“Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.”
–William Blake
You must be logged in to post a comment.
BY: jamiemason mason
IN: Cory Gardner Sipping $1,000 Champagne as COVID-19 Hit U.S.
BY: davebarnes
IN: Extra Pod: The Scourge of Uncertified Potatoes (feat. Christy Powell)
BY: Chickenheed
IN: Dave Williams, Vickie Tonkins Accused of Criminal Tampering With Delegate Process
BY: hursa
IN: Half-Assed Attack on Secretary of State’s Office Backfires on Gabe Evans
BY: harrydoby
IN: Monday Open Thread
BY: Meiner49er
IN: Half-Assed Attack on Secretary of State’s Office Backfires on Gabe Evans
BY: Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS
IN: Rep. Brandi Bradley Echoes “Dr. Chaps” Death Threats
BY: Schrodingers Dog
IN: Monday Open Thread
BY: 2Jung2Die
IN: Monday Open Thread
BY: Schrodingers Dog
IN: Rep. Brandi Bradley Echoes “Dr. Chaps” Death Threats
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay in the loop with regular updates!
You have to highlight their lies every chance you get. It's nearly impossible, because they are likely to say any damned thing to justify whatever horrible policy they are promoting today. But every lie, every "the press are liars" "they are horrible" "they are corrupt" is heard, and people like Andrew Carnegie believe it.
Not only is it not “just a lie” at this point, Trump’s lies are an attempt to discredit the media’s reporting on Trump U and his other corruptions.
The media not standing up for their basic reporting is the same as Democrats not standing up for Obamacare.
And we now live in The Fox News/Hate Radio/Trump Twitterverse until this damned fool starts WWIII or he gets removed by his own Republican Party*:
(I would've capitalized "fucking" on that one.)
* – though the temptation will be great, especially for those who love the idea of breaking bipartisanshippy-like bread with Republicans, Democrats should not help with any preliminary votes on Trump's impeachment. Republicans created him, they'll have to destroy him. Then we can vote for his removal in Mitch McConnell's Senate.
Michael: I tried to thank you yesterday afternoon for clarifying "per capita." But the Reply button was not working for me, and still isn't this morning.
Just a heads up for future reference, CHB.
Our good friend Michael is probably the least likely poster here to present unverified or misleading information. We have known him a very long time and this forum is a hotbed of support for the "Bowman for Governor" campaign.( Sorry, Michael, I had to do it.)
I personally will work my heart out to get him elected, should he ever decide to make that sacrifice.
But, to the point, you can pretty much rest assured that Fluffy, PissAnt, and PP would post numbers that would mislead, but certainly not Michael.
I try to keep my posts factual and verifiable – a never-ending crusade in our new world of fake news. I chalk it up to the fact that I live at ground zero of the secession movement and am generally the only non-FauxNews groupie at a family dinner. They keep me sharp! Civi did catch me posting the Joe Wilson 'You're lie!' referencing it is a SOTU event and not a 'Joint Session of Congress'. Still waiting for our Librarian to recant his posting of Trumps tweet announcing all of the Ford jobs he personally saved in Kentucky.
Mr. Factual one, where did I post that?
It was the first posting on a weekday thread a couple of weeks ago. You had some remark like 'Cool'…accompanying a picture of Trump's tweet announcing all the jobs he saved in Kentucky. Is that enough info for you to find it? Or shall I locate it for you and provide you the link?
are you really going to pick a "facty fight" with Michael? You couldn't really be that stup..um…
never mind.
I choose to post under my own name; that's one of the many things I’ve appreciated about you, Duke. We're accountable for what we write and we own it, warts and all. Doing so has given me both new friends and real enemies. I don’t get the advantage of walking in to the local restaurant or attending a Church service without anyone (who wants to) knowing my position on political issues. If I take on my state Senator or my local watermelon farmer, they know where its coming from.
