tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172911012024-03-13T20:01:56.759-07:00chuck7Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-18206972239790409662012-01-17T18:30:00.000-07:002012-01-17T18:30:29.391-07:00"You can't padlock an idea"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So Arizona bigots think they've punished the folks who teach Mexican American Studies in Tucson Arizona high schools. The bigots have simply outlawed the classes. But many writers across the great and culturally diverse nation of the U.S.A. see the shallow attempt for what is: censorship. Racists in Arizona don't think any cultural viewpoints but their own should be included in school curriculum. See an example of a USA Today article that begs to differ <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/USCP/PNI/NEWS/2012-01-16-PNI0116opi-garcia-PNIBrd_ST_U.htm">here.</a>
<blockquote>My goal as a teacher of ethnic studies was never to foment hatred against Whites or to promote segregation, but to simply educate students about the full breadth of American history and culture, good and bad, so they would know how far as a nation we have come -- and how far we have yet to go.
I had that in common with the teachers in Tucson's Mexican-American-studies program.
I know this because I have listened with pride to the students who took those courses as they've recounted how it made them believe for the first time in their worth and contributions.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-19001543422641872662011-12-29T14:38:00.000-07:002011-12-29T14:39:51.919-07:00The Arizona attack on Mexican American studies continues<a href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/from-the-soul/2011/12/29/saving-ethnic-studies-with-my-tucson-homeys/">Ernie McCray writes</a> in the Tucson Citizen about the ongoing racist attack on Mexican American studies.
Arizona, at least Phoenix anyway, has gone to great lengths to portray Tucson High's Mexican American Studies program as some kind of evil voodoo that tortures and twists young minds, turning one culture against another. Despite massive public opposition, despite the fact that students taking this course in high school excel and continue to excel in college, the effort to outlaw Ethnic studies steamrolls along blindly.
The idea of actually outlawing a very successful high school program is the actual wedge between cultures.
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<blockquote>IN THE ARLINGTON middle school cafeteria, Michael Thompson asks if anyone wants to share their sweetest memory from childhood. I raise my hand and tell the group how, when I was eight, my friends and I discovered a frozen pond way back in the woods. We raced home to get our ice skates and laced them up in the hollowed-out trunk of a towering tree. And then, accompanied only by the sounds of our voices, laughter, and the scratching of our blades, we skimmed the ice, unsupervised, for hours.
“Why,” Thompson asks me in front of all the parents, “is that memory so sweet?”
Without thinking, I say, “Because my parents didn’t know where I was.”
“Your parents didn’t know where you were. So that experience was wholly your own,” he says. Then: “Would you let your own children do that?”
“I don’t even let my kids out of the house,” I blurt.</blockquote>
She's just kidding about that last part, but makes a free-range kids argument you hear more and more lately.<blockquote>But what calling up my sweetest memory made me realize is that while today’s middle- and upper-middle-class children have an unprecedented array of opportunities, their experiences are often manufactured by us.</blockquote>
Of course almost all of us were free-range kids when I grew up.
Growing up in suburban northern California several of us played in an abandoned field that nature had reclaimed with oak trees and blackberries. Southwest of the field was an old olive orchard that had been similarly reclaimed. This plot had not seen human intervention in decades. Huge trees and cattails had grown in a swampy area in the middle and the olive trees kept growing wildly in their grid, with nature filling in with whatever kind of vegetation nature wanted to grow there. A creek, complete with toads, bullfrogs, minnows and dragonflies separated the two acreages. We built forts, raced our bikes, shot bb guns in the field and the orchard.
Of course our parents made rules to follow on where we went, how far, when to return and reporting where we were. And we pretty much got our asses kicked if we didn't follow the rules. But our parents thought nothing of our unstructured activities. It was considered completely normal. There was no such thing as extra curricular activities to help us get in the right college. Kids didn't have resumes in those days. We were also allowed to go on hikes to explore other undeveloped land. We'd have to follow busy streets for a mile or two to get to the other areas. No one ever even broke a bone, no one was kidnapped or killed. Nothing more serious than cuts and bruises from dirt-clod fights.
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Where I learned a wide array of creative and athletic skills. You can see my school next door. We hated it. Where the abandoned tennis courts are there was an old farm. Some of the same trees are still visible by the ruined athletic club. Of course the field and orchard were developed decades ago, but it was a magical area for us.
