I'm not sure why anyone would want to visit that sunblasted hellhole anyway. Yeah, maybe wizened old golfers whose faces already resemble saddlebags have some use for the place, or maybe if you're from Mexico it's preferable to what's going on south of the Rio Grande, but if I were Mexican I'd KEEP GOING NORTH. Arizona, for those who haven't been paying attention, has just passed an anti-immigrant law that will essentially have police pulling over people they even suspect of being illegal immigrants and demanding that they show proof of citizenship. This "law" is an outrageous violation of civil rights. It's straight from the fascist playbook and is a disgrace to the nation. Arizona, with with that ass-clown of a sheriff Joe Arpaio, has officially replaced Alabama as the worst state in the nation and that's sayin' something, with all respect to Lynyrd Skynyrd. It's a place where political courage goes to die. “We are going to look like Alabama in the ’60s,” state representative Bill Konopnicki told the New York Times. Konopnicki voted for the bill even though he didn't like it because "everybody was afraid to vote no on immigration." Voting "no" wouldn't change anything, he said. Well, that's standing for principle, isn't it? Then there's John McCain, that sad, sad empty shell of a man. A couple of years ago, back when he was a "maverick" although he says today he was never a maverick although throughout the presidential campaign he couldn't stop referring to himself as a maverick, McCain voted for the immigration bill that would have provided a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants. Today, facing a fierce primary challenge, he calls the Arizona law a "good tool." Clearly, this man knows from tools. The "maverick's" evolution to horse's ass is now complete.
I wish I knew exactly what is made in Arizona so I could boycott it. Like a lot of places in America these days, I don't think much gets made there at all. Aircraft parts? Golf balls? Tomatoes grown with irrigated water? They certainly seem to produce a lot of right-wing freaks. I guess I could boycott their tourism industry. Oh well, so much for seeing the Grand Canyon. Then again, if I want to stare at an empty void I can always call up a photo of John McCain.
Aw, harsh dude. Tools to horses ass in two sentences. - Deb
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ReplyDeleteArizona can pass race base laws, pass Birthers laws and the state can continue to boycott Martin Luther King Day, well the rest of the Country can boycott the state of Arizona and spank them where it hurts them the most their pocket book. Their phony patriotism is sickening, they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat War profiteering contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). The Birthers and the Tea party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that’s like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that.
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