Home Mobile Archives Reader Blogs Register Login

Saturday, July 19, 2008

If You’re Going To Break The Law I Suggest You Do It In Cook County Illinois

Because the jail there pretty much looks like a fancy resort.

The place looks nicer than the dorm I paid to stay in while I was at college.

Update by likwidshoe: This prison is actually located in Leoben, Austria. Hat tip to MidwestMan.

Comments

The place looks nicer than the dorm I paid to stay in while I was at college.

Give it time and it will look like almost every other dirty jail in America.

The only thing separating this one from the rest are the materials used. Where there are normally walls, there are windows. Where there is normally dirty concrete, there is natural wood.

likwidshoe on July 19, 2008 at 08:46 pm

nicer than the dorm I paid to stay in while I was at college.

You came and went when you wanted.
Big difference.

WOOF on July 19, 2008 at 09:13 pm
Avatar for Lestat

This is clearly not a high security prison.

Studies have been done showing that nicer prisons actually save money.  While the initial cost might be more, they require far less security and there are fewer problems.

Lestat on July 19, 2008 at 09:42 pm
Avatar for MidwestMan

This prison is not even in America. 

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/prison.asp

It makes you look hypocritical when you accuse liberals of not having any facts yet you yourself buy into things with proof. I’m not trying to be a jerk, I just think skepticism shouldn’t only be applied to things that are in opposition to your point of view. But hey, everyone makes mistakes. It’s what you do when you’re called out that counts.

MidwestMan on July 19, 2008 at 10:59 pm

It’s what you do when you’re called out that counts.

He gives me the ability and the blessing to correct with updates.

If it’s a big mistake on something important, he’ll usually do corrections via a new post.

likwidshoe on July 20, 2008 at 12:02 am
Avatar for Plasmodium Pete

OK, MidwestMan, change Illinois to Austria, and the point is the same. Prisons aren’t supposed to be plush, they are supposed to suck, so that one doesn’t want to return.

Lik - Yeah, you are right, it is still jail, but that joint is a bit over the top in niceness. One of the things that cracked us up as we sweltered 12 to a GP medium tent eating T-rats in Somalia, was a bunch of bedwetters whining about how cruelly mistreated a bunch of prisoners, IIRC in Texas, were because the were forced to live in GP medium tents, and eat something that sounded a lot like T-rats. Comparing, neither we nor they could just up and go home, they also had amenities we didn’t, like TV and gyms, but then we did have the occasional incoming, so there is that.

At this point some leftoid will state that we volunteered - so did the prisoners - no one (not even “society") forced them to be criminals.

Plasmodium Pete on July 20, 2008 at 02:17 am

Oh good god Cook County Jail is absolutely nothing like what is pictured there.

It is a black hole of Calcutta, way overcrowded, filled with the most vicious criminals in the most gang-ridden city in the U.S.

You don’t even want to drive by it, let alone spend an hour there.

Ken McCracken on July 20, 2008 at 05:57 am

This is Cook County Jail:

Ken McCracken on July 20, 2008 at 06:47 am

Because the jail there pretty much looks like a fancy resort.

Typical bullshit, running at the mouth with no idea what he is talking about. Just like his brother Proof.... idiots.


Buy American, Buy Union Made… the job you save might be your own.

Buzz on July 20, 2008 at 07:03 am

Typical bullshit, running at the mouth with no idea what he is talking about. Just like his brother Proof.... idiots.

Oh, I suppose you are infallible and never got anything wrong?

Am I supposed to believe that?

This post was corrected with an update - that is good enough for you.

Ken McCracken on July 20, 2008 at 07:09 am
Proof
Proof
12236 comments
Send a private message

Typical bullshit, running at the mouth with no idea what he is talking about. Just like his brother Proof.... idiots.

Says the man (?) who talks out of his ass, knows NOTHING of what he’s speaking about and runs from arguments when he has his ass handed to him!



Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Proof on July 20, 2008 at 07:30 am
Proof
Proof
12236 comments
Send a private message

BTW, Buzz Lightweight: It’s been two days since you lied about Bush’s vetoes. You ever going to “man up” to that?



Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Proof on July 20, 2008 at 07:32 am

Dude, if your delusional enough to believe that Bush hasn’t vetoed any bills since the dems got control, what can I say? I guess Fox News doesn’t talk about them, not sure.


Buy American, Buy Union Made… the job you save might be your own.

Buzz on July 20, 2008 at 07:39 am
Proof
Proof
12236 comments
Send a private message

Dude, if your delusional enough to believe that Bush hasn’t vetoed any bills since the dems got control,

Clueless Buzz: 12. I showed you the link. Retarded chimps could have found it, apparently not YOU! Here it is again: Link
I asked you to read those 12 Presidential vetoes (Does that surpass your attention span? Not surprising!) and tell me which of those you were referring to in regards to energy policy, when you shot off your fat mouth without knowing anything and said:

The Democrats don’t have a veto proof majority, so they cant get legislation though anyway. Your boy W vetoes it all.

A simple question for a mind like yours: Which of those twelve vetoes were you referring to? We actually made it quite simple! We eliminated about half your choices.

