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(D) Yadira Caraveo
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May 27, 2021 06:49 AM UTC
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Whereas power and position make a woman say
Thatcher is an example of do as she says, not as she does thinking.
Eleven years in office and she finally appointed just one woman to her previously all-male cabinet. Sigh.
It’s called Queen Bee Syndrome.
If you want a feminist in action, elect Joe Biden.
Or Stacey Abrams. 😊
Loved the headline in the May 25 Denver Post:
Metro Denver houses selling so fast market leaving a sonic boom in its wake
Making me laugh … yesterday I had another conversation with someone griping about the difficulties of living in Denver, saying things were bad enough that people were going to stop coming and those here would actually leave unless "things got better."
It’s nuts out there…my daughter and son in law are qualified for $450K and trying to buy their first home for their family of four. They qualify for CHFA aid, so have that to help with down payment,
They’ll look at a place, make an offer, along with 30 or so others, and out of state investors are dropping $20-30 grand cash over the asking price, just snapping properties up that they will never live in.
$450k would buy you any of the nicest houses in Yuma County!! (half that would buy a really nice one) Can they work remotely? We need to start a movement to get these young progressives populating our rural towns. We have an incredible, new, school complex P-12 thanks to BEST (thank you Andrew Romanoff!)
They’re both hands-on workers- she’s a server, he’s a solar installer. She’s also going back to school to finish her degree in the Denver area, so not likely to move out of town anytime soon.
But yes, they’d likely have a higher quality of life for less money in a smaller town. I worry about racism and acceptance since daddy and kids aren’t white, but that’s the case in a lot of Denver suburbs as well.
But, then, you would be living in Yuma County.
True, but it could be worse: you could live in Phillips County
(sorry, V, couldn't resist). Think of us as the Upper East Side of the eastern plains!
Actually, the U.S. Geological Survey officially lists Wray as "Baja Holyoke."
It will be the Baja after we dry up the Ogallala!!
Did I ever tell you about the time they made me mayor of Wray? Just for one day. So I am a political force to reckon with in Yuma County!
You’re in good company, V! We sold ‘Mayor of Wray for a Day’ certificates in the early 90’s as a fundraiser for our (then) new community center. A shortlist of your fellow mayors is George H.W. Bush (the certificate handed to him personally by John Sununu), our local blacksmith’s dog, Shirley (who was mayor twice), Dennis Weaver (Chester from Gunsmoke), and Field of Dreams actor (and Wray native) Steve Eastin.
If you didn’t show up on the anniversary date to fulfill your duties as mayor there is a reinstatement fee we need to address if you want to continue as a political force south of Holyoke!!
I earned mine by writing a column about having visited the Wray city hall with my farmer dad and reminiscing about having helped build it as a hod carrier with Benny Knigge's Venango-based brick crew.
They treated us like visiting royalty even though no one knew I was a journalist. That's what impressed me and my readers about this friendly town on the Republican Riviera.
Great story, V! Yes, we are a generally nice bunch of folk except for the one day each year we play Yuma in our historic football rivalry!
Don’t get me started about Yuma and football. Don’t ever get me started on Yuma!
<sigh>
Leftist ideology permeating Church 'extremely dangerous' to Body of Christ, pastor warns
I know it’s a trendy issue for Ben Kuck to take on the Silicone Valley libs on tech monopoly issues (a real thing); it makes for great fundraising narratives to convince Dump huckistan you can own the libs – if only we’ll send you money and re-elect you to Congress. But, right under your nose (literally) lies the livestock and meat industry, so concentrated and price-fixed that your CD-4 producers can barely make a living. Maybe spend a little of your time on things that affect your constituents? It’s not like it’s a new ‘thing’. This article was written in 1999.
Why does none of the San Jose shooter coverage describe the alleged shooter as white or Christian?
If he was black or hispanic or Muslim that would be included in his description.
Do you really wonder about that?
Two things we can be sure of- Moddy will be on here to blame some liberal or California-ish thing for the killings, and Negev will be along to explain why stricter gun laws won’t help and will only make things worse.
Doing some “catch up” reading due to a renewed subscription to The Atlantic, and found James Fallows considering How to Reconnect Rural and Urban America — a topic that often crops up in discussions here. Fallows wrote this “Reporter’s Notebook” entry shortly after November’s election.
Fallows’ provides some answers he’s come across:
I think it may be worth squandering one of the “freebie” Atlantic articles given each month to tease people to subscribe.
IMHO, the biggest single problem in rural-urban division lies in communications. A steady diet of polarized propaganda leads to predictable internalization of said propaganda. Local journalism could help, but local news is almost by definition about town council or county issues, plus local current events, not the huge umbrella issues that drive polarization. Maybe more folks could try to get certain stuff into local news through letters to editors or guest opinions, but if people aren't reading the local news and they just turn straight to OAN or hardcore talk radio, I'm not sure it would really push the needle much.
I don't want to be defeatist, but rolling back the polarization is going to be a long road to hoe.
I’m in the middle of writing the next Think Anew, Act Anew diary so I’ll leave my broader comments for when I post but you’re right, Jung, it’s going to be a long road, exacerbated by far too many elected officials that live in an alternate universe, and believe in their soul they are independent of the world that surrounds them. It is a dislocation of logic.
I shuddered to even write the phrase urban-rural division in a blog post, because I despise perpetuating this narrative. As a person who's lived in both, I love spending time in both and I think I get how much better things could work with interdependence. Invite me to visit or do business with respect and I'll probably at least consider it – but call me the enemy and I'll find other things to do and other places to spend my money. Extremely simple human nature.