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A hail storm did about $300 million in damage this summer in Colorado Springs. Lots of car windows bit it, along with many, many shingles. http://gazette.com/gallery/572...

Does [Trump] have an ounce of integrity to his being? Does he have any comprehension of right and wrong? His racist brain-spasming and the fact that he got rich from inheriting his dad's fortune and multiplied it through ponzi schemes leads me to believe that the man is a nihilistic narcissist.

You might be interested in some of Hillary's less publicized dealings here (The dirty two dozen: Clinton's top controversies ) and here (Top 10 Clinton conflicts of interest).

Would you care to comment on Hillary's integrity, given the links provided?

I think everyone will agree that Trump loves money. A lot. Even Trump's most ardent supporters.

Did you know that Trump spent about $80,000 to run an ad in favor of the death penalty for the kids who confessed to the rape and murder of the Central Park jogger in 1989?

Funny thing about that story. They were innocent and their confessions were coerced lies. The REAL rapist was identified more than 10 years later and the kids (grown into prison-hardened adults) were released. No one seems to have detected any apology from Trump.

I had originally thought that Hillary had only the one issue (E-mail scandal), but it turns out she's got a whole rack of skeletons in her closet.

If particular note, she made (what she called) a "shameless pitch" to Russia on behalf of Boeing. Russia made a multi-billion dollar deal with Boeing, and Boing then put $900,000 into the Clinton foundation.

Or giving the OK for a uranium deal to a close friend, after which the same close friend put $2.35 million into the Clinton foundation.

Trump has a history of getting money through business, but Hillary has a history of getting money through corruption.

She's not called dirty Hillary for nothing!

Any fool can type "war on women backfires" into a search engine and find it.

That wasn't what you typed earlier though, you typed:

It was nationally pushed through national media and coordinated through local political organizations and national political organizations. This does not mean that anything specific happened in literally every single voting district. I can't speak to where ever you're from. It was NATIONALLY applied. I can post you links to national media articles from the time.

If you wanted to type something else, you should have. But what you did say was that you could post links, so naturally you were asked to follow through with doing so. If you don't want to do something, I suggest refraining from making any claims that you can do something.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek...

Hmm, a lot of talk, but very little evidence to go with the conjecture. That's one of those talking head things, not much in the way of analysis that can be examined. I'd have chosen a different link, rather than that one.

At least you didn't link to one featuring that one guy who claimed to be a CIA agent, except he turned out to be lying. Well, I think, I can't quite tell, maybe he's there in disguise.

But the most you've demonstrated is that there are people who think it existed. Ok, I'll grant you that, I've not disputed it, and I've heard it before. But as I said already, it's possible to come to the wrong conclusions, all too easy, in fact, as perception can often different from actuality.

http://gazette.com/editorial-w...

An editorial focusing on a single candidate, in a single state? But you said it was a nationally coordinated campaign. There is a brief mention of an article in that one that some made claims of a national scope, I'd have suggested a link to that instead. So far, you've got what, one guy out of 33 or so? What about the others, and what about the House districts? What did they do? How did they coordinate?

Still, if you want to talk about the Colorado Senate elections in 2014, we can. The interesting thing I see, is that both candidates got fewer votes than the loser in 2008. More than the other Senate election in 2010 so I guess it's still an increase. The real blow-out was in 1998, however. Close to 2 to 1. But turnout, well, let's see if we can dig that up.

Here it is, 54.5 percent.

Wow, over 50%. That is an exception. Disheartening that they're THIRD though.

But still, now you just have to show that the drop was voters didn't vote because of what Mark Udall did in regards what you claimed. You know, to get a backfire out of it.

If not, at most you get a misfire, and even then, he did get more voters than the candidate in 2010.

Not as many as he did in 2008, but that was the Obama wave. And in 2012, while Colorado had no Senate election, more people voted for Obama in that state than in 2008. So maybe Udall should have had the President come by for a few more visits, you think?

the list of articles goes on for pages and pages and pages.

In that case, I'd suggest choosing more carefully if you ever claim to post any again, the ones you have are rather poor when it comes to meeting your claims.

