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Re: KOB.com - S. Valley residents remember Dia de los Murtos

Immanentize — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:04:41 -0000

Cause you didn't have a smokin' band and everybody dancing.

Re: KOB.com - S. Valley residents remember Dia de los Murtos

Immanentize — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:04:02 -0000

Um, its actually an Aztec tradition.

Re: Spending cuts would mean potential prison closures, prisoner release

Fedup77 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:10:25 -0000

First, the double dippers pay ZERO into the PERA and ERB fund. The state budget has to make up this difference. There is the first substancial savings. Second, you seem to think these jobs have to be filled. Furloughs and layoffs are coming and I am saying the first ones to be shown the door should be those who already have a secure pension coming in. Third, with unemployment at almost 10% it should NOT be double dippers, but the qualified unemployed doing the work.

Re: Spending cuts would mean potential prison closures, prisoner release

Immanentize — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:34:08 -0000

So you want to lay people off and leave jobs undone. That has nothing to do with double-dippers.

Re: Spending cuts would mean potential prison closures, prisoner release

Fedup77 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:48:35 -0000

Because Double Dippers are getting a pension they are not eligible for unemployment. When you are on unemployment you have to disclose all income and that would take them out of it.

To the other quesiton, if they are in a position that needs to be filled, then fill it with a younger worker climbing the ladder (just like it should be). Then you can leave the entry position unfilled (and there you have your cost savings). Or you can leave the higher paid double dipper position unfilled (none of these DD are in entry level jobs), and have the the people directly under them filling in for them. This would be until the state does better with their budget and can actually fill these jobs. That would also save a lot of money.

What I foresee happening is this. Big Bill will never touch the Double Dippers. The Double Dippers do not have the conscience to do what is right. Therefore you will find lower level people all throughout state government either getting laidoff or furloughed, whiled the Double Dippers continue to take home 6 figures every year. The phrase let them eat cake comes to mind.

Re: Spending cuts would mean potential prison closures, prisoner release

derekbill — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:45:16 -0000

I suppose you could argue that those jobs would then be filled by people now unemployed. But unless the DDs wouldn't then apply for unemployment (or take other jobs) it would be a wash.

Richardson's term ends next year, and in theory his 'political buddies' will leave with him.

Meanwhile (in Albuquerque) it will be interesting to see what Berry does with Marty's minions, especially the ones getting that big pay bump earlier this month.

Re: Spending cuts would mean potential prison closures, prisoner release

Immanentize — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:17:38 -0000

The double-dippers will get their pension whether they work the 2nd job or not.
The jobs they do have to be done -- and paid for -- whether double dippers do the work or some one else.

So how does eliminating double dippers save money?

Re: Federal hate crime legislation gets a monumental addition

Immanentize — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:09:37 -0000

Now, the Department of Justice has the legal means to investigate and prosecute bias-motivated violence

Um, they already had that.

It assists with educating the public .... Yes, prison is SO educational.

Re: We must pull together to solve the budget problem

Immanentize — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:25:44 -0000

One possible solution would be to expand the legislature’s oversight powers of the executive branch by establishing an independent accounting office ...

A bureaucratic expansion to monitor bureaucratic expansion?

Re: Vilsack hears from dairy farmers in Las Cruces

Immanentize — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:19:13 -0000

Boom and bust cycle!? In milk and cheese?

Here's a market (dairy products) that is completely state-controlled. Where are the conservative champions of the free market?

Free the dairy farmers!

Re: Ethics commission could have 11 members, subpoena power

Immanentize — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:09:59 -0000

Smokescreen. An ethics commission will not suddenly make politicians ethical.

Re: You’re All Racists

Immanentize — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:07:53 -0000

I could buy your statement that Republicans/"conservatives" oppose Obama so vociferously because of his policies if he were making radical policy changes. But his politics are nearly indistinguishable from G.W. Bush's.
Asian wars? check
Financial sector bailout? check
Rendition for torture? check
Non-judicial trials of terror suspects? check
Support Israel unconditionally? check
Health care reform? He doesn't advocate reforming healthcare OR the insurance industry. All he's offering is mandatory insurance.
Surveillance of citizens? check
Federal control of education? check
Need I go on? The right wing has bumped its incendiary rhetoric up a notch (see Benway's link to John Perry article) because the racial aspect of the current political situation presents an opportunity for advantage. And apparently they don't care if they destroy civil society.

