Colorado Conservative

Who Knew It Was A Law?

After Reading THIS, I guess I have to do this every Friday...

Happy Halloween!!!

Need Ghosts? Check here, here, here, and here. Then check here, and here, and here.

And for the background on these pictures, go here.

Finally!!!!

Nice to see the Red Sox win it...finally.

My only beef is that a sweep is not the way for the curse to be reversed. It should have been a seven game thriller that Boston won in the bottom of the 15th inning. But I'm sure Boston will take it.

When Naming A Kid Goes Bad

From Ananova and All Access...

A Romanian couple whose baby was born in their car as they rushed to hospital are to name the boy Speedy Gonzales.

The couple were heading to hospital at Suceava but were held up when their car broke down.

The father told National newspaper: "We were on this crowded motorway with cars speeding next to us. My wife was in the back seat of our car already in labour.

"So we decided to do anything to get to the hospital as fast as we could. I managed to fix my car and was doing 90km/ph when my boy arrived. I will call him Speedy Gonzales."

The little boy and his 33-year-old mother are both said to be in good condition in hospital.

When he goes to school, he better hope he lives up to his name. The kids will be ruthless. Nice job parents...

Broncos Beat by Bad Bengals

The Broncos fell into the Tiger Trap last night and came away with a decisive loss 23 - 10. I might have been the only one to see this coming. Atlanta is in Denver next week after giving up 56 points to K.C.. The Falcons are not a happy team.

Denver better be ready to play, or else..........

America, F**K Yea!!!!

I just got back from watching Team America, World Police. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in awhile. It's definitely not for kids. I don't know what these people were thinking...

It's for occasions like this that we should all keep the local department of Child Protective Services on speed dial.

During a recent Saturday preview screening for "Team America: World Police," a movie that includes two marionettes having sex in half a dozen different positions, a young couple walked into the Emeryville AMC Bay Street 16 Theatre with three children, estimated ages 3, 4 and 7.

Yes, leave the kids at home, but definitely go see this movie.

Idiot Alert - Child Abuse Style

This is Ridiculous....from IndyStar via Perry Simon

Wilkey told police she was smoking crack in a "bong" made out of a baby food jar, glass pipe and rubber tubing.

Wilkey left the room, court records say. When she returned, her son was sitting at the table near the bong and asking to use the drug.

"Come on. Let me do it," he said, according to records.

The mother said she then struck a lighter to the cocaine and watched her son inhale, according to records.

This left me speechless. There's just so many things wrong with this story, including the sentence....

A Marion County judge on Monday sentenced an Indianapolis woman to 18 months in prison for helping her 5-year-old son smoke crack cocaine.

That's It? She should count herself very lucky.

The Bottom Line About Why I Don't Support Kerry

From the Washington Post in 1994....

Kerry's belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of a mission with international support. In 1994, discussing the possibility of U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, "If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no."

Considering what we've learned about the U.N. regarding Oil For Food and the inaction in Darfur due to China and France blocking sanctions, this stance, to me, is particularly unwise and unserious. This is why I don't trust John Kerry. Sorry.

I Just Don't See The Problem With Matching Donors

From the Rocky Mountain News...

A man who turned to the Internet in hopes of finding a kidney donor underwent dialysis this morning to prepare to receive his new organ, two days after a surgeon decided not to perform the procedure because of questions about the practice of Web matching.

Bob Hickey, 58, underwent dialysis early today, to be followed by a meeting with Dr. Igal Kam, the surgeon whose objections postponed the transplant. The meeting was described as a time for "healing the scars of the last several days."

The operation was scheduled to begin later today and take about 4 hours.

Kam suddenly canceled Monday's transplant operation after learning that Hickey had met his donor, Robert Smitty, 32, of Chattanooga, Tenn., through a Web site called MatchingDonors.com.

Smitty agreed to give Hickey one of his kidneys before the two men ever met.

The hospital's Clinical Ethics Committee met Tuesday to evaluate concerns about the transplant, including whether either Hickey or Smitty stood to profit from the arrangement. The panel later advised the hospital to make a compassionate exception, once both men had signed statements indicating that neither would benefit financially.

It seems to me that it doesn't matter whether a guy is getting paid to give someone his kidney or not. The guy is helping to save someone else's life. The guy deserves compensation for what he's doing, as long as he's giving his kidney willingly. The only problem I see is a doctor playing God with a patient by refusing to help one man give a gift to another. Thank goodness Dr. Kam came to his senses.

Clifford May Does It Again

I've known Clifford May since he was a talk host in Denver. He made sense then, and makes sense now. This article is worth reading. A taste....

I'd like to take this opportunity to propose to Scheer and my other friends on the left that they consider opening their minds to the possibility that those who disagree with them have come to their views honestly, that they see the world differently, that they have made alternative judgments based on sincere — if flawed, by the lights of the Left — interpretations of reality.

It is good and proper for Left and Right to ague about facts and analysis and the policies they suggest. But we can't do that if one side is calling the other side "Liars!" all the time.

I agree with that sentiment exactly. I guess that makes me a kinder, gentler, almost...compassionate conservative.