Arizona behaving badly and otherwise

[RTH10260]

from November 2022

[Gregg]

My high school did The Taming of the Shrew, and we were staging it as a play within a play. I was one of the companions of the nobleman being entertained, and had to wear clothing that in Shakespeare's time would have only been worn by men, have my boobs strapped down with an ace bandage and had makeup on that implied a bit of 5 o'clock shadow. We had a few bits during the play that could be called skits where we talked with the nobleman. Sounds like I could have been in big trouble for that...

No more Twelfth Night.

[keith]

A lot of Shakespeare plays depend on gender bending hijinks.

[Suranis]

A lot of that is because Women being actors was seen as uncouth at the time (hell, Women attending theatre was scandalous so women in the audiance wore masks) so the Women were played by Men in any case. Men dressed as Women pretending to be Men was hilarious

[Ben-Prime]

"I'm the dude playing a woman disguised as another dude!"

[raison de arizona]

I went to the AZ Renaissance Festival this weekend. If this passes, just let me say that it will be a hotbed of crime.

Anyway. Hamadeh continues to find ballots that curiously give him the win over Mayes. Somewhere.
https://twitter.com/GarretLewis/status/ ... 2446702592

HUGE! @AbrahamHamadeh just told me on my show that he and his team have counted provisional ballots that weren't counted in the election (Hobbs withheld them) and there are enough uncounted votes to give him the win over AG Kris Mayes. He is asking a judge for a new trial.

[raison de arizona]

https://twitter.com/AbeWarRoom/status/1 ... 6803679232

Our data is sound.

Abe will pick up about 2/3 of the votes that are left to be counted.

This election is over and @AbrahamHamadeh won it.

@krismayes & her Elias friends know this. They are fighting tooth & nail to suppress that vote.

[raison de arizona]

This is Wright filing for Hamadeh:
CONSOLIDATED REPLY IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL: https://white-dyan-71.tiiny.site/

Exactly one day after Contestee Kris Mayes was sworn in as Arizona Attorney General,1 and two business days after Plaintiffs first received notice that Pinal County confirmed errors caused valid votes in the attorney general race to be misread as no votes (known as undervotes), Plaintiffs filed this Motion for a New Trial. Critically, then-Secretary Hobbs (a Defendant in this matter) knew about the misreads at the time of the trial, but chose not to disclose the widespread issues until after the pronouncement of the recount results. Yet despite Plaintiffs extreme diligence in quickly bringing this Motion for a New Trial, Defendants essentially argue “too little, too late.”

Sadly and unsurprisingly, Defendants wish away the guarantees of due process, ignore longstanding precedent, and cast aside material facts for fear of confirming what the evidence will undoubtedly prove: Abe Hamadeh, not Kris Mayes, received the most votes for attorney general when every qualified vote is accurately counted.

[raison de arizona]

There's gotta be a story behind this one, but I don't know what it is.

[RTH10260]

My guess - kangaroo meat may have been used as a substitute for some other meat, or used to stretch some other processed meat product. Did someone once import legally from Australia and then repurpose ?

ETA from a quick Google search:

In 1971 California banned the importation of kangaroo products, based on concerns about declining populations in Australian landscapes.

https://www.kangaroosatrisk.org/califor ... landscapes.

followed by

California banned the import of kangaroo parts in 1971. The ban stayed in place until 2007, when a moratorium allowed the sale of products such as meat and gloves made from kangaroo skin.14 Sept 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... -australia

[Azastan]

There's gotta be a story behind this one, but I don't know what it is.

Well, there goes the market for canned kangaroo meat for dogs.

Yes, it's possible to buy canned kangaroo meat for dogs--it's used as a novel protein for dogs which are allergic to beef, chicken, etc. You can buy it from Chewy.com.

[keith]

i have a kangaroo leather belt, in fact I'm wearing it now.

While kangaroo leather is surperior to cowhide for many applications, it is mainly used for fashion items like my belt and purses. There just isn't enough availability for much else, making it expensive compared to cowhide.

Kangaroos are protected and while some species are under threat in some places, some are near plague numbers elsewhere. there is a smallish but steady pet food market for kangaroo meat (my cat gets some once in a while).

There are some butchers that make roo meat available for human comsumption, but most goes to the high end restaurants. Roo meat is highly nutritious, and is treated very similar to venison.

My guess is this bill is an attempt to pretend they are supporting the cattle industry and leather industry. There just isnt enough kangaroo leather available to pose a threat, though I have heard recently that someone is attempting to farm them in the northern territory (good luck with that)

[Volkonski]

Kangaroos

by Ogden Nash

The kangaroo can jump incredible.
He has to jump because he’s edible.
I could not eat a kangaroo
But many fine Australians do.
Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs
Prefer him in tasty kangaroo meringues.

https://derricksblog.wordpress.com/2016 ... gden-nash/

[Foggy]

Off Topic

In Bathysphere or wherever it is, lo these many moons ago (when I lived there from 1968 to 1971), we had a neighbor whose father was an Australian diplomat, and he (the neighbor, not the dad) introduced us to kangaroo tail soup. His dad kept a large stash, for entertaining others from Oz. I don't think his son was supposed to be enjoying it, but we did.

[AndyinPA]

I've had kangaroo roast or steak in Oz. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[keith]

3 Reasons why Kangaroo is Australia's most underated meat

Look At This Photo of a Kangaroo. Awww, Isn't It Cute? Here's Why You Should Eat It

This belongs in the recipe thread of course, but we are in the here and now for a quickie.

