http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/29/louisiana.oil.rig/index.html?hpt=C1
All the Republicans were for drilling off shore...off someone else's shore. No one wanted it off their own coast. I wonder what the Drill Baby Drill crowd will say about this. This ain't going to help the cause. I guess we can ask Governor Bobby how he feels now. For that matter, ask Obama.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Supposedly 70% of Arizonians support new immigration bill?
Got this an email about the Rasmussen Poll from a teabagger.
I wish you'd make up your mind on polls. When they show that most Americans support a Public Option for health care it's irrelevant, when most Americans support a women's right to chose, it doesn't matter. When polls show that a vast majority of Americans feel that George W. Bush's unnecessary war was a complete disaster, "we dont' run the country by polls". But as soon as one support you, you're Mr Populace. I wonder what the polls showed in Alabama about segregation in 1950. (In a statewide referendum in Alabama in 2004 to remove the segregation in education language, long since Unconstitutional, from the Alabama Constitution changing the language LOST...yep 6 years ago. Arizona's racism is directed toward Latinos.)
it's clear from the most vocal supporters of this measure that they don't know what it entails. It's is legalized racial profiling. BY DEFINTION. If the purpose is to stem the tide of illegals from Mexico by definition it means that cops will be pulling over latinos and asking for their papers. They sure as hell won't be asking for Canadians who live here in the summer to verify their visa status. They won't be asking Russian software engineers to show their H1-Bs.
if the governor is serious about not tolerating racial profiling, she's completely made the law useless because without racial profiling you can't very well be checking the status of every brown skinned person in Arizona. COnsidering 30% of Arizona is hispanic that's a lot of innocent people who need to verify their right to be where they are for the arbitrary whims of cops. It also makes that 70% approval number very suspect.
SO, if the police pulled you over as you walked down the street, could you PROVE you're here legally? Your driver's license doesn't prove shit, so you're ready to go to jail or will you be carrying your passport and birth certificate with you.
Again, all you good Teabaggers are always bitching about freedom but that "freedom" only applies to white, Christian, straight people. if it's the government screwing gays or dark skinned people, that's not about freedom b/c they're not really "americans" are they?. Really, is it America where we ask people to show their papers for no other reason than they look Mexican. (What does a person with an expired visa look like? What does a person with a Green Card look like? What does an American citizen look like?)
Oh yeah, and the Arizona Police Chiefs Association said this will do NOTHING to impact illegal immigration, it will make their jobs harder and take resources away from stopping real crime.
Remember when ARizona wouldn't pass the MLK Jr. holiday? It took the NFL saying they wouldn't hold the Super Bowl here any more to get them to overcome their racism. Racist state laws are bad for business and for a state that depends so heavily on tourism, it will be the reality that racist laws impact tourism that will cause a change.
Finally, I know you hate the Constitution but:
Under the Constitution's "supremacy clause," the Constitution and federal law trump state law. Article 1 of the Constitution, which spells out Congress' powers, specifically gives U.S. lawmakers authority to establish a "uniform Rule of Naturalization" and to regulate commerce with other nations.
I wish you'd make up your mind on polls. When they show that most Americans support a Public Option for health care it's irrelevant, when most Americans support a women's right to chose, it doesn't matter. When polls show that a vast majority of Americans feel that George W. Bush's unnecessary war was a complete disaster, "we dont' run the country by polls". But as soon as one support you, you're Mr Populace. I wonder what the polls showed in Alabama about segregation in 1950. (In a statewide referendum in Alabama in 2004 to remove the segregation in education language, long since Unconstitutional, from the Alabama Constitution changing the language LOST...yep 6 years ago. Arizona's racism is directed toward Latinos.)
it's clear from the most vocal supporters of this measure that they don't know what it entails. It's is legalized racial profiling. BY DEFINTION. If the purpose is to stem the tide of illegals from Mexico by definition it means that cops will be pulling over latinos and asking for their papers. They sure as hell won't be asking for Canadians who live here in the summer to verify their visa status. They won't be asking Russian software engineers to show their H1-Bs.
if the governor is serious about not tolerating racial profiling, she's completely made the law useless because without racial profiling you can't very well be checking the status of every brown skinned person in Arizona. COnsidering 30% of Arizona is hispanic that's a lot of innocent people who need to verify their right to be where they are for the arbitrary whims of cops. It also makes that 70% approval number very suspect.
SO, if the police pulled you over as you walked down the street, could you PROVE you're here legally? Your driver's license doesn't prove shit, so you're ready to go to jail or will you be carrying your passport and birth certificate with you.
Again, all you good Teabaggers are always bitching about freedom but that "freedom" only applies to white, Christian, straight people. if it's the government screwing gays or dark skinned people, that's not about freedom b/c they're not really "americans" are they?. Really, is it America where we ask people to show their papers for no other reason than they look Mexican. (What does a person with an expired visa look like? What does a person with a Green Card look like? What does an American citizen look like?)
Oh yeah, and the Arizona Police Chiefs Association said this will do NOTHING to impact illegal immigration, it will make their jobs harder and take resources away from stopping real crime.
Remember when ARizona wouldn't pass the MLK Jr. holiday? It took the NFL saying they wouldn't hold the Super Bowl here any more to get them to overcome their racism. Racist state laws are bad for business and for a state that depends so heavily on tourism, it will be the reality that racist laws impact tourism that will cause a change.
