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“If we want to cut off funding to the terrorists, we must together as a nation stop watching FOX”
August 25, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I've written about Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal before, A legitimate "birther" movement for corporations, and that the right-wing was beginning to take notice as well. Conservative Activists Rebel Against Fox News: Saudi Ownership Is ‘Really Dangerous For America’. Now Jon Stewart and the Daily Show have caught up to this Islamist terrorist
My two biggest election surprises
August 25, 2010
by David Safier The least surprising thing for me this primary election is what a lousy handicapper I am. I tried not to predict election outcomes, but even my reluctant guesses were pretty poor. The two biggest surprises for me were the large margins of victory for Chris Deschene (Sec of State) and Penny Kotterman
The official ADC line from Barrett Marson
August 24, 2010
by David Safier I had a few interesting email and telephone discussions with Barrett Marson, the spokesman for the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC), on the days before the assessment of the private, for-profit Kingman Prison was released. Marson's basic take (or spin, if you will) on the situation was that private prisons are roughly
Michael Steele un-Hearts SB1070?
August 24, 2010
by David Safier RNC Chair Michael Steele didn't exactly say he doesn't like SB1070, but he sure put the law at a few arms' lengths. He made his statement on the Spanish-language Univision network, so there's a little ethnic pandering going on, but still . . . Steele said basically, Hey, SB1070 is only about
Racists and religious bigots endanger our troops and undermine U.S. foreign policy
August 24, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!" Yes it is. And what the world is watching is an America gone insane. The lunatics have taken over the asylum, and there is no responsible adult supervision in charge. America's racists and religious bigots on the far-right fringe are being given
Today is “Last Chance” Election Day
August 24, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: If you have not returned your early mail-in ballot, do not mail it now. It won't get there in time to be counted. You can drop it off at any polling location (please remember to sign and date the interior voter affidavit envelope if you want your vote to be counted). "Last
Weighing Penny Kotterman and Jason Williams
August 23, 2010
By Jenn Superintendent of Public Instruction isn't often a race that a lot of voters care about — after all, how many of us know what the job description of this position is, let alone how to pick the best candidate for the job? Yet, I think that Superintendent of Public Instruction is the most interesting, and woefully underhyped, contest for Democrats
The Kingman Assessment: excerpts
August 23, 2010
by David Safier I posted yesterday that, in my non-lawyerly opinion, the conditions at the private, for-profit Kingman prison which resulted in the breakout of 3 prisoners and, most probably, the death of an innocent couple in New Mexico, qualify as criminal negligence. Whether my lay opinion has any legal basis is another story. But
