Saturday, May 25, 2013
Comment Archives: stories: Last 7 Days
Re: “Indy demands severance contracts from city”
Let's not forget Councilwoman Martin that you were part of these decisions with the previous City Manager form of government, for it was the City Manager that did the hiring and offered the pension packages that we see today! It also was you and your former Council members that AGREED with the City Managers and approved their policies, SO WHO IS TO BLAME when these packages come to light and these people leave??
Posted by
Paul Kleinschmidt
on 05/22/2013 at 9:30 AM
Re: “Ballpark: There's a better way”
"The interstate is like right there."
Truly sad to see. Not only has the all pervasive and decidedly juvenile inappropriate use of the word "like" defiled our dialogue, it seems to now have reared its ugly head in the printed word.
Hey Tony, can you try just a little harder.
Posted by
siggie
on 05/22/2013 at 9:23 AM
Re: “Aimee Cox joins Bach's team”
Aimee Cox is smart, energetic, and efficient...good choice for our city I would say.
Posted by
TejonTech
on 05/22/2013 at 9:20 AM
Re: “As water worries complicate its fight with the city, Smokebrush plans to relocate”
America the corporation, not so beautiful... and we have developers running the city now, greaaaaat!
Posted by
happyfew
on 05/22/2013 at 9:10 AM
Re: “Bach mum on road closing”
Let me guess little Rodnie, I bet you voted for little Richie Skorman.
Posted by
siggie
on 05/22/2013 at 9:07 AM
Re: “Putting the 'tea' in trouble”
Ranger Dick: I know, as the fair-minded (cough) person that you are, you will join me in condemning the IRS for the criminal practice of discriminating against one group in favor of another.
You do realize there will be a conservative senate and president again (very likely in 2014 and 2016 respectively). Isn't it likely that liberals would like to be treated fairly when the shoe is on the other foot?
Posted by
siggie
on 05/22/2013 at 8:35 AM
Re: “Aimee Cox joins Bach's team”
If ya can't beat 'em, buy 'em off, right Stevie?
Posted by
Rod Gozinia
on 05/22/2013 at 7:54 AM
Re: “Star Trek Into Darkness is a brutally brilliant film for our times”
I didn't like this film nearly as much as the first. It was formulated to provide continuous action and any of the character interaction that makes ST special was just incidental during heavy action where it garnered no laughs at all from the early-bird viewers I was with. "Star Trek Into Darkness" was designed to appeal to a mass audience, the lowest common denominator. From my perspective, that was a huge mistake for the future of Star Trek, but not for Abrams wallet.
I really enjoyed the first film because it did a great job at being a classic Star Trek reboot, bringing back the characters, their quirks, and their interrelationships which was a significant and important part of the original series.
This is a Star Trek that apparently needs explosions every ten minutes to keep the audience interested, most of whom are not Trekkers. Hot blonds and Kirk having threesomes and endless "booms, bangs, and pows!" is the equation for getting teen males in the seats and having the ridiculous love story between "NuSpock" and "NuUhura" gets the teen girls in the seats. Having Kirk act like a whiny emo kid keeps all of them in the seats because now they can identify with him. "Parents suck! LOL!"
This is a predictable formula action film with predictable formula dialog utilizing characters and even plot lines that someone else created mixed in with some great special effects. This is 180 degrees from what Roddenberry created: daring ideas, imaginative concepts and innovative characters and dialog with lackluster special effects, the best that they could do. CGI has allowed bubblegum where once intelligent plots were required.
Posted by
Bazinga!
on 05/22/2013 at 7:51 AM
Re: “Bach mum on road closing”
The Broadmoor has been applying massive amounts of grease for the last six months to make sure its plan to screw the neighbors goes thru without a hitch. Why do you think Anschutz' minions spent a small fortune to elect Keith King to Council? Citizens ought to ask little Stevie Bach why he doesn't have an opinion and yet thinks that "This is going to be a very thorough process?" What a weasel.
