Do you think you know what a full time employee is?

Posted on September 12, 2012 by ChrisA

Think again. At least when it comes to Obamacare, it takes 18 pages to define one.

Has the world gone crazy?

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Candidate commits (allegedly) voter fraud

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

Wendy Rosen, the Democratic challenger to Republican Rep. Andy Harris in the 1st Congressional District, withdrew from the race Monday amid allegations that she voted in elections in both Maryland and Florida in 2006 and 2008. . .
 

Steven Hayword at Powerline concludes:

Too bad. Sounds like Ms. Rosen was the perfect Democratic nominee for Congress. 

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Where do journalists draw the line…

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

in controlling the writing and quotations used in their stories?

White House Got Some Say Over Journalist’s Obama Story

As a layperson blogger, I find this troubling. There needs to be much more publich disclosure and and public debate on this issue.

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Is College a Lousy Investment?

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

Megan McArdle asks.

The price of a McDonald’s hamburger has risen from 85 cents in 1995 to about a dollar today. The average price of all goods and services has risen about 50 percent. But the price of a college education has nearly doubled in that time. Is the education that today’s students are getting twice as good? Are new workers twice as smart? Have they become somehow massively more expensive to educate?

Inquiring minds would like to know.

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An important but often ignored part of the financial crisis story

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

Thanks Barney Frank. Thanks a lot.

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On the ligher side: iPhone/iPad repair

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

Meet the naked cowboy of iPhone repairmen

He’s plenty busy with iPhones. “Sometimes I get so many calls I can’t handle it,” said Gupta. But that could all change, he said. If, as rumored, the iPhone 5 comes with a screen that uses the extra-durable Corning Gorilla Glass, screen repairs could be a rarity.

Gupta has fallback options, however, as his brand-new business card shows. One side of the card features photos of gadgets and advertises repair services. The other side depicts Gupta on a beach in swim trunks, showing his sculpted physique, with the words, “Personal Gym Trainer. Life Coach.”

“I go to the gym every day,” he said of his qualifications for being a trainer. “So I might as well see if I can get extra money.” And the life coaching? “I just thought about this,” he said.

I’ll withold the obvious political commentary.

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Moody’s Text: To Downgrade US If No Deal To Cut Debt/GDP Ratio

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

Hmmm, must have something to do with the debt to GDP ratio?

I know, I know, it’s all the Republican’s fault and the media will blame any downgrade on the Republicans just like the Democrats tell them to. See two previous posts on media bias.

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Media bias: A picture is worth a thousand words

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

From Investor Business Daily editorial Cartoonist Michael Ramirez. Read his editorial regarding media bias here.

Also, this photo is used without proper permission. I don’t believe either IBD or Mr. Ramirez will mind, but obviously I will remove upon request!

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Cartoonist Michael Ramirez unloads about media bias

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

Journalists, man up (or women up as the case may be) and read it.

Ramirez asks a simple question…

Where is the real news?

Since the recovery began in June 2009, real median household income has fallen 4.8%, according to a new report from Sentier Research. This report is especially damning because incomes only dropped 2.6% during the recession.

Shouldn’t this be front page news?

The deficit is closing in on $16 trillion. That’s $1 trillion more than our entire GDP in 2011. The U.S. is on its way to becoming Spain. The president’s solution? Raise taxes on the upper 2%. But that takes in only about $45 billion. The CBO reports our deficit in 2012 is $1.1 trillion.

Where are the media truth tellers on this?

He also repeatedly describes how the MSM/legacy media is all over gaffe’s from Republicans but virtually ignores the same from Democrates. Golly gee, knock me over with a feather.

Ramirez concludes…

The media’s No. 1 job should be to cover the substantive issues of this campaign without regard to party affiliation or philosophical bias.

That it’s now acceptable for many in the media to flaunt their bias should be, to use Joe Biden’s words, “a big f-ing deal.” Sadly, it isn’t.

Sadly. Ask yourself why you’re too blind to see?

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More on corporate profits from Peter Schiff

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA
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Sure don’t hear much about gas prices

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.

Glenn Reynolds notes: See, if you want media scrutiny of the regime, you need to elect a Republican president. It’s as simple as that.

Ya think? Media bias, say it ain’t so Joe.

Glenn’s comments were inspired by this experience by Elizabeth Scalia at The Anchoress blog…

Yes, I was shocked, and while I pumped my $40 worth, I chatted with the fellow on the other side of the aisle who was watching the digit-counters while shaking his head.

“I hadn’t realized gas had gotten so expensive,” I said.