By the time I moved to Maryland in 1973, a McDonalds, a mom-and-pop pizza joint and a mini-mart had appeared at the nearby intersection. We'd graduated from bb guns to hunting with our dads, and where we once played we smoked cigarettes and talked about girls. But we still hiked through the field and the orchard on our quests to get pizza or burgers at McDonald's, and the long walk, the lack of supervision was an important part of the journey. One of my friends grew up to be a famous comic book artist, another a profesional musician, another a commercial pilot who used to fly f-14s for the Navy. My point is I don't think we'd be the same people if we'd been toted up there in an SUV on the way to constant structured activities. Instead our parents would give us $2.50 and say "be careful and be back by 5."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-6177545550923655302011-03-12T17:54:00.002-07:002011-03-12T18:07:55.541-07:00A look at "Republican" actions with tax dollars.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Rc1SOpkKq4/TXwYsGrvMXI/AAAAAAAABXU/kIow5zmCfDE/s1600/Ronald%2BReagan%2BStamp%2BCommerating%2BHis%2BBirth.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Rc1SOpkKq4/TXwYsGrvMXI/AAAAAAAABXU/kIow5zmCfDE/s400/Ronald%2BReagan%2BStamp%2BCommerating%2BHis%2BBirth.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583364784019943794" /></a><br /><br /><a href=""http://jackdean.posterous.com/must-see-chart-this-is-what-class-war-looks-l#comment"">"Where does tax money go/come from?"</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-51930861726702299902009-10-19T19:45:00.007-07:002009-10-19T20:08:28.179-07:00Rosemont Mine impact statement on hold<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/St0oiwAtM4I/AAAAAAAABW8/BZDBCTZal1Y/s1600-h/santaritas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/St0oiwAtM4I/AAAAAAAABW8/BZDBCTZal1Y/s400/santaritas.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394512506128249730" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2009/10/19/news/doc4ad8af2c428cd318469942.txt">The environmental crime proposed by a humongous greedy copper company,</a> to be gouged into the shoulder of a 9400-foot mountain range just south of Tucson, and opposed by pretty much the entire universe except for the copper company, the people paid to spread bullshit rhetoric about the mine's fantasy benefits, and people dumb enough to believe the lies or in favor of destroying the very planet we live on, may be losing steam. Quoting from <i>Inside Tucson Business</i><blockquote>...Derby’s announcement comes just before a planned Oct. 24 visit from Jay Jensen, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources and Environment, which oversees Forest Service policy. Jensen is coming at the request of Southern Arizona’s U.S. Reps. Gabrielle Giffords and Raul Grijalva, both Democrats, for a tour of the proposed mine site and a public meeting.<br /><br />Giffords and Grijalva have asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to have the Coronado Forest Service consider a “no action” alternative in the environmental impact statement for the proposed mine, which could then lead to a decision to deny permission to start the mine.<br /><br />The Coronado National Forest has said it doesn’t believe it can take that position under federal law.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Pima County officials are continuing their efforts to stop the mine...</blockquote><br /><br />Quoting from the <i>AZ Daily Star</i> <blockquote>The U.S. Forest Service won’t meet its November deadline for releasing an environmental document about the proposed Rosemont Mine and officials said today that they don’t know when the report will be released.<br />The announcement of the delay comes after months of emotionally charged controversy on the $900 million mine, proposed for the Santa Rita Mountains, about 30 miles southeast of Tucson. It also follows a raft of critical statements from officials from various agencies reviewing alternatives for the mine, which <span style="font-weight:bold;">if approved would become the third or fourth largest copper mine in the United States.</span><br /><br />The service is taking a hard look at many of the ideas raised by the general public and a group of agencies who are cooperating with the service’s review, Roth said. The Tohono O’Odham tribe, the Pima County Administrator’s office, the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the Town of Sahuarita and the Arizona Department of Water Resources have all raised issues, questions or concerns about the Rosemont proposal to remove 220 million pounds of copper a year for the next 20 years from a site just west of State Highway 83 in the Santa Ritas.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/313896.php -Note that the Star's links only last a few weeks.">See the Star's article here.</a> After that, try your library.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-29042158911198669182009-08-05T07:57:00.001-07:002009-08-05T08:05:31.688-07:00DJ Olive : Art as medicine, music as medicine<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xpq7yMSBJj4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xpq7yMSBJj4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />DJ Olive's Sound and Sculpture Installation at the 2008 Whitney BiennialUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-74678960923893024402009-04-20T13:15:00.008-07:002009-04-20T13:35:39.831-07:00J.G. Ballard dies<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SezaFl0wDLI/AAAAAAAABWs/7OVT5iipNUY/s1600-h/Ballard.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SezaFl0wDLI/AAAAAAAABWs/7OVT5iipNUY/s400/Ballard.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326872248860019890" /></a><br />Of all the writers I've read, this guy was the biggest influence on my own artwork. His science fiction stories always take place in the present and bring into focus a creepy side of life caused by industry, tv, psychosis, neurosis, & the machines we build.