Arizona abuse<\/a><\/strong> apparently has nothing to do with the White House or the war on terrorism.\u00a0 Except unless that local fire department received a grant from the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\nMy contacts near the scene of the crime tell me that, since the investigation is still continuing, it cannot yet be revealed whether the culprit was relocated from West Virginia to Arizona by the federal witness protection program.<\/p>\n
I hope this incident does not cause people to engage in stereotyping.\u00a0\u00a0 For the record, the vast majority of guys named “Leroy” are never charged with sheep abuse.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Several people have emailed me and asked me why I have refused to comment on the role of federal wool subsidies in undermining virtue in rural America. Unfortunately, the U.S. Department of Agriculture does not have an “Amber Alert” system that would provide statistics correlating,\u00a0for each congressional district,\u00a0the amount of wool subsidies received and the number of bestiality arrests.<\/p>\n
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