Just like clockwork here comes Sarah Palin to defend Donald Trump. Have your vomit bags at the ready. Update!

Courtesy of the North Scar's Facebook page:  

Hey, Media, Try Again To Take Down Trump (and Cruz for Understanding the Trump Context) 

Herd mentality running rampant with hypocritical and/or naive pundits trying to crush Donald Trump because he's committed to clobbering the bad guys, and putting the good guys first. Trump's temporary ban proposal is in the context of doing all we can to force the Feds to acknowledge their lack of strategy to deal with terrorism. 

(Say what you will about racists and the religiously intolerant, at least they stick together.)

I said it back in 2009 and got beat up by the Left but understood by the commonsense Right, and I'll say it again: if it saves innocent lives, "profile away!" (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/palin-on-muslim-profiling-i-m-all-for-it) When information shows someone comes to America after being in a radical Islamic stronghold, and embraces the Death Cult's ideology that mandates butchering the innocent - then we are right in calling for shucking the political correctness that is fundamentally transforming America (Wait, I thought it was OBAMA who was fundamentally transforming America?), and finally putting the security of innocent Americans FIRST. Slow this down via Fed intervention (it's the Federal Government's first and foremost job - national security!) until and unless we have a plan in place to sufficiently vet, AND to utterly and completely destroy the terrorists. (Note to President: start with letting our United States Military, the greatest and most ethical military power on earth, do its job.) 

(Yeah Obama, stop sending the military to bomb ISIS strongholds and kill terrorist leaders and let them do their jobs! Wait....)

The Feds are talking the talk, saying the same thing I said in '09 with their "If you see something, say something!" profiling directive. The Feds have always banned whomever they choose from entering the U.S., they have the ability, we've given them the right, and they have a track record proving it. Trump's idea isn't new. (President Carter banned Iranians, rounded up Iranian students, "profiled" and targeted a populace based on religious ideology in 1979-1980, and was PRAISED by the Left.) 

(Actually Carter cut off ties with Iran, told Iranians in this country to report to the Immigration office with view to deport those who were here in violation of their visas, and provided sanctions against Iran, BECAUSE THEY WERE HOLDING 50 AMERICANS HOSTAGE! Not the same thing!)

"Because the feds have said repeatedly that they don't profile. But you certainly can. And hey, that gives them cover: We were just checking out a report of suspicious activity, Mohammad." (http://www.laweekly.com/news/janet-napolitano-urges-you-to-become-a-terrorism-snitch-at-staples-center-profile-away-2384843) 

 They have no plan to reform our flawed immigration vetting process. They cannot even utter the term Islamic Fundamentalism. (Perhaps because being a religious fundamentalist and being a terrorist are not exactly the same thing.) They will not declare war on ISIS. (What? We're bombing the hell out of them right now.) While the media twists and turns words, conservatives who propose action to combat the real threat facing America are demonized while the namby-pamby milquetoast politicians get a pass to go along their unaccountable merry way. 

A broken system allowed terrorists to come to our home and slaughter Americans. (Or our Planned Parenthood clinics. Don't forget that.) A bold, non-politician candidate calls for a pause in this flawed bureaucratic program so it can be fixed, to make sure it doesn't happen again. That's commonsense (Yeah, in 1930's Germany!), which is why the media and spineless pundits attack it. 

A private university President in Virginia encourages students to exercise their constitutional right to bear arms to defend themselves and their fellow man against terrorists. That's commonsense, which is why his courageous, wise advice is now attacked.

(He is talking about arming every university student on campus. How in the hell is that commonsense?)

Come together, America, to focus on proactive solutions to protect our children from terrorism, after 7 years of neglect. 

Ignore the White House as it spews talking point rhetoric accusing Trump (thus suggesting all who question their wrongheadedness) of being "unamerican." Yet it is their leader declaring his need to "fundamentally transform America" because he so wrongly sees our exceptional nation's foundation as fatally flawed. Now THAT is unamerican. 

- Sarah Palin

Isn't there a nurse on call somewhere?

Seriously where is this woman's medication?

Let's see Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Bill O'Reilly, and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, think Donald Trump has lost his ever loving mind, but Sarah Palin agrees with him, so at leas the has that.

Update: Damn, Palin is all alone. Even Netanyahu rejected Trump's anti-Muslim statements. 

What a moron!

DOJ finds that Ferguson police department racially biased. No, really? Update!

Body of Michael Brown.

Courtesy of USA Today:

A Justice Department review has found that Missouri's troubled Ferguson Police Department engaged in a broad pattern of racially biased enforcement that permeated the city's justice system, including the use of unreasonable force against African American suspects, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the findings. 

In 88% of cases in which Ferguson police documented the use of force, for example, that force was used against African Americans, according to the official who is not authorized to comment publicly. In addition, in all 14 canine bite incidents in which the suspect's race is known, the person bitten was African American. 

African Americans account for 67% of the population in Ferguson, but they accounted for 85% of the drivers stopped by police, 90% of the people issued tickets and 93% of the people arrested, a three-year examination of suspect stops found. When those cases reached the Municipal Court, authorities collected more fines for suspects' failure to appear than any other charge, mostly from the city's poorest and most vulnerable residents. 

African Americans were more than twice as likely than white drivers to be searched during vehicle stops, but 26% less likely to have contraband, the review found. 

The Ferguson Police Department often charged its black residents with petty crimes. African Americans accounted for 95% of the people charged with walking in the street and 92% of people charged with disturbing the peace.

