O:9:"magpierss":24:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:10:{i:0;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Live Blogging From Daggett County!";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/27/live-blogging-from-daggett-county/";s:8:"comments";s:80:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/27/live-blogging-from-daggett-county/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:50:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:9:"UtahCrime";s:4:"guid";s:71:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/27/live-blogging-from-daggett-county/";s:11:"description";s:324:"OK,  not really, I&#8217;m sitting at the bar of the family cabin in Washam, Wyoming but if I picked up a medium-size piece of gravel from the driveway and chunked it directly south, it would land in Manila, Utah&#8230;that&#8217;s how close we are.
I&#8217;m listening to KSL TV in the background as Mrs. Part of the [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2485:"<p>OK,  not really, I&#8217;m sitting at the bar of the family cabin in Washam, Wyoming but if I picked up a medium-size piece of gravel from the driveway and chunked it directly south, it would land in Manila, Utah&#8230;that&#8217;s how close we are.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m listening to KSL TV in the background as Mrs. <strong>Part of the Plan</strong> and her mother are watching the news where I just learned that the report of the escaped convicts hitchiking south on Highway 191 toward Vernal was evidently a fabrication&#8230;no surprise to me, since I never understood how they could walk  25 miles up over the crest of the Uintah Mountains in near freezing temperatures at this time of year, with hundreds if not thousands of hunters roaming about, all of whom would just as soon shoot an escaped Hispanic convict as an elk.</p>
<p>Driving into Manila today we observed:</p>
<p>* A DOC van driving north toward Mountain View at high speed, followed by two SUV&#8217;s&#8230;I would imagine the van carried the three other convicted murderers who were housed at the Daggett County Jail and were being returned to the state prison in Draper.</p>
<p>* Daggett County Sheriff Rick Ellsworth on the side of the highway  just inside the city limits surrounded by what I assume to be various journalists, gesturing towards the south and the road toward Vernal&#8230;I guess telling them &#8220;That&#8217;s supposed to be the direction they took!&#8221;</p>
<p>My observations:</p>
<p>* I believe they are long gone&#8230;most likely picked up at the foot of the driveway to the jail by their girlfriends/accomplices, and now safely esconced in Mexico, thanks to our incompetent border control system. </p>
<p>* The only other plausible theory is that they are still here in Manila/Washam, waiting it out in someone&#8217;s unoccupied vacation cabin.</p>
<p>Well, they&#8217;re not in this one&#8230;I did a combat search upon arrival.  I still remember how to do it&#8230;thank you, United States Army.  Tonight I will sleep tight with my M9 Beretta and tricked-out Mini-14 (one for close-in, one in case they run), so if they try to make themselves home here in this cabin, it should be if nothing else noisy.</p>
<p>I also heard on the news that Governor Huntsman is getting involved&#8230;as I said before, where is the state&#8217;s Attorney General?  Yes, I know he is personally in the hospital (again)&#8230;doesn&#8217;t he have a deputy?</p>
<p>Just wondering&#8230;</p>
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I&#8217;m listening to KSL TV in the background as Mrs. Part of the [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2485:"<p>OK,  not really, I&#8217;m sitting at the bar of the family cabin in Washam, Wyoming but if I picked up a medium-size piece of gravel from the driveway and chunked it directly south, it would land in Manila, Utah&#8230;that&#8217;s how close we are.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m listening to KSL TV in the background as Mrs. <strong>Part of the Plan</strong> and her mother are watching the news where I just learned that the report of the escaped convicts hitchiking south on Highway 191 toward Vernal was evidently a fabrication&#8230;no surprise to me, since I never understood how they could walk  25 miles up over the crest of the Uintah Mountains in near freezing temperatures at this time of year, with hundreds if not thousands of hunters roaming about, all of whom would just as soon shoot an escaped Hispanic convict as an elk.</p>
<p>Driving into Manila today we observed:</p>
<p>* A DOC van driving north toward Mountain View at high speed, followed by two SUV&#8217;s&#8230;I would imagine the van carried the three other convicted murderers who were housed at the Daggett County Jail and were being returned to the state prison in Draper.</p>
<p>* Daggett County Sheriff Rick Ellsworth on the side of the highway  just inside the city limits surrounded by what I assume to be various journalists, gesturing towards the south and the road toward Vernal&#8230;I guess telling them &#8220;That&#8217;s supposed to be the direction they took!&#8221;</p>
<p>My observations:</p>
<p>* I believe they are long gone&#8230;most likely picked up at the foot of the driveway to the jail by their girlfriends/accomplices, and now safely esconced in Mexico, thanks to our incompetent border control system. </p>
<p>* The only other plausible theory is that they are still here in Manila/Washam, waiting it out in someone&#8217;s unoccupied vacation cabin.</p>
<p>Well, they&#8217;re not in this one&#8230;I did a combat search upon arrival.  I still remember how to do it&#8230;thank you, United States Army.  Tonight I will sleep tight with my M9 Beretta and tricked-out Mini-14 (one for close-in, one in case they run), so if they try to make themselves home here in this cabin, it should be if nothing else noisy.</p>
<p>I also heard on the news that Governor Huntsman is getting involved&#8230;as I said before, where is the state&#8217;s Attorney General?  Yes, I know he is personally in the hospital (again)&#8230;doesn&#8217;t he have a deputy?</p>
<p>Just wondering&#8230;</p>
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1190940607;}i:1;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:13:"Good Question";s:4:"link";s:51:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/27/good-question/";s:8:"comments";s:60:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/27/good-question/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:10:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:9:"UtahCrime";s:4:"guid";s:51:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/27/good-question/";s:11:"description";s:337:"DesNews:
Prison study abandoned?
