Solar News

What happened? The House of Representatives filed a budget bill this morning that would fund the federal government through October 2016. Included is a deal to extend both provisions of the solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) at the current 30% until the end of 2019 before phasing it out over several years.
 

Why does it matter? Don't pop the champagne yet - this ITC extension is not a done deal. The entire bill still needs to be voted on and approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate before being sent to the President for his signature. But, since Congress must pass a budget and members are eager to adjourn for the holidays, prospects are looking good! 

What can you do? It's possible the House could vote as early as Thursday - that's tomorrow! - followed shortly thereafter by a Senate vote. Please call your representatives in both the House and Senate and ask them to support the budget bill! Find their phone numbers here. Or if you can’t make a call, click here to send a note to your representatives.

Letter to Governor Brown

"I am writing you today to express concern about several state agencies actively trying to get around Labor Code section 432.9, also known as a bill AB 218.  I am a ex convict and have been subject to preliminary background searches by agencies like the Department of Insurance before an interview, positions that would not be on the restrictions or considered criminmal justice agencies routinely do preliminary background searches before hiring.  I have an email from the Department of Insurance proving such.

My purpose in writing you is to let you know that their are several state agencies working around your well intentioned "ban the box" law.  I have a 2 year old and need to find work which has been very hard to come by, but much harder when state agencies like the Department of Insurance do not obey the law.

Thank you,

Sean Gjerde"

Obviously state agencies are actively trying to get around this new law and are pretty up front about it which is suprising.  Nearly all state agencies now post on their job listings that background checks are required even though the position does not call for it and is not part of the exemptions of AB 218.

This is and should be a outrage to all.

Obama didn't make this

Sorry I have been away, been nursing back to back to back colds.  Hard having a little guy in preschool, he brings home every disease possible.  But to my blog point.  I have heard a lot of chatter the past couple days about Obama, Barry Obama releasing 6000 prisoners from federal prison.  First off Obama had absolutely nothing to do with this.  This was actually panned along time ago by the federal sentencing commission realizing that sentences have gotten out of hand.  Second a new article talked about that many of these 6000 are already released.  Also not true, many of them are in Federal Halfway houses awaiting release at the end of the month.  They are not released and trust me a Federal Halfway house is no place to have fun, I am sure many of them wish they were back in prison.  Honestly the reduction in a few of these sentences didn't really mean a whole lot.  These are mostly first time no violent drug offenders who made a mistake, nothing more.  Its time to reunite these people with their families. 

Kim Davis v. Tim Cushing, we should jail less

The latest issues involving Kim Davis should give everyone pause to think about their lives.  I am against the way Ms. Davis has handled this and believe that she should have issued those licenses, I can also say I am not her and I don't have her same religous convictions.  WIth that being said the judge in this matter essentially crated the media storm that is Kim Davis and when he locked her up despite having over 100 different ways in cohercing her to do her job I think we say the begining of the end of America.  It brougth me some joy actually, as Americans we have shielded ourselves from seeing how many people we lock up in prison.  And the question was, should Kim Davis be in prison.  I honestly wish for every criminal case we could have that discussion.  Its seems absent.  We should always ask ourselves should this person serve time for what they did.  We need to seperate who we are mad at with those who we are scared of.  As a country until we get to that point we are going to have a problem with criminal justice.  My opinon is Kim Davis shouldn't have gone to jail.  She was true to her self and her beliefs. I know the Tim Cushings of the world would love to see no criminal; justice reform, to see everyone but him incarcerated.  But that is not reality.  Kim Davis is free today, but she should never have been in jail in the first place, along with half of the people I served time with.  

Attacking prison reform with government paid trolls like Tim Cushing

AstroTurf campaigns are campaigns that mimic something like a grassroots campaign but are actually planted.  These are normally started by governments or corporations, such as our own by paid bloggers like a Tim Cushing who is a paid blogger by Ziff Davis which is also partially funded by the government, hence the connection.  What bloggers like Tim Cushing do is post blogs about non-government actions interspersed with government action.  The idea is to equate the two as the same, making what private citizens do as the same as what the government does.  Which is actually fairly clever way of excusing the government when it violates your civil rights. 

