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13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - VP Debate: Biden, Ryan... · 1 reply · -16 points

I wasn’t impressed by tonight’s debate from either of them. Biden smirked and laughed too much. Ryan seemed unable to keep Biden from interrupting him, and the moderator was weak. I’m still hoping that this home-town model proves accurate.

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/10/04/...

14 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - CU professor William K... · 0 replies · +3 points

40 years at CU (or anywhere) and he had nothing good to say??

14 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Longmont teen pleads g... · 0 replies · +4 points

I agree completely, well-stated ^^^^^^.

This is indicative of their CHARACTER, and imho, it ain’t looking too good. I’d be mortified if my kid did something like this, totally sick. If one believes there’s “good” in this world, it should follow one believes there is “evil”. Deliberate, pointless cruelty such as this......evil.

14 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - North Korea mourns Kim... · 0 replies · +1 points

^^you have it exactly correct.
http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Envy-Ordinary-Lives...

(sorry everybody--now I'll stop linking this book--it was just one of the most enlightening books I've ever read.)

14 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - North Korea mourns Kim... · 0 replies · +1 points

That's exactly correct, Velosnow and Glock27. Until a friend gave me this linked book, I had no idea how things are in North Korea. This book is outstanding, and gives insight and is incredibly fascinating. Those people are starving, and have been starving for years. They are under control that is probably impossible to fully comprehend. Aid is received and blackmarketed, like other places, but what really amazed me (admittedly not any kind of historian here) is how effectively brainwashed the culture is. Those people know that they are always being watched, they MUST appear "sad" about this death. They are punished for not turning each other in for just anything that doesn't comport with the government's total control. Another for instance, in this story, there is a late 20-something elementary school teacher who does not understand where babies come from, kid you not. She watches as her little students come to school each day, LITERALLY starving, collecting twigs and grass to eat. Anybody who loves to read, please read this book.
http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Envy-Ordinary-Lives...

14 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - North Korea says its l... · 0 replies · +4 points

Yikes. (it's all yikes when it pertains to North Korea)

A good book to read:
http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Envy-Ordinary-Lives...

Much of the world has no idea how people live in North Korea.

14 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Woman takes plea in dr... · 0 replies · +1 points

Good questions.

14 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Erie trustees push for... · 0 replies · +4 points

I really appreciate that post, artofboulder. We lived in a rental near Anthem last summer, right by the municipal airport. One morning in July, I took our little dog outside to do his business. The backyard wasn't fenced, but he was never allowed out off a leash there, with exception to potty. Out of tall grass leapt a coyote, my dog 10 feet away from me. The coyote tore off with him in his jaws, and I ran after, futilely . It was awful, awful. Worst was waking up the family to tell them little dog was gone. I'll never forget how terrible it was to see our dog die that way. Later in the summer a toddler was attacked while with his father on the trails near Anthem. I recall reading the account, and the father asking not to be identified, fearing (somehow) retribution might come his way as he was feeling a bit anti-coyote at that moment, understandably. I wondered then just how upside down things are getting when a guy has his child attacked and yet fears seeming anti-coyote, like he didn't have a right to feel that way at such a time? Anyway, I think there is a way to handle this without annihilating coyotes, I appreciate they just want a meal and habitat. But where IS the line, that I don't know. I do know I'd have loved to have a pellet gun with me that morning a coyote killed our little dog.

14 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Head-on collision in E... · 0 replies · +9 points

I agree with both of you, in parts. I use that turning lane at least 2x a week to visit relatives in the small subdivision west of the airport. The same spot where this terrible wreck happened today. I can tell you with certainty that the drivers are going by me (as I sit waiting for a break in traffic so I can turn) at 60 MPH on average. I believe the posted speed is presently 55 right there at that spot. There's room enough, as long as EVERYONE is paying full attention and watching the speed limit. Unfortunately, it seems everyone is on a cellphone, distracted in some way or other. (I'm not saying that's what happened today.) I would recommend Cdot take a look at the area just east of today's accident as well..the cars crest that hill (when traveling west) and there is a "blind intersection" just below it, the one where this accident took place.

This report is listing conditions as "serious". They wouldn't let us into this area today, had it cordoned off, telling us we could not get into the neighborhood as this was a fatality accident and would require extra time for proper investigation. God bless those involved and their families.

15 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder rated \'happie... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you for those kind words, condoguy! � One thing for certain, folks in CO have a better approach physically, if you will....just less lazy, lol. � I love that and so many things about the people here. � There isn't much smog in Boulder, but plenty of smug! ;0) �I believe you're right about parenting, the self-absorbeds and the extremes....kinda too scary to imagine that's getting to be prevalent everywhere in the U.S.. (It's even in Texas, but not in the small towns.) �

Again, THANKS, it's consolation others see it too!

Lisa

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