Re: Palin: GONZO
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:59 pm
Yes, Truman, in order to advance to a higher position you have to literally quit your job. Very astute observation.
...Either that, or seek higher position under the ruse of doing actual "work" on behalf of your constituents from a governor's chair... Or Senate office building.MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Yes, Truman, in order to advance to a higher position you have to literally quit your job. Very astute observation.
Federal rule change could nix Sheriff Arpaio’s immigrant sweeps; he calls move ‘amnesty’
Phoenix Business Journal - by Mike Sunnucks
New rules announced Friday by the Barack Obama administration could nix crime suppression sweeps and immigration raids conducted by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Arpaio said he plans to continue to conduct his immigration enforcement efforts under state laws, despite changes to federal rules related to local police arresting illegal immigrants.
“To me, it looks like some form of amnesty,” Arpaio told the Phoenix Business Journal on Friday.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the changes to federal rules. Napolitano, also the former governor of Arizona, said Friday that DHS and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency would need to re-sign agreements with local police agencies, such as the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Those agreements train local police on immigration laws and allow them to sometimes arrest and detain illegal immigrants.
“Only those agencies with newly signed agreements will be permitted to continue enforcing immigration law,” said a DHS statement on Friday.
That could allow the White House to derail Arpaio’s immigration enforcement actions, which have been made through a federal partnership that trains deputies to enforce immigration laws and pick up illegal immigrants. The sheriff also conducts workplace and drop-house raids under state laws.
The MCSO has had an immigration enforcement agreement with the feds since April 2007
The sheriff was not sure whether the federal government would maintain its agreement with the MCSO. If it does not, he said the feds will have to take over the processing and detention of some of the illegal immigrants picked up in the Phoenix area.
Napolitano also said Friday that federal rules regarding local police picking up illegal immigrants would be changed to focus on arresting those charged with violent and serious crimes.
“To address concerns that individuals may be arrested for minor offenses as a guise to initiate removal proceedings, the new agreement explains that participating local law enforcement agencies are required to pursue all criminal charges that originally caused the offender to be taken into custody,” the DHS statement said.
The sheriff’s crime sweeps and immigration raids are under investigation by the Obama administration for possibly unfairly targeting Hispanics. He also faces lawsuits from the American Civil Liberties Union and Hispanic activists over his immigration enforcement policies.
Napolitano also said Friday the feds had signed new immigration enforcement and cooperation agreements with police departments in Mesa and Florence. Former Mesa Police Chief George Gascon, who opposed Arpaio’s efforts earlier this year to conduct crime sweeps in that city, recently became police chief in San Francisco.
So you were a supporter until she handed the reins over to Parnell?MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:You clowns are so wrapped up in your allegiances, it's disgusting.
Arpaio lawyers ask for investigation
by Associated Press (June 2nd, 2009 @ 1:11pm)
PHOENIX - Lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have asked for a probe of federal officials who are investigating the sheriff's office for alleged discrimination and unconstitutional searches.
Arpaio lawyer Robert Driscoll said in a letter that Department of Justice investigators conducting the civil rights probe improperly shared documents with the Department of Homeland Security, which is auditing Arpaio's use of federal immigration powers.
Arpaio said both examinations are focused on immigration enforcement efforts. Critics said that deputies racially profiled people during immigration sweeps.
Department of Justice spokesman Alejandro Miyar said the agency will review the letter but declined to comment on Arpaio's investigation request.
The letter came one day after Arpaio charged that the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have an ulterior motive in their investigation into the sheriff's office.
"After serving with the DOJ for nearly 30 years as a ranking official with the DEA, it is almost painful to have to ask for this investigation," Arpaio said. "But I must take a stand. Every law enforcement agency the DOJ has investigated in the past has bowed down or rolled over to the federal government. This agency and this sheriff will not. Washington should not tell an elected sheriff how to conduct his law enforcement responsibilities."
Arpaio also said in a press release that the Obama administration is forcing the sheriff to bend on illegal immigration enforcement.
On March 10, the DOJ announced it was launching an investigation into Arpaio and his illegal immigration policies to see if he was racial profiling the Hispanic community.
Arpaio says since the investigation began, the DOJ investigators have lied to senior sheriff's office officials and engaged in an orchestrated scheme designed to acquire documents and witness testimony surreptitiously in order to discredit Arpaio and his office.
