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Since achole loves newspaper endorsements http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/26/alison-lundergan-grimes-endorsements_n_6049468.html?utm_source=salon.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_facebook
My favorite parts
In its endorsement, the Courier-Journal's editorial board praised Grimes' stance on issues like the minimum wage and early childhood education, while accusing McConnell of "lacking a vision for Kentucky."
"[McConnell] lost his way to the point where he now is identified largely as the master of obstruction and gridlock in Washington," reads the endorsement. "Kentucky needs a U.S. senator who sees a higher calling than personal ambition and a greater goal than self-aggrandizement.
And
The Lexington Herald-Leader's endorsement strongly rebukes McConnell, who the editorial board says has "repeatedly hurt the country to advance his political strategy."
"The Senate may never recover from the bitter paralysis McConnell has inflicted through record filibusters that allow his minority to rule by obstruction," reads the editorial. "He poses as a champion of the right to criticize the government, but it's really his rich buddies' right to buy the government that he champions."
Two common sense, fact filled editorials taking a reasonable stand against obstruction and standing up for the little guy……….would it have been so difficult, Denver Post?
..and it appears the Minority leader couldn't be bothered to make an appearance with the Boards, yet they went ahead and 'did their job'.
The Fort Collins Coloradan might take note…
Exactly. The Louisville paper punished McConnell for not talking to them, yet the Ft Collins paper rewarded Gardner for dissing them. Just plain stupid.
Yes
International view of Obama's competence
I'm guessing in the next presidential election, after 16 years of incompetent administration, the voters are going to make competence issue #1.
…getting ready to take over for AC after the election, David?
exactly – thanks.
Kim Kardashian has had more husbands than people who have contracted Ebola. I'm at the parental unit this morning for Faux News is on – there is a full air assault on POTUS (re:Ebola) while giving Governor Donuts cover for his Ebola quarantine he put in place to protect the good people of NJ. The "Fox News expert" ended the segment with, "when we look back we'll probably find that none of this was necessary, but the Governor is just protecting his party, err, people".
Nah, he's just still expressing his butt-hurt over the Obamacare tech snub.
Let me ask you this, David. If every business associate you have, and half of your employees were doing everything they could to make your business fail, how successful would you be now?
Where is your cartoon depicting the complete and utter sabotage of Obamas' presidency by every fucking Republican in the country? I always thought you were a bit more level-headed and fair than this cheap shot indicates..I guess I was wrong about that.
Always amazing how many people think running government is like running a business. Hah!
Imagine what we could do if President Obama could hand-pick all members of Congress.
Telling truth to power is easier than telling true believer's their prince has no clothes.
What the fuck are you talking about? Davids' cheap shot cartoon is truth?…being told to power?..Coloradopols is power..?
What a moron….
Perhaps he's confused…
Perhaps he's confusing incompetence with compassionate conservatism (you now, like Bob "send those damn kids back" Boopray.
(BTW WIF, in the time elapsed since you first puked on the page this morning, another 4 kids have died from epileptic seizures – more than have died from Ebola on our soil. These are deaths that could largely be avoided if Congress would do their job and get over their love affair with our War on Drugs).
This. Is. Awesome!
A cartoon in one Singapore publication hardly qualifies as the international view.
Indeed.
I would also characterize a society(Singapore's) in which the antique practice of caning is still routine for a multitude of offenses as unusually conservative as compared to, say, most of the European segment of the international community. In fact, Obama, while not at his peak of international popularity, still is viewed in a largely positive light in Europe and elsewhere.
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/16/how-the-world-sees-obama/
Not sure why that came out bold. At least it's not ALL CAPS!
Yes, the international view is that the GOP fear mongering, chicken-shit cowards, (ie, those with the panic stricken looks in the cartoon) should STFU, grow a pair, and stop wetting their pants.
Chris Christie seems to have gotten the memo that suggesting travel bans makes him look like a chicken shit coward, but more importantly, don't help solve the problem.
The return of the passive-aggressive stylings of DavidT. Can’t say I’ve missed them.
