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February 21, 2011 04:37 PM UTC

Presidents' Day Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

–George Washington

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  2. ….college DOES end eventually, right?

    On the bright side, I can now tell you all about employee retention at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Petco and Petsmart’s comparative competitive strategies, and how Pal’s Sudden Service reduced transactional errors through comprehensive employee training.

    Goodnightmorning! See you at the Agriculture, Livestock, and Natural Resources hearing, 1:30 PM, HCR 0107, if anyone else is attending.

    1. But then you have to get a job. My middle daughter graduates this May and is now interviewing like crazy – and it’s super stressful the first time around. (Anyone need a Biology graduate who is incredibly responsible and self-motivated – email me!)

      1. … likely goes w/o saying that she’s contacting Array, Atugen, Emergent Genetics, OSI, Proligo, Amgen, Sirna, Soma, …

        and up around SanFran, CA there’s a concentration of Biotechs/biopharma.  

      2. I’ve been a part-time college student while working full-time since 2006. I’m on the slo-o-o-o-w track! The good part is I love my job and they don’t mind my not having a degree yet, and when I do graduate I’ll have 5 years of experience in my field already.

        On the not so good side, I think I get a full night’s sleep about once every two weeks.

        Best of luck to your daughter! Is she willing to relocate? Or, are you willing to encourage her to? I have family in the life sciences, but they’re all out of state. I could put out some feelers if you think she might like Oregon.  

          1. And considering I’ve had barn buddies mentioning that rescue in progress to me for two weeks, somebody at 9 news has got to be on our side, putting the story out when they did.

    3. I’m still bummed I forgot about the last meet up (see sig line) and am going out of my way to meet fellow polsters.

      So if you see this, have time and the desire, post something, and we’ll try to work it out. I work about three blocks from the Gold Dome.

      1. …I’m bringing my niece (gotta program them early, and she’s got more hours logged rescuing dogs than most adults do already) and her mother would probably ship me back to my parents in a matchbox if I took her daughter to have lunch with a stranger from the Internet.

        I’m still going to the rescheduled GITG if you can make it to Lakewood next Saturday though!  

              1. The older of the two, is going blind. I guess that’s why God gave Dog noses.

                The youngest, is SUCH a dog. Whenever either my wife or I look in any animals eyes, we’ll see our younger Django in those eyes.

                How’s the nursing gig going?  

                1. a living wage, however I am still going back to school to advance my nursing degree. I hope the legislator won’t price me out of going back ro school.  

                2. Blind animals get around amazingly well, don’t they?

                  I like how you put it. My dog absolutely rescued me. I don’t know where I would be without him.

            2. My puppy may embarrass me, though. He’s pretty sure he’s not a dog, so he kind of looks down on dogs. He knew me before he knew his mother, so I can’t blame him. He was stillborn and had to be resuscitated at birth, so I was holding him inside my shirt keeping him warm and making sure his heart kept beating until he was definitely vital enough to put him down and let him nurse.

          2. Ask me about my foster dogs. Or my niece and sister’s foster dogs. I am on pause right now because I just moved and I’m still settling into a new routine, but I’ll be back on the horse rescue-wise in no time.

        2. I totally understand. My nieces are worshiped by me and I do anything to protect them, least of all keep them out of an unknown situation.

          Hope it all went well!

    2. May you live in interesting times.

      We are watching an amazing transformation (perhaps not in Wisconsin…).  What exactly will emerge is a question–but democracy has always been perilous.

      Libya is getting particularly ugly.  It’s not one-sided there…sounds more like civil war, or approaching it–with various parts of the armed forces and security forces fighting each other, and protesters ‘seizing’ tanks and the like.  

      Maybe if enough of the country’s regional, tribal and religious leaders flip soon, it won’t spiral too far. With Big Oil starting to pull out and shut down, the bribes Gaddafi dispensed to keep things in place might be drying up.  Who knows.  I say all this from my arm chair, as it were.  

       

      2. The transformation is about people vs. the power elite. In that sense, it’s an old story. The numbers are bigger, the risks seem bigger, the power being fought is certainly deadlier.

        I’m so proud of my fellow Wisconsin brothers and sisters.

        The Republicans are in overreach. They won’t succeed in eliminating collective bargaining and unions. Just like they won’t succeed in eliminating child labor laws like they’re attempting to do in GA., or seceding like they talk in TX.

        Other forces may overcome us, but not Republicans. Pshaw.

        2. I agree it’s a big deal with a lot at stake.  

          Go Wisconsin!  I’m proud of my friends up there, who have been out with the protesters. Absolutely.

          But I haven’t heard about security forces looting government buildings, or Osh Kosh being seized by unions.  

          What is happening across the Middle East is truly transformational.  Two decades-entrenched dictators have fallen in a little over a month, and Gaddafi is ‘on the precipice.’  I don’t think that will be all either; it could be half a dozen countries, or more.  

        3. I’d gladly swap out Puerto Rico for Texas so we don’t have to change the flag.  That whole state is just one big underwear smear.  Let them wallow in their smug & uppity assholeness.  What good ever came outta TX?  What … GWB?  Anna Nicole Smith?  the Cowboys?  

          1. T-Bone Walker, Emmy Lou Harris, Bob Wills, Steve Earle, Clarence Brown, Los Lonely Boys, Z. Z. Hill,  Delbert McClinton, Robert Earle Keen, Lyle Lovett, Alejandro Escovedo, John Prine, ZZ Top, Clifton Chenier, Willie Nelson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard, The Gourds, . . .

