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Denver Rejects UFO Agency To Track Aliens

Posted by samzenpus on from the name-and-galaxy-of-origin-please dept.

Republicans weren't the only ones to win big yesterday. Aliens in The Mile-High City can breathe easier thanks to voters rejecting a plan to officially track them. From the article: "The proposal defeated soundly Tuesday night would have established a commission to track extraterrestrials. It also would have allowed residents to post their observations on Denver's city Web page and report sightings." Let the anonymous probings begin!

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  1. Whew! by 2names · · Score: 2, Funny

    Boy, I dodged a bullet there. Now I can remain anony...oh shit.

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  2. Re:Would these be illegal aliens? by Skarecrow77 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was about to point out that tracking aliens, as they're most likely crossing state lines on their descent from orbit, is obviously a federal responsibility, and thus completely out of the jurisdiction of the city of Denver.

  3. As a denver voter... by hellkyng · · Score: 2, Funny

    I felt tracking aliens was a serious attack on their privacy, I saw the ads against the measure cleverly titled Skyline, they spoke to me. I know what would happen if it passed...

    1. Re:As a denver voter... by eln · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, nice attempt at rationalizing your anti-American stance, commie. Now that you aren't tracking UFOs, Denver is destined to become a sanctuary city for aliens. We'll see who's laughing when anal-probe-related crime skyrockets.

  4. Finally! by headhot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Something R's and D's can come together and not support. UFO research!

  5. Oblig. Simpsons by delinear · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

  6. The ghosthunters opposed this by smellsofbikes · · Score: 4, Informative
    No, seriously. The Rocky Mountain Paranormal Society was a leading opponent to this because they felt it was embarrassing and people should keep looking for, y'know, ghosts, rather than aliens.

    In any case, it was to be funded by donations rather than taxes.

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    1. Re:The ghosthunters opposed this by smellsofbikes · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Presumably, to give some official sanction to the shenanigans. If some guy walked up to you and asked you for a donation to the contact-the-aliens fund, you'd think he was going to use the money to go get drunk. In contrast, if some guy walked up to you and provided you with official City Of Denver contact-the-aliens literature and explained how the voters had passed a resolution to ... well, do whatever it is they were going to do, you'd at least know that your money wasn't going to be used to get that guy drunk right that very moment, that there would at least be some official oversight and transparency to the whole lobbyist-martian-hookers-and-glowing-green-blow show.

      In much the same way, the local utility company runs a fund to subsidize low-income families' heating bills, run entirely by voluntary donations that people add to their standard utility bill. A similar fund run privately would have nearly zero traction for a number of reasons.

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  7. How do you get a proposition on the ballot? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't you need to collect a number of signatures, or can you just propose something wacky, and it gets on? This one seems so ridiculous, that I'm surprised that it even needed to be voted on. So, how many folks in Denver signed, and thought that the city really needs this. I guess I would sign, just because the idea is such a hoot and a half.

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  8. Dey tuk er jerbs! by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dey tuk er jerbs!

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  9. Re:I apologize... by miserere+nobis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, once you see spelling errors of that sort enough times, you start to loose the ability to differentiate between the right and wrong version of the word.