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#Fun Musical Factoid: Martin Denny was an American piano-player and composer best known as the “father of exotica”.I would have never known about him until you mentioned him by name and I researched. (Ok, Wikipedia…Geez) Highly Recommended: check his music out on that you of tube site. Atmospheric; very laid back; outside the box. Most Famous Cut: “Quiet Village”, Thanks Tammy.
#FYI: Nikki Halley, Governor of South Carolina, was on Greta. Gave Fat-Ass Janet a smack right on the kisser for ignoring the state’s requests about immigration enforcement.
#Walmart of Weed. Home DePOT. Can’t wait for the jingles and radio spots.
#”Am I talking too fast for you potheads out there?”
#Don’t look now but we’re in a Dystopian Society.
“I’m not your burgler…have a donut!”
OK then, pass those couple with the sprinkles, thanks.
Ciao’
posted 6/1 11:20pm central
About the medical marijuana in AZ: Gov. Brewer and Atty. General Tom Horne are trying to fight it from what I understand. Gov. Brewer placed a temporary halt on state employees’ dispensary permits since pot is technically illegal under federal law (so is illegal entry into this country, but that’s another conversation). I was actually very surprised voters approved, but then again – Pima County is the thorn in this state’s side, and I have no doubt Southern Arizonans were more eager to vote for a high than anything. I wouldn’t be surprised if some in Pima avoided voting for candidates altogether just so they could have the pot vote.
As for Spanish tv: Yes, those channels are being monitored 😉
Right now, the hot topic on Spanish tv has been focused on ‘Ethnic Studies’ in Arizona – a course and curriculum I am hell-bent on seeing destroyed. It is no surprise Telemundo and Univision are providing coverage sympathetic to the program and holding very lengthy interviews with those responsible for implementing the militant curriculum into Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) – people such as Augustin Romero who, with TUSD Mexican-American Studies head Sean Arce, started the program in 1998. Romero is involved in the lawsuit against the state’s ban on Ethnic studies and has been a presenter in several Social Justice Education conferences in & out of AZ (attended by many Arizona educators & students) featuring keynote speaker Bill Ayers. Interesting their topic seems to be the social justice education in Arizona schools – the most recent conference in New Orleans this past April just two weeks before a student riot broke out in the local school board meeting re: Ethnic Studies.
Great to know that Telemundo and Univision are making sure the message gets out.
Thanks for the update and perspective Lisa. I just can’t imagine Arizonans putting up with a bunch of potheads!
May I submit that we call the new pot store a StuperStore?
I’ll be here all week.
“I just can’t imagine Arizonans putting up with a bunch of potheads!”
If we’re going to put up w/ McCain, why not potheads, too? 😉 In a weird way, I guess it balances out!
LOL! Good point!
About drug-testing welfare recipients…it would seem to me that anything that’s legal for an employer to do to an employee can certainly be reasonably done to a welfare recipient. Why should a welfare recipient get special shielding from this thing that an ordinary working stiff has to put up with?
Maynard, be careful with that one… Employment is a voluntary agreement between two private parties in which either one can walk away. Government requirements are involuntary and enforced at gunpoint.
Employees voluntarily give away some of their rights in order to work for some employers, but there is no law that says they have to agree to anything (except of course for union membership in some places).
Employees must sign an agreement with employers indicating that they agree to be drug tested before the employer can legally require them to do it. This might be a fine point since so many employers require it in order to hire an employee, but it is something that job applicants don’t have to sign up for in an employment contract.
A lot of employers do not require drug testing as a condition of employment, particularly the Government (remember the bus crashes, subway crashes, and train crashes in which drug testing was brought up as something we might ought to start requiring?).
Employers do a lot of things to employees with their signed consent that I’m not sure I would want to be a precedent for the Government to presume to do the same based on the fact that employers do it (drug tests, random searches of personal property, requirement to wear a badge visibly displayed above the waist at all times, restrictions on what a person can disclose or publish on their personal time, polygraph testing, fingerprinting, prohibition of carrying firearms, dispute resolution through private arbitration with no legal recourse, etc).
Don’t want the employers and government to use each other as an excuse to further ratchet up their separate infringements on people’s rights or privacy. They both seem to do just fine in pushing the limits without leaning on each other already :).
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Tammy, what you said about talents and using them really struck a nerve with me, and has inspired/motivated me to see what I need to do to start using mine to improve my family’s financial position. We’re not destitute or anything: we have enough for our needs, and for a fair few of our wants. But my husband is and has been the sole breadwinner for a few years now (we had our 5th anniversary this last March), which makes it hard when I want to buy something for me or even a gift for him — not because he’s a tyrant or anything, because he’s not, but out of my own innate sense of fairness. (Maybe it would be better if I was better at the householdy stuff. I am terrible at it.)
I know that this is a recurring theme on your show, to be able to stand on your own two feet, financially speaking. And he’s my husband — it’s not like I’m declaring independence, ’cause we’re a team. But I have been given some rather exceptional talents that could really help feather the nest, as it were; and you’re right, I at least ought to see if I can use them toward that end. Like my dad always says, the worst they can say is no.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for that particular bit of the show tonight. And I wanted to do it here instead of in an email in case any other TAMs felt the same way in hearing that segment, because I know a major source of courage for most people is others in their various communities — including the online ones. 🙂
Yeah, Maria Shriver, of COURSE she knew what Arnie was up too. She may not have had the down and dirty details of all his liaisons — I will wager a large sum Arnie’s close encounters were legion — but of COURSE that woman knew. There’s something as seriously wrong with the Kennedy women as there is with Kennedy men.
^5 to most of us in the chat room, we knew Maria knew. There is no way on earth she could be with Arnold that long and not know him. Especially since she met him during his bodybuilding days. It was just sort of a given.