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  • Sheriff Joe Arpaio Flogs a Dead Horse, Again!

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    March 20th, 2012EthelCurrent Affairs, Politics
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    Is it just me? Or does Joe Arpaio look and act like Peter Griffin?

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has a history of “investigating” and persecuting those who oppose him, criticize him, or fail to share his view as to how “things should be”, has renewed his campaign to prove that US President Obama’s purported birth certificate is a fraud and a sham.

    (Note: Arpaio has been under investigation by the US Federal Government pretty much ever since the outset of the Obama presidency – It’s been like two school-yard bullies pushing each other around!)

    For those unfamiliar with Arpaio, he is the (some would say) disgraced Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. Joe Arpaio, is generally known for his office’s purported rampant racial profiling against Latinos, but more recently for assembling a team of volunteer self-styled “investigators” to examine Obama’s birth certificate. Earlier this month, that team concluded that the birth certificate is a “forgery and fraud.”

    Throwing fuel on the fire, today, Florida Congressman Cliff Stearns called for credence to be given to birth certificate investigations (apparently making reference to Arpaio’s investigation), saying,“I think we are just going to hold in abeyance a final decision until we hear, you know, some of these people seem to have legitimate concerns, so I don’t think it is unreasonable just to see what they have to say,” Stearns said.

    (Not so long ago, Stearns actually accepted the fact that President Obama was born in the United States. In 2009, his office looked into the matter and concluded that there was “no reason to question  the President’s citizenship.” )

    Here’s how Arpaio’s claims were presented on a Phoenix television station:

    One of Arpaio’s most vocal critics, “The Phoenix New Times, (which has had numerous tussels with Arpaio over the years – see http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arpaio) today posted on its blog:

    Joe Arpaio’s Birther Squad Strikes Again: Mailman Claims “Foreign” Barack Obama Chatted Him Up at the Ayers’ House

    ​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” squad continues to add to the absolute embarrassment of an “investigation” that the sheriff has ordered in his name.

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    The former craziest mailman in America.

    This time around, Arpaio’s conspiracy-nut buddies have released a signed affidavit from a retired mailman claiming the legitimacy of the Bill Ayers aspect of the “birther” investigation released at the beginning of the month.

    Mailman Allen Hulton — who was only indentified as a “retired government employee” at the “birther” press conference — has taken an oath swearing that Ayers’ mother told him about a “foreign, black” student at her home, and that guy with the “unusual foreign sounding name” hinted to him some time in the ’90s that he had a “prearranged” presidency.

    Clearly, Hulton realized in 2008 that this was the one-and-only Barack Hussein Obama.

    Remember, this is just part of the evidence that Arpaio has taken in to call for a “bi-partisan congressional investigation,” as Arpaio actually thinks the president’s birth certificate is about as real as Dolly Parton’s chest.

    The mailman’s affidavit, which comes attached to documentation stating he spent 39 years with the post office, talks about his experiences delivering mail to the parents of Bill Ayers in Illinois during the ’80s and ’90s.

    Hulton never actually met Ayers, he says, but his father just so happened to speak “like a Marxist and talked about the class struggle between the rich and poor” while he was putting mail in his mailbox.

    Then some time in the “early 1990s,” Mary Ayers — Bill Ayers’ mother — said she was “impressed with a foreign, black student.”

    “I do not recall from what country she said he was,” the affidavit says. “I recall that the student had an unusual, foreign sounding name. Mary stated Thomas Ayers was helping this student through school financially.”

    Some time after that — “I am not sure of the exact period of time,” he says — Hulton claims a black guy with an “unusual, foreign sounding name” introduced himself.

    “He stated during the conversation the male stated that he was ‘going to be’ President
    of the United States,” Hulton swears. “I was taken aback by this statement because he came across as if his presidency was prearranged.”

    By 2008, the friendly postman who spoke with the neighborhood “Marxist” and chatted up foreigners made his discovery.

    “During the 2008 presidential campaign, Isaw several news reports detailing a relationship between candidate Barack Obama and radical activist Bill Ayers,” Hulton says.”These stories reminded me of my conversations with the Ayers and my encounter with the young black male with the foreign sounding name. The facial and physical characteristics, as well as candidate Obama’s voice, matched that of the young black male I met at the Ayers’ home. Iam positive that the black male I spoke with in front of the Ayers house that day was indeed a young Barack Obama.”

    Just like the rest of the “birther” squad’s evidence, it’s recycled from stuff that’s been passed around like tinfoil at a conspiracy-theorist conference, but Arpaio’s pals at the World Net Daily says it’s officially been submitted to Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse.”

