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Let’s see how the Teabaggers deal with this…I REALLY want to hear the soundbites from Rep Bachmann, considering her stupidity on this issue earlier in the year….
calling out the tea party and Representative Bachman now is just you being an opportunistic jerk and it’s classless and beneath you.
you didn’t get anythng I was saying, Madco.
I never react well to being told I would agree if only I could be made to understand. That’s what my kid’s teachers used to tell me whenever I expressed doubts about the efficacy of the latest loony theory out of educational academia.
Happy to agree to disagree on this. Hope you can accept that I don’t disagree because I just don’t understand. I disagree because, on careful consideration, I just disagree.
Admit I have reached the point of just being pissy about it and my objection to Dan’s post, way back to the original, was its pissiness. So you’ll hear no more about this from me.
So, let me guess how this will go down….Faux News bids ONE BILLION DOLLARS for the rights to broadcast RNC Presidential Primary debates, and makes either Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly the debate moderator.
All questions will be carefully coordinated with RNC HQ to avoid any of those silly lib’rul issues…and to make sure everyone gets a softball they can hit out of the Park (“Rev Huckabee, do you think America is now in decline under this Socialist Administration headed by a Muslim Kenyan?”)
And anyone who criticized it will be dismissed under the heading of “lib’rul bias.”
Gotta admit, I admire evil this black and powerful that it could generate electricity…
Nobody will watch, except the TeaPubs, who comprise only one third of the Repubs. Unless Beck moderates. That’d pick up a few Mormons who would be scared shitless of what Beck would say.
(Emphasis mine)
First emotion I have seen, and I have been reading TEPCO press releases all week.
now make some sarcastic comment about how this is too much like criticizing the Japanese, but it will be aimed at me, not you, Ralphie.
People who write press releases for nuclear facilities are a special breed. I used to work with one–a very good one.
I’m quite sure she could stand in front of a melted-down reactor and say, with a completely straight face, “a small amount of radiation has been released off site, but there’s no danger to the public.”
They’d be great poker players.
That’s why this press release struck me as odd.
Up until now, the TEPCO language was carefully crafted to avoid lawsuits.
Witness this excerpt from a few days ago:
Translation: if we have to release radioactive steam, the devil made us do it.
from the Japanese nuclear industry going back a long way.
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This from the allegedly freedom loving ultra right.
Unless Michigan’s ruling Republicans decide they don’t.
I dreamed that all the “usual suspects” of Pols decided to get together and live in our own little commune/fiefdom where we would hold periodic elections for FPE, but the FPE would actually be the ruler of the group for their term. So we bought this huge mansion on a big plot of land together, and SSGDan organized a security team to defend it from the outside world.
Then we had elections and Ali got the most votes but DavidThi rigged the system and won through a secret rule the rest of us didn’t know about. So David was our first FPE and we all were pretty OK with that even though he was kinda sneaky about it.
And the next day the MOST improbable part happened–I left the compound and went off to a farm to buy meat and veggies, and I cooked everyone dinner. Which is bizarre, ’cause I can’t cook. (I sure can bake, but someone else better do dinner, I’ll do dessert.) And Ralphie told me I should dye my hair black because that’s fashionable now. And one of the guys who worked for the farm I went to grabbed my shoulder and startled me and I punched him in the nose.
It went on like that–and I haven’t even put the weirdest bits in, that’s a touch more insight into my subconscious than I care to share! However, the Pols Semi-Militarized Democratic Compound did seem to go about its business fairly effectively once all was settled, and we lived quite happily away from the annoying sorts of people who don’t like to discuss politics.
a socialist collective?
I kind of doubt it though. I think it was a democracy, because I don’t think Ali would have come along if it was socialist. Although he was only there half the time because he kept going to Britain to look for records he was collecting. (????)
and socialist, like the original Kibbutzim.
with no king.
Please see my response to your query as to why I want to fight. I want to bury the hatchet.
it’s you’re only hope. 🙂
Pols does have a weird way of working itself into your brain. My girlfriend told me I was talking about something Pols-related in my sleep back when I was posting regularly. Needless to say I cut back…
in your dream, PCG? If not, how did you picture the disembodied posters?
Was I 165 lbs in YOUR dream as I am in MY dreams?
I only weighed the chicken.
We had a tasty meal.
