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March 26, 2021 10:46 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”

–Napoleon Bonaparte

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  1. “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

    ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism  

     

    1. "..democracy in reverse where politicians have decided that instead of the voters picking their representatives, the politicians cherry pick their voters…."
      ~ Senator Raphael Warnock, 2021
       

      Thanks for the Arendt memory.

    1. It looks like the marketing team for Meat In! Day was premature in scheduling their event last weekend? A blown opportunity for a bunch of old white men to co-celebrate plugged arteries and Merikan scientific advances!  Maybe next year? A bbq in Climax? Autographed picture (for a nominal fee) of #PewPew?

      1. I am curious about something.

        We have all seen photos of Pew Pew posing with a large group of big ol' beefy guys in ball caps or cowboy hats.

        I presume there is, somewhere, a photo of the Boebs with a group of just ladies. You know, at a quilting bee..or maybe the county fair. I just haven't seen it.😁

  3. A story on Daily Kos about redistricting helpfully reminds us that we are in the "public comment" phase of Colorado's re-districting.  You can read the rules and learn how to submit comments:

    Do you have ideas about redistricting in Colorado? We want to hear them! The Colorado Independent Redistricting Commissions staff are accepting public comments that will be used to shape preliminary maps.

    Your "Community of interest" may need you to point it out to the staff.

    1. I have not followed this very much.

      Which election do the new districts apply?

      Does the Commission simultaneously redraw the state districts?

      Does the Colorado Supreme Court approve the Commission map?

      Would it be possible for Weld County to leave the state before the map is finished?

      1. Which election do the new districts apply? 2022

        Does the Commission simultaneously redraw the state districts? Two commissions, one for Congressional district lines, the other for state legislative lines.

        Does the Colorado Supreme Court approve the Commission map? The state Constitution says the new maps must be submitted to the state Supreme Court by mid-December, a challenge due to Trump's f'd up Census.

        Would it be possible for Weld County to leave the state before the map is finished?  Unless they establish their own country (which would take a Civil War of sorts), not likely they have anywhere to go. It's a fun image, though – Weld County packin' its bags and wrenching themselves away from Colorado.

      2. New districts will be what is in place 2022-2031.

        2 Commissions … one for federal Representatives, one for state House and Senate.  I think the staff is unified, but the commissions themselves are distinct. 

        Supreme Court:

        • The Colorado Supreme Court must approve the final map unless the court finds that the commission abused its discretion in applying or failing to apply required criteria, in which case the court must return it to the commission.
        • If returned, the commission has 12 days to hold a hearing and submit a revised map to the Colorado Supreme Court. 
        • If the commission fails to submit a revised map, nonpartisan staff have an additional three days to submit a revised map.
        • The Colorado Supreme Court must approve a congressional redistricting map by December 15, 2021.

          1. Looks like the Orange Turd won't be far behind.  He does have a use it or lose it $1mm annual travel allowance thanks to the largess of the American taxpayer so a Monarch without a theifdom gotta go somewhere, right?!? 

  5. What a week huh?  Depending on your righty media POV it was either unfortunate small hiccups in well-regulated-militia maneuvers, or fiendishly coordinated massive false-flag operations, in Atlanta, Boulder, and now also Virginia Beach and Philadelphia . . .

    . . . America’s new normal, masks and kevlar recommended if you’re venturing out anywhere in public — just until we find that vaccination against bullet wounds.

  6. I've found my Palm Sunday sermon a few hours early.  Pavlovitz nails it (again):

    When Your God is a Gun

    How do you reconcile a supreme and loving Creator you supposedly trust enough to go maskless in a deadly pandemic, but not enough to leave a weapon at home when you go to your son’s little league game?

    What kind of exhausting theological gymnastics do you need to do, to make any kind of sense of that inside your head?

    What horrible story do you tell yourself about the world, about humanity, about the love you claim holds it all together?

    The life and teachings of Jesus are antithetical to gun worship. That’s just the truth.

    1. Well, in fairness, guns at least exist.  Given a choice between the power of prayer and my glock 17 if I hear a noise downstairs at 4 a.m., I would far prefer the Glock.

      And I wear my mask because God and guns are equally useless against microbes.  Far from being opposites, masks and guns are both technological responses to situations where Baal, Jehovah, Zeus and all the other heavenly goldbrickers have proven utterly useless.

      “With soap, baptism is a good thing.”
      –Robert Ingersoll

      1. Well, both those technological responses do have some kind of basis in scientific fact . . .

        . . . The mask technology has an effectiveness based on scientific fact, and has been tried and tested as being a way to increase one’s safety, and the safety of those around them.

        . . . The Glock technology, in the creaking-noise just-awakened bleary-eyed a.m., has an effectiveness based primarily on blustering Hollywood fantasy, and has an non-fantasy effectiveness based on scientific fact as being a proven way to reduce the owner’s household’s safety.

        I suppose if you gotta’ Glock in the a.m., the more safe alternative for all concerned would be to lock your bedroom door,  call 911, put on your mask, and then if you feel so moved, say a little prayer to the totem glock in your hand, and maybe as an absolute last resort fire a warning shot up through your bedroom ceiling?

        (Let the weekend-boredom name calling and those personal attacks begin . . .)

        1. Why bother?  You can pray away and believe in the inherent goodness of Ted Bundy all you like.

          How’d that “Guns would only make us less safe” thing work out for Black Kettle?

          1. OK, you totally got me there.  I admit, I had not even once, until just now, considered how I would handle things when the U.S. Cavalry comes creeping around my downstairs at 4:00 a.m. . . .

            , . . I’m sold.  Glock 17, you say?   wink

            Me any my new trusty “cold blue steel” black polymer, (night vision scope sold separately), — don’t think this won’t happen to you — cuz you just never know, those creeping marauders will show up at any time . . .

            https://youtu.be/-LgEvQuyDxE

    1. Yeesh!

      Well, I thought I had the stomach for it, but I couldn't make it to the end. When he started talking about how many votes he got, my Cat said it would be a good time to visit the bar…but it's only 6:30AM.

       

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