Well, here’s one sure to spook the socks off the nativists — Gilman’s latest YouTube effort promoting the anti-Arpaio march tomorrow. This little poison pill features loads of video coughed up by the sheriff’s office in the case of Juan Mendoza Farias, a poor sap who went into Arpaio’s roach…
I had been hoping that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus would take a thick paddle to Janet Napolitano’s ever-generous backside when they met with the new DHS head for the first time today. But, alas, some of our congressional leaders are as worthless as a week-old bowl of menudo. If they…
Hopefully, 2009 A.D. will be the year Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, starts to melt. You may recall a little essay I posted to this blog in December entitled, “A Modest Proposal: A World Without ICE,” in which I suggested “a total moratorium on all ICE activities, as preparation for the…
VINNIE’S BOO-BOO “WTF?!” That’s what this ticked-off Toucan thought when he saw that local Immigration and Customs Enforcement flack Vinnie Picard was quoted in the paper of record as saying, “Arizona’s 287(g) program is working as intended,” and that there are no “firsthand” complaints of racial-profiling lodged with the Department…
Below is the schedule for this weekend’s anti-Arpaio/anti-287(g) activities just released by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Several high-ranking NDLON staff members have re-confirmed that Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de la Rocha will attend Saturday’s march, so be there and be there early. Word is Phoenix’s anti-Hispanic nativist…
The congressional daily The Hill is reporting that Department of Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano will be meeting privately for the first time with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus tomorrow in D.C. If true, one can only hope they grill Nappy’s generous fanny till it practically resembles the face…
How do deputy prosecutors sleep at night, when they are charged by their elected bosses to rack up as many warm bodies in prison as possible, to overlook exculpatory evidence, to cull only those facts from a case that lead to conviction, and ignore all others? Sure, it’s their living. But…
The hillbillies are coming! The hillbillies are coming! And no that’s not Phoenix’s new line of do-it-yourself redneck porn. Nah, by hillbillies, I mean convicted public urinators like Buffalo Rick Galeener, alleged bookstore trespassers such as Anna Gaines (aka, the “anti-Hispanic Hispanic”), massage parlor owners, toothless ne’er-do-wells, assorted Hells Angels…
It would tickle Sheriff Joe Arpaio no end to learn the degree to which his enemies and detractors are obsessed with him. I can’t count the number of times, for instance, that I’ve gotten the anonymous “tip” that Arpaio can’t wear a gun because of some obscure legal dictate, when…
B-rock’s recent visit to Mesa garnered loads of local coverage, some of which mentioned those who showed up to protest the President’s stimulus package. But not much was said of the more than 100 there demanding that Obama do something about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s misuse of the federal government’s 287(g) program, as…
Both the Huffington Post’s Dawn Teo and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now have produced long pieces in the past week covering Joe Arpaio’s recent outrages against those with brown skin, Arpaio’s “200 Mexican March” a couple of weeks ago, and the request from four House leaders, including House Judiciary Chairman John…
Curiosity’s driven me to write a little follow-up to my post Wednesday about the WASPy wieners at Skull and Bones being sued by the heirs of the Apache warrior Geronimo. They’re suing because it’s rumored that Yale’s secret society has possession of Geronimo’s skull, you see. According to legend, George W. Bush’s grandpappy…
In what appears to be a major coup for the activists organizing the anti-Arpaio action the weekend of February 28, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network has announced through a press release that firebrand frontman Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine fame is encouraging people to join…
NOVA M MELTDOWN Is there anything sadder than the backstabbing pettiness of a liberal talk-radio station going under? The Bird would like nothing more than to listen to left-wing lip-flappers such as Randi Rhodes, that ribald yenta of the airwaves, as a counterbalance to the political poison emitted daily from…
I know it’s been, like, two whole months, but do ya recall that lousy three-episode pilot Sheriff Self-Shill shot for the lame-o Fox Reality Channel, Smile…You’re Under Arrest? Remember Joe plugging it on Conan O’Brien, and elsewhere, claiming that the reality series nabbed almost 400 warrant scofflaws? Well, this piece…
My question is, what took ’em so long? I’m talking about the descendants of the Apache warrior Geronimo demanding his remains back from “one hundred years of imprisonment at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, the Yale University campus at New Haven, Connecticut, and wherever else they may be found,” according to a…
I was planning to save most of this for my Bird column this week, but the news is coming too fast and furious today not to follow up on my recent post concerning Randi Rhodes’ disappearance from Nova M radio. Indeed, that lefty AM talk network seems to be going down…
I don’t think Carson Daly or Jay Leno’ll be breaking a sweat over this one any time soon, but I just got a little promo e-mail in my in-box announcing the launch of ex-Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods’ “new interactive website and online talk show” grantwoods.com. What’s next, Terry Goddard…
With every statement uttered from her perch as Homeland Security czar, in every action she takes each day her fanny remains in its cozy D.C. seat, ex-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano reaffirms that she’s Barack Obama’s token nativist. Best to think of her as a chunky, skunk-haired version of the Child…
PCP. Peyote. Embalming fluid. Nicaraguan horse dung. See, I’m trying to figure out what the hell’s in the water cooler over at Nova M, as owners Anita Drobny and hubby Sheldon point the nose of the plane toward the ground and up the speed. Believe me, I say this as a…
Porn star and possible politician with fringe benefits, Wicked Pictures contract girl Stormy Daniels, was in Phoenix last week, feature dancing at Le Girls Cabaret. Sadly, I missed her performance. In another life, I interviewed the voluptuous Louisiana native for a feature called “Cooking with the Porn Stars” for the now-defunct graffiti…
In what may be a watershed moment in the battle to end Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s anti-Hispanic pogroms and his abuse of his federal 287(g) authority, the leadership of the House Judiciary Committee is pressing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano to investigate Sheriff Joe and to make sure his use of his 287(g)…