<br /><br />The UK Guardian does a nice job eulogizing Ballard, his contributions, & his unique genius in these two articles:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/20/jg-ballard-film-music-architecture-tv">How JG Ballard cast his shadow right across the arts : JG Ballard's influence on culture went far beyond literature. We look at his lasting impact on film, pop, architecture, TV and visual art</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/19/jg-ballard-author-dies-aged-78">Crash author JG Ballard, 'a giant on the world literary scene', dies aged 78</a><br /><br />Quoting from the second article: <blockquote><span style="font-weight:bold;">The young science fiction author "wasn't interested in the far future, spaceships and all that", he explained; rather he was interested in "the evolving world, the world of hidden persuaders, of the communications landscape developing, of mass tourism, of the vast conformist suburbs dominated by television – that was a form of science fiction, and it was already here".</span></blockquote> After reading Ballard more than 20 years ago when I was in college, I never saw things the same way again. Abandoned buildings, empty swimming pools, highway overpasses, machinery, and tv always make me think of Ballard and the creepy side of modern life.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SezaLm2Lw3I/AAAAAAAABW0/MOFeu0vdKQ8/s1600-h/ballard2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SezaLm2Lw3I/AAAAAAAABW0/MOFeu0vdKQ8/s400/ballard2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326872352213681010" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-35189940385002542782009-04-02T11:29:00.003-07:002009-04-02T11:48:59.937-07:00AZ Daily Star continues coverage of Jaguar's death<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SdUIbLyOVSI/AAAAAAAABWk/fRookH8qdtw/s1600-h/paw.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SdUIbLyOVSI/AAAAAAAABWk/fRookH8qdtw/s400/paw.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320167797921043746" /></a><br />As the Arizona Daily Star continues to cover the death of Arizona Jaguar Macho B, evidence has emerged that researchers from the state Fish and Game Department intended to trap a Jaguar but told the public that Macho B's capture was unintentional.<br /><br />In a tragic and cruel case of messing with Mother Nature the 12 year old cat was lured with female jaguar poop, captured and apparently injured, then captured again and euthanized by vets at the Phoenix zoo.<br /><br />The Star has covered the story almost daily. <a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/287095">Today's story</a> has video that shows how cruel this capture was. The Star pretty much summed up my feelings about this incident: <blockquote><b>Some environmental groups such as the Sky Island Alliance and Center for Biological Diversity have questioned or opposed capture on the grounds that its risks to the rare animal outweighed the benefits.</b></blockquote> IMO, scientific study is important in preserving rare species and in measuring the effects of such asinine and destructive things as the giant iron wall BushCo was trying build along the Mexico border. But it's completely stupid to lie about your research and then to bungle it and kill the jaguar you're trying to study.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-81019710256398729272009-03-28T16:24:00.003-07:002009-03-28T16:42:07.830-07:00Death of Macho B Jaguar<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/Sc6xujB2yNI/AAAAAAAABWU/KIT5kAYx5rk/s1600-h/machoB.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 203px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/Sc6xujB2yNI/AAAAAAAABWU/KIT5kAYx5rk/s400/machoB.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318383623206258898" /></a><br />The Arizona Daily Star has been <a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/286431.php">following the story of Macho B,</a> the Jaguar that was recently caught, radio-collared and released in southern Arizona.<br />I'll quote from a 3/28/09 update, bascially a teaser for a story being run in tomorrow's Sunday edition: <blockquote><span style="font-weight:bold;">What killed Mach B, the country's last known jaguar living in the wild?<br />Four individual U.S. jaguars have been confirmed to exist since 1996 — two each in Southern Arizona and southwest New Mexico. With the recent death of aging Macho B, who was caught in a trap then released with a tracking device in Southern Arizona, no jaguars are known to live in this country today.<br />Officials have said the jaguar euthanized early this month due to kidney failure clearly had suffered from the disease before his Feb. 18 capture. A vet also said the stress of the trapping probably aggravated Macho B's problems.<br />New information uncovered in a Star special investigation into the death of Macho B contradicts earlier conclusions.</span></blockquote> Way to go AZ Daily Star for following up and investigating on an important, local, environmentally-oriented story.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-89214231820013709022009-03-17T06:11:00.004-07:002009-03-17T06:25:20.756-07:00Arizona responds to Sunshine Week by kicking reporters out of State CapitolSince 1960 reporters in Arizona have had a press room in the state capitol in Phoenix. Now state Senate President Bob Burns has announced legislators will take over the press room in the Capitol and prevent reporters from using <i>any</i> other rooms in the capitol. This announcement was made in a speech detailing what State Government will do to ensure transparency in State Government. Cocky, eh? Well this what we here in Arizona are being treated to now that Gov. Janet Napolitano has left for D.C. This is only one example of rightwing backlash & retaliation since January 09. State legislators have also moved to allow guns on school campuses, gut higher education, restrict abortion, and abolish the governing body of the State University system, the Arizona Board of Regents.