THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† A To Z Approach On Illegal Immigration In AZ: Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey asking the FBI and the Justice Department's civil rights division to investigate “what he called discriminatory harassment and improper stops, searches, and arrests by sheriff's deputies in Maricopa County, which encompasses the metropolitan area,” reports The Associated Press.
Justice Department officials said they would review Gordon's letter but declined to comment further.
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ICE officials say Arpaio is not violating the formal agreement he has with their office that allows sheriff's deputies to enforce immigration laws.
† We’ve Seen This Movie Before: Recently, The Stiletto noted: “Barack Obama is running as Chauncey Gardiner - his lofty rhetoric induces voters to project onto him qualities that transform him into a uniter, a change agent and a post-racial candidate. ... Unfortunately, emerging evidence suggests Obama may be not be who voters think he is.” But Washington Post columnist George Will argues, “Obama may be exactly what his supporters suppose him to be. Not, however, for reasons most Americans will celebrate,” adding:
Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism. Explaining why many working-class voters are "bitter," he said they "cling" to guns, religion and "antipathy to people who aren't like them" because of "frustrations." His implication was that their primitivism, superstition and bigotry are balm for resentments they feel because of
† To Tell The Truth: Calling Hillary “the personification of artifice,”
[S]ince when is Hillary Clinton a gun lover, a hunter or even a weekend skeet shooter? She is apparently none of the above - at least she will not say when she last fired a gun. The truth, if a guess is allowed, is that she does not give a damn about guns and hunting, and when she brings up her “churchgoing family” and “Our Town” values, they are expressions of treacly nostalgia and not the life of incredible affluence and situational morality she now enjoys. …
Her attack is hardly based on a touching regard for gun owners or even churchgoers, but on the desperate hope that the smoothly aloof Obama can be painted as arrogant and elitist.
† Why Middle Class Americans Can’t Afford Health Insurance: Part II: Health insurers are switching to a new co-pay for pricy drugs that requires patients to pay from 20 to 33 percent of a drug’s cost instead of a fixed amount, such as $10 dollars, which means “patients may have to spend more for a drug than they pay for their mortgages, more, in some cases, than their monthly incomes,” reports The New York Times. “No one knows how many patients are affected, but hundreds of drugs are priced this new way. They are used to treat diseases that may be fairly common, including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, hepatitis C and some cancers. There are no cheaper equivalents for these drugs, so patients are forced to pay the price or do without.”
Yes, Obama has affected an aloofness, which people seem to like. The problem is that he affects other somewhat casual and appealing attitudes, and his use of language is also affected, but not in the usual sense. Many people are dumbed out with him. They see him as a true celebrity besides the hope that he feeds them like candy. I think that Hillary has turned many people off, but I think that McCain will be the rising star and that he will defeat Obama. To do so, McCain will have to be the warrior and affect his own attitude - one of gentlemanly character.
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