Anonymity, though, in particular our resident trolls and their brethren that lurk in the darkest corners of our inter webs, is breeding a culture that is moving this country backward. We risk becoming less human each time we interact with faceless bots like AC and Fluffy.
I consider most all on here friends, good ones, and it would probably surprise our Librarian that I don't know who a handful of them are even though I communicate with them on a near-daily basis (some of them for years). I understand and accept that many here can't post as themselves for good reason. I don't have an issue with anonymity when its activity has some basis, sometimes ever-so-slight, that advances mutual understanding – a phenomenon nearly extinct in today's world.
The disdain I feel for Andrew is a disdain for his caricature; that's all he gives us. The human AC may be a brave man or he may be just another chickenshit. It’s easier to be brave or support a controversial candidate, policy or position when you don’t have to own words. We have no idea whether there is any personal moral compass attached to his mirage.
Frauds like his caricature (given he’s using the name of a man who would have eschewed the kind of man we just elected) come and go and are a dime a dozen. They only exist to agitate.
Thank you Duke. I am aware of Michael's background.
Thanks, CHB. I've had a lot of problems with this site today already (took me four tries to post this response).
I broke it – the weekend thread, that is. I posted an embedded video , "Democratic Boot Camp". It wouldn't play, covered up the reply button, and it all went south from there. At least, that's when the reply buttons stopped working on that thread. That'll learn me – if at first a video won't play, best just leave it the hell alone. Sorry, folks.
MamaJ – you may know this already but if not, here's a lesson: when embedding a video from YouTube I generally hit the 'Show More' after 'Embed'. It will give you the ability to do a custom setting for size of the embed. If you use a width that doesn't exceed '520' (it will auto fill for height) it will always work. If you're deep into a thread and the box is more narrow, I sometimes go down to a 400-420.
Duly noted for future reference – thanks, Mike.
Did we talk about this yet?
State Senate Republicans form select committee to talk "facts" on energy policy
How wonderfully helpful! A focus on educating people about energy and the environment. Probably chock-full of facts and such.
Er…
Ah, there it is.
He means this kind of energy, right? (I realize Moddy/PP don't believe it's actually energy if it isn't derived from dinosaur dung). We have enough wind and solar resources in this state to power it something to the tune of 25x over. Christ. Could we just move on to the 21st-century?
Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Drilling for First Time in U.S.
It seems that Al Gore had the same idea – appeal to Trump's business instincts because renewables are booming and fossils are dying. It seems that they had an "interesting" conversation. A hopeful sign for those of us starved for hopeful signs. And, Michael that works to downsize the video via the youtube menu before trying to embed.
Nuclear … right. Fort St. Vrain wasn't enough?
Because nuclear energy is environmentally benign and cheap? Nothing else to see here. Move along.
Cost of Fukushima disaster expected to soar to ¥20 trillion
If it wasn't for the US taxpayer effectively immunizing the industry from the costs of such a disaster here they'd never see the light of day.
Jesus Christ on a cracker…
Look for the lady in the black pantsuit to be back on TeeVee soon pitching for API. …
and, just for the uninitiated, "practical reality" is a synonym for "industry profits"…and "extreme ideology" is otherwise known as "your (the publics') health and well being".
Fascism has come to America….
How about energy policies driven by 'math'? The kind that assures we have a livable planet for future generations and jobs today? Not the kind that leaves us with a barren landscape and a handful of billionaires?
Jesus Christ on a cracker…
Look for the lady in the black pantsuit to be back on TeeVee soon pitching for API. …
and, just for the uninitiated, "practical reality" is a synonym for "industry profits"…and "extreme ideology" is otherwise known as "your (the publics') health and well being"….oh, and that part about energy consumers.?…that should say "energy companies"…because that is what he really means,
Fascism has come to America….
oops..sorry for the double post….
Countdown to #TrumpWorld: will Attorney General Jefferson Beauregarde Sessions III roll back the progress made on ending our spectacularly-failed #WarOnDrugs? (the "You're doing it the right way" conversation between Trump and Duterte notwithstanding)?