After two dangerous criminals escaped from the Daggett County jail last week, the head of state Corrections told a reporter that such criminals are routinely sent to county jails because the main state prison in Salt Lake County is not large enough to hold all of them. With that, I was reminded of [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:904:"<p><a href="http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695213486,00.html">DesNews:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Prison study abandoned?</strong></p>
<p>After two dangerous criminals escaped from the Daggett County jail last week, the head of state Corrections told a reporter that such criminals are routinely sent to county jails because the main state prison in Salt Lake County is not large enough to hold all of them. With that, I was reminded of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.&#8217;s campaign promise to study the possibility of moving the state prison from its current location to a more remote location and enlarging it.</p>
<p>Since the election, nothing has come of that promise. There has been no such study and no action to alleviate the problem. Was it just a ploy to corner the vote in Salt Lake County&#8217;s fast-growing southern neighborhoods?</p>
<p>George Sutton<br />
Park City</p></blockquote>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:56:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/27/good-question/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:337:"DesNews:
Prison study abandoned?
After two dangerous criminals escaped from the Daggett County jail last week, the head of state Corrections told a reporter that such criminals are routinely sent to county jails because the main state prison in Salt Lake County is not large enough to hold all of them. With that, I was reminded of [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:904:"<p><a href="http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695213486,00.html">DesNews:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Prison study abandoned?</strong></p>
<p>After two dangerous criminals escaped from the Daggett County jail last week, the head of state Corrections told a reporter that such criminals are routinely sent to county jails because the main state prison in Salt Lake County is not large enough to hold all of them. With that, I was reminded of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.&#8217;s campaign promise to study the possibility of moving the state prison from its current location to a more remote location and enlarging it.</p>
<p>Since the election, nothing has come of that promise. There has been no such study and no action to alleviate the problem. Was it just a ploy to corner the vote in Salt Lake County&#8217;s fast-growing southern neighborhoods?</p>
<p>George Sutton<br />
Park City</p></blockquote>
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1190895059;}i:2;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:36:"The Only Reason To Vote For Vouchers";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/the-only-reason-to-vote-for-vouchers/";s:8:"comments";s:83:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/the-only-reason-to-vote-for-vouchers/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:55:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Politics";s:4:"guid";s:74:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/the-only-reason-to-vote-for-vouchers/";s:11:"description";s:389:"Because George W. Bush thinks the public school system (via NCLB) is doing just hunky-dory:
WaPo:
Bush: No Child Left Behind Is Working
As a candidate, George W. Bush once asked, &#8220;Is our children learning?&#8221;
On Wednesday, he had an answer.
&#8220;Childrens do learn,&#8221; he said.
The setting was, yes, an education event where the president was taking credit for rising [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1270:"<p>Because George W. Bush thinks the public school system (via NCLB) is doing just hunky-dory:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092601015.html?nav%3Dhcmodule&amp;sub=AR">WaPo:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Bush: No Child Left Behind Is Working</strong></p>
<p>As a candidate, George W. Bush once asked, &#8220;Is our children learning?&#8221;</p>
<p>On Wednesday, he had an answer.</p>
<p>&#8220;Childrens do learn,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The setting was, yes, an education event where the president was taking credit for rising test scores and promoting congressional renewal of his signature education law. To create the right image, he summoned the city&#8217;s school chancellor, a principal, some teachers and 20 eager students from P.S. 76.</p>
<p>The visual worked fine. The oral? Not so much. For Bush, it was a classic malapropism, the sort of verbal miscue that occasionally bedevils him in public speaking and provides his critics easy fodder for ridicule&#8230;</p></blockquote>
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WaPo:
Bush: No Child Left Behind Is Working
As a candidate, George W. Bush once asked, &#8220;Is our children learning?&#8221;
On Wednesday, he had an answer.
&#8220;Childrens do learn,&#8221; he said.
The setting was, yes, an education event where the president was taking credit for rising [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1270:"<p>Because George W. Bush thinks the public school system (via NCLB) is doing just hunky-dory:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092601015.html?nav%3Dhcmodule&amp;sub=AR">WaPo:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Bush: No Child Left Behind Is Working</strong></p>
<p>As a candidate, George W. Bush once asked, &#8220;Is our children learning?&#8221;</p>
<p>On Wednesday, he had an answer.</p>
<p>&#8220;Childrens do learn,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The setting was, yes, an education event where the president was taking credit for rising test scores and promoting congressional renewal of his signature education law. To create the right image, he summoned the city&#8217;s school chancellor, a principal, some teachers and 20 eager students from P.S. 76.</p>
<p>The visual worked fine. The oral? Not so much. For Bush, it was a classic malapropism, the sort of verbal miscue that occasionally bedevils him in public speaking and provides his critics easy fodder for ridicule&#8230;</p></blockquote>
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";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1190854516;}i:3;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Why Jeffs Went First";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/why-jeffs-went-first/";s:8:"comments";s:67:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/why-jeffs-went-first/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:33:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:9:"UtahCrime";s:4:"guid";s:58:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/why-jeffs-went-first/";s:11:"description";s:395:"Several Utah bloggers are wondering (and some are downright complaining) about why Warren Jeffs, erstwhile &#8220;prophet&#8221; of the FDLS was prosecuted for, and subsequently found guilty of, being an accomplice to rape, when the person who actually performed the rape (the so-called &#8220;husband&#8221;) was not first tried for, well, rape.
