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May 18, 2010 03:49 PM UTC
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Hickenlooper pokes fun at attack ads
DENVER – John Hickenlooper is making fun of a commercial that attacks his campaign for governor and accuses him of being responsible for the recession.
“Stripes” is one of two ads being run by the Republican Governors Association (RGA) against the Denver mayor. It shows Hickenlooper and Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colorado) in striped suits and says their high-tax policies have led to thousands of jobs being lost in the city and state.
“Zebras are being unfairly maligned and this notion of these attack ads starting six months (before the election), I don’t think anybody likes it,” said Hickenlooper who showed up at 9NEWS in a suit coat covered in duct tape stripes. “It’s certainly unfair to zebras. Zebras are among the most friendly social creatures in the animal kingdom.”
He also said, “It’s a worldwide recession. The (commercial) is a distortion. It’s not even close to a factual basis.”
http://www.9news.com/news/loca…
Make sure to check out the picture of Mayor Hick in his version of the striped suit.
So, now that the RGA has pulled this ad (since it went over like a wet fart in church) and Mayor Hick is poking fun at it AND getting some good press at the same time, I can’t wait to see how the Republican’t party is going to do in it’s next ad….
He’s so down to earth, so funny, so personable. He’s the anti-McInnis.
Thanks for posting that, Dan. Very funny.
1:00 pm Tuesday next week is the 1st semi-final for the Eurovision Song Contest!!!!!
Or worse?
The problem with the boyles show is that just like a broken clock, he is right, rarely, but still at least once a year. It looks like he identified the private interest which led Foster to present and pass an amendment to a reauthorization bill which would allow sex offenders to choose their own therapist.
I would like to know more. What say you?
The DP has an article on it today: Post Article
Denver Broncos… Still Suck!
but I do know that much of what is wrong with offenders is their outsized need for power and control. Generalizing, I would say that allowing them to pick their own treatment program is the wrong way to go. The system truly needs to control them, not the other way around. Absolutely not good that Foster misrepresented her interest in this issue, and too bad at least some of the other senators didn’t know better than to let this get through.
It seems to me that they pretty much resigned away any real say in their treatment when they…um…became a sex offender.
The real reason Apple is so innovative
And the reason many people aren’t willing to say so is that they have really successful marketing. If you’re only aiming for a small share of the market, it’s easier to make your customers feel like they’re part of some special club, and thus get them to defend even the most indefensible things. So you feel like a jerk if you complain that the sharp edges on your laptop keep slitting your wrists. “It’s innovative! It keeps your hands in good typing position!”
With Apple, you spend more, get less, and if anything goes wrong it’s your fault.
i gotta say, that after using PC’s and linux exclusively since 1990, including years as a sysadmin and network admin F/T and P/T, I switched to a MacBook a year and a half ago and I will never never never never ever ever ever go back to a PC. I never bought into the cult that is Apple lovers, and always made fun of my officemates for their creepy, slavish devotion to their Apple products. But within days of switching, I realized how many light years better the Apple product is and I have never once thought, “god, i miss my windows machine.” The only thing that doesn’t work well is M$ Excel. Just my experience….. Sadly, I still have to deal with PC’s daily. My wife’s laptop crashes every day, and her business desktop is a pain in the ass in 1000 ways.
There are a number of things I can’t stand: the overheating, the various grinding noises (there are three distinct ones!), the lack of a simple paint program, the fact that the directory listings are broken, the way I have to constantly move windows around instead of just clicking a tab at the bottom of the screen, the way Safari crashes all the time, the fact that iTunes has lost all my music ratings three times and there’s no way to recover them, the giant power adapter that doesn’t want to stay in the wall, and the aforementioned sharp edges. Then there’s the lack of decent shareware or free software to do simple things like create web pages or SFTP, and the fact that the Mac version of all serious software is an afterthought. And their customer support is terrible as well; I sent it back for repairs and they attempted to fix something that wasn’t broken instead of addressing my problem.
I’m pretty certain my next computer will not be a Mac.
Everyone I know who owns a Mac these days walks down to the Apple Store and gets guru service.
