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Hick holds out hope for a special session to resolve local control issues. He also claims that the fracking industries generate 100,000 jobs paying an average $100K salary. Comments?
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25725055/hickenlooper-sees-50-50-chance-special-session-local
Bullshit…simply not true. I don't know where Hick pulls these numbers from…but I have a suspicion…
What happened to the red light photo enforcement stuff – has it been repealed? or dead for this year?
It's dead for this year after being changed into a study by committee amendment.
…the same man who referred to the emerging hemp market as 'niche' last week on CPR.
Today, the United States is the largest consumer market in the world for industrial hemp products, yet remains the only major industrialized nation in the world to prohibit its cultivation at a federal level. Despite the Governor's opposition to Amendment 64, which also ended the prohibition of industrial hemp cultivation in Colorado – we are literally leading the national narrative on rebuilding this industry, in spite of the recent cabal formed between the Governor's office and the Colorado banking lobby to prevent hemp farmers access to a much-needed credit union.
It may be useful to remind the Governor that a decade ago craft beer was a 'niche' market; we're now the 'Napa Valley' of the craft brew industry. Thirty years ago, an unemployed geologist who was promoting restauarants in LoDo may have appeared to be wildly optimistic as well – perhaps even scoffed at by some of his fellow men. He made a small fortune because of his vision for a certain industry in Colorado – all his fellow-governed ask now is that he put as much energy in to give this emerging, billion-dollar Colorado industry the same level of support.
Perhaps it's an inconvenient truth, but the cannabis industry – right out of the proverbial gate – stands at #4 of the top ten cash crops in Colorado today. This industry will be here, employing thousands, long after they've fracked the state's natural gas resources to extinction.
In a somewhat related note, there's an interesting read in the Boulder paper today.
Local organic farms with summer educational programs are objecting to a proposed greenhouse pot grow nearby.
Here's a proposed greenhouse grow (using sunlight instead of high-intensity lamps), but the neighbors object. While I'm sympathetic to the farmers, the pot industry has emerged as remarkably environmentally destructive with a outsized carbon footprint. It would be nice to support less environmentally damaging options, like greenhouse grows.
For refs, just google "environmental impact of pot grows".
There are clearly less-impactful ways to growing marijuana – it's the current law and regulatory framework that prohibits most of the best options. I have no doubt changes will be made in the future to accomodate that flexibility.
My post was about industrial hemp, the sober cousin, that is grown outdoors and has a very friendly eco-footprint.
Seems like we have a Dem civil war brewing.
Pass the popcorn.
…or pass the gas mask. It's more of a war between 'common sense' and 'industry toads". A Republican weighs in:
Excellent story, Michael. Thanks for posting the link.
One of the things that invariably affects those who are unfortunate enough to find themselves living in the middle of the gas patch is what I refer to as " chronic hypervigilance". After a just a little while one becomes nervous and wary, not knowing from one minute to the next what aggravation or danger awaits you. With every breath, you wonder if the next one will come as an olfactory hammer, fairly knocking you to your knees and leaving you gasping for clean air. Or maybe the next intrusion will be auditory, as described by Mr. Ewing. Every day in the gaspatch is an adventure…and not the good kind.
One other thing caught my eye in the story:
These are not conflicting statements, as it is, in most states, completely possible for an oil and gas company to harm your health and water while still being in compliance w/ state and federal regulations.
Which tells you something very important about the regulations.
Just like the Weld County Commissioner want us to know that the fact barely a single dime of severance tax revenue generated in Weld County makes its way to the state coffers, they assure us they're operating within the law. Walmart and McDonalds want us to know they're operating within the law when they harvest billions in subsidies for their underpaid workers. And what they don't understand is that John Q. Public is tired of them hiding behind the legal veils they, their attorney's and bought-and-paid-for politicians have put in place via the laws they wrote.
And last night Austria owned the show with a beautiful song.
And I know, hater gonna hate but this is for everyone other than Ralphie & B/C who I think will appreciate it.
Ok, nice Broadway-type song, but what is up with the lady's beard? Is Christina W trans? Is this a new Europop trend?
The guy has a nice voice…I'll give the song a "5". But the image is just a bit unsettling…not being accustomed to glam chicks with full beards…
I have to agree, Duke, on the "unsettling" part. While I fully support Conchita Wurst's rights to love, marriage, fame, fortune, etc, I find the image unattractive and disturbing, personally. Brave, though.