Without the passage of The Industrial Hemp Farming Act, which would remove our crop from Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act, the most exciting new crop to re-enter our agricultural scene in decades will suffer whatever fate awaits its cannabis cousin, marijuana. Many thanks to the leadership of Congressman Polis and Senators Bennet and Gardner for their support of IHFA.
Since Colorado's passage of Amendment 64 in Colorado, when we became the first unit of government in the world to end Prohibition, 31 states have now legalized industrial hemp, recognizing its value to American agriculture. We, the United States of America, are the largest consumer market in the world for industrial hemp products, yet remain the ONLY G7 nation to continue it's prohibition of cultivation under federal law. Want to make America great again? Start here.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is asking government officials for $35 million to cover the cost of protecting President-elect Donald Trump until the inauguration.
I REPEAT…this $35 million only gets us to Inauguration Day.
So while I'm reading some alt-right vomit about how the $$ spent on recalls in WI, MI and PA could have saved 5,000 children, a number 7x that amount is being spent on Trump (I'll only refer to him as POTUS-elect after Dec. 19 if he's still standing).
I'll be anxiously monitoring the vote by our junior Senator as the (fiscally-responsible) Republican-controlled Congress will have to address this special, one-off appropriations bill.
I meant to embed this in the post above re: Eric Trumps tweets the cost of the Stein effort could have saved the lives of 5,000 children.
Here's some math for you, Eric, and it wouldn't cost (you or) your Dad a dime: Take a firm position that your AG-elect won't role back the progress made under Obama regarding cannabis. CBD-derived hemp oil, considered a Schedule 1 substance under federal law, has demonstrated dramatic effects in reducing epileptic seizures. One American every 10 minutes dies from these seizures. You get a twofer: the annual, health related costs is approximately $15bb. We could eliminate Malaria altogether with one years worth of savings.
Stop your blathering on 'coal'. The negative external costs to coal-fired power is estimated to top $500 billion annually in indirect health costs. Eliminating those costs could fund up to half of your Dad's proposed trillion-dollar infrastructure deal. Or fully fund health care for all. These costs are concentrated in heavily congested urban areas. If your Dad's Secretary-elect for HUD has any interest in improving the health of inner-city citizens, one needs to look no further than this issue.
But I'm guessing your rant had nothing to do with saving children's lives or understanding the links between human health, jobs or 'math'.
A great piece this week in National Geographic on Pearl Harbor. The attack was a preventable catastrophe, caused by incompetent leadership, racist stereotypes and an arrogant belief in the invincibility of the United States.
On a more local level, a great story about John Hopper, his students in Granada and their commitment to the preservation of Camp Amache. I had the chance to meet and get to know John during my 2010 state senate campaign. He is one our state jewels.
While I'm posting this I'll kill two birds with one stone re: the fluff-up over Black Santa Claus in the Mall of America over the weekend.
National Geo is now owned by Rupert Murdoch. O'Reilly's "Killing …." stuff is all being produced for their cable channel. Killing liberal stuff is surely on the agenda as well.
Grandchildren of Admiral Kimmel are still trying to restore the reputation of their grandfather and also General Short, the Army commander at Pearl Harbor.
A personal note, apropos of nothing:my wife, Karen got laid off today. Nothing personal, just "last hired…". She's a software engineer with over 30 years in the field. There's not much she can't make a network do and what she doesn't know, she can pick up very quickly. If anyone has any leads, I'd sure appreciate a heads up. Post it here or if you have personal contact info for Michael Bowman or Mamajama55, they know how to find me. Thanks everyone for your indulgence.
David T8 may know who's hiring. If you see this, David, respond to the cook's inquiry. If it's not for all eyes, let me know and I'll message you on the bookface.
Thanks, MJ.
Skinny – I'll PM Karen. Sorry about the news.