<br /><br />Wow they are feeling high and mighty up there but it's not the Dark Ages anymore, morons. From the <a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/284641">Arizona Daily Star, 3/17/09:</a> <blockquote>Capitol Media Services<br />Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.17.2009<br />advertisement<br />PHOENIX — For the first time in nearly 50 years, reporters will not have work space in the state Capitol after July 1.<br />Senate President Bob Burns said Monday he is not interested in finding new space for reporters after Republicans take over the current press room in the Senate on that date.<br />Burns wants the current press room for Republicans to have caucuses, meetings of party members to discuss policy and pending legislation.<br />Burns also said he is not interested in providing space for reporters in any of the other rooms that will open up once the caucus room moves out of its current second-floor location.<br />And he's not interested in finding space for reporters who cover the House and Senate in the adjacent Old Capitol building.<br />"We have needs for the space," he said.<br />Burns' statement came at the end of a press conference where he and other Senate Republicans used "Sunshine Week" to detail what they say they are doing to make government more transparent to the public.<br />Sunshine Week is an unofficial effort by the American Society of Newspaper Editors designed to educate the public about the importance of open government and freedom of information.<br />There has been a place for reporters to work since the current House and Senate chambers were constructed in 1960, according to Rep. Jack Brown, D-St. Johns, first elected to the Legislature in 1962.<br />Reporters have been in the same room on the first floor of the Senate since the late 1970s.<br />About a decade ago, amid concerns about subsidizing private operations, the Senate began charging rent based on the equivalent cost of Class A office space. The rent this year is $77 a month per reporter.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-55996444407292712822009-03-07T02:18:00.004-07:002009-03-17T06:33:13.425-07:00Chernobyl in 2009 photos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SbI7-1DEZMI/AAAAAAAABWM/bQUpqMXFOdw/s1600-h/89372--15691974-.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SbI7-1DEZMI/AAAAAAAABWM/bQUpqMXFOdw/s400/89372--15691974-.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310372861201114306" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/05/photos-from-pripyat.html">See Boing boing's wonderful post full of photos of Pripyet,</a> the town that was zapped in the Chernyobl meltdown.<br /><br />And read Martin Cruz Smith's "Wolves eat dogs."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-88957386462855431342009-02-04T14:44:00.006-07:002009-02-04T14:52:41.442-07:00Lux Interior R.i.p.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SYoMtJVaN9I/AAAAAAAABVw/jB1Wqbm9J-8/s1600-h/Lux_Interior.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SYoMtJVaN9I/AAAAAAAABVw/jB1Wqbm9J-8/s400/Lux_Interior.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299061881294174162" /></a><br />True Wildman of the dark swampy recesses of the world of R&R- The Cramp's <b><a hrev="http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/cramps-lux-interior-rip/">Lux Interior has apparently passed away.</a></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-35047530817756004882009-01-23T01:28:00.003-07:002009-01-23T01:53:58.519-07:00Arizona state legislator attacks public media in TucsonAlthough the AZ Daily Star reported it <a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/277065">here</a> in the 1/23/09 op-ed section, "conservative" yah-hoo Al Melvin, the freshman Republican senator from Legislative District 26 did walk in to KUAT's offices and threaten to cut funding to public media in southern Arizona unless somebody conservative enough for M. Melvin starts to appear on KUAT's Arizona Illustrated segment "Weekend Roundtable." This segment, which already includes a conservative voice (usually somebody from the Star) has caused this fucking right-wing moron asshole Melvin to waltz in there and pretty much threaten "well I'll cut your funding unless you put a paid right wing radical mouthpiece on your program." And this guy is supposed to represent the people who supposedly elected him.<br /><br />This just illustrates the right wing backlash retaliation effort in Arizona, now that Janet Napolitano has answered the higher calling and departed for Washington D.C. The clowns come out of the woodwork, and acting cocky, they immediately want to slash k-12 and higher education, arm every redneck creep in the state, and twist public media to broadcast their phony, destructive crap. What's next? Prayer meetings for State employees? Hire Blackwater to be the police force? Teach creationism in the schools? Fire State employees and University faculty members who are not right wing "christians?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-78051039975315711712009-01-22T12:29:00.000-07:002009-01-22T12:30:48.870-07:00Blogger's Rights<a href="http://eff.org/bloggers"><img src="http://eff.org/bloggers/badges/bloggers-banner.png" alt="Bloggers' Rights at EFF" width="467" height="112" border="0"></a><br />Read up on blogger's rights at the EFF.