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1. #1
   On May 31st, 2011 at 11:44 am, Ralph Gizzip said:

   What is it about hyphenated women and idiocy?

   Sue Skiffington-Blumberg
   Penny Culbreth-Graft
   Debbie Wasserman-Shultz
   Hillary Rodham-Clinton

2. #2
   On May 31st, 2011 at 11:44 am, hawkeye54 said:

   Taxpayers around the country may want to be on alert. If job-sabotaging, back-stabbing public servants like this comes knocking on your city’s door for a job

   Job sabotaging, back-stabbing public servants? Alreay have them in our city….newcomers with like attitudes will fit in nicely.

3. #3
   On May 31st, 2011 at 11:45 am, sicoit said:

   Figures, these hyphenated names are nothing but trouble. Thank goodness, most people with a brain know the truth…

4. #4
   On May 31st, 2011 at 11:46 am, txvet2 said:

   In my single visit, I found Colorado Springs to be a clean, prosperous appearing community with a wealth of interesting places to visit – not even including Pike’s Peak or my son’s sister-in-law. You can’t trust the media to tell you the truth about anything.

5. #5
   On May 31st, 2011 at 11:48 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

   But when given a task, it is my obligation to get on board. If you give me a task, don’t expect me not to succeed.”

   “I vus only following orders!”

6. #6
   On May 31st, 2011 at 11:49 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

   Another clueless Hymenated name.

7. #7
   On May 31st, 2011 at 11:52 am, hawkeye54 said:

   You can’t trust the media to tell you the truth about anything.

   Ya got that right….something I realized decades ago.

8. #8
   On May 31st, 2011 at 11:53 am, GladzKravtz said:

   The city’s public relations department, run by Sue Skiffington-Blumberg,

   Wow, that’s some kind of PR, eh? She still there and why?

9. #9
   On May 31st, 2011 at 11:53 am, spaceycakes said:

   Skiffington-Blumberg
   Culbreth-Graft

   There’s your sign

10. #10
    On May 31st, 2011 at 11:53 am, hawkeye54 said:

    In my single visit, I found Colorado Springs to be a clean, prosperous appearing community with a wealth of interesting places to

    As did my wife and I. So much so, we have it on our short list of places where we’d consider living when we retire.

11. #11
    On May 31st, 2011 at 11:55 am, regularguy said:

    I try not to be the type to call for someone’s head, but there comes a point where the removal of certain people from certain jobs becomes imperative. Demand the removal of said person from said job. These people answer to US.

12. #12
    On May 31st, 2011 at 11:57 am, Hangfire said:

    CS is a beautiful place indeed. Not beyond reach of the Libs, but nice nonetheless.

13. #13
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:02 pm, John Deaux said:

    I think they’re both moron-idiots.

    How stupid does a public relations person have to be to drum up negative press for themselves?

14. #14
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:03 pm, GladzKravtz said:

    Is it common for a city to have an ‘in-house’ PR department? Why not contract it out to professionals who have incentive to provide a positive image?

15. #15
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:09 pm, BK said:

    Let’s see.

    According to leftists, it is compassionate to let government bureaucrats be in charge of your health care because bureaucrats are just so compassionate.

    Yeah right.

    Who ever got a warm fuzzy feeling from the word “bureaucrat”

16. #16
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:12 pm, J S Ragman said:

    I have heard talk that her replacement as PR rep will be Jennifer Headsup-Maderriere.

17. #17
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:15 pm, letget said:

    I wonder how many citizens in CS agree with her? Can she be recalled? She smacks of union thugs to me, do it my way or I will crater the city!
    L

18. #18
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:18 pm, Speakup said:

    My family has been in this community since 1892

    They weren’t liberals, why, are you?

19. #19
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:24 pm, Gorebot said:

    I know the following will instantly brand me as a patronizing Neanderthal, but every time I learn of a woman insisting upon use of her hyphenated name, I immediately detect a persecution/inferiority complex.

    It’s like they want to advertise their paranoid schizophrenia.

    Just pick a friggin’ surname (one or the other), grow an identity, and stop insisting that the world regard you as both Queen & King.

