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December 31, 2008 04:37 PM UTC
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This was from a discussion of the airline bailouts in the past, but would be great for the financial and car bailouts today. If they need our money, the below requirements would probably increase the financial health and future prospects of the companies.
What is it that allows the rest of the system, starting with our children not meeting educational requirements….and so failing…not advancing to the next grade…to be punished for failure…, much like in every other stratum of business and employment, but seeing in the corporate world golden parachutes for C.E.O.’s and cozy Board relationships actiually oobscenely rewarding failure!
I agree with the block quote above. Something stinks!
As reported recently in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Rep. Steve King (R-54) has a contract from a state college to perform work that is very similar to that described in a bill he intends to carry this session.
In an editorial today, the Sentinel observes:
Sure, it’s tough to completely avoid the appearance of conflict of interest when you are a part-time citizen legislator. But, getting no-bid contracts from the state and then refusing to comment on it only raises suspicion. And refusing to comment on whether you have any other state contracts does more than raise eyebrows.
Happy New Year!
If you’re King, Penry (his sister just got John Marshall’s old job at Mesa State, vacated when Marshall got promoted), or Tim Foster, it’s not tough at all. You just ignore apparent conflicts.
We sell our software to a large number of states, but I decided to end our cold calls in to the Colorado and Hawaii state governments and also that we would give them 20% off if they came to us – so there was no conflict.
And I’m just a random blogger…
What do we know about conflicts of interest, ethics, or how business works?
Ok, here’s why it’s going to Romanoff. Call it the “my lunch with…” factor. Da Gov knows that he needs to appoint someone who will ge tout there and talk to us bloggers – because damnit – our 10 votes matter!
So going through the top possibilities.
So there you have what is really going on behind the scenes. As the Rocky & Post go the way of the do-do bird, we’re left as the main avenue to the chattering classes.
On a more serious note, I do think that as the web, especially the blogosphere, becomes more important – reaching out in forms like ColoradoPols will become more and more important for politicians.
And if you look at who does this, Jared Polis, Pam Bennet, & Ali Hasan are the best so far at it. We may see Ali as a credible candidate for one of the state-wide offices in ’10 because of his strength here.
David, tomorrow is January 1st, not April 1st.
Can’t see it. He thinks he lost because of the bailout. No one running for state rep won or lost because of the bail out. The offensive mailer probably helped him because folks up here tend to blame the other candidate for that kind of thing. Scanlan probably lost 1% because of that tho she was blameless. He had/has nutty ideas re eliminating fuel tax + paying for a monorail. Pro-TABOR while + monorail. These things just can’t be reconciled to make sense. Ali did well IN SPITE of his ideas.
Seriously, it takes me forever to come up with a good insult, and then I spend the rest of the day checking to see if anyone came up with a better comeback. Nothing’s a bigger waste of time. And the worst is arguing with fellow Boulderites like Dabee, David, BoulderDem, etc.
So for the new year I’ll stop worrying about Jared Polis, stop participating in circular firing squads, and just post videos of one of my favorite underrated bands: Brooklyn-based Palomar. Check them out!
Your arguments are hilarious.
If you’re into chick bands, check out Girl in a Coma. They’re much better live than they are in this video (it’s not the album cut for some reason) and this isn’t my favorite song (not big enough to have a lot available for posting), but they’re good.
If so, I’d love to have that link again.
If not, anyone? About the guy finding himself in the future and everyone he’s interacting with in the hospital is an idiot.
I’ve had a surge of idiots recently and I just want to wallow……
You could probably Youtube it and find the right clip.
The original YouTube video was removed, so here’s a substitute.
http://podblanc.com/idiocracy-…
http://voices.washingtonpost.c…
v. McSutheredo
Sorry I’ve been gone so much. Work trip and the holidays.
God bless all of you.
SXP, I’m coming up next week. Let me know if you can take a break from your ELF meetings/Re-create ’78 rally/Boulder-CaraГ§as-Sister City meditaton, then we can hook up.
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Off to bed, 12:29, life is boring.
I hope we as individuals and we as a nation find comfort and joy in the challenges facing us in 2009!
To start with a bummer note, the famous Chris Craft corporation is here in Sarasota. Just heard of a guy ther 25 years laid off until whenever. His severance pay was $500.
It HAS to get better, it is hard to get worse.