His mom doesn't need our support anymore, so he's free to express himself.
Nothing here that any competent intern programmer with journeyman skills couldn't satisfactorily solve overnight, right David?
Udall campaign in the news:
"The hits have kept coming. Colorado’s Senator Mark Udall has served primarily as a salutary reminder that too much of a good thing can be fatal, his obsessive reliance on the “war on women” set piece having provoked friends and critics alike to christen him “Mark Uterus,” and the usually left-leaning Denver Post to have not only endorsed his opponent, Cory Gardner, but to have accused the “obnoxious” Udall of lying, of “trying to frighten voters,” and of running a campaign that represents “an insult to those he seeks to convince.” His supporters have done little better. A hit-job on Gardner put out by the sports website Deadspin in October was quickly picked up by an array of progressive journalists and Democratic power players, all of whom were forced to eat crow just a few hours later when the dispatch was discovered to be downright false. Michelle Obama’s trip to Colorado, meanwhile, was not a great deal more successful than her foray into Iowa. Stumping for Udall, the first lady described the Democrat as a “fifth-generation Coloradan,” and explained to the crowd that this gave him a particular insight into the state. Alas, Obama had mixed up Udall with his opponent. Udall is from Arizona, went to college in Massachusetts, and moved to Colorado as an adult; Gardner’s family, by contrast, has lived in Colorado since 1886. The flub was evidently contagious. Yesterday, Udall told his supporters that, in America “at our best, we judge people by the content of their color.” Gardner is now winning byfour points."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391116/democrats-disarray-charles-c-w-cooke
Yes and con man cory proposed seceeding from the state – what a true Coloradan – not. And you link to a right wing rag that has no value in context or truth. achole your rash has messed with your already tiny nonfunctioning pea brain. Enjoy watching con man cory lose.
Haa-ha,huh,hub-haa-hee …. he said "Uterus" … gotta love the Bevis and Butthead mentality of Gardner supporters who don't realize each time they call Udall, Mark "Uterus" it is not only demeaning to the very women they hope to woo, but also calls attention to the very issue they want to avoid – the fact that Cory Gardner supports birth control bans and abortion bans in the case of rape and incest.
It also reminds voters or Todd Akin who quibbled about the definition of rape – is it forcible rape?
Does Cory Gardner believe there is such a thing as forcible rape, like Todd Akin does?
Insulting and alienating women, or acting like a bunch of giggling, slack-jawed fourth-graders with their first nudie magazine — hmm…which approach will the puerile pricks (who constitute the majority of GOTPers) choose?
As a matter of fact Big Time, Catfish did support changing the definition of rape. (and yes, it was an Akin bill) <sigh>
Wow, you don't say – Cory Gardner and Todd Akin basically believe the same thing about rape, incest and abortion?
That's crazy!
Cory Gardner is as extreme and out there as Todd Akin – wow, I never thought Colorado voters could be bamboozled because they are fairly smart and sophisticated, but Gardner is such a charismatic guy with a great smile and hair, I guess anything is possible.
I just hope everyone takes a good, long look at just exactly who and what Cory Gardner is and who he represents – behind that "Teddy Bear" charm, is a record as extreme as Todd Akin's.
Who'd have thunk?
From The Greeley Tribune
Just follow the money boys, follow the money. You'll find the answer to your "which Gardner?" lurking near the Koch 'pot-o-gold'…
Yep.
But the most insulting and disqualifying thing about Gardner isn't about his core beliefs and voting record, it is the way he has conducting himself in this campaign.
His record is certainly an issue, but because he has openly and brazenly lied about his record, an equally problematic issue is his character, or lack thereof.
And, the moment that might go down as the one that lost him the election isn't the Big Lie about personhood he tells, but the small, white lie he told about being a Democrat – ie, he says he has never, ever, voted for a Democrat.
That is clearly not true because he was a registered Democrat and campaigned for Democrats for some 8 years in the 1990s.
