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May 24, 2010 03:46 PM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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“Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”

–George Orwell

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  1. boyles is now claiming  that romanoff has a  tie to the joyce foster issue  and he, boyles, will reveal it, if romanoff doesn’t come “clean.”

    boyles is also running an apology….evidently last week, he ran an audio claiming it was foster speaking and it was not…….

    stay tuned.  literally.

    2. boyles is no longer saying that it was romanoff with the “tie” to the foster issue.  Instead, he is alluding to an “important person.”  Maybe I misheard the first time.  We shall see.

      When Palin spoke Saturday night, she stood behind a podium

      with lettering,  The lettering did not say USA. It did not say “Faith, Family, Flag.”  The lettering did not say Republican.  It

      did not say “conservative.”  It said:KNUS.  That was the label over which she spoke.

      KNUS is a local conservative radio station. The station, I believe, sponsored the event.

      does anyone know why Palin did not endorse Norton?

          1. Talked to Jane but didn’t have time to stick around and yuk it up with Palin.

            It wouldn’t surprise me if she endorses Jane.  She endorsed Fiorina out in CA, I think.

                  1. Tea Partiers are calling for Scott Brown’s head.  I’m sure that will go over well in Mass.

                    My frustration grows daily w/ Obama–but I just say that thank god it isn’t McGrumpy and Doofus.

    3. he is looking for anything everywhere to “blow it wide open”. yet NOT ONE MENTION of the insanity or already exposed embarrassments to the CO gop.

      Boyles show is All Democratic hate, All the time.

      Looking for conspiracy where there is none. then insisting it is there. even if it is just in Peters head. Ignoring or explaining why the latest republican scandal is nothing to concern our little heads about.

      Oh BTW “Democrats think you are stupid.”~ Peter Boyles

  2. If anyone understands the perfidiy of bankers it should be a Greek-American like Arianna

    This week, after months of intense lobbying from corporate interests, the Senate passed a financial reform bill that is that D.C. specialty: “reform” that’s been watered down within an inch of its life. Yes, it will create a much-needed Consumer Financial Protection Agency and requires an audit of the Fed. But it doesn’t end “too big to fail” banks, doesn’t create a 21st century Glass-Steagall firewall, and leaves open dangerous loopholes in the regulation of derivatives. And we can expect more loopholes to be inserted as the bill heads to conference committee. In public, the big banks groused. In private, they counted their record profits, watched their stocks go up after the Senate vote, and agreed that the $1.4 million a day the finance industry spent lobbying Congress — including putting 70 former members of Congress and 940 former federal employees on its lobbying payroll — was money well spent.

  3. Look at this video from the Colorado Independent (source: http://coloradoindependent.com… ):

    Romanoff complains that his record is being “distorted,” but slickly doesn’t defend his actual record during the 2006 special session. Why can’t Andrew Romanoff stand by HB 1023…the “Colorado crackdown” of 2006?

    http://coloradopols.com/diary/…

    http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5…

    Colorado’s new law banning state spending on illegal immigrants has cost more than $2 million to enforce – and has saved the state nothing.

    Less than a year after politically charged debates on illegal immigration, officials are reporting high costs, no savings and unexpected problems with the new laws.

    Once touted by statehouse Republicans and Democrats as the toughest anti-immigration package in the nation, the Colorado crackdown is falling apart.

    1. so proud of it at the time.  I guess that was when being a moderate, tough on immigration Dem was a good thing.  You know, back when he didn’t have to transform himself  into Andrew Romanoff, Progressive People’s Champion for the base to go up against another Dem. Funny thing is, if he actually did win the primary, he’d have to transform right back for the general, not to mention he’d have to come up with some very good reasons for starting to take all that dirty money again, just like he has in every previous election.

    2. Let’s see…during this time Bennet was super of a heavily minority school district.  Did he ever testify about the impact this would have on kids?  Did he ever send people to participate in the discussion?

      Oh wait — he was busy closing heavily minority schools like Manuel and destroying the budget with risky financial activities.

      1. I was talking about Romanoff. Since I was not citing this as a reason to prefer somebody else but merely as an example of  how fictional the construct of Romanoff as Progressive Champion Super Hero is, I don’t see the relevance of switching the discussion to Bennet. When people change the subject or bring in the “Johnny is worse” (not granting that in this case) argument you know they’ve got nothing.  Nada.

  4. Chicken costumes banned at Nev. polling places

    “Voters dressed in chicken costumes won’t be allowed inside Nevada polling places this year.

    “State election officials on Friday added chicken suits to the list of banned items after weeks of ridicule directed at Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden.

    “The millionaire casino executive and former beauty queen recently suggested that people barter with doctors for medical care, like when “our grandparents would bring a chicken to the doctor.”

