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Will we keep assuming there’s a difference between Liberal and Conservative lies? They all do, they are all bought by wall street. You and I don’t have skin in this game but we keep pretending we do with this left, right fantasy.

Those that have, are taking from those that do not. Being a GOP servant won’t save you from the continued pillaging of America’s wealth and recourses by the top 1% nor will being a DNC member. You and I cannot debate with freedom when corporations are considered “people.” When the people with all the money write the tax code. Either we are on the same side or there won’t be a side, just the have mores versus the rest.

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The GOP has blocked almost everything the president has proposed for 3 years. Their only goal is to make Obama a one term president and it is costing all of us a balanced, working capitol hill and the sanctity of the democratic process. It is immoral to campaign with the power of law making but it is traitorous to do it for 3 years.

This has driven the confidence in every branch of government into the the depths of mistrust. Taking both parties down with it. This Fox News based, reactionary, divided nation ideology is a seed of destruction. The GOP retook The House with promises of jobs, jobs, jobs. Where are they?

Any group who took part in a blatant anti-American activity would be tried for TREASON, and that is exactly how I view the behavior of these loathsome republican’ts, as treasonous!

Republican’ts aren’t even pretending to do anything other than block procedure and choke participation in the democratic process. They would rather turn the USA into a third world country in less than 5 years, than let President Obama be the great president he’s more than capable of being.

Now more than ever we need hard term limits, so we can rid our government of these selfserving career politician who do NOT represent their consituents or do their jobs, and only strive for re-election and to line their own and their corporate owners’ pockets with illgotten taxpayer dollars.

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Better late than never, we’ve put together the following Top 10 Green Party stories, taken from a combination of hits on Green Party Watch and other criteria to build a summary of the year. We have modeled this after our Top 10 Green Party Stories for 2010. We are well aware that there were [...]
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Every year (and a lot more often actually) we take a look at which stories people read, which stories bring rushes of eyeballs to the site. Sometimes our most important stories get the most traffic, but a lot of times it is fun stories, off-beat stories that attract the most readers. We all know that car crashes and sex scandals sell newspapers.

This year, the most read stories had to do with marijuana, earthquakes, Big Bird, Al Gore (come back tomorrow for Gore and Big Bird) and the end of the world. Today, we list stories 10-6. Tomorrow 5-1, plus a look at some of the more important stories that might not have drawn such crowds.

10) The 10th most read story was our take on Jon Stewart‘s take on the impending (or not) end of the world. Pretty much any time we can sneak a Jon Stewart video into a story, people are going to look at it, at least if it has some tenuous connection to Colorado politics.

Because doomsday preacher Harold Camping had once lived in Colorado, we had the local connection we needed to write about his end-of-the-world rantings.

Where other publications found a mildly amusing story, though, we took a hard look at Camping’s gay-bashing.

9) This was certainly a year when medical marijuana was in the news, and we covered most angles of this story at one time or another. Our ninth most-read story of the year was one in which we examine the IRS’s attack on medical marijuana businesses.

We also covered Rep. Jared Polis’s efforts to get to the bottom of why the IRS and other branches of the federal government are so intent on making life difficult for legal medical marijuana businesses in Colorado and elsewhere.

When Oklahoma got hit with a raft of earthquake activity a few months ago, we wrote about the possible connection between fracking activity and seismic activity.

While anecdotal evidence might suggest a connection — as fracking has gone up in Oklahoma so have earthquakes — the science is simply not that clear yet.

7) The Cash Hyde story — about a three-year-old using cannabis to fight a brain tumor — has continued to draw a steady stream of readers months after it was originally published. It’s easy to see why as a recent Google search for “Cash Hyde” delivered nearly 15 million results.

The once seemingly happy ending, though, can no longer be taken for granted as Cash’s tumor is back and he is back in the hospital receiving radiation therapy.

Visit The Cash Hyde Foundation here.