    While the affidavit just claims Obama was “foreign,” the mailman tells Arpaio’s pals, “… I believe [Mary Ayers] said he was from either Kenya or Indonesia, and I favor Indonesia in my recollection.”

    Looks like the sheriff’s boys are building a real quality case over there. Click here for the sworn affidavit.

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    (Ethel: Come on, “New Times” . . . don’t beat around the bush . . . tell us what you really think about Arpaio and his “investigation”)

    Does anyone know what would happen if it were actually proved that Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud and that he was not born in the USA? Would he immediately be removed from office and (God forbid!) VP Joe Biden would become President? Or would the Presidency be taken away from Obama and given to  John McCain, his “runner up” in the last election? Would Obama be permitted to serve out his current term, but be prohibited from running again?

    Maybe Obama is an illegal alien and should be deported to Kenya or Indonesia or somewhere? I bet that’s what Joe would say!

    As always, your comments are encouraged.

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    • Los Suns

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      July 3rd, 2010EthelCurrent Affairs, Latin America, Politics, Sports
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      Los Suns

      For an NBA basketball game on May 5, 2010, the Phoenix Suns organization decided that the players would wear uniforms that said “Los Suns”.

      At the time, I simply thought that this was done in recognition of Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”, which is a celebration in the United States of Mexican-American culture and experiences.  It is only somewhat celebrated in Mexico. It commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day, the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico, which is celebrated on September 16).

      Robert Sarver

      At the time, the comments of the Sun’s owner, Robert Sarver, seemed consistent with my understanding.  He said that the wearing of “Los Suns” on the team’s jerseys in  was “to honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation.”

      However, many felt that the team’s decision was not primarily “to honor the Latino community”, but rather to protest the passing of Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

      Sarver’s subsequent comments appeared to confirm this. Sarver said frustration with the federal government’s failure to deal with the illegal immigration issue led to the passage of what he called “a flawed state law.”

      “However intended, the result of passing the law is that our basic principles of equal rights and protection under the law are being called into question,” he said, “and Arizona’s already struggling economy will suffer even further setbacks at a time when the state can ill-afford them.”

      AZ Gov. Jan Brewer

      I recently received an email suggesting that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer posted the following on Facebook, after the “Los Suns” game:

      “What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people were sneaking into games without paying?

      What if they had a good idea who the gate-crashers are, but the ushers and security personnel were not allowed to ask these folks to produce their ticket stubs, thus non-paying attendees couldn’t be ejected.

      Furthermore, what if Suns’ ownership was expected to provide those who sneaked in with complimentary eats and drink?

      And what if, on those days when a gate-crasher became ill or injured, the Suns had to provide free medical care and shelter?”

      I have no idea whether or Gov. Brewer actually posted the foregoing on Facebook, or whether this was just propaganda dreamed up by supporters of the Arizona law, and I made no effort to verify the fact.

      It really is irrelevant whether Gov. Brewer penned the post, or whether it even appeared on Facebook at all.  I just though it was an interesting analogy.

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    • Boycott Arizona! Boycott BP!

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      June 2nd, 2010EthelCurrent Affairs, Politics
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      This is an open letter to the reactionaries who urge everyone to refuse to visit Arizona because of the state’s immigration law, and to those who urge everyone to stop purchasing BP gasoline because of the mess BP has made in the Gulf of Mexico.

      Have the ultimate consequences of what you advocate ever occurred to you?

      1.  If people stop visiting Arizona, and if they stop holding conferences, “All Star Games”, etc. there, who will be hurt?  Restaurants, hotels, resorts, golf courses, etc.  Guess where the (primarily Hispanic) immigrants (legal or illegal) work?  They are restaurant workers, hotel housekeepers, landscapers and maintenance personnel at resorts and golf courses.  If people stop going to Arizona, they’re going to be putting those poor people out of work.  Is that your goal?

      2.  As to BP, first of all, how are you going to determine whether a particular gas station pumps gas from BP? (Unless maybe it’s an actual BP station – which I can’t remember seeing in a long time – and even their gas may not come from BP).  More importantly, it is hoped that BP can pay for the clean up of it’s mess, pay fines, compensate those harmed by the disaster, etc.  If you can boycott them right out of business, the burden of the clean up and so on will have to be borne by the US tax payer.  Is that your goal?

      If you want to hurt aliens (legal or illegal) in Arizona, then stay away.