Well this comes too late to bring justice to Michael Brown, but hopefully it might help to protect the next Michael Brown.

Update: Also found among municipal e-mails was this statement about President Obama: 

Among the report's findings was a racially tinged 2008 message in a municipal email account stating that President Barack Obama would not be president for very long because "what black man holds a steady job for four years."

Perhaps they were thinking of a certain half term quitter from Wasilla. Because our President is in it for the long haul. 

Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio is being charged with contempt for failing to follow a judge's instructions during racial profiling trial. Sounds about right, I have always held this guy in contempt.

Courtesy of AZ Central:  

After months of fiery hearings, legal filings and stern warnings, a federal judge presiding over a racial-profiling case has announced he will take legal action against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. 

Sheriff Joe Arpaio will face a civil contempt hearing in federal court this spring. 

U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow announced during a Thursday telephone conference that he will oversee a civil contempt of court proceeding against the six-term Maricopa County sheriff during a four-day mini trial in April. 

Snow has repeatedly threatened to level criminal- or civil-contempt proceedings against the office, and the judge spent the past week reviewing pleadings in which attorneys for Arpaio tried to persuade Snow not to take the monumental step.

Apparently the judge is pissed off that not only is the sheriff's office NOT providing all of the documentation requested by the judge, including body camera footage, but that they have continued conducting the kinds of traffic stops that got them into trouble in the first place.

Arpaio's attorneys are trying to explain away his behavior but the judge is simply not having it.

The trial is set for sometime in April.

John Oliver's take on the situation in Ferguson, MO is a must see.

Courtesy of HuffPo:

Oliver called out the Ferguson police department’s racism, our country’s irrational militarization of police forces, and the governor’s selectively applied logic when punishing the maligned community, concluding that “this is a top down problem.” 

“You took a community tired of being treated like criminals, and imprisoned them all in their own houses for a night,” Oliver said, criticizing Gov. Nixon. 

He continued, delivering a scathing indictment: “If even the governor can’t distinguish between the good and the bad elements of the community, and decides to punish everyone equally, then that should go both ways. I know the police love their ridiculous unnecessary military equipment, so here’s another patronizing test: let’s take it all away from them, and if they can make it through a whole month without killing a single unarmed black man, then — and only then– can they get their fucking toys back.”

I'm telling you with this kind of amazing stuff coming from Oliver I am barely even cognizant of the fact tha tboth the Daily Show and The Colbert Report on currently on hiatus.

Sarah Palin believes the outrage demonstrated by the President and others over the Trayvon Martin shooting is orchestrated. No seriously! Updated with surveillance tape of George Zimmerman.

Earlier today Rep. Bobby Rush was escorted off of the floor of Congress for doing this.

Courtesy of CBS News:

 "Too often, this violent act that resulted in the murder of Trayvon Martin is repeated in the streets of our nation," Rush said in his statement. "I applaud the young people all across the land who are making a statement about hoodies, about the hoodlums in this nation, particularly those who tread on our laws wearing official or quasi-official clothes." 

At this point in his remarks, Rush took off his jacket to reveal that he was wearing a hoodie underneath it. He covered his head with the hood, violating a rule in Congress that prohibits wearing hats on the House floor. 

"Racial profiling has to stop, Mr. Speaker. Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum," Rush added, swapping his spectacles for a pair of sunglasses. 

At this point, Rep. Gregg Harper, a Republican congressman from Mississippi who was serving as the presiding speaker of the chamber, called Rush out of order. Rush continued reading a passage from the Bible before being escorted out of the chamber.

Apparently sometime afterward the Grizzled Mama was being interviewed by Fox News radio, and had this to say about Bobby Rush:

“It’s not going to do anybody any good to ratchet up the rhetoric based on speculation,” Palin told Fox News. She shared her observations just hours after Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush was asked to leave the House floor after donning a hooded sweatshirt to protest Martin’s death. 

“What concerns me – the facts still aren’t out there,” Palin said. “Obviously when we hear about a 17-year-old young man losing his life, it’s tragic. It’s horrible. I am so, so extremely sorry for the family.” 

But she was upset at Rush’s display on the House floor calling it “atrocious.” 

“It’s quite appalling that Rep. Rush chose to go this route,” she said. “There are other ways to get your message across. It’s really bad precedent that he’s trying to set – violating such tradition and such rules to make a political statement.” 

She also called out President Obama – saying he should not have jumped into the growing outrage over the shooting. 

“I think it was orchestrated,” Palin said. “I’m going to get clobbered for even suggesting this, but it is what I believe.”

So apparently in Palin's world these people, politicians, celebrities, and every day people, could NOT be honestly expressing their outrage at what appears to be a travesty of justice, but instead decides that is MUST be the result of some coordinated effort to take political advantage of the shooting.

Amazing.

Personally I think what Bobby Rush did was brilliant. He demonstrated quite effectively how perceptions can be changed by simply putting on an item of clothing, if it fits preconceived racial stereotypes.

By the way I could not help but notice that there was something oddly familiar about the grey hoodie that Rep. Rush revealed from under his jacket during his speech.  I knew I had seen something like it somewhere before.

And I was right.

You know maybe the anti-hoodie crowd is on to something.

I certainly find something suspiciously criminal about THIS picture.

Update: Here is video of George Zimmerman at the police station right after Trayvon Martin lost his life. 

Does that man look like he was punched in the face and in a fight for his life minutes earlier to any of you?