Entries from January 2006

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Trust Me, I Know What I’m Doing

Former Avondale Mayor Ron Drake is now touting a “guest worker” program. He assures us that it is much better than Raúl Grijalva’s plan.
What makes it better?
Well, he’s not done with it yet, and doesn’t have details. He doesn’t know how it’s better yet, or even where Grijalva’s plan is deficient. His is just [...]

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Dude, Just Clean Out Your Office. We’ll Help You If You Want.

“Slim” noted that I failed to mention anything about Rep. David Burnell Smith. I really meant to, but the entry was just getting too long. Even I have to cut down a little bit once in a while.
The good news that Slim wanted me to write about was there was yet another ruling saying that [...]

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

The Haps in the Lege

There were plenty of things for me to write about that went on in the legislature this week, but I neglected to write about any of them. I don’t really have a good reason for that. I was planning on making a reason up. I don’t feel like it though.
One debating tactic that I found [...]

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Patricia Bryers Gelenberg Cougar Mellencamp Griffith Joyner Kersey Weiss Von Habsburg

Late last month, Patty Weiss went about legally changing her name to Patricia Gelenberg Weiss. I don’t think she needs any fancy polling to tell her that fewer people know her as Patricia Bryers Gelenberg than by her nom de guerre.
This isn’t unprecedented, by the way, I don’t think anyone would have voted for [...]

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Ibrahim Rugova

The “Gandhi of the Balkans,” Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, has died of lung cancer at the age of 61.
When the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav government stripped Kosovo of its autonomy, Rugova led an effort to form an independent Kosovar society, complete with it’s own schools and government institutions, to peacefully resist Slobodan Milošević’s regime.
Rugova was later elected [...]

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Who’s Out, Who’s In

Dr. Richard Carmona made a barely noticed announcement on Tuesday that he will not be running for congress. Most people had already assumed that he was not going to make a go of it.
Why no story about it on here? Well, I could say that I just didn’t want to scoop C. J. Karamargin and [...]

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Border Patrol Harrasses Guy Who Was Born Here

This is from R-Cubed’s Kansas Settlement bureau. The Border Patrol saw a guy driving a small truck containing several large bags, stopping at various houses in along Ft. Grant Road, between Willcox and the Graham County line.
Our boys in green got suspicious and pulled the guy over and detained him for twenty minutes.
Despite their rigorous [...]

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

What Can I Say?

Colorado Representative Tomás Tancredo is in town today to raise money for Randy Graf. I haven’t heard of any sort of demonstrations against him. It is probably because it may be more worthwhile to let the guy’s own words work against him.
Here’s something interesting the guy said once, well, not interesting, but revealing:
Brazil is a [...]

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Good Jobs at Good Wages

Patty Weiss, although not a declared candidate yet, is apparently assembling a staff. As mentioned before, Frank Costanzo, formerly of the Howard Dean campaign, is on board. Dean’s campaign in Arizona was impressive, but collapsed when the national campaign went downhill. Costanzo also worked for Paul Babbitt’s unsuccessful 2004 campaign. To be fair to Costanzo [...]

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

All That and Nothing?

Report in the New York Times this morning says that FBI agents complained that the data gathered from the NSA wire-tapping program yielded little useful information and may have ensnared innocent people.
One interesting ‘graf from the article:
“The information was so thin,” [one senior prosecutor] said, “and the connections were so remote, that they never led [...]

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