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, but what about Pokemon? I don’t think that can easily be forgiven.
Pokemon is a different generation, one that never knew WWII.
“Godzilla helped them process the defeat, Baby Godzilla helped them process the post war treatment.”
A similar thought crossed my mind while watching these classics over the past few days.
During the War the Japanese had been so brainwashed into thinking the Americans would rape, plunder, pillage and brutalize. The Saipan mass civilian suicides gives us a clue as to the depths of the brainwashing.
20 years later the culture deals with it by creating movie foes that were intent on destruction. A way of dealing with a cognitive dissonance at a cultural level?
Pokemon, the most irritating thing my kids ever took up.
Without doubt, we are indebted to you for climbing up on your soapbox, or out on a limb, to point out this crumby way of making our little lambs succumb to subtle rules of thumb that could make their brains numb and dumb until they eventually bomb out of school with their thumbs in one or another orifice, which is hard to do with aplomb if you happen to be a plumber.
Without dout, we are indetted to you for climing up on your soapbox, or out on a lim, to point out this crummy way of making our little lams succum to suttle rules of thum that could make their brains num and dum until they eventually bom out of school with their thums in one or another orifice, which is hard to do with aplom if you happen to be a plummer.
20 years later? Godzilla 1954, Halfhuman 1955, Rodan 1956, Varan 1958...
Even compared to Barney?
Ah, I use the precaffinated defense on the 20 yr. thing.
And Barney was irritating but wasn’t a trading card game that went on all waking hours amongst the grade schoolers.
I will know when Darks is lurking...I will automatically make typsos. I will be looking forward to them. :o])
Thanks for the repeat. I hadn’t seen it the first time.
” “I am working on concept of grammarlogicalistics. I am importing some practices from German grammar because it helps justify the word grammerlogicalistics”
Yer both NUTZ!
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerk-
bauunterbeamtengesellschaft (one word, no hyphen)
Kinda why I like the simplicity of “Bob”.
And why everyone else has to put up with it.
Bob works..
Can you imagine that in a spelling bee?
What is it...a factory making electronics?
Well, yeah, but not very hard.
I’m more of an idea man, actually.
Bob works, so does sjb. But DAM?
Dang!
“Can you imagine that in a spelling bee?
What is it...a factory making electronics?”
A statute governing the sale of a drug : )
Hey. I tried. Maybe I need a German pilsner? That would help me verstehen.
Go fer it!
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