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(D) Phil Weiser
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Att. General
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(D) Alexis King
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Sec. of State
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(D) George Stern
(D) A. Gonzalez
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(D) Brianna Titone
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(D) Jerry DiTullio
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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(D) Jason Crow*
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
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February 14, 2011 04:45 PM UTC
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“I came out and a bear was crapping in my car and drinking my beer…”
good thing he didn’t leave the keys in ignition
In the 70’s I was living in Boulder, went out to my car in the morning to go to work, and there was some hippie sleeping in it.
At least he didn’t crap in it.
ROTFLMAO!
(Was that really you? 🙂
Then there’s the grandstanding…
The talking heads…
More grandstanding…
Behind closed doors negotiations…
More talking heads…
More grandstanding..
More closed doors…
It’s exhausting to watch but eventually we may get a budget…
Hi,
Here is a new conspiracy I do not believe.
Colorado Pols, Progress Now and Colorado Ethics watch are all funded by Pat Stryker and they are operated by Alan Franklin. They are operatives of the Democrat Party. They have broken numerous campaign finance laws and possibly face millions in fines and legal fees.
Basically everything at Colorado Pols is astroturf and the commentators who post are nothing more than useful idiots.
What a crazy conspiracy. Read here to learn more.
http://www.peoplespresscollect…
…but I haven’t gotten my instructions from George Soros this morning.
I’ll check back later.
But it is good to know I’m considered a useful idiot (as opposed to a useless idiot).
Nice to have a healthy dose of self esteem from time to time.
I’m not saying a very sharp tool, mind you. Sometimes all you need is something blunt after all.
there’s people involved here in some way . . . , and . . . and, and that this isn’t just some kind of diabolical cosmological experiment — the random keyboard slappings of a million monkeys — trying to recreate a work of Shakespeare? and . . . that the universe follows a plan and pattern of order, and, . . . and, that there is a Dog?
Do you know what that means? There . . . is . . . a . . . Beagle!!!
(How’s that for “useful”?)
as the peoplespresscollectiveidiots. I just voted Beej off the island in the weekend thread and this little Marky nutter can now join him.
I took a peek at the PPC yesterday. Once was too many. This may be a case of going so far to the left that they bumped into and took lessons from the Beckster and Hannity.
this coming from the virtual jackbooted bloggers at the hypocritical PPC is rich.
Is ColPols offering blogging workshops? No, didn’t think so. But any & all radicals united for freedom willing to pony up some righteous bucks and adhere to the TeaBagger credo can take their How2Hate 101 (or something like it) blog workshop.
Just ask lil’ Johnson (an always misguided GOP’er & sometimes poster). He’s damned proud of learning just enuff journo skills to make him think his biased basement bigotry merits attention. Thanks PPC for your unvarnished ‘truth.’
Then why post it in detail? And why the half-assed disclaimer?
Every one of your posts is moronic and harebrained, full of malicious insinuations and childish attention-seeking. You’re almost as bad as Ralphie.
That is exactly what the Alan wanted you to say.
Here I thought utterly disinterested nonpartisans were spending hundreds of hours maintaining this thing.
/yawn
Do ranting nitwits pimping their blogs have a snooze button? It’s too Monday for this crap.
I hate this holiday. I spend the entire day waiting to make sure the 4 deliveries I ordered – are delivered. Having a wife & 3 daughters makes this my most stressful day of the year. And there’s no upside.
At least you have all your daughters.
sorry – I shouldn’t have written this.
Enjoy. It’s a big day for all of your girls.
And for you too!
VD is the dumbest made-for-retail event ever. Somebody had to say it.
I don’t need Hallmark to tell me when it’s time to appreciate the people I love.
but I do enjoy Valentines Day.
But VD the disease is not a retail event so comparing it to today’s red hearts and chocolate event is kind of like comparing apples to sail boats … other than they share an acronym.
what acronym do apples and sailboats share?
but Valentine’s Day and venereal disease share an acronym.
It’s also Mrs. Punk’s birthday.
