The future of the First Amendment in Arizona [HQ]
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Randy Parraz stance on issues videos
Question: Why are you running for US Senate?
Question: What qualifications or experience do you have?
Question: Why are you here at this DREAM Act rally?
Question: What do you think about the immigration issue?
Question: What do you think about SB1070 & HB2281?
Question: What are your thoughts on ethnic studies?
Question: Why do you think you are the best candidate for US Senate?
Randy listens to members of TUSD and the UA on ethnic studies at Arte de mi Pueblo event.
DREAM Act rally at McCain’s Tucson office – conclusion [HQ]
The conclusion to a long day
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DREAM Act protest at McCain’s Tucson office
Gross violation of First Amendment… since McCain’s office is leased from a private owner, that landlord can decide who has access to the Senator. Watch if you don’t believe it!
KVOA flat out lies, and why it matters
Ethnic studies is important because of many reasons. You can’t just erase thousands of years worth of history, of culture, of ways of living. Especially when this knowledge is what has sustained people in the arid desert for so long!
I attended the TUSD rally against HB2281 which included art, poetry, theater… no arrest were made, nothing “exciting” for the media, but all in all a very beautiful event!
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But this was too boring for the media. They aren’t used to seeing brown youth have an intelligent display of creativity, of exercising the very American rights that they are talking in ethnic studies, youth who are reclaiming their identity in the xenophobic state and time we live in.
KVOA had a horrible story… so horrible they had to rescind the video from their website, and offered the following as their excuse… but they did not apologize.
And they still claim there is a controversy… which only exists in their mind because they are the ones that created it!
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The Devil’s Horne – TUSD student protest
This is the Tucson students response one day after HB2281 is signed into law. 15 people were arrested, including 4 minors.
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Das final solution to the immigration problem
The mathematics of immigration:
Remember fellow patriots, that never before has the world seen the most powerful economy of the continent devasted by a two-front war, so our placing of blame of the current recession on a group of people will be shown to be the right solution, and history will validate Das Final Solution!
And nevermind the cost, or all the empty houses and apartments, labor disruptions or loss of their spending dollars… we will finally reclaim this country for the true Americans… the European immigrants.
Das final solution to the immigration problem
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Tucson’s response to SB1070
A compilation of multiple events immediately following SB1070 being signed into law, with some inspiration from Chuck D.
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You can find the link to the original FB video here.
The new AZ math law
Now the pendejos in the AZ state legislature are going after mathematics?
The Arizona state legislature is implementing a series of new laws meant to increase efficiency in the Arizona mathematics department.
Head of the state Senate appropriations board, and author of SB1070, Russell Pearce launched an investigation into possible cost cutting measures that could help save the state money in these tough economic times. He says the results of the study are shocking.
This is a story you should all know
I think this story is very telling, and since no one else is covering it, I will. And what I write can be used by any news source, because a story this sexy should be on the news!
I will keep it short and simple. This is a story about Steve Montenegro who lives in Arizona.
Who is Mr. Montenegro?
Mr. Montenegro is a pastor of a Pentecostal church in Phoenix. He is also an immigrant and was born in El Salvador. Most of his church congregation are so called “illegal aliens.” And many of his congregation is now calling for him to resign, and some of his fellow pastors are calling for his resignation also. Why?
Because Mr. Montenegro, despite being the spiritual leader of a group of good God-fearing Christians, and deriving an income from these same people, is also a politician. But not just any politician!
Mr. Montenegro is also a member of the Arizona state legislature. What party affiliation do you think the person described above has?
You would be wrong if you guessed Democrat, because congressman Montenegro is a hard-core Republican, and lately has taken to the airwaves to voice his support for Russell Pearce’s SB1070.
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So this raises an interesting dilemma don’t you think? Here you have a staunch Republican pastor politician who is supporting a bill that would deport most of his brothers and sisters in Christ!
But why hasn’t he called the Border Patrol on them before?
Why is he profiting from illegal immigration?
What kind of pastor would call Border Patrol on his congregation? So why would Montenegro, in his role as state legislator, support a bill that would tear apart the lives of real living breathing human beings and their families?
Who will they turn to for spiritual guidance when they face deportation?
And why would they put up with this vendido anymore?
The good news is that they aren’t, and they want him to resign now! And so do other pastors!
