Early voting Denver: Bet you didn't get to vote on Extraterrestrial Ordinance!

[hlthe2b]

I just got home from early voting in downtown Denver. No crowd (sadly) but they do have a drop off for mailed ballots that got a bit of traffic.

But here was the fun thing (besides the fact they offered free parking!)

Ordinance 300: ""Shall the voters for the City and County of Denver adopt an Initiated Ordinance to require the creation of an extraterrestrial affairs commission to help ensure the health, safety, and cultural awareness of Denver residents and visitors in relation to potential encounters or interactions with extraterrestrial intelligent beings or their vehicles, and fund such commission from grants, gifts and donations?" Yes___ No___"


I got through the LOOOOONG ballot, flipping back and forth through the voter guide (thank GOD for that voter guide) trying to keep all the teabagger ballot initiatives straight and also the long list of judicial retentions and then I get to the very end of the ballot and there was the extraterrestrial ordinance. I broke up laughing and so did the guy next to me. (to which the elderly polling ladies, gave us both a stern look--LOL) I think we both voted AYE, as I told him on the way out, that I believe in "hedging my bets"!....

[eleny]

1. You know that we're going to have to start calling you "moonbeam"

:pals:

[hlthe2b]

6. LOL

;)


(I think they KNOW how we voted....) :rofl:

[EC]

2. Sounds like a

slush fund...

[hlthe2b]

4. Could be... but at least it is innovative...

;)

[EC]

8. Yeah,

that's for sure..

[librechik]

3. Finally, a realistic response to the phrase: "Take me to your leader"

hold on, I got the Denver number right here!

[hlthe2b]

5. Remember, we are the friendly ones....!

;) Now those teabagger types down in Douglas County and the Springs, well....

[Posteritatis]

7. I'd have trouble not voting for something that weird. (nt)

[DavidDvorkin]

9. It was on our mail-in ballots

And we both voted No on it. What an absurdity.

[hlthe2b]

10. Why? Absurd, sure, but It IS NOT publicly funded....

Absurd, yeah, but what's the harm? just a commission funded by donations....

[walldude]

11. It says "grants, gifts and donations"

Grants usually mean government money. Pork. And the harm is, shouldn't we be spending that money of the homeless? The poor? The sick?

I have read through the list of some of the crazy pork projects out there, and there are a ton of them. Mostly useless studies that could be put off until we get our shit together. We spent too much money on shit like this when there are children living in the family car.

[hlthe2b]

12. Grants can be NGO funded or even private foundations...

I know of NO governmental grants that would fund this. I think you are really stretching. Show me the evidence before you start suggesting I am choosing a frivolous alternative to spending money on the homeless, poor, sick. Your accusation is without basis.

WHERE IS YOUR PROOF THAT THIS IS PUBLICLY FUNDED? SHOW ME

Yes, it is an absurd little statement... but, nothing more than a statement. Where is your sense of amusement? I am sick and tired of the very small minority of the highly sanctimonious among DUers who can not take seconds out of the day to laugh at anything. Honestly.

[DavidDvorkin]

14. It would be a horrible embarrassment for the state.

[hlthe2b]

15. It is not a state measure, not a law, simply a local ordinance...

Absurd, granted, but geebus. Much ado about very very little.

[DavidDvorkin]

16. Not the state. You're right, of course.

But it would be a monstrous embarrassment. I don't think it's much ado about little, at all.

[hlthe2b]

17. hmm...

I really think you need to consider lightening up... not everything in life is "life and death" serious. But, I do agree it is absurd. I just would not be surprised if it passes and think we will all survive if it does.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. Have we ever met?

How do you know enough about me to conclude that I need to lighten up and that I consider everything to be a life-and-death matter?

[hlthe2b]

19. I don't know if we have met or not...

Simply commenting from your posts and it wasn't meant to be an insult. I too, tend to take nearly all things a bit too seriously.

[struggle4progress]

13. Man pushes creation of panel to prepare city for space aliens (Rocky Mountain News 2008)

By Daniel J. Chacon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published May 2, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

... "It is important because if you're driving down the highway and you saw a crash of a small spaceship and a car or a bus full of kids, you really wouldn't know what to do," Peckman said Thursday. "Do you wait for the hazardous materials experts to show up because of potential contaminants from another solar system? What do you do? People really don't know."

Peckman, 54, who is single and lives with his parents, has submitted to the city a draft of the proposed ordinance, which would require the creation of an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission ...

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/02/man-pushes-creation-of-panel-to-prepare-city-for/


Alien video: Puppet or real E.T.?
By Kirk Mitchell
The Denver Post
Posted: 05/30/2008 10:40:38 AM MDT
Updated: 07/01/2008 05:50:27 PM MDT

... Over the course of three minutes or so, the footage shows a white creature with a balloon-shaped head that keeps popping up and down in a windowsill that was 8 feet above ground. The face was white, with large black eyes that seemed to blink ...

Rojas said the video was taken on July 17, 2003, in Nebraska by Stan Tiger Romanek, who set up the camera because he thought peeping Toms had been looking into his house at his two teenage daughters. Romanek did not appear at the news conference ...

The screening, organized by Denver resident Jeff Peckman, was not open to the public ...

Peckman has organized an initiative drive to require the city of Denver to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission to handle alien encounters ...

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9427587


Illegal aliens everywhere! Peeping in your teenage daughter's bedroom window!