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Haley's Comment: Roy turned down $9.5 million to play one more year with Avs

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:09:54 -0500

(nhl.com) In talking to some Canadian reporters after Saturday’s 100th anniversary game in Montreal Canadiens history, old friend Patrick Roy revealed he turned down an offer of $9.5 million to play another year with the Avs in 2003-04. He was making $8 million his final year. I’ve been told by quite a [...]

Haley's Comment: A Tree for your Tree

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:01:37 -0500

Looking for some fun, inexpensive, easy and quick holiday crafts to do with the kids? One they’ll love and you’ll all remember for years to come? How about an ornament to adorn your ... [...]

Haley's Comment: A breakthrough moment in DPS therapy

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:57:23 -0500

Late in the day during Thursday’s group session for the Denver school board with a clinical psychologist, brief fireworks were set off that offered a glimpse into underlying tensions between the board and the district staff. Board member Arturo Jimenez asked Superintendent Tom Boasberg why certain members of his staff were [...]

Haley's Comment: A 2004 Spurs win over Nuggets fixed? Donaghy says yes

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:48:08 -0500

SAN ANTONIO – Players and coaches have been instructed not to talk about it, so they could not comment on this, but former NBA referee Tim Donaghy’s book ‘Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal that Rocked the NBA’ has found a publisher and is out just in time [...]

Not My Tribe: The Royal Pain demands no photos…

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:22:02 -0500

So I snarfed one of the Uglier ones to publish. Of course, with British Royalty, “Uglier” is only a matter of degree, there’s no Pretty pictures of them.

Kiss off, Bessie

Wonder how many Tea-Party Wannabee Revolutionary “patriots” I’ll piss off with this one. For [...]

Colorado Confederatarian: Jones speaks out on Adam Lambert

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:28:43 -0500

Adam Lambert is a. . . wait, uh-oh, Sudden Southron Musical Interlude comin' ohn!! It's BLACKFOOT!!!

S. Jones

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Not My Tribe: Bloody Ludlow, revisited?

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:09:09 -0500

Perhaps the Bonus March “Hooverville” WW 1 Veterans Camp that got shot up in Washington DC… The City Council and the C.S. Gestapo Department are proposing declaring War on The Homeless, over the Hooverville camps along Fountain and Monument creeks.

Maybe the Piggoes just didn’t get the message from the Stand [...]

Haley's Comment: DU loses Wiercioch after controversial play against CC

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:55:10 -0500

DU lost sophomore defenseman Patrick Wiercioch to a knee injury in the first period of tonight’s game. Adding insult to injury, CC scored while Wiercioch was laying atop a circle in the defensive zone, giving the Tigers a 2-1 lead. From what I know and have gathered since the play [...]

Haley's Comment: DU’s World Juniors

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:59:22 -0500

Last week DU defensemen Patrick Wiercioch (Canada) and Matt Donovan (USA) were named to the final tryout camps for their World Junior Championship squads, and Pios signee Jason Zucker, a forward who will be a freshman next fall, will attend the Grand Forks-based camp with Donovan. Zucker leads the U.S. [...]

Haley's Comment: Child-porn sentencing: 5 letters

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:05:21 -0500

Re: “Child-porn sentences too severe, judges say,” Nov. 29 news story. I would like to comment on the misguided statements of federal judges who want to seek reduced sentences for individuals “who view child pornography [and] have never molested a child or posed a risk to the community.” Excuse me? These individuals [...]

Not My Tribe: Leave it to pirates to run honest bourse

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:19:53 -0500

With investment bankers trying to weasel another broker’s percentage from a carbon-credit trading system, comes a living example of rudimentary venture capitalism. In Haradheere, Somalia, there’s a stock market for pirates, by comparison, something benefiting all participants.

The pirate’s market is no middleman’s monopoly. It [...]

ColoradoPols.com: Michael Bennet Interview

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:13:14 -0500

The Senate moves with all due deliberation. The federal government changes direction slowly. Sometimes this is good, sometimes it is bad, oftentimes it is frustrating. But our government was designed to change slowly and in this the founding fathers were very effective.

Michael Bennet is a Senator. And the thing that [...]

Liberal and Loving It: Michael Bennet Interview

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:03:07 -0500

Michael Bennet is a Senator. And the thing [...]