What Tim Cushing also does he has government/corporate trolls perform for him on twitter and other boards to essentially back up his fake news coverage to seek and destroy those who are trying to reign in government action.  What Tim does is essentially try to prop up the government against those seeking to exercise their civil rights or seeking common sense reform that would limit and shrink the government such as prison reform.  As a prison reform activist I have been targeted by Tim and his team of trolls for attempting to remove untruthful information about myself, along with removing copyrighted material to help other convicts in getting their lives back in order to get long term employment and provide for their families.  The government doesn’t want this and they use internet monkeys like Tim Cushing to eradicate decent with the help of his troll friends who are in all actuality likely government paid employees. 

It’s important to troll back on these agents. This isn’t as crazy as it seems, there are plenty of examples of the government trolling the internet and creating their own news, the Washington Post reports on this often.  I can only hope that people are wise enough to see this for what it is.  

We can't be victims, inmates or others, it leads to nothing but sadness.

It's pretty clear today, that the shooter Vester Lee Flanagan II in the shooting in Virgina thought of himself as a victim.  And honestly why shouldn't he think of himself that way. You got most of the news media, sans Fox saying your the victim.  You have news reporters and commentators blamming Fox News for inciting the shooting of a South Carolia church.  Where the other media keeps up the victim line.  Black Lives Matter puts gasoline on this fire, a fire that has been brewing since Obama was inaguraited and started when the now former Attorney General attacked white people in his first speech.  That was the begining of a presidency that would see race relations get to a all time low. 

I honestly can't really blame this guy.  He obviously had severe mental issues, which is one fo the reasons he was fired, but no one wanted to help him.  No one wanted to be thought of as a bigot.  So he was fired and plotted his revenge, even when everyone at that newsstation knew he would be back and that he was dangerous, but because he was black their was nothing that could be done.  And this man festered, watch MSNBC and Al Sharpton until he couldn't stand to watch anymore and had to take action, which he did.  MSNBC and Sharpton would always tell Flanagan that he is the vicitim, their is nothing wrong with you.  This was going through his head.  Its like a psychopath having a cheering parting.  

Its sad this happened.  But I hope people will learn it is time to stop playing the victim.  He ultimate consequence is this.  No one is helped, in fact this man was denied help because of it.  Why work hard to fix a mental disorder when you can just feed a line of MSNBC and Rachel Maddow like it would be injecting herion or crack.  

Either you are with me or against me.

This was a question asked in a rehtorical manner by someone protraying himself as a anarchist.  Truth be told anarchist wouldn't pretend to be another anarchist, they are subtle and behind the scens.  One of my best prison friends would talk to me constantly about his beliefs and even let me borrow his Organise! magazine from time to time.  It was very interesting stuff.  His adventures and stories will always be with me.  He was a good bunkie and a good friend for my time at the federal prison.  This is why I can't stand those who prop up corporate guttersnipes like Tim Cushing who works for Tech Dirt.  Now Tech DIrt claims to be independent, though they are acutally owned and run by Ziff Davis Corp, which is owned by j2 Global Communications Inc.  A company that has used and abused IP laws specifically patent laws against really inovative companies such as CalWave, Comodo, EasyLInk, Open Text, Packetel, Protus, Venali and Vitelity.  Of course no one including Mr. Cushing would dare disclose this in any of their work, nor that their site supported by banner ads who they would also never touch. 

I am not a corporate shill, I have integrity, none of my blogs have banner ads, and if they do I am not being paid by them nor endorse them.  I am certainly not helping a large technology corporation like j2 bring down other smaller companies, stealing their technology and suing them in patent court once I have take it.  The way these tech patent vultures go after their prey is akin to Howard Armstrong and Lee de Forest.  Of course after much deciption and attorneys de Forest prevailed their is little dout he had little contribution to the modern radio, where Armstrong actually invented the thing.  I support Amrstrong, people like Cushing and his rag tag gang, and you know who I am talking about are de Forest all the way.  They support through their actions big business, big lawyers, big, government, big big big.  They never dislose this, maybe they are so stupid they never even think about it.  

