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May 07, 2010 03:56 PM UTC

Open Line Friday!

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“Oh, man, oh, man! There’s something going on. This is more than Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average now down 700, and there’s still an hour and 13 minutes to go for the–oh, my God, we’re below 10,000, it’s down 966! Man, oh, man, the NASDAQ is no better, it’s down 206. So you got riots in Greece, riots in Vienna and Germany probably soon, Spain and Portugal next, killing our markets, and this is Obama’s market, folks.”

–Rush Limbaugh, yesterday

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65 thoughts on “Open Line Friday!

  1. After 9 hours of beating around the bush and 12 months of “tweaking” the legislation to assure CEA policies will continue to lead Colorado’s 40 year effort to “reform” education the House passed.

    CEA policies have had the effect of taking nearly all rights and dignity from both students and teachers. As stated so eloquently in the following statement, “I have never seen them so angry,” said Beverly Ingle, president of CEA, in reference to teachers they engaged to oppose this bill. “They have no rights. I have people fearing for their jobs.”

    http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1

    What’s the reaction of McInnis and Hickenlooper? Would they sign this bill in its gutter form?

  2. Glenn Beck hucksterism goes local:

    http://www.reporterherald.com/

    “There are clues on every corner of Loveland, evidence of this group at work,” Lynne said, adding that the Rialto Theater and the offices of Interweave Press offered the strongest signals.

    “You’ll see posters on those business windows,” she said. “Most of them were from Fort Collins, and the messages were about sustainability, green, and the sponsors were well-known environmentalists. This is one way you can start following the trails and start discovering who is connected to whom.”

    And, according to Lynne, all such roads lead to the United Nations.

      1. maybe 30000 Angry Old White People managed to drag themselves from the Country Club & Klan meetings to attend that pathetic rally you posted. 200000+ from all parts of American Society filled the National Mall.

        FAIL.

      2. and raise you three primary elections.  This also from AP:

        Tea party-backed challengers and other outsiders were shut out in competitive House and Senate primaries across three states on Tuesday night, the busiest night so far in an election season of optimism for Republicans.

        “The big question is whether the tea party is a tempest in a teapot. Do they have the organizational capabilities to compete with the Republicans?” said John Feehery, who advised former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and is a Republican strategist.

        “They’re not organized and it’s unclear to me whether they are going to be a force that is going to challenge the more establishment Republicans in primaries,” he added.

    1. that the old Rialto Theatre and Interweave Press (which publishes arts and crafts books) were bastions of subversive socialist insurrection.

      But honestly, the loony-tunes conservatives in northern Colorado look like they’ve finally lost whatever tenuous hold they had on reality. They are certifiably batshit crazy. And very entertaining to watch.

      1. I agree the noco tea partiers are somewhat entertaining to watch.  But you gotta keep an eye on the batshit.  I feel like it’s hipdeep already and smells reeeeeeely bad.

  3. http://www.denverpost.com/busi


    The hiring of 66,000 temporary government workers to conduct the census helped overall payroll growth last month.

    Providing some bizarre-logic political cover to the Administration the AP stated the following:

    The unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent in March to 9.9 percent in April, mainly because 805,000 jobseekers-perhaps feeling better about their prospects-resumed their searches for work.

    Many economists have predicted the unemployment rate would rise as people come back into the labor force. The jobless rate hit 10.1 percent in October, a 26-year high.

    Holy shit batman, what if the other 8 million Americans living with unemployed under Obama but “off the books” come back and start challenging Illegal Aliens for a paycheck? Unemployment could rise well into the teens, but short of its actual real level.

    1. While cherry picking at that.  How about including the rest of the report?

      More confident employers stepped up job creation in April, expanding payrolls by 290,000, the most in four years.

      private employers – the backbone of the economy – boosted jobs, too. They added a surprisingly strong 231,000 positions last month, also the most since March 2006, the Labor Department reported Friday.

      “Clearly companies have a newfound confidence in the future of the economic recovery and on the part of their own business prospects,” said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors.

    2. When people who’ve stopped looking for work see the economy picking up steam after a recession, they flood back in to the job market, increasing the unemployment rate.