I’ve never seen any Mac user having to move windows around to get to an app – they just use the dashboard thing, and I wouldn’t use Safari for serious web browsing any more than I’d use IE on a PC (except for those sites that don’t accommodate Firefox), though for different reasons.
If you haven’t found decent freeware/shareware programs for Web page creation or SFTP you’re not looking (same goes for simple paint programs)
As for iTunes, don’t get me started. My major gripe about Apple is the control they’re trying to exert beyond their machines. I will not install iTunes if it’s not absolutely necessary; I routinely decline the install when upgrading QuickTime on my PC, too.
So I’ll see what happens. What I was told was that all the computers get mailed to California no matter what’s wrong with them, but maybe that was misinformation.
I hate the dashboard thing. If you have multiple windows of the same program open, you have to move the windows around. And I rarely use Safari (only for sites that are broken in some way on Firefox), but I figured it’s hardly fair to blame Apple for all the bugs in Firefox.
I use Arachnophilia, Fugu, and Paintbrush for the things you mentioned. They’re all kind of crappy. If you have better suggestions I’d be happy to hear them. Maybe it would slightly reduce my bitching.
It used to be that the Cherry Creek store had the skillz in the Genius Bar. Over the last few months, I’ve not been impressed with the knowledge and intuition of the staff there. I’ve heard that Flatirons is now the good place to go.
Either way, the only send it to the mothership if you stump the chumps behind the counter. When I had a physical component problem (loose connection in the power switch) they only sent it to CA when all the usual fixes didn’t work.
You CAN take it to a non-Apple store for Apple Care repairs. I highly recommend Mac Outlet on South Broadway or Denver Mac Repair on 6th.
I mostly use Firefox, but haven’t had many Safari issues. I had so many reliability issues with my various of PC’s over the years that the list of frustrations would be a lot longer than your comment. every time i’ve wanted an application (like SFTP) I’ve been able to find something that at least has a 30 day eval.
Ironically, I had to put Parallels Desktop and XP, along with Excel for XP on my Mac in order to run my big Excel models. Even with an Intel chip, Excel for Mac is basically unusable. I have a 30 MB model that takes 4 minutes to calculate in Excel for Mac, and takes less than 2 seconds in Excel running on XP through Parallels Desktop on the Mac. And I’ve had Excel crash, oh, maybe 4000 or 5000 times.
you fucking fuck. i just got a kernel panic and my machine crashed. so you win. first time in forever, but the timing is on your side.
I’ve been doing design, animation, and post-production for about 20 years, and I’ve gone thru the era of Big Closed Boxes to today’s desktop production era.
While I use Mac, PCs, Linux and occasionally my trusty SGI o2, the clear winner as far as best system is Mac. I don’t need an ego boost or club card, I need a system that understand the gajillion media formats, works well with the user and isn’t under siege from a new virus or malware every 15 minutes.
I’m pretty agnostic when it comes to computers, but Apple rarely delivers an under-classed system. The worst I can say about them is that they fell behind in the OS wars for a while, they charge a lot of money for their systems, ans the software selection is limiting in some areas.
But their systems have always been reliable and fully equipped with solid quality hardware. Even now that they’ve switched to Intel processors they’re still at least comfortably toward the high end in parts. Add in the fact that they are and have been IMHO years ahead in their UI research, and that they’ve got great aesthetic designers, and they really do produce a solid system.
I don’t currently own a Mac (or iPhone, or iPad, or…), but I support Windows, Linux and Mac on a daily basis. Just a personal opinion, but had to put it in there.
Guess that means mine is wrong.
but I do think Apple makes good hardware. One thing on PCs – buy a quality machine. For example at work (and at home) we buy Dell Optiplex instead of Dimension.
But now that they’re owned by Dell, things have started to decline. HP workstations and monitors are awesome as well.
….same Taiwanese mobo’s, same HD companies and sources. And Intel, of course, so there isn’t much to tout there, unless somehow their QC is much better.
A lot of people swear by Macs after swearing at PC’s. Me, no way I could afford a Mac; I can buy THREE PC lappies for the price of a Mac lappy.
And I have a LOT of programs that I love that aren’t available in Mac OS and never will be. My (admittedly old) Garmin GPS’s don’t even have Mac SW.
