with self-indulgences."
Pain sucks. But if you had a couple hundred millions dollars you could probably get help instead of forging prescriptions, doctor-shopping, and stealing narcotics from your own charity. Oh well. People can change, no matter how lousy with money they might be.