George W. Bush once said or was it Darth Vader, hard to remember, that either you are with me, or you are against me.  In the end either you support inmates in prisons getting second chances upon their release.  They are deserving of a second chance.  Especially white collar prisoners, who not only have to endure prison, but have their entire lifes and family torn apart, all their assets lost, divorces, suicides, and so forth.  EIther you clap when Bernie Madolf's son committed suicide or you want to see a change.  There is no in between,  I have seen alot of deaths at peoples on hands who were wrongfully indicted or investigated by the FBI.  People should be held accountable for their actions, but we must follow the European model, we need to make these people financially liable in civil court, not criminalize every overt act.  For those who don't understand the difference of Criminal Intent or as we call it Mens Rea and just intent, I am not going to bother to explain it to you.  Go to law school and learn it, I am not a teacher anymore.  If you want to trust your government and support them, then you are not with me. Everyone commits three federal felonies a day, their have been plenty of books about it, I suggest you go to your local library.  Also if the ABA can't find all the the pontentially criminal statutes on the books with the Feds, I seriously doubt a twitter troll could do it, so don't be a jack ass.  

I want to see all felons get a second chance, this means a clean record on the internet, and on the books.  They paid their debt to suicide more times than you can imagine, and its time that these people be allowed to work and allowed to provide for their families.  Its real simple, either you are for that, or you are for the Prison Industrial Complex and large corporations that want to see it through.  Make your choice, either you are with me, or with Timmy Cushing.  

Disclose, Disclose, Disclose

My last blog dealt with a coprorate bottom feeder named Tim Cushing.  Tim when he isn't hanging out with Jared from Subway makes it a habit to deflect attention from his corporate overlorders at Ziff Davis to ensure that while their parent company can abuse all the Intellecutal Property laws they want, that others can do the same.  Simple deflection.  Now comes the number 2 of the week, of what woudl appear to be just harmless innocent independent bloggers who for some reason never disclose who they work for and why that might be pretty important.  In the case of a chomo like Tim, he is just s simple piece of gutter trash that no one really cares about, even his parents.  But Ben Casselman is a different matter.  He worked for the Wall Street Journal, and now works for the Big Mouse House, the Walt Disney Corporation.  He actually works for a sports section known as ESPN that is under Disney.  Oddly enough his most recent article has nothing to do with sports, but what it is about is the latest presdential race.  Mr. Casselman made some pretty amazing rehtorical statements and facts in regards to Trump.  None of whihc are true but Mr. Casselman doesn't have much interest in being fair, he needs to please his overlords at Disney.  Why Disney would want this echoed through the Sports Department is strange but of little consequence.  In the end Disney how has been involved in a major scandel at Walt Disney World involving replacing american workers with foreign labor on H1-B Visas, and then making the american labor train the new inexpensive foreign labor.  The fact this has never really been contradicted or undone is somewhat amazing.  No harm in doubling down.  Everytime a arm of Disney goes after Trump they should disclose this incident, and their illegal use of foreign labor and the abuse of H1-B Visa process.  But they won't.  Cushing won't disclose the company he works for indirectly has a pretty bad history of abusing IP law, that hasn't stopped him from tyring to go after me in enforcing my IP rights.  Save to say watch these supposed independent bloggers, often they are not independent at all.  I will always disclose to my readers that I am a convicted felon that had a very minor part in creating real estate deriviatives.  I don't hide it like some hide their criminal records like Mr. Cushing.  Like some hide their employments such as Mr. Casselman.  

Tim Cushing is Mr. Vile

Stooge of Corporate America, let me introduce you to Mr. Tim Cushing.  Not only is he a convicted child molester, but Tim Cushing is a stooge to corporate interests at Techdirt, which is a favorite go to blog for PC Magazine owned by Ziff Davis, who is owned by j2 Global.

Now Mr. Cushing won't tell you about this nice little arrangement with j2 Global and for good reason, because j2Global is the 1% incarnate.  A company that frequently like Mr. Cushing has abused IP law, something Mr. Cushing seems very disinterested in as his interest is little old me.  What j2 Global has done is abuse intellectual property laws and gone after companies with patent litigation including CalWave, Comoodo, EasyLink, Open Text, Packetel, Protus, Venali and Vitelity.  These companies all filed various counter-claims for antitrust violations of the Sherman act and California Business and Professions code.   J2Global has received numerous complaints from subscribers on the difficulty of canceling services with them, including high fees and lack of toll free number portability.  Essentially j2 Global is a perfect example of a super vile corporation abusing IP laws and its customer base.

