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November 16, 2018

Jeopardy???

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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November 12, 2018

What is it this time?




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November 10, 2018

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 don’t 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 you’ll see that movement start up big-time,” he said.

First off, let’s 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 “don’t 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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November 10, 2018

EEEEEK





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November 7, 2018

Meet Colorado's new first family --

Jared Polis and family




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