Off-beat behavior becoming the norm (Greeley CO Tribune)

struggle4progress

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Off-beat behavior becoming the norm (Greeley CO Tribune)

Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Tribune Opinion

When we heard a couple of weeks ago that a man had been arrested in Pakistan for possessing weapons and apparently being on a personal quest to find Osama bin Laden, we weren't all that surprised to discover the man was from Greeley ...

Remember the balloon boy? Although his family was from Fort Collins, the balloon they launched came down in Weld County ...

Army Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, a Greeley native, gained national attention when he refused to be deployed to Afghanistan because he doesn't believe President Barack Obama has produced a birth certificate that proves without a doubt the commander-in-chief is a natural-born citizen ...

All this once again leaves us wondering: Is their some sort of bizarre force that causes Greeley to be a sort of vacuum that sucks in strange and disturbing behavior? ...

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20100706/OPINION/100709782/1029

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niyad

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Sun Jul-11-10 03:21 PM
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1. at least here in the springs, we can BIOTA (blame it on the altitude)

Edited on Sun Jul-11-10 03:23 PM by niyad

actually, the whole state has, and has had, its fair share of wackos--tancredo, musgrave, beadie, lamborn, bruce. haggard, dobson, etc.,

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izquierdista

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Sun Jul-11-10 03:24 PM
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2. Not a vacuum, it's the wind.

Specifically, the breeze blowing over the feedlots. All the bullshit in the air is beginning to take a toll on the mental faculties.

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tanyev

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Sun Jul-11-10 03:33 PM
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3. "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. "

One of my favorite Bart Simpson quotes.

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nosmokes

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Sun Jul-11-10 04:36 PM
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4. Since their newspaper don't know the difference twixt there and their is it

really any surprise that Bozo(s) gets his mail in Greeley?

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tblue37

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Sun Jul-11-10 04:45 PM
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5. Maybe it's the fact that CO has become a haven for

Edited on Sun Jul-11-10 04:45 PM by tblue37

Christian fundamentalism, especially of the dominionist sort. That's one reson the US AF Academy itself has taken that dominionist Christian turn.

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