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Curious to know why there are so many landscaping water features in the driest areas of our country such as Arizona and Nevada? Every housing development, shopping center, etc has a rocky waterfall or some stylish water pond with koi at its entrance. But yet this is the driest area of our country and water is (naturally) in short order. I find this curious…

Disgusting isn’t it. It’s more status than anything. "See I live in the desert and am not putting water on my landscape so I’ll dump it into a fountain that evaporates at an awful rate just because I can."

Originally they thought it would help cool the clime……..it actually made the environment more humid. Parts of Phoenix are very humid!!

Water features are a trademark of ancient landscapes/gardens, but the water remained mostly still and level……where it was for psychological cooling.

I hear a lot of references in Arizona to "Tuscan style" landscaping and like the idea. By this I mean clusters of colorful cacti, bushes and trees with a small fountain and rock benches, as opposed to plants being sparsely placed like you so often see with desert homes. Having trouble finding websites with examples of this, or any books dealing with the subject. Am I using the wrong term?

No, it’s not Tucson, it’s Tuscan, as in arid Italian-style landscaping. I’ve found a few references to it, just not pictures.

hmmmm … i think they might be saying "tucson" (as in tucson, arizona)

In the latest of several lawsuits filed by illegal immigrants against U.S. law enforcement agencies, a Mexican woman claims that an Arizona sheriff’s department mistreated her during a workplace raid that led to the arrest of dozens of undocumented workers.

For three years Celia Alvarez used a fake identity to work at a Phoenix landscaping company that was raided last fall by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department. Alvarez, who has four U.S.-born anchor babies, was among the 60 illegal immigrants arrested in the operation.

In a federal complaint she accuses Maricopa Sheriff’s deputies of negligence and mistreatment for arresting and interrogating her. Alvarez also claims that deputies violently struck her and denied her medical care for several weeks during her two-month detention. She is seeking damages for illegal search and seizure as well as assault.

The arrest also traumatized her children, Alvarez says, especially her youngest because he was still breastfeeding at the time and his mother was not available to properly nourish him. She asserts that the incident has marked her for a lifetime and hurt her kids, who as U.S.-born citizens collect public assistance.

The struggling, unemployed illegal immigrant with four young children assures she’s not interested in the money she “could get out of this,” but rather in denouncing the “abuse, cruelty and inhumanity” of how she was treated by the local sheriff, which she worries will “go after more people.”

This seems to be part of a growing trend among illegal immigrants and their advocate pro bono attorneys to sue law enforcement officials for doing their job and local governments for enforcing their measures. In the last few months alone legal action has been taken against an Ohio sheriff deputy who helped deport a Mexican with false identification cards, a Maryland officer who arrested an illegal Salvadoran woman and federal agents who apprehended a group of illegal aliens in a Connecticut immigration raid.

A few weeks ago a group of undocumented day laborers sued a southern California city (Costa Mesa) for banning them from seeking work on public streets. The lawsuit actually stems from the arrest by local police of a dozen illegal alien day laborers who violated the city’s anti-solicitation ordinance.

On a positive note, a Rhode Island state trooper sued for racial profiling after detaining a group of illegal aliens during a traffic stop was recently exonerated by a federal appeals court that determined the officer acted appropriately.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/feb/another-illegal-alien-sues-over-arrest

She has 4 US born children-who collect public assistance and she is not in it for the money?!!! My A$$.
This seems to be the latest tactic by illegals. Sue the US. I guess they are hoping we will stop raiding and deporting them if we know they are going to sue us. What a sham. They are illegal, living on public assistance and then sue when things don’t go their way. How was she collecting benefits when she was working?? I think a little more investigation needs to be done on this woman.
If she has such serious, obvious injuries there would have been someone who would have noticed.
She would have had a court appearance within hours and they didn’t notice this horrific damage that has required surgery and still isn’t corrected!!! What a bunch of BS.
Throw her and her anchors outta here.

Where is the father of these 4 children?? Who took care of them while she was being detained??
Another thing to consider if she wins this suit, she will be given legal status and be able to sponsor several family members for entrance to the US.

Don’t you think its funny that the same politicians who call Sheriff Joe Arpaio a criminal are themselves criminals?

Source: http://www.thepiratescove.us/2008/10/20/sheriff-joe-arpaio-raids-city-hall/

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Raids City Hall
October 20, 2008 – 10:15 am

Have y’all heard about this one?

A late-night raid of City Hall and the Main Library here by 60 heavily armed sheriff’s deputies and posse members searching for illegal immigrants has escalated tensions between city officials and the county sheriff, who ordered the raid.

The operation took place at 2 a.m. on Thursday, timed to catch suspected illegal immigrants working as janitors on the overnight shift. Deputies did not find any suspects at City Hall, but arrested three people at the library whom they suspected of using forged identification to gain employment at a cleaning company.

The New York Times, along with the Arizona Republic, were not amused. Then again, both have rarely been amused by raids on illegal immigration employers.

The raid also arrested 16 illegals in their homes, and the manager of the cleaning company which had been contracted to provide the service. There is a report that 15 other illegals are on the run.

It gets better, though, because the mayor of Mesa is livid over the issue. Maybe if he was wasn’t positioning the city as a sanctuary city, there wouldn’t be continuing problems in Mesa

(Judicial Watch) In late August a Mesa landscaping company, contracted by the city to work on its public parks, was raided by Maricopa sheriffs and nearly 30 illegal immigrants were arrested. The sheriff has stepped in to help curb the area’s illegal immigration crisis because the Mesa Police Department has a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy regarding illegal aliens.

It never fails to amaze me that those elected to government, and police departments, refuse to uphold, you know, the law. And then get P.O.’d when someone else does.
No wonder the Politicians want to get rid of Sheriff Joe.

They are hiring illegal aliens. No wonder our country is going to hell if you ask me.

Hero.

Of course I find it funny that politicians are criminals themselves. They hire illegals against the federal immigration laws.

They also exonerated themselves from their criminal behavior of the past, by voting into law a new set of rules for everyone of themselves in 2006. They can’t be prosecuted for past bribes and such that they committed prior to their new 2006 law.

Well first off I need to camouflage for Arizona’s Desert landscape. What colors should I use?
My rifle is a bolt gun and I’m only concerned with applying camouflage to the rifle, scope, and stock.
My shotgun is a Mossberg 500 and I’ve seen them fully camouflaged including the magazine tube and bolt. I’m not sure how to apply it to those moving parts.. When I do the scope how do I guarantee paint won’t get into the wind-age and elevation knobs? How do I make the coating durable as to hold up against the elements and being used in rough terrain?

If I was to do it, I would prep all of the items at once, and then paint them with duracoat. You can call or email duracoat for a recommendation about color, but would assume that a "sand" color would work well. Also do a google search on duracoat camoflage for desert, and I am sure something good will come up.

You will need tape, duracoat paint (order online), probably some sort of 3m abrasive for roughing up the surface sprayed, an aircompressor and air brush.