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September 15, 2009 03:12 PM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can’t afford to let it in. We have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled.”

–Al Capone

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  1. Alexander Ooms, wrote in the Denver Post on Monday, September 14, a Guest Commentary, about Denver Public Schools,  entitled “Playing games to sneak kids into good schools”  in which he asserted:

    “The vast majority of public schools are far worse than most people know. But Denver’s public schools are not quite bad enough, as savvy middle-class parents can still game the system to get their kids a decent education. This paradox perpetuates a failing system and inhibits meaningful reform.” Link to the article:

    http://www.denverpost.com/opin

    Question for the DPS Board of Education candidates:  Do you agree with Ooms?

    Why or why not?

    1. of playing some elitist shuffle game to get their kids into the ‘right’ schools.  

      Of course if this is allowed, it would be a competitive tool that provides at least some school choice within the system.

      Its too bad you assume those below middle class would be too ignorant to make the same choices.

      1. Did you read the article?  Your opinion, of course, would be respected.  But, you should read the article and address your comments to the either the author of the article or to anyone who posts in response to what was WRITTEN in the article.

        There is a link to the Denver Post.  It is in blue script.  If you click on that link, L, than you will be able to read the article and respond after READING the article.

        I have not posted an opinion.  I have emailed the candidates for the Denver Board of Education and asked them to respond.

        1. either from within the system or other districts such as Cherry Creek.

          My comment stands and I’m sure other schools besides Brommwell are experiencing similar levels of choice-in or choice-out.

          1. After all, all he has to do is stop hiding behind his lawyers. He should release all of his criminal records, with all of his aliases, and the matter will be cleared up.

              1. Dan was replying to Libertad. If there’s ever confusion over who is replying to who, you can click on the “parent” link under any reply comment, and it will show you who the person intended to rely to.

    2. I don’t know much about DPS or school switching therein, but I seriously doubt this:

      “The vast majority of public schools are far worse than most people know. “

      is true.  I haven’t noticed the average parent to be slow to notice when their children are shortchanged or uninterested in their education.  Sure there are cases of single parents who are working two jobs and don’t have a drop of energy left, but I’d really doubt that the “vast majority” of schools are “far worse” than we know.

  2. Just last week, prosecutors in Miami-Dade County, Fla., arrested 11 people for falsifying hundreds of voter applications during a registration drive last year. ACORN tipped the authorities off to the problem.

    On the hidden camera controversy, ACORN says it has fired the employees involved but has lashed out at Fox for pumping up the scandal. In a statement, Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s chief organizer, said the tapes had been doctored and violated Maryland’s wiretapping laws. She promised to sue Fox.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32

    Just how they’ll attack Fox and others following the termination of many internal people remains a mystery.

    See the videos and more: http://coloradopols.com/diary/

    1. So, ACORN finds out what was going on, took immediate, drastic action, and you can only point the finger?  Oh, to wish our previous president and most Republican scandals would do so.

      And chances are, those employees were short timers doing nothing but voter applications.  They had no loyalty to ACORN or integrity.  

      You are too weird.  No, that’s not in the book, is it.  After watching you get beat up for all the time you have been posting here, my partial diagnosis is masochistic.  

      1. I’ve never even heard of ACORN apart from wingnuts like Libertad complaining about them.  Who cares?  Why do conservatives think that blackening their name will be to their advantage?

  3. Norton is holding events at 9 a.m. at the Tech Center Marriott, at 11:15 a.m. at Antlers Hilton Hotel in Colorado Springs and at 2:15 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel in her hometown of Grand Junction. All events are open to the public.

  4. ….which is found here: http://march.dav.org/

    Two years ago, the DAV leadership couldn’t be bothered with this “intewebz” thing – now it seems they’ve listened to us goofy websurfers, and they’re embracing the technology full-bore.