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-29717931503949469602009-01-20T21:39:00.008-07:002009-01-20T22:06:42.167-07:00San Francisco bay area celebrates in a diverse and normal way<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXar2J8xVyI/AAAAAAAABUo/I_a8kgxFzMI/s1600-h/diverse4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXar2J8xVyI/AAAAAAAABUo/I_a8kgxFzMI/s400/diverse4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293607358892693282" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXareRaNqBI/AAAAAAAABUg/0Y9CFShzsmo/s1600-h/diverse3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXareRaNqBI/AAAAAAAABUg/0Y9CFShzsmo/s400/diverse3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293606948578371602" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXarKwagP8I/AAAAAAAABUY/Bkq4sq1j6iU/s1600-h/diverse2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXarKwagP8I/AAAAAAAABUY/Bkq4sq1j6iU/s400/diverse2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293606613303705538" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXaq3rNH5xI/AAAAAAAABUQ/NJsiybGCd8Y/s1600-h/diverse.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXaq3rNH5xI/AAAAAAAABUQ/NJsiybGCd8Y/s400/diverse.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293606285487892242" /></a><br /><br />Gee why is everybody crying? Maybe they are relieved at the end of the Bush Administration and its army of publically and privately-paid spies, and its intention of stamping out every liberty we hold dear.<br /><br />The Chron says it all, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/20/BAAG15E1VF.DTL&tsp=1">just read the examples.</a> Here in Tucson there were some fireworks on election eve but up there in the City, tonight? People are really cutting loose as we say goodbye to an 8-year USA Nightmare on Elm St.<br /><br />We got a ways to go, people. There is whining, yes, we are now all commies, lots of other bad names that have been around since the beginning of time. The local CBS affiliate, KOLD TV, or somebody upstream, quickly cut off the sound in Katie Couric's interview w/ Rev. Jessie Jackson, and then dumped the video all together. The sound and vid was miraculously restored as soon as it was time for the next commercial break.<br /><br />As a "Unicorn chaser," continue reading the San Francisco Chronicle's on-the-ground coverage of the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/20/MNLF15DPP5.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1">tangible spirit of elation and relief</a> in a city where diversity is the norm, and where the politics of the Bush administration were obvious poison from the very start.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-739258007664492302009-01-20T18:03:00.003-07:002009-01-20T22:23:34.137-07:00Watching history<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXZ05w7X_uI/AAAAAAAABUA/mGik1ET-Yh8/s1600-h/limo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXZ05w7X_uI/AAAAAAAABUA/mGik1ET-Yh8/s400/limo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293546947755900642" /></a><i>Good thing they did not use a Chrysler limo, it would have probably broken down halfway there</i><br /><br />(From an email)<br /><br />Observations:<br /><br />When it looks cold on tv back there, it really is. I fucking been<br />there. Jr. High, outside for fire drills, or waiting on the schoolbus<br />stands out to this day. Good thing the [Maryland] fall and spring were so nice. ...I<br />totally went to school with a whole ton of black folk back there and got to<br />know the dirt-poor and the proto-yuppies both. I heard a lot of ugly things said and race riots were common a year or two ahead of me at my highschool. Somehow I got perspective and hope and now I am honestly not surprised to see a black man be president. We used to smoke the weed with kids whose big brothers had fought just a couple years ago. I am honestly blown away to see MLK day and Obama's inauguration on consecutive days. All the talk about Lincoln, [and] Illinois. Interesting. People treat history like a joke, like it does not matter unless it's pop entertainment, but now you can see [the subject of] history's not something add to the "useless liberal arts" category. All of us folks who [spoke up] and [said] "hey this is wrong, it needs to stop," ... maybe we really can stop some of the really wrong things going on.<br />And not get tortured, shot, jailed, spied on, slandered, libeled, harassed, poisoned, intimidated, attacked, badmouthed, pushed around, bullied, or psi-opsed.<br /><br />2. The network anchors are kind of morons, not very good speakers at all,<br />although what they say is not as stupid you might think. They just string<br />it all together in one sentence so there's no discreet units of meaning.<br />The commentary is like junk blowing by in the wind. They just said 3<br />year-olds love to say "Obama." It's easy to say for them. Michelle Obama<br />is 5'11" and the 10 year girl is already very tall. They had a whole long<br />interview about Michelle Obama, and selecting clothing. Relevant, clothing<br />discussions? You bet. Relevant to at least half the population. [The point being the network "reporters" are not that short on subtance but still weak in style and obviously, for people who are supposed to be journalists, are not that skilled w/ language, meaning these folks are used to being cute and saying what they're told to say.]<br /><br />My old friend from [Xxxx] posted to "Now I know how you all felt the past 8 years. I'm moving out of the country." [He] is no longer [on my section of that website]. Fuck him, I don't need that shit. I can remember him saying "I like Reagan, he put money in my pocket." Sure he did, and you were [working hard, earning low wages and drinking too much] and living in a hovel and driving a beater car and when you needed treatment you didn't have insurance cuz the employer didn't give a fuck about you. And now you managed to escape those days and still be alive you still you are believing whatever crap [Rush Limbaugh et al] feed you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-85443845374007857962009-01-17T02:07:00.005-07:002009-01-22T12:29:43.609-07:00New Arizona governor tired of "betting on the come"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXZ7hoOYkmI/AAAAAAAABUI/dyhzX-dc-Ac/s1600-h/comestain.