Month: September 2015

  • Bail bond agent is entitled to make a profit

    Gerald A. Madrid: Bail bond agent is entitled to make a profit   After reading your Sept. 5, 2015 editorial on “fairness in bail,” I felt absolutely compelled to respond. It appears that the main focus of your editorial is the idea of fairness in our judicial system. You say that the wealthy can buy…

  • Paradox and Possibility

    There’s a possibility that if a cat jumps on a hot stove, it will never jump on a hot stove again – and that’s good. But it may never jump on a cold stove either, but that might be good too. When something happens and we assign a particular meaning to it, it reduces the…

  • Dad Writes School Donation Check Using Common Core

    Do You Know how much money he donated?  Douglas is the father of a child at Milridge Elementary School in Ohio. Douglas made a donation to the school by writing a check using Common Core math. How much money did Douglas donate to the school? Unless you are a fourth grader indoctrinated into Common Core,…

  •  Life Inside A Prison Guards Are Too Afraid To Enter

     The Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is arguably the most notorious street gang in the Western Hemisphere and is so feared it has been left to run its own prison – the Penas Ciudad Barrios. The maximum security prison located in the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador, houses only Mara Salvatrucha members and is guarded by prison…

  • OPERATION BAIL OUT

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/ca_dept_insurance/sets/72157657509991139 Update: South Bay bail agents targeted in law enforcement sweep Operation Bail Out. News: 2015 Press Release For Release: September 9, 2015 Media Calls Only: 916-492-3566 Update: South Bay bail agents targeted in law enforcement sweep 31 allegedly involved in illegal business practices Case Update In total 31 bail agents in the South Bay…

  • They don’t have a clue about bail.

      After a lifetime in bail you would think that in all that time I would be immune to the special form of indignation that arises in me when it becomes all-too-clear that otherwise intelligent folks have no idea what it is I do for a living. I came across an article titled “Awaiting trial,…