In a letter to U.S Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Arpaio voiced his concerns about the DOJ's investigation into his office.
One concern was that the DOJ and DHS officials obtained interviews and documents from senior sheriff's officials who should have been entitled to legal counsel but were denied.
Another concern Arpaio has is that in the "100 Day Report" to the Obama Administration, DOJ investigators bragged about the accomplishment of the investigation into Arpaio before they even had any evidence or facts.
Arpaio also says the DOJ admitted it based its investigation into Arpaio solely on "media reports". He says even Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of the Judicial Committee, said he had no facts or evidence other than what he read in the paper before he asked the DOJ to launch its probe.
Arpaio's attorneys say they are certain this investigation is not about justice but rather about a new Washington D.C. administration that wants Arpaio to do things the president's way, for the president's purpose.
"Quitting" was never the issue here, Blue. 'bode you for M-A-ing the obvious.MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:You clowns are so wrapped up in your allegiances, it's disgusting. Why is it so hard to just toss the partisan politics aside for a second, stop the deflecting, stop the spinning, and just man-up, and call a spade a spade -- that she's a fucking QUITTER. Or is that more than your stampeded little vaginas can handle?
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:You clowns are so wrapped up in your allegiances, it's disgusting. Why is it so hard to just toss the partisan politics aside for a second, stop the deflecting, stop the spinning, and just man-up, and call a spade a spade -- that she's a fucking QUITTER. Or is that more than your stampeded little vaginas can handle?
trev wrote:
Lefties throwing little hissy fits like this are only going to make Sarah's backers even more loyal.
Yeah, that's exactly my point, you vacuum pushing imbecile. Your conviction isn't fueled by any genuine desire to see Palin succeed -- it's all wrapped up in the Right/Left rivalry. You couldn't give a fuck what she has or hasn't accomplished. She's on "your side," so you'll defend her to the death.trev wrote:Lefties throwing little hissy fits like this are only going to make Sarah's backers even more loyal.
Just so ya know.
Actually, you have no idea what my conviction is. Nor do you care. You are quite wrong in your assumptions. Also, people move on to different things every day. It's called opportunity. I assume you aren't seeing that yet. This bothers you way too much for some reason.MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Yeah, that's exactly my point, you vacuum pushing imbecile. Your conviction isn't fueled by any genuine desire to see Palin succeed -- it's all wrapped up in the Right/Left rivalry. You couldn't give a fuck what she has or hasn't accomplished. She's on "your side," so you'll defend her to the death.trev wrote:Lefties throwing little hissy fits like this are only going to make Sarah's backers even more loyal.
Just so ya know.
btw, what the hell is there to "back" at this point? She just QUIT.
One Democrat realist gets it about Sarah Palin
Thomas Lifson
A shocking dissent from the party line on Sarah from one of the wiliest, most experienced wielders of power that the Democratic Party has ever fielded, a man who also knows a thing or two about charisma. A senior statesman warns his compatriots to stop dreaming about the woman from Wasilla, and wise up.
Willie Brown, who essentially ran the state government of California as (sequentially) head of both houses of the legislature, and then went on to run the city of San Francisco as mayor, writes about Sarah Palin's "brilliant move" in the San Francisco Chronicle:
The pundits are wrong. Conventional wisdom is wrong. Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor was a brilliant move.
Palin has some of the best political instincts I have ever seen. She became a pop-culture superstar overnight when John McCain made her his veep pick, and she's still second only to President Obama among politicians the public is interested in. Even in liberal San Francisco, she'd be front-page news if she ever came to town.
But that kind of celebrity comes at a high price. What a lot of people don't know is that Palin entered Alaska politics as a reformer attacking the corruption of the state's Republican establishment. As such, she was the darling of the Democrats - until she hooked up with McCain.
After the election, with Palin back home but positioning herself for a 2012 presidential run, it was clear she would catch nothing but ridicule from Alaska's Democrats. It was not going to be pretty.
In my decades watching politics in California, I came to have a grudging respect for Willlie Brown. The man absolutely takes over a room when he enters it. The magnitude of his charisma is stunning, and he knows how to use it. He is also crafty and ruthless, and was properly feared when he held political power, by friend and enemy alike. I have seen implaccable foes fold their cards after a private meeting with the man.
If I were a Democrat, I would pay close attention to the lesson he is trying to teach. At this point in his life, Willie Brown can tell the truth as he sees it, and the man knows as much about the fundamentals of politics as anyone alive.
