God makes the laws 'round these parts

Two Colorado Senate Republicans are letting their true colors show. I call those colors "Bigotry Brown" and "Holy-BS Red."

• Senator Dave Schultheis (R- Colorado Springs- big surprise) voted against a bill to get pregnant women tested for HIV (he was the only "no"vote). Why? Because he thinks HIV comes from promiscuity, and that those women and their children deserve to suffer the consequences of that promiscuity. A direct quote from him: "What I'm hoping is that yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that."

• Greeley's R Scott Renfroe quoted scripture in the senate to explain why gay partners shouldn't be able to share health benefits: "We are taking sins and making them to be legally OK, and that is wrong. That is an abomination, according to scripture.
  "And I'm not saying that this is the only sin that's out there. Obviously we have sin, we have murder, we have all sorts of sin. We have adultery ... and we would never think to make murder legal."

The saddest thing is that these people probably actually reflect the opinions of their God-crazy constituents in the bible-black-holes of the Springs and smells-like-Greeley. Seriously people- all this religious lawmaking stuff is getting old. You are acting like children. Grow up.

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and by the way... So long to the Rocky Mountain News. I grew up with that paper every morning, and was always annoyed any time I got stuck reading a giant Post. Now our fair city takes a small step backwards and we have one newspaper. Great.

I Want a Blowout

Maybe it's greedy, but I want Obama to win by a landslide tonight. Obama is a once-in-a-lifteime candidate. I want the election results to reflect a sea change in American politics, and I want it to open the eyes of conservatives. I would love to have a united country, but first a lot of people need to see why Obama is special and give him a chance to turn things around. Here's hoping.

Post-Halloween Creepiness

This is Kristi Burton. She is redefining words for all her fellow Colorodoans! KB is the nut behind Amendment 48, which seeks to redefine "personhood" to include any fertilized egg. Adam Cayton-Holland did a great article on her in the Westword about 6 weeks ago. The issue had this portrait on the front, blown up to show off its glorious creepiness. Since the vote is tomorrow, I had to post the link, if only to document how scary pro-lifers can be. Check out the article.

Goldfarb Gets Nailed

I've never actually witnessed one of those biased talking heads get "nailed" (a la Stephen Colbert) until I saw this on CNN last week. This dude Michael Goldfarb (a "McCain Campaign Nat'l Spokesman") gets in the tv box to bash Obama and fearmonger in that classy Republican way, and Rick Sanchez (CNN anchor) calls him on his BS. The McCain campaign is all about trying to tie O to Rashid Khalidi, and makes the claim that O has a bunch of anti-semitic friends. Sanchez tries to get him to name one more of these alleged friends, and he gets just flummoxed. He can't think of one, so he tries to make some TV magic. I don't think it worked. If you don't want to watch the whole youtube, skip to the 5:00 mark.

Nailed.

Obama for the Future

In fact, I already did. Early voting is the way to go. Also: No on 48. It is a joke.