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Re: “TV Ad Hammers Flake on Background Checks”
These are feel good attacks that help Mark Kelly keep his name alive for his politcal future. It's cheap and theatrical. A back ground check would not have stopped ANY of the mass shootings in the last 10 years. Lets fix the real problems, making it easier for parents, families, judges and police to have others mental health isses checked.. BUT no we dont't want to do that. Mark Kelly, you are a joke and a walking piece of garbage. Using your wife's horrible shooting as stepping stone for you. Gutless Mark, pure gutless. You're a coward Mark, a true political American COWARD.
Re: “'SF Chronicle' Calls Tucson Cool, So It's Time to Abandon the City”
We have plenty of self-righteous know-it-alls, they just won't come near downtown or Fourth Avenue, for which the rest of us are extremely grateful.
Re: “The Folks at Amy's Baking Company In Scottsdale Have Gone Insane [Update: They Were 'Hacked']”
misrepresenting, there is a difference between what is legal and what is right. I don't dispute that they should not be keeping the tips (or they need to notify customers what they do) and it is NOT right.
The question is whether what they are doing is illegal, as has been claimed here. I would love to have someone who has eaten there post a receipt so we can see who it says your server was. Remember that Samy was entering all the orders into the POS system by himself. What are the odds that the receipt has the correct server's name on it? I know that Mario Batali was fined millions of dollars by NY last year for sharing his server's tips with other staff. But that was a MUCH different situation. Those servers were considered tipped employees. ABC is paying a full wage that does not rely on tips to get minimum wage. That may exempt them from any problems that ensue from not giving the tips to the employees. Also think of this -- they've gone through 100+ employees (many/most of whom likely left under bad circumstances). You don't think that at least one of them went to the state labor department to ask them to investigate this?
Re: “The Amy's Baking Company Saga Is Only Going to Get Weirder”
Minimum wage in AZ is $7.80 if you don't make tips, and $4.80 if you do.
Re: “The Folks at Amy's Baking Company In Scottsdale Have Gone Insane [Update: They Were 'Hacked']”
MisterBill, if your employer took your money, you would likely consider it theft. Most folks consider theft to be illegal - even when an employer in a right-to-work state considers it their right. Based on experience, it's doubtful AZ DOL will possess the willingness to provide justice for the staff. The servers will probably have to get used to it or move on. When AZ employers hire the right lawyers they tend to do whatever they want, no matter how outrageous the conduct to staff and customers. see "Heated Environment"
Re: “The Amy's Baking Company Saga Is Only Going to Get Weirder”
This is Arizona, where employer knows they can get away with almost any amount of dishonesty or abuse towards a customer or employee. No legal protections will apply, just ask Michelle M. "Heated Environment" - http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/heated-environment/Content?oid=3643260
Re: “A Rather F—king Timely Note on Swearing”
I learned as a child from a person who swore constantly that swearing uncontrollably was the sign of a weak vocabulary. Sixty years later I still find that to be true. I still believe important thoughts can be conveyed with better language than obscenities.
Re: “The Amy's Baking Company Saga Is Only Going to Get Weirder”
Joe, I checked out your links to "Home is where the Holmans are" and Amy's blog page and the photos of the devil's food cake cupcake are identical. Wow, more wacky thievery from these two!
Re: “Seriously, People, Tell Domestic Harmony to Go F—k Itself”
AZ/DC: ",,,,,,,Mammey thinks it is not well mannered to use cursing in these posts, but it is perfectly acceptable to tell someone (me) to go commit suicide. I smell a hypocritical rat......."
AZ/DC, why would you attack me on this issue, rather than the quack doctors prescribing Prozac, and other suicide causing agents dispensed like candy to an unsuspecting public? The suicide problem's out of control and you've no interest in working on it? Shame dude.
ANSWER: If one has no argument of value, zilch, nada, none, then one attacks, personally, the opposition. I see you not as the opposition, just someone too lazy to develop their own argument on the issues at hand. Go back to school dude, you apparently need some academic training. Join the debate club and learn the rules of a rational argument.
Re: “A Rather F—king Timely Note on Swearing”
I like using the sweet, musical Spanish "mierda" more than the harsher English "shit."
I also like the sound of "pendejo."
Re: “Eat Bugs: They are Tasty, Healthy and Part of the New World Order”
When the UN starts feeding themselves bugs while they're in NYC I'll consider it.