Why lie about that? Is it that he is so ambitious, so driven by the desire to make himself a U.S. Senator that he will even lie about his very makeup as a person – who he is?
Is he lying because he is so fused with the right wing and the issue of personhood that he is willing to do and say anything to win and get personhood to be the law of the land, fulfilling a core principle?
Who can really know unless he gets to the Senate and has to vote?
And this is where the issue really becomes a problem for Gardner. Behind all his cutsey "Cory the Teddy Bear" ads, there is the question that all voters who are respected by a candidate want answered – who are you and how will you vote?
To try to deceive voters by saying on the one hand you were a Democrat, but on the other hand, you never voted for Democrats, and to deceive voters by on the one hand taking your name of a state personhood bill but with the other hand keeping your name on a federal personhood bill not only insults voters, but says to them, "I don't care about you. I only care about what I want – whether that is to fulfill my personal ambition to be a U.S. Senator, or that is to fulfill a personal commitment to personhood – you are only a means to that end," is the ultimately display of contempt.
Gardner should let conservative and liberal voters exactly where he stands on personhood, anything less should be disqualifying.
Spot. On. I have a lot of friends who are arch-conservative avowed pro-lifers. They are unapologetic, and I can respect their position when they align their personal lives with their beliefs. To your point, this is where I've lost my respect for Gardner. He was one of the most conservative members of the House…own it, Congressman.
The secondary problem with all of this 'personhood posturing' is that the pro-life community (I use that description loosely) knows he's lying about his position and they're OK with that: they know this is the only way to roll the Trojan Horse through the gates of the Senate chamber. There is a real Rocky Mountain Heist afoot, and it isn't the one featuring anchor baby Michelle Malkin.
Con Man Gardner and that other whack-job Teabagger con artist Joni Ernst in Iowa are virtual carbon copies of one another — right down to sharing the identical, word-for-word fraudulent BS about their undying love of and support for each state's Personhood amendment being simply a "philosophical statement" rather than a legislative goal.
I expect much more of generally intelligent and informed CO and IA voters than to let these two scurrilous, snake-oily liars anywhere near the levers of federal political power.
Also, Sam Wang, whom TrollScum alternately loves/hates and believes/disregards depending upon the chances Sam ascribes to the GOTP day to day, has Con Man Cory Gardner up a mere 1.5%, even after all the crap partisan polls created to make Con Man appear to be running away with the election!
Our superior Dem ground game can top an alleged, piddling 1.5% Con Man "lead" relatively easily.
Dems Superior Ground Game in Action:
660,133 Ballots Returned
R + 68,542
It appears your 'wave' is suffering from premature ejerkulation. Friday's performance was down 73% from the day before. With this trajectory you'll be lucky to achieve the 100,000 mark by weeks-end.
Sweet. The Baggers must be crapping their undies right about now!
100K more votes than Udall is about what I expect. Less votes were turned in today (approx 140K) than Friday approx 185K).
What the fucking asshole troll fails to mention is that we've clipped the enemy's shrinking lead from 12% to 10.4% in roughly a day.
Hmm…I wonder why….
I can smell his desperation from Yuma County – and that's over the stench of the Five Rivers Feedlot that's creeping in to east Yuma County with the cold front that hit about two hours ago.
These arrogant, obnoxious, dissembling creeps are just going to have to sit and watch their early advantage slip away, more and more, day after day, until their richly deserved defeat.
And then I will laugh and sing, and dance on their political graves.
Actually it keeps growing, over 68K now.
Notice what recognized itself when I said "arrogant, obnoxious, dissembling creep"?
And — notice that it still fails to acknowledge our steady trimming of its evil enterprise's margin?
Their "wave" diminished 73% between Thursday and Friday's reported numbers. They need to get to the +100,000 range to even be inside an MOE by election day. With this trajectory (which has been decreasing steadily since Oct. 22 and nearly flamed out in the last two days) – that number probably isn't achievable.
