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April 05, 2008 04:50 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.”

–P. J. O’Rourke

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  2. Hawaii is the only state that has it’s own musical genre. It’s influenced by a lot of things including traditional Hawaiian music, but it is really it’s own genre.

    There’s a very wide range of music in this genre, most in English but quite a bit in Hawaiian. This one is by the Beamers and beautifully captures the pain of leaving Hawaii.

    So here you go, American music this time.

    1. But the video editing was horrible.

      Perhaps they could hire these two for their next video.

      Seriously, the above video is the most striking example of post-modern digital brilliance I’ve ever seen.

    2. You’ve posted that video before.

      Here’s another Hawaiian clip for you, though. Make sure your dogs are out of the room if you play this one by Auntie Genoa Keawe.

  3. Videos appearing on the main page today:

    Battle for Hearts and Minds: Al Qaeda’s Emphasis on Information.

    Poll Shows Economic Woes: The latest New York Times/CBS poll shows that Americans are unsure of their economic future. (Which reveals that, even if economists don’t fully believe it, most of the American public thinks the Iraq War is hurting the domestic economy.)

    Pennsylvania’s Crucial Constituency: Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama will be spending time in towns like Harrisburg, Pennsylvania trying to connect with the working class audience.

    Bjork in 3-D: The ‘Wanderlust’ Video. (See one of the directors reveal that psilocybin mushrooms influenced the making of the video! See the NY Times reporter snort and guffaw!)

    http://nytimes.com/

  4. .

    Soldiers driven to the edge …

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04…

    .

    No surprise that when the Army Hospital at Fort Carson became overwhelmed with mental illness cases concerning troops returning from Iraq,

    they turned to the private sector for help.  

    I had a conversation with a private therapist at the meeting on Pinon Canon expansion sponsored by the Independent (weekly paper) a year ago.  

    He said that the Army was sweeping this under the rug, and was telling anyone who would listen that this would destroy the Army quicker than IED’s.  

    .

    The very next week I was in that hospital, handing out pay statements to employees, and bumped literally into The Surgeon General (a 3-star General in charge of all Army medicine.)  

    This was a couple months before he was called before Congress to explain the mess at Walter Reed,

    where my eldest son was born in the 1980’s.

    A couple days later the Gazelle, the daily “newspaper” in Colorado Springs,

    printed an Army press release (it looked like a news article) that said there was nothing wrong with the system,

    just a couple loud-mouthed whiners that didn’t belong in the Army anyway.  

    Providers and Therapists in uniform saluted and drove on.  

    Civilian providers in Colorado Springs (sorry I don’t have their names) wouldn’t let it die.  

    I thank the civilian providers for taking better care of our soldiers than their NCO’s, officers and military medical providers.

    .  

    1. We just had an Iraq soldier here in Sarasota kill himself a few weeks ago.  Couldn’t get the care he was asking for.

      My best friend is a walking wounded Viet Nam vet.  After a lifetime of drugs and alcohol, he is finally getting care at the VA hospital and is greatly improved.  

      It works, but it has to be there.

    2. During and after WWII we were not perfect but we did well for the troops. The biggest item being the GI Bill but the medical care was good too.

      The fact that Bush is unwilling to clean up after his messes is seen now in how he throws away the troops after they are used up.

    3. http://news.westword.com/2008-…

      Mike de Yoanna (who inteviewed you a couple of times) is working on one in a similar vein.

      I was talking with a friend of mine who is a nurse at the VA.  He said the government was purposely trying to flush people through the system quickly so that they couldn’t claim benefits.  He says te attitude is getting better, but they just don’t have the resources.  He runs a support group and there is a waiting big list.

    4. WASHINGTON – Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers who would be sent back to the front again and again under plans that call for troop numbers to be sustained at high levels in Iraq for this year and beyond.

      The Army study of mental health showed that 27 percent of noncommissioned officers – a critically important group – on their third or fourth tour exhibited symptoms commonly referred to as post-traumatic stress disorders. That figure is far higher than the roughly 12 percent who exhibit those symptoms after one tour and the 18.5 percent who develop the disorders after a second deployment, according to the study, which was conducted by the Army surgeon general’s Mental Health Advisory Team.

      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04…

  6.    According to the Huffington Post and the Philadelphia Gay News (“PGN”), PGN has been trying to interview McCain, Obama and Clinton.  Clinton’s the only one of the three who would agree to be interviewed.

