Western slope Congressional Representative Scott Tipton on March 14 voted against a motion to prohibit President Trump and his family from benefitting personally from a bill currently under consideration by the federal legislature to change federal banking rules.
Crazy Republicans, Equal rights, Ethics, Ethnic/Minority, Extremism, Fake patriotism, Religion, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
City Council chooses to keep mostly Christian prayers at public meetings
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• •At their workshop Monday evening, Grand Junction City Council decided mixing religion with government was a good thing to do, and they would continue to do it.
City Manager Greg Caton told council members the City’s invocation policy dates back to 2008, saying they all inherited the practice. Council had an opportunity Monday at their workshop to discontinue prayers at City Council meetings and avoid further controversy over the City’s persistent endorsement of religion, modify the current policy or substitute a moment of silence instead.
But history shows the City of Grand Junction always has a hard time coming into the 21st Century.
Activism, Crazy Republicans, Democracy, Ethics, Intolerance, Trump Insanity
Disgraced white supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos plans talk in Grand Junction
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• •People are hyperventilating over a scheduled appearance in Grand Junction by white supremacist provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at 7:00 p.m. on April 14th at a currently undisclosed location. Some are planning protests, but the best thing to do might be to just yawn and ignore Yiannopoulos entirely.
Crazy Republicans, Deplorables, Extremism, Gun violence, politics, Trump Insanity
Get ready, Mesa County Republicans. President Trump wants to take your guns!
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• •President Trump on Wednesday called for seizing guns belonging to people who are deemed to present a danger to others without allowing them due process first.
“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump told a group of lawmakers at a meeting about school safety and gun violence.
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
Activism, Consumer advocacy, Crazy Republicans, Diversity, Equal rights, Ethics, Intolerance, politics, Religion, Religious hypocrisy, Separation of Church and State
Grand Junction City Council has an opportunity to end divisive religious invocations at public meetings. Let’s hope they do.
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• •Grand Junction City Council plans to re-assess the issue of hosting religious invocations at public meetings at their Monday, March 5 workshop.
Crazy Republicans, Fake patriotism, Immigration, Intolerance, politics, Trump Insanity, Xenophobia
Trump’s Border Wall Folly
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• •While still promising Mexico will pay for it, President Trump is now trying to extort $25 billion from U.S. taxpayers to build a “big, beautiful” border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and he’s holding DACA recipients hostage to do it.
It’s clear Trump either doesn’t understand, or is ignoring the nuances of legal and illegal immigration as well as actual statistics about the rates of crime committed by immigrants vs. U.S. citizens, and how most contraband gets into the country illegally.
By far the biggest contributor to violent deaths in the U.S. is not immigrants, but our country’s own violent culture paired with easy access to deadly firearms — a fact President Trump completely ignores in his effort to whip up xenophobic fear among Americans.
The stakes for Trump’s wall are extremely high for American taxpayers in many ways. The first is financial.
Crazy Republicans, Extremism, Fake patriotism, Fake Religiosity, Gun violence, Hate, Trump Insanity, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
Take our survey!
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• •Activism, Crazy Republicans, Deplorables, Education, Equal rights, Ethics, Ethnic/Minority, Extremism, Hate, Intolerance, Pop culture, Propaganda, Religious hypocrisy, Trump Insanity, Xenophobia
How the President’s racism affects the western slope
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• •President Donald Trump spent years spreading the racist lie that President Obama was born in Kenya. He’s publicly described Mexicans as rapists, called for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” said immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS,” used the gang MS-13 to disparage all immigrants and called African countries “shitholes.”
Sad to say, but there are people in our own community who actually believe these things, and worse, and Trump is empowering them to more freely express their racism and xenophobia.
Children, Deplorables, Diversity, Ethics, Extremism, Fake patriotism, Human rights, Lobbying, politics, Propaganda, Xenophobia
City Council endorses protections and path to citizenship for DACA recipients. G.J. citizens react.
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• •On January 17, 2018, the Grand Junction City Council sent an official letter (above) to Senators Cory Gardner, Michael Bennet and House Representative Scott Tipton urging the House and Senate to pass “a clean bill as soon as possible to prevent the end of DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] in March.”
The letter was signed by Mayor J. Merrick (“Rick”) Taggart. City Council approved it on a 5-2 vote. Councilmembers Duncan McArthur and Barbara Traylor-Smith voted against it.
Consumer advocacy, Education, Extremism, Marketing, Media, Religion, Separation of Church and State, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
The dangers of June Fellhauer’s 2018 talk by Caroline Leaf, promoted by District 51
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• •Local self-styled Christian missionary June Fellhauer is back in 2018 and this time, her unregistered nonprofit Wake Up Ministries sponsored a talk at Two Rivers Convention Center on January 12 by Dr. Caroline Leaf, another Christian missionary.