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 273px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXZ7hoOYkmI/AAAAAAAABUI/dyhzX-dc-Ac/s400/comestain.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293554229684245090" /></a>WTF?? Brewer adds herself to a long line of whacky Arizona governors. From today's AZ Daily Star:<br /><blockquote>Brewer has been vague on her own plans for dealing with the budget. But without naming Napolitano, Brewer said in an interview Friday that there has been "irresponsible management" of the state budget.<br />"There has got to be spending cuts," she said. "We have gone down the path of using gimmicks and rollovers and <b>'betting on the come'</b> that revenues are going to <b>come</b> in higher than they were projected."<br />Brewer said many legislators, and even the general public, are not fully aware of the magnitude of the problem facing the state.<br />"I believe the people of Arizona are in denial and they've got to step up and face reality," she said. "We've got a huge historical crisis in the state of Arizona." </blockquote><br />...According to <a href="">this article</a> in the 1/17/09 AZ Daily Star.<br /><br />Our outgoing governor Janet Napolitano has a budget remedy sized up thusly in the same article, which article's title was so wisely chosen by the Star to be "Napolitano releases budget plan, but it's likely to be ignored<br />By Daniel Scarpinato" <blockquote>Outgoing Gov. Janet Napolitano released a state budget proposal Friday that seeks to get Arizona through shortfalls this year and next by relying on borrowing to salvage government.<br />But incoming Gov. Jan Brewer, the secretary of state who is set to replace Napolitano within days, warns there will be cuts. The state, Brewer said, can't continue to rely on what she called "gimmicks and rollovers."<br />With her resignation likely to come next week, Napolitano wants lawmakers to borrow at record levels, delay paying bills, withdraw nearly all the money out of the state's savings account and make targeted cuts to state agencies.<br />And Napolitano wants to do it all without laying off any state employees or eliminating governmental agencies</blockquote> Gee Whiz, ya mean she doesn't want to take people's jobs away or eliminate services our tax dollars pay for? Well, we can't have that now, can we?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-59200674324404949642009-01-16T12:34:00.007-07:002009-01-16T22:32:16.549-07:00Arizona Rebpublicans immediately begin to gut higher education<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXFtVzKivvI/AAAAAAAABT4/Q5hxjP9DZKI/s1600-h/dumbshit2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SXFtVzKivvI/AAAAAAAABT4/Q5hxjP9DZKI/s400/dumbshit2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292131258416152306" /></a><br />In the budget crisis situation Arizona Republicans in the state legislature finally have their chance to strike back at the evil liberals trying to spread dangerous knowledge.<br /><br />University of Arizona President Robert Shelton states the facts pretty plainly in <a href="http://uanews.org/node/23426">a report from UAnews</a> today.<br /><br />Arizona's state budget is already in deep doo doo, but now that Gov. Janet Napolitano is getting ready to go to Washington D.C. the Republican dominated Arizona state legislature is pissing all over themselves because they have their long-awaited chance to gut higher education.<br /><br />Knowledge is a dangerous thing to these folks, people. And the excuse they've been waiting for has arrived. They can now gleefully cut the State University system's budget by what amounts to about 30%.<br /><br />This will mean thousands of jobs; staffers and faculty both. Many, many folks are employed here in Tucson by the UA. This will also mean a drastic reduction in service to other people who are trying to get a college education.<br /><br />Shelton mentions something not covered in <a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/276171">the snitty piece published in today's AZ Daily Star.</a> Republican micro-management of the State University system. How do ya like them apples? So I guess now it's gonna be mandatory classes in fundamentalist Christianity and financial aid preference based on how you vote? I'm not kidding, that is how most of Arizona Republicans are.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-74270620760320683622009-01-02T21:10:00.004-07:002009-01-02T21:25:36.244-07:00Richard Grant interview on KUAZ FM Tucson<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SV7m-8vRvTI/AAAAAAAABS0/IBmyYCUUYGs/s1600-h/gmf.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SV7m-8vRvTI/AAAAAAAABS0/IBmyYCUUYGs/s400/gmf.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286916981710241074" /></a><br /><a href="http://radio.azpm.org/kuaz/podcasts/2009/1/2/kuaz-listen-to-january-2-2009-edition-with-host-mark-mclemore/">Richard Grant, author of God's Middle Finger talks about his awesome book.</a> Interview is at 7:40 in this recent edition of KUAZ FM Tucson's <i>Arizona Spotlight.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Middle-Finger-Lawless-Sierra/dp/1416534407">God's Middle Finger</a> is a great book about a very interesting range of mountains in Mexico. You can actually see the northern reaches from Douglas, Arizona. The range goes 800 miles down into Mexico and has never been tamed. God's Middle Finger is Grant's book about his journey down there. Great reading.