madamesilverspurs
madamesilverspurs's JournalJeopardy???
Well, phooey! I've been enjoying the teen players, they're fun and very bright. But it's not on tonight. The show is carried by the local Fox affiliate and they're doing football tonight. The station is showing Wheel of Fortune later (don't care, don't watch it), but not Jeopardy. They do this in the middle of a tournament? Boo hiss!
I'll take Fox Sucks for a thousand, Alex.
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Republicans Revive Silly Threat of Secession
The Blue Wave in 2018 led to significant Democratic victories around the country, but nowhere was this more evident than in Colorado, where Democrats now control all four major statewide offices Governor, Attorney General, Treasurer, and Secretary of State as well as both chambers of the state legislature.
This big Blue Wave in Colorado has some rural Republicans mashing the panic button and returning to one of the sillier threats in recent Colorado political history.
As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports:
We lost everything, lamented Republican Rio Blanco County Commissioner Shawn Bolton.
He fears the Democrats will just run rampant when it comes to oil and gas and other policy matters, potentially prompting the revival of the secession movement that arose in some rural Colorado counties several years ago due to Democrat-led state actions at the time. [Pols emphasis]
They dont know how to act. They get power and act like little kids. I have a feeling if they go and start being stupid again like they were that time youll see that movement start up big-time, he said.
First off, lets not overlook the irony of this quote. Republican County Commissioner Shawn Bolton of Rio Blanco County is mad that his team lost last week, so he wants to take his ball and go home. But Bolton says that it is Democrats who dont know how to act. ...
read the rest:
https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/114821/republicans-revive-silly-threat-of-secession?fbclid=IwAR0r63Yls4yEsQdJ4haSzVb7XtzEuup_JNzuBuMiMX4gzpXpsY9Bui_-Uw8
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To be filed under "Pouting on Steroids"
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