    “Democrats responded by setting up a website, “Chickens for Checkups,” and by sending volunteers in chicken suits to her campaign events.”

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/…

    Now this fine example of Republican’t thinking is in a four-way tie for the Nevada primary.

    Marketing is a dark and soulless art, and sometimes the results can be an odd brew. The Chicken costume thing has hurt one candidate, and closer to home, I wonder if Goofenlooper’s charm will co-opt the Stripes idea…

            1. Than a polling place.  Don’t fuck around at polling places.

              The Black Panthers aren’t what bothers me – it’s anyone with weapons or otherwise intimidating somebody at a polling place.

      2. You’ve already posted this photo to death…why are you dragging this out now?

        Not my point – re-read my post and think about a better response.

        BTW – Habs or Flyers?

        1. For improvement of their polling practices.

          🙂

          Blackhawks look awesome right now, but Philly is just huge and on a roll.  It’s weird.  I could see a Chicago sweep or in 5, or a Philly win in 6 or 7.  The first two games of the series will decide it.

          1. Like the Flyers did just in their series? I want to think they’ve got the advantage, but Holy Spit this has been a wild NHL season. I can see the Habs reeling off three straight.

            If it’s Flyers/Hawks, it goes 7 games. I don’t think the Flyers will fold in 4-5 games. The Habs maybe.

            Hmm…off to the Hockey bar in Alexandria this week!

            1. …root against the Canadian teams, but I’d actually like to see the Habs pull this off.  They just lost out, I think when they outplayed Philly in the first couple of games most of the time and ended up with squat.

              The ‘Hawks look freaking sick right now.  Byugfleiheuianianohahhowdoyouspellhisname is playing out of his mind, and he’s 6’6 and 250.  Crazy.

        2. Because that incident was an absolute travesty, particularly because those assholes weren’t prosecuted.

          Polling places are sacred in this country, and I would be just as outraged if the shoe were on the other foot.

  6. You can’t stop time. You can only simulate it, by stopping change. There is no solution to the lack of mercy toward the aged flushed out into the open by the Internet. The state of mind demanded by a world that quests after ever more rapid technical change is alien to anyone over 40. The best one can aim for is to be a case of arrested development and remain forever a child, fantasizing about clocks that tick for ten thousand years and gray goo that eats you in the night.

    Appealing as this willed arrest of one’s development might sound, it is no celebration of childhood. It is a celebration only of the aspects of childhood that have a market value: the child’s gift for coping with the havoc he wreaks, and the child’s ability to walk away from aspects of self without feeling like an amputee. The Internet allows a person to paint a picture of himself the world will value. But it has also helped to paint a picture of what the world values in a person. The effect is no less grotesque than one of those Spanish royal portraits in which the artist, needing to buttress the authority of some child monarch, renders his subject as a tiny adult.

  7. (Sorry we forgot to tell you your house might explode).  

    http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-…


    But the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission never told the Androvich’s their home could explode or even bothered to share a copy of the three-year-old report until now.

    “We were just sort of shocked that we weren’t told,” Karen says.

    Dave Neslin with the COGCC admits they should have notified the Androvich’s. “We apologize if they were not made aware of the report, they should have been,” he says.

    1. COGCC said they were sorry. And furthermore, it’s just not their fault. What more do these people want, other than their water not to catch fire every time they turn on the faucet and their house not to explode from methane buildup? Picky. Picky,

      Of course, geologists disagree but wtf do they know.

      Still, he maintains the oil and gas industry is not responsible for methane in the water in Weld County.

      “In this case, it’s not related to oil and gas.”

      But geological investigations in Garfield County, Colorado and other parts of the country have “clearly tied methane contamination to gas and oil drilling.”

      Those geologists blame faulty cement casing and “hydraulic fracturing” – a deep-drilling process that shoots millions

  9. http://andrewsullivan.theatlan…

    Bradford Plumer raises an eyebrow:

    If BP’s leak estimates were correct, then it’d be facing something like a $140 million fine so far. But if the high-end estimates are right, well, the oil giant could be facing penalties in the billions. Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the government would make its own independent assessment of the numbers, though it’s unclear why this wasn’t done earlier.

    Kate Sheppard voices the same concern:

    If one believed BP’s original estimate, there would only be 1.4 million gallons of oil in the gulf so far. If you believe the adjusted figure from NOAA and BP, 6.9 million gallons of oil have already hemorrhaged into the Gulf. But if outside experts are right, the figure is likely closer to 131.6 million gallons – or nearly 13 Exxon Valdez spills.

  10. It is down to Buck and Norton (if she gets the petitions together).  

    With nobody else to split the Tea Party vote with Buck, Norton is toast.

  12. from HuffPo – really good article.

    The most important thing to know about the 1,500-page financial reform bill passed by the Senate last week — now on he way to being reconciled with the House bill — is that it’s regulatory. If does nothing to change the structure of Wall Street.

