Author Archives: ChrisA

Fair trade town…

No better place then Boulder I suppose. Advocates working toward a fair-trade Boulder want city leaders to go beyond the basic commitments that other fair-trade towns have made to spread education and encourage a fair-trade marketplace. They want Boulder also … Continue reading

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UN halts aid to Myanmar…

What a government, eh? YANGON, Burma – Myanmar’s junta seized U.N. aid shipments today meant or a multitude of hungry and homeless survivors of last week’s devastatingcyclone,forcing the world body to suspend further help. The aid included 38 tons of … Continue reading

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Airline Stocks

The market was open, a good day to sell airline stocks. To the right is a comparison of USO, the oil ETF, to the Airline index.

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Global warming and quotes…

On May 7th Deborah Clem wrote a letter to the editor making the simple claim that there is no scientific concensus regarding global warming. Since approaching this issue with anything resembling an open mind violates the majority of Boulderites worldview, … Continue reading

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Boulder to examine ‘freebie tax’

Now why would the Daily Camera editors put the phrase “freebie tax” in quotes? It must be because anyone with common sense knows that if a store is giving away freebies they’re making it up by selling other items. Hence, … Continue reading

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Everyone should own a business

Here are 10 reasons why, from Rich Sloan’s (co-founder of StartupNation) blog on Amazon.com.

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Now here’s a surprise…

Ever the global warming opportunist, it didn’t take Al Gore long to connect the dots between the Myanmar cyclone and global warming.

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Prosecutorial misconduct

Our government at work, as reported by the Volokh Conspiracy. The district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the indictment. The government egregiously failed to meet its constitutional obligations under Brady and Giglio. It failed to even make … Continue reading

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Wowza, let’s cut some veggies!

I doubt veggies are cut this way at your house! Chris “Jesus” Ferguson shows how its done.

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The trifecta early

The owners of Gayego, the 17th place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, have quite the success story to tell. The Wall Street Journal editorial page tells the story quite succinctly. And then there’s Gayego, which placed a mere 17th in … Continue reading

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Flying something…

… in the mountains near Nuevo Leon in Mexico. Watch the video here.

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Global warming message in India

The global warming brainwashing continues worldwide. Here’s an example from St. Peter’s College in India. ‘It was a total environmental package comprising varied themes like melting of glaciers, depleting ozone layer, greenhouse gases, depleting water resources and drying up of … Continue reading

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Other Berkshire live blogging

Well not exactly live blogging anymore. Since I got some hits from folks searching for live blogging of the Berkshire meeting, so I took the liberty of searching myself. This was all I found, although Liz Clayman implied she would … Continue reading

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Mortgage/subprime and getting rich quick

Buffett and Munger comment… Says he can’t remember a similar crisis in his lifetime in which residential real estate sent “out the shock waves.” But he’s seen many variations on the theme. “There are these primal urges in trying to … Continue reading

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Google and the fear of failure…

From Maoxian’s financial blog.

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Buffett on China Olympics

via CNBC, Buffett responded to a question regarding boycotting the summer Olympics 1:38 pm: When asked if he would encourage Coca-Cola to boycott the Beijing Olympics over Tibet, Buffett says he thinks every country should participate in the Olympics. Olympics … Continue reading

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Embracing Failure

Read the nine reasons… Hat-tip to Michael Covel.

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Berkshire annual shareholder meeting

Alex Crippen of CNBC is live blogging the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting taking place today.

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Good for the Supremes…

I applaud the Supreme Court ruling upholding the State of Indiana’s law requiring photo ID to vote. Unfortunately, the voter registration group ACORN disagrees. The solution is simple, ACORN should disband. Here’s a short summary of the fraud ACORN perpetrated … Continue reading

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Teach students how to behave

Joanne Jacobs writes about teaching students how to behave at Webster Elementary, a school with mostly low-income Hispanic and black students, in San Diego. The end result… Now the school’s calm, cooperative atmosphere and good scores draw students from other … Continue reading

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