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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Donald Trump
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(R) Ron Hanks
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(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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(R) Jeff Crank
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
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Colorado adds 5,500 jobs; unemployment falls to 5.3%
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2014/08/18/colorado-adds-5-500-jobs-unemployment-falls-to-5-3.html
How is that possible with those awful Dems in charge as Governor and majority in both houses of the state legislature? To those Repugs who want to come to our rescue…. never mind?
I'm *still* looking for a job…
I'm "employed", but I am trying to put this as a side business, and try to find a job that pays for a new house we're saving up for.
" I received a cancellation notice for my health insurance right here "
" Can we please have some details about the circumstances of your cancellation ? "
" Look, over there ! "
God I love it.
Partisan hack, asking for details. Just swallow the bullshit already and vote GOP. Aren't you scared of Mexican Muslim EPA UN Terrorists Strealing/Destroying Jobs, Marriage, Guns and Fertilized-Eggs for Tom Streyer and George Soros???
Oh My!
I left out "… and George Soros pushing health care. "
And
those people'' rioting in Ferguson.How about "those people" helping strangers and defending storefronts? Oh and interesting fact. To all those who think the police must feel constantly beseiged and endangered in such a violent "those people" majority neighborhood, their state senator pointed out that the killing of an unarmed teen shot six times by police is the only murder so far this year. To be fair, she should have said killing that might be classified as murder but you get the picture.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/ferguson-good-news_n_5689027.html
Looks more like the police are rioting.
I've seen this movie before.
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
Richard J. Daley
"Those people"? They are us, and we are them. I grew up with middle class and working class black and white and brown people. That's who is protesting, and 70% of those getting arrested. Watch the Joy Reid Report, interviewing grassroots community leaders, and Tamron Hall's interview with James Knowles, Mayor of Ferguson, who has mostly been AWOL, and who claims that "there is no racial divide in Ferguson." The racial divide is shown in glaring contrast.
I asked a high school class once how many had been profiled or been discriminated against by the police. Almost all of my black and brown students raised their hands, and some of the white ones, as well.
All of this has been under the surface for years, and is just bubbling out again now. The more we deny and suppress it, the more pressure builds.
There are certainly political and criminal opportunists and provocateurs, who look to take advantage of the chaos in Ferguson for their own purposes. They're pretty easy to spot – the white guy who yells invective at police over a bullhorn, yet vanishes once police move in to make arrests. Groups on the left and the right are also capitalizing on the unrest for their own agendas.
I want to see the Grand Jury quickly indict Darren Wilson. I think that once he is arrested and charged, things will start to calm down. But the underlying causes – discrimination, deep suspicion and lack of opportunity for youth of color, lack of police accountability – will still need to be addressed, and quickly.
You can't seriously mean to say you mistook how gertie and I used "those people"?
Of course not, BC. I'm just elaborating on "those people", because I'm seeing plenty of it in the RWNJ press. But you knew that.
Just cheking.
Thanks, BC, but mama wasn't picking on me,
The Obamacare Headline That The GOP Doesn't Want You To See
Obamacare Losing Power as Campaign Weapon in Ad Battles – Bloomberg
That dumbass liar Cory Gardner — always on the cutting edge of political strategy and general imbecility!
A chilling account of the conditions prevalent in three St. Louis County municipal courts (including Ferguson). There is no way this can be called a "justice" system. The paper goes a long way to explain how easily Michael Brown could be murdered by police and why his murderer may well go unpunished, at least by the state of Missouri.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vwptqn3mhq9xvy7/ArchCity%20Defenders%20Municipal%20Courts%20Whitepaper.pdf
To paraphrase a modern sage:
"You go to war with the Congess you have — not the Congress you might want or wish to have …"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/us/politics/in-washington-little-appetite-for-a-vote-on-iraq.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
I'm not advocating for war. I would like to see some day again a Congress that is not impotent and vestigial.
from the LA Times…
Republicans throw a conniption over the teaching of U.S. history
by Michael Hiltzik
As students prepare to return to school in the next few weeks, there's no better time for a conservative freakout over education. The issue of the moment is a new outline, or "framework," issued by the College Board for advanced placement classes in US history.
The framework is here. According to a resolution passed at the recent summer meeting of the Republican National Committee meeting in Chicago, it "reflects a radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects." The RNC calls the framework, which is to be implemented for some 500,000 AP history students this fall, "biased and inaccurate."
Wartime experiences, such as the internment of Japanese Americans…and the decision to drop the atomic bomb raised questions about American values.– College Boards' instructional framework for AP US history classes
The RNC calls for Congress to de-fund the College Board, an independent body, until the course material can be "rewritten…to accurately reflect U.S. history without a political bias."
You can see what's happening here: it's a continuation of the old culture wars, transplanted to the AP history classroom and slathered over with political foam. One would expect the College Board, in the name of sound pedagogical principle, to treat this uproar with the inattention it deserves.
One would be wrong. The board's president, David Coleman, responded with a pusillanimous open letter praising the critics as "patriots who care deeply about what students learn" and bowing to the "principled confusion the new framework produced." If he thinks this sort of soft-soaping will mollify the mob, he's got another think coming….
keep reading here….
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-republicans-throw-a-conniption-20140819-column.html#page=1