Off Topic

My favorite Kangaroo recipe, approximately. Its been a long time since I made this, I'll have to see if I can find some roo somewheres.

Feel free to substitute venison for the Kangaroo if you want. Or lean beef. What ever floats your boat.

Kangaroo Carpaccio

[Dave from down under]

In Australia Kangaroo is Available in the most super markets as well as specialist butchers

Brands such as
https://k-roo.com.au/


I haven't seen rabbit in a supermarket for at least 40 years... but I haven't been looking and Myxie etc might have made it unviable.

[keith]

In Australia Kangaroo is Available in the most super markets as well as specialist butchers

Brands such as
https://k-roo.com.au/


I haven't seen rabbit in a supermarket for at least 40 years... but I haven't been looking and Myxie etc might have made it unviable.

Roo available depends on state. Victoria doesn't have much in the way of a certified abattoir for it. So it's pretty rare.

Rabbits were easy to find until about 20 years ago. I used to get it for 49 cents a kilo at Victoria Market. Then some CSIRO apprentice wonk idiot 'accidentally' released some rabbit killing virus (calici my mind is telling me probably wrongly) at the wrong time of year for it to do much of anything to the wild population and 18 months before they had a vaccine for farmed rabbits. So rabbit is on a long road to recovery.

On the one hand when I walk out my buddy's front door at the vineyard I am no longer walking on a carpet of rabbits, on the other hand that is 100% the result of 10 years of gassing and warren ripping every Easter, and nothing to with the virus that was released 40 km from his vineyard.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/inve ... tino-city/

Woman Jailed for Collecting 4 Ballots in Arizona Sparks Fear of Voting in Majority Latino City

Guillermina Fuentes, a 66-year-old grandmother and former mayor, spent a month in jail for violating an Arizona voting law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

But election celebrations have stopped here in recent years. A 2016 law pushed by state Republicans made it a felony punishable by prison time to collect a voter’s ballot unless the collector is their relative, household member, or caregiver. Since then, the excitement and joy surrounding voting have been replaced with fear. “Now, it’s been really quiet,” Marquez said. “There’s no action.”

In some states, there’s no prohibition on collecting ballots from other community members, a common occurrence in places where residents have limited access to polls. But Arizona is one of more than 30 states that restrict or ban the practice.

The law was signed in 2016 and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2021 after it was challenged in the lower courts. Since then, the Arizona attorney general’s office has prosecuted four community members, including the city’s former mayor, Guillermina Fuentes, who was jailed for 30 days, for alleged unlawful ballot collection.

“This is what opponents of the ballot collection law always feared – the arbitrary enforcement of the law against people of color, women of color, without any kind of evidence of any type of fraud or intent to do wrongdoing” said Darrell Hill, policy director for the ACLU of Arizona. “These are people who are just helping their neighbors, helping their community, and are now facing serious charges.”

On Oct. 13, Fuentes, a 66-year-old grandmother, former farmworker, school board member, and local Democratic leader, was sentenced to one month in jail and two years of probation for collecting four completed mail ballots that belonged to community members during the August 2020 primary. Fuentes and her neighbor, Alma Juarez, were the first people prosecuted under the state’s ballot collection law.

Her prosecution by the office of former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who was running for U.S. Senate throughout much of the legal proceeding, became fodder for conspiracy theorists and the right-wing elections group True The Vote, which publicized the case nationally.

In an interview after she was released from jail, Fuentes described the initial shock of her indictment. At the time of her offense, Brnovich’s office had petitioned the Supreme Court to hear a case focused on the law, and there were legal questions about whether it was constitutional.

“When I was about to go to jail, I was so sad and frustrated, and I couldn’t believe that I was going, because I see it like a witch hunt,” she said. Brnovich, who is no longer in office, could not be reached for comment and Todd Lawson, the prosecutor with the attorney general’s office who worked on the case, did not respond to a request for comment.

On Oct. 19, Brnovich announced two more indictments against women in the Democratic-leaning town within a county that voted for Trump by 6 points in 2020. The attorney general’s office alleges that the women collected eight ballots between them.

Fuentes’ daughter, Lizette Esparza, said she wakes up each morning in fear of how conspiracy theorists will talk about her family on social media.

[raison de arizona]

No one disputes that those were legal votes. Ridiculous.

[raison de arizona]

Private jets leaving Arizona after the Superbowl.

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[realist]

Private jets leaving Arizona after the Superbowl.
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Probably not much if any different than any other Super Bowl exit.

I wonder what it has to do with Arizona behaving badly or otherwise?

[AndyinPA]

Bread and circuses for the billionaires.

[Jim]

‘Penis Man’ Rises Again in the Valley

After a prolonged hiatus, the Valley’s own virile vandal, "Penis Man" – or, Penis Men, depending on who you ask – may have returned to erect new art in Phoenix.

The counterculture icon of 2020 who scrawled their enigmatic tagline “Penis Man” across all manner of structures has penetrated a new area beyond the tag’s origins in Tempe.

Like Indiana Jones finding cave art in Raiders of the Lost Ark, we noticed the unforgettable “Penis Man” catchline scribbled on the lid of a garbage can just outside The Green Woodpecker bar at Park Central in Midtown earlier this year.

[Gregg]

You know I'm going to start doing that around Cincinnati, Detroit and Gettysburg, just to feed the rumor that it's an actual movement.