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Boulder atheists protest Christmas! Embarrass city again
Dec 1st
Boulder Atheists embarrass city by launching unpopular protest of Christmas!
BOULDER, Colo. — Members of a Boulder atheist group is joining an umbrella organization to sponsor billboards protesting the nativity scene outside the Denver City and County Building.
Boulder Athiests is joining the Colorado Coalition of Reason to put up three billboards within a half-mile of the municipal building. They say the nativity scene belongs at a church, not a government building.
But the atheist group have drawn the ire from 9 out of 10 people polled by Boulder Channel 1 News who believe that atheism itself is a religion of anti love and intolerance. Atheism is a tenant of totalitarian political movements such as communism . Boulder has the highest registered number of communists in the USA per capita.
The Christmas holidays started out as the celebration of the birth of Christ as a Christian holiday celebrated all over America as an official government holiday. In recent years political correctness have found a way to make the holiday more inclusive by including similar holidays for Moslem’s, Jews and blacks. Some of this is questionable since Hanukkah is a minor Jewish holiday and Kwanza is a black non religious family day artificially created in Texas to coincide with Christmas.
Boulder Athiests will not alter the Christmas celebration at the Denver municipal building. Countless court cases have all come down on the side of the city. At this point Boulder atheists have only served to embarrass Boulder as anti Christmas. This of course is not true. The number of churches in Boulder also register in the top 10% of churches per capital for America. Though Boulder Atheists seem to grab headlines and other religions proliferate here, Boulder is still overwhelmingly a Christian community.
But Denver officials say the display on the City Hall’s front steps is a holiday tradition that has survived several legal challenges over the past 40 years. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in 1986 that the decorations, which include nonreligious displays, were constitutional.
Associated Press contributed to this story
National Caregiver Training Program courses scheduled for early 2011
Nov 29th
Upcoming courses:
• Wednesdays, Jan. 12-Feb. 23, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave., Boulder
• Thursdays, March 10-April 21, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road
Classes include detailed instruction, take-home materials, demonstrations, and hands-on practice, and cover the following topics:
• Caring for someone on bedrest
• Personal care
• Safe wheelchair use
• Medication management
• Taking vital signs
• Infection control
• Nutrition
• Fall prevention
• Reducing personal stress
• Local resources
The courses are open to Boulder County residents providing unpaid care for a relative, partner, or friend who is 60 or older (50 and older if the person has dementia). Registration is free; donations are welcome. Financial assistance for respite care (substitute elder care) during class periods is available.
Pre-registration is required. Please contact Emily Cooper at 303-678-6116 or ecooper@bouldercounty.org for more information.
SOURCE: BOULDER COUNTY PRESS RELEASE
City hosts Dec. 1 meeting to discuss pesticide assessment project
Nov 24th
Earlier this year, in response to concerns about the process for updating the city’s Approved Pesticide List, the city decided to postpone any changes to the list in order to allow time to review and evaluate the current Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program. Since then, the city has hired a team of consultants including the IPM Institute of North America, the Pesticide Research Institute and Osborne Organics to review the city’s current practices and make recommendations for updating the city’s IPM program.
The public is encouraged to attend the meeting and provide feedback. Comments are also welcome on the IPM website at www.bouldercolorado.gov under “Issues / Projects.”