Condoleezza Rice Takes Jab at Liberals

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by a Bear Friday Morning Intelligence Institute at CU Boulder Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO), a member of the Senate Com

LARKSPUR, Colo. - A Larkspur resident was bitten on the hand by a bear Friday mornmittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, applauded the announcement today ing outside his home. That individual sought treatment at a hospital and was released. that the National Science Foundation (NSF) will invest $20 million to establish the NSF

Colorado Parks and Wildlife received a call at 7:10 a.m. Friday morning reporting the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for Student-AI Teaming at the University of Colorado incident. Responding wildlife officers searched the area for the bear, which had returned Boulder. Colorado is one of only six states selected to lead the new NSF Artificial Intelto the home and was euthanized at 9:50 a.m. Due to the nature of the incident and the bear ligence Institutes. inflicting injury to a human, by state policy that animal must be euthanized. Senator Gardner’s Advancing Artificial Intelligence Research Act, S. 3891, would proThe circumvide Congressional authorization for a national network of artificial intelligence institutes, stances surwhich would now include this new institute at University of Colorado Boulder. rounding the “I’m excited to see this new funding awarded to the University of Colorado Boulder to bite appear to establish a new Artificial Intelligence Institute, which will keep Colorado at the forefront involve feeding of AI research,” said Senator Gardner. “Artificial intelligence has the potential to change and habituation, the world for the better and increase the quality of life for people everywhere. It’s vital that and are currently the United States continues to lead artificial intelligence efforts, and I will continue workbeing investiing to support our nation’s scientific research and development enterprise in Colorado and gated. across the country.” “People think During his time in the U.S. Senate, Gardner has helped increase funding for NSF by they are doing approximately 13 percent. Gardner has a longstanding history of promoting additional the right thing investments in research and development and has also introduced two major bills on arby feeding wildtificial intelligence: the Artificial Intelligence in Government Act, which passed the Senate life and that it Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Advancing Artificial helps them out Intelligence Research Act, which recently passed the Senate Committee on Commerce, when in fact that Science, and Transportation.

Picture of a black bear in Colorado, not of the bear involved in Friday’s incident (photo by Jason Clay/CPW) selfish action causes them to lose their wild Cory Gardner is a member of the U.S. Senate serving Colorado. He sits on the Energy & Natural Resources Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, the Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee, and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the nature, is harmPacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy. ful to their wellbeing and in some cases causes them to become dangerous,” CPW Northeast Region Manager Mark Leslie said. The bear will be transported to CPW’s wildlife health lab for necropsy and will be tested Colorado Peach Growers Urge Consumers to for rabies. The Tri-County Health Department has been notified. “The unlawful feeding of bears and all wildlife is a problem in Larkspur and the greater Enjoy Colorado Peaches, Current Recall for area and it needs to stop,” Wildlife Officer Sean Dodd said. “This is a prime example of why laws are in place that prohibit those actions, it leads to the habituation of our wildlife and creates a public safety issue.” CPW is an enterprise agency, relying primarily on license sales, state parks fees and registration fees to support its operations, including: 41 state parks and more than 350 wildlife areas covering approximately 900,000 acres, management of fishing and hunting, wildlife watching, camping, motorized and non-motorized trails, boating and outdoor education. CPW’s work contributes approximately $6 billion in total economic impact annually throughout Colorado. Out-of-State Peaches ONLY Colorado peach growers now in the middle of peach harvest are concerned that the recall of out-of-state peaches could impact peach sales and are urging Colorado consumers to check the source of their peaches and to continue enjoying Colorado grown peaches. As per the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, consumers, restaurants and retailers should not eat, sell or serve recalled peaches packed or supplied by Prima Wawona from June 1 to Aug. 19. More details are available at: https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaksfoodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-salmonella-enteritidis-peaches-august-2020 "Oftentimes consumers hear about a product recall and quit eating that product alto

