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10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Adams 12 board to exam... · 1 reply · +3 points

Um, exactly what "state indoctrination" do you think having Bluest Eye on the reading list is accomplishing? I think you just tipped your hand, here... this is not about Bluest Eye at all, is it?

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Vandals damage Civil W... · 0 replies · +1 points

Very sad. I'm guessing it was drunk kids who did this, probably no older than 20. If they were older than that, it's even sadder.

This will surely fall on deaf ears, but to those who did it, and to anyone else who happened to be there, even if you think you shouldn't be punished: You need to turn yourselves in. What you and your friends did is a big deal, reflects very poorly on you (even if you only stood by and watched), and it hurt people. You're probably too scared of what will happen to you, but it's not going to be that bad. If your family has a lawyer, talk to them and see if they will help you out, or better yet, you can just call the public defender's office at 303-441-4838. Tell them you were there at the cemetery when the vandalism occurred and you know what happened, and that you want to do whatever you can to help make things right, but you don't want to take 100% of the blame or accidentally say anything that will be twisted to make things worse for you than what you personally deserve. They will help guide you through the process. It will not be painless, but it won't be as bad is it could be.

Or, you know, you could be lame and do nothing, like you're doing now. Karma will get you sooner or later. I predict that in a few years, or maybe even ten or twenty, you'll be reminiscing about your midnight mischief to a friend or love interest who you really, really don't want to fall out of favor with. You'll mention it offhand, thinking it's no big deal, expecting they'll find it as amusing as you did, or that they'll be impressed by how much you've changed. Then you'll learn the hard way just what kind of reaction your pranks deserve.

Fix it now; later will be too late.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - ACLU urges Boulder to ... · 1 reply · +19 points

There's no question that we could catch a lot of criminals and stop a lot of terrorists if law enforcement could just collect, retain forever, and without a warrant just dig through everything that could possibly monitored about everyone, everywhere, all the time. But look, I really don't care if not having that level of access makes it harder to nab the bad guys and locate missing people and property. I simply don't want to live without privacy. "But your lack of privacy has already helped us keep you safe" is not a compelling argument.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder activists to h... · 2 replies · -6 points

The only irony is in that you seem to be unaware of the main charge he was acquitted of—the one that, if he had been convicted of, would've given you the right to call him traitor.

Is there nothing Your Own Country could ever do that would shake your loyalty, make you want to spill its secrets? (Or, as Manning did, hand over its secrets to someone else without regard for how recklessly they might be spilled?) Is there no point at which you would ever say, publicly, that justice hasn't been done, even though all the rules have been followed by everyone involved? How much would you ignore just to avoid being called traitor?

If you don't like idea of the protest, don't go. Or maybe you should stage a counter-protest where everyone marches, gets in line, and stands there saluting the flag, like good little sheep. I might be able to help you find some nice armbands to wear. And since you love irony, how about you hold up some signs with Collateral Murder photos on them? Maybe throw in some My Lai massacre photos and see if anyone notices?

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Q&A: Sen. Mark Udall o... · 0 replies · 0 points

"I'm not a lawyer" says the guy elected to be in charge of making and refining the law. Notwithstanding that he and many of his colleagues were hired for this job on less than stellar qualifications in that regard, it is certainly within his duties to evaluate whether the executive and the courts are applying the law as it was intended. He is obligated to try to change the law to be more specific if it's being interpreted too broadly, such as when the government decides to categorize any public disclosure of government secrets, even secrets that he feels the government shouldn't be keeping, as "aiding the enemy."

"I abhor leaks," he adds.

Oh well, never mind. Useless.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder coroner ID\'s ... · 0 replies · +16 points

Massive numbers of people have fun with these same substances every weekend without stabbing anybody or even so much as raising their voices, except to laugh out loud or declare what a great time they're having. Certainly there's more to this than just the fact that he chose to indulge.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Film crews to use pyro... · 0 replies · +1 points

Did you read the second-to-last paragraph?

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - After 11 years, Fire P... · 0 replies · +2 points

My experience working for private contractors on government projects has been exactly what you describe: extend, expand, et cetera. So how do you propose getting a private company to develop a fire resource management system, something that would require working closely with the government, without becoming the kind of government contractor that exacerbates the problem? Or are you saying the government shouldn't have undertaken the project at all, and just waited to see what the private sector came up with?

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Louisville police: Dri... · 0 replies · +5 points

I think the suggestion from Bleeth was intended to prevent, or at least reduce the risk of, these kinds of tragedies. Holding the driver accountable after they've already killed two people and maimed another is a good idea, but how does that help? The problem is that innocent people are dying because some entitled jackass didn't think they needed to pull over to use their phone. So if Bleeth's suggestion is too nanny-state for you, how about you suggest some other ways that would actually help stop this from happening?