At most, you have demonstrated belief that it exists, which in politics is often very different from reality.

As to whether it was applied nationally, what do you want... statements from the DNC at the time?

Well, you did say natio

Any fool can type "war on women backfires" into a search engine and find it.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek...

http://gazette.com/editorial-w...

the list of articles goes on for pages and pages and pages.

As to whether it was applied nationally, what do you want... statements from the DNC at the time? What will make you drop to your knees on this issue? Because... you tell me what it is... and I'll do it.

You say "I WANT ARTICLES"... you got them. pages of them. Endless pages after pages after pages after pages of them.

If that doesn't do it... you need to be more specific. And that will just mean the inevitable kowtow.

I can't pull your head out of your ass if you're so desperate to be up there.

http://gazette.com/editorial-w...

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek...

http://www.newsweek.com/war-wo...

Look, I'm trying to make sense not advocate for a political position. You are trying to advocate. I don't care.

One of MANY prime examples?

http://gazette.com/west-virgin...

Yep.... Ask yourself why the border patrol would need an office in West Virginia.

I know at least 40 people who would disagree with your assessment. You can expect more companies to feel hits like this as the full effects of sequestration start to kick in.

40 people from the military-industrial complex. I don't think you're going to find anyone else on this site who cares about them losing their job wasting our money. Those are exactly the type of people who should be losing their job as we reduce the size of our bloated military spending. Maybe now they can get a job doing something productive.

How many government employees do you know personally?

Enough to know that this rule remains true: anyone who works for the government but is competent will move to the private sector for better pay. Anyone left is, by definition, too incompetent or too stupid to find a better job.

It's been two months, and you know how much the sequester has affected real Americans?

Not at all.

I know at least 40 people who would disagree with your assessment. You can expect more companies to feel hits like this as the full effects of sequestration start to kick in.

I'm sorry, I just do feel any sympathy for government workers having their pay reduced. I just don't. People who work for the government and universally people who couldn't make it in private enterprise due to a lack of talent and skill, and so decided to take the government route where they don't have to worry about being any good at what they do in order to get paid.

How many government employees do you know personally?

If your car has an engine failure, worst case scenario, you pull over to the side of the road, or end up blocking traffic.

No, there's a worse "worst case": http://www.gazette.com/articles/police-147743-one-least.html

Police say a man cuffed for driving under the influence caused a Monday crash that left two male pedestrians -- one of them a young boy -- dead.
A minivan was eastbound on Pikes Peak when it ran out of gas, police said. Three people hopped out and started pushing the silver Ford to the side of the road when a maroon Dodge Durango slammed into it.

There's no repression of religious expression at schools. Indeed the very ACLU you pan has on numerous occasions defended the rights of students to express their religious beliefs in school: Here's one, here's another. A simple Google search reveals dozens of similar stories. What the ACLU objects to, along with most religious freedom advocates, is the coercive expression of religion in schools. A teacher has no right to lead students in a prayer that some present may not believe in. He or she is representative of the authority of the school and in turn the government, they should not give the impression of coercing students into prayer. Similarly, events like graduations and pep rallies are for everyone, turning them into religious events is neither fair nor constitutional. As a side note, that same teacher would be fine leading a prayer in an FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) meeting, as participation in such a thing implies a certain level of acceptance.

Long story short, religious expression in schools is fine. Students can wear all the religious jewelry they want, wear the goofy t-shirts they want, talk about God in the hallways and the lunchroom, even have clubs that focus on one religion or another. The caveat to that is that it has to be fair: If Bob can wear a cross, I can wear a pentacle; if Sue can can start a Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter, Sarah can start a Torah study group. It also should not be a part of official school events like classes, assembles, or graduations. At that point it is infringing on the rights of others.

Amazon is probably trying to avoid ****-storms like the one that occured last month, when a pedophilia how-to book was removed following a petition drive and boycott threats.

Yeah. Not to mention, we can force drivers to submit to an invasive search (“either we force this phallic object into your mouth and you blow it, or we take blood”) based on no cause whatsoever under the guise that catching a dozen or two people who were not noticeably intoxicated justified violating hundreds, if not thousands, of people’s rights.

