“We suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
–Seneca
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Chris was the Rifle resident who became ill from emissions from a poorly maintained natural gas well across the road from her home. She seveloped a panoply of serious medical conditions, including a pituitary tumor. Her story was very well told by Deb Anderson, who produced and directed the Emmy-winning film, “Split Estate”.
Chris has lost her struggle to regain her health. She passed away this week, succumbing to a third pituitary tumor. Her story is so tragic, it is difficult for me to contemplate the unbelievable injustice and the terrible agony she suffered for so long.
Her memorial service will be held on Saturday Dec 11th at the Callahan Edfast Mortuary at 10:00 am in Grand Junction. The address is 2515 Patterson Rd, Grand Junction.
God rest her soul.
from PoliticsDaily
Probably NSFW even though she is wearing some sheer lingerie…but damn I hope she follows David’s advice when I’m going thru screening…
http://www.tinynibbles.com/blo…
Above is a video of a woman who, one day ago got on an international flight from Sea-Tac (Seattle) to Sri Lanka. She is an exhibitionist and an activist. She is still in transit, but before she got on her plane, she stripped down to transparent lingerie and recorded her volatile journey through TSA security. The video came out amazingly well and it is intense to watch. The woman is blogger Furrygirl; she did a blog post about the experience here but her site is currently down until she gets to a location where she can fix it. Meanwhile, you can follow her here on Twitter. She does not get 100% naked, but her outfit is transparent and you can see everything.
Where’s the bra bomber? Instead it was a dude in jockeys. Attention to detail, people!
Now I would make a joke about how happy I am it worked out this way, but if the TSA uniforms were sluttier… well, we’ve all seen that porn set up. I’ve never had an urge to make porn, but if forced I’d like my ten dollars*. Please.
*The internet has really cheapened that industry. Sad really.
…is frequency.
I fly zero, once, or twice a year. Am I going to worry about this? Hell, no.
But as we all know, some people practically live on airplanes. If I was one of them, I’d be worried.
One of the problems with claims like the quotes above is that we are talking really difficult to predict consequences because of the very low dosage and the thousands of other confounders in modern life. I’m as leary of this statement as I am of the TSA’s.
I would suggest men place a dildo in their underwear, women in their…um,…..
That should cause some panic.
Though I think some competence would be nice.
If you don’t know who Adam Savage is, google Mythbusters.
Robert Decheine, who was a senior advisor on President Obama’s 2008 campaign, as well as chief of staff to two Democratic Representatives has been arrested for sexual solicitation of a minor.
Mr. Decheine allegedly responded to who he thought was a fifteen year old online, but was actually a Maryland police officer.
New Jersey Democrat, Rep. Steve Rothman immediately fired Decheine, who had been with him since 2003. Previously he had been chief of staff to Democratic Representative Bill Luther of Minnesota.
…if he was a Repub, I’m sure we’d be hearing all kinds of accusations of media bias and how he was framed by the liberal media. And how the Party stand by him, until they’d fire him late Friday evening after the press had gone home.
Once the story broke, Faux News would run a graphic under the B-roll that identifies the perp as a member of the other political party, and would quickly go to another story about Natalee Holloway.
I think the facts speak for themselves in this case. He fell into a sting because he was trying to do so something bad, end of story.
Being immediately fired seems the best course of action in a situation like this. That is really all the Dems or any of our elected officials can do to him. The rest is up to the criminal law system.
When editors at the University of California Press pondered the possible demand for “Autobiography of Mark Twain,” a $35, four-pound, 500,000-word doorstopper of a memoir, they kept their expectations modest with a planned print run of 7,500 copies.
Now it is a smash hit across the country, landing on best-seller lists and going back to press six times, for a total print run – so far – of 275,000. The publisher cannot print copies quickly enough, leaving some bookstores and online retailers stranded without copies just as the holiday shopping season begins.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11…
I don’t know if I share the sentiment about Twain being a blogger if he was alive today, but I know he’d have a lot of smartass comments about Republicans at the ready….
is one of the most powerful things I’ve ever read, Parse.
that is the one prayer that I have heard that is far-too-often answered.
Listening to NPR this morning I heard a story of a Ross Ranch in CO that has war survivors visit for some R&R. Incredible stories of tragic consequences of useless and stupid and expensive wars. The insanity of it all boggles any reasonable persons mind!
A zillion years ago I read the lyrics to his song in a public speaking class with the assignment on poetry. I thought this was a good poem.
In the front row was one of those chirpy smiling Baptists (not to demean all Baptists)and I read this to him, in effect. I remember him squirming and avoiding my eyes.
Gott mit uns!
“With God On Our Side”
Oh my name it is nothin’
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I’s taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And the land that I live in
Has God on its side.
Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.
The Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I’s made to memorize
With guns on their hands
And God on their side.
The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don’t count the dead
When God’s on your side.
When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.
I’ve learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It’s them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.
But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we’re forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God’s on your side.
In a many dark hour
I’ve been thinkin’ about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can’t think for you
You’ll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.
So now as I’m leavin’
I’m weary as Hell
The confusion I’m feelin’
Ain’t no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God’s on our side
He’ll stop the next war.
This is an issue that should unite the country. In fact, there are rumblings of reducing military spending from both sides of the aisle. It won’t come fast enough, or the cuts deep enough, for this pacifist child.
Invisible, it seems to most Americans. I don’t think it’s been mentioned in the press if the reduce-the-debt commission brought this up, or to what degree if they did.
We have over 700 bases around the world outside of America. WTF? And we aren’t an empire? The founding fathers, so revered by cons, had a fucking revolution to avoid being part of an empire.
