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You have to wonder why this didn't come out until after the state labor secretary was replaced. No one listens to the unemployed, and workers are pressured not to complain? New Mexico needs a whisleblower protection law!
Happy New Year my right wing east mountain friend, and I hope that you and I STOP getting so much snow!!!
Train to NOWHERE? Well I would say that the people from Bernalillo to Belen would differ with that opinion, and it will eventually go up north, that is what we call progress!!! It can't happen overnight, but it is happening at a good pace, and for that I am pleased.
The spaceport is revolutionary, and forward thinking, something that the republicans have never been very skilled at, out of their own choosing. So are some of the other projects to come out of this administration, such as encouraging the development of alternative energy plants (all of these things were job creators) like the impending biomass plant and solar plant. I have often wondered why Richardson detractors despise him so much and I have it figured out. He makes republicans look week and ineffectual.
Richardson has been good for NM. Seventy percent of the state agrees with me about this, dear. When you guys get a praiseworthy politician on your team I promise to give that person their due....
Hope you are well!
Cara
As a Native New Mexican, I have a beef with the Governor, he wants to outlaw the chicken fights.
I own chickens.
Did you know that only one rooster is required to "service" 8-12 hens? Every spring half of all hatchlings are roosters. Do the math.
The following spring these roosters turn upon each other and fight to the death without training or prompting. They do not fight over food; they fight for the right to breed.
Usually the old established bird kills all the younger ones until the year when he becomes too old. These grueling fights last for days into weeks. Only the old rooster has spurs (yes naturally grown sharp spurs) long enough to kill more quickly and efficiently.
Metal spurs can only serve to hasten this Darwinian process and hence could be thought of as more humane.
I suppose that if I was brave enough, I could copone the roosters and kill them myself for the freezer. I raise chickens primarily for the eggs and the pleasure of tending them.
Having direct knowledge of the nature of these creatures, I am pro-cock fighting.
I do not attend the cock fights but I had the experience as a child. It is deeply a part of MY culture. I suggest that unless you tend to a flock of your own and at least attend a cock fight that you can not possibly presume to judge MY culture.
Richardson wants to put down this ancient New Mexican cultural activity for his own craven self-serving ends.
Do we “free” Americans really want MORE prohibitions placed upon the citizens. What are we going to throw MORE erstwhile productive citizens into the Prison Industrial meat-grinder?
Will I be arrested when my roosters turn upon each other in the Spring?
For you folks that buy your chicken in a bag, the way THAT chicken is tormented in mass produced industrial conditions should be against the law.
Three great comments...
Michelle, I'm all for a whistleblower protection law. I didn't realize we didn't have one.
Cara, Happy New Year to you. For the record, Republicans are very good at "revolutionary, and forward-thinking" ideas. It's how we all got so rich. 
New Mexico's Spaceport is not a one of a kind endeavor. There is one currently being built with 100% private dollars in Texas. The only thing uniquely revolutionary about our Spaceport is the amount of positive press the Governor was able to get by taking money that could have built a badly needed Westside high school and giving it to a knighted British billionaire.
qofdisks, it is kind of funny that all of the people buying Perdue chicken at the grocery store are outraged by cockfights. With all of the problems in this state, it amazes me that this is at the top of priority lists for 2007.
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