<br /><br />I am also reading another great book by Grant called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Nomads-Conquistadors-Mountain-Bullriders/dp/0802141803/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230956401&sr=1-1">American Nomads.</a> In this book Richard Grant writes about the road, and really takes you back into history about the subject of wanderlust in the U.S. Western states. Awesome reading.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-64313265250208799342008-12-27T15:00:00.007-07:002008-12-29T21:37:10.067-07:00Weekend America interview<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SVmlMroYWMI/AAAAAAAABSs/TIBLu9l58I4/s1600-h/mtb3c.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SVmlMroYWMI/AAAAAAAABSs/TIBLu9l58I4/s400/mtb3c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285437274985093314" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/js/swfobject.js"></script><div id="weekendamerica/2008/12/23/weekend_america_081227_hour2_64s_player"></div><script language="javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/var so = new SWFObject("http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/s_player.swf", "weekendamerica/2008/12/23/weekend_america_081227_hour2_64s_player", "319", "83", "8", "#ffffff");so.addParam("quality", "high");so.addParam("menu", "false");so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");so.addVariable("name", "weekendamerica/2008/12/23/weekend_america_081227_hour2_64");so.addVariable("starttime", "00:25:00.0");so.write("weekendamerica/2008/12/23/weekend_america_081227_hour2_64s_player");/*]]>*/</script><br />"Weekend soundtrack" segment...<br /><br />Yee HA! It's up. Thanks to Weekend America and Michael Rapheal for giving me the opportunity to tell my story!!<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">12/29/08: PM...Hey Apple computer users, this podcast won't play on your Mac in Firefox, try Safari. :) I'm posting an excerpt from an email to the show's producer, the awesome music geek Michael Raphael.</span><blockquote>Hi Michael,<br /><br />...Speaking of Facebook I heard Weekend America is getting canceled. Bad<br />news. Weekend America is entertaining, and more. Your program lets<br />the voices of people around the country be heard, and gives people a<br />chance to share their stories with the public radio audience. Another<br />good thing about your show is that the giant money-making machine that<br />is commercial media has no hand in this process. Weekend America does<br />a truly fine job of demonstrating that the mass media is a public<br />resource. Neither I or any of my friends can even stand to listen to<br />commercial radio or television.<br /><br />Let me know what is going on.<br /><br />Charles</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-71764665326567580652008-12-16T21:12:00.003-07:002008-12-16T21:31:09.992-07:00EFF Christmas carol<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hAzpl7H0Xjs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hAzpl7H0Xjs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />The only xxxmas carol I feel like singing. Remember, because of Bush and his publically acceptable psychopaths, they are trying to step on every right you have. See <a href="http://w2.eff.org/12days/">this link at the EFF</a> for more information on how the fight to restore the constitution has progressed in 2008, with a strong focus on internet usage.<br /><br />Remember, it is wrong for our government to spy, snoop, and treat you like you're guilty till proven innocent. What you do is your own business. This country belongs to us, not Bush, not private security companies, not paid mouthpieces, not commercial media, not churches & creepy religious interests.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-82055800701184473792008-12-06T13:14:00.003-07:002009-01-16T22:51:07.263-07:00chuck7 website down weekend of 12/7/08For about the 5th time the dickheads at my ISP have made <a href="http://www.ultrasw.com/chuck7/chuck7.html">my website</a> disappear. They usually do it on a Friday, and I usually find out when I go to post some cool new photos. Then they make we wait till Monday, "when the admins are here." Then I get to talk to some guy with a radio voice who can't understand that I don't use Windows, then something about how I need "index.htm," then stunned silence when I say I avoid Microsoft products if possible, then they say goodbye, then my site comes back pretty soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-57108826611490548632008-11-23T15:17:00.005-07:002008-11-23T15:44:03.498-07:00Arizona losing two important protectors and leaders<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SSnZuX2zLtI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/-DjADR-qH_s/s1600-h/antiintellect.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SSnZuX2zLtI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/-DjADR-qH_s/s400/antiintellect.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271984229514948306" /></a><br />I'll quote from today's AZ Daily Star artcle: <blockquote>Grijalva, an outspoken critic of President Bush on land-use and environmental policy, has introduced several pieces of legislation to protect federal lands, including trying to stop uranium mining on a million acres near the Grand Canyon and to halt future mining claims in the Coronado National Forest.<br />And just Friday, Politico.com reported Grijalva was "emerging as a top contender" for the post, "according to sources close to the transition." </blockquote>Raul Grijalva is the kind of Congressman who has the Bush Administration crooks <i>seething mad.</i> Grijalva has constantly spoken out against BushCo wrongs. And Napolitano has kept the right-wing moron dominated State Legislature from ruining Arizona again and again.