I’ve got this wedding on Saturday that I can’t miss, cause my fiance and her family would kill me. Needless to say that I will be taking a short break from this here blog while I get married, not that too many will notice.Any who, be back in awhile.
and NOT influence people.
Denver could face a “dangerous situation” on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, war protesters said Thursday, after losing a coveted permit for Civic Center to the convention host committee.
“When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don’t blame us for that,” said Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer for the Re-create 68 Alliance.
Well, I think I will blame them for that.
Why?
Let’s see….a group named for, and glorifying a convention remembered for violence and riots is threatening to create a “dangerous situation.” They also announced that they are going to break the law by marching “with or without permits.” It sure sounds to me like they’re the ones “blowing things up.”
The interesting part is that these folks don’t know who their dealing with. Maybe someone needs to remind them of a few things, like the Denver Police’s penchant for killing people. Or maybe how the police tend to treat protesters that threaten violence (see: Columbus Day). Finally, these people might want to read up on Colorado’s “Make My Day” law which allows lethal force by individuals who are defending their property, let alone themselves. In short, if this group isn’t careful the only “blowing up” they’ll be doing will be to air mattresses outside local hospitals waiting for their wounded buddies to heal.
But what do I care? The ‘68 convention led to the election of Richard Nixion and an era where 5 of the last 7 presidents have been Republican. So go nuts people. You’re the best advertisement for voting Republican imaginable.
This seems odd….
A 35-year-old woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time he called police had a phobia about leaving the bathroom, the boyfriend said.
”She is an adult; she made her own decision,” said her boyfriend, Kory McFarren. ”I should have gotten help for her sooner; I admit that. But after a while, you kind of get used to it.”
I’m not the type of guy to pry into another’s business, particularly when they’re doing their..uh..business, but I would have probably tried to get her help after about one or two days. How long did Kory wait?
The case drew nationwide attention after Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat in the two years she apparently was in the bathroom.
Two years? TWO YEARS?!!!!
Dude, seriously. I mean, I’m glad you brought her food and water and clothes, I also will note that you did try to get her out of there, but I can’t imagine there was not some point that it didn’t cross your mind to get some professional doctors to help you with the coaxing.
I don’t know about y’all, but if my fiance was staying in the bathroom for even two days, I’d have called every psychiatrist in the city to come and help. I certainly wouldn’t have waited two years. But hey, that’s just me.
Forsberg returns tonight!
Peter Forsberg will make his season debut for Colorado tonight against Vancouver, a much-needed boost for the injury-riddled Avalanche.
Peter the Great is, in my mind, one of the best players of all time. His size, speed, toughness and creativity makes him impossible to stop. It will be nice to see him back on the ice in Denver, even if he is a bit older.
Looks like I’ll be watching Altitude tonight.
GO AVS!!!!
Some bad ideas you see coming a mile away….
Generally speaking, most home-schoolers follow a traditional curriculum of math, science and social studies.
Much of their education is guided by textbooks and scheduled lesson plans.
Flip that whole notion over, and you have unschooling.
If unschoolers wake up one morning with an interest in horse training, salamanders or ancient Chinese dynasties, that is what they study. Their sources could be the Internet, museums, farms, library books, movies or professionals in their field of interest.
Another definition for this is goofing off. I mean I can see the lure of just letting the kids do whatever, but it seems to me that telling kids to do whatever really teaches them to do one thing and that’s become a bum or aspire to be like Caine from “Kung Fu“.
Seriously, it totally sounds like these kids are being trained to be pot smokers. “Mom, I got an idea. Let’s go grab, like, an ounce of great bud, climb to third Flatiron, and watch the sun set.
Well Son, that sounds so cool…and this nothing bad could ever happen.“
But hey, Boulder never has too many Rainbow Children banging drums on the Pearl Street mall, bumming change and sleeping in the bushes.
Oh no!
Over the years, Boulder has racked up its share of top magazine rankings.
The city’s been named the best place to live, work, play and even retire by outdoor, travel and business magazines. And just last week, Boulder was crowned the “smartest city” by Forbes magazine.
The one thing Boulder didn’t clench this year: being a green city.
To much surprise, Popular Science magazine left the eco-friendly city off its “America’s 50 Greenest Cities” list in the March issue.
Boulder was beaten out by Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; Denver; and even New York City.
It gets very tiresome for these folks to scream and yell about global warming and saving the environment. It is doubly tiresome when they don’t practice what they preach. Maybe it’s time for these Boulderites to start walking the walk, and quit talking about everyone else so much.
And seriously, you gotta try hard to be less green than NYC.
This is a good start…
NORTHGLENN — Undercover police officers posing as flower deliverymen on Valentine’ Day arrested 23 people with outstanding warrants.
The Northglenn officers used a van with a sign saying “Flower Delivery” and knocked on doors bearing a long-stem rose box to net their quarry.
I just hope someone brings this story up when a real flower delivery person gets assaulted by someone thinking it’s a cop rather than a gift. Can’t the cops stick to the “free boat” stings made popular on “The Simpsons“?
A conservative candidate for president is rejected by faculty and students in Boulder?
Bruce Benson is not the right man to lead the University of Colorado, organizations representing both CU faculty members and students decided separately Thursday.
The Boulder Faculty Assembly voted 40-4 against a motion to support Benson, an oil executive and Republican political activist, as president of the CU system. Three others abstained.
It should be noted that Benson donated enough money to the University to build a new school. That seems to be a lot more than these predictably whiny groups have done for the school.
Their rejection of Benson makes him the ideal choice in my opinion.
Isn’t this how these things always go?
A move to draft a Boulder City Council resolution supporting the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney likely won’t get enough support to get off the ground Tuesday.
All hat and no cattle…again. Seriously folks MoveOn.org!
Let’s see…
Working the Public Relations gig, had a guest in town, shoveling snow, organizing my wedding, getting ready for soccer season, getting back into working out, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, New Year, and everything else is taking up my time. I haven’t gone away though.
I promise