Man up! Admit that you didn’t know WTF you were talking about or continue to make a fool of yourself.
Your choice!



Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Proof on July 20, 2008 at 07:51 am

Retarded chimps could have found it, apparently not YOU!

Insults and grammar corrections. But not mush else, I guess Catmow was right.

I grow tired of your inability to comprehend simple logic.


Buy American, Buy Union Made… the job you save might be your own.

Buzz on July 20, 2008 at 08:15 am

Plasmodium Pete - At this point some leftoid will state that we volunteered - so did the prisoners - no one (not even “society") forced them to be criminals.

Egh.

Speaking in America, what’s the law? There are tens of thousands of federal laws and regulations. They’ve lost count. And that’s before we even get to state, county, and local laws.

Society doesn’t force one to break laws? Bullshit. The people, their representatives, and the organizations granted power by the representatives make laws upon laws upon laws. There are a lot of restrictions on freedom. Nobody knows all of them or even how many.

likwidshoe on July 20, 2008 at 08:30 am

By the way, taking different posts from different threads, and splicing them into one doesn’t make a argument. You know it didn’t progress anything like you are making it sound.


Buy American, Buy Union Made… the job you save might be your own.

Buzz on July 20, 2008 at 08:32 am
Proof
Proof
12236 comments
Send a private message

Insults and grammar corrections.

You want to track insults? You’ve baited me by calling me names in two threads where I hadn’t even commented! (You are a master baiter!)

But the fact remains that you are a gutless, clueless coward who calls people names and tries to weasel out of the fact that you didn’t know WTF you were talking about and are not man enough to admit it.

I grow tired of your inability to comprehend simple logic.

I grow tired of your inability to act like a man. The fact that you have nothing but insults proves you’re a hypocrite as well.  Man up! Admit you were wrong, or continue to act the fool. Your choice.



Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Proof on July 20, 2008 at 08:32 am
Proof
Proof
12236 comments
Send a private message

By the way, taking different posts from different threads, and splicing them into one doesn’t make a argument.

True! If you would simply ”man up” whenever you had you ass handed to you, I wouldn’t have to track your cowardly ass down to try to get you to admit you don’t know WTF you’re talking about!
Act like a man, Buzz! Or don’t you do impersonations?



Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Proof on July 20, 2008 at 08:41 am

It was an honest mistake. I had no reason to question it, it was not life or death so I felt it was okay. I apologize to everyone that got their panties in a twist and rushed to to the attack for their own pleasure.

I trusted the source without checking it out, sorry!


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on July 20, 2008 at 08:47 am
Proof
Proof
12236 comments
Send a private message

Retarded chimps could have found it, apparently not YOU!

BTW, Buzz: I apologize if I insulted any retarded chimps by comparing them to you!



Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Proof on July 20, 2008 at 08:49 am

No problem Neiman, it can happen to anyone.


Buy American, Buy Union Made… the job you save might be your own.

Buzz on July 20, 2008 at 08:58 am

Proof started it. I am simply reacting to my environment.


Buy American, Buy Union Made… the job you save might be your own.

Buzz on July 20, 2008 at 09:02 am
Proof
Proof
12236 comments
Send a private message

Proof started it.

Gosh, Buzz! I know your attention span is short, but if you can’t remember all the way back to 10:03 AM, here’s a clue, Clueless one!



Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Proof on July 20, 2008 at 09:13 am
Proof
Proof
12236 comments
Send a private message

I am simply reacting to my environment.

Clueless World? Heh.


Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Proof on July 20, 2008 at 09:14 am
Avatar for Plasmodium Pete

Lik - I get your point, that to which I was referring is the old behavioral “product of his environment” BS - someone became a criminal because he was poor, minority, was an orphan, was born in the wrong place, etc…

Plasmodium Pete on July 20, 2008 at 09:32 am
Avatar for MidwestMan

Neiman:

I hope you didn’t think that I was trying to attack you. I was only pointing out the correct location of the prison and did not intend to personally attack you. I believe that you responded with humility when the error was shown and I find that admirable.

Plasmodium Pete:

I agree that prisons shouldn’t be plush. My only point was that in this particular example it was not the American taxpayers who were benig ripped off. Yes it’s still wrong even though it’s in Austria and not America, but I’ll let the Austrians worry about that. We have plenty of examples of wasted tax money in America so I don’t feel that I need to be concerned about what other countries choose to do with their tax funds.

MidwestMan on July 20, 2008 at 12:17 pm

MidwestMan: I understood! It needed correcting, I trusted my source and I should not have done so, mea culpa.

I was only slightly iritated by a couple that seemed to suggest an attenpt to deceive and got their panties in twist.


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on July 20, 2008 at 12:41 pm

Neiman. It was an honest error in your part. You did not try to deceive anyone. On the contrary, your honesty should be an example to all.

ellinas on July 20, 2008 at 02:39 pm
Page 1 of 1        

Post a Comment


Before commenting, please recite:

Grant me the serenity to ignore the trolls,
the courage to debate with honest opponents,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Name   
Email   
URL   
Human?
  
 

Upload Image    

Remember my personal information

Notify me of follow-up comments?

Note: Notifications will only be sent to confirmed email addresses.