Belated Grammy Award Announced: Pinal Co. Sheriff Paul Babeu and his Lover Jose

The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences have announced a belated Grammy Award for hypocrite duet of the year going to Pinal Co Skinhead Sheriff Paul Babeu and his illegal alien lover Jose. ABC News reported:

"A sheriff who has gained notoriety as an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration has stepped down from his post as the Romney campaign’s Arizona co-chair after allegations surfaced that he threatened his ex-boyfriend with deportation.

Paul Babeu, 43, who serves as sheriff in Pinal County in Southern Arizona, rose to prominence when the then-first term sheriff appeared in campaign advertisements with John McCain in 2010. The pair walked along a border fence, which McCain had vowed to complete. Babeu tells him: “Senator, you’re one of us.”..." http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/az-sheriff-quits-romney-campaign-after-ex-boyfriends-accusations/

Now for the first time in public I give you the Skinhead Sheriff Paul Babeu and Jose:


(feat. Jose)

[Paul:]
Havin' my Babeu
What a lovely way of sayin'
How much you love me
Havin' my Babeu
What a lovely way of sayin'
What you're thinkin' of me
I can see it, face is glowin'
I can see in your eyes
I'm happy you know it

[Both:]
That you're havin' my Babeu

[Paul:]
You're the woman I love
And I love what it's doin' to ya

[Both:]
Havin' my Babeu

[Paul:]
You're a woman in love
And I love what's goin' through ya

[Paul:]
The need inside you
I see it showin'
Whoa, the seed inside ya
Babeu, do you feel it growin'
Are you happy you know it
That you're

[Both:]
Havin' my Babeu

[Jose:]
I'm a woman in love
And I love what it's doin' to me

[Both:]
Havin' my Babeu

[Jose:]
I'm a woman in love
And I love what's goin' through me

[Paul:]
Didn't have to keep it
Wouldn't put ya through it
You could have swept it from you life
But you wouldn't do it
No, you wouldn't do it

[Both:]
And you're havin' my Babeu

[Jose:]
I'm a woman in love
And I love what it's doin' to me

[Both:]
Havin' my Babeu

[Jose:]
I'm a woman in love
And I love what's goin' through me

[Paul:]
Havin' my Babeu (havin' my Babeu)
What a lovely way of sayin'
How much you love me

[Paul:]
Havin' my Babeu
(havin' my Babeu)

[Jose:]
I'm a woman in love
And I love what's goin' through

Forest Lake Police Should Revoke Rookie Cops Firearm Privileges

In the most recent edition of City Pages is an article about "...a Forest Lake police officer who shot two collared, domesticated deer on private property about 50 feet from a house. First-year policeman Brent Degroot told his superiors that he almost crashed his vehicle into one of the deer while on early morning patrol last month. He then used a shotgun to kill both of them." See the article and my comments at http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/02/brent_degroot_forest_lake_policeman_shoots_domesticated_deer_jeff_carpenter.php#comments



Lawyer who hunts

There are so many violations of state wildlife and firearm laws I do not even know where to begin. This officer should have his firearm privileges revoked in light of his poor judgment. Although I am a lawyer, most citizens of the State of Minnesota know you cannot just take matters into your hands and kill wildlife you deem are causing a hazard. You are required to contact the DNR and let them handle it. Furthermore you are not allowed to discharge a firearm within 500 feet of an occupied building or dwelling. The idea that this person is authorized to use lethal force by virtue of his status as a law enforcement officer, in light of his incredible ignorance of the law and poor judgment is absolutely frightening. I established the precedent for police liability for taking private property in this state so I know a little of what I speak. There is still the question of whether the citizen should have domesticated the deer and/or whether they had a property right in them.

Syria Vows to end Crackdown, Greek Government Agrees to Abide By EU Conditions, and a Republican Jobs Program

Name something that that doesn't exist and two that ain't gonna happen.

Dems: "We Take Care of Our Own!" GOP: Turning Swans Into Crows

Oh yeah....HUH HUH HUH Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own We take care of our own
We take care of our own We take care of our own We take care of our own We take care of our own We take care of our own Wherever this flag's flown
Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own We take care of our own Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own We take care of our own

(Hey Republicans ask yourself: Where's the promise, from sea to shining sea Where's the spirit that'll reign, reign over me) Where's the promise, from sea to shining sea
(Question was that the Republican Jobs bill last Friday? Tort Reform?)
HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH


Gov. Mark Dayton didn't just veto four "tort-reform" bills
passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature this morning.

He shredded the bills and GOP leadership.

"These were laughably characterized as jobs bills," Dayton said.

"Calling a crow a swan doesn’t make it one."

The GOP Turning Swans Into Crows

The GOP Turning Swans Into Crows The GOP Turning Swans Into Crows

Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own

The GOP Turning Swans Into Crows The GOP Turning Swans Into Crows
TThe GOP Turning Swans Into Crows The GOP Turning Swans Into Crows

President Wins One for Old Notre Dame and in MN Score Four for the 4%ers (i.e. the Little Guys)

If you have not read my profile or figured out by now from my writings, like Harvey Levin says on the closing credits of TMZ: "I'm a lawyer". My current job description requires that I keep abreast and research all aspects of the law as well as state and federal legislation and their respective regulatory processes.

