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July 08, 2010 03:48 PM UTC
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Damn, that just slipped out.
Turn the other way, Dean.
Singleton is getting hammered for this around the country.
http://thefastertimes.com/tops…
http://www.techdirt.com/articl…
http://www.mediaite.com/online…
http://sfppc.blogspot.com/2010…
http://www.eastbaycitizen.com/…
Best headline: “MediaNews Hastening Fall from Newspaper to Fish Wrap.”
And yeah, you know that if Singleton thought this made him look like anything other than a clueless asshole, it would have been a front page story. Media FAIL.
No?
No.
King of the Non Sequitur.
(Look it up, Libby.)
That Jane Norton is claiming $900k last quarter…
She’ll need to put out a presser.
Or leak it to Gary Harmon.
Whining does not make anything better — especially your reputation.
The Post has a story this a.m. on Hick’s alleged flip flops over oil and gas regs, but you’re not linking it. There’s also a pretty good (argument worthy) column on those Respect Life license plates. No sign here of that either.
You really think your site can go it alone without MSM?
Has a story that I linked to in a diary this morning and both McInnis and Hick have issued press statements (I linked to Scott’s but you can find Hick’s on his website).
I may be royally panned for my diary as often happens around here but that begs the question – who needs the Post? If you are willing to dig,there are other sources.
Pols has been covering Hickenlooper’s responses on the issue for weeks, and is so far ahead of the Post on this story it would be ridiculous to cite their repetitious article?
Do you work for Singleton or something?
I don’t work for Singleton. But stupid righteousness bugs me. I like coming to this site to argue politics or at least to watch others argue politics. Now Pols say they can go it alone without the top source of political news in Colorado. I think that hurts this site and that bugs me. Time for Pols to man up, admit they’ve been mooching, give credit to the labor they’ve been pirating, and make this the political site it used to be.
the Denver Post is the top source of political news in Colorado? No? Wow.
If “stupid righteousness” bothers you, you should avoid this site like the plague, eh?
🙂
Are you claiming Susan Greene’s column on the “respect life” license plates was good? This is not an Internet-snark question, just trying to get a sense of other people’s read of the column. I, personally, found it less-than-enlightening, and frankly, out-of-touch with relevant attacks on reproductive rights in Colorado. There are a whole host of issues to tackle, not the least of which is Amendment 62. She could also have talked about how/whether local schools are teaching comprehensive sex ed, abstinence-only ed, or nothing at all; or about how the Lutheran & Good Samaritan hospitals in metro Denver won’t provide birth control or surgical sterilizations, let alone abortion, because the hospitals have been taken over by a Catholic organization that provides health care only if bishops say it’s OK (incidentally, these hospitals also refuse to respect patients’ living wills if they don’t want to be kept alive by artificial means, and the bishops’ rules also allow patients’ wishes regarding visitors to be disregarded).
If she really wanted to dig into the “respect life” plates story, she could have found out whether the Colorado plates are used for the same purpose as plates in other states, such as funding anti-abortion counseling centers. Doing a simple google search yields enough information to set up a deeper story than the one that ran today.
Thus the question about your post — arguably good column vs good enough to argue about the plates?
Which is why you rarely read critical articles about the real estate, housing, and auto dealer businesses. Gotta protect that ad revenue, along with your exclusive “content”, right Dinky?
Although you forgot furniture!
http://dailykos.com/
Some are speculating that Secretary Salazar will be the first Obama cabinet member to leave the Administration.
Two stories from recommended Daily Kos diaries this morning about some rules changes coming from the Obama Administration.
First, and probably of great interest to some here: the VA eases requirements for PTSD coverage. The administration will make it easier for veterans to apply for PTSD disability claims. The current rule requires the veteran to prove (via military paper trails) that they were present at a specific event that caused their PTSD (e.g. being within sight of a friend blown up by a bomb, which can be difficult to prove). The new rule will ask veterans to prove only that they were in a combat zone in a job position that could have exposed them to the traumatic stress they claim.
Second: FDA warns against excessive livestock antibiotic use. The FDA will be releasing an advisory policy telling farmers to back off from their current excessive antibiotic use on the grounds that it is accelerating resistance to antibiotics. The FDA is stopping short of an outright ban; this approach is supposed to be a signal to the industry to fix itself before the FDA has to take out the Big Hammer.
..ALL of the Service Organizations have been lobbying hard for this change, and the new VA actually listened this time.
Contrast this with Clueless Dickhead Jim Nicholson, who went shopping to try and find an alternative diagnosis for PTSD to try cut off vets from filing claims, or his efforts in 2005 to try and review every single PTSD claim for fraud.
Two of the OIF vets I mentor were fighting the VA over the old standard. Now, I hope they get the rating they deserve, so they can get treatment for this…
I had hoped for something like this a year plus ago but I am very glad to see it now.
Not only the Pentagon but the politicians need to acknowledge the full extent of the costs of war.
Will this apply to active military and not just the VA? I want to hear about big changes in the way Ft. Carson deals with PTSD!
If this is done right it should, I hope, bring the suicide rate way down.
That’s what the Medical Marijuana Amendment was supposed to be for – not for existing scumbag drug dealers getting storefronts to sell to 20-something Xboxers.
I hope this works out.
…and I’ve already spoken to Rep Looper and Todd on the same issue.
If the MM industry can make some changes to how they do business (deliver a consistent dosage of THC in their wares) and the “doctors” who prescribe it also make sure that vets are in some form of therapy, I’m all for it.
Oops! Did I forget to report/repay that little loan?
Machine politics in big cities undermine the Democratic Party ideals IMHO.
Of course, graft is pretty widespread regardless of party, but the machine politics of places like NYC and New Orleans/Louisiana make removing obviously bad Congressmen from their home territories very difficult.
