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July 10, 2012 03:42 PM 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. Tethered to Colorado via local incarceration and holding national corruption ties via the sale of former President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, we have this news out of DC/Chicago….


              Mystery-Anger Grow Over Jesse Jacksons Congressional MIA Status

              CHICAGO – Nearly two weeks after Rep. Jesse Jackson’s staff released a murky statement that he was undergoing “extended in-patient treatment” due to an unspecified condition, the mystery around the high-profile congressman’s disappearance from Congress is growing and starting to raise the concerns of his colleagues and constituents alike.

              Fellow Illinois lawmaker Dick Durbin, the Senate’s number-two Democrat, said Monday that Jackson needs to update his condition “soon.”

              …snip…

              “First and foremost, I want Congressman Jackson to get well, to come home, to be there for his family, and to be there for his district, and his health is the number one priority,” he said. “As a public official though, there reaches a point when you have a responsibility to tell people what you’re facing and how things are going.”

              …snip……

              “Recently, we have been made aware that he has grappled with certain physical and emotional ailments privately for a long period of time,” his staff said in a statement. “At present, he is undergoing further evaluation and treatment at an in-patient medical facility. According to the preliminary diagnosis from his doctors, Congressman Jackson will need to receive extended in-patient treatment as well as continuing medical treatment thereafter.”

              That was the last update from Jackson’s camp. His current whereabouts are unknown. Now his mysterious absence is causing concerns on Capitol Hill.

              …snip…

              In recent weeks speculation has swirled about the possible reason for Jackson’s absence. The congressman has endured a difficult time over the past several years. He is the target of a probe by the House Ethics Committee into possible wrongdoing in how President Barack Obama’s Senate seat – now held by Kirk – was filled. Only days before he left Congress on medical leave, a former fundraiser for Jackson, Raghuveer Nayak, was arrested by the FBI on charges of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to doctors.

              In addition, Jackson has faced turmoil at home. Last year his wife Sandi revealed that Jackson had engaged in an extramarital affair. She too has yet to provide any details about her husband’s condition.

              “As a wife, my primary concern is that of my children. I just want to make sure that they’re taken care of, provided for,”

              …snip…..

              The wife’s quote is the kicker …. because either she’s a total communist or she’s signaling to Camp Jackson that she wants the Kat-side of a TomKat break-up arrangement.

              http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po…

              1. say you got caught having a wild sexual encounter with a cat, a midget,and a donkey.  Now, I’m not saying you had sex with a cat a midget, or a donkey, (either individually or at the same time, I forget which) but if you did I would certainly protect your privacy and your right to do so provided all were consenting.

                Repeat – I respect your privacy. You did not have sex with a cat, a midget and a donkey.

                Lets all agree to stay classy here.

                2. The point here is that Sandi (aka Mrs. Jackson) — a political PR maven and Chicago Ward Boss — made a statement on Congressman Jackson’s condition, it is as follows:

                  “As a wife, my primary concern is that of my children. I just want to make sure that they’re taken care of, provided for,”

                  There is clearly no word of support or care for her husband. This statement is focused 100% on her kids and how they’ll be taken care of … this is mama bear looking out for the cubs.

                    1. as far as I know Libertad did not have sex with a cat, a midget, and a donkey.  No, I wasn’t there, and in order to demonstrate he didn’t do it you are asking me to prove a negative.  How can I prove something didn’t happen ?

                      That cat is clearly not angry with Libertad, and if it was, it would be strictly a private affair between the cat and Libertad. Its not like its a crime in certain parts of unincorporated Teller County.

                      Why won’t this just go away ?  Can we talk about Obamacare or something again ?

                    4. something about Lib having sex with a cat, a midget and a donkey. Yeah. It was on the internet. Checked with AP. Lib has not denied the allegations.  

  4. Chris Christie Calls War On Drugs ‘A Failure’

    “The war on drugs, while well-intentioned, has been a failure,” Christie said Monday during a speech at The Brookings Institution. “We’re warehousing addicted people everyday in state prisons in New Jersey, giving them no treatment.”

    …

    “You can certainly make the argument that no one should try drugs in the first place, I certainly am in that camp,” Christie said, “but tens of millions of people in our society do every year, and for some people they can try it and walk away from it, but for others the first time they try it they become an addict, and they’re sick and they need treatment.”

    2. I’ve long said it is not a war on drugs.  Wars are not waged against inanimate objects.  It is a war against people who use drugs, and the casualty list is appalling.

    1. Actually this is a big thing, because the EU Parliament recently rejected stricter copyright enforcement.  Our government funding an attack overseas is yet another assault on our own rights in the end.

      2. Colorado’s two largest school districts are near opposite ends of the spectrum in a report comparing “expected” high school graduation rates and actual rates in the nation’s 50 largest school districts.

        Jefferson County had the fifth-highest graduation rate of the 50 districts (77.7 percent) in 2008, 8.5 points higher than the 69.2 percent expected rate. The state’s largest district with nearly 86,000 students, Jeffco stretches from poorer neighborhoods along Denver’s western border to well-to-do foothills enclaves.

        Denver Public Schools ranked 48th with a graduation rate of 43.5 percent, 9.3 points below its expected rate of 52.8 percent. The district, whose boundaries are the same as the city’s, has enrollment of more than 78,000 students, Colorado’s second largest.

        http://www.ednewscolorado.org/…

        That’s right you Democratic welfare development fuckers … the DPS real graduation rate os 43.5% … Superintendent-cum-Senator Bennet sure left one heck of a shit-stain on Grant and 8th!

        Now back to Douglas County and its nearly 50,000 tax paying students … what are the insiders going to do?

        A) intervene on behalf of the $200k/year Union Boss or

        B) force the Labor Secretary to tell the state SEIU President that the death panel had made a tough decision?

        1. It’s fun when you get this way.

          Will it make you mad if I point out that the article you quote is old and the graduation rate cited is from 2008? DPS has exceeded 50% since then, IIRC.

        2. Here you go.

          Denver’s graduation rate is on the rise. Statistics released today show that 56.1 percent of seniors graduated “on time” in the spring of 2011, as opposed to 51.8 percent in 2010. “On time” means they graduated four years after entering high school as freshmen. Meanwhile, the dropout rate stayed the same: 6.4 percent.

          Last year, the Colorado Department of Education changed the way it calculates graduation rates, switching from counting all graduates regardless of how long it took them to complete high school to solely counting “on time” graduates.

          That change in how they account for the graduation rate likely means that the improvement was even better than the 12.6% difference between 2008 and 2011.

      1. and CatGate will plague Libertad until he releases his tax returns.  This leads to the question of whether we were too quick to dismiss the questions about the donkey and the midget.    

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