It’s always good to be patriotic,
and do your civic duty.
VOTE!
June 8, 2010
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Arizona’s Insanity Grows
June 5, 2010
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Prescott, Arizona
“Lighten the faces of the children”.
Miller Valley Elementary School Principle Jeff Lane claims the directive to the artists was to make the children’s faces appear happier and brighter.
R.E. Wall, director of Prescott’s Downtown Mural Project, said he and other artists were subjected to slurs from motorists as they worked on the painting at one of the town’s most prominent intersections.
“We consistently, for two months, had people shouting racial slander from their cars,” Wall said. “We had children painting with us, and here come these yells of (epithet for Blacks) and (epithet for Hispanics).”
“It is being lightened because of the controversy,” Wall said, adding that “they want it to look like the children are coming into light.”
A Prescott City Councilman, Steve Blair, who has a radio program on KYCA-AM 1490 has been agitating to have the mural removed completely.
The images of the children depicted on the mural are taken from photographs of actual children enrolled in the school. Miller Valley is the most ethnically diverse school in the Prescott district. The most prominent child in the mural is Hispanic, but Blair, on his radio program, described the image as that of a black child.
The nut cases and the wingnuts are gaining ground in Arizona. Is there any way to contain the idiocy, so that it doesn’t spread, or is it too late already?
An Act Of God? Or Just Incompetence?
June 4, 2010
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“Drill, baby, drill!” – Sarah Palin, John McCain, Fox News, et al
“Government isn’t the solution, government’s the problem!” – Ronald Reagan
You’re Kidding, Right? No? Really?
May 30, 2010
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Friday night. Fresno. Comedy Club night at a club in the Tower District. Security checking IDs at the entrance. Even mine.
The security kid guy asked for my ID? Is he kidding me? Nobody, and I mean nobody, has thought I was underage for a long time. Hell, someone could have been born and become legal themselves since the last time I was carded! The last time I was even almost carded was in Las Vegas for New Years 2009. The doorman was carding almost everyone, but waved me through when I got up to him. The rest of that story falls under the “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” regulation, so I can’t really discuss it any more than that. Sorry.
So I pulled out my wallet, flipped it open to pull my driver license out, but he said that was good enough, he didn’t actually have to look at it. He just needed to confirm that I had it. That is the strangest carding I’ve ever experienced. I’m failing at coming up with a rational reason to require ID from people, if it’s not for verification of age.
We’ve Got Things Under Control!
May 28, 2010
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Amazing, Simply Amazing!
May 24, 2010
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Ted Freitas, a VIP around here, owns Central Point Networks. They’ve recently created a service for home computer users that protects computers and networks from just about anything on the internet! It just amazes me what they can do with computers. For instance….
I’ve been having some problems with my main computer. Part of a home network, it’s recently been sluggish, refusing to find websites, loading only parts of pages, and taking forever to boot up. I complained to Ted about it recently, just in passing, and he had me install his new service so he could take a look at my system. Well, I don’t know what he and his techs over at CPN did today while I was asleep, but the difference is night and day! Pages load in a snap, like they used to, and the computer alternates between programs without pouting about being made to work!
{Shameless plug} Surf on over to CPN (Central Point Networks, LLC) and check out the new Computer Club service. Well worth the price, it will insure your computers run like the screaming eagles you remember when you first started using them. Don’t let the malware, viruses, and other computer ills drag your computer down. Have Ted and CPN on guard 24/7!
Remember…
May 21, 2010
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Keep things in perspective!
Some Old Signs Remain
May 20, 2010
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Photo by Sarah Goodyear, on Rachel Maddow's Blog
In a conversation with Republican Senate candidate from Kentucky, Rand Paul, Rachel Maddow asked about recent comments he made regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Rather than give a direct answer, Mr. Paul danced around the question, leaving the impression that he was fine with the idea that a private businessman should have the right to discriminate against anyone he wants, and that the government didn’t have the right to tell him he could not. Mr. Paul defended the law as it applies to government, but would not come right out and say either businesses had a right to discriminate against anyone they liked, or they do not. He may have just handed the election to his Democratic rival.
Lady Gaga says (sorta) “Don’t Get Caught In A Bad Hotel”
May 14, 2010
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In what may be the cleverest picket action ever (of course it’s in San Francisco), the Westin St. Francis (a VERY nice hotel that I had a chance to stay in some years ago) is hit with a Lady Gaga inspired protest.
Employees are fighting for health care benefits, and apparently the hotel negotiators have dug in their heels. Stay tuned.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
So what’s up with the tents?
June 9, 2010
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