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August 27, 2014 06:31 AM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    1. The Koch boys (and their 'get government out of our life while they simultaneously raid our treasury') love 'em some Cory…

      The latest Koch-funded ad shows a desolate rural Colorado with claims of people paying 30% of their income for health care and a 5,000:1 ratio of citizens to doctors.  Let's do the math on Cory (and I'll be generous and assume his wife only makes 50% of what he makes – it is the way Republicans like it) That would be the equialent of $6,350/mo for his household. His own home county and mine, Yuma, boasts two nearly-new hospitals and a handful of doctors.  His very own ratio is something in the neighborhood of 2,000:1.   So while he's gutting (and boasting about his vote) the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, and while he's doing all of the work his money masters demand in lands far, far away from Yuma County – he acts as though Yuma County and CD4 don't exist. 

      And now he wants to represent our entire state.

      Let 'em eat cake..

       

  2. Smart money switching from Udall to Gardner

    Per the Huff Post:

    The most notable change came in Colorado, where Rep. Cory Gardner (R) has surpassed Sen. Mark Udall (D) in corporate and trade association PAC cash in recent months. After raising a little more than half of Udall's total from these PACs in 2013, Gardner has pulled in $553,863 in the first half of 2014 compared to Udall's $407,686.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/26/senate-2014-corporate-pac_n_5712701.html

    1. Anti-American putz calls 'corporations' and DC Beltway lobbyists 'the smart' money, demonstrating–again–the Cons disdain for common folk at the behest of their 'corporations are people' friends. 

      1. Fuckstick? What’s that? I was thinking more like cockknuckles or fuck giraffe. Anyways if he is happy about there being a 100k difference in 10% of the pot in a race he’s desperately underfunded in , what should we take that away?

  3. A little nine year old girl trying to handle an Uzi. What could go wrong? Because her parents, the shooting range and the now dead instructor constituted a conspiracy of dunces, this little girl will probably never get over the horror that the adults in her life brought about with their complete lack of the tiniest shred of common sense. That something like this could happen with a small child and a submachine gun was completely, completely foreseeable. Wonder how proud of themselves they all were for being so hardcore on gun rights and how cute they all thought the little girl looked with that hardcore weapon in her little hands in the seconds just before this happened.

    DOLAN SPRINGS, Ariz. — A 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to Arizona authorities.

    The instructor, 39-year-old Charles Vacca, died at a hospital late Monday night after he was shot in the head.

    The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said the girl was with her parents. The website of Bullets and Burgers, the shooting range where the accident happened, says children between the ages of 8 and 17 can shoot a weapon if accompanied by a parent or guardian.

    Police identified the weapon as an Uzi, an Israeli-made submachine gun.

    http://kdvr.com/2014/08/26/firearms-instructor-killed-by-nine-year-old-girl-firing-uzi/

    1. My dad thought it would be funny for me to shoot a shotgun when I was a skinny 12 year old girl.  The recoil knocked me flying backwards.  All my dad said was that I missed.  Since he was drinking a lot in those days, I suspect he wasn't entirely sober at the time.

      Wonder what her parents' excuse would be.

      2. BTW, we let our closely supervised then elementary school age son shoot his Dad's 22 and still have the picture of him wearing ear protectors and proudly holding the rifle in one hand and his target with a very nice pattern in the other so I'm not an anti-gun fanatic. All the guys in generations of my family like to do some target shooting and I've enjoyed it, too. My small town Idaho husband grew up bringing home small game to his poor widowed mother from a pretty young age.  But never in a million years would we have dreamed of handing our young son (a stiff wind could have blown him away in those days) a loaded submachine gun. It doesn't take that much thinking through to see the obvious risks.

    2. They're attempting to inculcate a new generation of Ammosexuals, even as kids in general increasingly abhor guns, violence, and their parents'/grandparents' sick, hate-filled, racist world.