Condoleezza Rice Takes Jab at Liberals for Assuming gether, even though only produce from a specific source is implicated," said Palisade peach grower Bruce Talbott, Talbott's Mountain Gold. "We are asking consumers to check the how Black People Should Think: ‘Problem with the Left’ source of their peaches. If they have the Colorado Proud logo or are otherwise known to be Colorado grown, they are not part of the recall." The former secretary of state also says CFVGA has supported and continues to support food safety initiatives and training specancel culture has gone too far The prominent African American Republican told the Aspen Security Forum that she doesn’t think the United States will ever be a truly colorblind society, but she hopes that one day people will stop making assumptions based on race. “I don’t really care if we’re colorblind, but I would like to get to the place that when you see somebody who is Black, you don’t have preconceived notions of what they’re capable of, who they are -- by the way, what they think, which is I think a problem of the left,” Rice said in a video interview with The New York Times’ Peter Baker at the forum. “You look at somebody who’s Black and you think you know what they think, or you at least think you know what they ought to think.” Rice’s comments came after Joe Biden argued African Americans who can’t decide whether to cific to the Food Safety Modernization Act in collaboration with Colorado State University Extension, Western Growers and the Colorado Department of Agriculture. CFVGA will continue to work with its grower members to keep them informed about any food safety issues that could impact Colorado produce growers or the health of consumers. "It is so important that Colorado consumers buy the very popular Western Slope peaches that growers have labored so hard to produce, harvest and deliver safely to retail outlets," said Harrison Topp, of Topp Fruits in Hotchkiss. "It is especially important for consumers to support Colorado fruit growers in 2020, as so many have reduced crop volumes because of the late spring freeze on Western Slope orchards." The CFVGA has approximately 250 members, including produce operations of all sizes and types of production throughout the state, as well as representatives of allied industries. The Colorado fruit and vegetable growing sector contributes nearly $485 million to Colorado at the farm gate and is multiplied as it goes through the distribution chain. Over 90,000 Colorado acres are in fruit and vegetable production. vote for him or President Trump “ain’t black.” Biden’s remarks to Charlamagne Tha God drew swift backlash from African Americans who said Biden, a 77-year-old White Democrat, was condescending and arrogant for trying to dictate how African Americans should vote.

Biden later walked back the comments, saying he was being a “wise guy.”

Rice, who served in President George W. Bush’s administration, first as national security adviser, took the jab at the left while speaking about the “birth defect” of slavery that she says still has an impact today in American inequities in education, policing and economic opportunities. Rice said widespread school choice is necessary to tackle persistent education gaps that often leave poor, minority students in failing public schools while their wealthy peers have the money to send their children to private schools or move to a desirable school district.

“I am not one who believes you can just sort of ‘take on systemic racism,’ I don’t even know how to start,” Rice said. “I do think you can take on the impact of an educational system for minority kids that leaves most of them behind. I think you can take that on. But people might not like my answer. My answer is: Let’s do school choice in a big way.” Rice also spoke out in support of removing Confederate monuments and renaming some military bases -- efforts that have gained steam in the wake of nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody. She urged President Trump to support a defense authorization bill that would force the name changes of bases Keen A Specia e C l Pla raft ce Whe Mercantile re Talented People such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Hood in Texas. The White House has threat ened a veto. Bring Their Home-made Crafts to Sell But Rice also drew a line and said the takedown of monuments can go too far, such as an effort to remove the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., that depicts a freed Booths are $25 and Tables are $20 slave kneeling before former President Abraham Lincoln. We are open Monday through Saturday

“I actually don’t know why anybody wants to defend the Confederacy and Confederate from 10 am until 5 pm monuments,” Rice said. “I also don’t know why anybody wants to tear down a statue of Abraham Lincoln and slaves, which was actually funded by freed slaves. So this has gotten a little out of control, frankly, and I don’t want to be the Soviet Union where we’re trying 65MainStreet,Keenesburg,Colorado303-910-0640 to erase history.”