My friends, it&#8217;s really very simple. [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1055:"<p>Several Utah bloggers are wondering (and some are downright complaining) about why Warren Jeffs, erstwhile &#8220;prophet&#8221; of the FDLS was prosecuted for, and subsequently found guilty of, being an accomplice to rape, when the person who actually performed the rape (the so-called &#8220;husband&#8221;) was not first tried for, well, rape.</p>
<p>My friends, it&#8217;s really very simple.  This is Utah, for crying out loud.  The first thing the prosecution needed to ascertain was whether a jury of normal, average, Washington County Utahns would accept the fact that <strong>religion could not be used as an excuse for raping a child</strong>.  Simply because this is Utah, with its, let us say, &#8220;peculiar&#8221; views on religion, it was necessary to start with that premise.  And now we know.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really that simple.  Now that <strong>that</strong> issue has been decided, we can move on to the next stage&#8230;putting all these child molesters where they belong, in prison.  Hopefully not the Daggett County Jail.</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:63:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/why-jeffs-went-first/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:395:"Several Utah bloggers are wondering (and some are downright complaining) about why Warren Jeffs, erstwhile &#8220;prophet&#8221; of the FDLS was prosecuted for, and subsequently found guilty of, being an accomplice to rape, when the person who actually performed the rape (the so-called &#8220;husband&#8221;) was not first tried for, well, rape.
My friends, it&#8217;s really very simple. [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1055:"<p>Several Utah bloggers are wondering (and some are downright complaining) about why Warren Jeffs, erstwhile &#8220;prophet&#8221; of the FDLS was prosecuted for, and subsequently found guilty of, being an accomplice to rape, when the person who actually performed the rape (the so-called &#8220;husband&#8221;) was not first tried for, well, rape.</p>
<p>My friends, it&#8217;s really very simple.  This is Utah, for crying out loud.  The first thing the prosecution needed to ascertain was whether a jury of normal, average, Washington County Utahns would accept the fact that <strong>religion could not be used as an excuse for raping a child</strong>.  Simply because this is Utah, with its, let us say, &#8220;peculiar&#8221; views on religion, it was necessary to start with that premise.  And now we know.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really that simple.  Now that <strong>that</strong> issue has been decided, we can move on to the next stage&#8230;putting all these child molesters where they belong, in prison.  Hopefully not the Daggett County Jail.</p>
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1190853239;}i:4;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Michael Vick: Too Stupid For Words";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/michael-vick-too-stupid-for-words/";s:8:"comments";s:80:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/michael-vick-too-stupid-for-words/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:56:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:15:"HUHACrimeSports";s:4:"guid";s:71:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/michael-vick-too-stupid-for-words/";s:11:"description";s:351:"WGCL (Atlanta):
Vick Fails Drug Test, Confined To Home
Stricter release conditions were imposed on Michael Vick on Wednesday after he tested positive for marijuana use on Sept. 13.
Judge Henry E. Hudson restricted Vick to his home every day from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. at the request of probation officer Patricia Locket-Ross.Vick will be required to [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:691:"<p><a href="http://www.cbs46.com/news/14210094/detail.html">WGCL (Atlanta):</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Vick Fails Drug Test, Confined To Home</strong></p>
<p>Stricter release conditions were imposed on Michael Vick on Wednesday after he tested positive for marijuana use on Sept. 13.</p>
<p>Judge Henry E. Hudson restricted Vick to his home every day from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. at the request of probation officer Patricia Locket-Ross.Vick will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device to ensure his compliance with the order, court documents said.Judge Hudson also ordered that Vick continue to participate in substance abuse and mental health counseling&#8230;</p></blockquote>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:76:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/michael-vick-too-stupid-for-words/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:351:"WGCL (Atlanta):
Vick Fails Drug Test, Confined To Home
Stricter release conditions were imposed on Michael Vick on Wednesday after he tested positive for marijuana use on Sept. 13.
Judge Henry E. Hudson restricted Vick to his home every day from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. at the request of probation officer Patricia Locket-Ross.Vick will be required to [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:691:"<p><a href="http://www.cbs46.com/news/14210094/detail.html">WGCL (Atlanta):</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Vick Fails Drug Test, Confined To Home</strong></p>
<p>Stricter release conditions were imposed on Michael Vick on Wednesday after he tested positive for marijuana use on Sept. 13.</p>
<p>Judge Henry E. Hudson restricted Vick to his home every day from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. at the request of probation officer Patricia Locket-Ross.Vick will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device to ensure his compliance with the order, court documents said.Judge Hudson also ordered that Vick continue to participate in substance abuse and mental health counseling&#8230;</p></blockquote>
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1190836579;}i:5;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Your Tax Dollars At Work";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/your-tax-dollars-at-work/";s:8:"comments";s:71:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/your-tax-dollars-at-work/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:49:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:12:"DefenseWeird";s:4:"guid";s:62:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/your-tax-dollars-at-work/";s:11:"description";s:416:"Remember, there&#8217;s one of those &#8220;fiscally conservative&#8221; BushCo Republicans running both the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.
LA Times:
Navy To Mask Coronado&#8217;s Swastika-Shaped Barracks
The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1290:"<p>Remember, there&#8217;s one of those &#8220;fiscally conservative&#8221; BushCo Republicans running both the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-swastika26sep26,0,2973328.story?coll=la-home-center">LA Times:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Navy To Mask Coronado&#8217;s Swastika-Shaped Barracks</strong></p>
<p>The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air.</p>
<p>The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the late 1960s, are part of the amphibious base at Coronado and serve as barracks for Seabees.</p>
<p>From the ground and from inside nearby buildings, the controversial shape cannot be seen. Nor are there any civilian or military landing patterns that provide such a view to airline passengers.</p>
<p>But once people began looking at satellite images from Google Earth, they started commenting about on blogs and websites about how much the buildings resembled the symbol used by the Nazis&#8230;</p></blockquote>
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";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:67:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/your-tax-dollars-at-work/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:416:"Remember, there&#8217;s one of those &#8220;fiscally conservative&#8221; BushCo Republicans running both the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.