When your loyalty to your party or country supersedes your role as minister to all of God’s children, regardless of race or nationality, then you’ve sold your soul… and what good does it do to gain the entire world, when your own soul has been lost?
As Paul Harvey would say: and now you know… the rest of… the story… Good day 🙂
KGUN 9 on your side, but with math we have no pride
Today we will take a deeper look at KGUN’s math… and to be honest… I’ll just let this screen capture speak for itself 🙂
What KVOA 4 calls “balanced” coverage
It’s time to dust off this blog site of mine… and there’s been a lot to talk about lately!
Today my point will be very simple. I recently posted a comment on KVOA 4’s Facebook page about their “fair and balanced” coverage of the recent May Day rally last weekend.
My claim is very simple… the fairness-in-coverage card is pulled out when convenient. So here’s a look at two recent big rallies on opposite sides:
May 1st: May Day rally at Armory park
Over 7,000 people in attendance including deans, professors, celebrities, politicians, civil/human/labor rights activists… a gathering of educated people who were also there to show their strong opposition to SB1070.
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There were less than 40 counter-protesters there, or less than 0.6% of the rally attendees (also note what image they decided to use for the video). KVOA literally states in the video segment below that since they are “fair and balanced” they will show both sides of the story, and thus gave the counter-protesters equal time, or about 200x times more air coverage per person, on average.
KVOA responded that issues are tough, and there are two sides, so they devote equal time to both sides, stressing the balanced coverage… So I decided to look just a few weeks ago at the
TEA party rallies on April 15th
How fair was their coverage?
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For one there was only 1500 in attendance at the TEA party. And what was the time breakdown?
- The May Day was a 3:14 segment, with 1:37 going to the pro-event
- The TEA Party was a 1:38 segment, with 1:20 going to the pro-event
At the TEA party rally, less than 20% of the time was given to the “other side”, whereas at the May Day event it was 50-50… and this is what KVOA calls “balanced” coverage.
LOST figured out – the science gave it away!
(SPOILER ALERT)
This will only spoil things and only make any sense if you have watched the most recent season of Lost.
via LOST figured out – the science gave it away!.
The Science of Rodeos
Rodeo, also known as Fiesta de los Vaqueros, is part of a long tradition here in Tucson, and I decided to explore if there are any science connections.
It turns out there are actually many important scientific issues that this Rodeo holiday gives us a chance to reflect upon.
Is the sky falling in Tucson?
“The sky is falling, the sky is falling!”
This is the popular cry from Chicken Little, the popular fable told to kids. In a nutshell, an acorn falls on Chicken Little’s head and mistaking this for the end of the world, runs to warn the king.
This saying also refers to unfounded hysteria that something bad is about to happen, and this fear can lead to bad outcomes. In the story, a Foxy Loxy ends up eating the followers of Chicken Little, all of them members of the bird family.
Lately there has been a lot of talk about water shortages in the Tucson area. Once recent report by water experts in Tucson found that we may have shortages as soon as 2012… only two years from now!
Top ten talk in Tucson
In case you are wondering about what radio talk shows people in Tucson are listening too, here’s a break down of the top 10.
There 3 different stations represented here. I think it is safe to say that KNST (aka “K-nasty”) is a strong conservative station, with Rush, Hannity, Parisi, and Beck filling their airwaves. Jon Justice, also a conservative (see below), is from KQTH.
The rest of the list is made up of KUAZ shows, the local NPR station. NPR has been increasing in membership lately… there is hope!
Half of the 10 highest rated programs on talk stations are on the University of Arizona-owned station. Clear Channel’s KNST has four in the top 10 and Justice’s show is the only show to make the top 10 on Journal Broadcast Group’s the Truth.
via Media Technology : A change of channels and Glenn Beck finds his audience in Tucson
Regarding Jon Justice, please enjoy the following video he made mocking Isabel Garcia, humanitarian who works with human rights issues in Tucson, AZ. You decide for yourself what to call it.
Are we more advanced than our recent ancestors?
The state of humanity and how we treat our fellow man is beyond the scope of this discussion, so let us just focus on scientific achievement in modern times. We begin with a simple example of progress — that of travel and taking care of human needs while traveling.
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Is it real, or is it all in the mind? But what is in the mind seems real to the person, so thus it’s all real, or at least it seems so.
Is this the type of church that Jesus would attend?
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