http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest story posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5By Joe Hursh Sooner or later everyone who plays an instrument, listens tomusic or has access to a garage tries to start a band. Some musical groups come together, make music and becomethe Beatles. But for the majority of would be"Jukebox Heroes," a few friends have three or four b...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Stories/Archive/Entertainment/Music/Story~71820.aspx4/5/2006 11:13:16 PMJoe Hursh As the golf courses are rising fromtheir winter hibernations and flag sticks are beginning to sprout,I know there are only four weeks and two freak snowstorms beforethe official beginning of the Colorado golf season. Sensing that the season is right around the corner, my golfinstincts...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Stories/Sports/General-Sports/Story~74362.aspx4/13/2006 8:25:10 AMJoe Hursh The Academy Of Movies and Movie Things has bestowed its highest honors, the Oscars, on several people whom I have never heard of. I feel good, however, because as host Ellen DeGeneres said, it was the most international Academy Awards ever. Evidently, I broadened my cultural spectrum without e...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/Entertainment/Movies/Story~255274.aspx2/26/2007 7:31:55 AMJoe Hursh This pre-election cycle is getting more ridiculous for the Democratic Party. According to the latest polls from CNN, the current president is ranking as the top president for dissatisfaction among the American Public. Seventy-one percent of the polled said they are dissatisfied with the way he...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~464882.aspx5/2/2008 12:10:26 AMJoe Hursh Recently, Clinton and McCain have begun touting a gas tax suspension to ease the burden on the consumer. Gas prices are soaring and we need relief. We don't need a band-aide, we need a major surgery to fix this problem and gas tax is not the problem. Where is this energy independence we have he...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~464883.aspx5/2/2008 12:12:18 AMJoe Hursh Gas Tax The major talking point brought on by Sen. Clinton in her latest attempt to win a losing Presidential Primary is this idea of a Gas Tax Holiday. Let me first say this is a bad idea. Not only because President Bush is willing to consider the proposal, a red flag, but also becau...http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~466362.aspx5/6/2008 12:09:36 AMJoe Hursh Rush Limbaugh has made headlines for his "Operation Chaos," encouraging Republicans to cross party lines and vote for Sen. Clinton to extend the Democratic primary in hope of causing dissention. Some have even ventured to say that upwards of seven percent of the Indiana vote can be attribute...http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~467458.aspx5/7/2008 11:31:03 PMJoe Hursh I wonder why is there no good music on the radio anymore. There is so much to sing about and so much to explore, where is the music of the times? At least in the sixties when the country was torn apart we had the Beatles, Bob Dylan and defining rock icons. In the seventies we had the great...http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/Letter-to-the-Editor/Story~468431.aspx5/10/2008 12:01:18 AMJoe Hursh It's time, time to put away the OJ case. There is a story circulating that has made CNN, OJ confessed to the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson . As the story goes according to the manager, OJ was drunk and high and confessed to killing his ex-wife. Of course the manager, Mike Gilbert, ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~468574.aspx5/10/2008 11:58:19 PMJoe Hursh Though most of the time I tend to discuss politics, I felt it pertinent at this point to talk about dogs. Dogs are fantastic animals. Dogs are four-legged friends who are happier with a slice of bacon than an old man with a Denny's Grand Slam. You can't beat a dog for a companion and more peop...http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~468579.aspx5/11/2008 12:37:07 AMJoe Hursh I love politics. Not for its value but for its follies. It amazes me the depths that educated people fall to in order to try and seem like leaders. Senator McCain claimed that he believes the war in Iraq will be won by 2013, and Osama Bin Laden will be dead or captured. This is in co...http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~471078.aspx5/15/2008 11:02:42 PMJoe Hursh In the latest round of jousting, Senator Obama has blasted the Bush Administration and Senator McCain as having bad foreign policy for America. Unfortunately, it is hard to say this is going to strengthen Obama's case because his approach lacks strength. In the case of Iraq, I w...http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~471609.aspx5/16/2008 11:56:22 PMJoe Hursh According to the latest from Russia, a mine in the Kamchatka Penisula is now being held hostage by a group of thiry or so bears. Approximately 100 scientists, miners and geologists are being held with three others having already been slain. According to Russian Officials the Kamchatka is ho...http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/Archive/Creative-Writing/Jokes/Story~500348.aspx7/25/2008 11:32:39 PMJoe Hursh