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Saturday September 08, 2012 · 2:24 PM PDT

2012/09/08 · 14:24

It's been a while everyone and while I am enjoying a brief respite at home from the travails of the road that my current job has me performing, I've noticed that we've been a bit quiet about talking about what has been going on in The Baja.

I know that some of us have been disappointed with the current color taint of some of our nominees, more of a wishy washy blue rather than a deep and rich sapphire tint, but the fact remains, that color is still preferable to the deep red crimsons that are on display in the store across the street and the remodeling of this house isn't going to happen on its own.

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Wednesday August 17, 2011 · 11:18 PM PDT

2011/08/17 · 23:18

I missed the meetup tonight. I felt bad about it, but then again, feeling like you're about ready to toss your breakfast may accurately reflect how you feel about this nation's politics, but its not conducive for hanging around in a smoky bar and discussing politics. As much as I like to do that (and yeah, I like to get my outrage on as much as the next guy), I stayed home and chicken souped it instead. As I was kicking myself for the inappropriate timing of my intestinal irascibility, I had cause to sit back and think a bit. There's been lots of pie and purity trolling and general crankiness amongst many of us and I just wanted to post this simple reminder of a diary. Not as an accusation, or as some sort of soapbox diatribe attempting to measure who is the most progressive or any of that other crap. I just wanted to post this reminder that Liberal, is not a dirty word and we should all be more willing to embrace it and promote it, so after the jump.....

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Thursday August 11, 2011 · 2:06 PM PDT

2011/08/11 · 14:06

I've spent the last two months out of town, my job was looking after my Mother and her 2nd husband. It fell to me because, well because I'm out of work (still writing, still not selling) and as such I could afford the time away from family while others couldn't. It was stressful, both of them wasting away and too proud to ask for help until it finally became apparent that they needed somebody to help them look after themselves. I love my mother and despite our passionate arguments over our politics, I said that I would come up, only if we kept that topic off the table because no one wants to argue with frail old people when you're there to help them. I knew it hurt her to ask for help from me since the month before she told me that she "never would have sent you to school if it meant that you was going to turn out to be a liberal".

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Where should we meet? (say 1830?)

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Where should we meet? (say 1830?)

Nimbus Brewing - Eastside: Tanque Verde/Pima

2 votes

Filling Station - University: 6th/Tucson Blvd

1 vote

Putney's - Northwest: Rudasill/Oracle

1 vote

Wings over Broadway - Midtown: Broadway/Rosemont

0 votes

Risky Business - Foothills:Kolb/Sunrise

1 vote

name your own place and solicit votes in the thread

1 vote

forward, not backward

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Thursday May 12, 2011 · 11:33 PM PDT

2011/05/12 · 23:33

I've been blogging infrequently here over the last couple of years and slowly getting myself drawn in further and further to trying to join the system and get involved. Tonight I need to do a brain dump of all the thoughts that are swirling around and preventing me from sleeping. So, if you'll bear with me, I just unload these thoughts out and be ready to have a discussion with whomever wants to talk or get my own misconceptions corrected or I'll go get another alcoholic beverage and kick back and watch 12 Angry Men again.

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it's time for pirate....

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it's time for pirate....

to retire from KOS

1 vote

to go to bed

3 votes

to get back on his meds

1 vote

keep trying

4 votes

eat some pie

3 votes

weigh anchor because now I'll never get those 5 minutes back

0 votes

stop letting the parrot post

1 vote

learn from my fail

0 votes

work on his hyperbole

0 votes

The return of THE FENCE

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Monday May 09, 2011 · 6:03 AM PDT

2011/05/09 · 06:03

Our Cactus Barbie is at it again, or else she's back on her meds.... after a couple weeks of relative sanity, vetoing the Birther Bill and the Guns on Campus bills, we're back to lunacy as usual here in Arizona. Now we're seeing the rekindling of an idea, 'let's build the damn fence!" is now back on the agenda again, but this time the game plan is to go mainstream! Since our intrepid Governor couldn't find a willing patsy in the state legislature to promote this, she's decided to take it to the people of our great country to fund it for her. So now she's planning on opening a website to solicit donations from the public to build the fence for us, added win, she's gonna use "private" contractors and prison labor to "get 'er done"!

