Stand with Arizona
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Sunday, May 16, 2010 21:28
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I can only answer for me: Yes, I will. Any and every one of them until either this law is taken down or (gawd forbid) it is made nationwide. I just can't believe that will happen; little as my faith in the American people is, it extends at least that far.
I also agree that his question is not pertinent to what you asked.
"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10
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Here's something to scoff at: The boycotters have a comprehensive list of everyone in AZ including: Todd McFarlane Productions Inc.
Yep. No more Spawn comics. So you better stop reading your spawn comics if you hate Az! *sigh* I never liked Spawn anyway.
I note that Discount Tire is on the list and I've been needing new tires for 4 months now, so forget Wal-mart or Indy Tire (local chain). I guess I'm off to Discount Tire!
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Bear in mind, this is the state that gave us Barry Goldwater, and had the NFL pull the Superbowl from them because they wouldn't recognize Martin Luther King Day.
For those of you who want to join me, here's a list of some of those to boycott:
- Arizona Diamondbacks, Location: Phoenix, Arizona
- Best Western International, Inc., Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona
- Cold Stone Creamery. Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
- Grand Canyon
- P. F. Chang’s China Bistro. Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona
- PetSmart. Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona
- Sky Mall, Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona
- U-Haul. Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona
- US Airways. Headquarters: Tempe, Arizona
- Alcor Life Extension Foundation (Cryonics, the science of freezing gullible dead people). Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
- ClubJenna, Inc. (branded internet porn). Headquarters: Glendale, Arizona
- Go Daddy (Sleezy domain name registry). Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
- TASER International, Inc. Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
- Discount Tire Company (Americas largest tire and wheel retailer). Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
- BeachWare (computer games). Headquarters: Tuscon, Arizona
- Channel Master (TV accessories). Headquarters: Gilbert, Arizona
- Circle K (convenience store chain) Headquarters: Tempe, Arizona
- Dial Corporation (formerly Greyhound Dial Corporation--Dial soap and anti-perspirant deodorant; AromaSense; Armour Star canned
meats; Borateem; Boraxo; Coast soap; Combat insect control; Dry Idea deodorant; Fels-Naptha soap; Pure and Natural beauty products; Purex laundry detergent; Renuzit air freshener; Right Guard deodorant; Twenty Mule Team Borax). Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (guitars, basses, amplifiers, etc.). Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
- Flying Buffalo, Inc. (game company: board games, card games; Tunnels and Trolls, Nuclear War card game, Death Dice, others). Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
- Ramada Worldwide hotel chain. Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona
- Shamrock Farms (dairy products: various “Mmmmilk” products; Rockin’ Refuel; “Milk
Essentials” for Kids; various frozen treats) Headquarters: Phoenix
About the only ones I can boycott are PetSmart, Dial and Cold Stone Creamery, but if anyone knows others, please share.
Just a few more things:Quote:
Law enforcement groups and agents in Arizona and across the country have opposed the legislation. The Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police this week issued a statement, noting in part, “The provisions of the bill . . . will negatively affect the ability of law enforcement agencies across the state to fulfill their many responsibilities in a timely manner. ” Individual Chiefs of Police across the country, including in Colorado Springs, Raleigh, San Francisco and Sacramento, have also come out in opposition to the bill.
According to an article in Thursday’s New York Times, approximately 85 percent of the calls going in to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s office are being recorded in OPPOSITION to the legislation.
Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, who heads the nation’s largest Roman Catholic archdiocese with 4.3 million members, spoke for many people of faith when he lambasted the bill on his blog, stating, “The Arizona legislature just passed the country’s most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law. The tragedy of the law is its totally false reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources. That is not only false, the premise is nonsense.”
Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis has also spoken out against the bill, writing in Huffington Post, “[E]nforcement of this law would force us to violate our Christian conscience, which we simply will not do. It makes it illegal to love your neighbor in Arizona.”
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Groups, including the ACLU, the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League oppose it. “The passage of SB 1070 is a catastrophe
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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Let me guess: YOUR question, though essentially identical, was NOT foolish?
Um..no. Nope. Not foolish. My question, which by-the-by you have not yet answered, was to inquire if you intend to boycott other states when they pass similar measures. You have already stated you will boycott one state: AZ. This makes my question NOT foolish.
