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October 10, 2015 01:29 AM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

  • 42 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

“In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.”

–Bette Davis

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42 thoughts on “Weekend Open Thread

    1. and I'm guessing the R field won't generate the number of bodies that Bernie has been bringing out……hence their wimpy little allowance for the debate crowd. Bernie could fill the 11,000 easy.

      1. 9,000 in a venue for 7,000 just today. With four day's notice.

        Yup. Sanders has won Boulder, and the reason Republicans don't want students (or any regular Boulder people) in to their precious debates is because Republicans are completely aware that they have no chance of winning over any millennial voters in Boulder. Except, perhaps, for the 50 that they plan to allow into the room. 

        And they'd really prefer that the rest of the country doesn't realize how out of touch they are. So Fox News won't cover this at all. MSNBC's coverage here. (horrible audio quality)  

    1. Tucson already felt the Bern.

      'course, The Librarian is good with Socialism for major oil companies, for all our sports teams who need gleaming stadiums every few years, for weapons contractors, and Big Pharma………we just can't have the riff-raff taking any of that justly earned wealth from our Betters. That would be an injustice.

      1. The real Andrew Carnegie would have little use for our idiot poser…

        "The Gospel of Wealth" (written by the real Andrew Carnegie in 1889) describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. Carnegie proposed that the best way of dealing with the new phenomenon of wealth inequality was for the wealthy to redistribute their surplus means in a responsible and thoughtful manner. This approach was contrasted with traditional bequest (patrimony), where wealth is handed down to heirs. Carnegie argued that surplus wealth is put to best use (i.e. produces the greatest net benefit to society) when it is administered carefully by the wealthy.

        Carnegie also argued against wasteful use of capital in the form of extravagance, irresponsible spending, or self-indulgence, instead promoting the administration of said capital over the course of one's lifetime toward the cause of reducing the stratification between the rich and poor. 

        1. So Carnegie endowed libraries open to the public and generously gave money to educational institutions, in the fine tradition of other like capitalists, like the Rockefeller family.

          That is an argument for the state taking the means of production out of the hands of the producers?

          1. Plesse give s specific example of how 'the state' is doing that today? With a lower tax rate than we had under Reagan? Carnegie (and Rockefeller) made their fortunes with 90% rates – today's 'job creators' would have you believe they’re being persecuted with carried interest exemptions and offshore bank accounts. 

            1. in fairness: the museum is in Bentonville, AR, Walton's home. So the decision supports that town. Being from a small town, Leadville, I prefer our local capitalist wealth to be invested locally to benefit locals. They should pay their staff though.

              Supposed to be a world class collection

            2. Zap,

              Arkansas – fly over country.

              Colorado – fly over country.  

              To the elites, both are in the middle of nowhere.  

              Perspective is a bitch.

  1. and one more little morsel for breakfast: Jared Polis is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus — it's the least he could can do. That caucus was founded by none other than Bernie Sanders in 1991:

    Friday evening Bernie Sanders will be speaking at the DeMeester Performance Center, an outdoor amphitheater that holds 7,000 people, in Tucson's Reid Park. He'll be introduced by the local congressman, Raúl Grijalva, chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group that Bernie founded in 1991. Wednesday, Grijalva became the first member of Congress to endorse Bernie's campaign. Friday he plans to make the case for how, in his words, "Bernie is the right leader to fight income inequality, protect our safety net and ensure every American has a stake in the future of our country."

    Jared, can you hear me now?

  2. If wonder if Wot-Zit-Face will swing by to drop a nugget of con wisdom in the punch bowl?

    To tsk tsk at the Left's wildly disruptive presence in democracy.  Because if today's conservatives represent anything, its decorum and respectful dialogue.

    No silly, that is not some extra's from a movie set about the South in 1962.  

    That's over yonder in Oregon, some of your 'base' welcoming our Commander-in-Chief and President, while families mourn. Just yesterday.  Not that large portions of the base are racist or anything.  I mean the Confederate flag is a symbol of Oregon heritage, right? 

    What's that sign say?  "No More Free Phones!" ?  She must hate Reagan I guess.  

    At least the one respectful American is sending him back to DC, not Kenya.  

    I mean birtherism is so 2010, right?  The GOP has resettled itself, found its center.

    Because behaving otherwise would be a bit gross and disrespectful, don't you think?  Doing all this asshattery while families are burying their loved ones?

    I am glad conservatives would not behave that way, and that the party leadership has not been cowardly to let the nuts and xenophobes run roughshod over it.  

    That would be unseemly indeed.  

     

  3. At a recent school spirit parade in northern Colorado, a truck sporting Confederate and US flags attempted to drive in the parade. The truck was not allowed to join, and its drivers were reduced to glowering from the sidelines., as the rest of the town lined the streets to cheer students, the bands, the clubs, the classes, the teams.

    Even in a very conservative county, not everyone is a knee-jerk racist.

    1. AC, that's nice that you're so supportive of the Moonies. It shows religious tolerance on your part. (The Washington Times was founded by Sun Myung Moon). Now the Moonies actually practiced a kind of "socialism" in which each adherent gave his/her financial resources to the cult leader, to spend as Sun Myung Moon and his inner circle directed. One of the things Mr. Moon wanted was a media empire; hence, the Washington times, United Press International, One America News (cable), and many more.

      So that was how the Washington Times survived as a competitor to the Washington Post; it received 40% of its funds from Moon's Unification Church until 2009, and then again after 2010. The Unification Church cult in turn practiced a kind of slavery, in which exploited cult members sold candles and worked for free, were sexually exploited by their leader, and helped build up the Moonie media empire.

      Perhaps the Denver Post and the Pueblo Chieftain should take note; newspapers can survive, if subsidized by religious cults practicing slavery and exploiting their members.

      Along with cute cartoons attacking Hillary Clinton, the Washington Times has promoted anti-semitism, virulent anti -Islam rhetoric, and , of course, Tea Party branded political "Christianity".

    1. You should try contacting the Department of Personnel and Administration's  Contracts and Procurement Unit.  IIRC, responses are public records.

      Contact:
      John Weber, Manager
      1525 Sherman Street  |  Denver, CO 80203
      Phone: 303-866-6484  |  Fax: 303-866-3034

  4. Mark Russell used to joke that his comedy was nothing but "rip and read."  Today it would be "cut and paste" …

    From the you-just-can't-make-this-shit-up desk:

    "Koch Industries has consistently opposed and actively lobbied against all forms of corporate welfare, including those we currently benefit from,”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/corporate-welfare-for-the-kochs.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
     

    1. Then he added, “Those Tea Party idiots have no idea how business is done in the real world.”

      But the Koch brothers sure do.

      They (the Kochtopus) play these TeaBilly maroons like a finely-tuned Stradivarius. 

            1. Only a troll like you would compare Kennedy to those who benefitted economically from their business relationship with the men responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and 50 million Russians. 

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