Now you won't hear Mr. Tim Cushing talking about this, instead he has decided to engage in ad homonym attacks on me.  Well Tim Cushing you are the problem, you are the 1%, you are against prison reform, you are for abusive corporations getting away with a plethora of IP violations that you never talk about.  

Question, why don't people do this.

I hope some twitter trolls today learned a little something.  That something has to do with questioning.  Questioning means we can look outside our own human ego and see things in a different way.  All the great scientists we have had over the centuries questioned traditional wisdom.  Questioning why you do something forces you to pick apart the usefulness of habitual behaviors and to clarify aspects of your life and who you think you are almost like.  We should also question the media.  Many liberals, such as the twitter trolls today who decided to attack me never question things as long as its from their side.  But in fact if Fox News or the Koch Brothers told them something they would immeidately question it.  But if Fox News can be easily manipulated, why can't other media also be manipulated.  Why would anyone believe all the press releases or news articles they read?  You would have to be somesort of moron, yet these people are exactly that.  They lack the ability to be intellecual, instead they are sheep, lemenies to their own.  I make absolutley no secret I am a Federal Felon, and I was disbarred because I do have that felony.  That doesn't mean I am guilty of what I plead to or everything that is written about me.  In fact my decision to plea was made because I couldn't afford trial, I didn't want to drag my family any further into the hell I had gotten into, I wanted to watch my son Parker be born.  I think most people would accept that.  

But in truth even liberals, who supposedly are for prison reform are quick to jump on others they don't like and judge them without knowing anything about them.  These people support the 1% who recieved most of the money involving mortgage fraud before the great depression, they also inadvertently support longer prison sentences and support felons not to be able to get work.  They also support Hillary and Bill Clinton, both disbarred attorneys, with HIllary likely looking at jail time.  They make up things and state things that completely contradict their world view and never realize it.  

Why is it that if Putin in Russia wins a election with 99% of the vote, we would all say that it was rigged, it was a unfair election.  But we are quick to jump up for joy when the United States Attorney Conviction rate is the same as Putin's election rate?  Does anyone actually believe 99% of the people prosecuted by the U.S. attorney are guilty?  Could someone but that stupid to believe that but not believe Putin's election results weren't rigged?  Maybe Putin is a very good President, a great politician, a fantastic leader in Russia.  No one thinks about that, they just assume its rigged.  But they have absolute faith in the Justice Department, one that has been proven time and time again of being political. The same Justice Dept. that locked up Muhammad Ali for opposing the Vietnam War.  Who locked up Jehovah Witnesses for opposing World War 1.  One should lock at Dr. Benjamin Chavis, who was imprisoned by the US Justice Dept and was later released due to prosecutorial misconduct.  Leonard Peltier, a activist with the American Indian Movement, a innocent man who was found guilty by the United States but had all evidence that would have exonerated him withheld by the US Justice Dept.  The conviction rate is nearly 99% for the Feds, think about how absurd that is for a minute, maybe you should start questioning things.  

The same people who would condemn me are the same ones who would go out and buy Martha Stewert sheets and never see a contradiction.  The fact is felons coming out of Federal prison are at a greater disadvantage then state convicts.  Federal is hard to get rid of or reduce on your record, where state charges it is relatively simple.  Simply stated federal felons need jobs and support, or they will revert to crimes, even if they weren't guilty of the crimes they went to prison for.  

The truth is no one should believe everything they read, nor should they jump to conclusions about people they don't know based on things on the internet.  Yet we do that everyday.  Start questioning, their are two sides to every story.  If we don't start questioning things, then we will be lead down a golden path to a dictator one day, right or left.  

Founder of Delta Homes and Lending Inc. Pleads Guilty to Mortgage Fraud Scheme.

