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Frank Galmish of Denver writes:

Old Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street often sang a song with the words “It ain’t easy being green...” and I’m sure that Gov. Bill Ritter and Sen. Ken Salazar will find that out, too. It is one thing to want to get some “Greenies’ votes” and it is another thing to insult Colorado voters and act like they are morons by insulting duly elected county officials from Moffat County and reject millions to billions of potential dollars that are needed for our state and that county for one’s own perceived political career.
After all, these people had not just started working on this issue last week, last month or last year. Where is the “Let us all work together for the good of Colorado” now that the election is over? How soon the politicos forget. Would they rather fight costly wars to obtain oil and gas and energy from countries where some people hate us or develop our own energy sources? Are two Democrats the gods of our state that can tell everyone else what energy can be looked for and what cannot be looked for and where? Interesting to say the least!
I loved old Kermit. And I think he knew that he wasn’t the toughest critter on the block. Colorado is a huge state and even a governor and a senator ought to know that jobs and money and living counts to some of the critters living in it. In fact a lot of the hard-working people don’t have jobs where they can fly around in helicopters to out-of-the-way mountaintops and squash other people’s livelihoods. Aren’t we impressed? I sure am!

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READER COMMENTS

Frank, you have to remember that is was a "spiritual" experience! You have to realize that regardless of who is in power, the Democrats or the Republicans, we the humble peasants of the state will be ruled by the golden rule: he who has the gold (or golden ring in the political merry-go-round), rules.

The amount of money to be derived is quite controversial, so I'll skip addressing the economics off the proposed plan and let others bark their perceptions of the "economic realities".

I am disturbed that our two esteemed rulers unilaterally made their decision without consulting, in-depth with the elected county officials and industry experts. If they had done that and then took the position they now hold, I would feel that the people of Moffat County would have had at the least a fair hearing. Running roughshod over the people and work product of many years is almost totalitarian in scope, and inexcusable.

Its pretty stunning that with all the anti christian feelings from the libs and left.That when one of thier own bring forth a religious experiance they are all silent . Or if they do open thier hypocritical mouths it is in support then of this.

Surpriseing that onl.y the left are allowed thier religous freedom but anyone else isnt.

Liberals are the most disgusting bunch of hypocritical self rightegous aribags it isn't funny. Really. The Dem party is infested with the putrid element of ultra-liberals.

Look, it's another Republiturd circle jerk!

Good post Frank, both Ritter and Salazar have targeted Colorado's working class for there own political futures. After the election Salazar went so far as to become a senator for only the illegal Mexicans living in our state and tell real Colorado workers to shove it.
And as for the circle jerk, thats happening in Washington DC, but it now sounds like only one king is left to jerk us alone.

Haven't you noticed that historicaly, when politicians dig themselves into a public hole that's hard to get out of, they always blame some source other than themselves for their untenable situation.

And, when they make a decision that becomes controversial they attribute it to things out of their control. An attempt to escape resposibility is a cowards way out but, using devine spiritual inspiration as a reason is the lowest, most inane and sacrilegious excuse there is in the unfettered deceiving and out right lying world of political expediency.

How anyone, even the most relgious zealots, can accept such tripe as honesty is beyond me. Haven't we gotten enough of this crap from rabid evangelical absurdities like Swaggert and all the other liars who have duped old men and women, through emotional blackmail, out of their money for generations.

If people can't see that it is just that same old type of deception evangelical liars use when garbage politicians employ idiotism to try to convince us they have experienced devine epiphanies, rather than admitting the truth about their incompetency to handle the situation. Don't you get it? They lie, it's just the simple.

Far-left people to the left of me and far -right to the right of me.I am a conservative who is insulted being lumped into the religios zealots.
As I have stated before I do not think ANY organized religion is good. They all claim they are the one and only true religion so they null and void themselves making organized relion of any kind wrong.

I live on common sense. I figured out when I was younger and went to many different kinds of churches that they all were claiming to be the one true religion and God does not reconize others.So at the age of about 9 , I figured they were all false.

I decided at that time the only way live my life was to be a good person,know right from wrong,make mistakes and learn from them and I was pretty sure God didn't want another million dollar church. How many does he need?Money is what organized religion is truly about. It is in business not to save souls but to buy them. You sell your soul to a religion,you are a zombie ,that can't think for youself.

I think I'll stick to my religion. Stay married,raise my children,try to do what's right and wrong,teach my kids values and to be leaders not followers,make sure they get an education so they can grow up to be productive citizens,and fight for the things I believe in.Speak out when I think something is wrong.

Stop painting all conservatives with a religious brush. There are a few of out here who can think for themselves.

As far as Politicians are concerned they are taught to be excellent liars ,if they weren't they wouldn't have been elected.

Looks like our current crop of liberal politicos and environuts have put everything relating to energy and energy generated tax revenues to the state "out of bounds." Let's see where this green, global warming, save the polar bears, crowd hides when they discover that they can't put $5.00 at the pump, inflation, a slowing economy and weaker jobs growth "out of bounds" too.

What's the next "feel good" move by this bunch of escapees from the Cukoo's nest, selling carbon credits and building wind mills?

Amen!!. You make a point I totaly agree with. I too looked at most of the, forgive the oxymoron, organized religions and their doctrins presenting themselves as the final authority on morality and the financial and emotional blackmail they use to finance their control and power. It took me a little longer than you to decide that all they represented were dictations of what is right and wrong and how much you had to pay for salvation.