Nature Blog: Of Body-dumping, Euphemism, and the Forest Service

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:19:00 -0500

The always-alert reporter who covers this area for the Pueblo Chieftain was the first to report the discovery of a corpse not far from where I live.

M. and I had been hiking and locating a geocache right at that spot just two days after the body [...]

Notes From a Grumpy Old Man: Hamas Investment Scam, Iran Really Wants 20 Enrichment Sites, Pray the Gay Away

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:59:00 -0500

Charles Blow
Dana Milbank

"Last year, blacks dared to dream anew, envisioning a future in which Obama’s election would be the catalyst for an era of prosperity and more racial harmony. Now that the election’s afterglow has nearly faded, the hysteria of hope is being ground" [...]

SquareState.net: Why I made the move I did

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:21:44 -0500

There has been a lot of speculation about why I did what I did last Monday night. A lot of the narrative says that I was "sworn in early" or that I "denied my predecessor her vote." However, I wanted to let you know the legal back story that illustrates [...]

Haley's Comment: From Columbus: Ken Hitchcock on Joe Sacco

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:07:35 -0500

COLUMBUS — After the Blue Jackets’ morning skate Saturday, I asked Columbus coach Ken Hitchcock what he remembered about Joe Sacco as a player. The Avalanche coach played for Hitchcock at Philadelphia for 34 games 2003-04, in his final season in the NHL. “Joe was a very sincere person, a very [...]

Colorado Confederatarian: Dim-o-crat Rule in Colorader: a virtyal "culture of corruption"

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:52:11 -0500

I been follerin' th' story of th' prosecution/persecution of patriotic ICE agent Cory Voorhis by th' Ritter administration 'n his band-a Dim-o-crats in th' Denver district attorney's orifice, 'n now that he has been acquitted, th' related one 'bout th' nominashun of Stephanie Villfuerte t' be Colorader's next Fed'rul Attorney.

Denver tawk show [...]

SquareState.net: Team Obama vs Team Obama - Romanoff vs Bennet

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:41:14 -0500

Interesting development in the Colorado Senate Primary Race involving Michael Bennet and Andrew Romanoff.
While Bennet has hired former Colorado Obama Organizer Craig Hughes it seems Romanoff has gotten some Obama mojo going as well.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1...

U.S. Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff may so far have led a quiet campaign, but [...]

2008 Democratic Convention Watch: Snowy Saturday Afternoon Open Thread

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0500

As I write this, the snow hasn't yet started to fall. By the time this posts, theoretically, it will be snowing. First midlantic snow of the season. There's been a lot of hype about it, which is normally inversely proportional to the amount of snow that falls.

My afternoon is [...]

Not My Tribe: Anniversaries can have meaning

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:01:56 -0500

They’re trotting out the geezers to remember Pearl Harbor, like the Maine and the Alamo before it –but not the USS Liberty, or Salvator Allende’s 9-11. Since they show no reticence beating memorialized horses, I’ll commemorate a real tragic anniversary. John Brown was hanged December 2, 1859, one hundred and [...]

SquareState.net: Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 5.42

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:57:29 -0500

Good morning, and whaddaya mean it's December already? Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.

After our unseasonably warm Thanksgiving, Denver went into December with ccccold! On Tuesday night cold front rolled in, and Tuesday's low and Wednesday's high were the same: 21?. Thursday, the high was 17?, and lows have [...]

Not My Tribe: Anthropomorphism, the Chinese Pandas and the El Paso County Zoo

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:29:02 -0500

Number of comments: 1

Not THIS El Paso County, El Paso, Texas. They never had a panda, even in the freewheeling times before Zoos took on a true scientific mission nobody would have been dumb enough to give a panda to that pathetic joke of a zoo. We did have an Asian Elephant, and [...]

Bob Beauprez | Line of Sight: A Glimmer of Hope

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:13:46 -0500

Yesterday’s jobs report finally offered a little bit of good news. Now if Washington can resist “fixing it” any more. For your weekend reading we commend two on-point editorials. The first from the Wall Street Journal contains this sage piece of advice:

The real message of the November report is [...]

2008 Democratic Convention Watch: Vaccines and Politics

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:00:00 -0500

Watch the video:

So there you have it, people were fired from CHOP for their refusal on religious grounds from taking the seasonal flu vaccine.

Interesting from several perspectives. First, what rights do employers have when their employees won't follow the rules? It's not just a vaccine, it's the taxi drivers [...]