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Sounds like people in Arizona are playing off each other making a big deal out of nothing. And the only thing that seems to be coming out of it is making the state look like it’s filled with racists.

Good article from the Washington Post by Dana Milbank.

The Arizona governor, seemingly determined to repel every last tourist dollar from her pariah state, has sounded a new alarm about border violence. “Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded,” she announced on local television.

Brewer’s mindlessness about headlessness is just one of the immigration falsehoods being spread by Arizona politicians. Border violence on the rise? Phoenix becoming the world’s No. 2 kidnapping capital? Illegal immigrants responsible for most police killings? The majority of those crossing the border are drug mules? All wrong.

I had wanted to visit Arizona but after hearing how the State is dealing with this immigration issue and making things up, I’d rather just go to Mexico and spend my tourist dollars there.

I find it a bit bizarre that we as a nation go through so much strife to fuel our comfort levels. Some may disagree, but I believe some of the reason we’ve been involved in war in the Middle East is because of oil. Thousands of soldiers have died. But it’s ok, because we’re still roaming the expansive highways here in our country with big gas-guzzling SUVs.

Now, without any wars whatsoever we have millions of gallons of oil just floating to our shores in the Gulf of Mexico. Hallelujah! Oh wait a minute, it’s killing the environment and is an ecological disaster. Oops. We got what we wanted, just not quite in the way we wanted it.

I am amazed at how times are changing. It seems like the last two presidential elections have been very heavily involved with social networking sites and new forms of media to gain attention.

Now with our new President the White House has it’s own blog! Needless to say, I have subscribed to the rss feed to keep up to date on the happenings of our government. Maybe this is old news but I just found it thanks to Ross Karchner and thought I would share it with my readers.