      If you are a US taxpayer and you want to pay more taxes to clean up th BP mess, then by all means boycott BP right into insolvency.

      Sometimes you have to wonder if the most vocal of the reactionaries have a hidden agenda . . . or whether they’re just ignorant.

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    • Global Governance and Arizona Secession

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      May 28th, 2010EthelCurrent Affairs, Politics
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      In my last post, I included an excerpt from a call-in radio talk show featuring a caller who believed that the US borders should be open and anyone, from anywhere in the world, should have the unfettered right to go to the United States.  (She also said that she was on welfare, but didn’t think that the taxpayers paid for her welfare . . . instead, the money came from “Obama”.  When asked where he got the money, she said she didn’t know . . . maybe his “stash”.  Then she suggested that it was the illegal aliens who worked and then gave the money to the government).

      It is truly unfortunate for the institution of democracy that too many people are as stupid as this woman.

      Anyway, putting aside the issue of Obama’s “stash” and getting back to open borders, I was surprised to discover that many people believe that President Obama is working towards a “Global Governance” – a “one world government”.  Apparently, the overall plan of the political left is to be rid of both the US/Mexican border and the US/Canadian  border.  With a one-world government there will be no borders.  None will be needed.

      That, according to proponents of this theory, is why Obama and the far left are making such a fuss about Arizona’s immigration law (even though many of them admit to not reading it, and even though it is less susceptible to abuse than the corresponding federal law).

      According to J.D. Longstreet, writing for Faultline USA:

      Arizona just spat in the faces of the political left all over the world. And they are seriously PO’ed!

      J.D. Longstreet

      Look, even a fool knows the US government could close, seal, and secure the borders — if it wanted to. The simple truth is — the American government does not want to secure her borders. The progressives in the US government have been working for decades to pave the way for global governance, which would include the US. A global government would override the US Constitution, making it null and void.  The same group has been working feverishly to destroy the US Constitution of 1787 by claiming it is a “living document” and crying out for a new US Constitution for the 21st century.

      Understand: the proposed global government would be a socialist/marxist/communist government. The socialist Obama Regime (which actually believes it is running the country), the socialist Congress — including both the US House and the US Senate, were necessary to move the progressive agenda for global governance to fruition.  The so-called “Shadow Government” now has control of the Executive and the Legislative branches of the US Government and it is closing in on control of the third branch of our government – the Judicial branch.

      Anything that gets in the way of the socialist/progressives must be crushed.

      I give you: The Political Left’s War on Arizona!

      (I wonder how Costa Rica fits into this proposed socialist/marxist/communist global government?)

      As for Arizona, apparently it is not beyond the realm of possibility that it could secede from the  Union. So says Mr. Longstreet, as well as Marc Chung and Will Bunch (The Huffington Post).  Indeed, Arizona already has a bill (HCR 2034) which specifically provides for abolishment of the federal government and for state sovereignty.  Apparently, other states could follow Arizona.

      I remember a novel entitled “The Last Days of America” . . . maybe we’re living in those days right now.

      I personally doubt that we’re going to see a socialist/marxist/communist global government any time soon, or that Arizona will secede and go it on it’s own  . . . but, then again, I’m pretty bad at predicting the future.

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    • I Hope This Isn’t Real!

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      May 15th, 2010EthelCurrent Affairs, Politics
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      I received this email, today, purporting to be from an Arizona resident:

      This is what we are dealing with in Arizona! This makes me sick!!

      The Media will never show this but this is Arizona going down for the count.

      This photo was taken at a protest 5/1/10 in Phoenix.

      I for one am OUTRAGED by this photo, taken the next day after a Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy was shot by Mexican Drug Runners with an AK-47 just a few miles from my home.

      THIS CRAP IS TAKING PLACE “IN MY BACKYARD”!  YOU PEOPLE in other states need to shut the hell up, and actually READ THE PROPOSED LAW for yourselves, and NOT LISTEN TO THE RACEBAITERS like Sharpton and OBAMA!

      READ IT FOR YOURSELF THEN DECIDE IF IT IS RIGHT OR WRONG!!!!

      I have about had enough.

      Picture taken by one of my friends in Phoenix yesterday (5-1-10) when all the illegals were protesting. This is shocking!  Just keep poking us with those sticks, you bastards. We’re fed up.

      I have a hard time believing that the message on the sign is the prevailing opinion of illegal aliens in Arizona.

      I hope that, either the email that I received is some kind of a hoax . . . or that, if the photo is legitimate, it is just the opinion expressed by one “nut-cake” and doesn’t truly represent the position of illegal aliens in Arizona.

