Leal issues solo call for Hein to resign
Other critical City Council members avoid taking stance
The council took their frustrations out in the open over the weekend (See yesterdays blog) while the public and other government entities have been expressing their frustrations with Hein and the council for months. Now it's time for our city council to show some leadership. The public deserves to see our city council step up and handle the problem. Regardless of what happens to Hein the council needs to realize they cannot keep operating the way they have been. We know that Mike Hein has failed to provide a budget that funded our TPD, but the council still passed that budget. They all must be held accountable. If they fire Hein it is only a symptom to a much larger problem.

Zero Seconds Equals Zero Incidents

Today we'll talk to Terrill Struttmann, Executive Director of Harrison's Hope.  Every year we hear about these tragedies with kids left in cars, and the real shame is that these incidents are so easy to avoid.  Let's help spread the word.

County details range of 'green' practices it hopes to implement

Because the county officials now feel we are bad as humans we must now 'go green' in order to make ourselves feel better.
Promising to "lead by doing," Pima County is developing a plan to make county operations greener and more sustainable. While county officials say the plan will save money in the long run, they acknowledge some of the measures will have significant upfront costs.
Most of the "green" plans are things that do nothing to actually help the enviroment, i.e. buying Hybrids (which have been documented to be great fuel savers, but not so good for mother nature),  more training on how to be green and use of many other expensive products that are low "carbon emitters." It's really sad that so many government officials have adopted this global warming craze, especially when we live in an area that could certainly have used its money to address real environmental issues.

Obama Camp Drops Familiar ‘Presidential Seal’
Campaign manager says, "Oopsies, our bad"

I am starting to be convinced that the Obama campaign does stupid things that can easily be taken back to hide the other stupid things they need to say to win this election. So they tweak the POTUS Seal to fit the Obama campaign only to take say 'sorry' and take it back. But then he plays the race card saying the GOP will tell people to fear him because he is black, but now doesn't have to take that back. How many different mistakes is this campaign going to make before the media starts treating him more like a presidential candidate and less like the inevitable winner as if John McCain wasn't even running?

McCain proposes $300M prize for new auto battery

In the meantime we have John McCain who is acting more like a crazy uncle then the next leader of these United States. You know the uncle I am talking about, the one who has led an amazing life, has wonderful stories to tell about how great America is and even offers up real world solutions to problems like allowing drilling offshore for oil. But then that same uncle turns around and starts saying stupid things like, " you know what would be great, a contest for $300 million for the person who can replace conventional cars with flying cars...you know like the Jetsons!" Ok so McCain didn't exactly suggest flying cars. But he did suggest the contest for a better battery. The problem with this idea is that the race for the next alternative energy automobile is already on and the winner has way more to gain than the 300 million dollars of tax payer money McCain is offering. Not to mention the tax breaks for no carbon emission cars, because Global Warming is real you know (I hope you can sense the sarcasm there). In the middle of all of this is Libertarian Bob Barr who I now hear may actually hurt John McCain in some key states. This is not a good thing people. I can't believe I am going to say this, but I can't wait for these next 4 years to go by so that hopefully our options will be better than they are now.

Andrew's random video for Tuesday:  I'm sure you've heard of the Denver Space Alien story.  Jon found the actual, real footage of the Denver Alien.  Watch and judge for yourself.  Be forewarned, though - this is pretty scary stuff.