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This Bud’s for EU (Updated)
July 15, 2008
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Most people have heard by now that one of America’s most iconic companies, Anheuser-Busch, has agreed to sell to a Belgian owned company, InBev. Employees of the St. Louis based company are none too happy about this symbol of Americana being sold to foreign investors. No word yet on how many jobs
“It’s Art” No Excuse for New Yorker Cover
July 15, 2008
by David Safier If you haven’t seen the New Yorker cover with Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as Muslims and terrorists, you’ll have to look elsewhere. I won’t give that cover another viewing here. I think the cover is despicable and wrongheaded. We don’t need yet another version of the Obama-as-Muslim/terrorist myth played out on
Supervisorial Smack Talk
July 14, 2008
There has been a report here already about the Nucleus Club meeting featuring the Democratic primary candidates for Supervisorial Districts 2 and 3, and I know the Weekly will be doing a quasi-live blog of the event, so I am not going to rehash everything. I am grateful and glad to see the Weekly doing
The Maverick Fence at the McCain Ranch
July 14, 2008
by David Safier Some people wonder how McCain can still be seen as a straight talking maverick when he’s held so many different positions on so many issues. John show us how it’s done. Mah friends, this here’s what I call mah Maverick Fence. Ah kin do mah straight talkin’ from both sides of this
Free Political Intelligence
July 13, 2008
Some of you may have noticed on the sidebar here a feature I call the AZ Donkey Feed. It is the best of the Arizona and national blogs relating to Arizona politics, hand selected daily by yours truly, Michael Bryan, the blogitor and chief commentator here at BlogForArizona.com. Best of all, it’s absolutely free! You
Is Texting Ruining Our Children’s Writing?
July 13, 2008
by David Safier Some people are worried that our children who are texting, Facebooking, emailing and IM-ing will never learn how to write in complete sentences using capital letters and punctuation. Worse, they’ll only be able to write in the abbreviated, telegraphic style of these dashed-off, emoticon-laden messages and lose the ability to write long,
John McCain just makes sh*t up
July 12, 2008
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: John McCain is either the biggest panderer on the planet, or he just makes sh*t up to tell a good story; or maybe its a bit of both. In either case, you can’t believe a word this guy says. His only defense is to plead he made a mistake, but this only
Torture, War Crimes, Impeachment, and MSNBC… Yes!
July 12, 2008
This is what I’ve been on about for the past couple years… Nice to hear some simple common sense coming from our media for once. Rachel Maddow is doing a bang-up job standing in for Keith! This discussion was in the context of discussing Jane Mayer’s new book "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of