LA Times:
Navy To Mask Coronado&#8217;s Swastika-Shaped Barracks
The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1290:"<p>Remember, there&#8217;s one of those &#8220;fiscally conservative&#8221; BushCo Republicans running both the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-swastika26sep26,0,2973328.story?coll=la-home-center">LA Times:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Navy To Mask Coronado&#8217;s Swastika-Shaped Barracks</strong></p>
<p>The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air.</p>
<p>The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the late 1960s, are part of the amphibious base at Coronado and serve as barracks for Seabees.</p>
<p>From the ground and from inside nearby buildings, the controversial shape cannot be seen. Nor are there any civilian or military landing patterns that provide such a view to airline passengers.</p>
<p>But once people began looking at satellite images from Google Earth, they started commenting about on blogs and websites about how much the buildings resembled the symbol used by the Nazis&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p><img align="baseline" width="500" src="http://www.partridge.net/images/swastika.jpg" height="280" style="width: 500px; height: 280px" /></p>
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1190832548;}i:6;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:55:"A Comedy Of Errors At The Daggett County Jail (UPDATED)";s:4:"link";s:83:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/a-comedy-of-errors-at-the-daggett-county-jail/";s:8:"comments";s:92:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/a-comedy-of-errors-at-the-daggett-county-jail/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:52:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:9:"UtahCrime";s:4:"guid";s:83:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/a-comedy-of-errors-at-the-daggett-county-jail/";s:11:"description";s:366:"For the best coverage of the two escaped convicts in Daggett County, read this story in today&#8217;s Trib.
Shorter version:
- The sheriff left one uniformed officer and one &#8220;control room employee&#8221; (probably the guy/gal supposed to be monitoring the CCTV system) to guard 120 inmates.
- Convicts jumped the fence around 2:30 pm but were not noticed [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:4063:"<p>For the best coverage of the two escaped convicts in Daggett County, read <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7001446">this story in today&#8217;s Trib.</a></p>
<p>Shorter version:</p>
<p>- The sheriff left one uniformed officer and one &#8220;control room employee&#8221; (probably the guy/gal supposed to be monitoring the CCTV system) to guard 120 inmates.</p>
<p>- Convicts jumped the fence around 2:30 pm but were not noticed missing until 6:00 pm.</p>
<p>- Looks like they used the same technique and route used by the last inmate to escape, two years ago.</p>
<p>- The CCTV system that covered the section of the jail from which they escaped was inoperable (you think that&#8217;s coincidence?).</p>
<p>- Local LDS church leaders were notified and asked to spread the word (I guess if you weren&#8217;t Mormon you were out of luck).</p>
<p>- Sheriff Ellsworth was at a convention in Cedar City and evidently was notified, because at 10:00 pm he informed a Department of Corrections official at the same convention.</p>
<p>- The DOC official did not pass the word&#8230;he figured someone from Daggett County would have notified the DOC directly (good reasoning, bad assumption).</p>
<p>- The DOC Director learned about the escape early Monday morning while reading the papers online.</p>
<p>- While touring the Daggett County Jail on Tuesday the DOC Director discovered that a maximum security prisoner was being housed there, which is a big no-no.  Apparently the sheriff was not even aware (do you see a trend developing here?)</p>
<p>- The sheriff describes his office&#8217;s performance in this incident as &#8220;adequate&#8221; and sees no reason for a change in manpower (i.e., for someone&#8217;s head to roll, including his).</p>
<p>My observations:</p>
<p>- Where is the Attorney General on this, especially since the results of the last election which brought this sheriff to office are under investigation?  As the state&#8217;s top law enforcement officer, shouldn&#8217;t he announce that he will be investigating this incident also, especially since the communication breakdown extends well beyond Daggett County to the Department of Corrections?</p>
<p>- Wouldn&#8217;t you think it prudent to have in place a standard operating procedure to be activated in case of an escape?  Especially for a jail that has had previous escapes?  You know, a plan that would include basic communication procedures (who to call, in what order, what their phone number is, etc.).</p>
<p>- Wouldn&#8217;t you think it prudent as a minimum that in the event of a jail escape the very first thing you would do is setup roadblocks, especially when your jail is located in a backwater like Manila that only has three roads leading out of town?  Wouldn&#8217;t you think the second thing you should do is request some immediate air assets to conduct an aerial search?  Wouldn&#8217;t you think the third thing to do would be to bring in the bloodhounds and start tracking them on foot?  Or maybe wouldn&#8217;t it be prudent to do all three things concurrently?  Of course to do that, you would have to be capable of multi-tasking&#8230;which is very problematic with the Daggett County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.</p>
<p>- Why did I see on the TV news Tuesday evening a DPS helicopter flying Warren Jeffs the 12-miles to the Purgatory Jail after being found guilty?  Why wasn&#8217;t that helicopter in Daggett County helping find two convicted murderers, instead of chaffeuring this disgusting child molester-enabler like he is some kind of a celebrity?  Is there really valid, actionable intelligence that suggests the brain-dead morons who comprise the FLDS would actually attempt to free him?  Or was this just part of the whole theater down there intended to impress the viewers of Court TV with how awesome Utah&#8217;s legal system is?</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong>  All the news media is now reporting that they were spotted <strong>walking down Highway 191</strong> toward Vernal.  Yeah, those roadblocks sure would have come in handy.</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:88:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/a-comedy-of-errors-at-the-daggett-county-jail/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:366:"For the best coverage of the two escaped convicts in Daggett County, read this story in today&#8217;s Trib.
Shorter version:
- The sheriff left one uniformed officer and one &#8220;control room employee&#8221; (probably the guy/gal supposed to be monitoring the CCTV system) to guard 120 inmates.