David was tall and thin with short hair–he looked a bit like Aaron Harber. Nancy was there and I’ve seen her, likewise Ali. Dan looked like a GI Joe and was heavily armed. Ralphie had bushy dark hair and wore a silver watch–that’s all I remember about him. You were a hippie with long blonde hair and strings of beads and Birkenstocks (oddly enough not a cat–weird!) and for some reason MADCO and MOTR were a very lovely couple in their mid-forties. Must be the M-names.
since I got my first cellphone.
But maybe the compound doesn’t have cell service.
Except that I have short, very dark (before I got grey but I cover that) hair and never wore Birkenstocks even back in my hippie youth. Never big on beads either. Next time dream me brunette, medium length hair, 30ish with the lean, lithe little jungle cat body I had back in the day. With no effort and eating whatever the hell I wanted. That’s how I appear in my dreams. Hey Ralphie, let’s meet up in our dreams. Nothing improper. We can bring along the better halves and hang out with our oldster brains and dream bodies.
My weird, frizzy, Jewish hair from hell has been the bane of my existence! Now if we could just transfer elements of your dreams to the waking world….
I tend to have VERY VERY WEIRD dreams. This is a pretty blah one, if amusing.
Not to be a model, not to have children, not even to have a pony (sorry, PC, freaks exist).
Opposite hair! I colored my red hair black for a decade and spend a fair amount of my time and money on anything that will make it frizz. At least to get not plastered to my skull.
I want classic Jewish hair. 🙁
This is your dream?
Please do not discuss your nightmares, I don’t wanna know.
Adorable, really.
Except I’m much, much younger.
I missed that. Although she’s right about me being adorable and lovely.
Bee otch.
PG’irl is making dessert
In my family we call those “flying red dogs” dreams. I’m glad everyone was happy in your dream, even if David rigged the system.
Elect me dictator and everything will run pretty well 🙂
Though nobody seemed really to mind.
…My dreams do a poor job of following Robert’s Rules of Order.
Dave was in your closet? No offense to him; anything moving on its own in a closet is spooky. (There’s a more obvious joke, but closets really spook me. Yeah, it’s hard to be me.)
No, he reached in and took the paper off the coat hanger–no need to fear. I find balloons unsettling and spiders make me utterly unhinged, especially dead ones. So I wouldn’t dream of judging.
(PS. I assume the signature is an attempt to use your powers of every candidate you support losing?)
Dead spiders are one of my biggest littlest fears, too. Thought I was the only one.
And I can’t really answer your question. I’m not sure how much scrutiny the secret plan can handle.
I’ve actually met more people that share the fear of balloons than the dead spider one, oddly enough! I thought I was the only one on that, too. I’m afraid of the live ones, but the dead ones are REALLY scary. Ugh! If they have to exist, they could at least turn to dust or something when they die!
All a y’all need some Valium or something. Balloons? Spiders? Shit in closets? (Well, metaphorical shit; real shit in closets is pretty scary.)
You need better phobias. My personal favorite is flying. More precisely: crashing.
and pissed him off.
I have…
and can only take Ms. Puppy on short walks. Worse, I have to be in bed, where she needs to be lifted (not this week!). Cuddles are few and far between.
She’s lonely, bitter, and hiding poos. Everywhere. It wouldn’t be so bad is she didn’t look so proud when I find it, but can’t pick it up.
I enlisted a friend to run with her and build a ramp. I don’t need that (literal) crap. But the real moral of the story is, COME ON!
Everyone’s entitled to a few silly phobias. Besides, spiders are scary and it’s okay to be afraid of them.
And flying is safer than driving.
but crashing isn’t.
PERA, I understand the flying thing. Not only does the plane bother me (I have to go drunk, which is fun for all at 9 am), but I’m also sure that metal detectors give me brain cancer. The whole trip is just stressful.
At KCI there are many checkpoints, so if you layover and want food you have to leave the terminal, get food, and come back through the scanner. You can see your lunch seat all the time. Cruel and unusual.
Mostly because the sound of the plane engines hits some sort of special neuron and sends me straight to sleep!
And the rhythm and sound were like Ambien to me. When that train started moving, I was out like a light until it stopped again.
Can’t sleep on a plane, though. If I lost my focus and concentration, it would fall out of the sky. This is true.
We’re going to have another major event on PTSI, TBI and Returning Veterans at the Auraria campus on March 29th from 0900-1400 hours in the Tivoli Turnhalle. Along with the Vet Court Grant, we’ll also have some reps from the Denver OIF/OEF clinic as well as the Denver Vet Center talking about resources, PTSI/TBI recognition, mitigation and response (esp for academic faculty and staff) as well as a BRIEF overview of the Veteran Health care system.
