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By Jeralyn, Section Colorado News
Posted on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 08:23:00 AM EST
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I hope everyone is having a terrific Easter.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    is there a raptor cam (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by observed on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 08:39:58 AM EST
    In my future, and perhaps some falcon or hawk scratches? Last night a falcon or small hawk nested about 6  feet from my apt door. I got whacked on  my  head going  out.
    could be an owl, (none / 0) (#2)
    by observed on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 08:57:05 AM EST
    I  suppose.


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    i think its an (none / 0) (#21)
    by observed on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 01:47:04 PM EST
    American kestrel, known in the carribbean as a killi killi for its high pitched scream.


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    Franklin Graham is running (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by Harry Saxon on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 10:43:07 AM EST
    down his family's reputation as fast as he can.
    Cinema Verite -- (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by brodie on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 12:59:09 PM EST
    the new HBO movie about the 1971 PBS experiment in reality tv involving the Doud family from Santa Barbara -- is well worth a viewing.

    I recall seeing some of the episodes in the early 70s when first aired but I was either too busy in school (no tv in the dorms in those days) or didn't find it compelling enough for consistent weekly watching.  Probably too young also -- still in my teens -- to appreciate some of the adult dynamics going on.  I think I always picked up on how the family seemed self-conscious about the cameras, or how it would have been impossible to live as a family normally does and not adjust accordingly, and so suspected there was something at least partially scripted or staged.  

    Still, quite an unusual television experiment for the time.  It would also be interesting to see the entire Loud family appearance on the Dick Cavett Show in 1973, which I missed back then.  YT has some snippets.

    The HBO movie gets 3 out of 4 stars from our tv critics.

    Watched the HBO movie last night too (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by ruffian on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 05:09:09 PM EST
    It was good - what a strange story all the way around. I was too young at the time to appreciate it, but I do recall all of the publicity and wondering why any family would do that. My own family was going through turmoil at the time and I thought the Louds sounded pretty tame.

    Well done film though - loved seeing all the clothes and the hair. Really brought back some fashion memories. Very authentic, as you would expect given that they had actual footage to work from.

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    WNET did a marathon ... (none / 0) (#19)
    by Robot Porter on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 01:35:30 PM EST
    showing of "An American Family" last night.

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    Make that the Loud (none / 0) (#22)
    by brodie on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 02:14:41 PM EST
    family.  

    Say it proud, say it Loud ...

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    We had such a good egg hunt (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 01:01:32 PM EST
    with the grandgirls.  We didn't think that Naomi would catch on because she is only 18 months old, but she gets it.  Josh helped hide the eggs this year for them.  It was so sweet.  Our daughter's rental house has a pool.  We did not buy a house with one or put one in because I always worry about Josh falling in.  He cannot swim, I don't know when he will be able to.  But it is fun that his sister has one and it is available for family time during holidays.  So we will go to her house and grill steaks and swim.

    Heh... Happy Easter (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by desertswine on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 01:40:47 PM EST


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    I decided on the large milk chocolate bunny (5.00 / 1) (#34)
    by oculus on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 08:07:34 PM EST
    filled w/peanut butter to give to a 3 1/2 yr. old, who was highly appreciate.  Serving size, per package:  1/5 bunny.  For the smaller version, the serving size was 1/2 bunny!  

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    Watching the tornado news though (none / 0) (#15)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 01:03:19 PM EST
    Not a good day for some families.

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    Franklin Graham just called secularists (none / 0) (#3)
    by ruffian on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 10:04:09 AM EST
    The Antichrist.  And not in a good way.

    God, what a loon (5.00 / 2) (#4)
    by ruffian on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 10:06:56 AM EST
    Boo to Christiane Amanpour for  giving time to this nonsense.

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    Not only giving time (none / 0) (#7)
    by brodie on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 11:02:24 AM EST
    to this intolerant religious extremist but not calling him on his extremism.

    New host, same results on the Sunday morning shows.

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    At some point I realized that she was doing (5.00 / 1) (#28)
    by ruffian on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 05:28:13 PM EST
    a good job just drawing him out and letting the insane gleam in his eye when he talked about the end times speak for itself.  It got to be like a psychiatrist asking a patient to detail his delusions.

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    Heretic! (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by Dadler on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 11:59:13 AM EST
    I do not believe the Good Book refers to multiple antichrist personages, only one, THE antichrist.  I mean, come on Franky, if you start having Tom, Dick & and Harriet antichrists on every other street corner, then you completely dilute their value.  This is just good old fashioned free market demonology, don'tcha know?

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    Never heard of Harriet Antichrist?!? (none / 0) (#18)
    by Robot Porter on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 01:34:09 PM EST
    You really don't take your Bible study seriously, do you?

    ;)

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    She was married to Ozzie and begat (5.00 / 5) (#27)
    by ruffian on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 05:13:59 PM EST
    David and Rick who thence went forth to a garden party. And thus spoke the Antichrist: You can't please everyone so you got to please yourself.

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    Thanks for the laugh :) (5.00 / 1) (#29)
    by sj on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 05:34:04 PM EST
    Now I have to go get the song on iTunes.

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    as one commenter here frequently used to say (5.00 / 1) (#30)
    by The Addams Family on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 06:52:53 PM EST
    in a very different connection:

    lol


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    apparently Graham (none / 0) (#6)
    by athyrio on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 10:59:22 AM EST
    didn't read the part of the bible that says, "Judge not lest ye be judged"....what a dope and makes me feel real sympathy for his dad...Billy Graham was widely respected but not so his looney tunes son...

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    Well, Billy didn't look (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by brodie on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 11:07:37 AM EST
    too good when some of the Nixon tapes came out that showed the Rev engaging in some antisemitic conversation with Dick.  But, at least he apologized and asked for forgiveness and otherwise thereafter didn't seem quite as far to the right as his son has turned out to be.