If "not foolish", then certainly dishonest, since I *DID* answer your question, quite explicitly, and you even quoted my answer when you responded to it. So were you not paying attention then, or are you being needlessly obtuse now, or both?
For the record - AGAIN - here ya go, quoted from my very own answer to your question, which by-the-by I have indeed answered, TWICE now:
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I already boycott Indiana. I've never bought a Jim Nabors album or a Winnebago, and Hoosier racing tires, while grippy, have too short a track life for my tastes. I prefer Kumho or Goodyear race tires for their lower price and longer life, as well as their more progressive breakaway characteristics on the edge of adhesion.
And yes, I'll be boycotting any state that stands with Arizona or follows suit. Are you going to boycott every state that DOESN'T go along with Arizona?
I even underlined the most explicit part of the answer so maybe you can read it this time. Dong ma?
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Your question however was foolish because it attempted to hijack my interrogative with a new one: who I won't boycott. I can't see why it matters what I personally will-or-won't do since I asked you first, but I'll answer anyway. I'm not boycotting anybody. I will however choose, like many other like-minded people to buycott where I choose. And there are plenty of resources to choose from to do so, such as: http://www.buycottarizona.com/
So will you answer? Will you boycott other states when they pass similar measures? You going to wrap yourself up in a boycott fever and maintain it?
And how is it foolish to worry about who you will or won't boycott, but not foolish at all for you to worry about who *I* will or won't boycott? Are you now the king of the glittering double standard?
Again, why do you consider MY question to you foolish, especially given that I posed it to you AFTER I answered your question?
Further, you claim I tried to hijack your interrogative. How? By answering you, then asking you a question back? In your world, are you the only one allowed to ask questions? (If so, I'm breaking all kinds of rules in your world, aren't I?
)Now, I don't know what a "boycott fever" is, and I don't intend to wrap myself up in any kind of fever, because that sounds potentially dangerous to one's health, but I intend to boycott Arizona and encourage others to join the boycotts, because in a free market, we should be able to choose with whom we DON'T do business, as well as with whom we DO give our patronage. Wouldn't you agree?
Mike
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
"You seem to view "free markets" in that uniquely "libertarian" way, in that you feel you should be free to buy from anyone, but I shouldn't be free to NOT buy from those I disagree with."
Hello Mike,
Please confine your slings and arrows to their intended targets.
Anthony,
Sorry if you got hit with unintended friendly fire. I was aiming the "libertarian" snark directly at BSCM, because he claims libertarianism, yet seems to act just like a neocon more often than not. What I should have to him was "in YOUR uniquely 'libertarian' way", so that it would have been clear that I wasn't questioning libertarian viewpoints, just HIS "libertarian" views.
Sorry for the mixup. Mea Culpa, my bad, and all that.
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Hello,
Well, I'm not a very good libertarian myself. Willing as I was to tolerate Public Option health care. And seeing as how I voted Democrat in the last election.
I need to do something Small Government soon or they'll take my voting card.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
"You can lose a quark you don't girth." -Dreamtrove's words to live by, translated by Ipad
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Originally posted by Kwicko:Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
So you guys are going to boycott AZ even though as Jongs mentioned, and I agree, it'll probably hurt the low wage and illegals? Seriously, when money gets tight who do you think feels it first?
As for who feels it first, I'd wager that the lower-wage hourly LEGAL employees would be let go, so the companies that are hemorrhaging money can replace them with lower-paid illegals who they also won't be paying any taxes on.
Thanks for clarifying that by boycotting AZ you're completely aware that your actions will likely cost people their jobs. All while you risk absolutely nothing. Ironically, some of these people may be legal immigrants who agree with your position. Nice one!
I'm sorry to disappoint you: I don't hate illegals. Apart from Rush I can't think of anyone I actually might hate. What's the point of hating?
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Piz, did you support the auto industry bail-outs, or the Wall Street bail-outs?
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Piz, did you support the auto industry bail-outs, or the Wall Street bail-outs?
Hmmm... trap?
In either yes/no scenario I wouldn't have boycotted the State of Michigan. I've never really liked GM cars that much so no changes there (they are getting better though - amazing what a near death experience will do) and I would never have boycotted Michigan made products.
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