Here's a question or three for Arp idea fans:
1) if quasars are 'local' (no further than the Virgo cluster say), why can't we see Cepheids, HII regions, SN, pulsars, etc in them?
2) if quasars are 'local', what is the physical mechanism which gives rise to the absorption lines (Lyman forest) in their spectra?
3) if quasars are 'local', where is the galaxy that mainstream folk say is the (gravitational) lens for 'multiple quasars'?
4) if quasars are ejected from the nuclei of 'local' active galaxies, what should a very recent ejection look like?
5) if quasars are local, and ejected from galactic nuclei, what distribution of distance/z/luminosity/etc should we expect to see?
6) if quasars are ejected from 'local' galaxies, why don't we see them near more distant galaxies (e.g. in HUDF, HDF, GOODS)? - this assumes of course that the distribution in 5 doesn't just happen to be such that no 'quasars ejected from distant galaxies' could ever be seen.