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    Yes, and Billy didn't look (none / 0) (#11)
    by KeysDan on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 12:31:17 PM EST
    too good when he stated that AIDS may be a judgment of God upon us.  He did qualify it by saying that he could not say for certain because only God would know that.  

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    At least the Grahams (none / 0) (#16)
    by brodie on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 01:08:44 PM EST
    aren't quite the major political-social force they once were, back when the Rev Billy would visit the WH, starting with Ike iirc, and every president since then would have to suck up to him, either for an endorsement of policy or for a general photo-op in the Oval Office.  The more right-leaning televangelists began taking over the leading Graham position sometime around Reagan, and I don't think son Franklin has ever reached dad Billy's stature.  

    I just wish normally smart people like Christy Anne Amanpour would stop enabling these idiots and bigots.  (Obama too, with his Rev Rick ...)

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    It's good being the Antichrist! (none / 0) (#9)
    by Robot Porter on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 11:47:54 AM EST
    Ask these sods.

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    Wooohooo! (none / 0) (#12)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 12:54:59 PM EST
    Ride em cowboy! :) I'm coo coo for cocoa puffs.  I'm coo coo for cocoa puffs.

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    Inquiring Minds Want To Know (none / 0) (#25)
    by CoralGables on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 04:57:51 PM EST
    as a born again agnostic secular humanist who happens to have a close relative that is employed by Franklin, would this make me the black sheep anti-christ?

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    The clown is found guilty (none / 0) (#17)
    by Harry Saxon on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 01:28:08 PM EST
    from the San Francisco Chronicle:

    OAKLAND

    Clown jailed over blackmail

    A Redwood City man who tried to pick up blackmail money from his immigrant relatives while dressed in a clown suit has been sentenced to three years in prison for passing himself off as a federal immigration agent.

    A federal jury convicted Frank Salvador Solorza, 46, of conspiracy, impersonating an immigration officer and attempted extortion. At a hearing in Oakland on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton ordered Solorza to begin serving a three-year sentence in 45 days.

    Solorza was arrested in February 2009 after he arrived at a home in San Mateo County on a child's bicycle - while dressed in a clown suit, a clown glitter wig and a Pirates of the Caribbean hat (complete with dreadlocks) - and grabbed a briefcase that he believed contained $50,000 he had demanded as the price for not having his relatives deported, authorities said.

    Solorza is a cousin of the alleged victims, who emigrated from Mexico. The father of four said three Norteño gang members had put him up to the scam.


    Click or sfgate.com Me

    If you tried to write this in a crime novel, most people would ask what hallucinogen inspired the plot line.
     

    i'm confused (5.00 / 2) (#24)
    by Peter G on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 03:56:23 PM EST
    Is the clown suit really that readily confused for the uniform of an ICE agent?

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    My fantasy baseball team is being shut out (none / 0) (#23)
    by Dadler on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 03:09:47 PM EST
    Down 12-0 here on Sunday afternoon.  Happy friggin' Easter indeed, except I got a goose-egg to show for it instead.

    Oy. I'm afraid to look at my teams. (none / 0) (#40)
    by nycstray on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 10:26:05 PM EST
    Still not in the swing of things or working with west coast start times.

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    Donald, you are totally correct (none / 0) (#35)
    by BTAL on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 09:05:42 PM EST
    The "computer generated" record is sufficient...

    BTW, I am not a "birther" but do question why the left went balls to the wall for GWB's National Guard, Yale and Harvard records but won't ask about the Occidential, Columbia and Harvard records relating to BHO.

    Before you even start, (as stated above) he was born in HI, but why the secrecy of all subsequent records?

    Donald, as a USAF retiree (2.00 / 1) (#38)
    by BTAL on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 09:33:01 PM EST
    I salute your father's service and honorably respect your loss.  

    If not for about 2 years difference in birth dates, would have been in the draft pool for VN.

    However, that does not answer the question of why the left was hell bent on digging through GWB's records (military and collegiate) yet turn a blind eye to Obama's records.  

    Goose and Gander springs to mind.

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    BTAL, you have become (none / 0) (#41)
    by Jeralyn on Mon Apr 25, 2011 at 12:25:34 AM EST
    a chatterer. See the comment rules. Please limit yourself to four comments a day. Your views are in direct opposition to those of this site and they will be tolerated only in moderation.

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    Haley Barbour drops out (none / 0) (#42)
    by Politalkix on Mon Apr 25, 2011 at 02:40:14 PM EST
    link

    Nobody wants to fight The Donald!

    Must (none / 0) (#43)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon Apr 25, 2011 at 03:00:44 PM EST
    have been that endorsement from Kasich that did it.

    I'm waiting for more to drop out like Pawlenty in the near future.

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    that is good news, whatever the reason (none / 0) (#44)
    by ruffian on Mon Apr 25, 2011 at 04:36:12 PM EST
    I could not stand a whole campiagn of that guy.

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    The way to fight for progressive policies (none / 0) (#45)
    by Politalkix on Mon Apr 25, 2011 at 09:17:38 PM EST
    Please follow link

    Elect better Representatives, Senators and Governors. Re-elect the President. In 2016, nominate a candidate to the left of BHO on all issues. Do the same for all elected offices at every level. Make phone calls, attend town hall meetings and make your voice heard.

    Actually (none / 0) (#46)
    by Ga6thDem on Tue Apr 26, 2011 at 06:14:57 AM EST
    reelecting Obama will probably make it less likely that you can get a candidate "to the left" or any candidate to win in 2016. If Obama is reelected, you need to shoot for the presidency in 2020 since rarely has a two term presidency been followed by a president of the same party.

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