Best example: William “Cold Cash” Jefferson. Even with all the evidence stacked up against him, he won a place in the runoff election allowing Republican Joeseph Cao to take a very Democratic seat. People don’t like politicians – they just like “their” politicians. Sad, but true.
we lived briefly in Oklahoma and almost every County Commissioner in the state (this time Rs) was under indictment. Big City D corruption and Southern Bible belt R corruption generally seem to compliment each other nicely. The sex scandals seem to favor Rs, especially the gay scandals, but Ds come in for their fair share. Safe to say the political world includes lot of giant egos who like their perks, financial and sexual, and stubbornly still think they can get away with anything, just like in the old pre-cyber days.
Ernest J. Pagels Jr. is a long shot contender for the Wisconsin GOP Senate primary, vying for the opportunity to run against Sen. Russ Feingold (D) this September. And perhaps there’s a reason. Pagels recently ran an ad on a local Milwaukee television station outlining what he plans fight for as one of Wisconsin’s two U.S. senators:
PAGELS: Hi my name is Ernest J. Pagels Jr., I’m a born again Christian, a U.S. veteran and a very conservative Republican. I’m running for U.S. Senate from the state of Wisconsin and if elected I will initiate a bill to outlaw homosexuality, abortion, and all forms of pornography. I think these are three ills that are plaguing our nation and bringing it down. And if elected, I will also initiate a bill for a Constitutional amendment which prohibits Congress and the President from spending more money than they bring in. My name is Ernest J. Pagels, Jr. and I hope you vote for me on September 14.
h/t c&l
with a teenage boy and viewing child porn inside of a week.
wondering why THEY didn’t get a secret “loan”.
This is something I haven’t heard about before but I think that it is important.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26…
Some of these ideas could be used in the US? It sounds like the recidivism rate is much, much less in Afghanistan and we know something needs to be done about our prisons. The first thing that should be done about our prisons is to remove the for-profit incentive to fill the cells!
Well there is no doubt that last weeks abortive attempt to redefine the illegal alien problem has backfired on Barry O.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/…
Now if he could just explain how that stimulus has created jobs thingy…
A very, very successful voucher program, killed.
The program produces great results, but it’s also incredibly expensive. It ends up costing about $25k/child/year.
The schools get to keep money for kids they don’t even have to teach, right?
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These kids get money to go to private schools, plus the public school still gets the money they would have gotten had the child remained in public schooling.
That’s expensive.
These kids were getting a quality education through OSP, and the results were promising. But at the costs it was racking up, you’d think that fiscal conservatives would have been all about killing it as fast as possible. Well, except this program pitted unions against private schools…
So, $7500 goes to OSP, from the district. The Dept of Ed. then gives the district $7500. Right there, that’s $15k.
DC is paying $17,500/kid. The pay OSP $7500 and get to keep the other $10k!
So, we’ve got $15k + $10k = $25k/kid/year. Granted, it’s not very efficiently spent. The district keeps $17,500 and doesn’t even have to teach the kid. No wonder they like it.
For $25k/year, you can almost send your child to Harvard. It’s hard for me to see how they can scale this program up to something more than a feel-good demo project. Maybe that’s why they killed it.
Imagine if DPS received $25k/student/year! [insert joke here…]
But it’s two kids, basically, right? What do the schools do with the money they receive for the kids they don’t have to teach?
Abolish the DOEd and give $1 billion to each State to run this program. You’ll save $25 billion from the DOEd right off the bat, and it will starve the teacher’s unions out of existence, and graduate a lot more kids.
Sounds like a great start.
50 million k-12 public school students x $7500 = $375 billion.
Current Dept of Ed budget = $70 billion
The $50 billion you propose only pays $1000/student. Alternatively, you could offer $7000 vouchers to 1 million kids and eliminate the Dept of Ed. and NCLB.
I dunno…Hookers and blow?
and really, who does blow anymore?
You start with the poorest, and poorest performing students. The lowest 30%.
Would not the extra money be well used to upgrade the situation for the kids still in public school?
Did I mention that a precondition of this is to de-certify all teacher’s unions?
It won’t get you where you want to go any sooner.
If you do as you suggest: Get rid of the Dept of Ed and use the money to fund vouchers, you could extend the voucher program to 10 million kids (so, about 1 in 5). Target the worst-performing schools and the poorest kids.
If public schools keep their present funding, then their per pupil funding increases by about 20%. Use that money for a combination of decreasing class sizes and merit pay (concomitant with tenure reform).
You’re making sense again.
http://voices.washingtonpost.c…
Court Finds DOMA Unconstitutional (Daily Kos recommended diary).
A Federal District Court in Massachusetts ruled on two cases today related to the poorly named “Defense Of Marriage Act”, and found it violates not one but two Constitutional Amendments.
Ruling 1, Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Health and Human Services, considered whether the State’s right to certify gay marriage and have it recognized was restricted by the Federal government’s “one man, one woman” definition. The ruling finds DOMA violates the 10th Amendment.
Ruling 2, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, considered whether gay couples in Massachusetts were denied equal protection due to DOMA. The judge ruled that DOMA violated the 5th Amendment (due process) right to equal protection.
(Note: I had never heard of the 5th Amendment being used for equal protection, but apparently it can be – and said defense is legally distinct from the 14th Amendment equal protection that we’re all probably more familiar with…)
Still pending, and soon to be decided, is the California Proposition 8 case, which is argued on 14th Amendment grounds and may or may not extend its ruling to the DOMA.
This from Adam Bonin, legal expert over at Daily Kos:
Some of Adam’s summary:
From Judge Tauro’s decisions:
That’s the Federal denial of money to legally married gay couples.
The jury is still out on whether it only applies in Massachusetts; probably, since it’s only a District Court.
Senator Ma’am…