Do The Real Job Creators Even Care About The Tax Rate?

Bob Lord

Posted by Bob Lord We can’t tax the job creators! We can’t tax the job creators! Advertisement So goes the familiar refrain. The response is more or less to point out that the folks in the top 1% are not really job creators. Heck, many of them are coupon clippers. In addition, there’s the fact … Read more

Amazing. Genuine (but shaky) old 3-D images on the web

David Safier

by David Safier Here's a image taken with a stereo camera in 1905, which, through the magic of gif animation, is rendered in a shaky 3-D. GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator It's on the NY Library Stereogranimator site, with lots of others. For those not familiar with this old 3-D technnique: Photographers would … Read more

Question of the Day

AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Why do all the media villagers keep repeating Jan Brewer's version of the facts that Obama was "testy" when sh is the only person present who continues to make this claim, and two others have flatly denied it? Out of the three officials who met President Obama on an airport tarmac near … Read more

Very bad news on the voucher front

David Safier

by David Safier A judge has given her OK to Arizona's "Education Empowerment Scholarships," which is the state's vouchers-on-steroids bill. She accepted the dual arguments that (1) creating "savings accounts" somehow launders the money of its government connection and it can therefore be used for religious education; and (2) because the parents can use the … Read more

Andy Tobin taking the lead in the Republican fight against independent redistricting

AZ BlueMeanie

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings   …and the fun part is: he wants the voters to pay $8 million for the privilege of subverting their own will… Rep. Andy Tobin (R-Paulden), the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, has introduced HB2710, HCR2051, HCR2052, HCR2053, and HR2005. If passed, they would mandate a … Read more

A New Ironic Insipidity From Representative Gowan

Michael Bryan

Posted by Michael Bryan

Gringomask_0The State House Committee on Military Affairs and Public Safety passed HCM2005, which expresses the august and considered judgment of the Arizona House that dismantling internal border patrol checkpoints and "relocating these agents from the streets and highways to the border fence, stationing them three hundred feet apart, and providing a constant patrol along the border fence will stop the crossing of illegal immigrants and result in little need for border patrol agents in the interior of this state."

You sure that 200 feet apart wouldn't be a better deterrent, guys? Come on. This sort of attempt to micro-manage Federal immigration policy and practices is just more political grandstanding by the anti-immigrant AZGOP.

The seeming unconcious hypocrisy of folks who complain about the intrusiveness of the border patrol's permanent internal checkpoints, but none-the-less support intruding on Latino-looking American citizens and residents using local police anywhere in the state, never ceases to amaze.

It's sometimes surprising what comes out of the mouths of our elected representatives on this topic. In the following clip you get to watch State Rep. David Gowan (R-LD30) bellyache about how he doesn't like the Federal government bugging folks like him (non-Hispanic-looking folks, presumably) about their immigration status inside our borders. Apparently, however, it's fine with Gowan for the State of Arizona to do so (as he is a proponent of the SB107), which is intrusive in EXACTLY this way.

Gowan says:

“We're talking the difference between the federal government and the State doing law-enforcement. There is a higher criteria that comes with the federal government. And that's the essence of this, is the federal government, what I was talking about earlier, asking about our citizenship inside America is what perturbs me.”

WTF? What higher criteria? I suspect that criteria is simply whether Gowan, and folks like him, feel that the "right people" are in charge of the law enforcement officers in question. If the officers are "properly" trained only to harass brown people — like Sheriff Joe's crew — it's OK. But if the officers are "improperly" trained not to racially profile — like the Border Patrol under the communist Kenyan Obama — then Gowan no likey.

See Gowan make an ass-hat of himself after the click… (h/t to Sarah Muench for pointing out the video)

Election Deadlines for the Giffords Seat

AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: There will be two congressional races overlapping one another for the Giffords seat — a special election and the general election. Here are the dates you need to know: SPECIAL ELECTION Candidate nomination petitions are due Monday, February 27, 2012 by 5:00 p.m. Legal challenges to candidate nomination petitions must be filed by … Read more

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