Tuesday Open Thread

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  by: Colorado Pols Tue August 7, 2012 at 3:45 PM MDT

“Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.”

–Cato the Elder


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  1. Albert J. Nock says:
    Tue August 7, 2012 at 4:04 PM MDT

    “By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.” –Cato the Younger

    • AristotleAristotle says:
      Tue August 7, 2012 at 4:07 PM MDT

      That is where ideals and reality usually part.

    • SSG_Dan says:
      Tue August 7, 2012 at 4:52 PM MDT

      “How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.” Mark Twain

    • parsingreality says:
      Tue August 7, 2012 at 10:38 PM MDT

      I’ve got mine, fuck you, you morally inferior scumbag.

      Hey, is that from the, you know, CATO Institute website?

      Here’s another one:

      The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

    • ProgressiveCowgirlProgressiveCowgirl says:
      Wed August 8, 2012 at 12:38 AM MDT

      Marx said the problem with capital is that it enables one to enjoy the fruits of the labor of others. If each man is entitled to the fruits of his own labor and is sole arbiter of his own private actions, and may not take from any other member of society the fruits of that person’s actions, you cannot have a system of capital in which one individual may use capital to command another to labor for the benefit of the capital-holder.

      Are you a Marxist, Nock?

  2. DavidThi808DavidThi808 says:
    Tue August 7, 2012 at 5:04 PM MDT

    I used CORA for the first time for my City of Boulder wasting tax money blog. It was really interesting because it caused the city to turn over documents that documented how they had made dumb decision and wasted money. It’s totally against human nature that someone provides documentation against themselves.

    It’s a good idea and a good law as shown in how it worked. And clearly most government employees would not cooperate if not for the law. But it did feel weird to ask someone to give me info that would not make them look good.

  3. Albert J. Nock says:
    Tue August 7, 2012 at 6:55 PM MDT

    “If the Bush administration didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers. If the Obama administration decides they don’t like somebody, they murder them.” –Noam Chomsky

  4. Libertad says:
    Tue August 7, 2012 at 9:11 PM MDT

    Any word on debates between these two Golden brothers?

    How will Perlmutter contrast and compare his demand for firearms and ammo bans with that of Governor Hickenlooper?

    Does Perlmutters position that without Obamacare, Aurora victims would have been out on their butts without healthcare, square with Governor Hickenlooper and the Hospital and Health Insurance Associations positions and obligations?

    Where’s Ed at on fiscal sustainability vs Coors and Governor Hickenlooper?

    • ProgressiveCowgirlProgressiveCowgirl says:
      Tue August 7, 2012 at 9:17 PM MDT

      Perlmutter routinely clobbers Republican opponents in Republican-leaning parts of the district. Saw him vs. Frazier at the Arvada Center in 2010 and even the Libertarian walked out with more supporters than Ryan after the debate.

  5. ProgressiveCowgirlProgressiveCowgirl says:
    Tue August 7, 2012 at 9:23 PM MDT

    Parents attack daughter for bringing shame on the family, but it’s just a “racist attack” because nobody was brown or called God by a different name than the majority does.

  6. DaftPunkDaftPunk says:
    Wed August 8, 2012 at 2:01 AM MDT

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry is facing a big contradiction as he pursues two policies important to conservatives – defunding Planned Parenthood and rejecting President Obama’s healthcare law.

    Perry has said he won’t implement the healthcare law’s Medicaid expansion. But his plan to cut off Planned Parenthood assumes that the Medicaid expansion will happen in Texas…

    The GOP governor wants to create a new program funded entirely by the state, so that he can cut off all access to Planned Parenthood.

    A new program, though, would be expensive. In trying to downplay the cost, Perry’s administration said the state-run alternative won’t need much funding because “all clients will be eligible for Medicaid following the expansion of the Medicaid program” under the Affordable Care Act.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/healt…

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