Short Bus's Obama Birth Certificate Defense Is Officially ZOTTED

The Stir ^ | 3/2/12 | Sasha Brown-Worsham

[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.

[Darksheare]

How’s Frank taking being the senior apprentice?

[Scoutmaster]

I just like to look at things from different angles.

Yes, you do. And that's not a bad thing - my best friend in college used to tell me she'd yet to see the sheet music for the drummer I marched to (he said, ending his sentence with a preposition).

"Lincoln" is an ongoing thing with the senior high youth and me. One of the church families is heavily (heavily, heavily) into soccer and always sponsors a female foreign exchange student into its family of three girls. Two and a half (?) years ago, they sponsored two high school juniors from Germany. During a discussion in youth group, one of the German girls said they referred to the eldest girl in the host family as "our American cousin." I quipped "I'll bet Abe Lincoln gets a kick out of that."

I was greeted with puzzled looks from everyone except one bookworm youth who almost swallowed her gizzard laughing. After we had administered CPR, she explained the joke. Since then, any youth who finds something funny on the Internet involving Abraham Lincoln and the assassination forwards it to me, or prints it out and brings it to youth. We not learn about God, but we know all about Dr. Samuel Mudd.

[moose07]

Top Gear
Have you seen the "special" episodes?
There are seven of them, if you haven't it's worth it.
Season 18: Monday April 16th At 8/7C (?)

Yellow and black with some green
Now that is pretty! The blue ones,i find, are a bit 'traditional'.

[Tax-chick]

I recently read a book about the Booth family, of “John Wilkes” fame. I’ll specify it when I can get my library catalog to pull up.

[Monkey Face]

I watch as many episodes as I can. If there is a marathon, I sit and watch. I never get tired of the show or the hosts.

Now, though, I will have to try and access the videos, as I gave up my cable.

The Stig is an awesome little guy. I’ve had several rescues before, but none as easy to get along with as this one. He sings even when he is taking a nap!

[Tax-chick]

[HKMk23]

yelp management is simply humorless; the entry you posted has been removed. A subsequent entry attributed to one Abraham L. of Springfield, IL remains, but has been filtered.

“The acoustics left my ears ringing and with a splitting headache. I need to return there like I need a hole in the head. That’s the last time I see “Our American Cousin” there again.”

[Monkey Face]

I’m off to prop my legs up. See you tomorrow!

[LibreOuMort]

(car picture)
talk about getting crapped on, wow!

[Silentgypsy]

Crowbar weighed 16 books when we adopted him. Do you use a sling when you carry her around? I’d need one.

[Silentgypsy]

Night night!

[Tax-chick]

I have a front-backpack, but she’s still too floppy for me to be really comfortable with it. If we’re carrying her around, as opposed to sitting, we just pass her from one person to another. There are always people wanting to hold her. Everyone in the Spanish choir got turns on Sunday, since none of our older children (except Bill, drumming) was there.

[Tax-chick]

[Darksheare]

[Monkey Face]

WHOA! What a wake-up call!

Howdy. I’m having so much trouble with this time change. Again.

[Tax-chick]

Good morning. I don’t like the time change, either. I wish they’d just pick something and stick with it.

[Monkey Face]

One of my neighbors tried to justify the time change to me yesterday by using farmers as an example. This guy is from Nebraska. I asked him if he had ever seen a farmer with a watch on his wrist. Well, no, he hadn’t.

Me: Why do you think that is?
Him: Well, I’m not sure. Maybe it would get caught in machinery.
Me: A farmer gets up at dawn and works until sundown. Winter or summer. Daylight savings time is NOT for farmers.

He then used the argument that people get more hours of work done.
Me: Why don’t they just open their stores an hour earlier?

Some folks just can’t handle logic. Poor things.

[Tax-chick]

People could just work different hours, according to how the hours of daylight work out best for them ... but apparently it’s important for us all to follow a fixed schedule, even if it’s a nuisance.

[Shimmer1]

Happy Birthday Nully!!

[Monkey Face]

I suppose to someone, back in The Great War, it sounded logical, but it is so unnecessary today.

It makes me cranky for about the first two months.