some would say this is very good for the drought.

Imagine what they must have been thinking in 1913 with 52 inches of snow....

Folks do realize that that whole area has been pretty dead, commercially, for quite some time - can't really blame the church for that. Perhaps the good citizens of Lafayette should frequent their local businesses more than point fingers. As for the traffic issues, that's only sporadically before and after services, as people come to the church, or are leaving.

The mother is an individual. Judge JP had a whole rant against "them" and all "those" people who come over here or are not loving all we do for them, etc. She was basically using the mother as a stand in for the entire Islamic world.

As for Judge JP on the mother, at one point she took one sound bite and said in effect that the "woman doesn't care about her sons" while at other times it's clear the mother is full of grief. Yeah, the mother may blame America for her one son's death and her whole world view is skewed, but she's clearly devastated by what happened to her sons.

As for the mother not connecting the dots with the violence her sons did, well, welcome to the real 3rd world where death and violence is a daily occurrence - that's the difference between us and say Israel or Iraq (or Chechnya). Here a bombing shuts down a major city, but more violent acts happen frequently in Israel, Iraq and other places, and life just goes on - which is just as sad a commentary on how normalized people become to violence. Still it's much better to be an American and subjected to what those 2 kids did than be somewhere else and have Uncle Sam and the full force of American might come raining down on you.

I think Judge JP is an excellent example of what EJ Dionne was talking about here.

Wow, I wonder how she got to the top of her soap box? It's incredibly high, though not as high as her holier than though attitude. I love her use of "they this, they that" etc. Big old bad bogeymen out there.

And she doesn't want to show the rest of the world how our society works? Nah, they already know by our military interventionism in support of corporate profits. Why don't the Iraqis love us for bring democracy to their country, oh wait, we killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, displaced millions, and stole billions from them. Yeah, democracy is messy.

It's one thing not to have too much sympathy for a mother in shock over losing her sons, but to make her the subject and fall person for her own personal rant, well Judge JP, you're just as bad.

The projections for the storm have been tracking like a woman's relationship. She meets a guy and it's 12 inches, by the time they get married it's 7 inches, and when all is said and done, it's 1-3" and no one's happy. LOL :)

Pro Bike Race disaster, now that gives us warm fuzzies that the City Council will do it right with a Muni and I don't see much difference with running the utility here because people, via their vote, "demanded the City do for financial reasons and because it was cool..."

When our electric bill starts rising out of control and I have to spend a lot more than I am now, that is "my money" they are playing with.

As for the City Council being different, yes the players are different, though no more qualified.

Boulder City Council running a Muni - these are the same folks that left Crossroads Mall to wither for how many years then brought us 29th Street.

I do love their Pollyanna view of a rosy future that they'll be able to anticipate all possible risks and mitigate them. Heck, they can run Boulder as a part-time council, why not a muni?

Hubris. Easy to do when you're playing with other people's money.

I was just going to post that! Absolutely lol!

Johnny, I don't suspect we'll agree, but I appreciate your position and I like that we can carry on an informed disagreement :). That's something our country can use more of!

Here's a piece by the New Yorker that muddies the water a bit more:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/201...

I recall being incredibly disappointed during the Obama's first administration and the whole Healthcare reform bill (Obamacare) when Obama, before even starting out, abandoned the universal option (bit fuzzy on the specifics at the moment and don't have the time to go back to them). The two things that galled me the most wasn't that he had to give it up, but that one, he didn't try and, worst, claimed he never campaigned on it - when you could still go to his campaign website and see it listed.

It wasn't that he lied, it was a bold lie with proof to the contrary, directed at his own supporters!

So I don't sleep well with Obama's signing statement. Add the New Yorker analysis to AG Holder's dance at his confirmation hearing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQQOyzWen4

Again, it's not like today we are going to run into issues with Obama assassinating or holding a US citizen here (I don't think), but in 5 years, 10 years? We are sliding down the slippery slope.

Cruz to me does represent a bit of irony, because I don't think he'd question Holder so strongly, if at all, if it were a nominee of a Republican president and many hardcore right wing Republicans will be more than happy to have one of their own (presidents) try out some of these laws.

I use to hope that under W that some of his supporters, would not back him, because many of his policies were antithetical to some long standing republican positions (no debt comes to mind), but they never did. I don't imagine that Obama's own supporters would hold him accountable for violation of our liberties (and the argument that we need allow it for the "defense" of our country comes straight out of the GOP playbook for the last 30 plus years).

I'll defer to Mark Twain who said: When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to stop and reconsider.