      That in itself doesn’t say much, but what is significant is that according to the PGN, Obama has been interviewed exactly twice (that’s two times) by the gay press.  One of those two occasions was in 2004 before he was elected to the U.S. Senate.  The second time was in the aftermath of his naming a homophobic minister (not Rev. Wright, but another preacher) to his campaign in the south.

      What gives?

    1. The site you sent me to is favoring Republican candidates yet it has a national debt counter running.

      So how on earth do you square wanting fiscal responsibility with electing a Republican president? History shows that Democratic presidents are much more fiscally responsible.

      ???

        1. I dont believe the myth, doesn’t attest to my critical thinking. I looked at the facts myself, and what other scientists were saying, not just the ones that believe in climate change, and came to my own conclusion. Look at the founder of the weather channel. He was a metorologist and has come out to say that it is a fraud. That is critical thinking!

    3. Crap like this is just part of a coordinated misinformation campaign.  The scietific consensus is quite clear:  climate crisis is real, worse than we thought just 10 years ago and a threat to global security.  That liberal pinko organization, the US military, has a four star command dedicated for planning to respond to conflicts caused by climate change.

      Arguing with flat earthers, holocaust deniers and climate crisis apologists is like arguing with young earth creationists: you have “faith” and find “facts”, however limited, to support your faith.

      1. You don’t know me, so don’t call me a holocaust denier. Just because I don’t think global warming is as bad as it is being protrayed doesn’t make me a holocaust denier. I don’t even know where you would come up with something like that. You should be ashamed of yourself.

        Also, I don’t believe in creationism, so there you go again. You don’t know my faith.  

        1. He put them together because, as he put it, “you have “faith” and find “facts”, however limited, to support your faith. ”

          Here’s some info for you. Scientific information from a site that I don’t run or work on:

          http://www.ucsusa.org/global_w…

          http://www.ucsusa.org/global_w…

          http://www.ucsusa.org/global_w…

          And here’s another one for you global warming deniers, how big oil uses big tobacco’s tactics of misinformation:

          http://www.ucsusa.org/global_w…

        2. I called you none of those things.  I was listed a series of “beliefs” that people hold, based on “faith” and in the direct contradiction to “fact”.

          I do not know if you misread what I wrote (for which I apologize for my failure to communicate), If you are incapable of reading and processing information(which would explain your immunity to the overwhelming evidence of a man made climate crisis) or worst of all, if you actually believe in climate crisis, but spread misinformation out of greed and ideology.

          I am certainly not ashamed of anything I wrote.

          1. Climate change is not solid fact. Many scientist do not believe that it is true. People who have spent their whole career studying the Earth’s climate and many meteorologists. There is not a clear consensus in the scientific community. There are still things to clear up.

            And I am sorry if I misunderstood you. I did read it fast and was in a hurry, but you should watch what you say in terms of those types of things. Some people can take it the wrong way.

            1. It’s all too obvious that climate change is a factual problem. But whether you believe in climate change or not, there is no logical argument that can be made that says there is nothing bad that can come from pumping millions and millions of tons of toxins into our atmosphere, water and ground. If you truly have critical thinking capabilities, then you would come to the same conclusion. There is no other logical conclusion.

            2. than most scientific predictions.

              But, what you are claiming in your 20:59:06 post is that you have a better understanding of the earth’s climate than the vast majority of the world’s experts. Pardon me if I remain skeptical about your credentials.

              The fact is, there IS a clear consensus within the scientific community that increasing CO2 will lead to warmer temperatures. There is as much of a consensus among scientists that smoking puts you at greater risk of cancer. Funny, the amount of overlap among those who deny the tobacco-cancer link with those who deny the CO2-temperature link.  

              Clearly we have grave problems with our public education system.

    4. is that you believe that someone’s use of climate models to forecast the weather for the upcoming summer has convinced you that climate models are a fraud.

      Now do you have a better understanding why someone might think you lack critical thinking skills?

  8.    There were a few credible candidates mentioned like Hank Brown (but he’s probably too old), Rob Witwer (but he’s probably too sick and tired of the extremists) and Ellen Roberts (but she’s probably too RINO-ish).

      But the prize goes to the other names:  Holtzy, Both Ways, Rick O’Donnell, Tancredo, and Bruce Benson.

      This is the line up with which Wadhams is planning on rebuilding the party?    

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