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High Noon in Pahrump, Nev.: Sheriff Arrests the District Attorney
wsj ^ | 7-6-2010 | Alexandra Berzon

Posted on 07/12/2010 1:30:44 AM PDT by lainie

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If you've ever been to Pahrump, you'll understand how absurd this all is.

For added hilarity, click play at this link before reading.

1 posted on 07/12/2010 1:30:48 AM PDT by lainie
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To: lainie

I absolutely love this out in the open power play!


2 posted on 07/12/2010 1:33:52 AM PDT by J Edgar
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To: J Edgar

On the surface, me too, but the reality is that one guy is wasting taxpayer money accusing the other guy of wasting taxpayer money. :/


3 posted on 07/12/2010 1:39:02 AM PDT by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: J Edgar; All

This is great for illustration. It (barring some wild, wild mistake) shows the corruption that runs deep at ALL levels of government, and not just the FedGov. I personally would back the Sheriff in this case, seeing as the charges seem like the type of trip ups these types of politicians make, and that if someone was going to make up a story, it’d be better than making car payments with local sports team money.

Still, I find it a little hilarious, and yet sad, that the D.A. is not being charged, because he refuses to charge himself. I wonder how that even is normally resolved. D.A.’s seem to be the most corrupt of politicians that I know of, a lawyer, politician, and wielding the power of prosecution, and lack thereof when it suits them, as so marvelously shown in this case.

I hope this gets cleared up, and I certainly hope that is this is a political motivated act by the sheriff, or cover yourself abuse of power by the D.A., that either one, as the case may be, is punished to the fullest extent of the law. Either the Sheriff is poorly mistaken, or one of the two is corrupt to the core.

My two cents.


4 posted on 07/12/2010 1:44:31 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: lainie

“... one guy is wasting taxpayer money accusing the other guy of wasting taxpayer money.”

Unless the D.A. is lying.

In that case, one guy is removing a corrupt politician from wasting taxpayer money, read “stealing people’s freedom and livelihood,” and is upholding his oath against domestic enemies.

Otherwise, you are correct, time will tell.


5 posted on 07/12/2010 1:46:45 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: lainie

yeah, something is not quite right here (there). It’s a really small town I assume.


6 posted on 07/12/2010 1:46:52 AM PDT by J Edgar
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... Still, I find it a little hilarious, and yet sad, that the D.A. is not being charged, because he refuses to charge himself. ...
What would Rod Stiagier (Twilight Zone, not sure of spelling of his name) do with this story?
7 posted on 07/12/2010 1:51:42 AM PDT by J Edgar
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To: J Edgar

40,000 People. Additionally, the D.A. has a recent misdemeanor, and has been under scrutiny for a PLETHORA of questionable acts, including a bad check “slush fund,” flipping cars owned by the county, and a number of other acts...It’s all in the article at the link.


8 posted on 07/12/2010 1:53:00 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: lainie; Cyber Liberty

Ping!


9 posted on 07/12/2010 1:54:15 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: J Edgar

“What would Rod Stiagier (Twilight Zone, not sure of spelling of his name) do with this story?”

LOL, well, Pahrump is a bit of an oddball place. I have several family members there (I’m from S. Nevada), and it used to be tiny. It’s grown with a new (relative term)paved highway going out there, but it’s kinda like a hot, brothel-ly, twilight zone. :) Now legally as well...


10 posted on 07/12/2010 1:56:16 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: J Edgar
Rod Stiagier Serling

Fixed it for you.

11 posted on 07/12/2010 1:56:23 AM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: AggieSteph

Ping!... near my hometown.


12 posted on 07/12/2010 1:57:29 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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Well, yes, hopefully they have a ‘good’ calling out a ‘bad’ with an ugly to be determined. If not, we’ve got one ‘bad’ and one ‘ugly’ with no good guys.

waa-WAA-waaaaah


13 posted on 07/12/2010 1:57:31 AM PDT by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: plinyelder

Thanks, I am now in your debt!


14 posted on 07/12/2010 1:58:40 AM PDT by J Edgar
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To: J Edgar

Sorry J Edgar.

My post was meant as a reply to JDW11235 and not you.


15 posted on 07/12/2010 2:01:09 AM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: J Edgar

Well Damn!

It WAS meant for you after all!! {8-)


16 posted on 07/12/2010 2:02:54 AM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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“If not, we’ve got one ‘bad’ and one ‘ugly’ with no good guys.”

Yep. Sadly, that’s too often the case. But considering the D.A. already came under scrutiny for the use of the fund, and was to be audited, but was a no-show, I’m inclined to believe the Sheriff over the D.A., ESPECIALLY in this case, due to the relevant facts insofar as I’m able to find as of yet...


17 posted on 07/12/2010 2:04:43 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: J Edgar

It’s these damn ‘non-bolded’ and “quoted text” posts .. plus the fact that it is 5am where it all gets so confusing!! lol


18 posted on 07/12/2010 2:06:55 AM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: JDW11235

//hot, brothel-ly, twilight zone//

Reminds me when I was driving thru Nevada in the middle of the night back (3 Am) in 1984 and I stopped at Wendover for gas and a break.

It was the weirdest thing walking about on those deserted streets with all those casino lights twirling in silence.


19 posted on 07/12/2010 2:28:34 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: lainie

We have been through Pahrump a half-dozen+ times on the way to visit Death Valley National Park.

We always stop at Albertson’s Super Market in Pahrump for snacks to take with us to DV, an interesting little town, but very different..!

BTW: a native american employee at the market told us that Pahrump was actually Rumpah (sp?), a native american word meaning water rock, or water by rock, which was important to know if you were riding your horse through the desert 150 years (or so) ago.. .


20 posted on 07/12/2010 2:28:45 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave (To anger a Conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a Liberal, tell him the truth.)
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