Obama's policies show loyalty to the status quo. The fearmongering and threats are not related to his policies. What's left? Race.

Re: TODAY’S TOP STORIES: DWI and the ‘kitchen sink’

Immanentize — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:58:57 -0000

I didn't notice anyone asking the Gov if the kitchen sink is likely to make a dent in the problem. Unfortunately, it will just make the sink useless for the things we really need it for (where sink = imprisonment).

Re: Judge sides with nonprofit right to free speech

Immanentize — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:48:48 -0000

“I think I am going to start my own nonprofit. “That way I can destroy good candidates,” Silva said, .... Gee Dan, your voting record was published; and that's how a "good candidate" was destroyed?

"...Unfair ... because nonprofits would have unlimited resources..."
THAT is NOT the typical non-profit financial situation.

Re: Heinrich voices support of public option in health care “town hall”

Immanentize — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:02:24 -0000

Umm ... I thought this article was about health care reform. Seems like all the Congressman wants to talk about is more insurance.

Re: Energy and water appropriations bill passes with amendment authored by U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich

Immanentize — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:39:41 -0000

Thank goodness we got rid of Heather Wilson, that national security and military obsessed ... Hey! wait a minute...

Re: TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Unclogging New Mexico’s most clogged interchange

Immanentize — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:07:36 -0000

I take I-25 to Paseo every day and I think the current configuration functions just fine. What I really dread is a year of construction "improvements." Spend the money on public transportation.

Re: Celebrate free speech this holiday weekend

Immanentize — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:59:08 -0000

Iranians who riot because they don't like the outcome of the election "truly yearn" for democracy?"

Re: Conservative dreads return of the Fairness Doctrine, local liberals say that’s a red herring

ched_macquigg — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:56:10 -0000

well said.

Re: Unborn child was one breath away from law’s embrace

Immanentize — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:43:53 -0000

Affirming humanity is not necessarily what the law is for.
Every wrong does not have a legal solution.

Re: Conservative dreads return of the Fairness Doctrine, local liberals say that’s a red herring

Immanentize — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:34:49 -0000

If by "liberal" you mean expanding government intrustion I would agree, but Bush II was really the main perpetrator. I agree with Gnarlodious that decentralization of power is the real issue.
"Conservative" and "liberal" have become meaningless as both parties push for more government power. We need to start looking at where things lie on the Totalitarian - Libertarian scale.

Re: Our toxic culture wars

Thomas_James — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:39:23 -0000

I disagree when you only identify hateful behavior on the other side and refuse to acknowledge your own faults in a meaningful manner you are nowhere near being objective.

So if you want a really an objective "productive" analysis, examine the faults on both sides and propose a solution. When you only examine one side it looks like a smear job.

Re: Our toxic culture wars

Immanentize — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:36:30 -0000

If identifying hateful behavior is conflated with behaving hatefully, then hatefulness can never be objectively discussed. Very clever tactic.

Pointing out double standards, straw man tactics, and inaccuracies is not hateful. It is, at worst, disagreement, and at best, analysis.

Re: CD1: Heinrich palling around with eco-terrorists?

Immanentize — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:25:32 -0000

Speaking of disgraceful, dishonorable and extreme, what about what Sheriff White did to that Iraq veteran who came out to help when the Sheriff Dept. helicopter crashed in Paradise Hills? About 2 years ago, remember? They got suspicious by the guy's coming out to help (?!), found out he was a marksman in the military, had guns at home; so they arrested him for shooting down the helicopter. He was semi-disabled with PTSD or something, but they kept him in jail for over a year, denied him medical care, then dropped charges and released him. But by then he was totally disabled.

Thank you Sheriff White; serving and protecting.

Re: The problem with hate speech

Immanentize — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:00:51 -0000

Yeah, but only one party has made hate its core value. As I've posted elsewhere recently, I still don't see any substantial policy differences between the two major parties but I am reconsidering my refusal to vote for a Democrat or a Republican for president. I have always identified as a Conservative, but the fanatic hatred of the Republican Party scares me.