Hat tip: Jack Kemp
Take your meds.LTS TRN 2 wrote:Ziodog, if you believe this clown, as it appears you do, you know nothing of Willie Brown. If you did you'd actually feel validated in your otherwise uninformed bile directed against anything perceived as "liberal," etc. One thing you should know--he always seeks to offer an unexpected take on a situation. He loves doing it and this is just another example. He knows full well--and celebrates the fact--that Palin is a ghastly joke, a bizarre freak show which will, if he can help it, continue on to further embarrass her so-called "base." Get a clue. :wink:
I hope not.Mikey wrote: Does she ever take those glasses off?
Faux Noise network...as compared to...CNN, MSNBC, or even ABC? Kinda funny seein Fox News get hit with this type of characterization and then you see CNN being rebranded from the Clinton News Network to the Chavez News Network or seeing Olbermann, Matthews, Maddow on MSNBC, or seeing the Obama administration successfulyl coopting ABCNews.Terry in Crapchester wrote:Palin will wind up as the host on Fox & Friends, or alternatively, will get her own show on the Faux Noise Network. That's the best way to keep her front-and-center with the base, while at the same time, minimizing the embarrassing nature of her multiple gaffes.
No.Terry in Crapchester wrote:Palin will wind up as the host on Fox & Friends...
Thanks for the early morning laugh.Terry in Crapchester wrote:Palin will wind up as the host on Fox & Friends, or alternatively, will get her own show on the Faux Noise Network. That's the best way to keep her front-and-center with the base, while at the same time, minimizing the embarrassing nature of her multiple gaffes.
In space, no one can hear you scream....LTS TRN 2 wrote:
So you finally took your meds? Excellent.LTS TRN 2 wrote:I'm laughing
Hopefully, it's the "dirt" kind.Diogenes wrote: Now go take a nap.
You want an actual take, Loser?!LTS TRN 2 wrote:Who's screaming? I'm laughing![]()
But do come back when you've actually got a take, truman.
LTS TRN 2 wrote:
his production skills are pretty decent, but, his political satire is about as fukking stupid as I've even seen.Terry in Crapchester wrote:Remember Palin threatening to sue various media outlets?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mWqr8pb2MY
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Can a lawsuit against youtube be far behind?
RACK!! That's how violent, 8th century primitives should be treated.mvscal wrote:
I prefered Exodus myself.Hi, I just rolled in ..I'd like now to attack Iran! C'mon, you've dutifully watched The Ten Commandments with Chuck Heston many times...
I doubt you know what Zionism is, let alone have ever met an actual Zionist.LTS TRN 2 wrote:
Come, my blond people, and take this barren land and make it boom! I mean bloom!
I don't think Israel needs you to hold it's dick, unless dick-holding is your thing...well, then...uhhh...carry on.mvscal wrote: It's time for Arabs to return to their native homeland on the Arabian Peninsula. They've done enough damage. There really isn't any further need for these backwards, degenerate savages.
M-tyrd, what's not to know? The history of the Zionist movement has never been a particularly secretive affair. Quite the contrary, its founders like Herzl wanted very much to be loud and clear about their mission. Just like the Nazis, for that matter. Their various machinations over the decades --especially during and shortly after WWII--have been duly skirted from scrutiny--like how the leading American Zionist groups intervened in 1945 to prevent the admission of Jewish refugees into this country, so they would have no choice but to go to Palestine, etc. And the ghastly Kastner affair, the Levon affair, a thousand more schemes and ploys to just keep going! And as for your point to Avi that Israel doesn't need the U.S. to hold its dick, this ignores the plain fact that Israel is completely dependent upon the U.S. in every respect of its being. Or what? Is Israel really ready to go it alone? To start a nuclear war by itself? C'mon, you pathetic fraud--how do you look in the mirror? :wink:Martyred wrote:I doubt you know what Zionism is, let alone have ever met an actual Zionist.LTS TRN 2 wrote:
Come, my blond people, and take this barren land and make it boom! I mean bloom!
LTS TRN 2 wrote: And as for your point to Avi that Israel doesn't need the U.S. to hold its dick, this ignores the plain fact that Israel is completely dependent upon the U.S. in every respect of its being.
BTW, me calling Diogenes "Schlomo" is funny...LTS TRN 2 wrote:...Avi...