- Convicts jumped the fence around 2:30 pm but were not noticed [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:4063:"<p>For the best coverage of the two escaped convicts in Daggett County, read <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7001446">this story in today&#8217;s Trib.</a></p>
<p>Shorter version:</p>
<p>- The sheriff left one uniformed officer and one &#8220;control room employee&#8221; (probably the guy/gal supposed to be monitoring the CCTV system) to guard 120 inmates.</p>
<p>- Convicts jumped the fence around 2:30 pm but were not noticed missing until 6:00 pm.</p>
<p>- Looks like they used the same technique and route used by the last inmate to escape, two years ago.</p>
<p>- The CCTV system that covered the section of the jail from which they escaped was inoperable (you think that&#8217;s coincidence?).</p>
<p>- Local LDS church leaders were notified and asked to spread the word (I guess if you weren&#8217;t Mormon you were out of luck).</p>
<p>- Sheriff Ellsworth was at a convention in Cedar City and evidently was notified, because at 10:00 pm he informed a Department of Corrections official at the same convention.</p>
<p>- The DOC official did not pass the word&#8230;he figured someone from Daggett County would have notified the DOC directly (good reasoning, bad assumption).</p>
<p>- The DOC Director learned about the escape early Monday morning while reading the papers online.</p>
<p>- While touring the Daggett County Jail on Tuesday the DOC Director discovered that a maximum security prisoner was being housed there, which is a big no-no.  Apparently the sheriff was not even aware (do you see a trend developing here?)</p>
<p>- The sheriff describes his office&#8217;s performance in this incident as &#8220;adequate&#8221; and sees no reason for a change in manpower (i.e., for someone&#8217;s head to roll, including his).</p>
<p>My observations:</p>
<p>- Where is the Attorney General on this, especially since the results of the last election which brought this sheriff to office are under investigation?  As the state&#8217;s top law enforcement officer, shouldn&#8217;t he announce that he will be investigating this incident also, especially since the communication breakdown extends well beyond Daggett County to the Department of Corrections?</p>
<p>- Wouldn&#8217;t you think it prudent to have in place a standard operating procedure to be activated in case of an escape?  Especially for a jail that has had previous escapes?  You know, a plan that would include basic communication procedures (who to call, in what order, what their phone number is, etc.).</p>
<p>- Wouldn&#8217;t you think it prudent as a minimum that in the event of a jail escape the very first thing you would do is setup roadblocks, especially when your jail is located in a backwater like Manila that only has three roads leading out of town?  Wouldn&#8217;t you think the second thing you should do is request some immediate air assets to conduct an aerial search?  Wouldn&#8217;t you think the third thing to do would be to bring in the bloodhounds and start tracking them on foot?  Or maybe wouldn&#8217;t it be prudent to do all three things concurrently?  Of course to do that, you would have to be capable of multi-tasking&#8230;which is very problematic with the Daggett County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.</p>
<p>- Why did I see on the TV news Tuesday evening a DPS helicopter flying Warren Jeffs the 12-miles to the Purgatory Jail after being found guilty?  Why wasn&#8217;t that helicopter in Daggett County helping find two convicted murderers, instead of chaffeuring this disgusting child molester-enabler like he is some kind of a celebrity?  Is there really valid, actionable intelligence that suggests the brain-dead morons who comprise the FLDS would actually attempt to free him?  Or was this just part of the whole theater down there intended to impress the viewers of Court TV with how awesome Utah&#8217;s legal system is?</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong>  All the news media is now reporting that they were spotted <strong>walking down Highway 191</strong> toward Vernal.  Yeah, those roadblocks sure would have come in handy.</p>
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1190821944;}i:7;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Why Does The VA Hate Veterans?";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/why-does-the-va-hate-veterans/";s:8:"comments";s:76:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/why-does-the-va-hate-veterans/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:02:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:15:"DefensePolitics";s:4:"guid";s:67:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/why-does-the-va-hate-veterans/";s:11:"description";s:414:"It&#8217;s counterintuitive, I know, but since the war in Iraq began in 2003 the Veterans Administration has actually reduced the number of veterans service representatives, the people who are responsible for reviewing and approving veterans&#8217; claims, instead of increasing their ranks.  Sounds outrageous?  Seems absurd?  Appears irrational?  Feels funky?  Smells fishy?  Well, this might explain [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3286:"<p>It&#8217;s counterintuitive, I know, but since the war in Iraq began in 2003 the Veterans Administration has actually <strong>reduced</strong> the number of veterans service representatives, the people who are responsible for reviewing and approving veterans&#8217; claims, instead of <strong>increasing</strong> their ranks.  Sounds outrageous?  Seems absurd?  Appears irrational?  Feels funky?  Smells fishy?  Well, <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070913_glantz_sep_13_va_story/">this might explain part of the reason why:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>But the VA had to do something, because hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans were coming home and filing disability claims with the federal government.</p>
<p>Instead of adequately addressing those veterans’ needs, the head of the Veterans Benefits Administration, Undersecretary Daniel Cooper—the main point-person in charge of processing those claims—made his priorities clear in a fund-raising video for the evangelical group Christian Embassy, in which he proclaimed that Bible study was “more important than doing my job.”</p>
<p>In the video, Cooper says of his Bible study, “It’s not really about carving out time; it really is a matter of saying what is important. And since that’s more important than doing the job—the job’s going to be there, whether I’m there or not.”</p>
