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September 06, 2011 03:47 PM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Those who will not reason, are bigots,

Those who cannot, are fools,

And those who dare not, are slaves.

–Lord Byron

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    3. I e-mailed him to say it deserved a broader audience and a healthy airing.  He posted it to Facebook with a lot of young professional friends.  

      Glad to see it here, David.

    4. I find it indescribably sad that people who profess to love the USA and the Constitution are so hell-bent on destroying both for the benefit of the very few.  

      1. Anyone want to discuss outsourcing?

        And I’m not talking about outsourcing to another government …..

        http://www.governing.com/topic…

        Last summer, residents of Maywood, Calif., woke up one morning to find the government as they knew it gone. After years of corruption and mismanagement, the small, blue-collar city south of Los Angeles fired almost all of its employees, dismantled its police department and contracted with a neighboring city to take over most municipal tasks. On July 1, local officials announced that Maywood had become the country’s first city to be fully outsourced.

        It was an unprecedented move spurred by a loss of commercial liability insurance and Workers’ Compensation. As the city drowned in deficits and faced multiple lawsuits, city leaders saw outsourcing as a light at the end of a collapsing tunnel.

        But it was only a mirage.

        Bell, Calif., the city that Maywood officials had tapped to run its services, erupted with a pay and pension scandal, forcing several top Bell officials to resign. By September, Bell had scrapped its contract with Maywood, leaving the city to fend for itself and find new contractors for its outsourcing hopes.

  3. from The New Republic (a good magazine a long time ago)

    THIS IS IMPORTANT because Obama may now be facing his own crisis of the Union. Over the last four decades, the Republican Party has transformed from a loyal opposition into an insurrectionary party that flouts the law when it is in the majority and threatens disorder when it is the minority. It is the party of Watergate and Iran-Contra, but also of the government shutdown in 1995 and the impeachment trial of 1999. If there is an earlier American precedent for today’s Republican Party, it is the antebellum Southern Democrats of John Calhoun who threatened to nullify, or disregard, federal legislation they objected to, and who later led the fight to secede from the union over slavery.

    1. from the article you linked:

      Republicans are, in effect, demanding a major constitutional change in return for not shutting down the government and undermining the American economy. That’s insurrectionary behavior.

      isn’t insurrectionary behavior against the U.S. government considered treason? Shouldn’t we call out these asshole Tea Party secessionists for what they are?

      If you publicly support the division of the Union of the United States, you are a traitor. ..period. As such, to then suggest you should be elected President of the country you hate is beyond hypocrisy…but that is where these greedy, hateful, racist sumbitches live.

      It is time to follow the suggestion of James Hoffa Jr. and take them (the sons- o-bitches) out…with our vote.    

      1. TPers are demanding that Obama rebuke Hoffa for that remark. Remember when they went ballistic over people daring to call Palin’s use of cross hair target graphics against Dem candidates unacceptable?  Guess it doesn’t work both ways in their world.

        Personally, I’m for fogetting about all the rebuking and just letting the people decide who are the biggest jerks and scariest bigots.  But maybe, while they still insist on demanding renouncing, denouncing, rebuking etc., they’d like to first rebuke their Sugar Daddy, Koch, for his remarks?

        “We have Saddam Hussein,” declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama as he welcomed hundreds of wealthy guests to the latest of the secret fundraising and strategy seminars he and his brother host twice a year. The 2012 elections, he warned, will be “the mother of all wars.”

        Charles Koch would probably not publicly compare the president of the United States to a murderous dictator. (As a general rule, he and his brother don’t do much politicking or speechifying in public at all.) But Mother Jones has obtained exclusive audio recordings from the Koch seminar, a private event that took place in June at a resort near Vail, Colorado.

        http://motherjones.com/politic…

        Of course they won’t see it that way. I’m sure comparing Obama to Osama, killer of thousands on American soil,  and calling the coming election an all out war is perfectly fine whereas the phrase “take out” in reference to them is a heinous crime. Oh the humanity.

        I think the fact that TP can stand for  both Tea Party and toilet paper is a happy coincidence. Let the rebuking begin.  

          1. oh but those midterms were so-o-o-o long ago and Dems & Progressives just need to forget all that biggoted hate-filled crap spewed from the ignorant idiots at teabagger protests.

            Rampant disgusting hypocrisy from the RW media but then how is that any different from the last 10+ yrs?

