A stinging indictment of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the MCSO. That’s how the lawsuit filed yesterday by the Arizona ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, (MALDEF) and the Phoenix law firm Steptoe and Johnson, against Joe, the MCSO and Maricopa County reads. Brought on behalf of five…
Video of the Tucson protest of Arpaio, from Jon Justice’s 1041TheTruth, showing a Sheriff Joe piñata being beaten and Isabel Garcia scooping up its head. Like you need more proof that times are way-way-slow down in the “Old Pueblo,” Tucson radio wing nut “Jon Justice” is hunting the head of…
Tears of a clown? Joe’s afraid of the big, bad Mesa police chief. So I return from my brief respite from the sad insanity of Maricopa County to see that mean ol’ Sheriff Joe’s still so scared of Mesa Police Chief George Gascon that our cowardly top constable won’t even…
Brandy au naturel, from her Web site brandysmassage.com. I’ll be out of pocket for the next couple of days, and so will not be able to blog as normal. There will be some catching up to do Monday, on the new Cave Creek raid and the series on Joe in…
Will J.T. be at the big debate Thursday? And more importantly, will he be in uniform? The call’s gone out from ex-KIA peddler Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America, the most militant outfit of racist knuckledraggers in the Valley: Their old buddy state Rep. Russell Pearce, aka, Mr. Ethnic…
Bruce Starr at the Super Bowl. The image is from the Honduras radio personality’s February report on his trip in Honduras This Week Online. Let’s return to Honduras for a moment and check in with Sheriff’s office pal “Roatan Bruce” Starr, a radio-personality in the Bay Islands, Honduras who also…
Senator Jesse Helms, no-longer-living evidence that the good die young… The caustic sensation of hatred and bile inching up the back of my throat: It’s the same feeling I used to get as a teenager in North Carolina, as I watched Republican Senator Jesse Helms play the race card over…
Buffalo Rick, just outside the Macehualli Work Center, nearby where he’s alleged to have taken an illegal public piss. Local anti-immigrant activist and alleged public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener inched a tad closer to trial today on a March 8 incident in which Galeener stands accused of taking an al…
MR. PITIFUL Why, The Bird’s never seen Sheriff Joe Arpaio lookin’ so used up and beat as he appeared at the Barnes & Noble in Surprise during a recent Saturday-afternoon book-signing for Joe’s Law, which was ripped a new one by the Taloned One’s stenographer the other day (“America’s Meanest…
Jeez, Joe, take a nap, will ya? You’re too old to keep up this pace… Ancient oldsters being wheeled around by their 70-year-old “children.” Blue-hairs lugging about their own oxygen tanks. A withered old crone with literally one tooth in her mouth, eager to get her book signed. The occasional…
The Silver Fox, Mesa Police Chief George Gascon, outwitted and outmaneuvered Sheriff Joe on Thursday. See a slideshow of yesterday’s events, here. So where was Joe yesterday afternoon for the big Mesa sweep? Pro-immigrant protesters were out in full force in front of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office substation in…
It was all love from the mostly alter kocker crowd of Sheriff Joe supporters at the Barnes & Noble near Pima and Shea in Scottsdale, with Arpaio addressing the seated senior citizens before signing copies of his book Joe’s Law: America’s Toughest Sheriff Takes on Illegal Immigration, Drugs and Everything Else…
The Shaq video that’s got the whole world yappin’, even mean, ol’ Sheriff Joe… By now, nearly everyone’s seen the freakin’ hi-larious clip above of Suns center Shaquille O’Neal dissin’ the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant for not being able to take an NBA championship without him, bustin’ rhymes like, “You know…
Joe giving the oldsters a thrill at the recent Scottsdale booksigning. One thing I like about these ongoing protests of Sheriff Joe signing his book Joe’s Law at Barnes and Noble stores throughout the Valley, is that they strip away the veneer of bullshit that overlays everything to do with…
Randy Parraz of the Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability following his grilling of the Supes this past Thursday. Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meetings resemble a cross between kabuki theater and Stalinist show trials. Brown-shirted MCSO deputies line the walls. Speakers are cut off at three minutes, or threatened…
The things people will cop to online. Take these recent postings to the message board of United for a Sovereign America, one of the Valley’s most virulent hate groups led by alleged public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener and erstwhile KIA-dealer Rusty Childress. Under the June 16 subject heading “beware!!!!!,” U.S.A…
So what do you expect from a pack of baguette-chomping, Bordeaux-swilling Frogs when it comes to producing a short item on our corrupt top constable Sheriff Joe Arpaio? If you guessed a slab of fresh, steaming pile o’ merde, with Joe’s mug perched atop it like a party favor, then…
The following bit o’ weirdness comes courtesy of a reader who was sent the initial e-mail below from one Jon Garrido, a local activist and wannabe Phoenix city councilman. Garrido runs the “Hispanic News” Web site (http://hispanic.cc), which bills itself as, “The number 1 Hispanic website in the United States.”…
Crispin Glover at Chandler Cinemas in May with Midnite Movie Mamacita Andrea Beesley-Brown. Crispin Glover lecturing Village Voice Media attorney Steve Suskin and New Times editor Rick Barrs on libel law. Glover educating locals on his needs while in town. Glover insisting on payment in cash before taking the stage…
XTRA CRISPY So the Bird was out for First Friday recently when it ran into Andrea Beesley-Brown, a.k.a. the Midnite Movie Mamacita, known for hosting splatter and grindhouse flicks at Chandler Cinemas, where she doubles as the operations manager. The perky New Zealander told this tweeter a wacky tale of…
Master debunker Mark “Gravy” Roberts’ video blasting the BS 9/11 conspiracy theory of a controlled demo out of the proverbial H2O. WITH A WIMPER: Wannabe-PhD Blair Gadsby crapped out today on his Looney Tunes hunger strike in front of U.S. Senator John McCain’s Phoenix office. Gadsby announced this afternoon on…
I’m on deadline all day Tuesday, and so, alas, will likely miss the following. Wish I could be there to report on the tsunami of insanity that will deluge the Arizona state Capitol as Blair “My kingdom for a hotdog!” Gadsby and a rabid horde troofer tards storm the Legislature…