Some news came about on Monday that didn't really make the news.  It wasn't reported on any TV channels, the Sacramento Bee didn't even bother to put it in its local crimes section.  But it is something very important, not for the conviction or what the people at Delta Homes and Lending Inc. did.  We all know who in the real estate crash of 2008 should be in prisons, and it isn't Moctezuma Tovar or Sandra Hermosillo.  I am talking of course about the big time bangers, the rulers of the world out of New York City and London, enjoying their summer in the Hamptons, while Tovar and Hermosiilo will likely spend their time preparing to go to a ritual waste of taxpayer money known as the Federal Prison Camp.  Why is this important.  Its important in that even in late 2015 we are trying cases for events that happened nearly a decade ago where the actual public and newsmedia has no interest.  Just google these people, The Woodland Cow Tipper Daily isn't excatly going to make the headlines, and only thing the Cow Tipper ran it in the back.

This is terrible for US attorneys, so sociopathic and in need of press not to be able to get it after putting at a news release.  The public generally against them, hence why it isn't making the front page.  The public years ago wanted to see the real insiders, the real fraudsters in jail, instead the public sees them on their Yahats, making contributions to Hillary and Jeb.

I feel sorry Jeany Holber and Bra Bra Fogerty, they worked that case so well, and no one cares, in fact this blog is probably the biggest news it has gotten.

The problem that Jeany and Bra Bra don't know is that they are part of a system, the system needs to get rid of low level drug dealers like Obama said, but they also need to fill up the prisons.  So the solution is low level white collars of course.  A group no on has sympathy for or cares about.

I wish Tovar and Hermosillo the best, I know this is pretty hard, but be grateful unlike my sorry but you didn't get channel 13, channel 40, Sacramento Bee front page.  You did alot worse than I ever did, but your timing was very good, no one will know.  The Feds lock up white collars at their own peril, people know who actually commits crimes, and by continuing to go after mortgage fraud cases nearly a decade ago it is not doing anything than what it is intended to do, fill up those now exiting camps and lows with fresh blood, white collar blood.  At least you can get the US Probabtion officer to ask you when you do get out of prison are you upset that the guy who instructed you and told you how to do what you did is still playing rounds at the country club with Barak Obama.

Tim Cushing of the dirt is a child molestor

Tim Cushing likes molesting children but more important he likes writing about it. Recently he has posted articles about child molesting for tech crunch. Admirable to be sure but is it really an attempt to take the scent off him? Well well a quick google search of Tim lists him in the Maine sex offender list. Maybe this isn’t tim but it appears to anyone who Googles his name its Tim.

Prisoners fighting fires

If ever a group was doing the jobs that we refuse to do it is not illegal aliens. But it is prisoners.  Fighting fires and risking their lives for a little over 1 dollar an hour. If modern slavery exists then it is them doing the dirty work.  

Victor Davis Hanson on Kate Stienle

I love what Victor Davis Hanson said about the Kate Stienle case

"What we won’t hear from quite liberal people is that their own policies of legal nullification are catalysts for tragedies. Municipal and state nullification of federal statutes also has a shameful American history. It was just such a principle — that local and regional lawmakers could decide that the law of land is not applicable to themselves — that was at the heart of the argument for the Old Confederacy.
If 19th-century South Carolina could unilaterally declare that U.S. law did not apply within its environs, why then not 21st century San Francisco as well? (Apparently San Francisco thinks South Carolina was on the winning side of the Civil War.)
Such contemporary liberal nullification is predicated on the relativist premise that progressive and situational cancellation of law is noble — whereas other, less enlightened states or city rights movements have no business copying their model. Should Billings declare gay marriage illegal inside its city limits , or should Fresno County decide to suspend the Endangered Species Act inside its border, or should Provo announce that the city would summarily deport illegal aliens without notifying federal authorities, San Franciscans would be outraged. They would rightly equate such nullification with secessionism.
Picking and choosing which federal laws to follow — whether or not to file a tax return with the IRS? — leads where exactly? Do those who are caught not filing tax returns statistically have no higher incidence of criminality? And if that were true, what exactly would it prove?"

Please tell your Senator and Congressman to pass Kate's Law.

Remember that could have been your daughter, your sister.

Watched the video friday of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and we won't go into the San Francisco officals who have blown off meida requests, they are pieces of fucking shit who run away from real media outlets to go tell their freaking vocal equivalent of masterbation theroies to gllorified blogs that make Gawker look like Foreign Affairs.   But let me go through what my reaction to the Sheriff is, I hope you find it enlightening.  I have to keep in mind someone elected this guy, but then again the a whole state voted for Blogovich so there you go. 