            1. Sara Lock and Load, Crosshairs, Obama Wants Death Panels to Kill Mentally Challenged Children Palin is taking the lead on expressing outrage at Hoffa’s comments. Ten years ago she wasn’t even in the picture.  Guess that’s about it for difference. picture.  I called the WH comment line to say that I won’t even vote for Obama, let alone work for him or write checks for him, if he agrees to rebuke Hoffa for his remark at the behest of the TPers and their queen. At least not without demanding they rebuke every offensive comment she and other rightie power figures and pols have made first.  

    2. I am thinking that JFK was smart to have LBJ guarding his flank.  It wasn’t just good election politics, it was good administrative politics.  LBJ knew the south and he knew the Congress.  Obama has no one who can fulfill that role for him, with the possible “too late now” exceptions of Hillary and Bill Clinton.

    1. While not overly given to superlatives…I think Freddie was, arguably, one of the best rock and roll singers ever.

      One of the ways to judge the uniqueness and talent of a singer is to observe the number of singers who try to cover their work.

      Not many singers have the courage or talent to sing Queen songs…Freddie was amazing.  

  5. People are biased against creative ideas, studies find

    The next time your great idea at work elicits silence or eye rolls, you might just pity those co-workers. Fresh research indicates they don’t even know what a creative idea looks like and that creativity, hailed as a positive change agent, actually makes people squirm.

    At my company we work very hard to embrace new ideas. Doesn’t mean we implement them all, but we respond with kudos and look at each to see which we should go with. Of course you have to do this in the high tech world, otherwise someone else will and they’ll eat your lunch.

  6. Do Happier People Work Harder?

    Well duh – Yes!

    Of the seven companies we studied, just one had managers who consistently supplied the catalysts – worker autonomy, sufficient resources and learning from problems – that enabled progress. Not coincidentally, that company was the only one to achieve a technological breakthrough in the months we studied it.

    1. Wait, he’s 1500 miles away. Damn. Oh well. In any case, I work for a giant, soulless corporation but my chain of command is 2000% amazing. Love.

  7. Does anyone else think that a Beach Boys concert is an odd way to remember the events of 9/11 and honor those who have have served in Iraq and Afghanistan?

      2. The whole business of making it into the patriotic feel good 9/11 show is just too sickening. I don’t want to see any interviews with Bush (one has already been in regular rotaion for a week) where nobody says a word about the fact that he was so dismissive of any and all of the many specific warnings he received, he actually told the CIA briefer who dared disturb him at his ranch with yet more urgent warnings  “All right, You’ve covered your ass, now.” I might throw up.  Too bad they don’t have that on video, just the bullhorn crap. Or maybe we’ll be treated to Condi, It Was Just Silly Old Historic Stuff, Rice’s touching memories of the day. Surreal? That’s putting it mildly.

          1. Bush is to speak at the Flight 93 Memorial.  Think he’ll be regaling the crowd with funny stories about all the cool Texas style insults with which he and his team showered everybody (silly people) who had their “hair on fire”, getting all excited and bothering him like a bunch of dang fools leading up to 9/11?

            Hope the Flight 93 families give him the reception he deserves from them. That would be worth watching.  But they probably won’t, it being such a painful, somber occasion for them as it is, so I don’t plan to tune in.

            1. Now I’ll bet you’re wondering what it was like to be in charge, in the center of everything, on 9/11. Well let me tell you: Nebraska was kind of chilly. A little windy. Lots of corn, and some tumbleweeds. Also the state is kind of shaped like a pompadour from the side. That’s funny. Heh heh. Miss me yet?

  8. A good number of progressive folks from Fort Collins and surrounding areas turned out tonight at Avogadro’s Number to hear Tom Griggs announce his candidacy for House District 52. The recent vacating of this seat by John Kefalas, who will be running for State Senate, allows another progressive to step up and continue the tradition of working for the values of the people of Colorado. We can look forward to an exciting year ahead as Tom’s campaign moves ahead to the finish line.

  9. A Congresswoman’s Cause Is Often Her Husband’s Gain

    Federal regulators moved to shut down the kidney transplant program, but the proposed penalty brought a rebuke from Representative Shelley Berkley, Democrat of Nevada, who helped lead a successful effort to get the officials from Washington to back down.

    In pleading for a reprieve, Ms. Berkley and other members of Nevada’s Congressional delegation said they were acting on behalf of the state’s families, citing dire health consequences if the program was halted. But the congresswoman’s efforts also benefited her husband, a physician whose nephrology practice directs medical services at the hospital’s kidney care department – an arrangement that expanded after her intervention and is now reflected in a $738,000-a-year contract with the hospital

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09…

    Far too often Democrats can’t even rightfully claim to suck less . . .  

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