I wish it was harder to find examples, but it’s not:

A sobriety checkpoint Saturday night yielded 16 arrests for driving under the influence, Colorado Springs police said. The checkpoint stopped drivers in the southbound lanes of Academy Boulevard just north of Maizeland Road.

In all, 1,176 people were contacted by police at the checkpoint (i.e. 1,176 people had their rights violated by an unconstitutional search). Of those people, 33 were evaluated for driving drunk, nearly half of which were arrested.

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5249894

When Colorado Springs announced that they were going to shut off 2/3rds of their street lights, they neglected to mention that the 1/3 that stayed on would all be in affluent neighborhoods

http://www.gazette.com/articles/springs-97715-police-colorado.html
El Ranchito employee gunned down in darkened parking lot

"The killing came a day before Colorado Springs City Councilman Sean Paige questioned in an e-mail why streetlights throughout the city had been turned off to save money while the affluent Old North End neighborhood had been spared and still had all its streetlights."

In Colorado (USofA), it is still illegal.

The owners of the downstream water rights also own the rainwater that feeds those streams.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/water-55602-rain-bill.html

This article IS about Arizona, and DOES mention restaurants (well, a "business that serves alcohol":
http://www.gazette.com/articles/bill-57730-gun-alcohol.html
"carry a gun into a business that serves alcohol"
"The measure would ban drinking while packing and allow restaurants to deny entry to gun-toting citizens by posting a sign next to their liquor license."

As does this one:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-13-arizona-guns_N.htm
"into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol "
"Drinking while carrying a weapon would be illegal."

and this one:
http://azccw.net/2009/06/09/senate-considers-allowing-guns-near-alcohol/
"concealed weapons in restaurants that sell alcohol. "
"People carrying a weapon would not be allowed to drink."

Sheesh. You really need to know the facts better.

I found a booger. Does that count?

The meteor theory is just a distraction from what has happened to several Airbus flights: the fly-by-wire avionic fail and the they must fly manually.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/plane-55810-control-air.html

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"As they got into a degraded regime, they probably got into a bigger and bigger pickle," Ditchey said.

"Most newspapers would prefer a fraction of their current traffic in exchange for a core set of engaged, frequent, transacting users."

I've seen the "core set of engaged, frequent, transacting users" at one of my local newspaper Web sites. They embody solid evidence of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

That makes so little sense it's bizarre. It's not normally offensive to a gay person to say "I am straight", so why should it be offensive to a straight person to say "I am gay"?

http://www.gazette.com/articles/murder_48706___article.html/denver_opponent.html

"[In the Colorado State Senate, Senator Scott] Renfroe [R] called homosexuality an "abomination" and an "offense to God" and argued that God created men and women so they would procreate."

That is why some people find it offensive to hear anything remotely like "I am gay"

If you are going to quote me, quote what I wrote rather than what the grandparent poster wrote.

But, I simply reported what I've observed. I'm not sure why, although I think the grandparent might be on the right track: if my car is geared to run most efficiently at 70 mpg, running at a lower speed might yield a lower mpg.

It would be interesting to put it on a dynamometer and install an accurate flowmeter to plot instant mph under controlled conditions. I have an instantaneous mpg display in the car, but the resolution isn't that accurate and it would be difficult to set up exactly the same conditions.

And if you run really fast in the rain, you won't get as wet, right?

If you believe the Mythbusters, no. But, if you believe meteorologists at the National Climatic Center and a Canadian physicist, yes.

