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November 10, 2010 04:45 PM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”

–G. K. Chesterton

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        1. Because he replied in a very similar fashion to me when I posted something about football yesterday. But I guess when David does it, it’s cute, right?

  3. from Larry Beinhart

    The stimulus package failed because it consisted mostly of tax cuts. Tax cuts are among the very worst ways to create jobs and certainly the most expensive.

    …

    First let’s take out the aid to the states for unemployment insurance assistance. Obviously that doesn’t add jobs. It helps people. It goes to keeping the community afloat, but it doesn’t create a whole lot of jobs.

    Let’s take out the tax cuts. Just as an academic exercise, for the moment.

    That leaves projects, grants, and loans. $154.5 billion.

    If we have 1,600,000 jobs created and saved, and divide it into the money spent on projects, it comes out at $96,562 per job.

    That actually makes sense. It’s expensive. But it makes sense.

      1. Posted yesterday in the Open Thread (by me) with a link.

        If we beat up on poor old ‘tad for multiple postings, we gotta make the call on everyone else…

  6. It seems that they are moving the goalpost on withdrawing from Afghanistan

    The new policy will be on display next week during a conference of NATO countries in Lisbon, Portugal, where the administration hopes to introduce a timeline that calls for the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan by 2014, the year when Afghan President Hamid Karzai once said Afghan troops could provide their own security, three senior officials told McClatchy, along with others speaking anonymously as a matter of policy.

    I’m sure all of those who voted for President Obama because he was going to get us out of war are feeling rather foolish right now.

    2. …if we want to be able to leave the country somewhere around 18th century level, then the Afghan Security forces need to be able to function as actual military units. Right now, they can barely find their own asses with two hands and a funnel.

      And that’s with American Combat forces leading them by the hand.

      I still think US Combat brigades start coming back next year regardless of what NATO wants. They’ll have to start committing more security and training forces (Italian Carabinieri were awesome in Kosovo at this) but the majority of combat power leaves in 2011.

      (BTW Cologeek, I’ve posted it until my fingers bled. Obama promised to escalate in AFPAK, not draw down. The Left always forgets this and the Right doesn’t know how to deal with it.)

        1. ..can’t find it now (I think it was NPR) but there was a feature story on Afghanistan in the 70s. Kabul looked like a modern western city, and the young people looked hopeful and ready for the future.

          The Soviets took care of that hope – and that country is still trying to crawl out of the 12th Century. But somehow the Afghan people survive, and I won’t count them out.

          It is weird that all the troops I know who are still in will fight tooth and claw to get out of an Iraq deployment, but more than a few will volunteer to go to AFPAK.  

          1. and my joke was pretty lame.

            The Afghanis have got to be among the most screwed-over, yet long-suffering and resiliant of God’s human inhabitants on this planet.

            Hopefully, the rest of this planet’s human inhabitants are starting to get it right by them, and they will have a future for themselves and their children.  

  7. Obama’s Problem Simply Defined: It Was The Banks

    [..] .. one cannot defend the actions of Team Obama on taking office. Law, policy and politics all pointed in one direction: turn the systemically dangerous banks over to Sheila Bair and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Insure the depositors, replace the management, fire the lobbyists, audit the books, prosecute the frauds, and restructure and downsize the institutions. The financial system would have been cleaned up. And the big bankers would have been beaten as a political force.

    Team Obama did none of these things. Instead they announced “stress tests,” plainly designed so as to obscure the banks’ true condition. They pressured the Federal Accounting Standards Board to permit the banks to ignore the market value of their toxic assets. Management stayed in place. They prosecuted no one. The Fed cut the cost of funds to zero. The President justified all this by repeating, many times, that the goal of policy was “to get credit flowing again.”

    The banks threw a party. Reported profits soared, as did bonuses. With free funds, the banks could make money with no risk, by lending back to the Treasury. They could boom the stock market. They could make a mint on proprietary trading.

  8. ..the Veteran Trauma Court grant is putting on a training session at the Auraria Campus. No RSVP, just show up:

    Taking Off the Pack: PTSD, TBI and the Returning Veteran

    Friday Nov 12th 9-11AM (with Q&A session afterwards)

    Turnhalle Event Room, Tivoli Student Union

  9. Clearly this wouldn’t happen if unions weren’t destroying our nation …

    The University of Colorado will pay coach Dan Hawkins around $2 million to go away.

    and

    Yet he never had a winning season in Boulder, going 19-39 and losing his last 17 games outside of Colorado.(AP via Yahoo!)

