So it was with some glee that his Maricopa County office announced Thursday in a red-and-green press release that the “sixth and perhaps final lawsuit” brought by inmates to stop the sheriff from playing the holiday songs all day, every day, during the holidays had been dismissed in federal court.

“We keep winning these lawsuits. Inmates should stop acting like the Grinch who stole Christmas and give up wasting the court’s time with such frivolous assertions,” it read. “But chances are they’ll keep suing and we’ll keep winning.”

The latest lawsuit was filed by inmate William Lamb, who said that being forced to listen to the Christmas songs 12 hours a day was a violation of his civil and religious rights. But U.S. District Judge Roz Silver disagreed, dismissing the case and denying Lamb’s claim for 0,000 in damages.

Sheriff Arpaio catapulted to national attention when he cracked down on the thousands of illegal immigrants who swarm daily through his county; put inmates in pink jumpsuits and underwear; worked them in chain gangs; housed them in tents in the Arizona desert and fed them bologna sandwiches.

He said that his Christmas selections were multi-ethnic and culturally diverse, from all faiths and ethnicities. He told The Washington Times earlier this year that in addition to tunes by Alvin and the Chipmunks, the music included the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Bing Crosby and Doctor Demento.

At the time, he said “all people everywhere deserve a little Christmas cheer.”

Lt. Brian Lee, the sheriff’s spokesman, said the court issued a summary judgment upholding the decision to “inject the holiday spirit into the lives of those incarcerated over the holiday season in the third-largest jail system in the U.S.”

He said inmates have sued six times claiming the music was in violation of their religious rights or cruel and unusual punishment, but the court disagreed – finding no evidence of fact, so Sheriff Arpaio was entitled to the judgment as a matter of law.

The sheriff is no stranger to controversy, although his philosophy of “zero tolerance towards the criminal element” has been embraced by his deputies and the community alike. He was first elected in 1996 and was re-elected by double-digit margins in 2000, 2004 and 2008. In 2007 a petition to recall him failed to gain enough voter signatures to get on the ballot.

Most recently he has come to the attention of the federal government. He was notified in March by the Justice Department that he may have unfairly targeted Hispanics and Spanish-speaking people for arrest. In October, the Department of Homeland Security revoked the authority of 160 of his federally trained deputies to make immigration arrests in the field.

The sheriff has denied any wrongdoing and has said he welcomed and would cooperate in any investigation of his office. He has continued to arrest illegal immigrants under recently passed state laws.

Tired of waiting for the federal government to secure the U.S.-Mexico border and concerned about the potential terrorism threat that the lack of border security posed, he assigned deputies in 2006 to monitor his 9,226-square-mile county for illegal immigrants. He targeted the illegals under an anti-smuggling law that state lawmakers passed to fight drug trafficking.

“My message is clear: If you come here and I catch you, you’re going straight to jail,” he said at the time. “We’re going to arrest any illegal who violates this new law, and I’m not going to turn these people over to federal authorities so they can have a free ride back to Mexico. I’ll give them a free ride to my jail.”

Sheriff Arpaio, 77, captured headlines nationwide when he set up a jail system that included tents, spent less than 15 cents per meal per inmate, and banned smoking, coffee, movies, pornographic magazines and unrestricted television in all of his jails. He also assigned both men and women to chain gangs.

The sheriff also has created several rehabilitative programs, including “Hard Knocks High,” the only accredited high school program administered by a sheriff’s office in a U.S. jail.

More recently he has been mentioned as a possible candidate for governor, with polls showing that he has a commanding lead as a Republican candidate for the November 2010 race.

A November poll by Rasmussen Reports said that of 1,200 likely Arizona voters, he was the Republicans’ “best shot at holding onto the Arizona governorship in 2010.” The poll said Sheriff Arpaio led the expected Democratic challenger, Terry Goddard, Arizona’s attorney general, by 12 points and that 64 percent of voters statewide said he was doing the right thing by working around federal law to continue his aggress

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Answer by kch05
There is nothing wrong with it, but I have to admit it would get old. I used to work for a place that had Muzak. To this day, if I hear the theme to Titannic…

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Question by marques00789: What is a legit website to buy internet traffic from?
I am trying to market my new offshore consulting website www.sundataservice.com and I wanted to know does anyone know any legit “buy internet traffic” websites or how can I go about doing it?