I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98

From the story:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl, --AZ-01: Rick Renzi, --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth, --CA-04: John Doolittle, --CA-11: Richard Pombo, --CA-50: Brian Bilbray, --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave, --CO-05: Doug Lamborn, --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell, --CT-04: Christopher Shays, --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan, --FL-16: Joe Negron, --FL-22: Clay Shaw, --ID-01: Bill Sali, --IL-06: Peter Roskam, --IL-10: Mark Kirk, --IL-14: Dennis Hastert, --IN-02: Chris Chocola, --IN-08: John Hostettler, --IA-01: Mike Whalen, --KS-02: Jim Ryun, --KY-03: Anne Northup, --KY-04: Geoff Davis, --MD-Sen: Michael Steele, --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht, --MN-06: Michele Bachmann, --MO-Sen: Jim Talent, --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns, --NV-03: Jon Porter, --NH-02: Charlie Bass, --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson, --NM-01: Heather Wilson, --NY-03: Peter King, --NY-20: John Sweeney, --NY-26: Tom Reynolds, --NY-29:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave --CO-05: Doug Lamborn --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell --CT-04: Christopher Shays --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan --FL-16: Joe Negron --FL-22: Clay Shaw --ID-01: Bill Sali --IL-06: Peter Roskam --IL-10: Mark Kirk --IL-14: Dennis Hastert --IN-02: Chris Chocola --IN-08: John Hostettler --IA-01: Mike Whalen --KS-02: Jim Ryun --KY-03: Anne Northup --KY-04: Geoff Davis --MD-Sen: Michael Steele --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht --MN-06: Michele Bachmann --MO-Sen: Jim Talent --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns --NV-03: Jon Porter --NH-02: Charlie Bass --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson --NM-01: Heather Wilson --NY-03: Peter King --NY-20: John Sweeney --NY-26: Tom Reynolds --NY-29: Randy Kuhl --NC-08: Robin Hayes --NC-11: Charles Taylor --OH-01:

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

It's been known for quite some time now...

18-1-704.5. Use of deadly physical force against an intruder. 1. The general assembly hereby recognizes that the citizens of Colorado have a right to expect absolute safety within their own homes. 2.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 18-1-704, any occupant of a dwelling is justified in using any degree of physical force, including deadly physical force, against another person when that other person has made an unlawful entry into the dwelling, and when the occupant has a reasonable belief that such other person has committed a crime in the dwelling in addition to the uninvited entry, or is committing or intends to commit a crime against a person or property in addition to the uninvited entry, and when the occupant reasonably believes that such other person might use any physical force, no matter how slight, against any occupant. 3.Any occupant of a dwelling using physical force, including deadly physical force, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall be immune from criminal prosecution for the use of such force. 4.Any occupant of a dwelling using physical force, including deadly physical force, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall be immune from any civil liability for injuries or death resulting from the use of such force.

What's worse? Being overly-proactive in being ready to resist voter fraud or actively engaging in it?

How about the DNC actively engaging in it?

From the article:

Black said she registered as a member of the Republican Party. She didn't know the name of the voter sign-up group. An official told her Wednesday that her voter registration never arrived.

Too bad slashdot didn't use this story to juxtapose the other...

Registration never made voter rolls (10/15/04)

Eighteen-year-old Michele Black won't let anything get in the way of her right to vote in the Nov. 2 general election.

Black tried to register to vote for the first time last month when a worker for a voter signup group approached her at Wal-Mart.

Black said she registered as a member of the Republican Party. She didn't know the name of the voter sign-up group. An official told her Wednesday that her voter registration never arrived.

Continued...

I think you'd want to reverse the order, wouldn't you? Canada has a nasty immigration bureaucracy, though it's a pale imitation of ours. I wouldn't count on getting in, especially if you don't have a graduate degree in a field they are desperate for this week.

Media Index is a company that specializes in quantifying the use of adult language, the number of violent acts, sexual situations, and nude scenes "so parents and other moviegoers can make up their own minds." SP is "minute for minute the most profane movie the ... company has ever counted." The Colorado Springs Gazette published an article about it today. (After today, the article will be available for a few months at an archive URL.)

Media Index is a company that specializes in quantifying the use of adult language, the number of violent acts, sexual situations, and nude scenes "so parents and other moviegoers can make up their own minds." SP is "minute for minute the most profane movie the ... company has ever counted." The Colorado Springs Gazette published an article about it today. (After today, the article will be available for a few months at an archive URL.)

Media Index is a company that specializes in quantifying the use of adult language, the number of violent acts, sexual situations, and nude scenes "so parents and other moviegoers can make up their own minds." SP is "minute for minute the most profane movie the ... company has ever counted." The Colorado Springs Gazette published an article about it today. (After today, the article will be available for a few months at an archive URL.)