Daily Archives: October 2, 2008

Economic issues hurting Republicans

John Hinderaker over at Powerline has a rather dismal, but probably realistic update on Republican chances for the upcoming election. With a month to go, the election is looking bleak for us conservatives. The current economic crisis should, by rights, … Continue reading

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Roll the dice

Apparently Barney Frank wanted to “roll the dice” a little with Fannie and Freddie. Barney, you’re not rolling my dice in Vegas!

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Randy Luallin for County Commissioner – District 3

From Randy’s web site, this is enough for me… Redress of Grievances: Since it is highly unlikely that there will ever be true debate in the upcoming elections: 3 minute introductions and 3 minute answers to canned questions without rebuttal … Continue reading

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RETRACT: T+xxx on Boulder County $35,000 ballot reprint

ERROR on my part. Turns out that the Daily Camera did report the ballot reprint issue as you can see here. Interestingly enough, they did not report the cost. The Boulder is a Stoopid Place blog apologizes to the Daily … Continue reading

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Boulder County Ballot Issue 1A

Here is an explanation of the Boulder County website of the benefits of ballot issue 1A… 1A asks voters to allow Boulder County to issue bonds for the purpose of providing financing options for renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements … Continue reading

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Not a prudent idea

From stock and option systems trader Jay Kaeppel… There. Now I have sufficiently ticked everyone off. But that’s fine. You should be ticked off. And by that I mean ticked off enough to actually examine “the facts” rather than relying … Continue reading

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Gold @ $3000/oz?

So says Louise Yamada in the interview shown below. Note it is a long term call. I don’t know if the “bailout” is a good idea or not. I do firmly believe that returning to politics as usual, especially the … Continue reading

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