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“Damn” was her audible response
I recently heard a surprising story: A female CEO was briefed on a stellar candidate for a top job at her company. “Sounds ideal,” she said to the group in the room. “Male or female?” Male was the answer. “Damn” was her audible response. The guy wasn’t even interviewed. Why Are Men SilentSearch BIS
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- “This has been the coldest season with the most ice since we started Arctic Watch in 2000. Almost no whales. The NWPassage is still blocked with ice. Some of the bays still have not melted!”
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“What’s the deal with these weirdo Democrats who feel they need to post lewd photos of themselves?”
Jamie Wearing Fool asks. The problem is guys (citizens) like this have no alternative but to stay in politics. Who is going to hire them for a ‘real job’? Oh silly me, I forget. Lobbyist is not a ‘real job’. … Continue reading
48% of 7th through 12th graders experience sexual harrassment in the last year
I head this on the radio (or whatever) this morning and immediately wondered if the definition of sexual harrassment had changed. Ann Althouse has a good analysis. I’m not suggesting bad things don’t happen, just looking critically at survey questions … Continue reading
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Thinking Small
In an editorial last August, Erika Stutzman asks the question… What happened to our big ideas? In 1979, the Eisenhower Tunnel was completed. The federal and state government had blasted through the mighty Rocky Mountains with a four-lane highway to … Continue reading
Posted in big government, Boulder is stoopid, common sense
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President Goldman Sachs…
Now I understand. Color me slow.
Posted in everything Obama, Obamanomics
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“But the Tea Party blames the government and OWS blames business.”
Still, there’s an underappreciated potential for agreement. The potential intersection is interesting but I don’t see it happening. Follow the link and then the link to the graph. I know, too much work.
Posted in Occupy, Tea Party
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iPhone vs. Android OS
“One strange thing was navigating to a flash website and having video actually play. It makes a huge difference.” Confessions Of An iPhone User Who Recently Switched To Android and further reading… 11 Killer Features That Android Users Don’t Want … Continue reading
Posted in technology, the weekend
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“The banks pee and pooh on us every day”
Occupy Protesters Make a “Deposit” at Bank in Eureka, CA At about 8:09 am, Officers responded to the 5th Street branch of US Bank for a biohazard report. A US Bank representative reported that she came to work to find … Continue reading
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Triple the Cost and double the time: Great news: $98 billion estimate for California high-speed rail is lowball Makes RTD’s Fastracks almost look sane.
68 yrs ago today: Graphite Reactor goes critical (Yesterday)
“Charging of the graphite reactor began at 4:30PM on November 3rd at a rate of 2.5 tons per hour. On November 4th at around 5AM a chain reaction was detected. 30.4 tons of natural uranium slugs were loaded into 369 … Continue reading
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Occupy DC (but you can fill in the blank)
A class act. McCAIN: Wow. Wow. And so they had somebody whose job was apparently to monitor you? FIELDS: Exactly, yes. So for about three hours, I had someone following me around, harassing me, screaming things out to me. And … Continue reading
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Bonuses for Execs at…
… you guessed is Solyndra. Solyndra executives were awarded quarterly bonuses worth up to $60,000 apiece earlier this year as the California solar-panel company headed for bankruptcy, court documents show.
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“This is good news. Unless…they’re lying about the not lying.”
Imagine that.
Posted in politics, the weekend
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The first criticality of the Graphite Reactor took place at 5:00am on this day in 1943.
Historic Oak Ridge
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60 minutes ambushes Pelosi
Or so I’ve heard. That’s one (of many) shows I don’t watch. Many years ago I saw them do a “hit piece” on something I knew about (sorry we’re talking > 10 or 15 years ago, don’t even remember what … Continue reading
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“And I just racked it, and they ran.”
“We had people who attempted to break into our building,” the landmark Rotunda Building on Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall, Tagami said Thursday. He grabbed a shotgun that he usually keeps at home, went down to the ground floor … Continue reading
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“How much more? Between 12-20% depending on what you purchase”
We’re talking a trip to the grocery store. Of course, I’m sure the government can fix that.
Posted in Boulder is stoopid, inflation, stoopid government
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Student loan crisis
Screw you. The real problem is that we’ve been running a higher education bubble, one that — like the real-estate bubble — has been pumped up by cheap government money. Since 1999, student loan debt has increased by 511%, while … Continue reading
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As the maxim goes, people get the government they deserve.
Elsewhere, in an experiment in socialism which I predict is doomed to be a most expensive failure, Boulder voters approved, by a 52 percent to 48 percent vote, a measure which will allow the city to sever its ties with … Continue reading
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Oh, I choose a combination of 2 and 3
On voting down Prop 103. … and damn proud of it.
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Tax Increases….
Proposition 103 going down in flames across the state…”. Michelle Malkin comments. Local to Boulder, with the County’s refusal to pave subdivisions, both PineBrook Hills and Crestview Estates had ballot issues to create Local Improvement Districts and effectively tax themselves … Continue reading
