Thursday, August 16, 2012
Funny thing about Jan Brewer’s so-called action yesterday: it doesn’t do anything. Hey, I didn’t say that, she did. Here she is at yesterday’s press conference: It actually is no different than what was already in place. It’s true. Since the president’s directive doesn’t actually grant any new legal status to anyone, Brewer’s “executive order” [...]
While testifying at the his racial profiling trial yesterday, Joe Arpaio was confronted with an assertion from his book, Joe’s Law. In the book, Arpaio states that second and third generation Mexican-Americans are separate from the American mainstream. When confronted with this nugget, Arpaio did the brave, no-nonsense and take-charge thing: he blamed his co-author. [...]
My biggest fan, Horatio, had a little something to tell me: Yo, genius- check the record: http://www.azleg.gov//FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1621.hthird.1.asp&Session_ID=102 http://www.azleg.gov//FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1621.hthird.2.asp&Session_ID=102 Oh yeah- how did it feel to be 4th in 2008 and 5th 2010? http://www.pima.gov/elections/Past%20Results/res0906.htm http://www.pima.gov/elections/Past%20Results/res0810.htm Something tells me this won’t get approved. Well, not only will I approve it, I’ll go and re-post it. The irony [...]
Don’t criticize the President for the failure for an immigration compromise in 2007 when he voted for the bill and you filibustered it. All this stuff is on record and kind of easy to find these days.
One of the things that frustrates traditional American sports fans about soccer is that a game can end in a tie. Well, it can even be worse. The English are so allergic to tie breakers (in addition to being allergic to decent cooking) that for years, they didn’t allow for tie-breakers, even in knockout tournaments [...]
Which leaves me only to write a “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead” post.
I resisted writing anything about Joe Arpaio’s arrest of a six year old girl. It’s hard for me to write about the more odious actions of Arpaio. I find when I’m angry, I’ll just write an unhinged rant instead of a decent post. Still, it pisses me off. Here is the sheriff of one of [...]
Barack Obama’s change in immigration enforcement is entirely political. I know this because a series of Republican politicians put out well crafted press releases yesterday carefully worded to appeal their base in the next primary said so. Mitt Romney’s first reaction was not to say anything about the substance of the issue, but to argue [...]
You may have read a little bit about this; it even made Wonkette. Russell Pearce had a fundraiser scheduled yesterday, and he had to cancel it when no one wanted to host it. The fundraiser was organized by lobbyist Gretchen Jacobs (yes, there are lobbyists who still like Pearce), an ally of pro-bullying activist Cathy [...]
Janet Napolitano announced this morning that DHS will no longer deport “low priority” illegal immigrants. These would be folks who migrated before their sixteenth birthday, have committed no major crimes and are under the age of 30. It goes without saying that this will cause the usual veins-in-the-neck popping snit from certain folks who have [...]