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    • Dr. Fegg’s Message to Arizona’s Governor and President Obama

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      May 6th, 2010EthelCareers and Occupations, Costa Rica, Current Affairs, Politics
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      Dr. Bert Fegg

      Ethel has graciously “yielded the floor” to me (she had no choice), so that I can present my views on a few issues.

      First of all, to the government of Arizona, I understand you have big problems with murder, kidnapping, car-jacking, identity-theft, home-invasions, etc.  But, you know what . . . those sound to me like CRIMINAL problems, not IMMIGRATION problems.    Spend your time and money on stepping up the enforcement of Arizona criminal laws and leave immigration out of it . . . Let the federal government deal with immigration.

      President Obama (whom I whole-heartedly support, if you didn’t already know) has announced that he intends to make immigration law reform a top priority.  Let him and the federal government deal with that issue.

      That said, the groups who advocate “boycotting” Arizona and who claim they will refuse to visit Arizona, because of the immigration law, are MORONS!  Who do you think you hurting by this boycott?  The governor is still going to draw her salary, whether you visit the state of not.    You’re not going to hurt her political future . . . the majority of Arizonans (legal residents and citizens) support what she has done . . . and illegal aliens can’t vote.

      No . . . here’s who is going to suffer if you boycott Arizona: restaurants, hotels, resorts, golf courses, and so on.  Who do you think depends on those industries to survive? – the (primarily Hispanic) aliens, legal or otherwise, who are the kitchen workers, housekeepers, landscapers, etc.

      You want to support Hispanic aliens?  Come visit Arizona in droves . . . stay in the hotels, eat at the restaurants, play golf.  You want to see those people laid off and going hungry, then “boycott” the state.  Idiots.

      Okay, on to Mr. Obama.

      First of all, Ethel was not practicing good journalism in her last post (http://www.ethelthefrog.com/?p=3242).  Come on! Why post a photo of Obama that makes him look like a skinny O.J. Simpson on the day he was arrested, with a fag hanging out of his mouth. Could you have found a less flattering photo?  I apologize on her behalf.

      And, the photo of the guy holding the sign about “illegal immigration” at the bottom of the post, which insinuates that Obama is an “illegal alien”.  You know as well as I do that, despite what crack-pot conspiracy theorists claim, President Obama is most certainly a citizen of the USA, fully entitled to be president. Come on, you’re just throwing fuel on a fire of ignorance.

      Now, President Obama (whom I know reads this post religiously), I don’t necessarily have all praise for you, today.  Let’s step it up . . . I’m not a US Citizen or resident, but the people who did vote for you, voted for change.  I say, bring it on, no matter how painful it might be to the “fat cats”.

      In a country as wealthy and powerful as the USA, nobody should go without healthcare . . . Government-provided healthcare . . . not this convoluted “reform” bill that was passed.  There should be a “one-payer” system . . . to hell with all the wealthy health insurance companies.

      And, I thought you weren’t going to pander to special interests . . . then why don’t we see tort reform in the healthcare proposals? . . . because the trial lawyers’ associations are such big campaign contributors and lobbyists?  If you instituted tort-reform and made insurance less expensive for physicians . . . and if physicians would lower their expectations as to how much money they’re entitled to . . .

      In other countries (Costa Rica, for example, people study to become physicians, surgeons, dentists, etc. – not because they expect to get rich, but because they want to be physicians, surgeons, dentists, etc. and they want to help people).  Even if you’re not on the government-provided healthcare program (because you’re not a citizen or legal resident), you can see a good doctor for about $20, and he or she will spend hours talking to you, if you like.

      In the US, by contrast, most family doctors’ offices are like a MacDonald’s assembly line, with 20 examination rooms that you sit and wait in until the doctor pops his head in for three minutes, before he rushes over to the next examination room.  And then, if you’re lucky enough to have health-insurance, your “co-pay” is likely more than the entire Costa Rican doctor’s bill referred to above.  If you don’t have health-insurance, be prepared to shell out a couple of hundred dollars for that three-minute visit.  Usually, what you get during your appointment is a prescription for some drug or other that you probably don’t need and the advice that “you should come back in a week, if it doesn’t get better”.  When you go back in a week, you pay again, just to get a referral to a “specialist”.

      I understand that politics is what it is, and that you can’t just do whatever you want . . . there are three levels of government, and more than one political party . . . . blah, blah, blah.  But don’t make promises you can’t keep, just to get elected and then renege or back down.