<p>When Cooper was appointed in 2002, 325,000 veterans were waiting on their disability claims. Now that number is more than 600,000.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, to this born-again Baptist his Bible studies are more important that doing his job (serving veterans).  I guess you call that a faith-based approach to government work.</p>
<p>There is, however, hope:</p>
<blockquote><p>Even now—after the scandal at the Walter Reed military hospital and increasing reports of Iraq war veterans committing suicide or ending up homeless on the street—the Bush administration continues to stubbornly refuse to fund the VA.</p>
<p>Last week, the Navy Times reported, VA Secretary Nicholson wrote to prominent senators warning that President Bush would veto key spending bills if Congress increased funding for veterans beyond the paltry amount Bush has suggested.</p>
<p>In response, the Senate effectively gave Bush the finger—passing a larger VA budget by a vote of 92-1.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well what d&#8217;ya know?  That one&#8217;s veto proof.</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p><a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/07/23/a-classic-difference-of-opinion/">A Classic Difference Of Opinion</a><br />
<a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/05/16/va-political-appointees-feast-on-pork/">VA Political Appointees Feast On Pork</a><br />
<a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/05/04/our-national-disgrace-continues/">Our National Disgrace Continues</a><br />
<a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/03/12/another-national-disgrace-wounded-warriors-being-sent-back-to-iraq/">Another National Disgrace: Wounded Warriors Being Sent Back To Iraq</a><br />
<a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/03/05/our-national-disgrace/">Our National Disgrace</a></p>
<p><em>Hand salute: <a href="http://rangeragainstwar.blogspot.com/2007/09/unctious-piosity.html">Ranger Against War</a></em></p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:72:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/26/why-does-the-va-hate-veterans/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:414:"It&#8217;s counterintuitive, I know, but since the war in Iraq began in 2003 the Veterans Administration has actually reduced the number of veterans service representatives, the people who are responsible for reviewing and approving veterans&#8217; claims, instead of increasing their ranks.  Sounds outrageous?  Seems absurd?  Appears irrational?  Feels funky?  Smells fishy?  Well, this might explain [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:3286:"<p>It&#8217;s counterintuitive, I know, but since the war in Iraq began in 2003 the Veterans Administration has actually <strong>reduced</strong> the number of veterans service representatives, the people who are responsible for reviewing and approving veterans&#8217; claims, instead of <strong>increasing</strong> their ranks.  Sounds outrageous?  Seems absurd?  Appears irrational?  Feels funky?  Smells fishy?  Well, <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070913_glantz_sep_13_va_story/">this might explain part of the reason why:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>But the VA had to do something, because hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans were coming home and filing disability claims with the federal government.</p>
<p>Instead of adequately addressing those veterans’ needs, the head of the Veterans Benefits Administration, Undersecretary Daniel Cooper—the main point-person in charge of processing those claims—made his priorities clear in a fund-raising video for the evangelical group Christian Embassy, in which he proclaimed that Bible study was “more important than doing my job.”</p>
<p>In the video, Cooper says of his Bible study, “It’s not really about carving out time; it really is a matter of saying what is important. And since that’s more important than doing the job—the job’s going to be there, whether I’m there or not.”</p>
<p>When Cooper was appointed in 2002, 325,000 veterans were waiting on their disability claims. Now that number is more than 600,000.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, to this born-again Baptist his Bible studies are more important that doing his job (serving veterans).  I guess you call that a faith-based approach to government work.</p>
<p>There is, however, hope:</p>
<blockquote><p>Even now—after the scandal at the Walter Reed military hospital and increasing reports of Iraq war veterans committing suicide or ending up homeless on the street—the Bush administration continues to stubbornly refuse to fund the VA.</p>
<p>Last week, the Navy Times reported, VA Secretary Nicholson wrote to prominent senators warning that President Bush would veto key spending bills if Congress increased funding for veterans beyond the paltry amount Bush has suggested.</p>
<p>In response, the Senate effectively gave Bush the finger—passing a larger VA budget by a vote of 92-1.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well what d&#8217;ya know?  That one&#8217;s veto proof.</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p><a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/07/23/a-classic-difference-of-opinion/">A Classic Difference Of Opinion</a><br />
<a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/05/16/va-political-appointees-feast-on-pork/">VA Political Appointees Feast On Pork</a><br />
<a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/05/04/our-national-disgrace-continues/">Our National Disgrace Continues</a><br />
<a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/03/12/another-national-disgrace-wounded-warriors-being-sent-back-to-iraq/">Another National Disgrace: Wounded Warriors Being Sent Back To Iraq</a><br />
<a href="http://partridge.net/blog/2007/03/05/our-national-disgrace/">Our National Disgrace</a></p>
<p><em>Hand salute: <a href="http://rangeragainstwar.blogspot.com/2007/09/unctious-piosity.html">Ranger Against War</a></em></p>
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1190818932;}i:8;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Fear And Loathing In Daggett County (UPDATED)";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/24/fear-and-loathing-in-daggett-county/";s:8:"comments";s:82:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/24/fear-and-loathing-in-daggett-county/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:47:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:9:"UtahCrime";s:4:"guid";s:73:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/24/fear-and-loathing-in-daggett-county/";s:11:"description";s:333:"As a part-time resident (I keep my boat at the marina there in the summer, and the wife&#8217;s family has a vacation cabin in Washam, which is a &#8220;suburb&#8221; of Manila albeit in Wyoming), I found this story troubling (especially since we drove right past that jail two hours before they escaped).
