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March 31, 2011 03:42 PM UTC

Thursday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“What I cannot love, I overlook.”

–Anais Nin

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    1. And even though its not embedded and is a long video clip, I urge everyone to take the time to check it out. For those irritated by Maddow’s mistake about the pronunciation of Macinac (When I was a kid it was a big  destination for Illinois folks so I cringed; it’s pronounced Macinaw) Maddow apologized quite humbly and profusely last night.

      Anybody laboring under the delusion that Maddow is a lefty equivalent of the rightie spin machine types at Fox and on right wing radio is welcome to check any of her facts.  And yes, they are lying big time.  

      They want big, intrusive, authoritarian, corporatist government, the government as an arm of the corporations.  This is what they really mean when they talk about privatizing; removing as much of government as possible from the unreliable hands of those pesky people (as in of, by and for) and placing as much of it as possible firmly in the hands of the corporate elite.  

    2. and I’m seriously skipping TV these days so I just never catch her.  Sirota & his new book were on the same show so I did catch this episode.  

      Her’s was the best summation of voters remorse over GOP Govs evah!  I strongly urge y’all to watch her talk-thru on Authoritarian Conservatism vs. Libertarian Conservatism and use it when you’re forced to converse w/ TeaBaggers.  She & her staff are brilliant.    

    1. The Guv’mint has plenty of money.  Taxes are still too high.There is no revenue problem. It’s just that they are so wasteful.  No reason to cut services if they’d just stop being wasteful. Maybe too many smokes and lottery tickets being comped to public employees.  Not reusing shopping bags for state purposes.  Stuff like that.  

      1. In a platonic way. He’s gelded, so he can’t give any other kind of love. But it still was not appreciated by the buffalo, which proceeded to express that if he made any future overtures it would reject him by way of its very large, pointy head appendages.

        He’s not very bright sometimes, so he kept trying to kiss the buffalo. Fortunately, good fences make good neighbors in the animal kingdom, too. Eventually he accepted the rejection and adopted a pair of ducks instead.

        My horse is weird.

          1. Especially because he fed them the expensive grain with expensive joint supplements I bought him! I swear, the birds and rabbits at that barn had the healthiest joints in Colorado… Mama duck would go “QUACK” at him and he’d pick up a mouthful of grain and drop it for her to take back to Papa duck, who was more shy. An elderly, graying rabbit joined the crew later on and managed to get his share of grain, too.

            We changed barns and now he keeps a nest of starlings in his stall and lets them all eat out of his dish, but I think he misses his larger pets. He’s also obsessed with sheep, but he chews their wool, so he can’t have one.

  5. when the creature he initially spawned into life corners and kills him…


    Boehner resists budget deal as Tea Partier seeks his ouster

    Democrats are saying that they’ve reached a compromise figure with Republicans on budget cuts, but GOP House Speaker John Boehner — facing increasing pressure from the Tea Party — says that’s not true.

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that Democrats and Republicans “have agreed upon a number on which to base our budget cuts,” echoing remarks from Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday night. Both Democrats say the parties have agreed to cut a record $33 billion from the rest of this year’s budget, which covers about six months. If Congress doesn’t agree to a new spending bill by April 8, the federal government will shut down.

    Boehner told reporters today, however, that lawmakers are working to come to an agreement on cuts but have not agreed to stop at $33 billion. “There is no agreement on numbers and nothing will be agreed to until everything is agreed to,” he said.

    Tea Party groups are ratcheting up their pressure on Boehner today with a rally outside of the Capitol, with House Tea Party Caucus leader Rep. Michele Bachmann planning to speak. If Boehner fails to cut enough from the budget, Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots told the Associated Press, Tea Partiers could mount a primary challenge against the speaker.

    Meckler said “you’re going to see massive amounts” of primary challenges against Republican lawmakers, including Boehner, next year if Republicans go along with the plan to cut $33 billion.

    Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation already said in a message to his organization today that “Boehner must go.”

    “The Tea Party must unite and make sure Boehner is replaced in the next election,” he wrote. “We need people in leadership who are committed to cutting spending and eliminating these programs.”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-50…

      1. what the hell does “right” mean anymore? I think we need to stop calling the Tea Party the far right fringe because, whatever they are, right and left don’t apply. They’re just crazy, ignorant, hateful and destructive. Kind of corn pone flavor nihilism?  

  7. Palestinian youth focus on passive resistance and social change. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King and by recent nonviolent protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, and across the Arab world, young Palestinians are organizing a nonviolent resistance movement. They fear that they may be violently attacked if they organize mass sit-ins, but intend to continue protesting measures such as the restriction of water supplies to Palestinian villages.