      Further, every American should be entitled, as a matter of right, to education.  I think the US is the only country where I hear kids say, “I can’t go to college, because I can’t afford it” (along with the people who say, “I can’t to to the doctor, because I can’t afford it”).  Even in an emerging third-world country like Costa Rica, anyone who wants to go to college can do it.  Tuition is something like $200 per semester at the state universities in Costa Rica.

      And every American should be guaranteed personal safety.  If Arizona is struggling with a big crime problem . . . don’t sue the state . . . send help, for crying out loud.

      Mr. President, I think that there are too many people making too much money in the USA . . . and too many people living on the street, going hungry, going without healthcare, going without education.  I don’t think your good friend Oprah should make $185 million per year (to pile onto her $3.4 billion net worth!) while other people go hungry.  (I think the $10 or $12 million that you, yourself, made last year was a little excessive, although I understand you did donate a good chunk to charity).

      Mr. President, be the “Robin Hood” that people hoped you’d be.  Tax the hell out of the rich and help those who are struggling to make ends meet.  Let’s see more equality and more right “to pursue happiness” in the USA.

      I have more to say . . . but I have to go.  Maybe we’ll have a chat, later in the day.

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    • I Predict That Obama Will Lose the Arizona Immigration Battle

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      May 4th, 2010EthelCurrent Affairs, Politics
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      US President Barack Obama

      Apparently, US President Obama has directed the Justice Department to file a lawsuit challenging the recent Arizona immigration law, which has caused such a “tempest in a teapot”.

      This is rather unusual for a few reasons.

      To begin with, “The practice of the Justice Department in the past with states involving immigration has been to let the courts settle it and not weigh in as a party,” says Kris Kobach, the law professor and former Bush Justice Department official who helped draft the Arizona law. Having the Department of Justice intervene, Kobach and other experts say, would be extraordinary.

      Moreover, Obama and other Democratic leaders have proposed that legal residents of the US be required to possess a “national identification card”.  How can Obama, in good faith, mount an argument against something that is remarkably similar to things that he himself has proposed in the past?

      However, the reason why Obama and the Justice Department will lose is because Arizona lawmakers are not stupid. They’ve been through this before, and won.

      Arizona is three-for-three in defending its immigration measures.

      In 2008, the state successfully defended its employer-sanctions law, which made it a state crime to knowingly employ an illegal immigrant. Facing some of the same groups that are now planning to challenge the new law, Arizona prevailed both in federal district court and at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s most liberal federal-appeals court.

      In federal court in 2005, Arizona successfully defended Proposition 200, which required proof of citizenship for voting and also restricted benefits to illegals.

      And in 2006, officials won a state court challenge to Arizona’s human-smuggling law.

      The arguments that liberal groups make against the new law are similar to those made in the past.  Foremost among them is the claim that only the federal government can handle immigration matters, and thus the Arizona measure pre-empts federal law.

      Arizona lawmakers thought of that ahead of time.

      “This law was carefully drafted to avoid any legal challenge on pre-emption in two ways,” Kobach explains. “One, it perfectly mirrors federal law. Courts usually ask whether a state law is in conflict with federal law, and this law is in perfect harmony with federal law.

      “Two, the new law requires local law-enforcement officers not to make their own judgment about a person’s immigration status but to rely on the federal government,” Kobach continues.  Any officer who reasonably suspects a person is illegal is required to check with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  ”As long as the state or city is relying on the federal government to determine immigration status, that will protect against a pre-emption challenge,” Kobach says.

      The Obama administration could try to argue that the law is a burden on the federal government?  Or, it could refuse to assist Arizona in determining a person’s legality?

      The Arizona drafters thought of that, too.  There’s a federal statute — 8 USC 1373, passed during the Clinton years — requiring the federal government to verify a person’s immigration status any time a state or local official asks for it.

      Therefore, the federal government cannot deny assistance to Arizona without breaking the law itself.


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    • Arizona Immigration Law

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      April 28th, 2010EthelCurrent Affairs, Politics
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      Yesterday, on Facebook, I challenged anyone (especially the members of the ridiculous Facebook Groups that oppose the law) to give me one good argument why Arizona’s immigration law is wrong, bad, unethical, illegal, or whatever.

      Not surprisingly, not one person accepted the challenge . . . and how could they?  All the Arizona law does is propose to enforce the federal immigration law.

      Now, the City of San Francisco has prohibited it’s city employees from travelling to Arizona and it plans to cancel all contracts with Arizona companies, and prohibit future contracts with such companies.  Nice!  All because the City of San Francisco chooses to flagrantly violate Federal law by being a “sanctuary city”, providing safe haven to illegal aliens, whereas Arizona chooses to comply with Federal law.