20. #20
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:30 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Just pick a friggin’ surname (one or the other), grow an identity, and stop insisting that the world regard you as both Queen & King.

    Right, and then go make me a sandwich!

21. #21
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:31 pm, badbait said:

    Here in AZ, when there is a crime where the local media does not provide a description of the perps, a day or two later, the names that come out are hyphenated and multicultural.
    Just expected, now.
    This PR rep needs to be replaced, she is too easily coerced into stupidity.

22. #22
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:35 pm, dan708 said:

    …former City Manager Penny Culbreth-Graft

    That last name is telling; how much did Penny receive from the Demoncrapic Nat’l Committee to slag her own city?

23. #23
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:35 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Thank God for whistle-blowers! I think we will be seeing more of the corruption exposed as people start suffering the consequences of evil. We can defeat this “culture of corruption” with the light of day.

    RAID!! Watch them scamper!

24. #24
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:37 pm, madshark said:

    But when given a task, it is my obligation to get on board.

    If you are given a task which seems contrary to what you could (and maybe should) be doing, it would seem to me the obligation is to resign from the position and then make a stink about why you’re doing it.

25. #25
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:42 pm, walterc said:

    Rogue Cheddar said:

    Just pick a friggin’ surname (one or the other), grow an identity, and stop insisting that the world regard you as both Queen & King.

    Right, and then go make me a sandwich!

    I have a co-worker that was married a couple weeks ago and HE changed his last name to HERS. Not even a hyphen. At first I thought that was a little weird, but then my wife reminded me that he’s been unemployed for quite sometime (makes more on unemployment than jobs offered). But he doesn’t baby sit either. So she works two jobs, pays a babysitter while she’s at work, and he sits on his ass. Makes me wonder how long this marriage will last.

    Oops a bit off topic. Sorry.

    Those women should be fired. A PR department is supposed to put a good spin on the advertising. Anything less is a failure to perform the job hired to do.

26. #26
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:43 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    it would seem to me the obligation is to resign from the position and then make a stink about why you’re doing it.

    What!? and give up that nice salary with super benefits along with the ability to wield some power and move up the political/bureaucratic ladder?

    You crazy!

27. #27
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:47 pm, peteee said:

    i notice a trend, when liberals lose, they need to bash everybody, except thier message for the reason. gay marraige, tax increases, general elections. if the voters get it “wrong” we need to investigate. i am seeing this in 2012, on the severe obama loss, the lawyers are getting tuned up now.

28. #28
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:47 pm, spaceycakes said:

    I think some females feel the hyphenated name makes them somehow fancier. You know, like some of the British familes have hyphenated names.

    We all know that the Brits corner the market on class. Hyphenated names, titles & rotten teeth.

29. #29
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:54 pm, Major O said:

    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:30 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Just pick a friggin’ surname (one or the other), grow an identity, and stop insisting that the world regard you as both Queen & King.

    Right, and then go make me a sandwich!

    Funniest.Comment.EVER.

    I can’t stop laughing! You folks on this comments board have to be the funniest in the blogosphere. I read as much for the laughs as I do for edification.

    I get sick of the hyphenated name nonsense myself. I was talking with a lady one day who didn’t herself hyphenate, but was “trying to understand.” She said, “I think it’s just that maybe a woman doesn’t want to have a man dictate what her last name is.” To which I asked, “Hmm. What was her last name before she got married? Wasn’t that dictated to her by her Dad? And wasn’t she content to go on with that same last name until she got married?”

    She thought for a second and said, “Oh yeah…I guess that’s true.”

    Just sayin’…

30. #30
    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:56 pm, NotTheMama said:

    Is her mentor Rosie O’D?

31. #31
    On May 31st, 2011 at 1:05 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    I found Colorado Springs to be a clean, prosperous appearing community with a wealth of interesting places to visit – not even including … my son’s sister-in-law.

    I take it she’s well worth visiting?

32. #32
    On May 31st, 2011 at 1:12 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    dan708 said:
    …former City Manager Penny Culbreth-Graft
    That last name is telling; how much did Penny receive from the Demoncrapic Nat’l Committee to slag her own city?

