What a difference a couple of years makes. The same U.S. Senator John McCain who in 2010 snuggled up to illegal-immigrant-screwing (in more ways than one) Sheriff Paul Babeu, supported Sand Land’s racist Senate Bill 1070, and insisted that America “complete the danged fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border, is now…
It’s just about every day that Sheriff Joe Arpaio says something that’s guaranteed to make you shake your head.Today’s cry for attention actually took place on Friday night, as Arpaio complained that people were calling Vice President Joe Biden “Sheriff Joe.”See also:-Joe Arpaio: “I Don’t Use Computers” — as Posted…
Computing giant Microsoft is suing a Phoenix e-waste recycling firm in federal court, claiming that the company has been selling unauthorized copies of its software. Phoenix’s E-Waste Harvesters and its principal, Earl Campbell, have repeatedly advertised and sold refurbished computers that contain pirated copies of XP, the aging Windows operating…
We all know the Danish tale about the emperor whose men and subjects stroke him in admiration over his new clothes. Of course, as the story goes, the emperor actually is naked. Instead of questioning the obvious, everyone basks in a collective ignorance. Until a little boy in the crowd…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu once again is trying to get on the conservative media circuit promoting himself his anti-Obama, anti-gun-control campaign. Babeu is joining a chorus of sheriffs criticizing President Barack Obama’s gun-control efforts. Conservative blogger for right-wing cnsnews.com, notes that this is the trend from Florida to California…
Losers are pathetic enough, but losers who don’t know they’re losers should be given a pistol with one bullet and locked in a shed until they are duly inspired. Among these: sleaze-maestro Constantin Querard, state Representative Steve Smith, and two-time loser, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce. See also: -Russell Pearce’s…
As the Arizona Republic was bleeding ink for Governor Jan Brewer’s allegedly “kinder, gentler tone” on immigration over the weekend, what was Janbo up to? See also: -Jan Brewer on Blast by DREAMers and CBA in Protest: 3 Arrested -Arizona Deserves No Peace From Pro-Immigrant Forces Raising cash for her…
Gilman chats up the gun nuts, take one… Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman covered the gun nut rally at the Arizona State Capitol this past Saturday, and caught some interesting footage of the local pro-2nd Amendment crowd, which seems mainly to have consisted of angry white dudes who’re afraid that the…
The Arizona Republican Party is the gift that keeps on giving. Last week, the Maricopa County GOP picked raging aggro gay-hater A.J. LaFaro as its chairman, a choice Dems are giddy over because it leaves the local Republican Party in the complete control of wigged-out moonhowlers, further alienating anyone with…
After the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office pulled off its 70th “employer sanctions operation” (which MCSO now refers to as a “criminal employment operation”), we pointed out yet again that no employers were arrested, or sanctioned, in the operation.Arpaio now says that’s probably a job for the Obama administration.See also:-Joe Arpaio…
The human rights activists of Tonatierra and the Barrio Defense Committees will do the annual PF Chang’s 13.1 mile marathon one better this Saturday by holding a 13.4 mile march for human rights and dignity, beginning at Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s notorious Fourth Avenue Jail and ending at Glendale Police Headquarters…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office does not conduct “raids,” according to Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Although we’ve provided evidence to the contrary of Arpaio’s new claim, the Sheriff’s public-relations staff sent out an e-mail this afternoon, with a press release touting MCSO’s 70th “employer sanctions operation.” The subject line on that e-mail:…
NMD video from a hidden camera dated January 8 When U.S. Border Patrol Agents are not shooting each other or unarmed teenagers, they like to destroy water jugs and steal supplies left in the desert for crossing migrants. That’s the charge of the Tucson-based group No More Deaths, which has…
Making good on her June 7, notice of claim for $10 million against Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, veteran AG investigator Meg Hinchey filed suit Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court, alleging that Horne and his underlings are engaged in an ongoing campaign to ruin Hinchey’s law enforcement career. See…
Lawyers for Sheriff Joe Arpaio filed a response to the Justice Department’s racial-discrimination lawsuit, which mostly just denies each of the 188 allegations in the DoJ’s suit.The denial also contains some very interesting claims from Arpaio, including repeated claims that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office does not conduct “sweeps” or…
Talk about a broken record. The U.S. Marshals Service has once more done Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s job for him, this time by nabbing an escapee from Joe’s jails, who basically exchanged identities with another inmate, and walked out. See also: -Joe Arpaio Won’t Do His Job, So Marshal David Gonzales…
Kudos to Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman for his latest video, which captures the drama of yesterday’s demonstration at the state Capitol. There, as Governor Jan Brewer gave her state of the state speech to members of the Legislature, a coalition of activists protested Brewer’s executive order denying driver’s licenses to…
As Governor Jan Brewer addressed the Arizona Legislature in her state of the state speech Monday, protesters took over the state House lobby, demanding that Brewer rescind an executive order denying driver’s licenses to Arizona DREAMers who qualify for President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Led by Citizens…
One of the inmates who called B.S. on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he was taking steps to keep Tent City inmates warm is still calling B.S. after spending the weekend in below-freezing temperatures.Arpaio issued the press release last week, saying he “would like families and friends of inmates incarcerated…
It’s amazing, the amount of influence I have over the Maricopa County Republican Committee. Hate to brag, but my endorsement this week of right-wing human PayDay bar A.J. LaFaro and the rest of his “crazytown” slate of candidates for MCRC leadership positions worked its evil magic at Saturday’s county GOP’s…
According to a Tent City inmate, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s claim that his office is taking steps to keep the inmates warm in the jail is a “patent lie.”If you’ve been paying attention today, you’ll notice this is the second inmate in just a couple of hours to tell New Times…
Well, it’s said that there are two sides to every story, so here’s the other side to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s claim that the Sheriff’s Office is taking steps to keep the inmates warm in Tent City.Less than half an hour after we posted our blog, passing along the message from…
