Raising Arizona
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Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
I believe this is the Sec. of Homeland Security who said "Our Borders have never been more secure as they are now", got to wonder.
Yeah, because her ilk trashed the economy so bad, no one wants to come here.
Arizona has long had a reputation for attracting folks whose viewpoints are somewhat, um....out there? Especially the healing through crystals and defining character by the color of one's aura [which only they can see] bunch.
The current whacko is Representative Trent Franks, whose latest attempt at limiting abortion rights is the bill to ban abortions based on gender selection. Because, as he says, 'people from countries such as China & India have a cultural disinclination to permit their third child to be a girl'. And this is an important problem in America, right now, yes? Important enough to overcome Rep Franks' dislike of excessive government regulation? Census data says it makes no difference - the ratio of male to female births has remained unchanged [as of 2010, the latest data available.] But Rep Franks isn't one to let facts interfere with his views & never has been.
Funny how the rhetoric against regulation is ignored when a politician wants to promote his own agenda, innit? Rep. Franks has tried to end run around Roe vs Wade before, [he introduced a Constitutional amendment in Arizona that banned most abortions in 1992, which was voted down by a 2 to 1 margin.] and was defeated soundly, but he keeps trying, even if he has to invent flimsy pretexts for introducing legislation.
He's another right wingnut who [mis] labels his anti choice & anti gay beliefs in the 'family' code word [founder of Arizona's Family Research Council, a nonprofit allied with Focus on the Family] as if American families totally share his 'values' [another code word co opted for misuse by the right wingnuts], and he has a lot of research to quote about it. None of which is accurate, and most of which the authors of said research have asked/told him to cease & desist misrepresenting, but still, he keeps trying.
There's just something about Arizona - maybe the theories about the magnetic force fields being especially strong there aren't all hogwash....
The current whacko is Representative Trent Franks, whose latest attempt at limiting abortion rights is the bill to ban abortions based on gender selection. Because, as he says, 'people from countries such as China & India have a cultural disinclination to permit their third child to be a girl'. And this is an important problem in America, right now, yes? Important enough to overcome Rep Franks' dislike of excessive government regulation? Census data says it makes no difference - the ratio of male to female births has remained unchanged [as of 2010, the latest data available.] But Rep Franks isn't one to let facts interfere with his views & never has been.
Funny how the rhetoric against regulation is ignored when a politician wants to promote his own agenda, innit? Rep. Franks has tried to end run around Roe vs Wade before, [he introduced a Constitutional amendment in Arizona that banned most abortions in 1992, which was voted down by a 2 to 1 margin.] and was defeated soundly, but he keeps trying, even if he has to invent flimsy pretexts for introducing legislation.
He's another right wingnut who [mis] labels his anti choice & anti gay beliefs in the 'family' code word [founder of Arizona's Family Research Council, a nonprofit allied with Focus on the Family] as if American families totally share his 'values' [another code word co opted for misuse by the right wingnuts], and he has a lot of research to quote about it. None of which is accurate, and most of which the authors of said research have asked/told him to cease & desist misrepresenting, but still, he keeps trying.
There's just something about Arizona - maybe the theories about the magnetic force fields being especially strong there aren't all hogwash....