Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

As anyone who follows history and politics knows, there has always been a very healthy debate on the issues in our country. Yet, now that conservatives are expressing their disapproval of President Obama's proposed health care plan, liberals are suddenly very critical of dissent and debate. Earlier this week, Speaker Pelosi accused honest citizens expressing their views on health care of being "un-American." And why? Because they disagree with her on the need for a new government insurance program. Our Founding Fathers would be very surprised by Speaker Pelosi's attempt to clamp down on dissent. This nation was founded by patriots who staged the ultimate protest in declaring their independence from a distant and out-of-touch government. The rights to peacefully assemble and petition our elected officials are guaranteed by the Constitution. What Nancy Pelosi doesn't understand is that our differences and disagreements don't make us weaker; they make us stron...

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/07/cambridge-police-profiling-still-a-grim-reality-for-harvard-faculty-assholes.html Guest Opinion by Professor John Evans Evans-John Harvard School of Harvard Faculty Asshole Studies Harvard University When I first learned of the arrest of my colleague Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates after he stood up to the fascist jackboots of a declasse, ill-educated Cambridge police officer, I was of course angered -- but scarcely shocked.  L'Affaire Gates  simply aired, in public, the dirty 100-thread-count table linen of an American culture where Harvard faculty assholes still face a daily struggle against profiling, abuse, and insolence. It will come as no surprise that Skip's arrest was the talk of the Douchebag Room at the Harvard Faculty Club last Friday. I and a group of colleagues had assembled for our weekly lunch; I opted for their competently-prepared Ahi Tuna Tartare and an amusing glass of '05 Hospices de Beaune P...

Reasons  to disagree People who say, "It takes a village" really want power. They don't think you should be allowed to run your life the way you want to, and so they want to get groups together, and then they want to lead that group's decisions. They people to make decisions as cities, towns, and governments, not individuals and families, because if we let individuals and families make decisions, they don't get to be involved, but they can get their hands into government.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." Thomas Carlyle Ideas   We should allow users suggest  books  as  reasons to agree or disagree  with an idea. Now start thinking ahead what an  algorithm  could do, if someone says that a book agrees with their beliefs. Data is readily available from  Amazon  or  E-bay  or the  New York Times  best selling list of how well a book has sold.   So there would be three fields. One place where you submit the item that agrees or disagrees with the original idea. The second field would let you classify the object. Is it a  book , a website , or simply a  logical argument . The third field would be a place where the user explains why he thinks the book supports the conclusion that he/she has come to. Of course, people would be allowed to vote weather or not the book actually does support the side that the original user said that it w...

Please help me brainstorm the most probable interest of those who agree or disagree with Romney on each issue. Just leave what you think motivates each side in the comment section, and I will add it to the list. Also, tell me the percentage of those who agree with Romneyyou think are motivated by each motivation. I will try to put the most likely motivation towards the top of the list. The book  Getting to Yes , tells us that we need to focus on interest instead of positions. To understand why someone believes something we must understand their interest. What are their values? Different interest or values lead to different positions. Of course it is best when the author of an idea submits their interest. However others users of the website could submit and then vote on the most likely motivations of each side. We need to also classify interest as opposing interest or mutual interest.  Businesses interest might include low taxes and good infrastructure.

We need to have reasons to agree and disagree with Romney on the same page. We also need to have a post for each issue (that doesn't change topics), and then brainstorms all the reasons to agree and disagree with Romney, with the best reasons at the top of their respective list. Steven Write said; "A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking ." And it is true. People make decisions becaus they only heard part of the story, and they never examined all the reasons to agree and disagree. That is why I want to use the power of the internet to brainstorm all the reasons to agree and disagree with Romney. If we separate our reasons to agree and disagree, and classify the reasons we could do some pretty cool stuff with computer software. For instance we could create a computer algorithm that gives points to Romney's beliefs based on the number or reasons to agree with him. Then each reason can become its own post, with reasons to agree and disagree with it. Eve...

When wealthy people die, much of their money gets taxed. It is called the estate tax, by those who like the tax and the death tax by those who want to make the tax sound morbid. In nations that have the estate tax, rich people who spend their money on solar panels or wind turbines could avoid it, with all the money that they use for that equipment. This would stimulate the market for this equipment. Billions of dollars would get invested in this wind turbines and solar panels. And we wouldn't be going around the estate tax really, because when you die you are not transferring money, or houses. You give your kids a pile of solar panels or wind turbines. The "value" of these items do not get taxed. So instead of Paris Hilton getting access to offshore bank accounts when her father dies, she would get millions of dollars of solar equipment that her dad bought in 2010, that helped stimulate the economy, and that she can use to produce clean energy.