McCain, ready to squeeze another one out… On the way back to the office from casting my ballot for Barack Obama, I had fun listening first to OxyContin-boy Rush Limbaugh, then to conservative gasbag Sean Hannity, as they each desperately tore Senator John McCain to shreds in favor of their…
Is it just me, or does ol’ prune-face here look like he needs some Gas-X? Here’s a reason to avoid the book stores in coming months, Maricopa County’s egomaniacal despot Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a new book coming out with co-hagiographer Len Sherman in May, titled, Joe’s Law: America’s Toughest…
Big Snoop Dogg inspects the troops. Snoop Dogg’s All-Stars came to Chandler’s Hamilton High to play, as they say in the sports pages, and they kicked much Arizona ass Saturday, dominating the pee-wee version of the AZ Cardinals, and concluding Snoop Bowl VI with an impressive 33-14 win. Too bad…
Eddie Basha supports Sheriff Joe. Wonder how the Valley’s Hispanics like them frijoles? The unions are gonna love this one. Financial statements are out for the 2008 Maricopa County Sheriff’s race, and guess who lent a smidgen of his largesse to the over $300,000 Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s raised so far…
NO HOLDS BARRED What ICE doesn’t know won’t hurt it. That’s the Sheriff’s Office policy regarding immigration “holds” placed on those the MCSO suspects of being illegal aliens, a category covering everyone in town darker than the average eggshell. Indeed, as part of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s recent posse-enhanced dragnet of…
The next President of the United States? I hope so… (photo by Jillian Sloan) Part rock concert. Part college pep rally. That’s what it felt like as Senator Barack Obama wowed a near-capacity crowd at PHX’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum Wednesday evening. The almost 14,000 in attendance had waited over two…
Dan the Man, heading into battle against Nickel Bag Joe. Just received the following news release on Dan Saban’s retirement as Buckeye Police Chief. It’ll be effective August 1, so he’ll have nothing slowing him down as he goes into full-court press against Sheriff Joe this fall. If we’re lucky,…
According to the MCSO’s own documents, Israel Correa should never have been arrested, much less the subject of an immigration hold. Why did the Sheriff’s department place an ICE hold against Israel Correa, an American citizen with a valid driver’s license and Social Security number, and not notify ICE? Let’s…
Does neo-Nazi J.T. Ready (left) advise Russell Pearce (right) on new anti-Mexican legislation? Nah, but he might as well. State Rep. Russell Pearce is all excuses when he forwards neo-Nazi National Alliance e-mails to his supporters, or is seen smiling and arm-in-arm with local neo-Nazis like J.T. Ready. It’s either,…
JABBA IN PARADISE This incredulous avian kept rubbing its peepers in disbelief. Was that really Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s chief deputy, David Hendershott, looking like a cross between Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau and mad scientist Dr. Mephisto from South Park? Them eagle eyes weren’t lyin’. The pic,…
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…
WIGGA, PLEASE Comedian D.L. Hughley once quipped that everybody wants to be black ’til the cops roll up. And as The Bird’s colleague Niki D’Andrea discussed in her recent cover story, “Raising Terrazona” (January 10, 2008), with Phoenix’s African-American population at 5.6 percent, there’s a buttload of crackas in this…
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…
Nothing makes this mallard madder than Tyra Banks after someone’s said her booty’s too big than having the truth-twisters over at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office call The Bird and his fellow New Times scribes liars. Fabulous thunderbirds! We don’t need to make up anything about this county’s top constable…
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…
