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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Donald Trump
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(R) Ron Hanks
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(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
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State Senate Majority
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October 20, 2021 06:44 AM UTC
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Covid is breaking out at some Jeffco High schools – Arvada West and Lakewood High school , in particular.
Mesa County is in much worse shape; over 1000 new cases in last two weeks, 10 deaths. 90% unvaccinated. Under 29 people have the largest group of new infections. https://health.mesacounty.us/covid19/datadashboard/
kids don't die from Covid.
You must be talking about 84 year old men with long, hard lives of service and mostly honor who have other diseases.
It's rare (less than 1% of all COVID deaths are young kids), but it does happen.
Long haul COVID symptoms are more of a risk for young children who get infected. One study showed 1/3 of infected children had "long covid" symptoms for months.
That, and losing their primary caregiver from COVID. US is #4 in the world for orphaned children as a result of caregivers dying of COVID.
I know you were being sarcastic, MattC, but real is real.
Charles Barkley on NBA star Kyrie Irving not getting the vaccine: “You don’t get the vaccine for yourself. You get it for others.”
Radio star Howard Stern refers to Irving as a “douche-bag” for not getting the shot(s).
Oh man, if Barkley and Stern are both calling you a fuck-up, then you done fucked up! Losing that money would be a bigger deal to Irving had he not already made so much in seasons past. I guess the Nets will just have to skinny by with James Harden and Kevin Durant.
Of course you are right.
I am relieved my children are older and out of school. I would have thought the big districts in Colorado would know better.
And I get angry when the schools allow students and staff to die unnecessarily.
Hey! I know – what if we teach the teachers to shoot the virus with automatic weapons! Win Win!
WWGOWAG
I see what you did there.
October 20, 1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
Who would have been Richard Nixon's Roy Cohn?
John Mitchell
Uh … in some senses, Richard Nixon's Roy Cohn would be … Roy Cohn.
Wikipedia says (my emphasis):
Colorado governor supports property tax cut measure on November ballot opposed by other Democrats
Gov. Jared Polis will vote for Proposition 120, the ballot measure that gives other Democrats pause because it would slash property tax assessment rates for multifamily residential properties and lodging properties.
Polis, who stated his position Monday when asked by The Colorado Sun, didn’t elaborate on why he is voting for the proposition, which is on the Nov. 2 ballot and backed by conservatives.
A spokesman later distanced the governor from the stance.
“You asked how he plans to fill out his ballot and the governor told you how he is doing so as a Colorado voter,” Conor Cahill, a spokesman for the governor, said in a written statement. “The governor has not officially endorsed these ballot measures or campaigned for or against them, he was simply answering the question asked.”
If you need another fix of Boebert Bashing, Huffpost takes on the Hurl Girl today for her sneering at transgender people. I can’t link from my Amazon fire but maybe Bowman or Dave or someone will.
Here ya go.
What can you expect from a piece of trailer park trash…..
“I never saw that coming” – Literally everyone on the planet who saw that coming
Bad reporting, unusual for Mother Jones. Manchin has fully debunked it as reported on Yahoo News. Manchin and Bernie Sanders also posed for a picture together.
I’m guessing there was some strategerie behind all this. McConnell is a power-whore but I’d speculate that between now and next November he’d rather be the guy killing Dem initiatives and playing minority victim than to be in power and remind the masses why we loathe his procedural treachery.
"he’d rather be the guy killing Dem initiatives and playing minority victim than to be in power and remind the masses why we loathe his procedural treachery"
Precisely!
Some of those Dem initiatives deserve to be killed. For starters, the jobs program, when the federal government already has as many as 80 job training programs. Second, free community college, which means our tax dollars would go for free school for the kids of millionaires. Third, more money for elder care. Would that be the elders who live in those rich gated communities in the Sun Belt, like The Villages in Florida or Del Webb in Arizona?
From a pragmatic viewpoint, once reasonable means testing is put into place, the $1.5 trillion figure seems far more feasible than the $3.5 trillion progressive wet dream fantasy. Even President Biden is coming around on the means-testing issue.