<br /><br />First it's Napolitano, for Homeland Security, and now it's Grijalva for Interior Secratary! We were so overjoyed here in So. AZ when Obama won. Big grins all over Tucson the next day. And it's nice that 2 of our best and brightest will most likely answer the call to serve the wider scene on the national level with the Obama administration. But they'll leave a gap behind, that is for sure.<br /><br />They are throwing us to the wolves here man! At least Gabby Giffords beat that customer of Karl Rove Tim Bee.<br /><br />Arizona is truly at risk because of the State Legislature, which is half-full of the kind of folks who'd arm every half-wit drunk in the state, allow guns on college campuses, and who feel we can waste the environment cuz it don't matter cuz <i>Jesus is coming.</i> ...and gonna sweep up all them straight-laced, god-fearing, right wing extremist morons, I guess.<br /><br />Without Napolitano and champion Bush-fighter Raul Grijalva, the rest of us are even more vulnerable to the machinations of folks who think knowledge is a dangerous thing. These folks would gut our State University system and use our tax money to fatten the pockets of the rich. If they had their way dancing would be illegal, there'd be a law saying you have to go to their same church every Sunday, and the cops could stop you and check your citizenship, not to mention your pockets, all day long.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-59286772011226935212008-11-23T14:37:00.007-07:002008-11-23T15:13:11.757-07:00Augusta Rosemont mine looking really stupid<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SSnM2TXbfoI/AAAAAAAAA9I/DirJB3ZoHz4/s1600-h/acid_spil.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 274px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SSnM2TXbfoI/AAAAAAAAA9I/DirJB3ZoHz4/s400/acid_spil.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271970072097422978" /></a><br />The Arizona Daily Star published <a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/268542">this</a> article about a recent acid spill at a nearby copper mine, and had the audacity to point out that the same kind of thing could happen at the Rosemont mine, if it is dug. Well, The Star, in its long article actually said more like <i>opponents said</i> this could happen. Weenie words. They don't report the fact that things like acid spills and other environmental devastation do happen at mines, they have to say Well <i>critics</i> say this kind of thing <i>could</i> happen. However, Kudos to the Star for at least having the guts to report the two ideas side by side in the same story- the acid spill, and the disgusting, greedy, destructive bad idea that is the Rosemont mine.<br /><br />This is the headline the Star tacked onto the story: <blockquote> Morenci acid spill riles Rosemont foes-<br />But company says proposed mine's plan has safeguards </blockquote>... Well, it's just those damn foes that are riled, that's all. No sir, the Daily Star is not going to stand in the way of progress. Might rile the Tucson Chamber of Commerce. Wouldn't want to the local Republicans wetting their pants over things like facts being reported now, would we? Nope, legitimate concerns about environmental destruction and public safety don't belong in the paper unless preceded by "Critics say..."<br /><br />I'm guessing some editor somewhere said "oh, all right you can report the spill and bring up the Rosemont issue, but you have to be sure to point out that it's the oppenents who are saying..."<br /><br />Yes, the acid spill in Morenci really is the kind of thing we'll be seeing down Sonoita way, off the Eastern flanks of the 9300 ft. Santa Rita range. Things like <i>always</i> happen around mines. The Star could have published statistics, but didn't.<br /><br />If...<br /><br />But word is it's a done deal. Rosemont is advertising on public radio station KUAT-FM, leaving a poisonous taste in the mouths of Tucson area classical music fans, Rosemont Copper offered to pipe C.A.P. water for free to retirement city Green Valley- "hey, it's free-" if they support the mine, Rosemont Copper goes on and on about safe they will be, yadda yadda.<br /><br />The Star reports the words of Lanie Levick, who is a senior research specialist in Watershed Management at the UA, at the end of the article, after veering off into a discussion of the fact that the copper company is planning a mine able withstand a 100-year flood, although we've seen far worse storms and floods frequently in the Tucson area in recent years. They end the story with the mindless words of a slick-ass automaton Rosemont Copper spokesperson.<blockquote>"They can't be designing to 100-year standards for Rosemont in such a sensitive area," said Lainie Levick, a board member for Friends of the Scenic Santa Ritas, which opposes Rosemont. Levick, who was stranded in her far Northeast Side neighborhood for a day during the 2006 flooding, said she's concerned that a larger-than-100-year flood at Rosemont could cause its tailings dam to fail. Levick is a senior research specialist in watershed management at the University of Arizona.<br /><br />Augusta's Howard replied: "We're trying to build to as high a standard as is appropriate at this time. We don't want to speculate from a climate change standpoint about what the standard might be. That's something that the federal government is looking at.<br /><br />"It seems to be a valid goal to build towards the 100-year storm." </blockquote> What a fucking dumb ass.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17291101.post-22223197094840030042008-11-22T11:59:00.004-07:002008-11-22T12:07:50.835-07:00Our 11/08 Ride<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SShXsR53RUI/AAAAAAAAA9A/mRO6Bn6Ysdo/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vn34dm10zCI/SShXsR53RUI/AAAAAAAAA9A/mRO6Bn6Ysdo/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271559782069126466" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2407540">Gmaps pdmtr. URL</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0