I used to make poor Mr. Hopeful suffer over Valentine’s Day because he never did anything good enough. Then Young Master Hopeful came along so very soon after VDay, and now it is nothing but a chore. I did make poor Mr. H suffer badly, though, and he always gets me flowers in self-defense, which means I have to get him chocolate (so there will be chocolate in the house since he gets me flowers) and while I’m at it, I get Young Master Hopeful chocolate (same reason) and it’s a right pain in the ass, and ultimately it’s all my fault because when I was spoiled and single I made a big deal over it and made poor Mr. H suffer. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
I woke up today so blissfully happy that I don’t have to worry about Valentine’s Day. It’s not just stressful for the gentlemen, ya know. We progressive girls not only have to buy gifts too, we have to worry about being appropriately appreciative of whatever gesture a gentleman may happen to make on that day, yet not excited enough to risk it coming across as materialism, and then there’s the figuring out who makes dinner reservations and whose turn it is to pay… high-pressure holidays stink!
But much love to you for gifting your daughters on V-day as well as your wife, despite the stress. Loving fathers can make such a lifelong positive impact.
from Slashdot
It was built in the 1930’s by labor and materials provided by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
So next time you’re at at concert there, thank FDR and the New Deal.
When are they gonna sell that to a private company who can paint their logo all over those rocks? That’s WASTED AD SPACE going to waste up there!
OTOH, last summer I went to a show at Red Rocks (Rush, first time in 25 years I’d seen them) and beer was something like $7 or $8 – even worse than at a pro sporting event. (Except maybe football – I haven’t been to a Broncos game in 30 years, so I don’t know what they charge for beer). So, good for the capitalists at the City and County.
To most of the public, hidden in plain sight. To the cons, invisible.
My junior high in Huntington, NY was WPA. Many national park lodges and trails are CCC. The beautiful Black Forest east of I-25 between Denver-ish and CO Springs was overfarmed as homesteads. The big rain of 1935 came, flooded Elbert Creek and washed out land and homes. Enter the CCC. They build retention dams, which you can find in what is now forest, all over the area.
Many, many men and their families made it through The First Republican Great Depression with the help of CCC payrolls.
And let’s not forget the “terrible government waste” of having photographers and writers chronicle America, writing a book on every state, plus other works. Much maligned, they are now considered invaluable sources of history and society at that time.
The CCC was allegedly also a wink wink training for military efforts to probably come.
I’m reading “Eleanor and Franklin” right now, as a matter of fact.
They got SERIOUSLY hit by the WPA stick. Tons of sites!
Actually, it really is a pretty cool little town to visit. Greyhound Hall of Fame, Eisenhower Museum, a little bus/trolley that takes you around to see all the Victorian mansions that were built when it was the terminus for the railroad east in the trail driving days…and they have an old carousel with a steam calliope! For a town of about 6000 people, they do a bang-up job on tourist sites!
has the “Mike the Headless Chicken Festival.”
He would have covered that.
For one, the policy of “quantitative easing” versus “austerity policies” would have to be seriously looked at, and that would be a good thing. Why, you might ask? Because then politicians and policy makers would have to start framing the debate accurately. It would change to “fiat creation” and “living within our means”.
France is calling for a new global reserve currency:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/02…
For you economists who are smarter than I about this, any comment?
Pay the U.N. peacekeepers in UNars as a first step. Then order black helicopters and blue helmets but at delivery, pay in UNars.
Bwahahahaha………
And Saudi Arabia.
And Iran.
And Japan.
and and and…
And any and everyone who anyone is up for trying.
It’s kind of hard thing to do intentionally. It’s not like everyone woke up one day (in the late 30’s) and said Hey- let’s dump pound sterling and hold dollars.
Currency, like most assets, is bought and sold partly on it’s actual value and partly on it’s perceived value. That balance is shifty and not entirely controllable.
Ever since Nixon formally declared the end of the gold standard for US dollars, others have tried to displace the dollar.
If I was a gambler, I’d guess unless or until OPEC can do it, no one can. At least as long as oil production matters as much as it does now.
OPEC talks about it even more than our domestic separatists, and yet even most their members buy and hold dollars when they can choose.
So, France?
Home of Vichy? And the franc? I don’t think so.
The EC could make a run for the euro, but not while the memory of Greece is so fresh and Ireland is worse.
So- the yen? doubtful.