Dems Superior Ground Game in Action:
660,133 Ballots Returned
Jefferson County (Total: 94,010)
D: 30,186 (32.1%)
R: 38,286 (40.7%)
U: 24,673 (26.2%)
Arapahoe County (Total: 75,574)
D: 24,410 (32.3%)
R: 32,979 (43.6%)
U: 17,545 (23.2%)
– See more at: http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/#sthash.vuLbt7MP.dpuf
Perhaps you missed that little quirk in our state law that one wins a statewide race by counting the ballots from 64 counties? But since we're playing that game, here are are the numbers from three of Arap and JeffCo's adjoining counties (with approximately the same number of votes cast)…
Denver County (Total: 83,301)
D: 37,296 (44.8%)
U: 15,909 (19.1%)
R: 15,408 (18.5%)
Boulder County (Total: 39,529)
D: 18,512 (46.8%)
U: 10,778 (27.3%)
R: 10,239 (25.9%)
Adams County (Total: 35,008)
D: 13,643 (39%)
U: 9,057 (25.9%)
R: 12,308 (35.1%)
Yes, he's quite the (transparent) cherry-picker, our little pet is.
…and that math gives D's a +14,827 advantage in those five counties (Jefferson, Boulder, Denver, Arapahoe, Adams) with five more days of early voting to go.
Add in the Unaffiliated's and 'happydance' isn't a word that comes to mind.
So much for 'the Repubican wave'…
What are you talking about? Udall's family is from Colorado.
His mother was born here. His grandfather was Roe Emery "the father of Colorado tourism" (http://www.grandlakelodge.com/the-lodge/history/). His great-grandfather was a prof.at Colorado Agricultural College (which became CSU). His dad's side was from other parts of the West, but so what?
Victims of the War on Women:
It seems the Republicans have a ground game, too. They also appear to be kicking the Dems ground game's ass, at least that is what the returns imply.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-afp-data-wars-20141026-story.html#page=1
achole – did you even bother to read your own post? You dimwitted jackass. You going to post more incorrect returns leaving out the unaffiliated voters? You sad pathetic excuse for a human being. How's the rash?
Is that a Mercedes Benz those American for Prosperity canvassers are driving? Or is it a Lexus.
I guess it doesn't matter.
You gotta hand it to the Kochs – they get their 1% supporters out knocking on doors in style.
Yup, that's a late model Mercedes C-Class sedan. It's favored by the "I'm not quite in the 1% yet, but if I kiss enough Kochass, I'll get there one day" groupies.
I know you need to be stupid to be a Dem, but do you have to be poor, too?
Looks like we're getting to the troll. Just ignore it.
No, but to be a Democrat you have to give a damn about people who aren't rich.
My maternal grandfather was a life-long dairy farmer and Minnesota Democrat. He raised 13 children on a half-section of land and a small herd of cows. He spent the last of his years in a very modest home and relied on the federal safety net to live a quiet and dignified life until his death. To our WIF, who couldn' imagine there being any redeeming human value to being 'poor', I'd like to offer a few choice words; in honor of the memory of Granddad, who rarely spoke an ill word about anyone, I'll just offer my condolences for your cold, empty soul.
Everything is under control, per Dear Leader
Why have a travel ban?
http://nypost.com/2014/10/27/5-year-old-boy-being-tested-for-ebola-in-new-york-city/
you cowardly asswipe . If you are so worried about Ebola or ISIS , why not get off your ass and go volunteer to help – oh I forgot like a true right wing freak you are all mouth and nothing else. Why do people like you hate America has your rash made you mentally unstable?
ScumBucket is an armchair keyboard commando, yellow-stripe brigade, chickenhawk division. He is less than nothing.
If the rash has gone away, the brain damage is underway. We will be getting sheer hysterics followed by dementia. From these posts I fear it is already too late. Shhh… don't tell him they have lost the war. He will only start ranting again.
Why not have a gun ban? They kill 30K each year, including hundreds of children whose parents recklessly leave loaded guns out in the house where kids can find them and fire them. Or who make them available and kids take them to school …
Gotta love the hypocrisy of the GOP – EBOLLAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Gun deaths? Not so much.
