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.
Since they weren’t delivering cheezburgers, the call wasn’t important.
Teach a cat to fish, and you will ... aw, never mind. Just keep giving it the fish.
Catz ...
Off to my prayer group, at the house where they have catz on the dinner table, just like at my house!
Uhhhh...I had fish on my dinner table last night.
Congrats to Tom and his team!
So did you fix it?
It’s good to have a little decor sometimes ...
There were three teams of homeschooled students, out of 15, and they won first, second, and fifth place.
Our team’s forestry expert, Forrest, won’t be able to go to the state competition, so they’ll have to pull in the alternate member and then have everyone learn forestry for the next month. Forrest did really well in forestry at the Science Olympiad, but not so well this time. Different material.
Wow. It’s a little late for me to say “good morning,” so I’ll just say, “Hello dere!”
I went with busdaddy to his doctor appointment. He has to have a physical every year in order to race, so this was it. It was ugly. He had an 11:00 apppointment, and while he got there before ten, it was after 11:30 before he was seen.
He was not a happy guy.
And since I opted to meet him there, I got nothing done but taking the garbage out...*sigh*
Do they have prepared study guides? Do they get sample questions? I really needed that sort of material when I prepped for certification exams.
They had a set of materials to learn for each subject. Tom’s file for Aquatics was about 100 printed pages. Some of the others had more. They also had some sample questions from previous years’ competitions. The wildlife test asked more questions about state law than our team could answer, so they’ll study more about that. In forestry, they needed more knowledge about types of leaves, types of bark, and so on - technical vocabulary.
Afternoon! Back from Kathleen’s checkup. She officially weighs 13 lbs. 14 oz. She got two shots. I think Sally needs to go next - booster shots for some things at 12, or there used to be.
Odd. When I divorced my first husband, I took a battery of tests to find out what I was best suited for in the working world. It came back as “forest ranger,” but because I was a woman, they wouldn’t even consider me.
My next stop was the post office, and they said I would never qualify because I would have to lift “up to 100 pounds,” and I only weighed 147 at the time.
I ended up going to work for Greyhound, and I was lifting packages “up to 100 pounds” above my head.
Maybe I should have gone back to the Post Office...;o]
I didn’t mind shots when I was a kid. It was only after my car accident that I would faint when needles were present. Now, I’m not too bad as long as I don’t look at the needle.
Thank you for K update! How does she do after the shots?
Some young women don’t realize how advantaged they are with respect to career choices. What’s concerning is the economy. It’s difficult to survive on one salary for many couples. *sigh*
I struggled because I had a baby to care for. There was no “welfare” then, so I had to work or we would go hungry. About the time he turned nine, welfare became available, but it was shameful to me that I had to depend on it.
I wasn’t able to rent a house or take out a loan and even got denied a job because I was divorced. I’m so glad those day are over! My son never knew how many meals I went without so he could eat. He still doesn’t.
But I wouldn’t trade a day of it, as it helped me remember that I was worth something more than a label.
I’m having trouble tearing myself away from new library book: “Culinary Reactions.” The author wrote a blurb describing how he brought a 160-liter Dewar flask of liquid nitrogen and made ice cream for a bunch of Nobel Prize winners at a science convention. He sounds like a good addition to our birthday celebrations....
Thirteen pounds???
You will be needing a crane to lift her, soon!
Eh?
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