So news this AM is that Joe The Plumber makes $40,000 a year, his boss doesn't plan on selling his business anytime soon and owes back takes of $1,200 (which doesn't really freak me out considering how many millions in tax breaks we gives the corporates each year - yes bailout).

But I just keep going back to his meet-up with Obama and his complaint that he'll make $250,000 and can't buy the business. I now know of three departments in Pima County in which people have been told they may lose their jobs. The Community Food Bank is reporting a 35 percent increase in users.

In this climate if your biggest problem is that you can't buy a business because of taxes because you're making $250,000 a year, I want to know what economic reality McCain lives under?

This is so terrible, yet so good... so very very good.

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Bristol, daughter of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is getting married to the father of her unborn son and Maria Miranda in Cleveland, Ohio is throwing her a baby shower. The event is this Sunday October 19th, at the Prosperity Social Club in Treemont at 3:30 pm. I know most of us won't be able to make it for this big event, but I wish I could. If you're passing through, however, bring your checkbook to make donations to the Planned Parenthood of Alaska in Sarah's name.

According to Miranda:

"While Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is a personal family matter, it has re-energized a national discussion about abstinence-only education and its failure to be effective. Along with movies like Juno, the baby craze sweeping Hollywood, the hyper-sexualization of teen starlets, Jamie Lynn Spears and the rise in sexually transmitted infection cases in Northeast Ohio, comprehensive sex education is needed now more than ever."

Reaction to Miranda's party for Bristol in blog-land goes from creeped out to anger, and others wishing Cleveland was just a little closer. Here's a blog with some fun Palin reading - enjoy

http://ishouldntlovesarahpalin.blogspot.com/

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Tired of the election season? Got a bad case of campaign fatigue? The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has a solution with Hilary Meehan’s Running for Her Life Campaign Kick-Off Performance Speech on Jacome Plaza, downtown Saturday, Oct. 11, at 11 a.m.

If you're heading downtown for Tucson Meet Yourself (and you should be--I recommend the sweet potato pie from the bBptist church booth), give this Hilary a try. I wanted to find out how I can be one of her embed supporters. That would be cool.

From the MOCA press release this week:

“Campaign fatigue” got you down? Feeling alienated from the political process? Come to the launch of Meehan’s Running for Her Life campaign, a site-specific performative and interactive project that is equal parts political satire and self-help manual. Meehan will be launching her Tucson campaign with a free public performance speech on Jacome Plaza (on Stone Ave., between Alameda and Pennington) on Saturday, October 11, at 11am – just in time for the annual Tucson Meet Yourself Festival and November’s elections.

Taking cues simultaneously from the self-help industry and the landscape of the contemporary political campaign industry, Meehan’s campaign is as much a manifesto about living one’s own life – rather than one dictated by “the powers that be – as a critique of the shallow spin cycle that is our contemporary electoral process. Meehan’s project loosely chronicles her own life, examining her choice to commit to a life of art in a culture that doesn’t legitimize that path, preferring instead the metrics of free-market capitalism and the validating categories of census bureau demographics. Meehan’s public performance takes the guise of a campaign launch in a public plaza complete with stump speech, political posters, and “embedded” supporters.

About Hilary Meehan:

Meehan is a visual and conceptual artist working across the disciplines of performance and design. A recent participant in MOCA’s Artist-in-Residence program, she holds an MFA in Print Media from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BED in Architecture from Miami University.

www.moca-tucson.org

http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/ywc/

On Sunday, Oct. 12, the Farmers' Market at St. Philip's Plaza celebrates its 10th anniversary. 

Tucson's first neighborhood farmers market opened in the St. Philip's Plaza with six farmers who were willing to try this new experiment; 200 curious shoppers came. Since then, the farmers market has grown to nearly 50 vendors and 3,000 weekly shoppers.

C’mon down this Sunday from 8 a.m. to noon, and partake in the good vibrations of $1 off market-bucks coupons, the opportunity to win bags of produce and other goodies, and a special tribute to the vendors at St. Philip’s Plaza, located on the southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue.

In this crappy-assed economy, there's one thing you can count on: a fresh and lively new issue of the Weekly each week!

The new issue is here, online and ready for your perusal. Feel free to comment on its contents on this post.