"Its funny listening to this guy, he goes through all the things that his office did and he still hasn't figured out he was played by this guy.   I mean he goes through it, "why did this come up after being in federal custody three times?"  Because he WANTED TO GO TO SAN FRANCISCO you dumb idiot.  He played the Bureau of Prisons and he played you perfectly.  He is the one WHO TOLD THE BOP about the warrant, it is so freaking obvious.  And him saying that a bench warrant is more important than a DA warrant (normally called a arrest warrant by nearly everyone else, but shit I guess I am not the sheriff, only a felon)  which is also APPROVED BY A FREAKING JUDGE YOU LYING SACK OF SHIT when one has probable cause of a crime.  A bench warrant is normally for breaches of the rules of court, typically a failure to appear.  If this sending his deputies to every freaking prison in this stupid country to pick up people on 20 year old bench warrants the people of San Francisco should be up in arms at the complete waste of government resources and money. But absolutely no one in the media has talked about this at all, it remains completely silent, no one has followed up or checked on it,"  

The media is hiding how much this illegal allien (I don't speak any english, but I can write it perfectly in motions and requests to the court, come on) played what most people would think of as intelligent (just watch a couple episodes of Orange is the New Black, and all images of intelligence in our federal prisons will quickly vanish, and yes it is accurate) government officals.  Yes they were played, perfectly played, too bad this guy is crazy (He was in a BOP mental hospital in Springfield, MO) which the sheriff and the BOP knew.  

One last question is, wasn't this guy still on Probation?  I mean why are the Feds off the hook here, he was busted on a probation violation, so probation likely continued on him following the violation.  Why didn't his PO report anything, I mean he didn't report to his PO in Texas in over two months, they knew he didn't leave San Francisco where he was released becasue HE WANTED TO GO THERE SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE IT WAS A SANCTUARY CITY.  

Lies told by the media.

So this is exactly why the sanctuary city stuff is complete nonsense.  I love these stories, they always interview a bunch of illegal aliens who aren't scared to be interviewed after going to a state agency like the DMV without any fear.  Why do we have sanctuary cities?  Are these people thinking that the police can't just go to DMV and arrest the whole lot of them?  Of course not.  Some of the biggest lines were in Fresno, I saw them.  Fresno is not a sanctuary city, they actually keep a ICE representative in the county jail specifically for deportation of convicted criminal illegal aliens.  Of course I guess the mean old police don't watch TV or read a newspaper so maybe that is their rationale, but in reality sanctuary cities are complete crap, they have absolutely no purpose as the new California DMV law should illustrate to everyone.  Illegals are not scared of local police in any way, anyone who tells you differently is lying and wants innocent americans dead like Kathryn Steinle.

Obama

Obama today is commuting the sentences of over 90 drug dealers.  What about white collars. They need relief to

Jobs.

Here is the basic problem with getting out of prison. You can't find a real job.  This is especially hard on white collars not only did you do the time but you have to overcome junk on Google.  Advice?  I will give it to you when I figure it out.  

How did Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez get to San Francisco. The bophelped him of course

I know people are down on San Francisco right now about this shooting case and they should be.  But I feel the BOP and their policies are getting a pass. The warden should have never allowed him to go to San Francisco and unlike what you have heard they did have a choice. The warden could have said the warrant is too old and insignifigant aand that Juan posed a danger to the public.

Juan was in BOP custody and in order to be handed off by way of detainer to San Francisco, Victorville had to authorize the realize.  They knew as most people would that San Francisco would let him go once they were done with him.  They are a known sanctuary city.  They knew about the ice detainer.  But BOP program statements put any insignificant state detainer ahead of an ice request, it could be for a 40 year old misdermeanor, the BOP would put that as a priority over a ICE detainer.  A pretty interesting loophole if you know how to play it.

