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March 22, 2013 06:22 AM UTC
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Is there anyone but me that believes the leg. needs to take a hard look at an overhaul of DMV and the miserable funding now that the state coffers are making a comeback? It's not unheard of here in GJ to set for up to 3hrs. to get your drivers license renewed and if you are fortunate enough to have a job – that is a lot of time off. Even students are being turned away and told to go pay for a private driving test before they then must go back and pay up for their regular driving license. These kids and their families may not have that extra $30-40 to spare.
It really is a pathetic way to run a state agency.
I hate command and control. Nowhere did #64 Nationalize os should I say Stateize the Cannabis trade. IF it did, then screw #64, it was a mistake…
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22840315/colorado-lawmakers-question-proposed-marijuana-business-rules
Todays trivia question:
President: Calvin Coolidge
His reply: "You lose."
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.
And now from a Python conference we have a story of political correctness run amuck. What should have resulted in an apology instead had several people being fired and a company having their business seriously damaged.
What's going to happen in Cyprus? Iceland was the first country to tell the international financial system to take a hike. (And because they did they're well out of the recession unlike the rest of Europe.) But Cyprus is also part of the Euro so it's a bit more difficult there.
They might cause a major problem throughout Europe. On the flip side they might part from the Euro, stick it to the large account holders, and come out fine like Iceland. At which point there would be 2 countries showing the best route forward is not austerity, but sticking it to the large financial interests.
@DavidThi808
I was a bit perplexed by those arguing that taxing accounts was needed to prevent a collapse. If anything, the proponents of the asinine plan had it backwards: i.e. taxing bank accounts would make it a lot more likely to get bank runs and a subsequent collapse.
If your accounts are being taxed to bailout people who made some extremely poor decisions you’re probably going to be wondering: (1) what’s to say my accounts couldn’t be taxed again at some point in the future and (2) you may question whether it’s worth keeping money in an account at all, Thankfully, that asinine proposal for funding a bailout via account taxes failed.
OK, not political but what about the Rams last night? They rocked. Hopeful for CU
And what about the Nuggets extendeing their second best in the NBA after ther the Heat winning streak to 14, including wins over some of the best teams, two over OKC, becoming the first team in the league to beat OKC 3 times this season? Even though they played an inferior team in the 6ers last night and played badly and without Lawson and red hot Chandler? How about sweet Cory Brewer making that late 3 and, shortly after, calmly sinking 3 free throws after being fowled on a 3 to win the game by a single point, a game they trailed by 8 points after a lack luster performance with only a minute and a half left?
These Nuggets keep finding ways to win whether they're playing their best or not and no matter who's sitting out with or playing through injuries. They do it with trust in each other, different players rising to the occasion every game and depth that pretty much gives them two first strings. They do it with points in the paint, rebounding, blocks, turn over inducing steals, all of it feeding those super fast breaks that, so far, seems to be making up for the fact that they aren't terribly good shoooters. They do it with spectacular highlights from Faried and McGee, increasing flashes of brilliance from Lawson, solid smart play from Kufos and solid D from Igoudala, who's capable of his own highlight flashes, and Chandler's skills and aggression. And of course, whenever the youngsters (and we're so young and fresh it's crazy) start losing their cool and things start getting out of control there's old Andre Miller to calm them down and get them back on track or win the game himself. Unselfish, ball to the open man play. Rooting for each other like a bunch of kids, bench going crazy for the guys on the floor.
No matter how far they go, this is a team to LOVE and I do.
Manimal!
Isn't it nice to have a young player like Manimal (Kenneth Faried to those who aren't fans or live under a rock) who not only plays his heart out and cranks out the dazzling highlights but isn't afraid to strongly and publically support gay rights, including the right to marry? Guess his two moms raised this insanely talented, hard working, well mannered and brave young man right.
+12
They have really learned to win. I'll be going to at least one play off game. Hang the expense.
Republicans lie like a cheap rug, or wear them on their heads, or something…
Problem is, laime-brained Republicans believe the lies.
