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A Middle School football coach found himself without a job.  after he sent emails containing the You-tube of This catchy little ditty. Bryan Glover explains that“An hour-and-a-half after sending out the e-mail, I got the phone call from the head coach saying that he had had complaints from parents; he was told to fire me,”

If you like this song you can purchase it for a reasonable price at his web site.

Arizona is defending against a multi-front in the Obama’s attempt to punish and destroy the rebellious state.  Arizonans have the nerve to want to defend the border, and enforce the laws of the United States.  The Justice department sues Arizona,  before Judge Susan R. Bolton, at the ninth District Court. The only problem is constitutionally the court has no jurisdiction in the case.

“Article III, Sec. 2, clause 2 says: “In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction.”

In other words, the Judge in the Arizona case has absolutely NO Constitutional jurisdiction over the matter upon which she ruled. As the Constitution makes abundantly clear, only the U.S. Supreme Court can issue rulings that involve a State.

Neither Judge Bolton nor the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, to which the case is being appealed, have any legal standing whatsoever to rule on the issue.

U.S. Attorney-General Eric Holder filed the federal government’s lawsuit against the state of Arizona in a court that has no authority to hear the case.

The current Supreme Court  is more rational by a tenuous five to four majority. Holder needed to buy some time and put an end to the Arizona impudence.  Holders attack is double pronged and on the other front is a suit against the popular  Sheriff Joe Arpaio, inspite of the fact that an ICE investigation just a year ago proclaimed the Maricopa County, “in its handling of illegal immigrants, acted in a professional manner and complied with a memorandum of agreement (MOA) under which the government gave them the authority to enforce federal law. That agreement included a ban on racial profiling.” The evidence is of course that this is more about politics than it is about concern of civil liberty’s

What happens now? It’s been nearly a year and a half since the investigation began, and the Justice Department has not charged the sheriff’s office with violating anyone’s civil rights. Instead, Thursday’s lawsuit goes after Arpaio for allegedly failing to cooperate fully in the probe.

“It’s a totally political lawsuit,” says Bob Driscoll, a former Bush Justice Department Civil Rights Division official who is representing Arpaio. “They want to find evidence of discrimination, but all they’re finding is evidence of law enforcement that includes immigration enforcement.” (The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.)

Failing to find proof of real discrimination in Maricopa County could ultimately doom the administration’s entire crusade in Arizona. The much-publicized suit against the new immigration law is based on the possibility that it might result in future discrimination, but at the same time the department is struggling to find evidence of civil rights violations in Arpaio’s office, which uses enforcement techniques similar to those outlined in the new law. There’s a real chance that in the end Obama’s war on Arizona will come to nothing.

Hopefully it will backfire, but this administration isn’t rational and seems to be in a blind rage into war against Arizona. They just don’t care if their attacks are rational or worthwhile.  They do know they have more money and Lawyers than Sheriff Apraio and the whole state of Arizona, and maybe they can destroy the state Maricopa County Financially.

I have not posted much about Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally, mostly because there isn’t much to add. Beck hosts a big shindig 300 thousand people show up, nothing particualrly interesting was said, even the people were mostly just everyday normal Americans. The subject of the the day was about bring more God to Americans and honoring our war heroes. All pretty noble, but it was all preaching to the choir.  More inspiring speaches might be found on any church on any Sunday.  I don’t mean any of this to be demeaning,  It was good fun had by all, and it to many folks it was a way to stand up and be counted. I  just don’t see where the event made a big political statement or any controversy, and it wasn’t supposed to be.

Yet, it seems that a lot of people were just looking for reasons to take offence.   I suppose  that a bunch of middle class, predominantly white people with Tea Party tendencies might be intimadating to to the elitist class. At the Huffington post there is a photo essay on the most ridiculous messages.

The first is a t-shirt emblazoned with “Got Tea”, a big button emblazoned with “Obama’s worst nightmare, an “Educated” Voter”

The left doesn’t understand where these folks are coming from, so the simplest of messages and statements is frightening to them.

Most of our troops have been pulled out, and Iraq is still in shambles with no government, a crumbling infrastructure, and extremist still blowing people up. As he declares victory. One has to wonder what the future holds for the Iraqi people. I hope Obama is right but it seems like we could have waited a little longer until the nation stabilized.  Obama like the leftist he is has a lot of confidence in the bureaucracy of government. We will have we have diplomats, aide workers and advisors on the ground, Diplomats and advisors just talk they don’t do much to actually help stop people from from blowing up other people. Time will tell, I hope I’m not being overly pessimistic.  He then oddly turns the speech into a discussion of the economy asks the American people to rally toward the miserable economy he has given us.

When it came to the economy, Obama had nothing new to offer. So instead, he provided America with a pep talk, exhorting us to “honor” our troops by “coming together” with a great sense of urgency to “restore our economy.”

Presumably, this means rallying around Obama’s unpopular domestic agenda. In any case, Americans are unlikely to be impressed by a president whose answer to our economic woes sounds something like “hug a soldier and hope that some of his grit rubs off.”

I like Sarah Palin, She makes a good spokesperson and representative for the Conservatives and the Tea Party movement. Greg has a point though:

I’ll admit that two years ago I believed her to be a good pick for VP. What’s more, I still think that the choice of Sarah Palin by John McCain was an acceptable one. That said, I am definitely in the majority on this poll result.

Almost three out of five Americans believe former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) would not be an effective president, a new poll found Monday.

59 percent of U.S. adults said they don’t think Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and potential 2012 candidate, would be an effective president of the United States.

26 percent of adults, by contrast, said they believe Palin would be effective, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll conducted earlier this August.

Why don’t I think she would be an effective president? Because of everything that has happened in the two years since her selection as the nominee.

The real question that bears asking though is, “Would you vote for her if she were running against the current President?”