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Cloudy, humid AND 107F ... why the fuck do people live in Phoenix?

Not that I've any time for this 'documentary', but I can see why someone called her a carrier here.

I'm going to invoke Occam here. The guy was posting mobile and got tripped up by autocorrect.

A week ago in Phoenix, a sports reporter filing his story mobile on a Diamondbacks game included a description of a haboob rolling through town during the game, momentarily cutting off stadium power. The word got autocorrected to 'baboon'. Much hilarity ensued:

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This is also a record, though not one the warmists like to talk about.

"Warmists". Huh. I don't know if National Public Radio frequently engages "warmists", but that's where I heard the story. You might even say they liked talking about it, how unusual these weather patterns were.

I do know that the summer weather here in Phoenix has been pretty strange. We had a mild June and July, I don't think it ever hit 110. In June it even rained (average monthly rainfall for June in Phoenix: 0.02 inches), hardly any rain in July (average 1.05 inches), and a few storms in August. Last night my roof got damaged by the wind while it poured rain for an hour or so, a lot of power outages around town. That storm dropped between a little less than an inch to 1.29 inches (average rainfall for all of August: 1 inch). I heard multiple transformers explode near my house and I've gotten some pictures from friends of downed trees from wind gusts well over 60mph (74mph is a category 1 hurricane). While June and July were mild, August has been very hot and we've been setting records, I believe we hit an all-time record high for August as well as record highs for several individual dates. I heard that it was the hottest August globally, and we definitely saw that here.

I'm not trying to sound like a "warmist" or anything, I'm just trying to figure out what I need to repair on my house thanks to the hot weather producing high-powered storms.

Flood? [...] Tornados?

Yes. and Yes.

If you are interested in meeting someone who knew Aaron personally and ask questions, I suggest you attend a great and free talk by Cory Doctorow. There will be a discussion about Aaron Swartz. Specific details are here: http://craphound.com/

Saturday Feb 9th in Salt Lake City, UT http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/event-141058-cory-doctorow-signing-and-reading-homeland.html

Sunday Feb 10th in Tempe, AZ http://events.azfamily.com/Cory_Doctorow_Homeland/269560116.html

How did you know? Led by a Phoenix businessman, Checks and Balances In Government has filed a ballot initiative to give the state authority to disregard federal acts they feel violate the U.S. Constitution.

The Tempe Town Lake had a dam break, resulting in the lake being drained and a new problem with dead fish. Some people proposed bringing in alligators to eat the fish... of course the question comes up, what do you do with the new alligator problem?

Eventually they did end up using the alligator idea, although they brought the fish to the gator rather than vice versa.

Not that police listen to that or get around that, but you wouldn't know because since you're white it doesn't happen to you. For the rest of us, it does happen.

Here's one, on Fox, from before the law was passed.

Arizona Police Routinely Asking for Proof of Citizenship How many Canadians do you think they asked? I'd say, oh, 'round about zero.

Here's another from before the law was passed.

Truck driver forced to show birth certificate claims racial-profiling This guy, born in the US, was arrested and had to have his wife bring in his birth certificate to get out of jail.

Here's one for a guy who was almost deported even though he is a naturally born US citizen. I don't know where they'd deport him to. He was locked up for 3 days even after he showed his birth certificateDeportation Nightmare: Eduardo Caraballo, US Citizen Born In Puerto Rico, Detained As Illegal Immigrant

Nope, showing a drivers licence will NOT suffice. Take a look: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Man-says-he-was-racially-targeted-forced-to-provide-birth-certificate-91769419.html

FFS, that's stupid - OF YOU! Did you even read the article you linked to? The agency there was ICE and it was at a border customs inspection station.

A representative at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned 3TV’s calls after researching the incident and she said this was standard operating procedure.

It had NOTHING to do with this Arizona law. And you might want to read the law: The Arizona law specifically states that a drivers license creates a presumption that the individual is here legally. Period. Stop spewing propaganda.

Nope, showing a drivers licence will NOT suffice. Take a look: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Man-says-he-was-racially-targeted-forced-to-provide-birth-certificate-91769419.html

Actually, illegal immigrants are just like the rest of us.

They commit real crimes (such as: theft, murder, etc.)

They are just like us. Except they are in the U.S. illegally.

Don't be afraid of the Phoenix Police. Be afraid of the imposters.

In Phoenix, you stand a good change of being the victim of a home invasion staged by Mexican Army Regulars...

Or Mexicans in Phoenix police drag, fulfilling their contracts...

Or Phoenix Police whose chief and the Phoenix mayor just can't take much criticism.

Try and discredit the reports based on the sources I use. Not working. The incidents did happen. Police officers were calling into local radio shows and confirming the reports.

It seems most home invasions in Phoenix are carried out by those who attack drop houses the 'coyotes' use to stage illegal immigrants on their way to other cities. Taking some hostage and making a quick buck is the motive. Posing as police works very well until the real police show up. then, hope the bad guys run out of bullets, which they often do.

Our mayor, Phil Gordon, is death against enforcing immigration law, as is our former Governor and now head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. It's so bad the Feds are demanding that local law enforcement accept a new policy that pretty much prevents them from enforcing the law. That's the 287(g) program that apparently is too successful.

Sherrif Joe also has tangled with the local alternative paper, which published his and other officials home addresses and apparently violated grand jury statutes. It's only an arcane law when it is applied to you.

Sherrif Joe has his view of law enforcement. It enrages many of the liberal intelligensia around here, who would rather we put the illegals up in the Phoenician and give them a chance.

Me? I back Sherrif Joe, knowing full well he can get carried away. The alternative is to have everything not nailed down stolen by the illegals as they stream through here on their way to a better life.

At least he doesn't PRETEND to be doing his job.

You ought to live here. Then you would grasp a little more of the nuance. Much too easy to take things at face value. 4 years here has taught me that we have a serious illegal immigration problem. How to solve it is unfortunately simple - clean house, starting with the House of Reperesentatives. Our government has too many conflicts of interest, business sees illegals as cheap labor, Democrats see them as new voters, and regular citizens have no one on their side. But I'm not hopeful.

Why the focus on illegal immigration? That's the crux of the trouble over Sherrif Joe. That's all it is.

Bring it on.

My local news station thinks we are going to be one too: http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/KTVKLNe ws20070406_southwest-new-dust-bowl.3a2da32f.html They got it wrong though we already are in a dust bowl it's going to be 90 degrees here in Phoenix today.

Well, it was a crummy little conference with no one to watch it, look at the video. It was obvious that they just finally convinced an ex official and used his name to get into the headlines, to draw more attention to the subject. Thats understandable, unfortunately the old guy seemed nuttier than a bag of peanuts. But laser weapons aren't joke matterial anymore really. A simple search on popular mechanics will bring up a few examples of currently released projects http://www.popularmechanics.com/search?searchKeywo rds=Laser+Weapon&x=0&y=0. Imagine the ones they havent released. Couple that with videos of other shit like this http://www.unexplainable.net/artman/publish/articl e_2261.shtml (click on picture in middle) recorded on NASA sats and other shit like this http://www.azfamily.com/cgi-bin/video/wmPlayer.pl? title=www.azfamily.com/20040716_UFO.wmv&vsect=News . And last, but most certainly not least, check out President Eisenhowers farewell address to the nation http://www.disclosureproject.org/videogallery.htm. Fucking creepy I say.

The clincher will be when we finally get to the moon like our president says we will. What will go up first, a science lab, or a military/security installation?