Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
As I sit here (in the Double Tree in Colorado Springs -- avoid this hotel at all costs), I'm reflecting on the interesting conversation I just had with two fellow Larimer Democrats who attended the Assembly and Convention with me. Thanks to Roland and Diane for their thoughts.
We talked a ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I greet you, my fair blog, from Colorado Springs where I am attending the Colorado State Democratic Convention and Assembly. In addition, I attended and voted in the Congressional District 4 Convention and Assembly, held in the very same place.
In addition to the chat and networking opportunities with fellow Democrats, ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Editor,
Northern Colorado is quickly becoming a hub for the new energy economy. If the recent opening of the new Vestas wind-turbine blade plant, Woodward Governor announcing 100 new jobs for their wind-turbine inverter business, AVA Solar Inc.'s plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Del Camino and the new ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
It's been a busy few weeks. Lets see...
At work - we're making a concerted effort at work to get our product development cycle to the "Feature Complete" state. This means that all the prescribed features are implemented and that after this date (3/31), we will be in stabilization ("polishing up") ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Today was the day - the Larimer County Democratic Assembly and Convention. You may remember that I was sent by my voting precinct (the fighting 238, as Stephen Colbert would say) as a delegate to this convention.
I arrived at Fossil Ridge High School (a LEED-certified green building) a little after ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
It was a Super Tuesday, indeed!
Unlike my former state, Colorado holds primary elections in the form of caucuses. This is the first year we've caucused on Super Tuesday; and it was exciting. If you're unaware, a caucus works by gathering the people in your voting precinct together at a common ...
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
... on the role of federalism in the United Federation of Planets.
Geeks only.
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
So, apparently an editorial in the Rocky Mountain Collegian (a college newspaper) stirred up the pot a bit. Who knew saying "FUCK BUSH" would get up people's ire?
Well, I agree. FUCK BUSH, indeed.
Now, the CSU (Colorado State University for my California friends) College Republicans are calling for the editor David ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
With Wednesday night's revelation on The Daily Show about conservative wiki Conservapedia, I got to thinking. My first thoughts were "inane", "stupid", and something along the lines of "catastrophically without factual merit." The more I thought about it though, the more I started thinking that Conservapedia has a point, but ...
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
As many of you may have recently read, the super-retailer behind TJ Maxx and Marshalls lost control of a ton of personally-identifiable customer information like credit cards and social security numbers through their own lax security procedures.
I firmly believe that "we'll get around to it" and "it's not that important" ...
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