Where will this (still-hypothetical) NFL team be housed? There are four arenas in Albuquerque (Tingley, University Stadium, The Pit, and Isotopes Park) and how much usage do they get? On top of that, the Convention Center in the Downtown area was used for a few Thunderbird games, and the Scorpions moved to Rio Rancho. Now the ABQ City Council wants a new indoor arena / events center in the Downtown area, next to the Convention Center.
If bringing ANY new sports team to town means any sort of tax hike, use of eminent domain, etc., count me OPPOSED.
I fully support encouraging the Venus Project to begin the terraforming of the planet Venus as soon as possible.
As for the “Resource-Based Economy,” it’s not really a new idea — they cribbed it from Star Trek and Arthur C. Clarke novels. Possibly some Blake’s 7 and Asimov novels, as well.
Salvador Allende tried in 1970 what the Venus Project / Zeitgeist Movement / RBEC advocates — real-time computer control of the economy. See the Wikipedia page for Project Cybersyn for more.
It’s not that we lack arenas and stadiums — we’ve got a surplus of them, the City Council wants to build another one, and they rarely bring decent acts into the ones that exist. Two of the best concerts I’ve seen in my life weren’t at any of these venues — Overkill at the Launchpad (23 Sept 2005) and W.A.S.P. at the Sunshine Theater (1 June 2006).
I’m more interested in concerts than sporting events, but I’m guessing the same sorts of factors come into play.
I’m thinking that this is a record for Susana to beat. IF she can get elected in November. IF the Legislature is dumb enough to send a sufficient number of bills to her to be vetoed.
I don’t know if it can be called a principle, but he does seem to have something guiding his actions and speech — the desire to obtain and keep power over others for himself.
Of course, should this creep run for President in 2012 or 2016, the Republicans will close ranks behind him because “the Democrat will be worse,” just as they did behind McClown the Manchurian Senator in 2008.
I wouldn’t see a problem if you did have wild orgies every night — if everyone’s a consenting adult, it’s nobody’s business but the participants’. Freedom’s the answer — what’s the question?
I propose Constitutional amendments, at both the federal and state levels, to the effect of that no item of public property (buildings, public roads, vehicles, ships, aircraft, spacecraft, rifles, pistols — anything paid for from the public purse) shall be named after any living person, and that any all proposals to name publicly-owned items after people shall be voted upon by the public as a whole.
Hey, John — Glad to see you here! There’s one of your fellow jarheads living in Santa Fe that you’ve just gotta meet one of these days — maybe at next year’s LP State Convention . . . ?
I like the line Scott added to this one — “Apocalypse no.”
While the armed forces comprise 56 percent of discretionary spending, they only make up about 25 percent of the total budget —
I agree that American forces are overly used abroad — Iraq and the “AfPak” theater are just the biggest examples. The predominate doctrine in “defense” circles these days revolves around the “power projection” concept —
the capacity of a state to conduct expeditionary warfare, i.e. to intimidate other nations and implement policy by means of force, or the threat thereof, in an area distant from its own territory.
The Pentagon has had its collective head up its power-projecting posterior since the end of WWII. I don’t (realistically) see an end to this idiocy any time soon.
Why is the military complex and our occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan never mentioned on this blog?
I think you answered your own question in the preceding sentences (not that I disagree at all) —
(1) Republicans in NM are not willing to accept the ‘ex-vet against the war’ positioning (see John Kerry)
(2) NM is very dependent on the federal dollar spent in this state on military. Kirkland, after all, is the state’s number one employer.
On your point (1), I think that the big-government hawks of the GOP let Larry Bailey and Co. conduct a Swift Boat-type smear campaign against Adam. Since Mullins gave every appearance (to me, at least) of being quite eager to jump on board the smear campaign, while he says he’s not part of the GOP Machine, he’s doing its bidding, and thus deserves the title of Coggie (see above).
Thus Mullins seems (again, to me) to be quite content to be an unwitting Coggie, and I cannot in good conscience extend the slightest increment of support to the Mullins Campaign.
Isn’t repelling invasions a big part of what the Second Amendment is all about? Let’s not look to Washington DC for answers — that’s a big part of how the “border problem” got started in the first place. If we cleaned out the District of Criminals, ended the welfare state and ended Drug Prohibition, the “border problem” would cease being any sort of problem.
Why not plug the leaking hole with Federal Reserve Notes and Treasury securities? The Obamanoids are going to print them by the dumptruck-full anyway; we might as well put them to good use.
Point 3-A Re: Spill Response Not About Oil, But Snake Oil In addition to giving more resources to the State Auditor, the Open Meetings Act needs to be beefed up to open conference committees in the Legislature, as well as explicitly allowing citizens to take their own camcorders into any session of the Legislature. If the legislators don’t like that, that’s too bad — while they’re in session, any photon bouncing off of them goes into the public domain. Same goes for any sound vibration coming from their person. If they don’t want to go on record, they shouldn’t run for election to public office.
It’s actually made in Croatia and imported by Springfield Armory, Inc. But that’s OK — almost all innovation these days in handgun design has moved from America to central-eastern Europe. Which is NOT what I would expect, considering that almost all of these countries (Germany, Austria, etc.) have gun laws that make California’s look rather benign by comparison.
The “XD” moniker is simply Springfield Armory Inc.’s marketing name for the HS2000
American classifies us as democrat, republican, libertarian, or independent; Christ says respect authority, because there is no authority except that which God established. Pray for your leaders and obey them.
America was founded upon the idea that political authority is derived from the consent of the governed individuals — it says so right there in the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” — Thomas Jefferson