Posted by
Rod Gozinia
on 05/22/2013 at 7:51 AM
Re: “Fracking's eco-impact”
"As with tobacco in the mid-20th century, it may take a while for one side to "win" in the arena of public opinion."
But by then, the deed will have been done and we might find that they've permanently contaminated ground water over huge areas. When there's this much money involved, I trust no one, especially not the oil and natural gas industry.
Posted by
Bazinga!
on 05/22/2013 at 7:42 AM
Re: “Going hungry in Houston”
Here's an idea Jimmy. Why don't you and your bleeding heart adopt all the homeless in the Springs. You don't need to take them in, but simply follow behind them and pick up all the trash they heedlessly toss around. Or, better yet, pick up all the feces deposited daily along the trail system. Or are you just talk?
Posted by
siggie
on 05/22/2013 at 6:50 AM
Re: “Recalling a past public-safety sham, Josh Fox returns to the fracking fracas”
It's great to see considerable space and time devoted to such an important issue. I expect we may fill the 1150 seats at Thursday's free screening at UCCS!
Posted by
Dave Gardner
on 05/22/2013 at 6:23 AM
Re: “Bach says teens who smoke pot may lose their memory forever”
Yo! Bach! Grow a set. If you were really concerned, have the entire city stop selling them. Count the tax revenue you will no longer have, and deduct it from your salary. As it has NEVER been about peoples health of any kind. It is about the God Almight Dollar, as you well know. So stop play games. Ca Ca or get off the Pot.
Posted by
Tony Wendt
on 05/22/2013 at 4:56 AM
Re: “Ballpark: There's a better way”
See, if stupid was painful, this guy would be dead. They cannot manage money to begin with. There is NO parking there, nor will there be. The interstate is like right there. Oh what joy to be at a complete stop on an interstate ramp. This is part of the boys club wanna be's. What this article does not cover is the kick back he will be getting.
Posted by
Tony Wendt
on 05/22/2013 at 4:51 AM
Re: “Bach says teens who smoke pot may lose their memory forever”
For Yahweh's sake, Bach, smoke a bowl already and chill.
Posted by
Dave Elizi
on 05/22/2013 at 3:19 AM
Re: “Aimee Cox joins Bach's team”
She still is just not on the payroll.
Posted by
Fireman Fred
on 05/21/2013 at 11:51 PM
Re: “Get your high-fructose corn syrup here”
here here...
Posted by
Corey Wilson
on 05/21/2013 at 10:30 PM
Re: “Police chief: Looking at helicopters and drones”
Mike...exactly
Posted by
TejonTech
on 05/21/2013 at 8:41 PM
Re: “Chemical reactions in downtown Colorado Springs”
Dear Mayor Steve Bach,
Here is another opportunity for you to step up. You can heal a lot of public discontent by admitting mistakes that representatives of the City have made. I urge you to be a leader of all residents.
Thank you.
Posted by
Ken Brickman
on 05/21/2013 at 6:18 PM
Re: “Fighting gravity at the Colorado Springs Airport”
Airline deregulation, signed into law by Jimmy Carter in 1978, began the impact on dozens if not hundreds of small regional airports that culminates in what we see today at COS airport. The act removed government over fares, routes, and market entry of new airlines from commercial aviation and phased out the Civil Aviation Bureau's regulation powers. The CAB had created a bottleneck of bureaucracy that stood in the way of innovation and service. Deregulation created a free-market environment for air service which delighted all, well, free-marketers and their airlines, increasing competition but eventually eroding service to less-profitable routes and cities. Like ours. Precisely because we did not deregulate phone service and other utilities in the same manor, considering them to be essential life services, people living in rural areas have access to those services. In the case of air service, free-market capitalists got what they wanted, the airlines got what they wanted, and the flying public gets what's left. In our case: bupkis. Coffee and newspapers from the mayor do not constitute the needed economic incentives to both sides of air commerce. They constitute amateur hour.