Posted on 03/02/2012 9:17:36 AM PST by Short Bus
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona is bound and determined to make sure we never forget the embarrassment of the birther movement. Most of us would love to put that ugly little racist blip in our history -- a time when conspiracy theorists and fools alike accused President Barack Obama of not being American. But Arpaio, a sheriff in Phoenix, Arizona, just won't give it up.
Can we say beating a dead horse, people? Sometimes it seems like certain politicians just do things to help out Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Bill Maher. After all, how else does anyone explain Arpaio's inane and insane assertion that Obama, a man who produced his birth certificate last year, isn't American?
See his ranting [here].
"Forgery or fraud may have been committed," says Arpaio. Ooooh no! Are ghosts and goblins real, too, Sheriff Arpaio? How about the Loch Ness Monster? Do you go visit old Nessie on your days off from enforcing the laws of Arizona?
In all seriousness, this is vile racism plain and simple. In a place like Arizona, it's no surprise -- after all, many politicians there (including Arpaio) hold rather Draconian views on immigration -- and it's disgusting. And it's getting old fast.
For all you doubters for whom book learning was apparently a challenge, here are the facts: President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961. He has produced both a certificate of live birth during the 2008 campaign and the long-form certificate last year. Neither has been disproved.
So why is this still going on? Arpaio seems like a joke, but, according to Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney doesn't think so. Yesterday LaBolt tweeted:
Romney has called Arpaio for his endorsement, his aides called "weekly" and Arpaio was his honorary Chair in 08.That's embarrassing. The fact is, most people agree Arpaio is a few cards shy of a full deck, but here we are still talking about him. Is this an alternate universe? Why am I guessing this guy is the type of person who stays at parties hours after they have ended asking for more chips and guacamole? Dude, the party is over, the ship has sailed, and you are beating a dead horse.
Sadly, there aren't enough cliched ways to say IT'S OVER to make it any clearer to this guy.
Oh, wow—thank you for my first lol of the day!
Good morning, beautiful people!
“If you choose to do both, mop first.”
If she had a shower in the kitchen and a drain in the floor, she could do them simultaneously.
Do the castle kitchens have showers and drains in the floor? It might make bathing the young plesiosaurs much more convenient and efficient. I’ve found that a pleasant, quiet, confined environment has a soothing effect on them that makes training go smoothly after they get over their initial panic.
Off to run errands. SYL
It would make bathing the young byos more convenient, too! I'll have to see if Sr. Hernandez, Tile Artiste, can install a drain if we get the kitchen tiled!
LOL!
I hope everyone’s having a happy Monday! I got a thrilling ride with Tom to the gas station and the Vietnamese tailor shop. I have a dress that needs mending beyond my pathetic skills. Come back for it Friday, said the Vietnamese lady.
Doggies. I could have altered/mended/constructed your dress for free. Well, the cost of postage...
It will probably take Mrs. Anh only a few minutes, and I’ll have supported a local small business to the tune of $5 or so.
Thank you for thinking of Sionn and us. We miss him too.
He would have turned 60 this coming Friday.
If the rest of the Undead (and not so Undead) folks who loved Sionn miss him as much as I do, then we all understand the pain you are going through, even now.
Hang tough, LoM. We are all with you. *HUGS*
How well I know that!
My mother used to take in sewing and alterations to give herself a little ego boost and to bring in a little extra money.
And I took in sewing when my son was small. It was a way to make a few extra bucks and still be with my son.
So I understand Mrs Anh!
LOL, I am not replying to that one!
So true.
Yikes!
Nvisible lyfes tends to get under feets.
Dey den meows at you in outrages due to clumsy hyoomans sticking feets on da Nvisible lyfes.
Not my fault.
I swear it.
“Anh’s Alterations” has been in their little shop near the town hall as long as we’ve lived here. They also do dry-cleaning. My dress repair is just a little thing; I might have been able to do it, with some trial and error, but I don’t have much time with my hands free, and that’s for sewing patches on Scout uniforms!
Bill has earned his Eagle Scout, a whole two weeks short of his 18th birthday, and we can all collapse with relief.
Immense congratulations to Bill!!
The really difficult part of this momentous accomplishment comes now, Bill, as you try not to screw up.
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