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October 08, 2005 08:00 AM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Enjoy the last hints of summer…

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  1. Lyrics for your approval:

    Oh my name it is nothin’
    My age it means less
    The country I come from
    Is called the Midwest
    I’s taught and brought up there
    The laws to abide
    And that land that I live in
    Has God on its side.

  3. The only reason BB got into the Governor?s race was to cast a fundraising net wide enough to retire his old campaign debt.

    Now that it is done BB will drop out of the Governors race.

    If he was serious about the Governor’s race he’d be running on Issuses and not the type of campaign he has been engaged in for the Governor’s Office.

  4. This is starting to be a real definition of character. MH and his staff are walking precincts for school board members and against C and D, BB and his staff are stealing lists.

  5. That’s odd, it looks to me like Beauprez is actually running on issues and keeping things civil, while the Holtzman team continually engages in personal and character attacks on their opponent. Holtzman has even quit campaigning against C & D – all he ever does anymore is attack Beauprez.

    Remember, guys – we have to be able to win in November, and it’s about more than just the Governor’s race.

  6. BB campaign started it months back – MH campaign fires a shot accress their bow – and now they finally shut up. Hey – I have a suggestion for you, “think so”, pull the press clips from JUNE and you’ll see the BB campaign bringing this down to the gutter first.

  7. Joe, I appreciate you’re support of Bob Beauprez — but you’re looking at this from the outside/in.

    BTW – where are you today? At home? Because everyone else is out walking against C and D and helping school board candidates get elected in difficult districts. And delivering yard signs. And making volunteer phone calls.

    We have another year to come back together — right now we should all be working to KILL C AND D.

  8. From the Colorado Springs Gazette:Rep. Michael Merrifield, a Manitou Springs Democrat, is considering a bid for the Colorado Senate in 2006 against incumbent Republican Ed Jones. Merrifield said Friday that he is waiting for the results of a poll to help him decide whether he should give up his relatively safe House seat and toss his hat into what is almost certain to be a contentious and expensive Senate race. See http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1311074&secid=1

  10. Hooray! More corporate welfare for Big Oil! If we’re all lucky, the middle class taxpayers will start seeing results in 5-10 years. That string of record breaking profits across the oil industry just weren’t enough so now middle class taxpayers are going to fork over even more to the richest of the rich. Yippee! It’s a good thing that the GOP is so independent and has such firm control of spending, unlike those pesky special interest freaks from the Democratic party who just spend, spend, spend and are out of touch with the American heartland. What a victory for freedom and democracy. What a great day for America.

  12. BUSH’S SUPREME COURT NOMINEE
    A Love That Was Benched by Their Careers
    # The long-standing relationship between high court nominee Harriet Miers and Texas jurist Nathan Hecht entrances and puzzles their friends.

    LA Times

  13. “Who is left to open the eyes of the country?to tell Americans what is happening?  ?There is no one left; none but all of us.?

    Caring For Creation
    Bill Moyers
    October 07, 2005

    I don?t fit neatly into the job description of an environmental journalist, although I have kept returning to the beat ever since my first documentary on the subject some 30 years ago. That was a story about how the new Republican governor of Oregon, Tom McCall, had set out to prove that the economy and the environment could share the center lane on the highway to the future.

    Those were optimistic years for the emerging environmental movement.  Rachel Carson had rattled the cage with Silent Spring, and on the first Earth Day in 1970, 20 million Americans rose from the grassroots to speak for the planet.  Even Richard Nixon couldn?t say no to so powerful a subpoena by public opinion, and he put his signature to some far-reaching measures for environmental protection………….

    http://www.tompaine.com/print/caring_for_creation.php

  15. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN

    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his

    morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging

    liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first

    swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are

    safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their

    safety and that they work as advertised.

    All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical

    plan because *some liberal* union workers fought their employers for

    paid medical insurance – now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning

    breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some

    girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing

    industry.

    In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is

    properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total

    contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what

    he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

    Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes

    is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to

    stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station

    for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable

    money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants

    liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives

    everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

    Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical

    benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy

    liberal union members fought and died for these working standards.

    Joe’s  employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t

    want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or

    becomes unemployed, he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment

    check because some stupid liberal didn’t think he should lose his home

    or go hungry because of his temporary misfortune.

    It’s noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some

    bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some

    godless liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers

    who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

    Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his

    below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided

    that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and

    earned more money over his lifetime.

    Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his

    farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is

    among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought

    for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the

    third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers’ Home

    Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The

    house didn’t have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck

    his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification.

    He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on

    Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking,

    cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe

    wouldn’t have to.

    Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk

    show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and

    conservatives are good. He doesn’t mention that the beloved

    Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys

    throughout his day.

    Joe agrees: “We don’t need those big-government liberals ruining our

    lives! After all, I’m a self-made man who believes everyone should take

    care of themselves, just like I have.”

  19. Anti C an D idiots have been destroying “vote yes on C and D” yard signs in my neighborhood.  Just amazing these people.  They are desperate and don’t know what to do anymores so they turn to violence!?  Republicans… what can I say.  They don’t know any better I guess? 

    VOTE YES on C and D!!!!!!!!!!!!!  FORZA!!!

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