Because sacrifices must be made for the gratification of the ammosexuals. Think of those dead children as soldiers giving their lives for Tim Neville and Dudley Brown’s cause.
A second death confirmed from the St. Mary school shooting. We've lost more citizens to school gun violence since Friday than we've lost to Ebola. Surely there will be a presser by the Republicans any moment agreeing to take on this national crisis?
Chris Christie doesn't see it that way.
Ah, I see you are modestly refraining from the title "M.D."–perhaps because you lack such a degree (or in fact any medical or scientific expertise whatsoever)?
No worries. I'm sure you and Dr. Chris Christie will have a bevy of patients lining up for treatment at your new "expert" clinics…
Dems CRUSHING Teabagger Party in CO ground game!:
Guy Cecil @guycecil · 19h 19 hours ago
.@AFPColorado said they've knocked on 140K doors since June! Udall's campaign knocked 144,330 last week. #TeamField #COSen
Over 500K Returned Ballots
Republican Ballots – 43.8%
Dem Ballots – 31.7%
Dems crushing it!
… you forgot to include the part about returned ballots tracking the same as 2010 and 2012, ie, older republicans who have voted for 40+ years know the drill, are task masters and send in their ballots earlier than Dems in EVERY year … then they get passed up as election day nears and the procrastinators are forced to drop off their ballots before the deadline.
You can't reason with a myopic, reality-denying dipshit.
He is perseverating. This is not a good sign.
It appears the faux (as in, 'never existed') Republican wave is cresting early….
The Republican 'wave' appears to have hit its high-mark on Oct. 22; after a 28,061 advantage reported on that day, the return ballots have trickled to a 5,862 advantage as of Friday (a 73% drop from the previous day' reporting), putting the party yet some 32,000 votes short of their 2010 performance.
Three words: Bannock. Street. Project.
Three words: You. Are. Losing.
Three words for Michael's harasser:
Go. Fuck. Yourself.
He didn't put his response in size 48 font so I can't take him seriously.
In other news I've been water-boarded by FauxNews today in Yuma County. Seriously, (I don't watch TV so this is always entertaining for me) it has been non-stop Ebola since early this morning. It's hilarious. Be afraid sheeple, be very, very afraid.
Why are they afraid out Wray-way? Nothing bad is ever gonna' happen as long as there's that diminutive water-melon-hunter militia guarding our frontier, right?
True dat. Lest we forget…
I'm reminded suddenly of a line from the old Clint Eastwood movie, Pale Rider (1985):
"You know which end of that thing the bullet comes out, Gossage?"
…and so the voters in SD-19 don't forget:
Is it my imagination or does that haircut Brophy has look a lot like Adolf Hitler's hairstyle?
Somehow I don't imagine that the thousands of Faux News health experts will be advocating for more mail-in ballot elections as a way to help combat the spread of this dread and menacing threat to our national security?
Fear, failure, fraud.
It's all they've got anymore. Sad and dangerous, for our nation and our state.
Once again, denying unaffiliated and third party voters are voting at all. Good work, you fucking dolt.
Andrew Carnegie suffers from a mental illness called conservatism. 😉
GOTP in for nasty surprise in CO:
Are Colorado Polls Underestimating Democratic Turnout? – NBC News.com
Racist anti-American GOTP can only win by fraud, cheating, lying and stealing — GOTP business as usual:
How Conservatives Justify Poll Taxes — NYMag
Future of Fracking Not Nearly as Bright as Forecasted
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog |
Post Carbon Institute has published a report calling into question the production statistics touted by promoters of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. By calculating the production numbers on a well-by-well basis for shale gas and tight oil fields throughout the U.S., Post Carbon concludes that the future of fracking is not nearly as bright as industry cheerleaders suggest.
The report, Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check on U.S. Government Forecasts for a Lasting Tight Oil & Shale Gas Boom, authored by Post Carbon fellow J. David Hughes, updates an earlier report he authored for Post Carbon in 2012.