Caroline Leaf labels herself a “cognitive neuroscientist.” Her teachings are aimed at helping people “see the link between science and God as a tangible way of controlling their thoughts and emotions.” Dr. Leaf’s talked are based on her own idea that “the mind controls the brain.” She teaches that thoughts are the sole controller of our physical and mental health, that “toxic thinking is the root cause disease” and that thoughts can change our DNA.
The problem is, most of Leaf’s teachings are debunked by science.
Crazy Republicans, Deplorables, Ethics, Ethnic/Minority, Extremism, Fake patriotism, politics, Stupid Republicans, Trump Insanity
Trump on immigration: “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”
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• •Kick the kids out of the room. The president in on TV again, and again it’s for a shockingly offensive comment, especially from an American president.
The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump actually told a bipartisan group of Senators in a conversation about immigration today,
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”
Crazy Republicans, Deplorables, Diversity, Ethics, Extremism, Fake patriotism, Hate, Human rights, politics, Trump Insanity, Weird Grand Junction Stuff, Women
It doesn’t take, “like, a genius” to understand there is nothing adorable about being a “Deplorable”
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Many ardent Trump supporters happily call themselves “deplorable,” making fun of a point Hillary Clinton tried to make during her 2016 campaign that many Trump supporters are racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic.
Members of Trump’s “Deplorable” contingents across the country, including those locally, typically deny they are any of these things, yet the Facebook pages of “Deplorables” groups (Trump supporters across the country who have personally labeled themselves “Deplorables”) do in fact reveal a strong component of sexist, racist, xenophobic and homophobic thought runs within these groups.
Education, Elections, Human rights, Legal marijuana, politics
Rep. Jared Polis to open Grand Junction office Sat., Jan. 6 at 10:00 a.m.
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• •House Rep. Jared Polis is running for Colorado governor and will officially open his Grand Junction office this coming Saturday, January 6 at 10:00 a.m. at 421 Colorado Ave.
Polis is a new-age candidate. He is an entrepreneur who started several successful internet businesses. He is the first openly gay parent in Congress and a champion of education. Polis has served on the Colorado State Board of Education, and served a single six-year term until his district was eliminated. He created a foundation that gives annual Teacher Recognition Awards. In 2004, Polis established the charter school, “New America School,” a high school that primarily serves older immigrant youth ages 16–21.
Consumer advocacy, Ethics, Lies
Rental scam afoot in Grand Junction
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• •Advertising, Fake patriotism, Fake Religiosity, Propaganda, Religion, Religious hypocrisy, Secularism
Hobby Lobby, a corporate criminal
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• •Hobby Lobby, a craft store owned by evangelicals and known for pushing it’s owner’s Christian religious beliefs onto it’s employees, is running a full page “O-come-let-us-adore-him” Christmas ad in today’s Daily Sentinel with a camel and all the trimmings, that urges people to download a free Bible at a website.
So this seems like a perfect time to make people aware that Hobby Lobby was fined millions of dollars by the U.S. government in 2017 for illegally importing thousands of ancient Iraqi clay artifacts into the U.S. that were likely acquired by ISIS (the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”) as the terrorist group criss-crossed the country destroying and looting Iraq’s cultural heritage sites.
Consumer advocacy, Corruption, Crazy Republicans, Deplorables, Economics, Ethics, Extremism, Fake patriotism, Lies, politics, Trump Insanity
Trump accidentally admits Republicans deceptively sold the tax bill to the country
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• •From the Washington Post, December 20, 2017:
Trump just admitted the GOP’s tax cuts were deceptively sold
President Trump was so excited about passing his first major piece of legislation Wednesday that he blurted out that the Republican Party had misrepresented the entire bill, handing Democrats some potentially troublesome talking points for the 2018 midterm elections.
Speaking at the White House just before the House prepared to sign off on the tax-cuts bill one last time, Trump reveled extensively in his win before turning things over to Vice President Pence to heap praise upon him continuously for a few minutes. It was a thoroughly unique spectacle, even as victory dances and Trump Cabinet meetings go.
But along the way, Trump basically admitted that the GOP’s talking points on the bill weren’t exactly honest in two major ways.
While talking about the corporate tax rate being cut from 35 percent to 21 percent, Trump said, “That’s probably the biggest factor in our plan.”
Activism, Advertising, Atheism, Ethnic/Minority, Human rights, Media, Secularism, Separation of Church and State
People entering Grand Junction greeted by atheist billboard
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• •In another sign of how Mesa County’s culture becoming more diverse and welcoming, a bright digital billboard is greeting people entering downtown Grand Junction and reassuring them it’s okay if you don’t believe in God.
The billboard, located on a busy section of I70-B by Rimrock Marketplace in front of Hobby Lobby and Chick-Fil-A, was put up by Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers (WCAF) as a big a “thank you” gift to all the people in western Colorado who have had the courage to come out as atheists in the last year. It’s also a celebration of the progress made by western Colorado’s growing secular movement in advancing rational thought and reason in all our endeavors.