Category Archives: Boulder is stoopid

Boulder Micromanaging extends to trees

The new code — which must still be approved on a third reading that’s mostly a formality — specifically requires residents to provide a sod-free mulch around the base of trees that are less than 6 inches in diameter and … Continue reading

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Legacy Media: Notes for Wednesday

How The Left Will Spin the Election Results What you probably won’t hear, at least from many Democrats, is any admission that President Obama and his allies in Congress overreached by pushing a big-government agenda on a country skeptical of … Continue reading

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Many Europeans don’t get it

Europe ‘dismayed’ as midterms highlight Obama’s struggles And that’s a good thing at least for those of us that don’t want to be like Europe. Not a lot in the 24 square miles I might add.

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6000 fraudulant Colorado voter registrations

Sure hope we read about this in the Boulder Daily Camera.  No doubt these would be voters that would follow the DC’s endorsments. I predict you’ll be blue in the face if you wait to hear about this in the … Continue reading

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League of Women Voters

The LVW seems to have a problem saying the Pledge of Allegiance prior to a debate, at least in Illinois.  I wonder if that’s a problem in Boulder?  If it was, it wouldn’t make the fine print in the Daily Camera, not … Continue reading

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Oppose Obamacare, lose Daily Camera’s endorsement

However, Suthers did willfully join other Republicans in what we see as a strictly partisan affair — attacking federal health care reform, which we support. Yea right.  Gotta love that Commerce Clause.  There’s an infinite (+ 1) number of excuses before the … Continue reading

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Recycling

Just saw my Western Disposal bill for the last 3 months (or the upcoming 3 months) while logged onto my checking account.  $63 of which $33 is for trash service and $30 is for recycling that I don’t use.  I have … Continue reading

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The Great Hurricane Flameout

Art Horn: What Happened to All the Hurricanes, Al? Various tidbits… there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of hurricanes in the last five years. The total energy of all hurricanes around the world has plunged since 1993 … Continue reading

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Bogus Shovel Ready Projects….

Betsy summarizes and comments… So the President is willing to admit in an off-the-record bull session with David Brooks that the projects that he has been claiming to have funded weren’t really what he was telling us that they were. … Continue reading

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Insulting the electorate….

Is it a wise campaign strategy?  John Hinderaker comments…. He concludes… In 2008, millions of voters gambled on the hope that the Democrats might have something to offer other than their historic recipe of higher taxes and spending and more … Continue reading

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Sebastian Pinera: Trapped Miners vs. Barak Obama: BP Oil spill

The leadership of Chile President Sebastian Pinera, believing fiercely in globalization and free markets, and not believing in limits, seemed to make a critical difference. Pinera refused to shut out foreign expertise. As the world focused on Chile’s miners underground, … Continue reading

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Boulder County Open Space Tax 1B

There is a letter to the editor in Sunday’s Daily camera from Hunter Lovins and Paul Sheldon Hygiene encouraging the passage of the County Open Space tax, ballot issue 1B. I tried to respond on the papers comments section but it was too long.  Tried … Continue reading

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Elitism

Bill Whittle explains elitism.  Of course there are no elites in Boulder.

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Note to Boulder Progressives…

I CAN’T WAIT TO VOTE Boulder Progressives, if this doesn’t scare you, you haven’t been outside the 24 square miles lately. Will I make a difference in Boulder?  Who knows, but with 5 tax bills odds are that “I” and … Continue reading

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I Want Your Money

Certainly not a foreign concept to the Boulder Daily Camera, the Boulder Weekly or the typical Boudler Progressive.

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2010 Tax endorsments from local papers

When it comes to taxes, the Boulder Weekly and the Boulder Daily Camera move in lockstep. County Human Services:              1A    YES County Open Space:                   1B    YES City of Boulder   Public Accommodations Tax:      2A   YES City of Boulder    Utility Occupation Tax:           2B   YES … Continue reading

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21.4% Increase in spending in two years

The Wall Street Journal opines on the recent increase in spending by Congress.  This paragraph is particularly interesting… Once again domestic accounts far and away led the increases. Medicaid rose by 8.7%, and unemployment benefits by an astonishing 34.3%—to … Continue reading

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Likely voters: Forget 1994

Moderates have moved to the Conservative side according to the Gallup organization. Gallup’s recent modeling of the vote for Congress finds 54% of likely voters identifying themselves as politically conservative, while moderates are in conspicuously short supply compared with recent … Continue reading

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Tea Party: A short history

Excerpts from Glenn Harlan Reynolds Washington Examiner column, Tea Party dominance was inevitable — and I told you so On April 15, 2009, as the first nationwide wave of Tea Party protests broke out, I wrote: “What’s most striking about … Continue reading

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Chip Seal on Hwy 36 from Boulder to Lyons

First you chip seal the highway.  Then you paint the lines.  Then you “Fog Coat” the road.  Guess what, then you paint the lines again.  Inquiring minds want to know if this display of intelligence is courtesy of Boulder County … Continue reading

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