6) Only one story from the 2011 Colorado Legislature made our top 10 and of course it had to do with medical marijuana. When the Legislature was considering a bill to more tightly regulate edible marijuana products, the medical marijuana community came out in droves to protest.

Seems some legislators equate cannabis soda, granola bars or suckers as candy and didn’t think medical marijuana should be made into candy that might appeal to kids. What they might not have counted on is that a lot of medical marijuana patients aren’t stoners and don’t want to smoke a joint but do want to ingest cannabis. They got organized and they affected change.

Later this week, stories 1-5. scotkersgaard@gmail.com

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Personal update from Paulie first, since it appears this part does not get read:

Since I own no computer that works, and the one I have been borrowing is broken, and since I haven’t been staying in motels with computers in the lobby or working outside colleges or libraries with public access computers this past month, I have been online very little for the past month. This situation will continue for an unknown length of time. I’m checking email about once a week for an hour or two and that’s about it.

I will not post articles other than this one while this continues and I have not logged into facebook in a month or more either. Please do not expect me to be personally responsible for posting whatever items you send us. This is not my paying job, or that of the other IPR writers for that matter. We all do this in our spare time. I should not be having any spare time any time soon, since I make my own work hours. I forward all non-spam messages sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com to all IPR writers, but it is up to each of them individually whether they decide to post any given item or not.

If there are items you would like to see posted on IPR you can:

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If you post comments that do not show up, do not assume that you are being censored. There is an automated spam filter and it makes mistakes from time to time. If you alert us to what you believe is a legitimate comment that is not showing up via contact.ipr@gmail.com, someone may take the time to manually get it out of spam. Or not. I do it when I have the time; other people rarely do. If you don’t alert us, chances are we won’t know. If you sign up to write at IPR you can also get your own comments out of spam, as well as post images and videos in comments (other people can not).

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There is no group decision process on which stories get posted. Nor is there any group attempt to favor one party or candidate over others. Each of our writers makes a personal decision on what to post, subject to removal by Trent Hill or the company he works for. If you are signed up to write here and not sure whether a particular story belongs on IPR, ask on our email list.

Please do NOT repeat NOT email us any requests that I personally post anything.

contact.ipr@gmail.com automatically forwards to the first several people that signed up to post stories here. Unfortunately, most of them have not posted here in a long time, or post very rarely. Trent is the only person who can add people to that email list. For reasons unknown to me he stopped adding new people that I have signed up here to the list a long time ago. I created a second IPR list for the new people and whenever I can, I forward any non-spam items we get at contact.ipr to this second list. However, that does not mean anyone will post those stories. I hope they do, but I can no longer do more here than everyone else, since it is interfering with my actual responsibilities (IE actual paying work elsewhere). Also, I’m reasonably sure that every other IPR writer has better access to the internet than I do right now.

I may also have to revert to only reading those comments addressed to me personally by name.

If you would like to stay in touch with me personally, I vastly prefer phone calls (415-690-6352) to email. I don’t own a computer, and even if I did, I would need to limit my time on it.

My apologies for the rant to those who knew all that already.

Discuss almost whatever you want in the comments on this thread, other than stuff that would get you and/or IPR in legal trouble, or stuff that has already been quarantined in “special” threads.

This can include news items IPR should be covering, as well as just about anything else.

Call 415-690-6352 if you need to get a hold of me (Paulie), or contact.ipr@gmail.com and/or comments on this thread (both if possible) for news tips to IPR. I’ll keep forwarding anything I receive that I think belongs on IPR to other IPR writers. I would also like to sign up some new people to help us post.

For those of you who have my personal email, in any situation where you can call me rather than emailing me or otherwise contacting me online, please use the phone, not the computer. I can’t emphasize that enough. Thanks!

-paulie

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A week ago, the Libertarian Party posted a table over at their website citing what is the most comprehensive election results list one could find anywhere. The list includes everything from runs for Mayor of a large city to Selectman of a small town.

Make sure to read the table at the bottom of the page in order to better understand the results of the table.

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