      Why does the Federal government let the “gestapo” – I mean the City Council – of San Francisco blatantly violate the law . . . and stifle their residents’ right to travel and contract with whom they please. The whole City Council of San Francisco should be jailed along with the illegal aliens.

      I say, “Boycott San Francisco”.  I’m going to do so . . . it’s a dirty, stinky cesspool of a city, anyway.  The whole city smells like rotting fish and piss.  What a “romantic” city!

      When you walk the streets, you have to be careful to step over the urine of the bums holding cardboard signs that say, “Help me, I have AIDS”.

      I think that Phoenix should give free bus passes to San Francisco to all illegal aliens . . . it would be a lot cheaper than trying to control the rampant crime.  Let’s see how San Francisco deals with thousands of illegal alien criminals and drug-dealers.

      Then there’s Phoenix, Arizona – the home-invasion, car-jacking and identity-theft capital of the USA . . . second only to Mexico City as the kidnapping capital of the whole world!

      Who is committing these crimes . . . illegal aliens, of course.

      The Federal government is doing nothing to help with the problem, so Arizona has decided to step up their own enforcement efforts.  How can you blame them?

      (If you do some research, you discover that, before the new law, one or more illegal aliens were released back into the community, whereupon they promptly committed murder (of at least one police officer)).

      I have read that LEGAL residents and citizens of Arizona are, for the most part, proponents of the Arizona immigration law.  It seems to be the Mexican government, illegal aliens, and the liberal media who oppose the law.

      Let’s see what Mexico thinks about illegal aliens in it’s own country (from Townhall.com):

      Mexican President Felipe Calderon has accused Arizona of opening the door “to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement.” But Arizona has nothing on Mexico when it comes to cracking down on illegal aliens. While open-borders activists decry new enforcement measures signed into law in “Nazi-zona” last week, they remain deaf, dumb or willfully blind to the unapologetically restrictionist policies of our neighbors to the south.

      The Arizona law bans sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, stiffens penalties against illegal alien day laborers and their employers, makes it a misdemeanor for immigrants to fail to complete and carry an alien registration document, and allows the police to arrest immigrants unable to show documents proving they are in the U.S. legally. If those rules constitute the racist, fascist, xenophobic, inhumane regime that the National Council of La Raza, Al Sharpton, Catholic bishops and their grievance-mongering followers claim, then what about these regulations and restrictions imposed on foreigners?

      Mexican President Felipe Calderon has accused Arizona of opening the door “to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement.” But Arizona has nothing on Mexico when it comes to cracking down on illegal aliens. While open-borders activists decry new enforcement measures signed into law in “Nazi-zona” last week, they remain deaf, dumb or willfully blind to the unapologetically restrictionist policies of our neighbors to the south.

      The Arizona law bans sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, stiffens penalties against illegal alien day laborers and their employers, makes it a misdemeanor for immigrants to fail to complete and carry an alien registration document, and allows the police to arrest immigrants unable to show documents proving they are in the U.S. legally. If those rules constitute the racist, fascist, xenophobic, inhumane regime that the National Council of La Raza, Al Sharpton, Catholic bishops and their grievance-mongering followers claim, then what about these regulations and restrictions imposed on foreigners?

      – The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” How’s that for racial and ethnic profiling?

      – If outsiders do not enhance the country’s “economic or national interests” or are “not found to be physically or mentally healthy,” they are not welcome. Neither are those who show “contempt against national sovereignty or security.” They must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care.

      – Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years’ imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years’ imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless bites at the litigation apple that illegal aliens are afforded in our country (see, for example, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt — a fugitive from deportation for eight years who is awaiting a second decision on her previously rejected asylum claim).

      – Law enforcement officials at all levels — by national mandate — must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations. The Mexican military is also required to assist in immigration enforcement operations. Native-born Mexicans are empowered to make citizens’ arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities.

      – Ready to show your papers? Mexico’s National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens’ identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens.

      All of these provisions are enshrined in Mexico’s Ley General de Población (General Law of the Population) and were spotlighted in a 2006 research paper published by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy. There’s been no public clamor for “comprehensive immigration reform” in Mexico, however, because pro-illegal alien speech by outsiders is prohibited.

      Consider: Open-borders protesters marched freely at the Capitol building in Arizona, comparing GOP Gov. Jan Brewer to Hitler, waving Mexican flags, advocating that demonstrators “Smash the State,” and holding signs that proclaimed “No human is illegal” and “We have rights.”