Certainly reinforces my regard for one Austrian woman, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, It was a nice song. I'd like to have heard Linda Ronstadt do this when she was at the height of her powers.
I'm not sure there's a standard category to place Conchita in. In her own words:
She comes across in person as a very classy, happy, & grounded person. Thoughtful too, she remembers people she meets and treats everyone really nicely.
I forgot one for Voyager. This is their official video because the clip from the show is not up for them yet. Poland with Slavic Girls:
Yeah but did they have identical Bavarian twin sisters playing polka accordion on rollerblades?
"Poland with Slavic Girls'? What does than even mean?
You know that Poles are Slavs (West Slavic to be exact), right?
Apparently, that barely-safe-for-work video depicts Poland's entry in the Eurovision thingie.
Are you saying that was his clumsy attempt at a Casey Kasem imitation? I might buy that if he at least got the song title right.
Is this link broken?
Puts me in Friday Jams. What's it SUPPOSED to do?
Put David's videos where they belong. Saturday is bad enough.
David marches to a different drummer. Friday Jams is for losers.
I approve of the use of music vids as a means of political commentary (e.g., Ralphie's James Brown post the other day in an Open Thread, I believe). Although David blurs that line, I'm not about to pound a gavel over it.
. . . "everyone" who appreciates a bad acid flashback . . .
We no longer have tag lines, among other major losses with the "new and improved" site format (reminds me of DPS reform) and so I am forced to copy and paste, again, the link to hear Greg Hick's testimony before the House Committee. The reason this is so important is that these are the facts that the republicans can not refute, but they can and do manipulate by omission…that is why it is imperative that we all know exactly what HIcks said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tT4LFYLiBw#sthash.SJOOFI20.dpuf
One of the most important facts in the timeline that HIcks begins with is the six hour time difference between Washington DC and Benghazi. So the repubs give the time and say Eastern time, but they DO NOT continue to say what the
time in Benghazi is. So, for example, in the DP, there is a right wing columnist who talks about "data points" and then talks about 8 PM Eastern time….which is 2am in Benghazi. The implication is that Washington knew early in the evening that an attack was underway. Jerk. It is 5am when the Embassy in Tripoli begins its evacuation, but it is only 11 pm in DC.
Using Facebook as the method of commenting or posting online removes anonymity. The Federalist series would not have been possible if the veil of anonymos writing had not been available. HuffPost has done this, as have several other media sites. Keep Pols safe for anonymous posting.
Just create a fake Fb account.
In before AC. And this one is one of the best I've seen in a long time.
DP, How about this one?
Only a complete fucking moron fails to grasp the difference between climate and weather.
On that note, I've come to the conclusion that AC is not a real person — precisely because, as you note, no one can be this much of a total fucking moron day after day after day . . .
Some one the other day noted the several different writing styles that appear under the AC banner . . .
I think that it's highly likely that AC is merely a creation of our very own Alva — a caricature of all the GOP idiocies that exist — a way to keep us Polsters enraged, engaged, and commenting on this site.
Keep up the good work, Alva (you sneaky bastage)!!
He's a real guy. Can't tell you how I know.
With regrets, I'm confirming Mama's report. I was hoping it was simply a 'bot'. Not the mechanical kind – but the larva of the botfly, an internal parasite that lives in the stomach of animails, finally passing through the host's dung and pupating on the ground.
But alas, he's real.
That is so sad.
Only complete moron would post a cartoon from Investors Business Daily. I read one of their editorials telling people to invest in rocks in the Green River formation because tight oil was booming in the Eagle Ford. Really.
Just another snapshot of how the all out ACA attacks followed now by the umpteenth all out Benghazi offensive isn't moving polls. Today's real clear snapshot once again shows a little improvement rather than a continuing drop in obama approval rates. They aren't great but getting a little better rather than worse probably isn't what the GOTP spinmeisters were hopnig for.
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Approve 47, Disapprove 48
Disapprove +1
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Approve 48, Disapprove 51
Disapprove +3
hoping that is.
BC, actually the polling is going just as we wanted.
Have a nice weekend.
So you admit all the hysteria about everything from ACA to Benghazi, with stabs at fanning the flames of a not much IRS scandal thrown in, is for political purposes but you don't want to admit it's no longer effective in driving down Obama's approval ratings or HRC's lead in all potential match ups for 2016. Obama is improving slightly and HRC holding steady. So, a slight dent in your hypocrisy but not in your denial.
So you wanted to spend a jillion dollars to get nowhere.
You're even dumber than your posts.