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"We're going to overturn this unjust and racist law, and then we're going to overturn the power structure that created this unjust, racist law," - Az Congressman Raul Grijalva, who supports the boycott of his home state.
Grijalva, who has previously called for an economic boycott of Arizona over the bill, closed his regional offices early Friday because of reported death threats.
Yellowbird7,
I guess we know by now that Obama spent the first year playing checkers and dithering.
Robert S.,
Thom and Dan Gainor are friends. That doesn't always make for a good conversation.
Gainor "We don't need to make things harder" (for gun owners). So therefore, we must make it easier for them to carry them, especially when they're going to engage in an activity that impairs good judgment. Way to go Gainor, still proving you're an incredible douchey ass hat.
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@Maxrot re: Mexicans/Native Americans: You're right. In fact, many people who we brand as "hispanic" are actually american indians of the southwest who were given hispanic names by the Spanish padres.
None of these new Arizona Laws
Would have been signed into law if Governor Janet Napolitano had not been moved to Homeland Security by the newly elected President Obama. He did the same favor for Virginia... removing their newly minted and hard fought governor Tim Kaine to head the DNC, ousting the grass roots favorite, Howard Dean.
First week in office, Rahm Emmanuel returns and the above happens. And we continue to think this guy is playing chess on our behalf? How STUPID can democrats be?
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My absence wasn't related to the dust-up with Mark, it was solely because I don't always have an opportunity to participate everyday. That said, it did frustrate me that I could be so misunderstood, but, you can't please everyone, and I no longer try to.
Why does Dan Gainor have such a presence on this show, I rarely even pay attention to his segments.
Although I have never met Dan Gainor and do not know him, there is a chance that he is kind to animals. Unfortunately, the opinions he expresses are typically harmful to human beings.
This does not mean that he hates humans . . .
Hi everyone!
I just got back from a workout with my ex-FBI profiler friend. As we were pulling into the parking lot of the fitness center, we saw a young man loping along the sidewalk in front. He had a guitar and a shot gun on his back. Jane and I got out of the car and tried to see where he went. He just seemed to disappear.
I had to wonder if he was going to shoot someone, then sing a song about it! Creepy.
@Meet John Doh! the blog wouldn't be the same without Zero G. It would be like losing rladlof, mstaggerlee, Foodfacist, DDay (who's been too busy to post lately... miss him), Quark, harry or Gerald (even if he does intimidate some, I still like him). There are more, but you get my point, there are just so many great contributors here.
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Thom,
I understand where you're coming from regarding the proposed Arizona boycotts. However, I was living in Arizona when the state did not want to recognize Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday. As I understand it, the NFL that basically boycotted Arizona as a location for the Super Bowl if the state did not recognize MLK Day. It seemed to be enough of an incentive for Arizonans to eventually approve the hoiday by ballot.
Boycott is the American Way
Since money is everything in America... the boycott is the ONLY REAL WEAPON the people have. When you spend money, you are supporting the receiver. A dollar is a vote. When you boycott someone who is harming your society, you reduce their power so that they can do no further harm. If money weren't power, why is the recent SOTA decision making corporations people, granting their ability to unlimited funding of candidates a problem? Thom is dead wrong on this issue. Even our founders believed in boycott.
Oh yes. So did Ghandi.
Remember the salt?
I've heard a few recent talks by Charles Bowden recently, here is a link to one, from Democracy Now!:
Charles Bowden on “Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields”
First Lady Michelle Obama arrived in Mexico City Tuesday night after making a stop in Haiti on her first official trip abroad without the president. Her trip to Mexico comes as a new report by the Mexican government has found the death toll from the so-called drug war is much higher than previously thought. Nearly 23,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since a US-backed military crackdown on cartels began more than three years ago. The report said 2009 was the deadliest year in the drug war, with over 9,600 people killed. The death toll is on track to be even higher in 2010. We speak to reporter Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
Until such time as we end the War on Some Drugs, we are locked into an increasingly militarized paradigm which is coming closer and closer to home. The recent immigration debacle in Arizona is only one manifestation of the criminalization of the other. We can trace the rhetoric of the drug war and the criminalization of the other from the Reefer Madness epoch into the present.
@Robert S.
I was about to send out a search party for you. I hadn't seen you post here since last Wednesday when you had an energetic exchange with Mark K and the next day Mark posted a message, under a new name, saying that he had "an account outage". I took that to mean that his membership had been revoked for the way he conducted himself in that conversation (although that's how he always conducted himself, I could write a book about that topic) and I was afraid you were collateral damage. The fact that his posts from Thursday (under the name constantine) seem to have disappeared and you were MIA reinforced my suspicion.
Glad you're still here. You saved me the embarrassament of starting a "We want Robert S. back" protest movement. I was going to launch yesterday, but I was waiting for Quark to be here because I figured could count on her and her good heart for support.
Coldstone Creamery is based in AZ!, I can't in good conscience boycott Coldstone, my wife will divorce me on the spot!
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harry, I went to Google Earth and checked out Texas City, looks like quite the lively Ghost Town.
The Drug War exception to the Fourth Amendment is long established...as per callers worry.
@Meet John Doh,
Thanks for the reinforcement, the formatting of my posting of Mr. Blum's worthy piece was a result of the failure of the website here to recognize the paragraphs in the original, and my lazyness in fixing the same. The shear size of the document made it a formidable visual, even if it made it difficult to read.
@Harry,
Thanks for mentioning the passing of Jack Herrer, I had the opportunity to meet him a few times before he suffered the stroke a number of years back. Beyond the obvious topic, he was an individual deeply interested in language, and had a whole collection of index cards related to words and their derivations, or etymology. An interesting man, and not a one song troubadour.
Thom how about - Totalitarian?
@harry, I wasn't talking about our youth, I think that was Gerald. Agree with his comment though.
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Ironically harry, Mexicans are native Americans, for the most part they descend from the Aztecs. Also, prior to white men conquering and seizing the Southwest, all the naturalized citizens were Mexicans (who subjugated the indigenous tribes where necessary). I'd love to see the Mexican families that whose families lived in AZ prior to 1848 start there own anti-illegal seizure of lands party.
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Hi, Thomm,
Instead of wearing your birth certificate on your shirt, which may expose you to identity theft, wear one of these t-shirts asking "Do I look illegal?"
http://act.bravenewfilms.org/go/55?akid=1010.1060333.-RHH1Q&t=2
Count me as another American non-lawyer waiting for a clear definition of "reasonable suspicion"
Thanks for all you do!
@Maxrot: you said: "We are NURTURING our precious youth to be enthusiastic killers."
you are so right and its so tragic. The local news shows a group of 4th graders going to junior soldier camp at a military base, wearing junior uniforms and riding in vehicles; prepping to sign up. And the news crew is so enthusiastic!
reminds me of when news covers a poor Iraqi wounded kid coming to the US for surgery, they go awww....cute little guy ,so brave,and arent we good to fix him up for free? After having rooting for war for 10 years.
re my reference to Portugal
I said that I knew Blum's article wasn't complete (even for the period it covered) and I mentioned Portugal in reference to Stephen Kinzer's excellent book "Overthrow". I did a word search for "Portugal" in Blum's article and it only appeared once, but that was in reference to Indonesia and East Timor.
Doh!
For info on the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico, go here. Memo to mstaggerlee, not related to the Phil Zone, despite the name...