21 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread”

1. Personhood champion Cory Gardner" "Energy Bans" would kill "120,000" jobs overnight.  

   http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20140706/NEWS01/140709697/Gardner:-Fracking-creates-jobs- 

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   1. He's about as good at math as our trollboy.  Follow the money…

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      1. It doesn't matter how wrong he is if people believe him.  And therein lies the problem.

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         1. Then let's hope people that know Gardner for the two faced pol he is get's out and works for Udall.  And that the Udall camp runs some hard hitting ads using clips like the one above!

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            1. Sadly, too many people are invested in believing him.  It will be difficult to get them past that.  They think the emperor's new clothes are amazing.  

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   2. 1. Over the counter birth control has a place – but it does not replace free contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Gardner knows this well. As someone with religious objections to abortion, he should be trying to prevent abortions by making contraception more easily available.
      2. No one is trying to ban fracking statewide. There are various smaller initiatives getting signatures – they involve setbacks or tweaks to communities control over energy production within boundaries.
      3. If anything, Gardner should be supporting initiative 75, the secessionist's initiative – municipal control trumps fed and state regs. Every village and little town can  have its own  policies – on anything. Feudalism, anyone?

       

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2. I haven't exactly been President Obama's most worshipful, uncritical fan ever since he started health insurance reform negotiations by refusing to allow a single payer voice so much as a negotiating chip place at the table and chose 90% of what the righties wanted as the starting point. I've been critical of many of his taking about 5 years too long to figure out that making nice to Repugs and dissing his own Dems accomplishes nothing. The Repugs don't play any nicer and Dems have had little reason to go out on a limb for controversial policies for him. 

   But credit where credit is due.  I am  aware of how much better off we are than we would be had the Repugs won the WH and Senate. Here's a reminder. This is why I believe sensible people should do all we can to keep the Senate out of Repug hands.

   Job losses were cut by more than 50% within his first 4 months in office. He saved the American auto industry. Has cut our deficits by more than half. Killed Osama bin Ladin. Got Syria to give up their chemical weapons without firing a single shot. Presided over record breaking stock levels (with the Dow just recently closing over 17,000 for the first time in its 118-year history). Reduced unemployment from 10% to 6.1%. We just saw the fastest first quarter of job growth in the United States since 1999. The quickest drop in unemployment in 30 years. 52 straight months of private sector job growth. 9.7 million private sector jobs created. Over 8 million people signed up for health care thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Millions of Americans have gained, or kept, health care coverage thanks to Medicaid expansions and being able to stay on their parents’ insurance longer. He hasn’t started a single war. Hasn’t tried to confiscate a single gun. – See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/list-of-things-you-can-blame-on-president-obama/#sthash.w8iWq6a5.dpuf

    

    

    

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   1. There you go with the facty facts again, BC.

      And in spite of the fact that Obama hasn't tried to confiscate a single gun, and even backed down from confiscating Cliven Bundy's cattle, and even after their big lawsuit failed miserably in Federal District Court, Colorado's "Constitutional Sheriffs" are literally up in arms about Federal overreach on gun laws. The Sheriff Doug Gillespie, who is not a "Constitutional Sheriff, and whose duty it is to bring Bundy to justice after wasting millions in tax funds, Fox News finds that decision to be "controversial".

      These wannabe right wing posturers are organizing militias to go down on the southern border and shoot the children and families trying to cross. They planned to have an "American Spring", and it was a miserable failure, which pissed them off no end.

      And your own County Sheriff is probably a "Constitutional Sheriff", who promotes this paranoid mindset, spreads misinformation, is allied with white supremacists and hate groups, and is helping to set up for these planned militia confrontations with "Los Federales".  You can look on the list at the last link, to see if your county sheriff has "signed the petition" to stop "Obama's gun control".  I feel a diary coming on.

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      1. All major network Sunday "news" shows ignored the jobs and stock market gains:

         When is the U.S. economy not a topic worth addressing on the Sunday morning talk shows? Apparently when there's lots of good news to discuss.

         At least it seemed that way this past Sunday when all four of the network Sunday morning talk shows ignored last week's surprisingly strong jobs report, which indicated nearly 300,000 news jobs were created in the month of June. Consequently, the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent, the lowest level since September 2008.

         The jobs surge meant America had logged its highest January-through-June job-growth rate since 1999. (The U.S. has added 1.4 million jobs since December, making it the best half-year since the recession ended.) And over the past 52 months of jobs growth, businesses have created nearly 10 million jobs.

         Also ignored by all the Sunday hosts and guests was the fact that the Dow Jones stock exchange on Thursday for the first time surpassed the 17,000 mark, "another in a string of records for the index that has lifted portfolios in a five-year bull market for stocks," according to the Associated Press. Indeed, "The Dow has climbed more than 10,500 points since its Great Recession low of 6,547.05 on March 9, 2009."

         Keep in mind, none of this was discussed on Face The Nation, Fox News Sunday, Meet The Press, or This Week; shows which, in theory, debate and analyze the weeks' most important news developments. But do they?

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         1. What do these economic items have to do with Benghazi?

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            1. Must be something.

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            2. What do these economic items have to do with Benghazi?

               They are the things president Obama and the Democrats managed to accomplish while the Republicans were content to do nothing but wave their arms and scream…Benghazi!!

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         2. They're all about ratings and economic facty stuff isn't sexy.

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      2. Don't see Arapahoe County Sheriff listed. That's my county.

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         1. Your Arapahoe County Sheriff apparently didn't return the questionaire to the CSPOA. That's a good thing- and the smart thing to do as well, since if they actually return a statement,  as  Sheriff Pelle of Boulder County did

            Sheriff Joe Pelle of Boulder County, Colorado denounces the CSPOA newsletter: “Please, please quit sending me this crap!”

            then that Sheriff gets placed on the dreaded "red coat list" of those who will not promise to take on the Feds against  gun control.

            I'd love to dismiss this as just ammosexual nut cases, but so many elected Sheriffs, including 31 in Colorado, have declared that the "posse comitatus" provision of the Constitution trumps their responsibility to obey Federal gun control laws.

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   2. Lsot part of a sentence there in editing… many of his political moves such as taking about 5 years too long etc. 

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      1. Lost, that is. Wish I could blame it on the heat but stupid typing and editing errors are pretty much par for the course for me. Honestly, I actually do have a respectable IQ. Really. Not making that up.

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3. Monday morning chemical pretty pinkish…

   We are the dust that surrounds us…

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4. Don't forget to vote for Justin Morneau in the final all-star balloting.

   http://t.co/LPXpwEiPOP

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5. Interview @ VICE: This Kid Made an App That Exposes Sellout Politician:

   With US politics swimming in so much corporate money that it's pretty much an oligarchy, it can be hard to keep track of which particular set of lobbyists is trying to milk more cash out of health care, fossil fuels, and other very important issues from one week to the next.

   But thanks to 16-year-old Nick Rubin, keeping track of just how much politicians have sold out has become a lot easier. He created Greenhouse, a new browser plug-in that operates under the motto "Some are red. Some are blue. All are green." The plugin aims "to shine light on a social and industrial disease of today: the undue influence of money in our Congress." It sounds like a bit of a lofty aim for an app, but it's actually pretty simple and effective—it provides a breakdown of a politician’s campaign contributions when that politician's name comes up in an article. It is currently available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari and is completely free. As you can imagine, reading about how your member of Congress voted in a recent health bill becomes all the more enlightening if you know how much money the health industry showered him in at the last election.

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6. Obama will be talking economy at Cheese-Person Park in Denver Wednesday!

    

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