Finally, I know you hate the Constitution but:
Under the Constitution's "supremacy clause," the Constitution and federal law trump state law. Article 1 of the Constitution, which spells out Congress' powers, specifically gives U.S. lawmakers authority to establish a "uniform Rule of Naturalization" and to regulate commerce with other nations.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Arizona...national joke
My old Bushie aquaintance says that the new AZ law doesn't allow police to demand their status unless they believe a crime has occurred, but in a fantastic case of circular logic, the crime they need to be suspected of is being illegally in the country.
Oh if that were only the case.
The crime you speak of is that the person looks like they don't hold US Citizenship, a visa, are a refugee, an asylee or otherwise vaild reason to be in the US? How exactly can you tell that from looking at someone? I ask you. In fact, the law REQUIRES that police ascertain whether the person is in the country legally. REQUIRES if there is suspicion (again, how can you guess a person's citizenship/visa status from looking at them?)
I don't know why I keep making this mistake, but I thought that for all the talk about Obama's socialist government and "intrusiveness" and "freedom" that you might be offended by cops pulling any person for them to prove that they are a citizen or have a visa, but I often forget that the "Freedom" you speak of is The freedom of White, Christain, Straight Men to be free from paying taxes while sucking at the government teat without the slightest acknowledgement of their own hypocrisy.
Actually, you might want to put that on a sign and carry that at the next Tea Bagger rally.
Oh if that were only the case.
The crime you speak of is that the person looks like they don't hold US Citizenship, a visa, are a refugee, an asylee or otherwise vaild reason to be in the US? How exactly can you tell that from looking at someone? I ask you. In fact, the law REQUIRES that police ascertain whether the person is in the country legally. REQUIRES if there is suspicion (again, how can you guess a person's citizenship/visa status from looking at them?)
I don't know why I keep making this mistake, but I thought that for all the talk about Obama's socialist government and "intrusiveness" and "freedom" that you might be offended by cops pulling any person for them to prove that they are a citizen or have a visa, but I often forget that the "Freedom" you speak of is The freedom of White, Christain, Straight Men to be free from paying taxes while sucking at the government teat without the slightest acknowledgement of their own hypocrisy.
Actually, you might want to put that on a sign and carry that at the next Tea Bagger rally.
Welcome to Arizona...a little taste of Johannesburg circa 1979
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/19/arizona.immigration.bill/index.html?hpt=T2
How would I prove my immigration status if I got pulled over? Am I to carry my birth certificate with me?
Is there anything more totalitarian than having a police officer demand "your papers"?
How would I prove my immigration status if I got pulled over? Am I to carry my birth certificate with me?
Is there anything more totalitarian than having a police officer demand "your papers"?
Friday, April 16, 2010
The sanctity of marriage
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/15/larry.king.divorce/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Pro-Christian bias in the MSM
Despite all the right fringes constant catterwalling about how "Christians are always under attack", the reality is much different...as usual. In case you needed more proof of the Mainstream media bias toward Christians and a gripping fear at offending them, notice that this terrorist group (of Christians) has not once been called a Terrorist organization nor have I even heard the words "terrorist" mentioned in reference to them. You can be DAMN sure that if this was a Hindu/Muslim/Buddhist group or Individual they'd be called a "terrorist" in every article and not a "militia" with all its Constitutional referenced romance. if these charges aren't terrorism, nothing is: seditious conspiracy, attempted use of weapons of mass destruction, teaching the use of explosive materials and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. Shameful.
Yet when that guy lost his shit at Fort Hood he was instantly branded a terrorist based on his name not the reality of that guy's past as a pissed off loner(Don't believe me? You can read the article in Esquire about Ft. Hood http://www.esquire.com/features/fort-hood-shooting-0310?click=main_sr from last month that tells the story that Fox "News" ignored)
Yet when that guy lost his shit at Fort Hood he was instantly branded a terrorist based on his name not the reality of that guy's past as a pissed off loner(Don't believe me? You can read the article in Esquire about Ft. Hood http://www.esquire.com/features/fort-hood-shooting-0310?click=main_sr from last month that tells the story that Fox "News" ignored)
Friday, April 02, 2010
Obama on his way to fixing Bush's recession
(the incendiary subject line just to get the base fired up)
Manufacturing growing at fastest pace since ’04
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36131832/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/
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WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- First-time claims for U.S. Unemployment Insurance benefits fell for the fifth consecutive week, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. Claims fell by 6,000 to 439,000 last week, and in the past five weeks they've dropped by an average of 12,000 per week. The U.S. jobless rate remained unchanged at 9.7 percent. State statistics lag one week behind the national report. The biggest increases in claims for the week ending March 20 were reported by Illinois with...
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Dow average up for fifth straight week as oil tops $85 a barrel
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks on Thursday started the second quarter on an upbeat note, with oil and other commodities rallying as economic reports from the U.S., Asia and Europe combined to lift hopes of a global recovery.
Manufacturing growing at fastest pace since ’04
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36131832/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/
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WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- First-time claims for U.S. Unemployment Insurance benefits fell for the fifth consecutive week, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. Claims fell by 6,000 to 439,000 last week, and in the past five weeks they've dropped by an average of 12,000 per week. The U.S. jobless rate remained unchanged at 9.7 percent. State statistics lag one week behind the national report. The biggest increases in claims for the week ending March 20 were reported by Illinois with...
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Dow average up for fifth straight week as oil tops $85 a barrel
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks on Thursday started the second quarter on an upbeat note, with oil and other commodities rallying as economic reports from the U.S., Asia and Europe combined to lift hopes of a global recovery.
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