            Hate the state, but couldn’t do without the music — whatcha gonna do?

            2. but to flip it TX also burped out Vanilla Ice & Kenny Rogers so it weren’t all good.

              and I’m not gonna let this get 2B a Life of Brian’s “… but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” bit.  

        2. The defected pilots reportedly tell Maltese officials they were based in Tripoli and ordered to attack protesters on the ground in Benghazi.  After seeing their fellow pilots begin the airstrikes, they diverted course toward Malta. If substantiated, this would appear to confirm the use of airstrikes against civilian protesters in cities around the country.

          2. and apparently artillery shelling, too.

            One thing seems certain – Libya isn’t going to be the mostly peaceful overthrow that Egypt was.

            But reports have hundreds of thousands still in the streets despite the attacks, and most of the country pretty much in open revolt or protest.  Gaddafi may not be much longer for his seat.

    3. That’s what regime change should look like (assuming it turns out well!) Ten years in Iraq!! Couldn’t we have just fomented a grassroots revolution, or were there just too many factions?  

      1. But it only took 2 years from the first of what is generally thought of as the current set of protests until the downfall of Mubarak’s government.

        As to Iraq, we did kind of promote a grassroots revolution after we decimated Saddam’s forces in Gulf War I, but we didn’t provide them with material support, and Saddam crushed the opposition before it really got going.  Saddam wasn’t Mubarak, or even Gaddafi; he was more than willing to commit atrocities on his own people, and he had an impressive network among the population to let him know when someone was thinking about causing trouble.

        We probably could have done something with Iran, until President Ramjet provoked their nationalist pride with the whole “axis of evil” speech.

  5. Alibaba CEO, COO Resign After Fraud Probe

    Alibaba said in a notice Monday to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that its chief executive and chief operating officers, who were not implicated by the investigation, were resigning to take responsibility for the company’s “breakdown in integrity.”

    No, No, NO! You blame an intern and then accept a bonus for the increased income. They just don’t get how you’re supposed to do this.

  6. I had high expectations for him: I predicted that when he grew up, he would be the president of his mobile home owners’ association.

    Now he’s a junior in high school and getting mail from every college and university in America seeking his favors.  He has a lovely girlfriend and he treats her well.  He spends all his time in his room on his Xbox 360 and working on his homework (so he says).  He has a wry and goofy sense of humor.  He does NOT have gainful employment, which is an issue.  On the other hand, he had his first fender-bender during the ice storm a few weeks ago, and the lady he hit complimented him on how well he handled the situation.

    There, I’m done.  Carry on.

    1. He sounds like a wonderful young man.

      Re: the compliment from the fender-bender “victim” — no matter how old your children, I don’t think a parent ever grows tired of hearing compliments about them. It’s easy to be gracious when good things happen, but knowing how to be gracious during the not so good is a great skill to have.

    2. … you deserve to be proud but U also deserve some praise.  

      Now just make sure you get him into one our esteemed leftist liberal bastions of radical multiculturism & socialism for some proper brainwashing … though it sounds like our “recruiting” actions are already happening.  

      1. Unless within the next 18 months it has become more expensive than some of the out-of-state and/or private schools that are filling our mailbox with their propaganda.  Mr. Hopeful and I have been filling his mind with lefty hogwash for 17 years already, so he should be ready to rebel and join the Young Republicans or YAF or the Federalists or whatever.

        1. When we were going through this last year with my youngest she was offered in state tuition at Chadron State.  As we read the small print we found out that even out of state tuition there (NE) was cheeper than in state tuition at UNC where she finally ended up at.  I guess those lefty farmers don’t mind paying for colleges with tax dollars.

        1. But maybe not for the bill PC is there for.

          One other item on the Calendar is to define what is “Ag Land” for tax purposes. That could be a biggie.

          There’s also a bill about carbon taxes.

                1. And they’re still pissing.

                  But they’re about to turn on the renewable energy industry, I fear.

                  I can’t listen to this hearing anymore.  My head hurts.

                  And there’s still amendments and debate before the two bills I was actually listening for.

                  I guess I’ll read about it in the House Journal in a few days.

                    2. What does PI’d mean?  Dee and I were listening just now too.

                      Hooray for PCG and all animalkind!!!

                    4. I’m not Ralphie. Just obnoxious. (Which doesn’t automatically make you Ralphie, no matter who you ask.)

                    5. Dee and I listened to most of it, but it got so late, we gave up on the bill being discussed.

                      Tuned back in thanks to ralphie’s post and listened until the end.  We also missed PCG’s statement, if any.  She’s still a hero in our book.

                    6. I didn’t get to stay for the end, so you got parts of it I didn’t.

                      The heroes were the people who spoke before me, particularly the VP of the Colorado Association of Animal Control Officers. A very petite woman who you could just tell at a glance was TOUGH AS NAILS. Being able to shake her hand and thank her for what she does for animals made the 6 hours of unrelated testimony I sat through worth it.

                    7. I left early, having a small child with me who would be inching farther past her bedtime the longer she stayed, but I just found out online it was PI’d 12-1.

                      In the words of a not especially wise man, mission accomplished.

                      I relinquish all credit to Mini Cowgirl, who testified of her own accord without my even making the suggestion. Who votes against a 10-year-old brave enough to get up on that mic and tell the Ag Committee how it is?

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