    The bill omits two critical ideas for changing the structure of Wall Street’s biggest banks so they won’t cause more trouble in the future, and leaves a third idea in limbo. The White House doesn’t support any of them.

  13. http://content.usatoday.com/co…

    Gov. Charlie Crist, who recently abandoned the Republican Party, has a narrow lead in Florida’s three-way Senate race, a new poll shows.

    Crist, now an independent, captured the support of 30% of registered voters surveyed in The St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald/Bay News 9 poll. Twenty-seven percent backed Republican Marco Rubio, while 15% supported Democratic frontrunner Rep. Kendrick Meek.

    1. Florida Education Association.

      The larger AFL-CIO hasn’t pronounced yet.

      Meek was a major player in the limited class size bill.  Crist vetoed the education bill which included loss of tenure.

      1. Now that’s interesting news. Thanks for posting that. I really look forward to hearing from you on this race–you’re our best source by far, parsing and I’m keeping an eye on this one so I really appreciate your updates.

        Again, big thanks.  

  15. Tip of the hat to you.  Just caught the end of Andrew’s interview on MSNBC’s Hardball and Matthews loved all his answers.  Credit where credit is due.  The show repeats at 5PM and 10PM if you want to watch your guy look good or I’m sure you can get it online at MSNBC.

      1. It’s just one of the last things for AR to feel good about before he gets crushed in the primary. It will make a nice memory when it’s all over.

  17. When will they learn?

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-50…

    David Byrne has filed a $1 million lawsuit against Florida governor and Senate candidate Charlie Crist over Crist’s use of the 1985 Talking Heads single “Road to Nowhere,” Billboard reports.

    Crist, who became an independent after struggling in the GOP primary, reportedly used the ad on a website and in a YouTube attack ad against opponent Marco Rubio.

    Byrne told Billboard the suit “is not about politics…It’s about copyright and about the fact that it does imply that I would have licensed it and endorsed him and whatever he stands for.”

    The former Talking Heads singer is represented by the same lawyer, Lawrence Iser, who represented Jackson Browne when Browne successfully sued Sen. John McCain for McCain’s use of his “Running on Empty” in the 2008 presidential campaign.

    1. It’s free publicity.  Is it covered under BMA-ASCAP?  LOTS of songs wind up on web sites.  Do we need new laws to cover this?  Am I allowed to hum or sing your song on a bus?  At a Karaoke party?

      Or, how about this:  Have “your guy” call “his guy” and talk about it.  A reasonable royalty?  Stop using it and everyone goes home?

      I’m a huge fan of DB and not just because of the Talking Heads work.  This is absurd.

      1. Not that I know of. Usually bars, clubs or other venues pay an annual fee that allows them to play all of the songs in the performance catalogs of BMI and ASCAP. This allows other bands to play covers, or the recording to be played (the law sees this as a “performance” as well.)

        If Crist is using the song in an ad on YouTube, however, that is a different matter. Crist would have to get the license for the master recording just like anyone else who wants to use it for video sync. Crist would have to pay the rights for the sync as well as the statutory license for the master recording.

        This isn’t some kid downloading the song off of the Internet. It’s a well-funded, well-known political candidate stealing Byrne’s song for personal and political gain. Crist should pay the man, and then it wouldn’t be an issue.

  18. I have some great beachfront property in Utah for sale.  Any takers?

    “I think this is clearly a major reputational issue for BP,” Hayward told journalists, days after a top US official suggested the company faced an “existential crisis” because of the disaster.

    …Hayward issued an emotional rebuttal to charges his company had tried to hide the truth about the amount of oil leaking into the sea and said he was “absolutely gutted” that crude had started washing ashore.

    “As I said, it’s clear that the defense of the shoreline, at this point, has not been successful,” Hayward said. “I feel devastated by that, absolutely gutted. What I can tell you is that we are here for the long haul. We are going to clean every drop of oil off the shore.”

    http://money.ninemsn.com.au/ar…

  19. It appears that actors onstage in Colorado will have to act like they’re smoking tobacco rather than smoking the real thing:

    The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review what has been called the first state court decision upholding the extension of a smoking ban to theatrical performances.

    “We’re certainly disappointed, but not surprised,” said petitioner Chip Walton, founder of Denver’s Curious Theatre. He’s lost at every judicial level since his four-year campaign began.

    Most recently, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 6-1 in December that the state’s ban on smoking extended to actors onstage. It ruled that public health trumps freedom of expression. Theater companies had argued that smoke that lingers on stage is crucial to set a mood, develop character or establish a time period.

    http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1…

    1. those “actors” will have to pretend they’re shooting someone on stage instead of using real guns with live ammunition!

      Those water vapor cigs actually work pretty well.

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