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Re: “The Tucson Tea Party Are Getting Together Again, If That's Your Thing”
Oh its sooo not my thing...
Re: “Brewer: "I Trust That Over the Next 24 Hours or So, a Majority of the House and Senate Will Put an End to the Games"”
But after this tussle, it will be back to "governance" as usual.. which means working to get reelected, and not to serve the people of Arizona.
Re: “Grant Road Rage”
Screwed by the RTA. By the time they are scheduled to widen the section near our place... hell, I'll likely be dead. But we'll have those WONDERFUL Michigan left-turns all up and down this road.
Re: “Grant Road Rage”
riorican: check again, I directly addressed the problem in my post just above yours...
Instead of subsidizing Raytheon and the rest of the war mongers they should FIND THE MONEY to help the people they have harmed...
Re: “Grant Road Rage”
Sweet piece, Mr. Nitzel.
Although, I'm dismayed that, so far, none of the comments I've read seem to acknowledge what was your central point.
Which was, "In the meantime, the Garcias are huddling in a small bedroom with their kids while they wait for their insurance company to decide what it's willing pay to replace the wall."
What a cold, heartless place Tucson is becoming.
Re: “Defending Congressman Trent Franks' Comments About Rape and Pregnancy”
If abortion was treated like tubal ligation or vasectomy i.e. a medical procedure between a patient and physician, the "Gosnell situation" would have never existed. Defending anti-choice politicians, who keep moving the goalposts for a safe, legal medical procedure, isn't a good look on you Tucson Weekly.
Re: “AZ House Passes Budget, Medicaid Expansion”
^ I had the same thought! ^
Re: “Grant Road Rage”
Sorry, Peter J., I'm not a fan of your idea.
There isn't enough traffic in this town to justify it...
I've been involved in opposing this Grant Road nonsense since moving down here from the S.F. bay area -- where there IS A REAL TRAFFIC PROBLEM. But thanks to a rigged election paid for by Click, Diamond and the rest of the growth uber alles characters and a cowardly Council we're still facing the threat...
In all likelihood though, after the next economic collapse and the inevitable population flight from Tucson, they'll run out of money before getting to our neighborhood...
Of course, that doesn't help our neighbors in this article whose lives have been degraded by RTA FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and the execrable few who profit from "growth"!
Re: “Grant Road Rage”
Face it, folks. Get ready for this town to eventually empty out -- down to a sustainable population before long...
This WILL happen because, thanks in no small part to Catastrophic Anthropomorphic Global Climate Destabilization, the WATER IS RUNNING OUT and there will be more, hotter days per year...
To widen Grand Road at this time, when traffic counts are GOING DOWN and the regressive sales tax money is NOT there is pandering to a mythical "future" pushed by the growth lobby...
This town will not get to ONE MILLION population let alone the 2 million that PAG, the growth lobby and CofC and other fantasists think it will...
STOP the madness now! Begin with Broadway and Grant Road. Repair and improve but DON'T WIDEN THEM!
Re: “Clown Time Is Over: Brewer Calls Special Session To Finish Budget, Medicaid Expansion”
Even though there may be a few crumbs in the ACA that will help some folks, the fact that Brewer, the Chambers and the corporate Sick-Care-Industrial-Complex are pushing for the expansion should give pause to many of you Obama-defenders.
The ACA was WRITTEN by the USAmerican Sick Care Industry and was designed around these major principles:
1) Continue tinkering with the corporate for-profit sick care model in the face of the fact that EVERY OTHER advanced industrialized country has abandoned that failed experiment.
2) Shovel more hundreds of billions into the coffers of the Sick-Care-Industrial-Complex -- a large portion of which will be used for more lobbyists and to buy more politicians...by forcing people to purchase a defective corporate product...
3) Push off a real solution (Improved and Enhanced Medicare For All) for at least another decade ("wait 'till' it's all in place and then we'll see", say the Obama-bots) meanwhile leaving tens of millions of USAmericans out in the cold...
Re: “Buzzfeed Report: Flake Apologizes for Son's Racist and Anti-Gay Tweets”
Awfully christian of him, isn't it?
Re: “Antenori on Special Session: "The Base Is Furious. This Is Awesome!"”
Doesn't Frank have some varmints to hunt or something?
Re: “Antenori on Special Session: "The Base Is Furious. This Is Awesome!"”
Antenori -- the gift that keeps on giving...
For lovers of self-parody...
Re: “Defending Congressman Trent Franks' Comments About Rape and Pregnancy”
There is no rational defense for what this idiot is trying to get passed into law.
Re: “Grant Road Rage”
The only thing wrong with Grant Road is the perpetual plan to widen it . . . someday. That makes real estate along or near it worthless until . . . someday. Want to see a business corridor prosper? Eliminate the unneeded widening and make it reasonable to develop properties and invest in new businesses. Voila, Grant Road, destination, instead of a way to get across town in a hurry . . . someday.
Re: “AZ House Passes Budget, Medicaid Expansion”
Credit where it's due - thanks Gov. Brewer. Wow that feels weird.
Re: “AZ Congressman Trent Franks: "The Incidence of Rape Resulting in Pregnancy Are Very Low"”
Apparently Mr. Franks and altogether too many like him would prefer an America in which everyone keeps and bears arms and nobody gets to make her own decisions regarding pregnancy and child bearing.
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Re: “The Tucson Tea Party Are Getting Together Again, If That's Your Thing”
It's their thing, do what they wanna do, telling everyone who to sock it to!