    This is the sort of shenanigans that unions keep pulling that pisses off people like me. No one would agree to these kinds of contracts if union thugs weren’t given a license to crush kneecaps.

    Oh if only I had a job where I could get “bought out” for $2million for failing to perform. You know, like teaching, or garment manufacturing, or the automobile industry.

    Or not?

      2. lots of people saying this is true. The wife of my colleague’s best friend got an email about it, too. It’s how Obama gained his citizenship – he threatened to crush some kneecaps. The letters SEIU stand for “Crush All the Heathens’ Collective Kneecaps” in KiSwahili. Didn’t you know all this?

        1. it can go directly to fact checking free Fox for wide and uncritical distribution.  Their standard?  It must be true because we heard it somewhere or maybe somebody saw it on the internets.  In any case, it’s now up to Obama to prove it’s not true, not that posting proof on the internets will be acceptable coming from him.  In fact, let the first thing on the GOP agenda be legislation to force Obama to come clean about this. There must be some long form document we should force him to come up with before we shut up. Look what you’ve gone and done now, Ardy.  

  10. Not sure what to think about this…? (Other than no love lost between McGrumpy and the Deciderer).  

    http://www.boston.com/bostongl…

    Trying to be even-handed and polite, the Brits said something diplomatic about McCain’s campaign, expecting Bush to express some warm words of support for the Republican candidate.

    Not a chance. “I probably won’t even vote for the guy,” Bush told the group, according to two people present. “I had to endorse him. But I’d have endorsed Obama if they’d asked me.”

  11. “Wartorn,” from the Civil War to the present.

    I heard some Civil War letters read aloud on Socialist Public Radio that astounded me. A young man writes home about his CO killing himself. Several years later said young man could not perform his duties, was mustered out.  Before long, he shot himself.

    Roun’ and roun’ we go…….

    1. The Best Years of Our Lives

      Winning seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture), this classic drama follows three World War II veterans — Homer (Harold Russell), Al (Fredric March) and Fred (Dana Andrews) — as they return to small-town America and try to come to terms with their experiences. Best Supporting Actor Russell, a real veteran who lost his hands in the war, also won an Honorary Oscar “for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans.”

      http://www.netflix.com/Movie/T…

      Hello, George Clooney? Remake this now!

  12. Would you buy any book from this author?

    Would you buy this book?

    Why would anyone consider a photo full of wood

    and wide stances appropriate for the intended audience?



    Image from Amazon

    In case you’ve forgotten, you’re familiarity with the author George Alan Rekers is likely due to his hypocrisy being exposed during the “RentBoy” saga.

      1. But hey – if this get-together works on the 20th, what say we have a ColoradoPols Slurpee Summit in the ‘burbs this summer?

        that, or a Libs vs Cons shoot-off at a firing range?

  14. From Dan Maes Facebook:

    “I am moving on to another private venture that will merge my entrepreneurial, small business experience with the political world with hopes of guiding and supporting the second half of the conservative revolution in Colorado,” he wrote. “Stay tuned for more on this in the next week or two.”

    “Dominoes Pizza…Dan Speaking.  Would you like to try one of our specials or talk about the tea party tonight?”

  16. The republicans are targeting Social Security, Medicare, the National Park Service, CPR/PBS…..the middle class, the environment…Hegemonists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony)!

    Globalization practiced by hegemonists is ultimately self defeating. Unsustainable. Unwise. Impractible. Immoral.

    There are so many energetic, smart and compassionate human beiings on this site (ok…18 of you:-), I sleep well at night.

  18. 9 News is reporting that the state’s food stamp computer program is chocking on to much input again.  I’d link but I can’t get it to work.  When is someone going to step in a fix this POS that Owens dumped on us?

      1. What a lot of people don’t understand is that testing & bug fixing can only improve software within the range of the quality of the original code. You can put a Porsche body on a Yugo – but it’s still a Yugo.

        They will keep hiring expensive consulting companies that will throw bodies at it – and then continue to be surprised that it’s not getting better. Here’s hoping that the unexpected happens and I get on that I.T. committee.

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