“What the heck has happened to ‘Los Suns’? They have become ‘Los Losers’ week after week since they came back. Some of these guys are getting old enough to qualify for one of those Medicare paid-for electric scooters. Maybe an oxygen station benchside might help. Remember what Steve Nash said when the lockout ended: ‘This is a playoff team.’ Well it’s sure looking like a ‘Kiss-Off Team’ right now.”
“To the person who wrote, ‘the angry, racist conservatives who hide behind the anonymity of the vent’: Since your comment appeared anonymously in the vent, I assume you’ve become a conservative. Let me be the first to welcome you to sanity.”
“If the DOJ has all this evidence against Joe why don’t they file charges? Because there is no evidence. The letter to Joe gives no back-up. This is just BO using the DOJ to pander to the Hispanics for their vote. He did it in 2008 giving them a bunch of promises he never kept, nor intended to keep. The Hispanic vote is all BO wants; they are not a part of his real agenda. But the Hispanic leaders are too stupid to see this and will tag along like lemmings just like last time.”
“What part of ‘illegal’ don’t people understand? If you are illegal, you are illegal — no ifs and buts about it!”
“The mighty three horsemen of the once Right Wing will soon unite again. J.D. Hayworth and Russell Pearce have gone fishing, and Sheriff Joe, we’re getting the tackle box, bait and poles ready. Good fishing, boys.”
“I would assume we Anglos and law enforcement personnel can expect a public apology from the relatives and supporters of Jhessye Shockley for their disparaging and racially motivated innuendos during the initial stages of the investigation into her disappearance. It never ceases to amaze me how simple-minded humans become sheep in mob-like situations with incitement by activist charlatans. Shame on you.”
“Manhattan’s Times Square annual big ball drop New Year’s Eve — It’s about looking forward with a sense of hope. A new Associated Press poll shows most Americans are cautiously optimistic, but hopeful that 2012 will be a good year.”
“Who really cares that this guy’s cat was euthanized? There are 20 more running wild in my neighborhood he can have. They are a commodity like dirt. Free to anyone that wants it.”
“Just read Beydler’s 2012 forecast commentary and two questions immediately came to mind: First of all, is this guy a blinders-wearing liberal? And secondly, is number 6 based on personal habits? The obvious answer is ‘why do you think they call it dope?’ but to which question does this apply to?”
sdjtaz posted at 3:10 pm on Fri, Dec 30, 2011.
To the ventor who wonders why DOJ doesn't just file charges (actually they will file a civil suit, since this was a civil investigation), you need to understand the procedures for a civil action. The letter to the MCSO was a statement of findings in their investigation, backed by plenty of facts. Once they provide the statement of findings they always allow the other party a period of time (in this case 60 days) to work with them and create a plan of action to correct the issues raised in the report. If the 60 days lapses without a plan of action being put into place, the DOJ will file a civil suit in federal court. In most cases like this, the DOJ is extremely successful.
Also to the ventor stating that illegal is illegal, I also say that unconstitutional is unconstitional and that incompetence is incompetence. If you think that the sheriff is wonderful, read the 2009 Goldwater Institute paper on the MCSO. It showed that the MCSO only cleared 18% of their cases by solving them. Most others were closed by exception. Not what I would term effective.
davidflucier posted at 4:43 pm on Fri, Dec 30, 2011.
The Sheriff acts as if the whole immigration thing is the ONLY thing. An 18% clearance rate, 432 sexual molestation crimes gone unanswered, $100 million in "misspent" funds, DOJ investigation, tens of millions in lawsuit expenses, several "in custody" deaths, tens of thousands of felony warrants outstanding, participation in charging judges, supervisors, county employees, etc. without any probable cause and baseless indictments, three top deputies either fired or resigned and under investigation, an illegal political PAC.
What part of illegal, unconstitutional, and unethical doesn't our Sheriff and his irrational supporters understand?
Accuracy posted at 6:43 pm on Fri, Dec 30, 2011.
Seventh Vender’s positive post: “Manhattan’s Times Square annual big ball drop New Year’s Eve — It’s about looking forward with a sense of hope. A new Associated Press poll shows most Americans are cautiously optimistic, but hopeful that 2012 will be a good year.”
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Yes, the descent of the Times Square ball in New York, New York draws in people from all around the world . . . There among the one million people who are expected to hit the streets of New York City to ring in the New Year at Times Square, and millions more on television. And this year's theme there is "Let there be friendship."
Wish you all a “Happy New Year” and hope that 2012 brings you much success and prosperity in all your endeavors.
chatmandu002 posted at 11:11 am on Sat, Dec 31, 2011.
Vent #7: Annual ball drop, Hope????
All we have had for the last 3 years from Obama, his administration and Congress has been No hope, No change, No transparency and No leadership. I kind of expect more of the same for 2012.
Masterrogue666 posted at 10:47 pm on Wed, Jan 4, 2012.
To venters 2, 3, 4, 6, and 9: I couldn't agree more....