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June 07, 2018 06:38 AM UTC
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Seven O'clock and naught's well.
The problem is our president.
He stinks!
Even his wife tries to stay upwind.
Do thou likewise, America.
At least Canada 🇨🇦 has the benefit of being (mostly) upwind.
Perhaps ignorance isn’t bliss??
It is a historical fact, known by few Americans, that America invaded Canada in the war of 1812 and captured the provincial capital of York, then the capital of Upper Canada. — which we then burned. When the Brits– who, yes, ruled Canada — later burned Washington it was retaliation for our atrocity in Canada.
#FakeNews!!!!!!!
Makes me feel better about my dad's Tory ancestors, who weren't having any of that American Independence nonsense. Why it should make me feel better that there were atrocities on both sides I don't know.
Well, this was the War of 1812, not the War of Independence. We invaded Canada in the War of Independence led by one of our greatest generals — Benedict Arnold!
The War of 1812 to me is the stupidist war we ever fought, though Iraq is a close second.
Maybe it's my New Mexican education, but I think the 1846-1848 hostilities between the US and Mexico have got to rank in there, too. Consider the incongruities:
Upon investigation, the Congress passed a resolution criticizing "a war unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States."
US Grant described one of its outcomes as " The Southern rebellion [US Civil War] was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times."
The war against Mexico was immoral, but it did yield a vast amount of territory,incluing most of Colorado. All we got out of the war of 1812 was a third rate drinking song that is now our national anthem.
I'm just shocked to learn you have Tory blood running through your veins. The party that gave us Benjamin Disraeli, Neville Chamberlain, Margaret Thatcher and Brexit.
damn the Tory party and the King!
Straight to hell.
I also have five rabbis, an exotic dancer, the Kaiser's personal physician, some southern sharecroppers, and an award-winning journalist. So I'm okay with my heritage, all in all.
Five rabbis and an exotic dancer walk into a bar
Want some cheese with that whine?
Polis, Kennedy complain to state Democrats about dirty campaigning
"Mom…mom. Jared's hitting me!"
"I did not! She hit me first."
I'm starting to wish I'd just skipped the gubernatorial line on my ballot. The pledge is stupid. You're acting like petulant children. Grow the fuck up and run a campaign.
It's going to be a long three weeks, Psuedo. It's why I voted early.
Hey, Mama. Would you care to let us know who you voted for? I'm torn between Kennedy and Polis.
Channel 9's Next program demolished Kennedy last night in a fact check segment. They first analyzed the Kennedy commercials from the independent teachers' organization and found that the attacks on Polis and Johnston were lies and smears. Then, they attacked Kennedy for failing to disassociate herself from these commercials. She claimed that CO law prohibited her from asking that the ads be taken down., or even denouncing the content. Channel 9 called that a lie.
I'm leaning toward Polis but am afraid that a "Boulder gay liberal" will have a hard time winning statewide.
Help! Anyone?
I ended up voting for Polis. After seeing both frontrunner candidates within 2 days, Jared came up to Fort Morgan and met with a couple of dozen locals. Honestly, he was impressive as hell. Cary spoke at our Big Ten(t) dinner and Town Hall, along with Donna Lynne. I have a diary in the works about it. She also is formidable as a candidate, and I will absolutely be OK with it if she wins the nomination.
I found Polis' grasp of issues to be comprehensive and detailed. He "gets it" on childcare issues, education and workplace issues. He's also got a history of creating public/private partnerships to fund programs like his universal pre/K full day kindergarten initiative.
He understands why we need a statewide policy on oil and gas setbacks in order to prioritize public health over oil & gas profits; Cary is content to let that be under "local control", which in practical terms means that the industry gets to set the standards, as they have hundreds of astroturf groups nominating friendly candidates in municipalities across the state.
Cary Kennedy is undoubtedly more well schooled in the intricacies of state finance, as several have pointed out. She also has a more open and cheery public persona. At Assembly, she showed that she knew how to work a crowd better than Jared did. She roused, he cajoled. My union endorsed her. She may be better at generating that elusive quality of "enthusiasm".
As I've written before, there isn't much daylight between Kennedy and Polis on school finance and education, negative ads notwithstanding. Both want to raise teacher pay. Both have plans to end TABOR restrictions. Both support and have historically supported public charter schools, teacher evaluations tied to test scores, and other bugaboos that hard core unionists might not like.
Cary is solid on K-12 ed. Polis is OK on K-12, but better on pre-K and post-12 . His legislative record shows several bills he introduced to create relief from school debt and to keep costs down.
Polis has been a strong supporter of Colorado's cannabis industries. Kennedy voted against amendment 64 initially, but as deputy mayor, she promoted programs that got youth out of the prison system for nonviolent drug offenses.
