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.
Awwww....cute little marmalade!
Maybe Lincoln is the one facing forward, and the rest are looking back? Just sayin’
The boy has pretty brown eyes, but otherwise looks a bit like a dweeb.
There was a gangster character in a book I just read who carried a kitten around with him.
Thank you for my first lol of the day!
Good morning, beautiful people!
Lotsa cloud cover and rain; connection iffy.
Completed large vexatious project this weekend. Celebration in order. (Will be on the futon under a fleecy throw w/Crowbar catching up on reading—yay!)
Y’all have a great day!
“I say something nobody hear it.”
Sure we do. Some of us w/OCD go back to read everything we missed while we were gone.
Thanks for K update. How many books does she weigh now?
In modern parlance, are you suggesting they've 'got Lincoln's back'?
Is that for joint or for muscle ache? I usually just go to sleep if my neck gets strained and the muscles relax. Hanging upside down helps, too, but the power rack is in the garage so I don’t do that much any more. It took me six months to learn a very involved chi kung (qi gong) form in the nineties, but since then I don’t have much neck discomfort. Chi kung was definitely the most effective approach. When my husband took a long exam that, in this day and age (2001), had to be hand-written, he used capsaicin cream for writer’s cramp and that helped considerably.
The Stig is yellow and black with some green, and quite a little show-off. (He’s a rescue.) Of course, I watch Top Gear on BBCA...
There was a boy in that picture? Hmpf. All I saw was the little ginger cat perched on something. ;o]
The Celadrin Cream is for joint pain. For muscle aches, I usually take a dose of ibuprofin and either use moist heat or an ice pack., then relax for 30 minutes while they work.
If you want to look at it that way. I just like to look at things from different angles. Sometimes. Heheheheheh!
If you want to look at it that way. I just like to look at things from different angles. Sometimes. Heheheheheh!
GAHRRR!
There was a boy ;-). He looks a little like a grown-up Pat, if Pat had brown eyes.
I haven’t weighed Kathleen recently. I’ll try to remember, next time I change her clothes. Based on the general size she’s outgrowing, she probably weighs close to 14 books.
‘m told that the mud smells like the old swamp near where I grew up.
In which case, skunk cabbage was pleasant by comparison.
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