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March 06, 2009 04:34 PM UTC

Open Line Friday!

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“There’s a lot of desperation out there. That’s what he’s creating. President Obama is the author of this desperation.”

–Rush Limbaugh

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28 thoughts on “Open Line Friday!

  1. I have a boat, woo hoo!  My sister bought it five years ago to flip for a profit. Well, if you knew my sister…..  No idea if the engine ran, even, although it has only 128 hours on it even being 24 years old.

    So she gave it to me for me to use while I’m here.  Towed it to The Verizzo Family Ancestral Estate day before yesterday.  I tell ya, every Florida home needs a boat in the yard or at the dock.

    It’s a 1985 18′ deluxe ski boat with a 302 Chevy disguised as an OMC inboard.  It has the matching OMC I/O (Inboard/Outboard to landlubbers) drive, very top drawer stuff.  Should scoot along.

    I’ve named it “Better’n Prozac.”  Hope so.  

    1. My husband says, because his father said, because his father said: “The two happiest days in a boat owner’s life are the day he buys the boat, and the day he gets rid of the boat.”  So, congratulations to you and your sister.

      I have always wondered where these men got their information since they are/were born and bred Montanans and have never been near a body of water large enough to boat upon.

        1. .

          I park it in my neighbor’s side yard, which (I’m in a cul de sac) adjoins my front yard.  

          Its on a trailer, ready to go.  Pick it up any night between Midnight and 3 AM, and we can negotiate the price later.

          .  

            1. .

              The set-up was not intended.  

              I’d be happy to see it moved, so I wouldn’t be doing any shooting,

              and the “neighbor” doesn’t live there.  He doesn’t want to impair the appearance of the area where he lives, so he parks the boat at one of his rental units, next to me.  

              My actual neighbors, his tenants, would be as happy as me to not see it anymore.

              Try it for a weekend at the Reservoir.  If you don’t like it, bring it back.  

              .

        2. Bring Over Another Thousand!

          There have been boats in my family since before I went to school until two years ago.  My father was a yacht broker and a licensed Coast Guard captain.  His first boat was a sailing canoe about 1938.  Mine was a Penguin class sailboat about age ten.  

          So, no surprises will be forthcoming here.

  2. Rep. Lambert no fan of textbooks from Mexico

    A Republican lawmaker isn’t happy that textbooks from Mexico will be distributed to Spanish-speaking Colorado students.

    Rep. Kent Lambert of Colorado Springs said the state has no way to screen “patently false information” in the textbooks, including possible claims that land in the southwestern United States is actually Mexican property.

    He also fears the books interfere with goals of inclusion, including learning to speak English.

    “This is outrageous,” Lambert said.

    The State Board of Education is holding a reception at 11 a.m. today in its lobby to thank Mexican Consul General Eduardo Arnal for donating 500 boxes of books to Colorado students.

    The state has been accepting and distributing the books for 12 years, said board spokesman Mark Stevens.

    The books are published for use in schools in Mexico and distributed to Spanish-speaking students in Colorado to help them learn English.

    Supporters say the books help students learn English. The books being donated include textbooks and children’s fiction for elementary- and middle-school levels.

    (Emphasis all mine).

    1) Lambert fears people aren’t being included.

    2) Lambert fears people aren’t learning English.

    3)Lambert fears no one in Colorado speaks Spanish in order to review the books to make sure they don’t teach that Colorado in really the Numero Uno target para la Reconquista.

    A) The books were donated by the Mexican Consulate, as they have been for 12 years.

    B) They include fiction and textbook for middle and high school students to help them learn English.

    My head hurts.

  3. There is uniform curriculum in Mexico, so when the kids travel back and forth between US and Mexico, they  don’t lose out because of the standard textbooks.

    In Denver, on the other hand, the curriculum and textbooks vary tremendously from school to school; one of the many “reforms.”  So, Denver kids who move, lose ground.  Moving from school to school is a factor in the drop out rate.  DPS has known this for twenty years. So, why do they let each school “individualize” its curriculum?  It gives a distinct advantage to the kids whose parents own a home in the neighborhood and are thus stable…..got love that DPS.

    Growing up in the military, I apprecited the fact that the DOD had a standarized curriculum for all its schools.   Military brats move a lot.

    1. I went to Littleton, supposedly better than DPS*, and we only had math books.  Occasionally a class set of history books or Ordinary People.  These kids are clearly getting a huge leg up.  (I’d put a smiley face, but the first bit’s just not funny.)

      In what world would someone think that being completely illiterate and ignorant is better than being literate in at least one language and having basic knowledge of their country’s history?  That’s not directed at you dwyer, it’s a general comment.

      *LHS’s academic performance is rated “high.”  Check out a short list of Denver high schools.

      http://reportcard.cde.state.co

  4. But he is contributing heavily to the negative sentiment in order to sell his massive spending programs. The net economic effect of Obama’s approach is almost certainly negative.  

    1. Limbaugh is pushing desperation to his faithful, and those among them who’ve lost their jobs thereby turn their anger toward Obama.

      Rush is the promoter-in-chief of desperation.

      1. That is a lot of free hot air…he gets to promote his ideas, stir the pot….and direct the anger toward Obama….

        unemployed people may not be able to continue to have cable and internet….but everybody can turn on the radio…

      2. making a dent in support for Obama nor increasing support for Republicans.  If the people he’s addressing already deperately hate Obama, big deal.

    2. No serious person believes that this crisis is anything but Republican in origin or that it will be solved quickly. As long as the GOP does nothing but oppose the Dems and offer nothing other than what they’ve been offering since 1980, they will be the marginalized opposition. And as long as Rush is their most visible leader, they’ll continue to make a negative impression on the middle road types who don’t subscribe to either a liberal or conservative philosophy.

      1. .

        Listen to Rush for 6 weeks a year or two.  Every day.  

        If you still don’t think he’s on to something about the “Obama Depression” after that,

        then at least you gave him a fair shot.

        .

        1. Driving a truck, I had a lot of radio time. He was much less strident, rather funny.

          Like Dr. Laura who also started out as a kinder person and then went for the jugular, Rush went over the edge not long after.  

  5. For Immediate Release

    Rifle -CO Communities around Western Colorado were shocked when Colorado Gas Commissioner Director David Neslin failed to attend the North West Colorado Oil and Gas Forum. Many members in attendance, including long time energy consultant Tim Hansen noted that “for the first time in my recollection since the formation of the forum the director of the COGCC didn’t show up to our regions most important barometer on the state of the industry. Many in the Western Slope Communities are now referring to Neslin with tongue in cheek rancor as “NO SHOW NESLIN”

    Neslin failed to comment on his conspicuous absence at the forum when many complained that he sent low level COGCC staffers to function as his sacrificial lamb

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