      Oh – you missed a couple of other tidbits, too.  Prior months’ job growth was revised upward, with February revised upward by 53,000 (to +39,000) and March revised up 68,000 to 230,000. And the Census worker hires were 33% lower than expected, further popping the unreality bubble that some conservatives seem to spend their life within.

            1. and maybe that of Portugal and Spain.  However, Greece’s biggest lender is Germany and it hasn’t hit them terribly.  Why ?  Because they have a huge economy like we do in the US.

              The economies of Greece and the United States bear almost no comparison.

              1. It’s so unpopular among German voters that Merkel’s been dragging her feet to wait until after the election on Sunday in the North Rhine.

                A Rhine voter’s feelings regarding Merkel agreeing to bail out Greece:

                But not many seem happy that the German chancellor is helping Greece in its hour of need…Another one mutters: “I’d rather see my mother-in-law than Angela Merkel.”

                I don’t think that was a compliment.  

  4. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1

    Forced to actually report what’s going on at the capitol, the Post’s daily capitol walk around had this to say.

    Amendment would cement collecting of union dues from Colo. state workers into law

    Days before the legislature adjourns, some Democrats are pushing a proposal that would guarantee unions could still collect dues from state employees – even if the next governor is not union-friendly.

    The effort comes in the form of an amendment to House Bill 1181, a mostly technical bill dealing with policies of the Department of Personnel and Administration. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Bob Bacon, D-Fort Collins, added an amendment in committee Wednesday that essentially would cement into law Gov. Bill Ritter’s 2007 executive order that allows unions to deduct membership fees from a state worker’s check, if the employee consents.

    “It’s a pre-emptive action just in case,” Bacon said. “Should we have a change in leadership, this just allows us to continue on in the current process.

    “Just in case?” Just in case of what, that the People demand accountability now that government pay and job positions have now crossed the threshold along with the 51% of Americans that are net tax receivers?

    Or is it just in case McInnis or Hickenlooper wins?

    1. Just in case some worker hating moron like McInnis, or even worse, Maes, should get extremely lucky and become governor.

      Any concern these clowns have for “workers” is only in the principle that Adam Smith espoused whereby the “owner” is entitled to a portion of the productivity of the worker.

      I don’t believe you, McInnis, Maes, or any other Republican gives a good rats’ ass about any worker except to the extent that you can exploit their labor for your own profit. The more workers you can bilk…the higher your profit.

      The Republican Party has been busy exploiting working people for decades. Your bullshit doesn’t change that dynamic. How about the many workers killed and injured in the Big Branch Coal mine explosion? Wanna bet how many of the management there are Republicans? Do you suppose their sloppy safety practices were designed to protect workers? No, just their bottom line.

      Do you give a flying fuck about the workers missing and presumed dead at the Deep Water Horizon inferno? You don’t care any more than the management of BP/Amoco, John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh, or any other asshole corporatist whose ONLY concern is profit.

      God, you fuckers make me sick.

      DON’T have a nice day.

      1. Wage freezes, pension cuts, tax hikes and massive entitlement rollbacks.  You’ll be right in there regardless of who wins the mansion.



        Democrats failed socialist policies and overreaches will result in you entering the street alongside the Tea Party crowd … the issue will be your fear as you venture into a wave of old people with your petro bombs and they return home to grab their sidearm and extra clips.

        America’s coming attract is in this video unless our President curtails his leftist rampage across the nation.

        50 says 100 you can’t stop yourself, the confiscation and redistribution policies you’ve begun.

        The political class and ruling business elite will be lit up and you’ll be waving the Gadsden for fear and old Tea Party lady might learn you’re part of the problem.

  5. from the Daily Camera we have Dave “you vill show us your papers – schnell” Schultheis

    A state senator from Colorado Springs is calling for a boycott of Boulder in response to the city’s decision to ban employee travel to Arizona and consider severing other business ties over that state’s tough new immigration law.

    What is it about right-wing nuts that they’re against big government, but then turn around and want a police state taking actions that violate the constitution.

    1. boycott Boulder over this have much to do with Boulder in the first place.  It’s kind of like asking progressives to boycott Rush Limbaugh.  

      1. You don’t think Schultheis likes to soothe his nerves with a nice hot cup of Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime tea? And how’s he going to get through those long committee hearings without his Raspberry Zinger? He’s suffering for this cause.

