Go get ’em, tiger: Saban being interviewed shortly after announcing his run for Sheriff. Monday means deadline for me, folks, because I’m under the gun for this week’s Bird column, but I would be remiss if I didn’t give a little report from my attendance this Saturday at the Dan…
Check the Penzoil in that ‘do. Give it up, Joe. Gray’s nothing to be ashamed of. I’m a glutton for punishment. That’s the only excuse I have for rolling down to 32nd and Thomas this Friday afternoon to check Sheriff Joe’s press conference announcing his “crime suppression operation,” supposedly focused…
Seems libertarian comedian Drew Carey took time off from his new gig at The Price Is Right recently, and delved into Pinal County’s vindictive and ass-backwards dancing ban aimed at the San Tan Flat restaurant and owner Dale Bell. Check this video from Reason.tv, an offshoot of the libertarian rag…
Hey, Wing-It, the Hendershott rumor mill may not be the best place to score blog items. Journalism is, like, hard n’ stuff. You’ve got to make a phone call occasionally, verify these pesky things called “facts.” Hey, who has the time? Not Yvonne “Wing-It” Wingett, or at least not with…
Harvard economics prof George Borjas, raking it in at $625 per hour… You get what you pay for, and County Attorney Candy “Lil’ Joe” Thomas definitely got what he paid for with our money when he hired Harvard economist George Borjas to analyze the possible effects of the new employer…
Deputy dawgs in Paradise: from left, Sheriff Joe’s “Cheney” David Hendershott; Bay Islands Police Commissario Julio Benitez; retired MCSO Deputy Roger Marshall; and Captain Jim Miller. With the MCSO so deep in the red that it cannot perform crucial functions, what are MCSO officers doing in Honduras of all places…
Ron Paul, the Christ of the pod people; photo from his campaign Web site. What is it about Congressman Ron Paul that draws nearly every Klan member, Hitler-worshipper, tax-resister, John Bircher and 9/11 tin-foil hatter to his camp? I have to say, when Paul talks about the war in Iraq…
Local NSM rep Scott Hume, alias, “Shawn Hughes” at one of the Pruitt’s protests in December. Well, NSM-PHX acting unit leader Scott Hume (alias “Shawn Hughes”) has jerked most of his stuff off the Web since last week’s post “Another neo-Nazi in the nativist woodpile,” but much of it lives…
****PLEASE NOTE: Since I posted this item last night, some of the pages linked to below have been taken down. I anticipated this possibility, and so have screen shots of everything. Next week, I’ll see about posting some of these to back up what was linked to in the first…
Say it ain’t so, Alonzo… Word’s out that local ICE honcho Alonzo Pena will soon be skating after just about 14 months in his position. Sources say Pena’s set to depart in a week or two – though knowing how the feds do things, one or two weeks could stretch…
Jabba the Hendershott, Arpaio’s portly Dick Cheney… What I can never figure out about Maricopa County is that the public officials who by all rights should be under the freakin’ magnifying glass are in fact the ones pursuing bogus charges against their enemies. Take Joe Arpaio’s Chief Deputy David Hendershott,…
Buffalo chips, ahoy! Even Ankarlo finds this guy “icky,” and that’s saying something, coming from KTAR’s ick-meister pooh-bah… (Note the pistol, folks. Armed? Absolutely. Dangerous? Hey, no more than any other wacko with a sidearm.) En route to the Macehualli Work Center near 25th Street and Bell Road Wednesday mornin’,…
The panic! release party? It won’t be at Anderson’s… Here’s a message from the folks at panic!, which apparently had a pending club date at the now defunct Anderson’s Fifth Estate. The mass e-mail pretty much speaks for itself, especially since Tom Anderson is not returning calls. Well, at least…
Why were the nativists at the Paradise Valley Mall Saturday? “Why not?” sputtered American Freedom Riders founder Danny Smith in reply to my query. Hey, it’s still a free country, kinda-sorta. And the AFR and other anti-illegal groups wanted to get out of the Thomas Road box this weekend, seeing…
The latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report is out. The quarterly mag is practically a must-read for those following hate groups in AZ, the immigration issue, and how they overlap. Though the lead article “Immigration Backlash” deals directly with everyone’s favorite topic, there are three others…
Citizen Klahr, still fightin’ the good fight, in a pic from a 2002 New Times profile of Klahr. Whatever you may think of the oft-controversial and always colorful Gary Peter Klahr, civil libertarian and former Phoenix City Councilman, the lawsuit he recently filed against our Mayor Goober makes a superb…
Jeez, what fell in my eye? Did that come from The Bird!? Ah, the Christmas season, so full of joy and goodwill towards one’s fellow man. But not at the PHX Pruitt’s protests, boyo, where the Prince of Peace would certainly not be welcome by the nativists if his eyes…
Amateur Mel Tillis impersonator and furniture-peddler Roger Sensing, acting like a pinche cabron, as usual, as he talks to Salvador Reza. (Photo courtesy of Eduardo Barraza of Barriozona.com.) The more I read and learn about Roger Sensing, the more I realize the guy is one class-A S.O.B., even though he…
Tired ol’ lefty Linda Valdez of the Repugly disappoints today in her “quick hit” against Salvador Reza and the protests at Pruitt’s. I guess she got the top-down memo telling all of the Repugly’s writers that they have to tow the line on the Pruitt’s matter. Does Pruitt’s advertise with…
Salvador Reza at this Saturday’s protest on Thomas. Is the Republic’s City Hall suckup, lil’ Casey Newton, gunning for a job on Goober’s staff? He might as well be, the way he’s turned into a mouthpiece for Flipflop Phil, penning shorts like Saturday’s “Pruitt’s top foe refuses meeting,” which reads…
The Mayor’s panel, getting an earful while Hizzoner hides out… Is Mayor Phil Gordon afraid of Hispanics? You’ve gotta wonder, especially when a mostly Hispanic crowd of about 1,000 persons shows up to the auditorium at South Mountain High School to express their frustration over Da Mayor’s capitulation on the…
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