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September 23, 2014 06:29 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."

–John Wayne

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      1. What will mini turd do after the elections? He lacks qualifications for any real job> He might need psycologial help too once the votes are in and all the right wing clowns that he shills for are history.

        1. I'm sure he's in a pretzel this morning awaiting instructions from the Borg on how to spin last night's air strikes.  The early spin by the nutjobs on the east coast this morning is questioning whether the President had the authority to order the strikes.  Iran's hair is on fire this morning, which is a good sign.

          Here's a sobering piece in the WashPost about the death of Christianity in Iraq.  For one, I'd be 'all in' offering them a home in the US.  I'm (not) holding my breath waiting for one of our conservative patriots to introduce legislation.

          While we're bombing for peace this morning – let's stand with the cool hand of our Commander-in-Chief as he knits together an Arab coalition that must be fully engaged in the NINS (Not Islamic – Not a State) challenge. 

          1. NINS (Not Islamic – Not a State), brilliant.  They will hate it, just like they do everything else excepting killing, rape and torture ,of course.

            And thanks for the first link, Lamborn will love this.  He just wrote an "opinion" piece in the C.S. Gazette this week on Obama being against the wonderful benefits of cheap and abundant energy from coal, gas and the Keystone pipeline.   

            A quote from the article regarding Rockefeller:

            ~~"We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy," Mr Heintz said in a statement."

            1. I spoke with a friend of mine at RBF today and he told me the resopnse to their announcement this morning has been 'overwheliming'.  This is how (non-violen)t revolutions begin…

              As for the El Paso (County) Einstien, all I can say is "bless his little heart…."  

    1. You don't have to be a programmer or engineer to relate. I've had several jobs in which being a Realist has been my downfall. But this does remind me of a software project on which I worked as a subject matter expert years ago.

    1. In one of those moments I won't soon forget, I was sitting in my tractor shredding corn stalks on election day, 2012.  The big thing on the rural airwaves is 'The Huckabee Report" that is a five-minute gig at noon each day in Dumphuckistan.  On that day, Preacher Huckabee assured all of the Dumphuckistanians that a "Christian arising" was afoot; that across the nation Christians were going to the polls and that they would end the scourge of Obama upon the nation by days end.   The only event to top the day was Turd Blossom's meltdown on Fox News when they called Ohio.

      Please Preacher Huckabee, "jump in"…

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    In an excellent piece by Jeff Sposs at "Climate Progress.com" he mentions the only criticism the Faux news and the "not so Bright-bart" loons can come up with is to call out the crowd in New York for leaving trash behind.

     

    “Litterbug Climate Marchers Leave Behind Piles of Trash” reported Breitbart, over a compilation of pics and tweets documenting the admittedly unsightly piles of bags, cups, cans and signs that marchers left behind on corners and sidewalks and piled around garbage cans. The self-satisfied hosts of Fox News’ “The Five” admonished the marchers to “practice what they preach.” The Independent Journal Review tisked that the trash “distinctly contradicts the purpose of the march in the first place.”

    I was not aware Manhattan was a "pack it in-pack it out" location, having been misled to believe they provide for trash collection and removal as a public service… but, I digress…what caught my eye was the following…very well explained and very significant…

     

    But this isn’t simply a matter of right-wing news sites impugning environmentalists, or of critics nitpicking anything — even a problem that’s universal to big crowds everywhere — in order to mock people who offend their ideological tribalism. Focusing on the marchers’ trash is also an example of one of the most fundamental errors in the entire climate discussion: namely, the assumption that what matters is individual virtue.

    This line of reasoning is basically individualist: it says that combating climate change and moving to an ecologically sustainable society requires adding up hundreds of millions of changes in individual habits and values. Under this frame, when the People’s Climate marchers demand policies to combat climate change, they’re seen as demanding more virtuous behavior from their fellow citizens as individuals. Which makes all their trash evidence of their hypocrisy.

    The nature of the mistake here can be summed up with a simple data point: a 2008 study by an MIT professor and his class found that, in America, even the homeless and itinerant Buddhist have a per capita energy usage that’s twice the global average, and a comparative carbon footprint to match. (For the well-off in the U.S., it gets up around 10 times as big.) That’s because even homeless people and monks rely on the fabric of our society — the military, the police, public transit, electrical utilities, public buildings, roads, water, sewage — for their daily needs. And right now, that fabric is shot through with fossil fuels, energy inefficiency, waste, and unsustainable resource use. By contrast, even the well-off in Europe lead far more sustainable lives. That’s not because they’re any more virtuous, but because the social and economic fabric in which they are embedded is more sustainable.

    uh…yup.

    1. I'll take those small piles of refuse any day over the fields of dead bodies and mass destruction these pro-life war mongers leave in their global wake. 

  2. Victor Head brags on talk radio that he never even had to interview to get the Pueblo Chieftain's endorsement.

    Just what Pueblo needs: an arrogant, immature, 28 year old never-elected-to-anything gunhead to supervise the Departments of Elections, Motor Vehicles, Records, Liquor Licensing, and more.

    Thanks, Pueblo Chieftain. Your dwindling supply of paranoid low-info readers salutes you for your unwavering commitment to your twisted perception of the public good.

    1. You think they're even embarrassed that everybody now knows that they endorsed this guy without even asking him a single question? If the Denver Post is a rag, the Chieftailooks like pure ass wipe.

      1. Yup. It has to be Chieftain's upper management making these decisions. Peter Roper's original article on the Morphotrust license screwup was factual and neutral. A Chief Editor had to have decided to run Bo's poto under the misleding headline.

         And some management geniuses decided to endorse Victor Head.

        I suspect that some of the Chieftain staff is embarrassed; they still have some good reporters. But management is probably patting themselves on the back, congratulating themselves on appealing to the lowest common denominator of readers in Pueblo.

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