  6. This is really interesting – when machines can replicate themselves. We’re headed to the point that you will be able to download things. In another 30 years you will be able to download an iPhone.

    This will be a major societal change. Right now all information is instantly available anywhere. As these devices get to the point they can make most anything, and object will be instantly available anywhere.

    1. for energy-to-matter conversion, then we’ll really be in business!

      Self-replicating machines have long been the big buzz in nanotechnology. For an over-the-top flight of imagination concerning the possible pitfalls of creating self-replicating and evolving microscopic machines, read Michael Crichton’s novel Prey.

        1. The mechanical implant and/or genetic modification that allows us to link to the internet with a thought, communicate with anyone, and access all of the world’s information and information processing software seamlessly with our other thoughts. It’s only “the Borg” if you can’t turn it on and off at will!

    2. People will be able to make cheap plastic shit at home. Stuff with copper wiring, Li-ion batteries, and silicon chips? I remain dubious that it will ever be economically viable.

      But have you read up on the solar cells produced by Nanosolar? Pretty cool technology and fits with your theme.

      1. just say “not in the foreseeable future.” Or, in this case, “not any time soon” (I think it’s definitely foreseeable; come to think of it, that’s why we’re talking about it…).

    3. …when I saw what was going on with music.

      I missed this one, but my “Next Big Thing” prediction – OK, not next – is insurance for bungled teleportations. You know, “Beam me to Glasgow, Scotty.”  And your right arm comes out on your nose.  

      It’s probably been ten years since IBM was able to move a molecule to another, (molecularly) nearby spot without it ever being somewhere in between.  Point A to Point B.  

      Teleportation.  

  7. So maybe the conflict was more personality based after all?

    The bill is headed to the Gov’s desk replacing the director with a board, but the DP story was more about the personalities than the legislation.  It didn’t say what amendments Speaker Carroll conceded to or what the composition of the board would be.  Like most political reporting, it was about people not policy.

  8. from NBC Bay Area

    Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal’s office.

    “They said we could wear it on any other day,” Daniel Galli said, “but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today.”

    1. undermine smart applications of the idea clumsily trampled on.

      Authentic cultural sensitivity is a good thing, and not always in abundant supply in the United States. This was just stupid (and possibly unconstitutional) pc nonsense.

  9. AKAKA CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OF VA MENTAL HEALTH OFFICER KATZ OVER ALLEGED COVERUP OF VETERANS’ SUICIDES

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, called for the resignation of Dr. Ira Katz, Mental Health Officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, following reports that Dr. Katz was involved in efforts to cover up the number of veterans attempting suicide.  Akaka sent his request by letter to Dr. Michael Kussman, VA’s Under Secretary for Health.

    “Dr. Katz’s personal conduct and professional judgment have been called into question.  I believe veterans, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, would be best served by his immediate resignation,” said Akaka.

    Dr. Katz is VA’s Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Mental Health.

    http://veterans.senate.gov/pre

  10. That’s kinda a big issue around the world this days?

    This is the web site for Phil Tyson Ph.D. – Business Services – Return to work counselling. – Management supervision coaching. – Drug and alcohol misuse counselling. – Occupational burnout counselling. – Counselling skills training. – HIV/AIDS awareness training. Manchester, Salford, Stockport

  11. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chro

    Setting aside other, less pressing business, the Louisiana House Committee on House and Governmental Affairs approved a bill, HB 1352, which would allow lawmakers and elected officials to take a voluntary drug test and mental health evaluation after election, with the state paying the tab. The bill would also allow testees to post the results on the Internet. The bill is the brainchild of Rep. John LaBruzzo (R-Metairie), who has also sponsored a bill mandating drug testing for welfare recipients.

      1. Are getting absolutely no attention from the press.  That’s why you don’t know what he’s talking about.

        Although it’s silly on a matter of scale alone to equate them with Katrina, Republicans who are desperate for an issue now that America is hiring again would like to make the Nashville floods into Obama’s Katrina.

        Good luck with that.

        1. Whether Obama went to Nashville or not, FEMA has been all over the response, and the Federal Government has gotten rave reviews from the local governments.

          And yes, it’s shameful how little the national press has been covering perhaps the worst flood in the Cumberland River drainage in ages.  You’d think that with Opryland and the Country Music Hall of Fame underwater there’d have been some kind of national outrage or something, but, no…

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