Arizona ups the ante in insanity

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by starang21

LOL.

and surprisingly DC has the lowest

but AZ and AK are still in the bottom 20 percent or so.

I'm surprised Texas is so high on the list.

And this makes me miss my Maryland education

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Pssst.. they are listed in alphabetical order, not order of "worst" to "best". You can sort by best to worst and the worst are Nevada, Nebraska and DC (also depicted by the color of the states)

Thanks DEE! My bad!

CORRECTION!! DC is dayum near the worst (46 out of 51) and ALASKA (42 out of 51) still aint that far off!!!

[agzg]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Thanks DEE! My bad!

CORRECTION!! DC is dayum near the worst (46 out of 51) and ALASKA (42 out of 51) still aint that far off!!!

Not gonna lie - and you know this isn't personal, but I saw Dee's post and felt like the dog in duck hunt. I even heard the music.

[AXiDMeesh]

All those people in South GA bringing down our scores.
Yeah I said it.

[AnchorAlum]

Interesting remarks. I'll leave it at that.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Kevin

What is the rational basis for this classification?

I'm going out on a limb here, and say that I'm thinking this is to keep the people who start neo-nazi groups from leaving Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming and taking up residence in Arizona. I'm talking about the Ruby Ridge people and such.

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I'm going out on a limb here, and say that I'm thinking this is to keep the people who start neo-nazi groups from leaving Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming and taking up residence in Arizona. I'm talking about the Ruby Ridge people and such.

Oh Honey I just spit iced tea all over my computer screen! That cracked me up, obviously... because they are already HERE. Gah! They've been here for a long time. And don't forget about the polygamists. We have LOTS of those too, up on the AZ-Utah border.

First - yes, ethnic studies classes are a huge bone of contention in the state. Our State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, has been mixing it up with, specifically, the La Raza proponents in the Tucson Unified School District, for more than a year. Tucson is a hotbed for his attacks. It was quite ugly a year ago and has been simmering and now is boiling over.

I love how the legislature can't balance the budget and yet they make laws about speaking ability of teachers. Where's the money coming from for these auditors? Fund education, for crying out loud.

Honestly, this is going way past crazy. What's next? I can only imagine.

Just when I think it can't get any worse for AZ, it gets worse. It's gonna be a long, hot summer. I think I'll go to Colorado and hide out in the mountains.

[honeychile]

[QUOTE=AzTheta;1923633]Oh Honey I just spit iced tea all over my computer screen! That cracked me up, obviously... because they are already HERE. Gah! They've been here for a long time. And don't forget about the polygamists. We have LOTS of those too, up on the AZ-Utah border.QUOTE]

*blush* Well, I obviously flunked my "Know Your Wackos" test! I know we have some of the nutjobs, but most of ours are into puppy mills. Well, unless you count those who the late Murtha said cling to their Bibles and their guns. I have a gun, I have a Bible. I've never cuddled my gun.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I'm going out on a limb here, and say that I'm thinking this is to keep the people who start neo-nazi groups from leaving Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming and taking up residence in Arizona. I'm talking about the Ruby Ridge people and such.

The majority of white supremacists are gone from Idaho, weren't from here to begin with, and now live in other places. The Aryan Nation compound has been gone since 2000.

I'd be more concerned with the hate groups in your state http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=PA than in my state http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=ID Wyoming http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=WY and Montana http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=MT combined, where do you think they moved when they left here? Closer to you than me. New York and Ohio have more than Pennsylvania, when we stopped putting up with their crap they had to move somewhere.

[ms_gwyn]

notice, the state that I live in has the most...but I also think this is one of the worst kept secrets ever...cause I always knew this....

[AGDee]

I'd be curious about the number of members in each of those groups and how it compares per capita. There are a lot in Michigan, but they don't even mention some of them, like the Hutaree who were just busted.

[AZTheta]

I needed a laugh this morning, and David Fitzsimmons, the AzDailyStar cartoonist, provided it. Warning: no liquid in your mouth when reading this.

http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/ar...18fda0d33.html

[Psi U MC Vito]

The article was pretty funny too.