I think God would rather have people do what is right because it's right as apposed to those who are told; if you do right, based on some doctrinal definition, and pay you dues willingly, you will be rewarded at sometime, and somewhere, provided you buy into the fanantical emotionalism of our belief system that robs you of the ability to, god prevent, THINK.

Now that elected politicians are adopting the political expediency driven trappings of the religious morality police and are trying desperately to hide behind that facade their true agenda, which is greed, power and control, we see that the people may truly be the gullible sheep that Samuel Lang-Horne Clemens refered to in much of his writings.

I just don't like BILLARY, (D-Punjab) Ritter, and Bill Gates. This is the criminal Hindu-Indian immigrant posse. Ritter in violation of both federal and state appropriations, is contracting and hiring these Indians (Dataman, Inc.-located in DTC). Silly me. I thought Secy. Chao was the "only" person in America that Congress had authorized to contract with foreign nationals.

Just leave US Sen. Shamnesty Salazar alone (surrender monkey, Brown Klansman, defeatist, communist-sider, and draft dodger). He is busy counting his recent windfall, $484K in federal farm subsidies. Roger Hernandez wrote in todays' Rocky that Latinos wealth is growing. I think I know how they are building this wealth.

I trotted into the Denver SBA office aand asked for my $150K federal Patriots Express business loan. They sent me to the Colorado Enterprise Fund (CEF). This the 2nd part of their Mexi-or-ado SBA office. They only make loans to illegal and legal Mexicans. Sucking hind-tit is black disabled Vietnam veterans (3 deployments like me). lwish black folks would stop complainng about whites sticking it to them in the banking loan business, its the Latinos stupid. DeHerrera and Linda "Wonder" Alvarez are the hechwomen for this injustice.

The Denver SBA and CEF thumbed their racist noses at the federal law which is giving me this loan. The Denver SBA and CEF, "decided", they would only loan me $25K. Refusing to help me is Salazar who is counting my "blood-loot" and hring criminal illegal Mexicans to work on his family's farms. Guess what? I'm paying the wages of those illegals. I'm just sick and tired of being the Vatican's, Wal-Mart, Mexican gov't, etc. "nappy-headedHO". Where is the NAACP and Obama when you need'em?

Your posted by name seems to me to reveal an underlying problem you may have. The use of the word slave seems to indicate you think you are one. That perception needs to be changed if you want to be regarded as an equal participate in society which, by the way, has never insured for anyone, white , black or brown, equal treatment by government bureaucracies.

And just so you don't think bias goes only one way and blataningly at that. My wife applied for a SBA loan and had a SBA lawyer draw up the application to insure all was done right. When she went to the office to see what was what, she was told in no uncertain terms that her application was denied, not because she was a woman, but because she was not a black or asian woman.

Boo Hoo. We're always the victims and those nasty Democrats are preventing us from ruining more of the earth for our SUV's, ATV's and Snowmobiles. Boo hoo we're conservatives who don't have a clue about what the word conservation means. We want it now and we don't give a damn about saving anything for the future.

Thank You , Allen Campbell. Someone other than me sees organized religion for what it is.A business. They should not have tax exempt status.

I have a sister-in-law that attends a Charasmatic Baptist Church. What ever the hell that is.Her Pastor told the congregation that God spoke to him and told him to build a bigger church and they needed at least 2 million dollars.I guess God does estimates too.At the same time the Pastor ( surprise!) was having an affair with another married parishoner.

How can a rational ,sane person think this is okay? This happens all over the country ,and with all kinds of religions.I thought the Bible taught right from wrong.People who fall for this crap are insane. That makes millions of looney people that can be duped into anything.They can;t think for themselves.

Is it any wonder why we have such chaos in our country today?

I know what a Charasmatic Baptist Church is. It's either a Church for Charasmatic Baptists or Baptists for a Charasmatic Church, or------Yeah, welI I guess I don't really know after all. But then I should have known there is no understanding the minds of religious zealots when they are in full flight over the naming of things

And so now we have two people in Denver who get spiritual messages from devine sources. Governor Ritter about Vermillion and the Elmer Gantry preacher at the Church that nobody can define your sister in law goes to, about a bigger church. If they get it, maybe they will rename it. How about the Charasmatic Church Of Much Poorer But Still Somewhat Charasmatic Baptists. I could probably do better, with the name I mean, if I had had just a little more sacramental wine.

Allen Campbell,

Ah! Well! I find some things hilarious anyway, such as:

Gimme that old Je$u$ u$ine$$!
It'll make a ton of money for me!
(You all know the tune.)

Basic song: New Verse:

Gimme that mega-church building!
Je$u$ done spoke to me!

Your turn folks!

Allen the wine isn't strong enough to get me through any church service. Well maybe some MD 20/20 or Thunderbird. Cheers!

The pathetic whiners from the consumer and greed party are upset that they can't cash in on this asset and are distraught over the "millions and billions" they can't send to their CEO masters. They remind me of my dog who can't ration his dog food and wolves down all at once. If this asset is worth "millions and billions" today think how much it will be worth in ten or twenty years if these pathetic whiners continue to support the oil and gas industry and oppose all attempts to develop alternative sources of energy. It should be worth "billions and trillions" tomorrow. Just because the pathetic whiners can't get their grubby hands on it today it doesn't mean that this asset is suddenly going to disappear. It could also be that new technology tomorrow will mean that the gas can be extracted without destroying the environment.

What a bunch of piggy eyed oinkers crying because they can't transfer more of our common assets to the rich.

grouch, your schtick ,like you,is old, give it up.
wes, this country is not your dog and we dont want you to tell us how much food we can have.

pookie

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