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/...

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Sunday May 08, 2011 · 12:33 PM PDT

2011/05/08 · 12:33

You know, I was worried. The general stuff about meeting new people. Will they like me? Will they accept me? What will we talk about, can we make a difference or are we just futzing around?

That kind of stuff.

You know what? It was really kind of easy. We took the scary first steps and after talking, some of us resolved to take more. Each to their own abilities and availability. It was a beginning and it was okay that there wasn't an end.

In all, we had an introduction and now we have some ideas and we have a purpose and with luck, maybe we'll develop a movement. It starts with us.

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Monday April 04, 2011 · 3:44 PM PDT

2011/04/04 · 15:44

I've done the phone calls and I've analyzed the numbers. The projections are in and are being evaluated in regards to likely turnout requirements. Some of this can still be altered, but the wheels are in motion and once they are in motion, there will need to be an equivalent force in order to stop it, or we can let friction take its course, but that always gives me a rash.

Here's what I've put together for the first Baja Kossacks BBQ, the cyrillic up there is a rough translation for "gathering" since these days of mounted pillaging through the countryside are frowned upon.

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the BBQ plan

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the BBQ plan

typical Republican Overreach

1 vote

How can you make an executive decision without an executive?

0 votes

they'll be beer?

4 votes

I could have done better, but I don't volunteer for this crap, I gotta get paid!

0 votes

who are you again?

0 votes

sounds doable, but.....

1 vote

promise me there won't be cameras...

0 votes

tyvm for doing this

4 votes

sorry, I'll be poolside, eating quail

0 votes

damn, wish I could be there!

7 votes

Dear Dames

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Friday April 01, 2011 · 8:39 AM PDT

2011/04/01 · 08:39

Listen hon,

It's time that we faced facts, it's time for us to part ways. This little experiment giving you rights and treating you like adults simply isn't working for us anymore. Look what you've done with this voting thingy... you're all over the map and while you've shown that we can mislead and divide you against your own best interests, our master plan is coming along well enough for us to end this joke of a relationship.

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Sunday March 20, 2011 · 9:01 AM PDT

2011/03/20 · 09:01

The question has been raised if we should bother to do a meet and greet locally. For those of us that are still a bit too scared to walk in a protest march or picket our local representative body. This would be a way for the keyboard activists to get involved. It's not all about walking and shouting (though THAT definitely is needed) there is also a need for folks to quietly state where there position is to allow others to come out and do so as well. The silent majority speaking, that is to say, we need to stand together and be willing to state what we believe the values we want out of government should be, to be by the people and for the people, be they wealthy or poor, religious or not. It's kind of simple, yet it has been corrupted by people who are scared and have lost their moral and ethical compass.

Consider this an open thread....

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location and possible park facilities

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location and possible park facilities

Eastside (Udall Park

0 votes

Northwest (Columbus Park )

1 vote

Midtown/University (Reid Park)

5 votes

Southest (Lincoln Park)

1 vote

Southwest (Ormsby Park)

0 votes

2011 The Joe Arpaio protection Act

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Wednesday February 16, 2011 · 6:40 AM PST

2011/02/16 · 06:40

ty az capitol times.....

http://azcapitoltimes.com/...

In short, the AZ State legislature is now placing itself above federal regulation by regulating Federal Regulators

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definition time: American voters = unrealistic

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Monday November 22, 2010 · 9:25 AM PST

2010/11/22 · 09:25

I'd like to cite a great piece that was posted in the Baltimore Sun

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/...

I thought the guy we elected was a grown up, obviously he needed to do a better job of reminding us unruly kids of what is needed to keep this house in harmony.

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Tuesday November 02, 2010 · 10:08 PM PDT

2010/11/02 · 22:08

Gotta give the other side credit, they've fucked up the country for the past two decades, gotten numerous Americans killed in far off places making our country damn near a pariah around the planet. Managed to bring the western world to the brink of an economic collapse and managed to trash the pillars of an independant media and judiciary that are the actual foundations of this country into being political tools for use by the wealthy elite. Despite all of this, they've managed to scare, cajole and dupe the American public into believing that they have answers to our problems.

Obviously - There Ain't No Fucking Justice

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