      But under the Mexican constitution, such political speech by foreigners is banned. Noncitizens cannot “in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.” In fact, a plethora of Mexican statutes enacted by its congress limit the participation of foreign nationals and companies in everything from investment, education, mining and civil aviation to electric energy and firearms. Foreigners have severely limited private property and employment rights (if any).

      As for abuse, the Mexican government is notorious for its abuse of Central American illegal aliens who attempt to violate Mexico’s southern border. The Red Cross has protested rampant Mexican police corruption, intimidation and bribery schemes targeting illegal aliens there for years. Mexico didn’t respond by granting mass amnesty to illegal aliens, as it is demanding that we do. It clamped down on its borders even further. In late 2008, the Mexican government launched an aggressive deportation plan to curtain illegal Cuban immigration and human trafficking through Cancun.

      Meanwhile, Mexican consular offices in the United States have coordinated with left-wing social justice groups and the Catholic Church leadership to demand a moratorium on all deportations and a freeze on all employment raids across America.

      Mexico is doing the job Arizona is now doing — a job the U.S. government has failed miserably to do: putting its people first. Here’s the proper rejoinder to all the hysterical demagogues in Mexico (and their sympathizers here on American soil) now calling for boycotts and invoking Jim Crow laws, apartheid and the Holocaust because Arizona has taken its sovereignty into its own hands:

      Hipócritas.

      Please, somebody tell me why I’m wrong.  I willing to listen (unlike some people).

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    • Sports News From Phoenix, Arizona

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      May 22nd, 2009EthelSports
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      azAs many of you know, I am presently stuck in Arizona, taking care of some personal business and suffering from allergies and heat exhaustion.

      However, I’ve had the opportunity to catch up with what’s going in Phoenix professional sports.

      It’s a mixed bag of mostly bad news: 

      • The 39-year-old wife of Arizona Diamondbacks reliever Scott Shoeneweis was found dead by the couple’s 14-year-old daughter in the master bedroom of their Fountain Hills home on Wednesday.  The cause of death is not determined, but there are no signs of foul play.
      • The 37-year-old wife of Phil Mickelson (a former Arizona State University golf star, three-time major champion with 36 PGA Tour victorys) has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is about to undergo major surgery and other treatment.  Michelson has taken an indefinite leave of absence from the PGA Tour.
      • The Diamondbacks, after splitting a double-header yesterday with the Florida Marlins, are in fourth place in the National League West, with 17 wins and 24 losses.
      • Another possible buyer for the Phoenix Coyotes has surfaced – one that would keep the team in Glendale.  phoenix-coyotesApparently, Las Vegas businessman John Breslow (who presently owns 3% of the Coyotes) has formed a group interested in submitting a bid for the team.  (There are unconfirmed reports that the group includes Coyotes coach, Wayne Gretzky).  The Breslow interest is separate from another potential purchasing group headed by Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of baseball’s Chicago White Sox and the NBA’s Chicago Bulls.  As I reported in an earlier post, BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie has offered $212.5 million to buy the Coyotes; however, his offer is contingent on moving the team to southern Ontario in Canada – a move which, apparently, is not supported by the league and which would cause significant financial hardship for the City of Glendale which has a huge stake in Jobing.com Arena, a state-of-the-art facility that opened in December 2003. (I’d like to form a group to bring the team to Costa Rica – I just need to find some investors willing to put up something north of $213 million . . . I just know there’d be a lot of interest in NHL hockey in San Jose! But then, I was convinced that what’s his name would beat the other guy on American Idol last night!)
      • Phoenix Suns point guard, Steve Nash, will earn $13,125.00 next season . . . and many people believe that he isSteve Nash underpaid, considering the fact that he is the star and the “face” of the Suns (and considering the fact that three teammates will make more money than him, next year:  Shaquille O’Neil ($20 Million), Amaré Soudemire ($16.4 million) and Jason Richardson ($13.3 million).  As I understand it, after playing out the next season, Nash can accept a two-year optional extension with the Suns, which would give him a paltry 10.5% raise to $14.5 million . . . or he can pass on the option and enter free agency.  What to do, what to do?  (I wish I had Nash’s problems).  If he passes on the option, he will be a 36-year-old point guard entering a free market with teams that usually invest long term in young players when they have rare salary-cap space.  However, if Nash has another outstanding season next year, a team such as Toronto or New York (which will have cap space), or another team looking to make a championship run, might be interested in paying top dollar for the instant respect that Nash could bring to the team.  The Suns, of course, want to keep Nash . . . and Nash has indicated that he would like to stay in Phoenix.  I expect the team to look to get rid of a high-salary player (such as O’Neil) in order to make room for a generous extension offer to Nash . . . but what do I know?  (As I said, I was convinced that what’s his name would beat the other guy on American Idol last night!  What’s up with that!)
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    • Can You Believe It!

