FURRIES AND JUGGALOS SINCE 1992 COVER ART BY RAMONA CHAVEZ VOLUME 27 | ISSUE 51 | DECEMBER 20, 2018-JANUARY 2, 2019 | FREE [ 2] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 20, 2018-JANUARY 2, 2019 DECEMBER 20, 2018-JANUARY 2, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] alibi VOLUME 27 | ISSUE 51 | DECEMBER 20, 2018-JANUARY 2, 2019 EDITORIAL Email letters, including author’s name, mailing address and daytime phone number to [email protected]. MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: Letters can also be mailed to P.O. Box 81, Albuquerque, N.M., 87103. Letters—including comments posted Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] on alibi.com—may be published in any medium and edited for length and clarity; owing to the volume of MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: August March (ext. 245) [email protected] correspondence, we regrettably can’t respond to every letter. ARTS AND LIT.EDITOR: Alisa Valdes (ext. 239) [email protected] FOOD EDITOR: Robin Babb [email protected] COPY EDITOR: A Troubled America We have laws limiting immigration, but Taylor Grabowsky [email protected] the current barriers at the border are not CALENDARS EDITOR: Dear Editor, Ashli Kesali [email protected] sufficient for the enforcement of those laws. A STAFF WRITER: The picture of thousands of invaders trying to new and better wall is one essential Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] forcefully get into America is frightful. component of border security, and President SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: Especially to those living along the border Trump should use every instrument provided Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: with Mexico. For years, many have had their by the Constitution to get the wall built. Ramona Beezus, Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, homes invaded, by much smaller groups than Peter J. Thomas, Chairman Samantha Carrillo, Desmond Fox, Taylor Grabowsky, the present-day caravans. The Conservative Caucus Maggie Grimason, Steven Luthy, Hosho McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie Caravans of immigrants invading America Warrenton, Va. PRODUCTION is a new type of threat to this country. The GRAPHIC DESIGNERS: liberals’ idea of an opened-border-policy is a Useful Idiots R Us Corey Yazzie [email protected] sign of insanity. Especially now that Mexico Ramona Chavez [email protected] STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: has, as of Dec. 1, a new President, Andrés Dear Editor, Eric Williams [email protected] Manuel López Obrador. He has been quoted as With all due respect, CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Quote Deb Haaland: Enough of this Max Cannon, Michael Ellis, Ryan North, Mike saying, during his campaign, “that immigrants Organisciak, Jen Sorensen must leave their towns and find a life in the “Trumpism.” Don’t you know you are insulting SALES United States.” Now some in the neighboring the majority of real patriots in this country. SALES DIRECTOR: countries may be taking his advice. Why do you think Trump got elected? Because Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] And he was also quoted as saying, “and we are sick and tired of your crooked Democrat ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] soon, very soon … after the victory of our rule. Deb is a perfect example of hatred that John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] movement … we will defend all the migrants started with Obama. Shane Boyd (ext. 223) [email protected] in the American continent and all the Hitler was a leftist socialist—Democrats are Sarah Shipman (ext. 210) [email protected] migrants in the world.” Hopefully, that was leftist socialists! Our state has suffered under ADMINISTRATION PUBLISHER: just campaign bravado.We will soon find out! Democrats’ heavy foot. Why are we the Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] Too bad our gutless Republican legislators, poorest state in the union except for CONTROLLER: and their fellow Democrat/Abomination Party Mississippi? And why is California falling apart Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] before our very eyes? SYSTEMS MANAGER: legislators, didn’t give the president enough Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] money to build the wall. The wall should be The Democrats’ bible is Rules For Radicals, WEB MONKEY: 50 feet thick and 100 feet high, of reinforced a book dedicated to Lucifer—read it sometime. John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] “Blame the other side for something you are OWNERS: concrete, down the center of the Rio Grande Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott River, from the Gulf of Mexico to El Paso, guilty of.”—Saul Alinsky. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: Texas, and from there on the border line, all All of this hatred and division is coming Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] the way to the Pacific Ocean. If it can be from the left!!! Yes, all of you libbies are eating CIRCULATION done, America can do it! it all up, served by Hillary and the rest of the CIRCULATION MANAGER: American haters. Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] A broke America cannot take in the rest of CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: the world. Dearest Alibi, count yourselves as one of the Darrell Sparks [email protected] Manuel Ybarra Jr. “Useful Idiots.” INFORMATION Coalgate, Okla. A Disgusted American-Mexican, PRINTER: Albuquerque a The Santa Fe New Mexican Build That Wall! 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Box 81 Albuquerque, NM 87103 BUSINESS HOURS: 10AM–5PM MON–FRI It is time for President Trump to follow the Michelle Lujan Grisham’s upcoming state of PHONE and FAX: (505) 346-0660 example of Clinton. He should veto the state address. The error was in reporting. Alibi (ISSN 1088-0496) is published weekly 51 times per year. The content appropriations until Congress gives him the of this issue is Copyright © 2018 by NuCity Publications, Inc., and may not be reprinted in part or in whole without written consent of the publisher. All rights funding to build a much-needed wall along the are reserved. One copy of each edition of Alibi is available free to county residents and visitors each week. Anyone caught removing papers in bulk will be prosecuted Mexican border. on theft charges to the fullest extent of the law. Yearly subscription $100, back Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, issues are $3, Best of Burque is $5. Queries and manuscripts should include a We saw just a few weeks ago, when the self-addressed stamped envelope; Alibi assumes no responsibility for address and daytime phone number via email to unsolicited material. border was attacked by illegal aliens crossing [email protected]. Letters may be edited for length from Tijuana, that the current wall is and clarity, and may be published in any medium; we inadequate. While the border patrol was able regret that owing to the volume of correspondence to catch many of the invaders who came over we cannot reply to every letter. Word count limit for the wall, some escaped into the interior of the letters is 300 words. Association United States. of Alternative Newsmedia [4] WEEKLY ALIBI DECEMBER 20, 2018-JANUARY 2, 2019 DECEMBER 20, 2018-JANUARY 2, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] Facebook pages created by other couples who had been involved in similar situations with ODDS the same caterers. The couple pressed charges against the company, and last week a Madrid court ruled in favor of the defendants, saying ENDS that although the owners admitted that they AND lied about being dead, it wasn’t clear that they had planned to renege at the time the verbal WEIRD NEWS agreement was made. The night before the wedding, the owner’s son had installed a Dateline: Russia marquee at the venue where the wedding was A human-like “robot” featured at a technology being held at cost to themselves, and the forum turned out to be a man wearing a robot judges ruled that it constituted a partial costume. According to The New York Times, a fulfillment of the contract and implied an robot named “Boris” was called “one of the intent to finish the job. The owner of the most advanced robots” by the Russian state- company reportedly told the judges that he sponsored Rossiya-24 news channel. Boris was decided not to serve the couple because he a featured act at the Proyektoria technology didn’t “get a very good impression” of them. forum, an event aimed at exposing children to The ruling can be appealed. the potentials in technology-based careers. During the gathering, the “robot” took to the Dateline: United Kingdom stage to speak to the crowd in a pre-recorded Organizers at a holiday event apologized last voice and dance to a popular song. Reporters week after a fire alarm caused an employee applauded the “robot,” saying it might have dressed as Santa Claus to panic and yell inspired some children to pursue a career in profanities at children. According to CNN, a robotics. Some Russian bloggers were number of parents were appalled by the man’s suspicious of Boris, however, and began asking behavior when a fire alarm at an unrelated questions about its lack of sensors and human- event in the same building caused Santa to like size and shape.