Just got to call Bullshit on you, CHB. Please specify which comunity colleges millionaires send their kids to.
Let’s see, the Rockefellers always go to NJC in Sterling. The Mellons send their kids to Otero. The Koch brothers to Aims in Greeley, right?
Funny thing, when I got my degree as a paralegal from CCD, I don’t recall seeing that many Lambos in the parking lot, which was mostly full of old Hondas.
Meanwhile those legacy admissions at Harvard and Yale are going begging because all the super rich are clamoring to get into Arapahoe Community College.
You are better than that, usually, CHB. But even Moddy is laughing at your demagoguery on this one.
As a retired journalist; yes, I've seen you on PBS ads; I'd expect you to focus on the conclusion, which is means testing.
"Defenestrated" is more accurate than "retired" in my case, and a lot more fun to say.
But at 76, I'm content with the title "has been."
It was probably all that carousing what got you defens, . . defenet, . . . defistra, . . . retired?
Debatable. Sometimes. Maybe.
. . . Give him credit though, he keeps repeating that like it’s some kind of bug lodged up his ass.
As for Moddy, hell, it’s even much, much worse than that — he’s agreeing . . .
I’m reminded of the classic definition of a liberal, now progressive: someone who devises creative ways to spend other peoples’ money.
And I’m always amused by some of you guys who get your shorts riding up high and hard whenever Moderatus posts. I like him for comedy value and, once in a great while, he says something worthwhile. Otherwise, he’s the alpha male and all the pack members slobber and grovel at his feet.
So, are you ready with your list of millionaires yearning to send their kids to community colleges? Still waiting.
I hope you have snacks and libations for the looooong wait. 😉
It's "bad reporting" because Manchin himself says otherwise?
lol
You're making some pretty generous assumptions about ol' Joe's credibility, CHB. West Virginians I know who also know Joe tell me his word doesn't mean much at all. In any event, Manchin calling the Mother Jones story "bullshit" doesn't qualify as a "debunk[ing]" in any meaningful sense of the term.
A gentle reminder: 2019 population of West Virginia is 1.792 million. You know how many of those?
lol
I know six who worked quite closely with ol' Joe over the years, and they've all proven quite trustworthy.
Anyhoo, thank you for the tacit admissions that your "bad reporting" post above was based exclusively on credulousness and that ol' Joe's denial was not in fact a "debunking."
Actually I admitted nothing. Perhaps you're experiencing a "Boebert delusion?" 😉 😉
Puerto Rico, more than 3.2 million population and zero senators.
WV should be decertified as a state.
Senator Mancin is a bad Senator and a disservice to most is his 500,000 voters.
I see ol' Joe failed to deliver those 10 GOP Senators to support the Freedom to Vote Act. Quelle surprise!
I kind of wish he would switch parties. (And take Kyrsten Sinema with him.)
That way Biden and the Dems could blame Mitch McConnell and the GOP majority for the fact that nothing can be accomplished.
As it is now, nothing is being accomplished with a nominal Democratic majority.
The Mother Jones story says he'd first "send a signal" by telling Schumer he's giving up his Dem leadership positions. If that doesn't get him what he wants, he'll change his registration from Dem to independent. He apparently didn't say whether as an independent he'd caucus with the Dems or the GOP.
“The Bern” originally wanted $6 trillion in added social spending. Then he and fellow progressives agreed on $3.5 trillion as a “compromise.” CRFB (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget) looked at Manchin’s $1.5 trillion proposal and found it to be workable, to the point, & fully paid for.
In the meantime, there are shovel ready projects all around the country that are being held up because the progressives won’t pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Which GOP senator recently encouraged the progressive caucus to stand its ground because as long as it did, nothing was going to be spent on anything.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI)
Yes, that asshole! Thank you.
I don't claim Senator Johnson. Supposedly a successful business-person before going into politics, he seems to be a not-nearly-as-smart version of Ted Cruz.
The only country less willing to get vaccinated than the U.S. is Russia.
two words Putin Chip®