Like all the austerity programs suddenly popular in Europe, these changes are being put onto the backs of the middle and (economically) lower classes. The rich get the benefits of our society, yet they aren’t being asked to shoulder the burden.
I am glad I got to be part of the middle class during a good part of my life.
Disappointing to watch it wither as the one-percenters order bigger yachts so they can winter in Dubai.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…
What are guys doing on their down time at the FOB? Playing Black Ops.
Check out the whole thread at Doonesbury.com…
on this Hugh Jidette thing? (I get so confused by that teh google contraption.U
he said “no” to your request for an interview?
My two cents. ;~)
The commercials are pretty dumb, but the actual goal has some merit, IMO. I posted about it in an open thread last week.
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
The people behind the ads say they’re created so that it will be a wake up call to average Americans about the debt–hence the dumb ads.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/…
Woo Hoo!!!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
It took the jury 26 hours of deliberations (they’ve been going at it since Monday), but they convicted DeLay on all counts.
IMHO the law was pretty clear, and DeLay conspired to break it; hopefully he gets to spend some time behind bars for his attempts to illegally influence the elections process in Texas.
of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
and the evil liberal media, like NPR, which should lose all their funding and…
Hopefully, his Dancing with the Stars gig will give him street cred with his new buddies in the Big House.
Under the law, he could get life. Abramoff gets out next month.
…I can only hope that they decided that “The Hammer” is fit enough to work on a Texas road crew, shoveling hot asphalt and picking up trash in the gorgeous Texas sunshine.
They did keep the Austin Hill country back roads neat, clean and repaired while I was there…maybe he can view it as a new way to do public service!
In 2002, a PAC that DeLay ran sent soft money to the RNC, then the RNC sent hard money to TX legislative candidates.
I think that was a pretty common, and legal, practice by BOTH parties back in the day.
No?
You heard none of the testimony.
Therefore, what you don’t understand doesn’t mean shit.
HTAT was asking a question, and it’s a fair question. How is what DeLay did different from business as usual funneling money from one PAC or 527 or c3 or c4 or c6 to another, same as the Senate Majority Fund and Trailhead did back in the day?
Someone who understands the law and the government’s case should be able to explain it, and someone asking the question should be able to do so without being insulted.
It was a jury trial.
You want to make a different argument? Go ahead. It has nothing to do with DeLay’s conviction.
In Texas, it’s illegal for corporations to give money directly to (state and local) candidates, and has been for a long, long time. Post Citizens United, it’s (probably) legal for corporations to make independent expenditures in those races, but it’s still illegal for them to donate directly to candidates.
DeLay took money from the corporations, bundled it as “PAC” money, and then sent it to the RNC with the understanding that it be sent to Texas legislative candidate campaign committees. His PAC donated $190,000 to the RNC for this purpose – an amount that would be illegal under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that went into effect the day after the 2002 elections. (So no, it’s not “normal”.)
As far as the charges, it’s money laundering because it was a pre-meditated deliberate circumvention of the anti-corporate donation laws of Texas. And conspiracy because multiple people were involved.
but it doesn’t stop it being the law. Clearly the jury found that the “soft” money was meant for a specific purpose, a purpose that is illegal under Texas law.
When you give illegal funds to a different entity to then give to another person, in an effort to hide the identity of the person giving the money, you’ve laundered that money.
And yes, the jury part does matter. Defining the first contribution as being directly related to the final contribution is why DeLay is guilty or not. So the reason someone who didn’t follow the trial may be confused is because they didn’t hear the direct evidence, proving beyond a reasonable doubt apparently, that demonstrates that fact.
it was politically motivated you see, and the jury was made up of 12 Democratic committeemen from the most liberal precincts in the jury pool, and they all watch Rachel Maddow every night and they think George W Bush is a war criminal.
I’m sure DeLay’s lawyers didn’t know the first thing about jury selection and were fresh out of law school. Or maybe they were blind orphans and DeLay just hired them because he wanted to help out a charity law firm.
The Laughing Boy defense (see Stapleton, Walker: DUI)
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
Nobody gives a shit what you think or what you do.
You’re a pissant, not worthy of thought.
I’ll wear my old chain link armor from the Round Table.
I never acknowledged the pissant. I knew you’d cut him down for me — and for others.
My hero!
None of us asked, and until you EARN your place at the table, you have no standing.
What have you done for me lately?
What has that media darling SP done for anyone lately?
Get your proverbial head out of your ass.
🙂 I see how it works both ways.
You’re such a liar.
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
paraphrase from the piece you linked above.
which can be translated to: “continue to be selfish motherfuckers”.
Your commitment to self-delusion is extraordinary.
or what you’re attempting to establish with your link. Can you explain?
It’s been so nice.
You asked for my definition of a common sense conservative. I gave it to you. You then said nobody ever asked me for it. This makes you…
a BIG FAT LIAR!
My apologies. I’ve taken the time to read the Palin excerpt. Gawd, what a tortured writer…reflecting somewhat a tortured mind IMO.
Vitrol in Polsland tonight.
That’s too bad. I don’t know why but I think that many of us seem to have forgotten that the primary reason God gave us families and holidays was so that we could take out all our borishness and unseemliness among those least likely to ever abandon us. And then, thankfully, by so doing we can appear to strangers and others in the general population to be rational, polite, and well-mannered.
On a completely serious note. Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone. Spend as much time as you can in human interaction with your friends and family. As Sherman Potter once noted, remember someone back home loves you . . . God knows why.
Your sentiments are much appreciated.
Not that I haven’t let fly from time to time, but it seems so very personal now. And frequent. And the same persons repeatedly.
Sometimes as I read a vitriolic thread I am perplexed as the the reason the vitriol started. And some Polsters seem to hold grudges from way back.
Life’s too short for that.