31 October 2012
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20 October 2012
Pandering To The Lowest Common Denominator
There is an old adage which suggests that you should never try to teach a pig to sing; it accomplishes nothing and it annoys the pig. It is in this vein that I have given-up even trying to explain to people who keep quitting the party-line bull____ at me that they should try reading something more than a bumper sticker. There is nothing to gain from it.
19 October 2012
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15 October 2012
How Your News Is Completely Wrong
(Or At Least Out Of
Date By The Time You Get It)
There was a story on the local news this morning that was humorous
in that the moment I heard it, I knew it was wrong. I knew this not because I
had inside info about the story itself or any particular interest in whether it
was right or wrong, but because I understood that simply by reporting the story
the media were changing it. This, in turn, I understood because I know how
things work.
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05 October 2012
An Open Letter To Mitt Romney And His Followers
In my daily news review online and on the air I saw a story
that absolutely incensed me! Anyone who can still hold onto the belief that the
right is really standing-up for the little guy read on.
Mr. Romney:
If you are serious about being concerned about the small
businesses of America, I do believe you owe it to one of them that you have
injured some consideration. You may not have thought that your campaign's
attempt to use a small business as a backdrop would have the unintended
consequence of threats of violence and boycott, but you certainly should have.
How could you not have known that by allowing the news a local restaurant didn’t
want to be a backdrop for your campaign could have had real consequences?
Have you not been watching the news? Did you not know that nearly
half the country would never consider voting for you (what was that figure,
47%? I'd have to look it up…) while nearly half the country would never
consider voting for your opponent? Can you not see how vitriolic the rhetoric
from BOTH sides has gotten? Are you living on another planet?
You may not have personally released the fact that Rosa
Linda's restaurant didn't want you interrupting their lunchtime service,
but surely you have heard the news that Oscar Aguirre and his family have suffered death threats.
Surely you have heard that their restaurant has been hit by a threatened boycott.
Surely you must be able to see the causal relationship between the fact that
the news that your campaign approached and was refused by a local small
business and this mess. Surely! Aren't you the "Pro-Small Business"
candidate!?
If you don't owe this man
compassion because your campaign has caused this mess, do you not owe it to him
as a fellow Mormon? Your campaign certainly seems to have assumed he would have
been amenable to closing his business for your benefit because he shares a
faith with you… You seem to put great value on your faith, but if you could
allow this to happen to a member of your own church, I shudder to think what
you will allow to happen to those of us who don't have any connection to you
other than holding a passport from the same country.
Was your performance on Wednesday,
just that – a performance? Do you really care so little for other people that
you can allow this to happen without at least telling your supporters to stop?
They are after all, attacking this small business for no other reason than that
they happened to turn down your request to allow them to be used to further
your political ambitions! The are attacking this family on your behalf –
misguided as I hope that they are; they are doing this FOR YOU!
I sit here listening to the incessant
ads that you and your supporters are running here in Colorado. You repeatedly
claim that you "…care about poor and middle class families." You keep
claiming that you want to be the president for "100%" of America. Is
it just that the business your followers are threatening is too small a
percentage to be counted part of that 100%?
Wherever you are today, Mr. Romney,
I hope that you will do what is right – speak to your supporters – tell them
that what they are doing to Rosa Linda's and its owners is in opposition to
what you claim to stand for!
Don Bergquist – October 05, 2012 – Lakewood, Colorado, USA
01 October 2012
Skin In The Game
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