Month: September 2013

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Announcement from Protect Your Right to Vote Committee:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 10, 2013 FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Robbie Sherwood
(480) 246-7944
robsherwood68@gmail.com

The Protect Your Right to Vote Committee, a broad and
diverse coalition of more than 20 organizations working together to put
House Bill 2305 to a vote of the people, will deliver petition
signatures to the Secretary of State office Wednesday afternoon.
Chairwoman Julie Erfle and representatives from participating
organizations will be present and available for media interviews.

What: The Protect Your Right to Vote Committee will file
petition signatures to the Secretary of State office. Numerous
volunteers from more than 20 different organizations contributed to the
effort since signature gathering began on July 1. More information about
HB2305 can be found here.

Who: Volunteers from more than 20 organizations will be
on hand to deliver the collected signatures. Committee chairwoman Julie
Erfle and other Committee leaders will be available for a photo and
video opportunities, and to answer questions regarding the effort to
repeal HB2305.

When: 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Where: Lobby of Arizona Executive Tower, 1700 W. Washington St., 1st floor.

Posted by Bob Lord

The Thuckmeister is wearing out his welcome here, at least as far as I'm concerned.

Among other things, he's engaged in what seems to me is rank intellectual dishonesty.

But since Thucky's dishonesty is sort of a case study in conservative intellectual dishonesty, let's explore.

Some time back, when ole Thucky first started railing about the evils of our social safety net, he made statements very clearly designed to conjure up images in the reader's mind of lazy welfare recipients sitting on their couches drinking beer and watching their flat screen TVs. And if the lazy person the reader imagined sitting there in front of the flat screen was black, well, all the better. 

But when I began posting about the conservative war on the poor, Thucky morphed into a "compassionate" conservative, overcome with emotion over the damage welfare does to its recipients whom he cares so much about. On my last post, he commented about the harm that welfare does to children in their pre-school years. He'd even counted the number of words they were not hearing before entering school. 

If you took his recent comments at face value, you'd think the Thuckmeister's desire to shred the safety net is driven by his concern for poor children.

Actually, he's just a corporate shill and the concern he purports to have for poor children reeks of intellectual dishonesty.

By Tom Prezelski
Re-posted from Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

For a blogger, discussing foreign affairs is strictly an academic
exercise, sort of like complaining about our summer heat in Tucson.
Nonetheless, sometimes, the irony of a situation is so rich that one
must indulge his inner nerd and comment.

Last week, the news came
that Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil,
using terms like "decolonization," has stated his government's support for Argentina in its never ending dispute with the United Kingdom over Las Islas Malvinas the Falkland Islands. Margallo's comments may have been an expression of Panhispanismo,
a political movement which seeks to promote ties between Spain and its
former colonies. More likely, they were part of an effort to secure
international support in the ongoing dispute over Gibraltar, which has heated up recently.

British
sovereignty over Gibraltar, as some may recall, has been contested by
Spain for over three centuries, resulting in about a dozen battles and
sieges, the most recent of which was the largest battle in the War of American Independence.