KSL:
The search is on [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:4600:"<p>As a part-time resident (I keep my boat at the marina there in the summer, and the wife&#8217;s family has a vacation cabin in Washam, which is a &#8220;suburb&#8221; of Manila albeit in Wyoming), I found this story troubling (especially since we drove right past that jail two hours before they escaped).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;sid=1858226">KSL:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The search is on for two inmates who escaped from the Daggett County Jail in northeast Utah.</strong></p>
<p>Danny Gallegos and Juan Carlos Diaz-Arevalo are both convicted murderers and considered dangerous.</p>
<p>They escaped yesterday afternoon around 2:30; however, guards at the jail did not notice they were gone until a head-count last night at 8. It is believed the men jumped over a fence to escape.</p>
<p>Officers are using a helicopter and dogs in the search, which includes part of Wyoming.</p>
<p>Both men were being housed in the Daggett County jail because of overcrowding at the prison&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Read the whole story, including the comments (some of them are classic).  FWIW, here are my observations:</p>
<p>*  Nobody in Daggett County can claim they did not know that dangerous convicts from the State Prison were being housed there&#8230;that&#8217;s why the sheriff before Campbell (somebody help me recall his name&#8230;I should remember it because he and I had it out once in his office) had it built in the first place.  There aren&#8217;t enough criminals (convicted ones, anyway) in Daggett County to justify a big, new jail&#8230;the six cells in the Sheriff&#8217;s Office have always been more than sufficient to hold the county&#8217;s crooks.  No, that sheriff (what was his name???) meant from the beginning to lease cells to the state.</p>
<p>*  These two villains are surely long gone in an accomplice&#8217;s car.  Since the inept and amateurish Sheriff&#8217;s Department did not evidently have a plan in place to react and respond to a jailbreak, or they failed to immediately implement it, no roadblocks were put up, which most likely would have resulted in their recapture.  Like one of the commenters noted, there are only three paved roads out of Manila&#8230;how hard would it have been to block all of them?</p>
<p>*  If my theory is incorrect and they are &#8220;holed up in a barn&#8221; as one commenter suggested, then it is they (the bad guys) and not the local populace who are most in jeopardy, because you can take my word for it, everybody in that town and the surrounding countryside is armed to the teeth and loaded for bear (literally) and now that the word is out that two escaped convicts are on the lam, any male Latino who is not a local is fair game.  These good folk are likely to shoot first and ask questions later.</p>
<p>*  Security at this jail is notoriously lax.  I&#8217;ve personally seen inmates working in townspeople&#8217;s yards, painting townspeople&#8217;s cabins and waxing boats down at the marina.  We once contemplated hiring some to work on the family cabin (they work for peanuts) but came to our collective senses when we realized that in just this such an eventuality, we wouldn&#8217;t want escaped inmates who had intimate knowledge of our cabin (where the spare keys were, where the gun safe is, what kind of gun safe it is, etc.).</p>
<p>*  Probably because there is little else to do there, the people of Daggett County are very involved politically.  You see this prior to every election when candidate yard signs are found in literally every yard.  So it&#8217;s not surprising to read the vitriolic comments both for and against the current sheriff (Ellsworth) and the guy he defeated (Campbell).  There&#8217;s no middle ground in Daggett&#8230;you&#8217;re either for Ellsworth or for Campbell, period.</p>
<p>*  I think this situation and future ones like it could be prevented if the state built the necessary facilities to house all of the most dangerous criminals, and stopped this shameful practice of farming them out to ill-equipped, amateurish county jails like Daggett&#8217;s.  This is one of those instances where it might make sense economically, but it doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test&#8230;from an ethical and public security perspective, it&#8217;s a bad idea.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong>  I knew it would eventually come to me.  That other sheriff&#8217;s name was Jarvie.  Not only was the new jail his idea, <strong>he even sold the land for it to the county</strong>.  Sweet, eh?   Maybe one of these days I&#8217;ll write about our little tiff.</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:78:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/24/fear-and-loathing-in-daggett-county/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:333:"As a part-time resident (I keep my boat at the marina there in the summer, and the wife&#8217;s family has a vacation cabin in Washam, which is a &#8220;suburb&#8221; of Manila albeit in Wyoming), I found this story troubling (especially since we drove right past that jail two hours before they escaped).
KSL:
The search is on [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:4600:"<p>As a part-time resident (I keep my boat at the marina there in the summer, and the wife&#8217;s family has a vacation cabin in Washam, which is a &#8220;suburb&#8221; of Manila albeit in Wyoming), I found this story troubling (especially since we drove right past that jail two hours before they escaped).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;sid=1858226">KSL:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The search is on for two inmates who escaped from the Daggett County Jail in northeast Utah.</strong></p>
<p>Danny Gallegos and Juan Carlos Diaz-Arevalo are both convicted murderers and considered dangerous.</p>
<p>They escaped yesterday afternoon around 2:30; however, guards at the jail did not notice they were gone until a head-count last night at 8. It is believed the men jumped over a fence to escape.</p>
<p>Officers are using a helicopter and dogs in the search, which includes part of Wyoming.</p>
<p>Both men were being housed in the Daggett County jail because of overcrowding at the prison&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Read the whole story, including the comments (some of them are classic).  FWIW, here are my observations:</p>
<p>*  Nobody in Daggett County can claim they did not know that dangerous convicts from the State Prison were being housed there&#8230;that&#8217;s why the sheriff before Campbell (somebody help me recall his name&#8230;I should remember it because he and I had it out once in his office) had it built in the first place.  There aren&#8217;t enough criminals (convicted ones, anyway) in Daggett County to justify a big, new jail&#8230;the six cells in the Sheriff&#8217;s Office have always been more than sufficient to hold the county&#8217;s crooks.  No, that sheriff (what was his name???) meant from the beginning to lease cells to the state.</p>
<p>*  These two villains are surely long gone in an accomplice&#8217;s car.  Since the inept and amateurish Sheriff&#8217;s Department did not evidently have a plan in place to react and respond to a jailbreak, or they failed to immediately implement it, no roadblocks were put up, which most likely would have resulted in their recapture.  Like one of the commenters noted, there are only three paved roads out of Manila&#8230;how hard would it have been to block all of them?</p>
<p>*  If my theory is incorrect and they are &#8220;holed up in a barn&#8221; as one commenter suggested, then it is they (the bad guys) and not the local populace who are most in jeopardy, because you can take my word for it, everybody in that town and the surrounding countryside is armed to the teeth and loaded for bear (literally) and now that the word is out that two escaped convicts are on the lam, any male Latino who is not a local is fair game.  These good folk are likely to shoot first and ask questions later.</p>
