Payson Roundup

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

1. Who goes camping during the biggest snowstorm of the year?
2. What dad goes camping on his son's birthday - with his wife's parents(?) - during a snowstorm?
3. Why would Grandma think she could make it down Houston Mesa in a Ford Fusion in 8” of snow when the highway was closed due to snow conditions?

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

The video posted above intentionally mixes and confuses the 10-year census and a much lesser known, ongoing, sample based survey, the ACS. If you don't know what these two things are, then watching the video is only going to muddy the water further for you, because he jumps back and forth so much you can't keep track of which one he is talking about. The guy has a 2nd video that points out the differences better, or you can go look at them at census.gov.

Anyone can post a YouTube video, if you choose to listen to this man's opinions and base your actions on them, you deserve what you get.

By the way, private companies (Experian, Trans-Union, Axciom and 20 others you've never heard of) collect far more private information about you, don't tell you they have it, and make money from it. They don't even bother asking you for it or checking whether it's accurate. I'm a lot more worried about that than the 10-year census.

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

I don't understand the point of the story. Did this really happen? The ant and the grasshopper dying at the end was sad, but I don't understand how that brings down the free world, and nobody voted during the story so how did that become the moral?

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

So you're not prejudiced, yet you feel the need to post she was mexican in the 2nd line? We could have surmised that from the mention of Spanish being spoken later. If that really doesn't matter, why mention it?

Second, you seem to have confused Walmart with “your country”. Walmart is not your country, it is a retail location owned by a corporation owned by shareholders who expect to make money. Walmart decided long ago that catering to a spanish-speaking clientele makes them money. You're basically angry because these companies won't discriminate against an ethnic group that happens to bring them profits?

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

Becoming prevalent: advertisements and electronic billboards in Mexico advertising US doctor and hospitals specifically to Mexican moms-to-be, to come to the US so the baby can be born on US soil, which of course makes them US citizens.

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

PaysonHopeful, just turn it off. 24 hour cable news is a relatively new phenomena. It's not a law of nature, it's just a business model. It doesn't have to survive. Personally, I read the daily paper and get some news from the internet. But I'm not going to complain that CNN has to manufacture or endlessly repeat stories to fill it's 24 hour timeslot. I think it's a load of crap, and I don't watch it. There simply isn't enough journalistic manpower or News to fill a 24 hour broadcast period, yet that is precisely the model these channels have chosen to follow. It's not news anyway, it's a media business, and if you watch it for 4 hours straight, including commercials for Febreze, Viagra and Video Professor, CNN has made it's money, it's done it's job. Its held your interest for that time period and earned it's fees from it's advertisers. That's all it is. If you don't like it, don't watch it.

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

Pat, the point is that the media is actually performing a valid service in educating the public about what they are really dealing with here, with Tiger and other so-called role models. Tiger does get an extreme amount of money and if his stature and reputation are not deserved, those who are consumers of his image and products should be allowed to know why.

I (and I suspect you as well) could not care any less about Tiger's clothing, endorsed products, or overall image, so we are tempted to say “leave him alone” because we are tired of hearing about it, but the fact remains, if this is how this doofus chooses to conduct his life, then anyone interested has a right to know and the media should report it, and hopefully people will recognize who he is.

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

No it's not,

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

Pat,
1. No, I would have given him more of a punishment, maybe had him assigned away from courtrooms for a while, but I'm not a judge.
2. The intelligence floor has not been established for the job he has, so I cannot answer.
3. He is indeed a sheriff's deputy, you are right about that.

You seem to want to focus on the judge's reaction and punishment, but to me the most interesting part of this case is why a seemingly smart, upwardly mobile mid-20s deputy would think it's OK to do such a thing.

I manage many employees. When one does something wrong, I correct their behavior, but I also briefly question why they thought to do such a thing. Is there some institutional failing that led to this behavior? I am starting to think a proper attitude regarding the latter is what's lacking within MCSO.

Come on, where are all of the Sheriff Joe supporters on this forum? How do you justify supporting him?

chrisrafter (Christopher Rafter) says…

If I made a dumb mistake like this officer did going through the papers, I would appreciate the judge giving me an option of resolving the situation simply by apologizing rather than escalating it into an arrest and contempt charge.

You're saying the judge should have ordered his arrest on the spot? The judge didn't make him take the paper. He keeps saying it was his “job”. To rifle through someone's private papers? That would be unacceptable outside of a courtroom, but if it's a defense attorney in court, participating in the defense of a client.