Frikkin' Arizona Insanity!

[Howey]

The annals of Sheriff Crazy Joe continue...When will the citizens of Arizona realize they're becoming the laughingstock of the nation with this level of crazy blend of misogyny, racism, homophobia, and hate all rolled into one crazy sheriff?

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-described toughest sheriff in America, has added a taxpayer-funded deputy to his volunteer team in Hawaii determined to investigate "inconsistencies" in President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

The newest member of Arpaio's volunteer Hawaiian "Cold Case Posse," deputy Mike Zollo, has joined the team in part because the investigation has "progressed," according to Arpaio, and because of "security issues."

"It's one deputy, so what? We have security issues, too, that I can't got into," Arpaio said to the Arizona Republic. "For six months we were not spending any money. When you're doing investigations sometimes things change, you put more resources into it."

Zollo, who is part of the sheriff's threats unit, will continue to work on other cases as while working on the Obama investigation, but his actual mission in Hawaii is still not entirely clear.

"He's not going to make any arrests," Arpaio told the Republic. "I didn't say we're going to keep using him. We're not going to use him constantly. He's not assigned to it. For this trip I feel it's important to have a deputy there. He's just a liaison to give advice if needed. He's not doing anything. The posse's been doing the research. I'm not going to say what other trips they've been taking but they haven't had a deputy with them."

The "birther movement" --  which questions the validity of Obama's birth certificate and eligibility to be president — gained steam after Arpaio launched the investigation last year. The sheriff claims it was started at the request of 250 Tea Party members in Surprise, Arizona. Thus far, Arpaio's Hawaiian posse has spent close to $40,000 of donated money, according to the Republic.

Over two months ago, the Maricopa County Sheriff held a press conference to proclaim the revival of the so-called "birther" controversy at the conclusion of the six-month investigation that found the president’s birth certificate, which shows he was born in Hawaii, may have been a "computer-generated forgery," according to Arpaio. His team also found irregularities with Obama's Selective Service card.

The Obama birth certificate controversy has been widely debunked but remains alive in the eyes of some conservatives including, most recently, Donald Trump, who spoke on the issue while entertaining a bid for the presidency last year.  

I hope the State of Hawaii throws this goon out on his ass!

[44nutman]

This pisses me off.
I guess Sheriff Joe's county has zero crime and he can devout his time and his tax payers resources on a pubilcity stunt.

I am sure there are 250 people in Orange County that thinks Barack Obama is a space alien. The O.C Sheriff is not going to send a deputy to the moon, to check it out.

If publicity stunt, Sheriff Joe thinks Obama was born in HI, then research it on your own time and not on the taxpayers dime. Which also means when you talk about it , take off you tax payer paid uniform and don't refer to yourself as Sheriff Joe.

Side note, the birther shit does nothing but get Obama the moderate vote. The GOP needs to weed out the whack jobs, but they can't since they can guarantee they get the whack job vote.

[ekg]

This pisses me off.
I guess Sheriff Joe's county has zero crime and he can devout his time and his tax payers resources on a pubilcity stunt.

I am sure there are 250 people in Orange County that thinks Barack Obama is a space alien. The O.C Sheriff is not going to send a deputy to the moon, to check it out.

If publicity stunt, Sheriff Joe thinks Obama was born in HI, then research it on your own time and not on the taxpayers dime. Which also means when you talk about it , take off you tax payer paid uniform and don't refer to yourself as Sheriff Joe.

 I totally agree.. but if the people in his district cared, his polls wouldn't be so high, nor would he have so much donated money in his election chest..

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-12/joe-arpaio-maricopa-arizona-sheriff/54924340/1

I mean, other than the Obama stuff, this guy didn't care to prosecute rapes if they happened to hispanic women..

The fact that his people love him so, is more of a barometer of just how fucked up we, as a country, are..

Side note, the birther shit does nothing but get Obama the moderate vote. The GOP needs to weed out the whack jobs, but they can't since they can guarantee they get the whack job vote.

this is where the GOP is wrong.. the whack jobs are going to vote for Romney anyway.. they are catering to them because they want to..

[uselesslegs]

 I totally agree.. but if the people in his district cared, his polls wouldn't be so high, nor would he have so much donated money in his election chest..

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-12/joe-arpaio-maricopa-arizona-sheriff/54924340/1

I mean, other than the Obama stuff, this guy didn't care to prosecute rapes if they happened to hispanic women..

The fact that his people love him so, is more of a barometer of just how fucked up we, as a country, are..

this is where the GOP is wrong.. the whack jobs are going to vote for Romney anyway.. they are catering to them because they want to..

I agree.  There might be some right leaning moderates and independents that vote Obama because of the off the wall shit...but people seem to dismiss (or have already forgotten) the level of koo-koo that's already been welcomed into the GOP, perhaps begrudgingly, but welcomed none-the-less.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.  The GOP have embraced this concept, more over, the flame throwing naive peons they thought they'd deftly play for political purposes and positioning, are in fact starting to run the show AND *turning* the long time congressional and senate office holders to THEIR way of thinking.  Why/How?...because these flame throwing naive peons are UNSEATING their colleagues who disagree with their scorched earth way of doing things. 

The players, got played...and most Americans, who only dip a toe into politics, are painfully unaware of how drastic the dynamic is about to change if they don't step up their involvement.  "Moderate" in political adds is now being treated with the same venom as "Liberal."  "Conservative" is being redefined to mean someone who takes an ax to everything.

It's about to get reaaaalllllll ugly.

[ekg]

.  "Moderate" in political adds is now being treated with the same venom as "Liberal."  "Conservative" is being redefined to mean someone who takes an ax to everything.

It's about to get reaaaalllllll ugly.

you mean this



amazing to watch isn't it..

[uselesslegs]

That's the one.  It's a bit unnerving man.

[ekg]

yes it is..

[Howey]

The insanity continues...

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/dr-omar-amin-kicked-out-barnes-and-noble-being-childrens-section

In Scottsdale, Arizona, 73-year-old Dr. Omar Amin said he was shopping for books to give to his grandchildren when he was kicked out of Barnes & Noble bookstore last month.

Dr. Amin claims that he was sitting on the floor and talking on his phone in the children's book section, when a manager told him that he had to leave because he was making a female customer nervous.

Why?

He was there without children.

Dr. Amin told TV3: "This is an insult to all men not just to me. I left the store I was upset like hell because I've been so insulted and humiliated in public for the charge of being a man."

WTF? The old guy (who, according to a Google search, is quite a famous doctor) goes to the children's section and the idiots think he's a perv???

Wow...

[ekg]

Phillips was talking about this and he sided with the store.. or, not the store, but said men just don't do this anymore because it freaks ppl out..

but.. why was he sitting on the floor? that, and him being alone in the kids section.. after this guy was just all over AC360... is weird..

anyway, it should have been handled differently.. the store should have asked if they could have helped him and ascertained that way, why he was there..

and then told the 'rat' to stfu and get her panties out of a twist it's just a grandpa buying a book for his grand-kid..