Yuan? Not until China lets the exchange float, or demonstrates a long term commitment to preserving its over valued status. (Like 50 or 100 years)
So- as f*’*ed as the dollar is, and as upside down our fiscal and monetary policy have become – the dollar is still easier to trust than everyone else.
I am completely shocked. Thats just crazy.
One of the few kinda, sorta, maybe plausible theories I read somewhere (no, I don’t have a link from 2003) about why we invaded Iraq was that Saddam was threatening to switch to Euro-based oil pricing. Once oil went to Euros, everything else would be sure to follow and we’d be completely f*cked.
I haven’t seen anything since then that substantiated this theory.
We could have invaded dozens of countries with ties to AQ or OBL. But Iraq has big oil.
As for the switch to Euro- Iraq could have switched, unless most of OPEC switches it doesn’t work.
was that if Iraq switched to the Euro, other OPEC nations would follow. That said, it’s hard to imagine Saudi Arabia would be on board.
I’m pretty excited about the showdown between Ken Jennings, that other guy, and IBM’s Watson.
http://www.jeopardy.com (So stupid that I still don’t know how to make a hyperlink instead of having to type the URL.)
(I know. This has nothing to do with Colorado or politics, but let me try to make it relevant in two steps:
1) Ken Jennings is from Utah.
2) ColoradoPols once declared war on Utah.
Done and done.)
But with Keith gone, Jeopardy might be more fun.
See, I don’t watch.
So was Keith.
So I’ll watch tonite. I have been following the Watson story, like to see how it does.
Because I refuse to link to the Daily Prophet:
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.ht…
Unless, of course, he now tries to un-retire and sign with our Arch-rivals, the Red Wings….
Flies by Comet 9P/Tempel tonight.
Closest approach is 9:37 Mountain time tonight. First pictures should arrive about 11:00 our time.
Watch on NASA-TV on the web or if your cable system carries it.
Connection to Colorado is that it was built and flown by Lockheed-Martin Denver. It has been in space for 12 years and has photographed an asteroid (Annefrank), returned samples from the coma of Comet Wild 2, and flew by and photographed Comet Hartley. This time it will photograph the crater created on comet 9P/Tempel by the Deep Impact spacecraft.
… oh … heh heh … err … ummm … it looks like the thugs are actually the products of (and contractors for) the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The US CoC hired “security” firms to collect data on opponents in order to attempt to discredit them. Millions of dollars later it turns out their methods were likely illegal. Of course the only way we now know about this is due to some hacked email accounts. We all know that there’s nothing to be seen in others’ emails except phrases taken out of context.
Here are the stories:
From ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents
ChamberLeaks: Pro-Chamber Conspiracy Illicitly Scraped Facebook
From Mother Jones:
ChamberLeaks: What Did The Chamber Know?
Hacked Emails Detail Plan to Entrap, Discredit Opponents of US Chamber
And h/t to DeSmogBlog:
U.S. Chamber Launches Covert Attacks on Their Political Opponents
Remember when the Tea Party boosted the Republicans into the majority in the house, and they returned the favor by requiring that all bills cite the section of the Constitution authorizing that legislation? It was actually codified in the House rules.
It appears that the authors of H.R 358 the “Protect Life Act” don’t remember that either.
Besides keeping the “forcible rape” language previously savaged far and wide, there’s nary a mention of the chapter and verse the new rules require.
Our latest installment finds the Ministry clinging to failed strategies of old: sliming Pretty-Much-Everyone-Else, whenever such ‘heretics’ dare voice (or blog) the Unanswerables.
Defense Minister Dearth O’Reazon has seemingly decreed that any who question to what end their band operates must be exposed; each and all making the disagreeable choice to disagree self-identify as The Enemy, on the wrong side of de fence, as it were.
Thusly with the force of yet another diary, s/he issues forth with mightily sparse minions to stamp upon the lingering heresies of Obvious Questions; blogging destruction and threatening to terminate the veil of use, manifesting as Supreme Asshole.
And all just to make a point-that you should either have the Approved Opinion or STFU–Because nothing matters more than winning.
Next Installment: Must the Poker Chip Children be used to settle this moldy old score? Can we yet climb from the Pit of Petty Vendettas? Tune in soon for another episode of the Same Old Shit.