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May 18, 2021 07:01 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

–Henri Bergson

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  2. And 52% of the population ( female and non-binary) not included in that statement from Henri Bergson neither thinks nor acts, apparently…

    Before you ignore or dismiss that as overly sensitive or too PC, read:

    Woman, which includes Man, of course…

    an exercise by Theodora Wells

    Some excerpts:

    * Recall that everything you have ever read all your life uses only female pronouns — she, her — meaning both girls and boys, both women and men. Recall that most of the voices on radio and most of the faces on TV are women’s — when important events are covered — on commercials — and on the late talk shows. Recall that you have no male senator representing you in Washington.

    * Feel into the fact that women are the leaders, the power-centers, the prime-movers. Man, whose natural role is husband and father, fulfills himself through nurturing children and making the home a refuge for woman. This is only natural to balance the biological role of woman who devotes her entire body to the race during pregnancy.

    * Then feel further into the obvious biological explanation for woman as the ideal — her genital construction. By design, female genitals are compact and internal, protected by her body. Male genitals are so exposed that he must be protected from outside attack to assure the perpetuation of the race. His vulnerability clearly requires sheltering.

    I’ve given up for now on pointing out the tokenism of the Quotes of the Day: still 90% wisdom of dead white males, 10% voices of women and people of color. But I will point out clearly sexist language when I see it.

     

    1. Okay, I thought about it.  And, yeah, it’s dismissively PC.

      Why not be outraged, or in your case, rejoice, because Spanish assigns male gender to the toilet — el bano?

      Cue “Ride of the Valkyries.”

  3. I learned yesterday that an old friend of more than 6 0 years standing died April 15: former lawyer and Greenwood Village City Councilman Richard Torpy.  We had some unforgettable years together on the Colorado Daily and those ties are unbreakable.

    Damn you, Mr. Death.  Damn you. Damn you, damn you!

    1. Sorry for the loss, Voyageur. 

      Too few 60 year friendships around — I’ve got a grand total of one.  Thinking back to early jobs, I remain in intermittent individual contact with one person from jobs before 1987 (and even Facebook/LinkedIn exposure with only a few more). Obviously, you are richer in friends and colleagues than many of us.

       

    2. Agree, Voyageur, what a loss. I lost a 60-yr friend last fall (from high school). And as JID notes, not that many friendships remain long-term from jobs.

    3. Yeah, I do understand completely.

      I graduated high school in 1964 with a class of 24, most of them friends.

      There are four of us left. 

  4. Sugar is 8x more addictive than Don Jr.'s cocaine.  We need to re-examine our sugar policies (the subsidies are costing us $4 billion / year). 

    Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies

    Candy‐​Coated Cartel: Time to Kill the U.S. Sugar Program

    Sugar Subsidies Are Welfare for the Rich 

    1. KW – you’re better at this research than I but I’m guessing consumersresearch.org is a dark money-funded org by the usual suspects?  They’re going after ‘woke’ companies (although their piece on sugar is spot-on, which is why I posted). I think we can be assured the funders have no issue with exploited labor pools or the current sugar subsidy programs. In the upside down world we live in today, the Fanjul’s are probably funding the campaign! 

      1. Michael, your instincts were correct – Consumers’ Research (CR), aka Consumers First, is a right wing propaganda organization pretending to be a consumer advocacy organization.

        This SourceWatch article tells you most of what you need to know about CR’s history.

        All of their top staff are Federalists, former staffers for RWNJ Congress Reps (Schweikert (AZ) and Carter (TX), or graduates from the conservative “journalism school”, the National Journalism Center (Anne Coulter is an alumnus). Their one genuine academic spends most of his print bytes crusading for payday loan companies.

        The Consumers’ Research group split from genuine consumer-oriented Consumer Reports and the Consumer’s Union (see SourceWatch article).

        Remember when Trump tried to disembowel the Consumer’s Financial Protection Bureau by putting his buddy, Mick Mulvaney, in charge? Some of CR’s staff were involved in that attempted coup.

        So this whole crusade against the “woke” companies standing up for voter rights is coming from exactly where one would think…..Republican and conservative news spinners.

        I wasn’t able to find out exactly who is funding them. They are a nonprofit group, and their financials are a bit weird – they cite $~794K in expenses alone, but only ~$480K in revenues. A guy named Colangelo loaned them money. So “dark money” for sure. But definitely not a consumer-friendly organization.

          1. Thanks😚

            We’ll see a lot more of this nonsense  while there is grift to be gotten.. I’m pondering the best pushback, but will probably just focus on data and GOTV with the Dems.

  5. Harry Doby- what do you think of the argument that infilling the Park Hill golf course ( eliminating the green space) is "environmental racism"?

    I know you've been active around this issue.

    1. Hi kwtree — Thanks for the invitation to comment.  Underserved neighborhoods have traditionally gotten the short end of the stick.  Money and political influence are at the heart of this issue.

      I've just spent the last 12 hours in hand-to-hand combat rebutting misinformation and developer and city BS, and educating a few people that are new to the issue on the facts of the situation.  

      I should write a diary at some point.  But I think the article speaks to the issue of the reality of environmental racism extremely well, and encourage everyone to follow the link for their own benefit.  

  6. Eurovision semi-final 1

    A number of good songs. The best was easily Malta followed by Israel & Azerbaijan.

    And if you want to watch, get ProtonVPN (or equivalent) and set it so you appear to be in a European country. It’s all up on YouTube now.

  7. Some insight into Jan. 6 defense:

    A lot of these defendants — and I'm going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they're all fucking short-bus people. These are people with brain damage, they're fucking retarded, they're on the goddamn spectrum. But they're our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they're part of our country. These aren't bad people; they don't have prior criminal history. Fuck, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda, the likes of which the world has not seen since fucking Hitler.

    ~ Albert Watkins, the QAnon Shaman's criminal defense lawyer

    1. I dunno’ . . .

      . . . the Ttump-era Twinkie defense?

      (Then)  “Your honor, my client was hyped-up on Twinkies.”

      (Ttumpentimes)  “Your honor, my client is a hyped-up twinkie.”

      . . . whatever happened to just pleading guilty (because, well, you are), and requesting some mercy from the court?

    2. He actually said that? If I’m his lawyer, my defense? “It’s not his fault Your Honor, he’s too dumb to know any better.” 

      1. I fully expected some of these clowns to proffer some sort of diminished capacity defense, but the full-blown "my client is a goddamn short-bus retard" defense came as a bit of a surprise

    3. It is an extention of the professional wrestling crowd. I took a chronically ill boy to a match …once. There is a reason The Orange King appeals to them. The willingness with which they accept the suspension of disbelief is spooky.

    1. And now we know why he was so desperate to keep That Job (or get it back). He's known for at least a couple of years that they were coming for him, and he needed that "Beautiful immunity" from prosecution.

    2. Antifa! It's all lies, a Marxist plot. James is an angry, ugly woman. Will no-one defend the poor Trumps?

      Now that we've gotten the tRumpist verbiage out of the way, where can I sign up for popcorn delivery?

       

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