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April 04, 2013 04:23 PM UTC
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Now folks, it should be noted that tonight is the night of the
I concur, while the odds are pretty high the commissioners might not have realized the significance of this day, I'd say it's 100% probability they wouldn't care, even if they knew.
Only way to settle this mystery is to see if the history of this group's dinner always falls on the 4th of April. They might be the ones sharing a sick inside joke among themselves.
Unbelievable.
I'm surprised at you. You're normally more reasonable than this.
Is there a PC calendar I can buy so I never do anything wrong on any liberal holy days, especially the ones that are not actually holidays? I'll order two and give one to El Paso County.
You sound annoyed, Crappy; maybe you could organize a rally in support of El Paso County's stupidity. I bet you could get, like….. 30 people.
How's Reince's $10m program going talking at those folks he wants to fool into voting for you guys?
MLK 'PC' indeed. Not only are your comments bitter and dumb to understate the obvious, they actually work at cross-purpose to their apparent intent.
You had a valid point to start with, ArapG, that the El Paso County Commissioners might very well have had no idea that this was a day of any significance. It doesn't, as you say, turn up on calanders as does MLK Day in January. Then you had to to go and ruin it with a remark resembling Scalia's equating voting rights with racial "entitlements".
You just couldn't manage to make a reasonable point without tossing in a disparaging remark calling any recognition of the anniversary of MLK's assassination a silly liberal PC holy day. Kind of like how your gun rights absolutists can't manage to express their concerns without throwing around the c word.
This is why we worry less and less about the GOP improving its standing with minorities to win national elections, moving public opinion on sensible gun control or turning back the clock on gay rights. You just can't stop being a-holes long enough to make a dent, even when you have valid points.
Here's one for you, JB………
I know your above post was aimed directly at agop, but you also did confirm it pertains to a huge swath of conservative leaning people.
This is a serious question. "Why are they this nuts? What has happened to light up the republican base to this extreme?" I mean. over half the self identified republicans believe President Obama's not of American birth. The vast majority believe the gun legislation just enacted here, in New york, in Connecticutt infringes on thier Second Amendment rights, while they can't be specific on the "hows" More than 60% of registered republicans don't see the current attempts of 36 State Legislatures to prevent Democratic leaning voters to register as voter suppression. Even when reminded there are no cases of voter fraud, the supposed reason for the draconian methods.
What happened that reslulted in the unleashing of this insanity?
Is the fact President Obama's not completely white that much a trigger for this hate and insanity?
I'm serious about this question. These people are off the deep end, and it seems to be, little by little, considered "normal for them".
Their party is falling apart.
Look at the red/blue electoral map. Watch the 47% video again. The GOTP needs that 47% because that's almost all they have left.
They want to say education is failing. I say- it's the only reason we had the civl rights movement, the Viet Nam war opposition, men on the moon and the only reason we could elect Obama. (Don't talk to me about falling test scores- the tests are different. And puhleeze do not talk to me about country X students doing so much better unless country X has universal compulsory pubic educatin, including immigrants and the ultra poor, and has a Gini coefficient anywhere near the US).
Old, white
fatmen are no longer the key demographic in most elections. In this last presidential, it was white men 25-40 in northwest Florida and women 30-50 in Pennsyltuckey.Reagan Democrats? Yeah- I read the text of Reagan's Neshoba County Fair speech. And I lived in neighborhoods full of Reagan D's. It wasn't about tax cuts and ending socialized medicine. It was about ending the cold war and keeping things the way we all knew they were supposed to be. (Why do you think Reagan waited until after '84 to give the immigrants amnesty? hint: Lane Kirkland wouldda ate him alive.)
The party base of the post WWII era is dying and death throes are what they are. IF they could refocus on the modern day equivalent of the cold war and fiscal sanity (they can't) they could transition for another generation or two. I mean c'mon – trickle down sounds so plausible. But the rich and mega rich are clearly visible as global citizens now. They do the cost/benefit on infrasturcture and law and taxes, and invest accordingly. Sure, they may own a house in Laguna Beach, but they are residents of one of the states with no income tax, or they become resident in some other country altogether. (Has Rush emigrated to Costa Rica or the DR yet?)
I am not convinced the desperate people you are seeing who appear to be off te deep end are representative of the surviving GOTP base. Desperation makes the front page. Some 100 + yr old living quietly in some nursing home somewhere is not gonna get much attention. Even though he still votes. And I think wild crazy nuts have always been around- just we see them more now.
Think about it: you believe in your heart of hearts that some cultural or legal thing is the sure sign of end times and evil. Inter-racial marriage, prevalence of divorce, same sex marriage, Roe v Wade, amnesty for immigrants, …whatever. And 80% of those under age 40 either don't care or disagree. Their party is dying.
Considering the source, I think we have to at least consider the possibility that this was not an accident.
And that is bad enough.
Doug Lamborn's not hugging THIS tar baby.
Sounds like Arap is going for the "I don't know, and I don't care" defense.
Tsk.tsk.
I don't recall MLK ever coming to El Paso county.
If he did, it probably wasn't on April 4th.
The more important point is that after the Colorado Legislature effectively banned gun ownership in Colorado there are still forward thinking Coloradans respecting our history.
I wonder if Wayne Laugesen will ignore this?
King was killed because he was a Christian Pacifist! Both major parties and the church will have none of that Jesus nonviolence talk.
May the warfare/welfare state reign supreme…
Jesus H Christ, Nock! Do you sit around trying to think up ever stupider things to say. MLK was killed because he was a black activist leader who was growing ever more powerful. He was threatening the white, redneck, power structure and tjhey hated his guts…I was around at the time..I remember.
+ a zillion