So, itlduso, I don't know how helpful my opinion will be. If energy and enthusiasm and personality is what you're voting for, probably Kennedy is your candidate. If real depth of knowledge and experience and being able to find innovative solutions to pressing problems is your criterion, then probably Polis gets your vote.
Thanks for the comprehensive assessment, MJ.
itlduso — I'm only "anyone" — not as much passion and time invested as mamajama55, not nearly as much history as Voyageur, and an idiosyncratic skew on politics informed more by my background in debate and American public address than by focus on a particular issue or set of issues.
Any and all of the Dems are ahead of any of the Republicans. If you focus on issues, you can find nuances sufficient to guide voting.
I haven't found a great deal of appeal in the Johnston campaign, seemingly focused on urging me to vote for him because he was a teacher and education advisor. He seems bright and enthusiastic. He doesn't have support from people I know — even the couple of people who have worked directly with him when he was in the Legislature.
On process issues, Lynne is a well-positioned newcomer who seems likely to continue the Hickenlooper shuffle, though it would be hard to be quite as wishy-washy or trying to appease everyone as Hick has been on some key issues.
Polis has a huge money advantage and Kennedy has come close (or is ahead — pick your poll or prognosticator) on perceptions of "state-wide electability," budget wonkery, and energy. I have friends who are passionate supporters of each of them; none of them have anything bad to say about the person they aren't supporting. I haven't made up my mind yet between these two.
Thanks, mama and John. I forgot to mention that Kennedy did not attend or send a surrogate to our HD 37 candidate forum a couple of weeks ago. Jared was in DC, but sent a surrogate. (Actually, the surrogate for Johnston was a Stanford college student who was outstanding — emphasizing his bipartisan work in the legislature which plays well in politics these days, IMHO.)
And, thank goodness we Dems aren't in a vicious fight against each other this time (see: Clinton/Obama; Sanders/Clinton; Romanoff/Bennet; etc.). I'll be fine with any of our candidates.
But, mark me down for Polis.
and found that the attacks on Polis and Johnston were lies and smears
That goes with the territory. As Bismarck said, "The biggest lies are told immediately before the wedding, right after the hunt, and in the middle of the political campaign."
Polis.
No one who matters in this race cares about his family.
What passes for a poll is out from Magellan (via the unmentionable). They're not revealing who commissioned it, so that's questionable, but…
Polis: 31
Kennedy: 18
Johnston: 9
Lynne: 3 (percent, not people, surprisingly)
Undecided: 39
Also…
Salazar: 27
Weiser: 8
Undecided: 65
You can see that poll AND another one that has Kennedy in front by 5 discussed in an article from Denverite
Says the tres (or is it quattro?) married esquire of our (thrice-married) p-grabber-in-chief:
Giuliani on Stormy Daniels: Melania Trump 'believes her husband'
Rule of holes, Rudy Rule of holes. If you believe a sex worker sells her body but a coal miner doesn’t, your view of labor is clouded by your sexual morality (in this case, utter immorality)
#MAGAt (NSFW)
Does she believe in the Easter bunny and the Tooth Fairy too?
For someone who got her on a genius visa….
House Dems seethe over superdelegates plan
And there is no discussion at all, apparently, about not allowing lobbyists to be superdelegates.
The "reforms" are attempts to satisfy very different approaches to politics.
Perhaps instead of the present mess, we should have a bi-cameral convention, with "superdelegates" serving as the Senate and "delegates" as the House. To win on the first ballot, a candidate needs a super-majority of 60% from the Super side, and a majority from the primary/caucus side. Second and subsequent ballots need only a majority from each.
seen referenced two or three times in the last day …
Middle America Reboots Democracy
We spent months talking with anti-Trump forces—and they’re not who pundits say they are.
https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/middle-america-reboots-democracy/
Content is on a study of the new activism, concluding the post-2016 activities and activists are creating an "inflection point" … or in other words, that "The foundation rebuilders in many communities across most states are newly mobilized and interconnected grassroots groups, led for the most part by Middle America’s mothers and grandmothers."
OMG, our secret's out.
Good article.
Good. And yet DC Dems continue ceding the advantage to Republicans while spouting Repub rhetoric at every turn. (And SFL Bennet sleeps well at night.)
SFL?? Saskatchewan Federation of Labor??
Not to be confused with SNL.
WTF -OTD: "Rudy Giuliani Trying to Start a War with N. Korea?"
I think Trump is trying to get N. Korea to cancel the summit as a prefix to going to war. Watch for some of the same behavior wrt Iran. The purpose of a war is to rally the Republican voters in the November elections.
We have to get safely through the next five months.
He's auditioning for Secretary of State for when Trump gives Pom Pom the boot. Rudy has always coveted the State Department.