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Answer by Jakester
Take care, some ‘traffic’ services are used to generate fake popularity, maybe I’m just confused by semantics, I assume you want to advertise your site to prospective clients. There are lots of forms of paid advertising, you can place banner ads on selected sites related to your industry, small time operators use someone like BuySellAds a re-occuring banner is good for getting the company name branded in their minds. Smaller operations might use an ad broker like buySellAds.

Pay per click ads like yahoo and google offer are good for testing the market on a small scale. Based on user’s search phrases, terms associated with lots of money tend to cost more, clicks on top position ads would cost this much for these terms: offshore financial services .78, financial services .44, financial services company .52. These figures are for PPC ads in which you only pay on a per visitor basis. Ads in less desirable positions can be considerably less, you can have PPC ads only show to a certain demographic, geographical targeting being the more common way of narrowing the audience. (For perspective, ppc ads for “bubble gum” cost about .45)

Businesses that rely heavily on PPC ads have well defined idea of the lifetime value of the average customer and the percentage of visits that convert to customers.

Of course if you create an informative web site that is a true service to the public with informative articles, perhaps a discussion forum, search engines may send you visitors at no cost, usually a serious seo campaign to make your site appear to be already popular helps it’s ranking. A business like yours would benefit from professional press releases. There are free distribution services, but serious businesses pay prWeb something like to distribute the press release that includes a link to your site, resulting in both direct traffic from readers of the press release and an enhancement of search engine ranking.

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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.

President Obama said in May that government efforts to protect computer systems from attack would not involve “monitoring private-sector networks or Internet traffic,” and Homeland Security Department officials say the new program will scrutinize only data going to or from government systems.

But the program has provoked debate within DHS, the officials said, because of uncertainty about whether private data can be shielded from unauthorized scrutiny, how much of a role NSA should play and whether the agency’s involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush’s presidency would draw controversy. The activities of any private citizen who visits a “dot-gov” Web site or sends an e-mail to a civilian government employee would be screened.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31716609/ns/technology_and_science-washington_post

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Answer by Ralphy
in fact it is not

but could make it easier to do just that in the future

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Question by The real Bella and Edward: How dose Twitter work, how do you fallow someone and how do you get people to fallow you?
I really don’t understand it I got an account but what do you do? Can you like ask questions and people answer? Please give me all the info you can about Twitter please.

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Answer by It’s Gabe Duh! Re add please
yeah

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for example:

You know how you are on a website and it says click here and when you click on the word here, it automatically takes you to another site?

I want to do that on my blog and in my group threads on Myspace but I don’t know how.

Any help would be much APPRECIATED!

Thanks!

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Answer by geekout
click here

You can add any text you want in the click here part

MySpace Tutorial

http://www.lissaexplains.com/myspace/

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Question by Kyle M: How do I stop twitter from sending updates to my phone?
I keep getting twitter updates on my phone. I removed the people following me that i keep getting them from, removed my number from the mobile page in my settings. I emailed twitter about it. And i still keep getting them. Is there any solution besides deleting my account and having to start over.

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Answer by juvelyn a
There might an update that you need to turn off using your phone. Or reset the setting on your phone.

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Question by mtzr: I want to make a social network where members can post news and others can comment?
I am trying to create a social network of my close friend where we can post news from various news websites, articles, photos, videos etc and can comment/discuss it among ourselves. What sites are suitable for making such a network?

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Answer by iameric
Drupal + kommunity theme

I could make you this: http://demo.kommunity.ms/node/10

I can do it for ya if you want, there’s a link to my contact page in the source

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Question by Kyle M: How do I stop twitter from sending updates to my phone?
I keep getting twitter updates on my phone. I removed the people following me that i keep getting them from, removed my number from the mobile page in my settings. I emailed twitter about it. And i still keep getting them. Is there any solution besides deleting my account and having to start over.

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Answer by juvelyn a
There might an update that you need to turn off using your phone. Or reset the setting on your phone.

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