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.
Yeah.
Fewer candles to blow out. More breath to do it.
She has some great taste!
Oh, yes. (She agrees with me about Tom Selleck and James Morrison ;-).
I’ll have to buy the pistol, because the purchase permit is in my name, but she can walk away with it now that she’s 21. Good thing we’re getting a large tax refund, because she doesn’t want just any ol’ gun!
Tom’s Envirothon team came in second. They go to state! They need to study hard - the other homeschooled team beat them by a lot of points ;-).
They probably need to brush up on their ozone studies.
That’s probably under “current environmental issues,” since it isn’t water, soil, forestry, or wildlife.
Hopefully their sponsor got their scores in the different areas, so they know how to focus in order to improve. This is the first time our county has had competitors in this event; the county natural resources agent should be pleased!
The county natural resources agent should consider the Tax-chick family a resource.
Aren’t you like 3 percent of the county population?
Us and a couple of the First Baptist families ;-).
Tom says Forestry was their weakest category, followed by Wildlife. Since the nutria was useless, we’ll get rid of it when Jamie-our-Hairdresser comes on Friday. (She was poorly again today.)
Tom’s speciality was Aquatic Resources, and they did well on that.
TC is too skinny to be 3 percent of the county population.
That was a plural “you,” or as we say around here, “all y’all.”
How is Canada today?
“all y’all.”
I love that! Everyone knows exactly what it means.
Canada is still here. I’m not sure why....the bureaucrats are slowly shutting us down. The Conservative government doesn’t even seem to notice, or they are in on it.
We had two beautiful weeks of late spring weather before it became cold again last weekend. Now normal temperatures are chilling to us. I am looking forward to spring.
How is the baby? Are you getting some sleep again?
Go Tom!
I replaced 4 ballasts, 40 light tube thingies and fixed 2 light switches at the church today. Then I came home and fixed my lounge chair computer so I can kick back while I am fixing to fix dinner. I am also fixing to reboot my computer because I have been informed that for the update to commence fixing my computer I must do so.
Happy (late) Birthday Darkchylde!
It sounds to me as though you have become "fix-sated".
I told you she understood me.
(Actually, what I said was that T-c was used to my weirdness.)
Baby’s doing great - big and fat. She goes to the doctor tomorrow, so we’ll find out how officially fat. Our bathroom scale is accurate only in about a 5-lb. range.
She sleeps up to six hours - which is great, because it’s hard to get naptime with all these other kids and their ruckus.
Pay no attention to the scratch and bite marks on the phone.
It was a wrong number, anyway.
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