I say each to their own, those that are happy with their Macs, have at it.
You just won’t convince me.
PS, remember the old joke about if OS’s were airlines? The gist of the Mac OS was, “Sit over here, shut up, we’re in charge.” As an under the hood kind of kid, I find that offensive.
From Talking Points Memo:
At least we hope it’s “dumb” and not something worse.
How long has the “Active Users” link that shows how many users are currently online been on the home page? Is it new or have I just missed it all these years?
It’s been there a long time, at least a couple years.
Some of the “Active Users” are downright passive.
Transportation for America sent me an email which says, in part:
They’re referring to the Kerry-Lieberman bill (the American Power Act). I think Bennet’s contribution was in cosponsoring this bill, which was incorporated into the Kerry-Lieberman bill. The bill had seven other cosponsors (Carper, Cardin, Gillibrand, Lautenberg, Merkley, Nelson (FL), and Specter).
Summary of the bill Bennet cosponsored, which is now part of the climate bill:
in all probably reality, all that program will mean is effectively a gov giveaway to the natural gas bus industry. good place to invest once the bill passes…. 🙂
program design is to give the auction proceeds to local transpo districts. they will do the easiest thing they can think of: buy new equipment. they will be told to reduce a certain % of emissions with their money. natural gas will cover that, and hybrid and electric buses will be much more expensive than natural gas buses, so that’s where they will spend. they won’t have the ability, authority, will or brains to push this into much broader regional efforts at electrifying the entire regional fleet while decarbonizing the grid.
yes, they will buy demo hybrid and electric buses to show off to the public, but the vast majority of what will be purchased will be natural gas engines
Caught having an affair, another evangelical, holier-than-thou, abstinence only, family values R bites the dust. Rep Mark Souder:
As far as I can tell, the family values Rs are just as likely to be gay, have sex outside of marriage, have affairs, see prostitutes, and generally engage in every behavior they condemn as the allegedly anti-family values Dems. They just hate themselves for it and cry over it more when caught.
But I’m also glad you’ve finally flushed yourself down the toilet politically, as well. Good riddance.
Filmed an abstinence video together.
That’s the point – the behaviors are okay for them because they are righteous – the behaviors are not okay for the rest of us mortals.
Some of Souder’s quotes make my brain hurt – he doesn’t want things to be “twisted” for political reasons, he doesn’t want his family hurt, etc, etc. Whatever happened to that old time Party of responsibility?
Sestak in Pennsylvania, Conway in Kentucky, and Halter has a good chance in Arkansas.
Looks like the Republican revolution is over. The bums lost!
is the loss by Republican Tim Burns in Pennsylvania, in the special election to take over Murtha’s old seat. This is not going to be 1994 all over again, not by a long shot.
[chortles with glee]
They’ve got teabagger math, we’ve got THE math.
As Markos says:
P.S. I’ve started using your square bracket trick for links. It really is easier.
Democrats are now obviously back in control of the government, and they are headed for a landslide victory in November.
Aren’t Dems now 4-1 in these special elections? It’s hard to believe it, but Republicans might be blowing their biggest opportunity since that 1994 election.
and don’t tell me otherwise.
We’re actually 8-0 in House special elections since the election of our first black Communist President.
Sounds to me like that portends a crushing victory in the House, and maybe the loss of one fluke Senate seat.
I’ll be celebrating so hard I might just have to start eating steak again.
Victors of U.S. House elections since November 4 2008:
*Ohio 11 Marcia Fudge (D)
*New York 20 Scott Murphy (D)
*Illinois 5 Michael Quigley (D)
*California 32 Judy Chu (D)
*California 10 John Garamendi (D)
*New York 23 Bill Owens (D)
*Florida 19 Ted Deutch (D)
*Pennsylvania 12 Mark Critz (D)
Damn that’s a lot of (D)s.
Democrats winning.
Nobody would call Critz progressive, although he’s certainly more progressive than Burns.
Although to be fair, Arlen Specter had started building up a pretty solid progressive reputation, to the extent possible after only a year. And Sestak is not especially progressive himself based on his years in Congress.