Re: “Brewer Calls Medicaid Vote "The Single Most Critical Policy Issue That Has Faced Our State in Years"”
Her health care plan? Her plan was to watch poor people die. The only reason she's trying to expand Medicaid now is that the Feds are picking up the tab.
Re: “A Rather F—king Timely Note on Swearing”
I have been swearing, sometimes uncontrollably for the last 55 years or so. I am 60. There are times when public swearing bothers me like when I am at the zoo with my grand kids and people let the F-Bombs drop. Once when my cute little innocent daughter was about 3 or 4 she politely asked that someone "pass the goddamn catsup please". My wife shot me a dirty look that would have shattered plate glass. I hadn't said a thing (for a change). I like the RANGE and TUCSON WEEKLY for it's information and general politics, but sometimes when difficult topics are discussed (especially gun control etc) it seems to undermine strong and intelligent logic when F-Bombs or other swear words are used. When intellect and logic or truth are used to make a cogent point, swear words, vulgarities or name calling compromise the argument with unneeded emotion. Logic and truth are difficult to argue against, but one can always yell louder, or think of a more clever way to tell someone to fuck off. My wife never heard her father utter the F-word. I heard him say it only 3 times in his entire life, and each time it blew my mind. I had the utmost respect for him. He was the last of the culture of true gentlemen. How often and under what circumstances one uses powerful language has a lot to do with that words potency. Sometimes I dream nostalgically for a time when public decorum and gentlemanliness were characteristics of integrity and civility, but those days are past us, and I probably would not fit in that culture too well.
Re: “Sen. Melvin on Medicaid Expansion: "We're Not Going To Roll Over and Play Dead on This"”
Melvin says, "We're not going to roll over and play dead."
But apparently he if OK with too many poor without healthcare rolling over and being dead.
Re: “Sen. Melvin on Medicaid Expansion: "We're Not Going To Roll Over and Play Dead on This"”
Wouldn't it be terrific if one of those big Wizard of Oz tornadoes took Saddlebrooke and spun it over to Iowa where it belongs.
Re: “A Rather F—king Timely Note on Swearing”
I am a well educated fucking broad who can hang with the fucking boys one moment and have tea with the Queen of England the next. I am damn proud of who I am and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks of me.
Re: “Amy's Baking Company Says 'We Were Hacked!' Following Yesterday's Scorched Earth Campaign”
They were hacked at some point. Look at the captions of their facebook photos on their page. The descriptions were written by hackers. "STOLEN PHOTOS, dog poop, and vomit" is one description.
Look at it and you will see what I mean.
Re: “Sen. Melvin on Medicaid Expansion: "We're Not Going To Roll Over and Play Dead on This"”
Al Melvin, wrong for Arizona, wrong for the Earth.
Re: “Five Minutes of Gardening Makes a Big Difference - Especially in the Desert”
This can be profoundly true. To me, the first task is to choose an aesthetic: what kind of plants make you feel really good when you work with them? In all seasons, try to work partly in the shade (at least have a nearby shady spot to rest in). And in summer, go slow and be sure to drink lots of electrolyted liquid. Doing this kind of work and watching the results as you go is literally a life-saver for ome of us.
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Re: “McCain Opposes Filibuster on Universal Background Checks”
Ken Rineer, Aren't there any number of industrialized countries where firearms are severely restricted, and even prohibited that are fully functioning democracies? What are the "better policing tactics" that you are referring to?
How can we restrict firearms from criminals, when we have no way to regulate the flow of these firearms to the criminals? If we had a registry, and it included every firearm sale, as weapons are used in crimes we could very quickly identify the sources providing those weapons. Due to the incredible power of the NRA we cannot even use federal funds to research gun crimes.....given the phenomenal numbers of injuries and deaths every year, of Americans, from literally babies killing babies, to every conceivable part of American society, year after year, shouldn't we be at least researching the problem?
I am a lifelong gun owner, honorably discharged US Army veteran, father, and grandfather, and I don't want my loved ones harmed by some fool who should not have a gun.
It just seem to me that we need to do something different than what we have been doing. Listening to the La Pierres screaming 2d Amendment every time someone says stop killing our kids, has finally made me sick enough to stop and think about this. Guns don't kill people..but people would not be killing as many people if they did not have the guns...that is simple logic.
So how do we stop this carnage? I don't know that, but I do know that using the same tired logic that got us to this point is not working, and will not work.