    I am sure she was paid a bunch of pennies.

33. #33
    On May 31st, 2011 at 1:29 pm, Ray said:

    On May 31st, 2011 at 12:35 pm, happyscrapper said:
    Thank God for whistle-blowers! I think we will be seeing more of the corruption exposed as people start suffering the consequences of evil. We can defeat this “culture of corruption” with the light of day.

    RAID!! Watch them scamper!

    happy: If this does not get exposed, we are done.

    Presidential Eligibility, Part 2

    For a federal agency claiming to have been “… a valued and respected resource on Capitol Hill for nearly a century…,” these facts plainly seem to undercut that contention. Indeed, a cynic might be tempted to jump to the conclusion that, instead of maintaining its reputation for being objective and nonpartisan, it is on this issue being converted into an advocacy arm for a particular political viewpoint.

    If, as the CRS claims on its website, its “… highest priority is to ensure that Congress has 24/7 access to the nation’s best thinking…,” and that its work is “… authoritative, objective and non-partisan…,” an argument can be made that the agency should begin acting more like an independent resource and acting less like an appendage of a political party or a Washington, D.C. “K” Street lobbying firm.

    And if that were the end of the saga, it would be one thing. Sadly, however, it is not the end.

34. #34
    On May 31st, 2011 at 1:53 pm, Darthnoob said:

    And like battered women the American voter keeps goin back to them.

    Leftists do not create anything, they only destroy. They do not ‘care’, they only hate. They are the meanest, nastiest, most vindictive people around.

35. #35
    On May 31st, 2011 at 2:02 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    Colorado Springs is a clean, beautiful place. I really like the view of the snow covered Front Range Mountains to the West as we drive up I-25 to visit family members in Denver. God’s Country beauty and bounty for all to see. A treat after the El Paso desert area I live in.
    ***
    I think that Michelle Malkin may have a new or additional career waiting in the wings. Governor Sarah Palin didn’t start out wanting to be a politician–but she saw the need to fix the broken Wasilla Government. Ditto for the broken Alaska State Government. And coming soon to an election near you (on a bus) to fix our broken Federal Government.
    ***
    Maybe a career change is in the Patrona’s future! The current Colorado Springs Gubmint looks like a juicy target waiting for some fixin! I think I know a good Conservative Christian Lady who could do the job.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

36. #36
    On May 31st, 2011 at 2:02 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On May 31st, 2011 at 1:29 pm, Ray said:

    I believe there is a LOT of investigating being done under the radar on this POTUS and the corruption running through our government. There is so much out there!! As soon as they have gathered irrefutable evidence, the Fit will Hit the Shan! Big time. You can be sure, many, many patriots are working night and day to defeat this evil. We only hear about the most vocal ones. There are more!!

37. #37
    On May 31st, 2011 at 2:04 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On May 31st, 2011 at 2:02 pm, rocketman said:
    Maybe a career change is in the Patrona’s future! The current Colorado Springs Gubmint looks like a juicy target waiting for some fixin! I think I know a good Conservative Christian Lady who could do the job.

    An excellent thought! Very astute!

38. #38
    On May 31st, 2011 at 2:10 pm, happy2behere said:

    I beg to differ. The Happy family has been in the Springs since 1890 and my home is still close by. We are political conservatives, especially regarding taxes. But sorry, there is some truth to the ‘grumpy taxpayer’ image there. Case in point: The decades-long Convention Center tantrum. That city is world-class beautiful, just begging for tourists and screaming patriotism. Conventions will bring more money to the area and send more positive images, but no! Grumpy taxpayer won’t buy into an adequate convention center complex, not even a little. Penny-wise and pound-foolish, as my Springs-born Grandpa used to say.

    So, in a small way, I can sort of understand the frustration of city officials with grumpy taxpayer. But that’s where it ends for me.