Hughes analyzed the production stats for seven tight oil basins and seven gas basins, which account for 88 percent and 89 percent of current shale gas production.
Among the key findings:
The report’s findings differ vastly from the forward-looking projections published by the EIA, a statistical sub-unit of the U.S.Department of Energy (DOE).
The findings also come just days after Houston Chronicle reporter Jennifer Dlouhy reported that in a briefing over the summer, EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski told her it was EIA’s job to “tell the industry story” about tight oil and shale gas production.
“We want to be able to tell, in a sense, the industry story,”
http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/27/fracking-forecast-post-carbon/
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The rapidly declining production numbers require ever more intense drilling to keep supplies at current levels. This is a genuine Ponzi scheme, and as oil and gas prices continue to slide, there are going to be a lot of pissed off investors.
Hey Duke,
A couple of questions…(and pardon my ignorace)…
Can a well be fracked more than once, without new drilling?
Is that reflected in these stats?
It would seem that with horizontal drilling it would be easy to "saturate" the well density in an area. It also seems that it would be really difficult to re-frack an area, unless it was somehow isolated from any previously fracked boreholes.
I guess I'm just looking for some context for the numbers above.
Yes, ajb, a well can be fracked many times and the average number of fracks per well is steadily increasing.
I admit a gap in my knowledge of what is possible in directional drilling, but… A frack can occur and is generally profitable in any zone bearing gas, If you are tunneling straight down the seam of shale, as they now do, it would stand to reason that you can frack many, many times. I hear tell of Exon and Chevron now getting up to a hundred fracks per well.
How this affects the production curves, I do not know.
Duke – I trust you've seen this? From TNTSNBN:
Dead Babies Near Oil Drilling Sites Raise Questions for Researchers
This phenomenon was first observed in Garfield county when herds of goats and cows were affected by multiple still births and unusually high occurrences of deformities in livestock.
Many observers believe it kills humans, too. Even fully grown ones like Chris Mobaldi.
The Niobrara basin isn't mentioned much in the excellent linked article, but I gather it, too, is declining in production.
Oil and gas is supposed to be the lifeblood of Weld County, and it is the biggest moneymaker, by far…Some analysts are saying there is another 20-30 years of big production in it, some not so much. Who's telling the truth?
But in terms of actual jobs, the medical and insurance records businesses, traditional meat processing and agriculture, and manufacture of wind turbines actually create more jobs here. Mining and extraction jobs are less than 10% of all jobs, although the energy production sector, including wind turbine blade manufacturing with the 2 Vestas plants, pumps 385 million into the economy. And business is booming.
I'm just trying to get a feel for my new environment here, but it does seem as though oil and gas production makes a few people very rich, but doesn't do that much for the average job seeker.
So if oil and gas production becomes less efficient, they will get more desperate in terms of finding new locations to drill, and want even less regulation than they have now, but won't do as much for the economy as some of the other sectors I mentioned. It would seem to be the smarter course to develop renewables in parallel with the oil and gas, since the effects on air and water are much more benign.
So if I'm a newbie here and can figure that out, why do we still hear endless propaganda about how any regulation or limitation on fracking is a "job killer"?
Hint: "Can we buy the world?": The Kochs
MamaJ – here's a primer on Weld County (and welcome to CD-4!).
Hey Pols….why is my post about fracking "awaiting moderation"?
Quality Control.
Looks like we're getting to the troll. Just ignore it.
Too many linkies usually the culprit. The mods think it's spam, like what AC posts.
You are correct, exlurker. Spam filters: can't live with 'em…
Still, you let AC get through . . .
[ . . . you got some splainin' to do . . .]
We threw one of his buddies out of a Udall/Tapia rally in GJ this morning. What a prick..the cops were not amused…he was carrying a knife on his belt.
Ah yes, another jen-u-whine "he-man." Arrogant, loud-mouthed dopes.
He undoubtedly considers himself to be a victim of "Da Libruls".
Competence (mostly) run amok?!?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/27/us/is-the-affordable-care-act-working.html