I know for instance that the President was on the level when he said that no decision had been made on a final contraception policy when he initially made his announcement about a week ago. That's because the Federal Rulemaking process is a multi-step process which requires, in part, an agency to:

Sign and publish notice of proposed rule in Federal Register, conduct stakeholder outreach, manage public comments on proposed rule, review and consider public comments, statutory and executive order requirements, optional agency procedures (e.g., supplemental proposal), conduct internal and external deliberation and approval processes, publish final rules in Federal Register and lastly, to again conduct stakeholder outreach. (Source: GAO Report to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee April 2009 citing EPA.)

This process can normally take up to one year and we were only at the very early, initiating policy stage of the process. The President, in response to heated and unfair criticisms and pure demagoguery, certainly sped up the commentary and deliberative processes but the actual reg still needs to be written and follow the approval process. This is how the system works.

I listened to the President's announcement yesterday live on the radio and I thought the President laid his case out like a skilled litigator and cut his opponents off at their knees. I challenge anyone to listen to his entire announcement and dispute the pragmatism and wisdom of his compromise and solution to a difficult and complex problem, in a pluralistic society, involving many stakeholders and rights including everything from individual health to the nation's economy to fundamental constitutional issues such as religious freedoms, privacy and libertarian ideals (i.e. control over one's own body not Ron Paul's convoluted notion of economic liberty and isolationism). High marks and fives to the President on this one.

Meanwhile back in Minnesota the Republicans who control the legislature tried to pull a fast one. Without an iota of a chance for passage and without following the normal legislative process, rushed to the Governor for signature four major pieces of legislation. Had the Republican majorities in both the Minnesota House and Senate had a Republican governor to rubber stamp their payback to their fat cat benefactors, the legislation would have become law. This would have had dramatic impacts on the Minnesota Judicial system, all to the detriment of the average citizen and all to the benefit of big business, insurance companies and wealthy elites who do not play by the rules.

Never mind that at least one of these one-sided pieces of legislative garbage was blatantly unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. Never mind the fact that the Republicans believe that businesses and insurance companies deserve 10% interest on their judgments and ordinary citizens would have been relegated to only 4%. Well on behalf of all the 4%ers out there: Thank you Governor Dayton for your righteous vetoes. http://mn.gov/_live/governor/images/20120210_vetoletters.pdf

Wolverines: "Forget Michigan, We Prefer Minnesotans. They Taste Better!"

Watching the excellent PBS series Nature the other night reminded me how much I miss my parents. I would have loved to call them on the phone and tell them to turn on channel 2. The episode that aired locally the day before yesterday was entitled: "Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom". http://video.pbs.org/video/1558511285

The reason I wish my parents had lived to see this documentary on Wolverines is that it would have proven both my father and I correct. You see both my father and I are incredibly stubborn Germans. We are also bastions of useless information with good memories and we are rarely wrong. In other words, we are both insufferable to live with. Just ask my ex or my two children.

Flashback to the early 1990's and a cool but sunny spring day. I had stopped by my parents home just off West River Road in South Minneapolis for a visit and wound up taking the aging family dog, Max, a golden Retriever/German Shepherd mix, for one of our favorite pastimes, a walk along the banks of the Mississippi River.

Truly one of the greatest urban natural resources in the country, as Bob Dylan once wrote about ("I'm just sitting on this bank of sand and watching the river flow") and the great Minnesota party band, Lamont Cranston resurrected in spirit on its album "Upper Mississippi Shakedown", "...From the shores of the river you can't see the big city lights..." Max and I jumped the old decrepit WPA era chain link fence and raced down the steep banks of the wooded river gorge until we emerged from the woods and onto one of those banks of sand of which Bobby Zimmerman spoke.

After a nice walk along the shore, Max and I headed back up the steep river gorge near the sandstone cave by the big picnic area off West River Road. About half way up we were hit by a powerful, musky or funky smell, sort of a cross between a dead body and decaying fish smell. There in the trail in front of us was what looked like a flattened dead animal of some sort. It was dark brown with an outer ring of lighter hair which looked blondish grey.

Assuming from the smell and its flattened appearance that it was dead, but just to be sure, I kicked some of the wet muddy dirt of the trail onto the carcass. Much to Max's and my astonishment and terror, this "dead" animal leaped into the air and in one swift mover turned a 180 degree turn in mid air landing facing us snarling at us with gaping jaws.

Well Max and I did not have to be told twice. We high tailed it out of there taking a wide circle around the beast and fighting each other as to who would be first on the way up.

When we reached the old chain link fence demarking the lower trail, I picked up Max and hucked him over the fence and we ran back to my parent's house now about two and a half blocks away. Excited and out of breath I blurted the recent frightening developments to my parents who looked at me as if I was on drugs. Instead of joining in our excitement and enthusiasm, my father dismissed my story with a wave of his hand.

I'll never forget him yelling "there hasn't been a wolverine in these parts in 100 years!" About three days later Mom calls me laughing hysterically. I said what's up Mom and between gulps of air and laughter she manages to croak out, you'll never believe ..."your father is in his den with the encyclopedia out and shaking his head in disbelief, your and Max's Wolverine is in our back yard!" There must be something about Minnesotans that attract them. Watch the Nature documentary on PBS entitled "Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom"

Breaking News: Maturi Heeds the Great Roll Call and Finally Resigns!

The worst athletic director in the history of Golden Gopher sports, Joe Maturi has resigned. Not since Hosni Mubarek resigned have we seen a bigger despot leave the world stage!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!