    As for the above article, no public servant should misinform the public for their own agenda, ever. It is unethical and goes against the ethics course they teach in the Graduate School of Public Admnistration at the University of Colorado. A phrase by PA Guru Carol Lewis was drilled into our heads as GSPA students, “First, do no harm.” Apparently, Misses Hyphentated-Last-Names missed that class.

39. #39
    On May 31st, 2011 at 3:00 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    “…when given a task, it is my obligation to get on board. If you give me a task, don’t expect me not to succeed.”

    In other words: “I was just following orders.”

40. #40
    On May 31st, 2011 at 3:11 pm, sadlowss said:

    And if you drug them out into the streets and beat’em, YOU’D be the one in trouble!

    Betcha the MSM won’t bother with this news, like they did trying to destroy the town.

41. #41
    On May 31st, 2011 at 3:35 pm, BadIdeaGuy said:

    When you elect someone with “Graft” in their name to office, what did you expect?

42. #42
    On May 31st, 2011 at 4:47 pm, madshark said:

    On May 31st, 2011 at 2:10 pm, happy2behere said:
    I beg to differ…

    Conventions will bring more money to the area and send more positive images, but no! Grumpy taxpayer won’t buy into an adequate convention center complex, not even a little. Penny-wise and pound-foolish, as my Springs-born Grandpa used to say.

    So, in a small way, I can sort of understand the frustration of city officials with grumpy taxpayer. But that’s where it ends for me.

    And I beg to differ, also. You are likely correct in that CS would benefit from a convention center. But why does it have to be taxpayer funded? If there is indeed a market for it, then some enterprising individual or group of individuals would bankroll it.

    Unfortunately too many agencies have the mindset of providing these facilities (convention centers, stadiums for professional teams, etc.) which have rosy forecasts for patronage, but in too many instances end up being drains on the municipality’s budget.

    In this day of Webinars and having the ability to see each other face to face from different locations, it would seem that the whole concept of conventions may eventually disappear. Personally, it rankles me when I read of any government employee attending conferences, on the taxpapyer’s dime, at luxurious facilities, when there are more cost efficient ways of doing so.

43. #43
    On May 31st, 2011 at 4:47 pm, Coregis said:

    I will be reporting her to the International City/County Managers Association. They have a very strong code of ethics (I can’t even contribute to a political campaign because it makes me look partisan), and there will be a professional missile hit on her. For shame….

44. #44
    On May 31st, 2011 at 6:16 pm, stillontheroad said:

    This should make everyone mad as hell – this comes from Ban Diego -
    http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/may/27/fireworks-shows-need-environmental-review/
    This is vengefull as well as what a out of control Judge will do,

45. #45
    On May 31st, 2011 at 6:33 pm, Common Sense said:

    Just pick a friggin’ surname (one or the other), grow an identity, and stop insisting that the world regard you as both Queen & King.

    Why do you care? Some people want to honor both sides of their newly combined family. Others don’t want a family name to die out. Regardless, it’s their business.

46. #46
    On May 31st, 2011 at 8:46 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Reporters told of darkened streets, closed pools…

    “..and on any winter night, the sky goes dark with no reflections to play out on the frozen swimming pools – the pools of broken promises with their cold and uninviting glassy surfaces while children shiver and wonder whether they will ever swim again. This then is the legacy of the Right – the Tea Party of Sarah Palin and the others who hate children…

    Join us next week for another edition of 60 Minutes when Andy Rooney describes his childhood in the London of Dickens when other children went to the poorhouse…”

47. #47
    On May 31st, 2011 at 8:55 pm, Coregis said:

    Aloha Guy….bahahaha…you really do have a great future in the literary arts…great post!

48. #48
    On May 31st, 2011 at 10:44 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Cut the public relations budget and the weenies can whine the way AlohaGuy said and then cut their budget again. We can call it Project Oliver Twist.

49. #49
    On June 4th, 2011 at 9:04 am, CMSGT said:

    Ralph Gizzip said: What is it about hyphenated women and idiocy?

    They are confused and cannot make up their mind. Talk to them sometime and you’ll hear and see what I mean.

    They should stop hyphenating about what they did and cannot change, and get on with life.

    I bet if they were to divorce and marry another there would be another hyphen.