@DaftPunk
The private sector hires out of economic necessity not altruism—the claims that reducing spending will automatically result in private hiring is complete garbage. If the private sector isn’t hiring if sufficient capacity to cancel out the job losses resulting from spending, cutting spending just increases unemployment. The problem with austerity is that cutting spending–in a recession or otherwise weak economy– results increased unemployment; higher unemployement reduces revenue flowing in, which results in further spending reducedings, and the process repeates itself a vicious cycle..
If you need to reduce spending to reduce the deficit, or balance the budget, the time to do it is when the is economy is strong and lots of places are hiring, not a recession.
Did you see this?
Payroll tax hike = Fewer people dining out
Gee, who could have foreseen that with less take home pay middle class people would spend less and businesses would suffer? And remember the payroll tax break was the only one Rs were for ending a while back. The only one that wasn't defined,as they defined ending the tax breaks for zillionaires, as a tax raise. While no amount of cuts for the rich needed to be paid for because they would pay for themselves with spiffy new jobs (never happened), Rs insisted that the payroll tax cut did too need to be paid for, apparently because it would somehow not create jobs as they said tax breaks for the rich would do.
Of course none of this matters because it's not about real world consequences. It's the "philosophy" that matters. They dress it up by pretending it's about free markets (that's a laugh with too big to fail or jail and all the heavy government subsidies to oil, gas, pharma, you name it in the big corporate world), liberty, small government, self reliance, and the opportunity society but it's really about naked, I got mine screw you losers greed.
The Israelis hate Obama. Meddling in their affairs will never advance progress in the Middle East…Wait, what?
And don't forget all those Israeli University students cheering all his points about the dignity of the Palestinians and the need to try to see things through their eyes and how Israel cannot survive as a democratic Jewish state unless the Palestinians have their own state so, as hard as a real two state solution may be, there simply aren't any other viable options
.Agreeing with those sentiments in the US may get you called a terrorist loving anti-Semite but a huge number of Israelis agree. And J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-Peace organization, is giving Americans who agree a voice against the alliance of hardliners and evangelicals who are going to be the death of the state of Israel if they have their way.
I watched President Obama's speech yesterday. Really good speech. Very well received with one heckler ala Joe Wilson. The Pres was very open about a 2 state solution.
It has been noted many times that AIPAC takes a much more toxic view that actual, like Israelis
And that dumbass heckler's tirade afterwards was directly contradicted by Obama's own speach.
Israelis have to live there, American chicken hawks don't. Most Israelis have to serve in the military at some point. Many who have served have been appalled by what they see resulting from their government's policies, including many who served in the upper military and intelligence echelons. Of course the ultra-orthodox who, along with militant American groups, are among the most militantly don't give an inch hateful, are excused from military service, something a lot of Israelis want to see change. Ordinary Israeli soldiers have to see people, not abstractions.
It's something to think about at Passover, which starts Monday night and celebrates freedom from oppression and the aspiration and struggle to be a free people with a homeland instead of a suppressed minority under another people's thumb.
Of course, in the story of Passover the Jews were enslaved because they were thriving so that they had become too numerous in Egypt for the Egyptians comfort. They were suppressed because they were feared. In a relatively short time the Palestinians within the borders of a single state of Israel will no longer be a minority. Then what? Mass ethnic cleansing? A successful uprising?
It's a shame these two peoples who want the same thing can't seem to find a way to let themselves and each other have it.
Perhaps someone has already commented on this odd connection, and I just missed it.
There was also rather strange footage on local Denver news at 6pm (I haven't found it yet online) of the Governor getting angry at a reporter who was asking him about his friendship with the alleged perpetrator's father, and asking if he had been involved in any way in the son's release from prison, etc.
Here's the interview.
Fascinating article http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
That's a nockwurst level link dump.
Interesting article. There's no make-work desk job the government could have these people doing? Learning coding skills?
On an iPad doing more than a link takes a LOT of time. So yeah, just a link when I'm on my iPad.
As to the jobs, the article does a good job of discussing that. What kind of desk job is there for people who don't have a college degree (or equivilent)?