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.
Good morning. I hope the dental work is successful! I haven’t had a report on Geology from Elen yet - keep forgetting to ask, in all the turmoil.
Kathleen and I went to bed early last night. I feel something like human today! And here is Pat, speaking of something like human ...
Good morning! It’s great to hear that you two got some sleep! (Sleeping is now my No. 1 hobby.)
We were snoozing on the sofa at 8:30 and in bed by 9:30.
Afraid so.
She was born on our back porch in the early 1980’s, and we caught her by luring her in with a piece of chicken.
[Cat had a chicken addiction.]
She could cover the entire couch by stretching out, she had a good three foot or so spread when she stretched her legs out.
But she looked tiny, until you picked her up.
Then she felt like a brick.
Her meow was a softer version of the bobcat MWU-OWM, from her it sounded almost polite.
She’d snort out her nose at you.
She’d hunch her shoulders and give you a fixed stare.
If you stared back she’d get upset about it, turn sideways, and slap the ground at you.
However, if she was sitting in your lap she was VERY cuddly and affectionate.
She loved being combed and fussed over.
Only one veterinarian looked at her and ID’d what she was.
Poor guy looked like he was going to choke on his mustache.
And when Mimi decided to headbutt him and purr loudly,he decided she was harmless.
[Harmless, unlesss you were a bird or a mouse. Then you were done.]
My cable bill went up again, so I’m taking the box back to the company and will try to survive on bare-basic.
Unngh.
If I didn’t spend so much time in this tiny place, I probably wouldn’t mind. Anyway, it will be quite a bit less each month, even though I won’t get NCIS or the Graham Norton Show or BBA’s Top Gear. :o([
Here they take away channels that are on basic cable and then charge youmore for it.
There’s always radio ...
GAAAK!
Disco song stuck in my head.
“On the radio Oh-WOAH-WOAH-WOAH.”
I can hear that, but no other words are associated, so far.
The problem here is that most stations that come in clear are Rap, Hispanic or New Wave. Even the C&W stations have a tough time deciding what is really C&W and what is Crossover, so listening causes ear pollution.
Oh well...
That’s why it is so horrible.
Everyone knows the supposed chorus of that disco tune.
Here we have Vassar college with their own radio station.
And very often they play music that flat out sucks.
Tunes that should never get air time.
Tunes that are so horrible they were put out by a no name label..
We’re planning to get rid of satellite TV and replace it with an antenna that reputedly has a signal range of at least 100 miles. My husband turned the TV off experimentally for a few days and I didn’t notice it. (We tune in talk radio on the laptops which is more interesting anyway.)
“...don’t have enough flour to make pretzels.” Do you make the hard ones or the soft ones?
How does K convert to F and C?
Do you have a photo of her?
I’m derelict in my duty to get a pic of Crowbar. We took him for a checkup and immunizations two days after he adopted us, and today we brought him in for neutering in hopes that some of his undesirable behaviors will go away. We tried behavioral mod with him but he had a setback this morning so we followed through at the vet today. *Sigh*
Yes, but not scanned.
I think you’ve just hit on something! Our TN cats do a MWU-OWM. They seem bigger than the domestic cats around here. Gotta websearch bobcat calls.
“Here they take away channels that are on basic cable and then charge youmore for it.” Yeah, they do that *and* change our lineup. Last time it worked to our advantage because we got National Geographic back. A few changes ago, they did some weird thing on the science fiction channel so that we got wrestling and mixed martial arts. The only conclusion you can come to is that they have learning-disabled chimpanzees throwing darts at a board that’s somehow correlated to programming. Blech.
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