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June 04, 2021 10:31 PM UTC
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Why do the majestic mountains of western Colorado and the fertile plains of the east harbor so many men and women of staggering stupidity in the arenas of politics and culture?
It was not always such.
Conservatives like Bev Bledsoe and Dan Noble knew that conservatives conserve, they don’t destroy.
Now the Age of the Imbeciles besets us. Thinking of you, Reppy le Pew Pew.
Surely, someday the Hegelian dialectic will bring us new George Norrises and William Allen Whites.
I probably won’t live to see it, but when the next Davis “Bloody Bridles” Waite rides to the capital, we can all thank the Dukes, the Gerties, the Bowmans and the rest who kept the faith and spread it gently in the years of our heartland’s intellectual abyss.
Leave it to you, V., to make me look up things. I knew nothing of Gov. Waite. A Republican governor supporting the unions AND womens’ sufferage. Ruffling feathers all around.
And thanks for your kind words. To be included in a sentence with Gertie and Michael is undeserved, but much appreciated, praise. ☺
Waite was a favorite of historian Page Smith in his majestic eight-volume Peoples History of the United States. In general, he dismissed the state government in the Ludlow era as a "wholly owned subsidiary of the Rockefellers and Guggenheims."
I might be slightly Junger than some folk here, but I remember being impressed with the GOP's Norma Anderson – didn't always agree but thought she used logic and stood honorably for her opinions. And I know she's not rural. But these posts got me to look her up, and found that she left the GOP to become independent! https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/stories/norma-says-no-to-gop,372724
Norma was always a highly independent Republican leader and wasn't afraid to work across the aisle. Someone asked her once why she wasn't more conservative and she said: "because I'm an Eisenhower Republican." Not one bit surprised she has left the Trumpsters now that he owns the spineless R's.
There continues to be a notable trend in Colorado Republican voter registrations. In seven months since 11/1/2020, there obviously is some list maintenance — but the loss among Republicans is 10 times what it has been for Democrats, and their loss and the gains in other registration groups shows they've lost an entire percent in the share of active voters.
The number of Unaffiliated continues to rise, gaining 80,000+ voters and 1.5% share among all Active registrations.
Thanks for the mention, V.
Noble, Tillie Bishop and Dave Wattenburg were others. In a way I'm glad they didn't live to experience QBert and other current idiots impersonating political leaders. When people ask me why the Western Slope is getting screwed by the guv and Front Range Democrats, I tell them it's because (with very few exceptions) we keep electing ignorant fools to the legislature.
Along with Duke, I'd never heard of Gov. Waite. Thanks for steering me to learn about him. What a principled pistol he was!
Thanks, V. Honored to be in the same sentence as Duke and gertie. Another name that comes to mind is Bill Kaufman who represented Loveland back in the day. Also Bud Moellenberg (R-Joes) who represented us prior to Greg. Jung is right, re: Norma Anderson. She was a special lady.
Today is Ed Snowden remembrance day.
June 5, 2013
"NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order
Hmmpf — too bad they won't use that information and do a better job tracking down the spammers that call my cell phone incessantly and put them out of business!
I'm on the ATT network and have experienced a dramatic increase in spam texts. They've launched a new text feature recently that lets me mark the text as spam. I opted into Call Protect and it identifies calls as likely spam risks and then I can block them. The spammers have become quite adept at masking their calls with my area code and prefix that makes it look like it's from someone in the hood.
It's all annoying but at least these tools provide options. I'm still waiting for the chip that was in my Moderna vaccine to activate so I'll I have to do is think about blocking an incoming number and it automatically executes!
Today (Sunday) is National Cancer Survivors Day. A personal favorite of mine.
👍 too
“…and a majority of 5-year olds believe in Santa”
This was just the chuckle I needed this Sunday morning. Grumpy McTurd has moved into a new phase of life.
Did Donald Trump Wear His Pants Backwards? Kriss Kross Memes Have Already Begun
Well, there's not much difference between the size of his gut and the width of his butt. Easy to get them mixed up, and the pants still fit.
Antifa landed on the beaches of Normandy 77 years ago today.
My father in law was a combat engineer in Normandy.
It left its mark.
Long after, my brother in law found him in his truck in their garage, sobbing: ” All that blood. All that blood. “
At least, WW2 was necessary, unlike Vietnam, which was just a mistake. But the price was very high. The Soviet Union alone lost an estimated 27 million — 13 million military and 14 million civilian — lives, to the nazi beasts that so many Trumpers now glorify.
And while some were storming beaches, others — like my Dad — were flying out of Italy to degrade German capabilities — especially oil out of the Balkans and German aircraft production.
No key date for the effort — just a slog to prepare air bases; get enough crew, planes and bombs in place; and flying missions to Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, France, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Poland, and Yugoslavia.
That was my Dad's outfit, too. He was a navigator on B-24s.
American Legion official resigns over censored Memorial Day speech
Good. Cancel the cancellers.
Big oil pad fire near Bennet yesterday; it burned trucks and equipment, but thankfully, no people. It’s the third major oil well/tank/pad fire I know of this year; ( the others were at Fort Lupton and Brighton).
No word from the Guv on how his “honor system” plan for air quality and climate change containment in Colorado will cope with these oil industry related fires and accidents. The industry agreed to make public health and environmental quality a priority; there are no significant penalties for not doing so. I suspect it will take a tragedy before real penalties and meaningful rules are implemented.
Between Master Limited Partnerships (a tax investment scheme only available to O&G), not being forced to account for negative externalities, and our bankruptcy system, the industry has literally every public policy tool it needs to pillage our natural resources.
How bankruptcy lets oil and gas companies evade cleanup rules
..but there are glimmers of hope:
Meet the Reluctant “Green Hero” Behind ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Coup