      In the meantime, there will be more such incidents, sadly; possibly many more…

    1. It's the Price of Freedom…

      I saw a sticker on a car yesterday: "God and Guns: Since 1776." Even back then, I'm sure there was a Minuteman child who accidentally fired a lead ball from a flintlock musket into an unfortunate patriot's head.

    2. If you listen closely at the end of the tape (at least in the version I reviewed), just before the deadly scene cuts away, it sounds like the poor little girl starting to scream…

    1. Without commenting on this WSJ article I'll just say this. You do realize that whenever gloat over what you think is a Dems do it too item you are tacitly saying that, although you've always defended Rs for doing the same thing, it's wrong. Otherwise you wouldn't be gloating about a Dem doing it too. You'd be using it as an example of a sensible Dem other Dems should emulate.  More proof that somewhere in that piss ant brain of yours even you know that your side's behavior is essentially greedy and shabby. 

          1. I'd be "all in" on legislation requiring all food service companies who want to play the inversion game to be subject to a living wage mandate for US workers.

            1. It really is pretty rude to whine about paying taxes while employing a business model that requires other tax payers to keep your work force alive for you.

  7. Did some elected somewhere propose the legislation that dwyer said would cause her to permanently abandon this site?…or is this just a temporary reprieve?

  8. Uh, boy.  There has got to be a wierd parental backstory in this kid's screwed up choices (i.e. what's in a name?)

    Douglas McAuthur McCain, of San Diego, California, was killed over the weekend fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), according to the Free Syrian Army. Photos of McCain’s passport and of his body — which feature a distinctive neck tattoo — have been seen by NBC News. According to an activist linked to the Free Syrian Army who also saw the body and travel document, McCain was among three foreign jihadis fighting with ISIS who died during the battle.

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    This totally unsurpising story is from a paper in Vail:

     

     

    Fired oil and gas reporter claims local newspaper chain buckled to industry pressure

    Critics in Garfield County accuse politicians of colluding with energy industry officials

     

    A veteran investigative journalist covering Colorado’s booming oil and gas industry says he was fired earlier this year largely due to pressure on his newspaper from local government and energy company officials.

    “[Oil and gas companies] complained about me, the Garfield County commissioners complained about me, and [the Glenwood Springs Post Independent] took me off both those beats,” said John Colson, a hard-hitting reporter for various newspapers in Aspen, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs since 1978. Ultimately, Colson said, publisher Michael Bennett fired him.

    “[Bennett] told me he didn’t want me doing investigative reporting; he didn’t want me doing government reporting,” said Colson, who admits he clashed with management over corporate influence at the paper. “He wanted me doing features, nice features.”

    http://www.realvail.com/fired-oil-gas-reporter-claims-local-newspaper-chain-buckled-industry-pressure/a1034

  11. It's ticked over to thursday but here's a little something our trolls might find interesting:

    There are really only two possible outcomes for Democrats in this year's Senate elections. Either Republicans are going to win enough seats to take control of the chamber, or Democrats will hold on by the skin of their teeth. The first outcome is more likely, simply because of the map. Democrats are defending twenty-one seats while Republicans are only defending fifteen seats. Furthermore, many of those Democratic seats are in conservative states like West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Montana, making it even tougher.

    So if you're a Democrat who's getting depressed by the prospect of a Republican Senate and all the loveliness that would bring, here's something that might make you feel a little better. A couple of weeks ago, I made a graph showing all this year's Democratic candidates and the tough environment many face. I decided to duplicate it for the 2016 races, as a little liberal pick-me-up.

    Here's the good news for Democrats: Even if Republicans take the Senate this year, Democrats will almost certainly take it back in 2016. There will be twenty-four Republican-held seats up that year, but only nine Democratic-held seats. Almost all those Democratic seats are in states that Obama won comfortably two years ago, and none of them are in states Mitt Romney won. So it's possible that no more than one or two Senate Democrats will face a difficult race. More important, seven of those Republican seats are in states Obama won.

    http://prospect.org/article/silver-lining-democrats-if-they-lose-senate-2014

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