I’ve already invited key members from various academic institutions around the Metro area, but I’m curious to see who responds from the Political World. I’ve invited the people who represent the Auraria Campus (Councilwoman Montero, Rep Duran, and State Sen. Lucia Guzman) as well as the metro Colorado Congressional & Senate delegations.
What I’m curious about is the 50+ people running for Denver Mayor. Based on some meetings we’ve had with the Colorado Judiciary, we’re extremely close to setting up a Veteran Treatment Court in Denver. I’d like to hear from the Candidates what are there specific issues and programs they intend to put into place for Veterans and their families if they are elected to office.
Sock puppets, SPEAK!
I belong to the Grand Mesa Contesters ham radio contest club. Many of our members have friends in “JA-Land,” as Japan is called based on its callsign prefix. They are people we have worked in contests for years and with whom we’ve had numerous conversations by radio.
Our club email list has been getting sporadic status emails from some of our JA friends. This one came with permission to publish, so I’m passing it along. I’ll post others now and then just to give you a little feel for how the Japanese people are coping with this disaster.
our best wishes.
Those whose stations weren’t destroyed are very busy with emergency communications right now. But I’ll get on the air and send along best wishes.
Here’s another one from Sunday. This one didn’t give permission to use names:
Reading them, you really feel the connection with real people in a way you just don’t from the news. “His words smell something wrong” from an ordinary person living it makes a much deeper impression than anything in reports. Just hope they get straight with everybody in time to minimize the damage.
That one in particular. Before I read that email, I could not even imagine a normally stoic Japanese person saying something like that. When you talk to them on the radio, they are very formal.
But the main reason to post stuff like this is that all we’re getting from our media is reactor, reactor, reactor. There’s no flavor in our coverage for the human toll this disaster is taking in Japan. Remember, these are just the survivors.
For those upset we never call out Democrats – Boulder’s Mayor caught lying about her education – http://www.dailycamera.com/new…
Apparently she didn’t want to list a podunk school like C.U. on her resume.
and she dosen’t really own up to it either. When you say write class of ’66 Vassar, it means you are telling everyone you graduated Vassar in 1966. The backpedaling is even worse than the original lie.
And it’s just weird. Is there anything better than being able to speak at a CU rally and say you went there? It’s Boulder and she’s ultimately over educated. What was the problem she felt needed padded or covered?
There is an article in the newspaper that shall not be named (TNTSNBN) today about a developer that wants to build a dam and permit a reservoir even though they do not have rights to any water that could fill it.
More than a year ago there was another story here on CoPols (I’m too lazy or dumb to look it up) about a different dam further west in Douglas county (Rueter-Hess reservoir) in the same situation.
It seems strange that I cannot place a rain barrel under my gutter, but these guys can build a dam with no water rights.
Douglas county homes are largely dependent on wells. The law as currently written prohibits adding new users to Denver Water.
I remember 2007 when homes in Douglas County were running out of water and had to redrill their wells.
It’s going to happen again.
I also remember the Colorado legislature caving in to the realtors and not passing the bill that would have required a disclosure on every title transfer indicating whether the home’s well was estimated to produce for less than 5 years, at least 5 but less than 20 or more than 20. (Can’t get a mortgage loan from most lenders with “short” estimate – though most lenders don’t require a survey or engineering assessment – they only underwrite it if it’s on title.)
But it’s going to happen again. And again. Until the well just cannot find water.
Colorado residents should be talking about it now, especially those in Douglas county, but also those upstream and next door.
Because if we only comment on it when those families are on tv with their dried up wells and empty reservoirs, well then we will be classless jerks.
thought basically the same thing. If this reservoirs now, worry about the water later peice of idiocy goes through we should stage a rain barrel revolt. And hey, MADCO, I surrendered a couple of posts ago. Am I imaging the classless jerks recurring motif might be a dig in my direction?:)?
It’s not interesting. You’re both either right or wrong, whatever you want. Shut up and move on.
Water definitely is interesting. You should turn this into a diary so someone can answer my 8,739 questions about it. Please and thank you.
everyone look super classy:
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But will posting this get me sent to the penalty box?
that is Rush, I declare you already thoroughly punished. Go and sin no more, my child.