Monthly Archives: December 2011

Obama bumper sticker removal kit

Even works on your Prius. Order your BS Removal Kit today!

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Better Hurry: Incandescent lights

Get your 100 watt incandescent bulbs while you still can.From the comments… Every time the do-gooder nanny state shoves something down our throat “for our own good,” you can bet it’ll be found later that it wasn’t safer/better after all. … Continue reading

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Obama and Boulder swing voters

I had beers last night with a group that definitely tilts liberal, although they may not qualify as “Boulder liberals”. If their opinions are representative, I’d say Obama is in trouble. Frankly, I was surprised. I have no doubt that … Continue reading

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“And people in the swing state of New Hampshire are very comfortable letting their neighbors know that they’re voting Republican this year.”

Hard for Boulderites to imagine.

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“It’s nice to see the workers and peasants stand up to their oppressors”

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Glenn Reynolds: Traffic laws are for little people

Public employee union defends Denver cop who was fired for driving drunk at 143 mph Ed Morrissey: This is so patently absurd that I barely know what to say about it. Is it a union’s job to protect its members … Continue reading

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Comment:”leave it to the stupid, incompetent Republicans to not be able to even save the 100-watt lightbulb!’

Amen.

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Lessons from Britain on Governement medicine

John Hinderaker: This is life under government medicine–a shell game in which the paramount objective is not treatment of patients, but perpetuation of a bureaucracy.Coming soon to the United States. Here is what progressives can’t seem to understand: Britain’s National … Continue reading

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After GMO’s, the next stop for Boulder Activists…

Nanotech Fear Peddlers Are Back, Insisting ‘Here Be Monsters’ I was going to make this a 2011 nanotech year-in-review column, but then I got to thinking about one of the biggest threats that could face nanotech in 2012. The nanotech … Continue reading

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When you’re Philosophy is “Government has all the answers…”

you make promises like this: Thanks President Obama.

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Obama, Energy, Politics: Not in that order.

Obama Energy Policy: Obama’s green-technology program was infused with politics at every level Added at 10a 12/26:Glenn Reyonlds comments: “All the “stimulus” and “green energy” stuff was never anything but a program to put taxpayer money into the hands of … Continue reading

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 Ali Abdullah Saleh: Wants to come to the US for medical care. Why? I keep reading that our medical care sucks here.

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Cronyism

NJ Senator Frank Lautenberg: Nominates Chuck Schumer’s brotherinlaw for judgeship. What no one mentioned is that McNulty, 57, was the last-minute choice of Lautenberg, who had been leaning toward other candidates until surprisingly submitting McNulty’s name to the White House. … Continue reading

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The wonderful Canadian Health Care System

One of the treatments my daughter has had for her ulcerative colitis (UC) is REMICADE. She had it prior to her colectomy last May. While it worked temporarily it wasn’t the solution for her and she ended up having a … Continue reading

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“I would advise Vladimir Putin to leave now. He has had his three terms: two as president and one as prime minister. Three terms — that is enough,”

So says Mikhail Gorbachev. Rally participants densely packed a broad avenue, which has room for nearly 100,000 people, about 2.5 kilometers (some 1.5 miles) from the Kremlin, as the temperature dipped well below freezing. They chanted “Russia without Putin!” A … Continue reading

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The Cost of Safety

It’s not measured in dollars, it’s measured in freedom. Congress is set to give the green light on funding for a massive expansion of TSA checkpoints, with the federal agency already responsible for over 9,000 such checkpoints in the last … Continue reading

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Here’s what happens when you allow adverse selection

From a health insurance website: Next to my gym there is a taco wagon. It has been there for years. I know the owner. He knows I sell health ins. Late last summer he tells me he needs a knee … Continue reading

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Glenn Reynolds: Why isn’t requiring ID to fly a racial burden on the right to travel? Extrapolating on Eric Holder’s issues with voter ID.

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Inflating College education bubble

“… a product that costs more and more. But consumers don’t care about the price because they’re convinced it will be worth a lot of money in the future…. and besides they’re paying with cheap borrowed money”. Eh… what’s not … Continue reading

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Calutron Girls…

Photograph by Ed Westcott. Read more about The Calutron Girls. I got to meet Gladys, the only time Y-12 was opened to the public. She was sitting in that exact same location (perhaps even chair?). According to the Historic Oak … Continue reading

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