    (Hypothetical) Peter King/ Herman Cain version: Palestinian radical Islamists swarm roads in effort to provoke IDF and enact Sharia law.

            1. I was going to go just for the solidarity, but my knee was injured during an active dream (kneed the wall, fracture not healed from the last injury). All walking was used on the puppy.

              I do have to say that in the unlikely event of an unexpected yes vote, that person would be nearly Carr-like courageous. Any of these members will most likely lose their job for the vote.

              I wouldn’t count on a Dem to do it, so I wouldn’t count on any of these folks. But here’s hoping for a not-so-minor miracle.

              1. A number of legislators voted for Civil Unions assuming it meant they would lose re-election. But they figured it was important enough to be worth losing their seat over.

                Not a single legislator lost their seat in the last election over this issue. Not one.

          1. From a Republican who will use exactly that argument, that they are there to protect business owners from government interference.

            I could be wrong and often am.

              1. And what’s the bit about how this law would be discriminatory, for a reason he can’t define, and that would be bad. Uh, but don’t do marriage either. WTF?

                  1. Hell I know someone who got married to her baby daddy while he was in jail so he would go to a minimum security facility ( being married is one of the factors they judge you on when they decide where to send you) She did it to be nice and they weren’t in love, or “committed” and from what I saw it was as simple as signing a piece of paper. pfft. Where’s the “integrity of marriage” in that story?

              2. And they would all be DELIGHTED to have gay unions in Colorado. As my photog friend puts it, “Photographers read the word ‘wedding’ as ‘$$$$$$.'”

                2. If you think one man and one woman are the optimum situation to raise children, do you believe we should criminalize divorce, or penalize single mothers?

                  1. The guy now? I remember him.

                    My father died before I was born (drunk driver hit him about three months before I was born). I’m an abomination?

                    One of my good friends from high school was one of three kids born to a happy family, a set of twin girls included. Her mother died when she and her sister were one. Their INDIAN father raised them. Talked them through their first periods. Tried to help them understand why boys pulled their hair. Helped them put on their make-up for the first time.

                    They are healthy, happy, and productive women. Strong women. Most people would praise their father for accomplishing that feat for all three children, something not all traditional parents can do.

                    Abominations. All of us. Really a shame.

                    1. Once for having been raised by divorced parents and twice for wearing a poly-cotton blend. Oh the shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame  

              3. that the longer I think about it and the more of this bullshit I hear, the madder I get.

                There’s an argument here, but these people aren’t landing on it.

                How many photographers don’t want to photograph interracial marriages? I once heard someone use the bible to compare those marriages to a cat and a dog getting married. What’s the difference? If you work for a large enough company, maybe you shouldn’t. Be racist and bigoted on your own time.

                1. They have been killed. Beaten. Abused. Spat on. Ostricized. Maimed. Oppressed. Treated as sinners.

                  They are fighters for equality.

                  Oh and the KKK hates them too, A-hole.  

          2. If I recall the press coverage from last week, at least four of the six Rs had already said they were going to vote against the bill.

            I think the “out” for any committee member who votes for this bill today has nothing to do with business or big government.  It has to do with saying it should be debated by the full House–that it’s too big an issue to be decided by the committee alone.

            That’s provided the Rs on the committee haven’t already been given their marching orders.

    2. I understand that homosexuals are not being strung up at the same rate as blacks an embarrassingly short time ago, BUT people HAVE been beaten and killed for either being publicly gay (the horror) or for SEEMING gay. It happens.

      Children are being ridiculed and bullied in school, before they have sexuality, for acting gay.

      I’m sorry. What’s the difference?

  9. Wasn’t looking like we would hit our reach goal. They hit it last night and are now looking to be 50% over for the month. So next month continues with work ends at 3:00 on Fridays and then it’s free beer.

    There is much rejoicing among the interns here 🙂

    1. Additional profits means we will be hiring more people. So unlike our “pro jobs” government, we’re actually doing something about unemployment. It may be a small improvement, but it’s an improvement.

    2. If anyone knows a computer science student who is also an experienced blogger (on any subject), and they are looking for a paid internship (part-time during school, full-time over the summer) – have them contact me.

      I’ve been trying for 18 months to find someone with this combination of skills.

      1. What comp sci skills do you need? I have lots of young nerdy pals, but I’m not sure which, if any are majoring in straight comp sci. Is that the only major you’ll accept? Or are you amenable to someone in a related major if they are experienced in a particular language or languages?

  12. feels sorry for John Martin and the boys to have to hear from sick children and poisoned families and the like…

    I guess I can’t post it but its all in the Glenwood paper…

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