 Juan contrary to reports speaks good English and can write rather well.  He had filed previously several motions in his own  case.  He knew of the warrant in San Francisco.  He has stated he wanted to go there. He filled out a cop out and requested that the bop notify San Francisco of his request to be heard on the warrant.  This is nown as a Inmate Request for Final disposition and and part of a BOP program statement.  Remember San Francisco had to verify the warrant, it is 20 years old which they did.  The BOP didn't know about it, he told them about it in order to get sent to San Francisco as opposed to being deported.    Like the useless dolts they are San Francisco obliged and picked him up in Victorville 500 miles away and brought him back. They booked him, dropped the charges and released him. This was Juan's plan, a plan he got likely from jailhouse lawyers in Victorville to stay in the United States, I would have probably had recommended a similar plan to him and would have been paid around 10 books of stamps to have implemented it.

Problem is that San Francisco didn't know he was crazy.  That's right Juan spent a lot of time in a psychiatric wing in Springfield medical  facility. He was crazy. The bop knew this I don't think San Francisco did.  Crazy illegal alien then shoots young woman in the prime of her life. The end

Hoping everyone has a good weekend

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.  It's hot here in California so be safe and hydrate

Alaska's ever increasing prison problem

Here is an article I found by Juneau Empire in the Alaska Journal of Commerce.  Being from California I know the costs that are effected by mass incarceration especially for non-violent offenders who know make up a much larger portion of our prison population.  Please keep in mind the United States is the ONLY country in the western world who locks up non-violent offenders at the rate it does.  For years both Democrats and Republicans have found common ground on increasing the prison population, for Republicans it was to be tough on crime and for Democrats it was to appease a very large block of union workers it needed in order to win and finance elections.  A silent quid pro quo existed.  Alaska for years has been squeezed as it loses its oil revenue to places like North Dakota and Texas.  Simply put it is a state in decline that simply cannot absorb the costs of a increasing prison population. In any case here is the article.

"It’s time for Alaskans to take a hard look at the state’s prison system and who inhabits it.

Next fiscal year, the state of Alaska will spend $326 million on the Alaska Department of Corrections. According to figures from the department, there were 5,267 Alaskans in prison on July 1, 2014, the first day of the current fiscal year. The exact number of Alaskans in prison will fluctuate from day to day as prisoners are released and admitted, but do the math, and it works out to nearly $62,000 per inmate bed per year.

Though the Alaska Legislature has solved the state’s budget puzzle for the 2016 fiscal year, in less than seven months it will be back at work in the Capitol to address an even worse fiscal problem. As lawmakers face the issue, even the Department of Corrections will be cut.

Prison reform must be part of the state’s budget solution. Done correctly, it will save money and lead to better results for Alaskans unfortunate enough to end up in jail.

Last week, the Alaska Criminal Justice Commission met to hear a presentation from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The presentation mirrored one given to the Alaska Bar Association last month and included some alarming statistics.

Alaska’s prison population grew by 27 percent between 2005 and 2014, the third-fastest rate in the United States. Almost half the inmates currently in jail are behind bars for nonviolent offenses or because they violated parole. An alarming proportion — 28 percent at any given time — are awaiting trial. Think about it: Men and women are in jail for offenses they may not have committed. If found not guilty at trial, they will be released from jail with nothing more than a pat on the back for the days, weeks or months they’ve spent behind bars. Even as their lives are disrupted, the state is absorbing the cost.

Senate Bill 91, a bipartisan piece of legislation, would address this issue by offering more alternatives, including home arrest and electronic monitoring. It’s languishing until lawmakers return to the Capitol, and we hope the Legislature will keep it moving.

What about if a person is found guilty? Our initial reaction is harsh punishment. How many times have you heard (or said) “If you can do the crime, you can do the time?”

The problem then occurs when a person finishes their time. A majority of Alaska’s inmates, once released from jail, do something that sends them back to jail. It might be as simple as a probation violation or as dangerous as another crime.

The Criminal Justice Commission and the Pew Trusts have teamed up to put together a reform package tailored to the state’s problems, including recidivism, the process by which freed inmates commit new crimes and return to jail. We hope the Legislature and members of the public will be open to the idea that prison is not always the best solution.

To solve the problem of chronic inebriates in downtown Juneau, we’ve already turned to a housing-first approach as a new way to approach the issue. A similar approach may be needed for crime.

If Alaska’s prison population continues to rise, all Alaskans will be squeezed to pay the cost.

We simply can’t afford it."