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January 01, 2021 12:06 AM UTC

2021 Open Thread #1

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Don’t jinx it.

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  2. What's the cuisine at your house to have a good year?  Hoppin' John and its black-eyed peas? Tamales?  Good luck pigs, or Glücksschwein? A King cake?

    Don't know if we'll have a batch of my mother-in-law's posole recipe today or on January 6, New Mexico's admission date.  But it will appear, and the year will be better for it.

    2. A dear departed friend used to do a complete “soul food” dinner on New Year’s Day: collard greens, chitlins, black eye peas. In her memory, and because I find the smell of cooking chitlins unbearable, I usually opt for either “a mess a greens” or the black eye peas with ham hocks. 
      But this year it’s a cauliflower crust quiche with mushrooms and spinach.

        1. I just wish I was at their house. have a sick wife today. She's had problems with her gut for years and it's flared up this week. Not an auspicious start to the year.frown

              1. It's worth a try – she might find she needs to eliminate some foods, but can tolerate small amounts of others. Lactose intolerance is another thing to explore – I had to switch from cream in my coffee to pea milk.

              2. About 1.8 percnt of the population has celiac disease, including my wife.  Easily tested for and treatment is to avoid gluten.  I don't have any idea if that's karen's problem but hope she gets better soon.  The world is short of good people like you two.

    4. Dirty martinis and dirty martinis . . .

      . . . It may be a new year, but I see no good sense in tempting fate by risking sobriety again just yet, so close to the 20th.

      (PS to anyone out there looking forward to dining on the same “good-luck” dishes you had last New Year’s Day: . . .

      . . . Have you taken a look at any of Taco Bell’s new menu items, yet? . . .)

  3. At this point, I think it useful to remind everyone that, while we are all happy to be welcoming a new year, it is not time to relax.

    We are being eaten up by a raging contagion, and we better not encapsulate this horror with a calender year and try to forget it. Now is the time when we are particularly vulnerable. I haven’t had a live audience (‘cept for the dog, the cat, and my Cat) since early March. I don’t expect to be “live” until June.

    Of course, we are ALL tired of it. But I beg you my friends. Look at what is happening today in California. Get a vaccination as soon as you can…stay at home, unless you must go out…wear a mask and avoid bare-faced morons…wash your hands, frequently. Please.

    I plan to have a truly happy and prosperous 2021. But my odds decrease if I believe it is time to relegate the pandemic to last year.

    COVID-19 is still killing us and sending us to the “poor house”. DON’T LET UP…STAY SAFE…IT AIN’T OVER.

    Thanks for reading my rant.

    Happy New Year.

    1. Valid points about not easing up on covid precautions …but we also have to find good ways to connect with other humans and make money, not necessarily in that order. I treated my extended family to a socially distanced “Zoo lights” walkthrough , and we’ll also tour the Chatfield Trail of Lights. 
       

      So there are ways to go out and enjoy culture and beauty…we just have to be creative about it. In the meanwhile, I’ll keep on zooming my family catch-ups and church services, and keep on writing and irritating the usual suspects on here.😷

      1. And I appreciate your writing (nearly all of the time) and irritating (some of the time), kwtree. 

        To all the regulars I'm coming to [virtually] know … Happy New Year.  May your days be increasingly merry and bright.

    2. Totally agree re: COVID precautions, Duke. The spread of the disease will continue to get worse for a while. And yes, get the vaccine as soon as you can. It's sad that there are so many disparities between counties and states re: access to the vaccine. It shouldn't be that way.

  4. It’s a brand new year.  But Trump is still president — and he still stinks.

    Sigh.

    However, my cop son-in-law received his covid vaccine shot. Mild side effects.

    His dad, and the parents of my granddaughter’s beau are all home from hospital, groggy from covid but likely to live.

    Our little family had a great dinner and lots of vodka gimlets last night.

    Life, after a fashion, goes on.

    Until it doesn’t.

    Happy New Year.

     

    2. Still 18 days for Mexico to pay for the wall, the virus to magically wash away, and grandpa kkkrazypants to produce a beautiful health care plan (plus we could have 2.5 Infrastructure Weeks).
       

      Keep the faith!!

  5. Steven Brandenburg was identified by jail booking records as the rogue Wisconsin pharmacist who sabotaged 57 vials ( ~ 500 doses) of the Covid19 vaccine. 
     

    Anyover/ under on Brandenburg being a Trump supporter or QAnon believer?

    I did a little research on donor records, couldn’t find anything matching.

        1. 50/50 based on the national popular Biden/dump vote but Wisconsin went for Biden (barely) then the rising number of female ISIS and QAnon terrorists (but majority of QAnon believers are women) shifts that off 50/50 but by how much and which direction I don’ want to guess.

          You had the correct link, yes. I was able to fix mine.

  10. This was my 2020 prediction on 12/26/19:  

    I predict 2020 will be one of the worst years in American history.  It will begin with a sham impeachment trial in the Senate.  It will end with the ugliest, most divisive election marked by lie after lie after lie.  Gardner will be ousted and Crow re-elected, but that will be cold comfort.  