    We have a Second LIfe island where the fullly-disabled vets can have meetings, chat about problems and interact with vets of all eras. They fully supported reaching out via social media, and now lots of DAV Chapters are popping up on Facebook. (Thru my chapter’s Facebbok page, I connected a female vet in Seattle with a DAV Service officer who helped her get her claim unscrewed.)

    Now, all we have to do, is convince these young punks and punkettes that they need our help dealing with the VA…

  5.    Today’s Post carries the story that the DOC doesn’t know exactly how many felony inmates will actually be eligible for release under the Guv’s cost-savings measure, but it looks it may be twice as many as earlier announced.

      This doesn’t look good.  Dick Wadhams is no doubt already recycling those Willie Horton commercials from Daddy Bush’s ’88 campaign, but photoshopping Ritter’s face in place of that of Dukakis.

      O.Q.D. does have one suggestion for how the Guv could handle this problem.  Simply place all of these inmates on electronic home detention but require them to live in Mesa County.

  6. Matt Latimer worked as one of Dubya’s speechwriters during the president’s final twenty-two months in office. He was there to help sell the surge to a skeptical public. He was there as we pretended that the fundamentals of the economy were strong. And he was there to see a president who failed to grasp his own $700 billion bailout package-even as he was pitching it to the American public on live TV. A disillusioned insider reveals for the first time just how messy things got…

    http://men.style.com/gq/featur

  7. The Huffington Post has a new Denver/Colorado section featuring posts by Gary Hart, Bill Ritter, and Jared Polis.

    Polis writes on detention reform.

    For the inaugural edition of the Denver Huffington Post, I thought I’d write about an issue that is close to my heart — reforming our nation’s immigration detention facilities, which hold tens of thousands of immigrants who were mostly picked up for trivial offenses like speeding or loitering and are now in detention at taxpayer expense for months or even years.



    This summer, I toured a GEO detention facility in Aurora, where I met some of the thirty thousand immigrants throughout the country being held in detention facilities due to an immigration violation. They are children, pregnant women, asylum-seekers, victims of human trafficking, survivors of torture and other vulnerable individuals. Some are undocumented, but many were not and are simply “waiting” for a decision of an immigration court.

    The whole thing is worth reading. Good for him, especially on something like this that affects a lot of “invisible” people: too many think the only people around are either citizens or illegal immigrants. As someone who knows a lot of legal immigrants, I have some personal experience with just how intimidating and oppressive our immigration system is. The slightest mistake gets you sucked into a very nasty system, where you’re subject to quite arbitrary whims of bureaucrats.

  8. Rep. “Joe” Wilson’s outburst during the President’s joint address to Congress last week has just earned him a Resolution of Disapproval, the most mild act of rebuke possible in the House.  The vote was 240-179, with 5 “present”.  Only 7 Republicans voted in favor, despite the GOP leadership calling for an apology from the Representative.

    Wilson was offered a deal to go on the floor to issue his apology, but he turned it down.  House rules prohibit certain expressions during official House business; calling the President a liar (verbatim – other wordings aren’t prohibited) is one of them, considered an official breach of decorum.

  9.    For some inexplicable reason, I discovered a letter from Jon Caldera in my mailbox today.  It contains the usual shit trashing the stimulus bill, cap and trade, and health care reform.  (But no mention of death panels, birth certificates or Nazis.)

      Someone probably sent my name to the Independence Institute as some sort of practical joke.  

    1. Is it true that you can glue a brick to those postage-prepaid envelopes and send ’em back – and then they’ll get stuck paying the postage? ‘Cause that would be righteous.

      PS: It’s Caldara not Caldera. Caldera is one of those things that Bobby Jindal says we shouldn’t bother monitoring.

  10. Josh Penry drew 300 to 400 for his announcement depending on who counted.

    Jane Norton would not have drawn double digits if her family had not come along.

    Andrew Romanoff needs a big crowd tomorrow. I predict somewhere between Norton and Penry for Andrew in Pueblo. Probably about 125. On his home turf in WashPark he will draw a big crowd

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