<p>*  Security at this jail is notoriously lax.  I&#8217;ve personally seen inmates working in townspeople&#8217;s yards, painting townspeople&#8217;s cabins and waxing boats down at the marina.  We once contemplated hiring some to work on the family cabin (they work for peanuts) but came to our collective senses when we realized that in just this such an eventuality, we wouldn&#8217;t want escaped inmates who had intimate knowledge of our cabin (where the spare keys were, where the gun safe is, what kind of gun safe it is, etc.).</p>
<p>*  Probably because there is little else to do there, the people of Daggett County are very involved politically.  You see this prior to every election when candidate yard signs are found in literally every yard.  So it&#8217;s not surprising to read the vitriolic comments both for and against the current sheriff (Ellsworth) and the guy he defeated (Campbell).  There&#8217;s no middle ground in Daggett&#8230;you&#8217;re either for Ellsworth or for Campbell, period.</p>
<p>*  I think this situation and future ones like it could be prevented if the state built the necessary facilities to house all of the most dangerous criminals, and stopped this shameful practice of farming them out to ill-equipped, amateurish county jails like Daggett&#8217;s.  This is one of those instances where it might make sense economically, but it doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test&#8230;from an ethical and public security perspective, it&#8217;s a bad idea.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong>  I knew it would eventually come to me.  That other sheriff&#8217;s name was Jarvie.  Not only was the new jail his idea, <strong>he even sold the land for it to the county</strong>.  Sweet, eh?   Maybe one of these days I&#8217;ll write about our little tiff.</p>
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1190670421;}i:9;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:21:"More BushCo Economics";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/24/more-bushco-economics/";s:8:"comments";s:68:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/24/more-bushco-economics/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:04:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"Ed";}s:8:"category";s:12:"PoliticsHUHA";s:4:"guid";s:59:"http://partridge.net/blog/2007/09/24/more-bushco-economics/";s:11:"description";s:387:"Thinkprogress:
Bush: We Can’t Spend $22 Billion On America Because We Need $200 Billion For Iraq War
The Democratic leadership in Congress is set to pass a host of domestic funding bills that would exceed Bush’s request by $22 billion. The extra funding would help go towards veterans health care, infrastructure improvements, education, and other domestic priorities.
Speaking [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2162:"<p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/24/bush-priorities/">Thinkprogress:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Bush: We Can’t Spend $22 Billion On America Because We Need $200 Billion For Iraq War</strong></p>
<p>The Democratic leadership in Congress is set to pass a host of domestic funding bills that would exceed Bush’s request by $22 billion. The extra funding would help go towards veterans health care, infrastructure improvements, education, and other domestic priorities.</p>
<p>Speaking to business leaders at a White House event this morning, Bush railed against the relatively modest increase in spending, arguing that $22 billion is “a lot of money”:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Some in Congress will tell you that $22 billion is not a lot of money. As business leaders, you know better. As a matter of fact, $22 billion is larger than the annual revenues of most Fortune 500 companies. The $22 billion is only for the first year. With every passing year the number gets bigger and bigger, and so over the next five years the increase in federal spending would add up to $205 billion.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Bush warned that spending increases, which could add up to over $200 billion over five years, would be “taking money out of the pocket” of Americans who need to “pay their mortgages or pay for their children going to college.” Unfortunately, Bush failed to appreciate the irony in his remarks.</p>
<p>While complaining of modest spending increases on much-needed domestic funding priorities, Bush is far less concerned about the impact of spending $200 billion in the next year alone on a disastrous war in Iraq:</p>
<p>President Bush plans to ask lawmakers next week to approve another massive spending measure — totaling nearly $200 billion — to fund the war through next year, Pentagon officials said.</p>
<p>It shouldn’t take a “CEO President” to figure out that $200 billion is greater than $22 billion.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Update:</strong>  For those of you mathematically challenged, here&#8217;s a graphic:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.partridge.net/images/pic.gif" align="bottom" height="208" width="325" /></p>
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Bush: We Can’t Spend $22 Billion On America Because We Need $200 Billion For Iraq War
The Democratic leadership in Congress is set to pass a host of domestic funding bills that would exceed Bush’s request by $22 billion. The extra funding would help go towards veterans health care, infrastructure improvements, education, and other domestic priorities.
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<blockquote><p><strong>Bush: We Can’t Spend $22 Billion On America Because We Need $200 Billion For Iraq War</strong></p>
<p>The Democratic leadership in Congress is set to pass a host of domestic funding bills that would exceed Bush’s request by $22 billion. The extra funding would help go towards veterans health care, infrastructure improvements, education, and other domestic priorities.</p>
<p>Speaking to business leaders at a White House event this morning, Bush railed against the relatively modest increase in spending, arguing that $22 billion is “a lot of money”:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Some in Congress will tell you that $22 billion is not a lot of money. As business leaders, you know better. As a matter of fact, $22 billion is larger than the annual revenues of most Fortune 500 companies. The $22 billion is only for the first year. With every passing year the number gets bigger and bigger, and so over the next five years the increase in federal spending would add up to $205 billion.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Bush warned that spending increases, which could add up to over $200 billion over five years, would be “taking money out of the pocket” of Americans who need to “pay their mortgages or pay for their children going to college.” Unfortunately, Bush failed to appreciate the irony in his remarks.</p>
<p>While complaining of modest spending increases on much-needed domestic funding priorities, Bush is far less concerned about the impact of spending $200 billion in the next year alone on a disastrous war in Iraq:</p>
<p>President Bush plans to ask lawmakers next week to approve another massive spending measure — totaling nearly $200 billion — to fund the war through next year, Pentagon officials said.</p>
<p>It shouldn’t take a “CEO President” to figure out that $200 billion is greater than $22 billion.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Update:</strong>  For those of you mathematically challenged, here&#8217;s a graphic:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.partridge.net/images/pic.gif" align="bottom" height="208" width="325" /></p>
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