    I hope I’m wrong

    My prediction for 2021:  America gets back to normal as Trump is ousted and forgotten, the vaccines bring Covid under control, businesses and schools reopen.  Broncos and Rockies suck, Nuggets disappoint, and maybe the Avs make it to the Stanley Cup finals.  Back to same as it ever was — I hope.

  11. MSNBC has a story about Generation Z Republicans and their hopes and expectations for the future of their party. The reporter said they were unanimous in their belief that Trumpism will be the focus of the GOP. But, they also said they wanted the Republican party to, "become more tolerant and inclusive, while staying true to conservative values"

    In my experience, intolerance and exclusivity have traditionally been " conservative" values…but never more so than as a central tenet of that very same " Trumpism". It seems incredibly naive to believe that tolerance lies within any definition of "Trumpism".

     

    1. Trumpism is based on tolerance, Duke.  Maggots tolerate Proud Boys, Nazis, war criminals, perjurers, tax cheats, wife beaters, vote suppression, corporate socialism, massive pollution, global warming and the designated hitter rule.

       

       

  14. I know y’all will be *shocked* 

    Koch Industries Is Top Corporate Donor to Reps Who Will Try to Overturn Democracy

    Topping the list of single company PACs is the PAC of Koch Industries, the fossil fuel conglomerate owned and led by billionaire GOP megadonor Charles Koch. In 2020, Koch PAC donated $40,000 to the campaigns of five Republicans who met with Trump about the coup attempt—including the maximum allowed contribution amounts in the primary and general elections to Biggs, Hice, and Jordan. Altogether, Koch PAC has given $198,500 to the campaigns of seven coup promoters over their political careers, the most of any single company PAC.

     

  15. Colorado elector Alan Kennedy stands with Pence, against Gohmert – Colorado Newsline.

    “Judge Kernodle’s dismissal of this frivolous lawsuit by Rep. Gohmert and fake electors is a tremendous victory for the electoral process and the rule of law,” said Kennedy in an email to Newsline. “President Trump and his supporters’ last-ditch efforts to overturn the election have failed.”

    The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas, asked the court to strike down an 1887 law, the Electoral Count Act, that describes how Congress should process Electoral College results. The vice president in his constitutional role as president of the Senate presides over the counting of electoral votes in Congress. Gohmert and the other plaintiffs in the lawsuit wanted to secure authority for Pence to decide whether electoral votes are valid. Such authority could have allowed him to overturn the results in favor of President Trump.

    So… Bernie Sanders pumped Trump’s $2,000 tweet, and a CO Democratic elector is defending VP Pence against Gohmert. Who is, of course, threatening mayhem in the streets if when his lawsuit is dismissed. 
    Can we go back through the looking glass now, please?

    1. And with that dismissal for lack of standing, the forces of Trump now stand at 1 win and 60 losses in post-election court decisions about the Presidential contest.  60 losses in 60 days — seems likely to become a Guinness Book record.

      1. And Goober Gohmert’s appeal was dismissed today. Shall we expect to see him in the streets, crisscrossed with ammo belts, bravely leading the throngs of Boogaloos, Proud Boys, and Three Percenters? I’m sure that prison for promoting sedition and losing his Congressional seat would be a small price to pay for, uh, Liberty? 
         

        Well, no. 

        But Gohmert is definitely “revolting”, so there’s that.

    1. I don't accept them with drinks any more. So far, I have not been offered a paper straw. I hope we can make a real effort to reduce our use of plastics. Microplastic particles are becoming ubiquitous worldwide.

      I can't prove it, but I don't think that is a healthy thing.

      1. Different people need different levels of proof but evidence abounds. It's as prolific as the plastics in our environment.

        Here's one source of info:

        Microplastics

        Once at sea, sunlight, wind, and wave action break down plastic waste into small particles, often less than one-fifth of an inch across. These so-called microplastics are spread throughout the water column and have been found in every corner of the globe, from Mount Everest, the highest peak, to the Mariana Trench, the deepest trough.

        Microplastics are breaking down further into smaller and smaller pieces. Plastic microfibers, meanwhile, have been found in municipal drinking water systems and drifting through the air.

      2. I carry a tote bag when I go out. It has a handful of straws in it. I haven't added a new one in a couple of years. I just put them through the dishwasher and put them back in the bag. I use them because I have metal dental work on my front teeth that makes cold beverages really hurt.

  17. A: Cory Gardner

    Q: Who spinelessly did not vote on the recent Senate decision to override $rump’s veto of the Defense Authorization Act?

    Not voting were Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, both in the last days before a runoff election set for Tuesday, as well as Cory Gardner of Colorado, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Ben Sasse of Nebraska. Democrat Doug Jones of Alabama also did not vote.

  18. Trump openly solicits election fraud, threatens public official. His call to GA Secretary of State Raffensperger and Raffensperger’s attorney was recorded, and it is mind-blowing.

     

    How is this not worse than Watergate? Does he just figure anything goes now? Has he consulted with Putin on how to start poisoning his adversaries? I hope Pelosi wears gloves now.

          1. I was about to be upset about it, but then I realize that award has already been tainted with Limbaugh cooties…so …give one to Rudy…and Ron Johnson…and the MyPillow guy..hey! Medals for everyone!!!

  19. In my best Parah Sailin' voice, "How's that working out for you?"

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