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Happy Bastille Day.


This from the Arizona Daily Star, by Rhonda Bodfield:

After speaking at a state tourism conference, Gov. Jan Brewer stopped to answer a few questions about her vision for the state.

Q: You just spoke at a tourism conference. Leaving aside signing SB 1070, which triggered some of the negative reaction, you have made comments about drug running and beheadings that presumably could hurt tourism by raising fears of violence. Have you overstated the violence Arizona is seeing?

A: I don’t know that they (the comments) hurt tourism. I think it’s part of what America is facing in regards to illegal activity that’s taking place in Mexico, and it is a fact. Information has been provided to me by residents, if you will, that they have found body parts, separations of the head from the body. It’s an unfortunate situation, but that just shows you the extreme violent nature of the drug cartels.

Indeed, how could the prevalence of “body parts, separations of the head from the body” possibly discourage tourists?

Read the rest of the interview here.


From The Onion:

LOS ANGELES—According to a Los Angeles Times survey published Tuesday, an increasing number of Americans believe undocumented immigrants pose a threat to their favored spot on the couch, with many expressing concern that illegal aliens are “actively plotting” to take their seat as early as the next time they get up to go to the kitchen or bathroom. “I’ve been sitting on this part of the couch for 40 years, and I’ll be damned if some foreigner thinks he can sit down right here where my father sat, and my grand-father before him,” survey respondent Earl Lockwood of Tulsa, OK said. “I earned this spot.” The poll also found that a majority of Americans support the recently enacted Arizona law requiring immigrants to present proper identification before calling dibs on a particular seat.