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      Headed To Tampa
      Cardinals beat Eagles, 32-25, in NFC Championship and advance to Super Bowl
      By DARREN URBAN

      Linebacker Karlos Dansby (right) takes the NFC Championship trophy from team owner Bill Bidwill as team President Michael Bidwill looks on.

      The confetti rained down, the crowd of 70,000-plus screamed and the Arizona Cardinals were going to the Super Bowl, while veteran defensive tackle Bryan Robinson had a single thought crawl through his head.

      “Really, I was thinking, ‘Not bad for the worst playoff team ever,’ ” Robinson said.

      The Cards accomplished the improbable Sunday – improbable to everyone except perhaps themselves – by beating the Philadelphia Eagles, 32-25, in the NFC Championship at University of Phoenix. Tampa comes next, for Super Bowl XLIII and a chance to be champions of the NFL.

      A dizzying thought to be sure.

      “Arizona Cardinals and Super Bowl in the same sentence,” quarterback Kurt Warner said. “I like the way that sounds.”

      The accomplishment was “very good,” owner Bill Bidwill said while accepting the Halas Trophy on the field afterward, although “I imagine there are some superlatives I could add to it, but I can’t think of any right now.”

      Fittingly, the game was decided by the Cardinals’ offense.

      The Cards (12-7) dominated the first half and led 24-6 at halftime. But the Eagles wrested control of the game in the third quarter, outgaining Arizona, 165 yards to 8.

      When Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb completed a 62-yard bomb to DeSean Jackson just over the outstretched fingers of cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Philadelphia had taken a 25-24 lead with 10:45 left in the game.

      “That last drive when we all looked at each other and said, ‘This is it, we’re going to win this game,’ ” fullback Terrelle Smith said.

      Taking over on their own 28-yard line, the Cardinals moved to the Philadelphia 8 with 2:59 left in the game, converting at one point a fourth-and-1 when running back Tim Hightower scooted around right end for a six-yard gain.

      Facing a third-and-goal, Warner — who had his best game ever against Philadelphia’s blitzing defense – threw a middle screen to Hightower. Hightower made a couple of moves before barreling into the end zone.

      “I was speechless,” Hightower said. “I saw the end zone and my eyes lit up. It was one of the best feelings to know the coaches have confidence in you in one of the most crucial situations of the game.”

      The play was Warner’s fourth touchdown pass of the game. On the next play, Warner found tight end Ben Patrick for a two-point conversion, and the Cards had a seven-point lead with 2:53 left.

      The drive “was an indication of our growth as team and that’s what it’s really all about,” coach Ken Whisenhunt said.

      The defense, which had been punctured plenty in the second half after the stellar first half, drew on the offense’s success. The Eagles (11-7-1) drove from their own 20 to the Arizona 47, but there McNabb threw four straight incompletions, with cornerback Rod Hood covering wide receiver Kevin Curtis on the final play.

      “The coolest thing throughout was, offense and defense, we didn’t panic,” Robinson said. “When they scored on us, (wide receiver) Anquan (Boldin) looked at me and said, ‘We’ve got it.’

      “We truly feed off each other. Lackluster third quarter, but it’s all worth it right now to be called NFC Champs.”

      Warner was spectacular, completing 21-of-28 passes for 279 yards. Nine of the passes when to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who had 152 yards and an NFC Championship-tying three touchdown catches.

      The Cards did have to punt one final time, but the Eagles’ last ditch multi-lateral play with nine seconds left on their own 7 turned into a fumble that was recovered by defensive tackle Darnell Dockett.

      That’s when Whisenhunt said he felt like the team had won. The celebrations had begun.

      “I can’t even put this into words,” said safety Adrian Wilson, the longest-tenured Cardinal. “It has been a rollercoaster ride for eight years. To finally get to this point, to win an NFC Championship, means a lot. I’ve been saying this all night, the Arizona Cardinals just changed their stripes.”

      And now, after a week, they will head to Florida to cap their incredible season.

      “We are happy to have the NFC Champion trophy,” Smith said, “but we want that Super Bowl trophy.”

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