Month: February 2013

Arizona moves one step closer to making idolatrous gun worship the official state religion

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I can't believe that this bill ever got assigned for a hearing, let alone wasting time debating it and voting on it.

False IdolsArizona moved one step closer yesterday to making idolatrous gun worship the official state religion. Guns will now be sacred objects and holy relics that are protected from destruction, even by their owners who want to dispose of them.

Your gun now has rights superior to your private property rights. And "Big Brother" in Phoenix is taking away your local government control again. Tea-Publicans don't believe what they preach. Arizona House committee supports law to prevent gun destruction:

A House committee on Wednesday supported legislation reinforcing Arizona lawmakers’ decision not to allow cities or counties to destroy guns their police forces seize or buy back from the public.

Why does Arizona tolerate the Koch brothers dictating public policy?

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

51For years, the billionaire bastard Koch brothers have treated the Arizona legislature as a wholly owned subsidiary of the "Kochtopus" network of think tanks and political action committees that they and their wealthy friends fund. Several of these Kochtopus entities operate out of the state of Maricopa.

Tea-Publican members of the Arizona legislature are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and they openly carry bills for other Kochtopus entities like the Goldwater Institute and Americans For Prosperity. The Koch brothers are also major financial backers of the Tea Party.

The Kochtopus is an an invidious malignant cancer in the body politic that has made Arizona a regressive backwater and the laughingstock of the nation, a spot previously reserved for states such as Mississippi and Alabama. As I have said before, we need to tear out the Kochtopus network in the state of Maricopa by their roots and salt the ground to make certain that it never grows back again. We need to treat this cancer on the body politic.

Obama in Preschool Land

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by David Safier I'm a sucker for photos of Obama with children. When he's around kids, "No Drama Obama" turns into a Wild Thing, and he pretends to be caught in a young Spiderman's web. He lights up and gets in touch with his inner goofy. Talking Points Memo has 7 photos from Obama's visit … Read more

The $21.72 Minimum Wage

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Posted by Bob Lord Great chart at Huff Po, courtesy of CEPR. You can read the entire piece here, but as shown below, if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity, as it did until about 1970, we'd be at $21.72 now. It's not so much that the wages of Walmart workers have … Read more

Stephen Colbert on Crazy Uncle Joe Arpaio’s Posse

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I posted about this last week, Crazy Uncle Joe Arpaio's questionable posse to do a school-shooting simulation this weekend – supervised by actor Steven Seagal. That was simply too good to be true for Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report who mocks the exercise mercilessly in this segment, "Arizona's Gun Posse."

"Because the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is an even worse actor."

Video below the fold.