“You live on Mars?” he asked.

“Well, you know, I’m not even seeing it being reported on in the headlines,” I answered. “I just lost track.”

“That’s true,” he said, as though it was a new awareness. “Usually there are news reports…”

Yeah, there are. Pulling away with my not-full tank of gas, I considered the media silence on these high gas prices, and I began to get mad. Once upon a time — and not that long ago — high gas prices were leading stories on nightly news programs. Grim-faced anchors introduced stories of family budgets becoming strained; earnest reporters shoved microphones into the faces of working people and asked whether they were having to make hard choices. It was all very solemn and serious. People were choosing between food and fuel, and winter was coming, and home-heating oil would likely be sky-high, too, and we all knew whose fault it was, didn’t we?

But now, with gas at $4.19 — higher, near the expressway — here in New York? Not a whisper. Not a headline. Gosh, if only Mitt Romney had “big oil” pals. We’d hear about this story every night, and I wouldn’t have been so surprised, today.

C’mon legacy media, can’t report an inconvenient truth or something?

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Americans Too Lazy to Work

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

View video. From an e-mail one of the co-hosts received…


I’m a president of a 500 plus employee manufactured Virginia and it’s very difficult to find people who want to work. We have several openings especially for mechanical positions and not only are we getting people who want to wait to start until after the unemployment runs out he’s saying.

Excuse me while I go find the great god of porcelain.

If you’re from Boulder, perhaps you can watch the video without puking.

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Thomas Sowell asks: “But, if the economy has been rebounding on its own for more than 150 years, the question is why it has been so slow to recover under the Obama administration. “

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

and answers.

Dr. Sowell concludes…

Despite demands that Mitt Romney spell out his plan for reviving the economy, we can only hope that Governor Romney plans to stop the government from intervening in the economy and gumming up the works, so that the economy can recover on its own.

Now, THAT would be a breath of fresh air.

h/t to Uncle Bob over on Facebook.

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Patrick Moore on global warming

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ChrisA

He left Greenpeace a long time ago. Here’s an excerpt from a recent interview detailing his view on climate change…

“… and yes, going back to human cause, there’s nothing to say that humans aren’t having a small effect on the world’s climate, but it’s ridiculous to imagine that now, all of the natural causes that have been causing the climate to change for millions of years have suddenly disappeared and now we’re the only agent of change in the world. That’s not possible. And it may be, and I believe it is true, that the amount of change we’re causing has been exaggerated greatly by the alarmists, and not only that, a little bit of warming might be a good thing for this world, especially for Canada and Russia which is just wastelands now in terms of both biodiversity and human habitation”


Someone tell Clay “Global Warming is Settled Science” Evans of the Boulder Daily Camera (I think!).

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“Something that can’t go on forever, won’t.”

Posted on September 10, 2012 by ChrisA

says Glenn Reynolds.

We’re talking “the deficit” which has passed the $1 trillion mark for the fiscal year.

Someone tell Clay “The Art of Apocalypse” Evans.

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Charles Koch: “Corporate Cronyism Harms America “

Posted on September 10, 2012 by ChrisA

The liberals progressives favorite punching bag, Charles Kock, has an interesting editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal.



Businesses have failed to make the case that government policy—not business greed—has caused many of our current problems. To understand the dreadful condition of our economy, look no further than mandates such as the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “affordable housing” quotas, directives such as the Community Reinvestment Act, and the Federal Reserve’s artificial, below-market interest-rate policy.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of our culture.

Mr. Kock concludes…

To end cronyism we must end government’s ability to dole out favors and rig the market. Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

If America re-establishes the proper role of business in society, all kinds of benefits will accrue. Our economy will rebound. Our liberties will be restored. And when President Obama tells an entrepreneur “You didn’t build that,” everyone will know better.

Well almost everyone will know better, Boulderites excluded.

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Insight: GM’s Volt – The ugly math of low sales, high costs

Posted on September 10, 2012 by ChrisA

Duh! Boulderits, get busy, I’m sure there’s a special government incentive just for you. The City and County will probably throw in some money as well.

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“At least among this group, there is no contest: America’s job creators support Mitt Romney by overwhelming margins.”

Posted on September 9, 2012 by ChrisA

Gary Shapiro, President of the Consumer Electronics Association, reports at the Daily Caller.

He concludes…

The Obama administration does not support U.S. companies. It has attacked our world-leading companies — including Apple, AT&T, Google and Intel. It has imposed huge costs on small and large employers through the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and Obamacare.

Despite these actions, one would think that the Obama campaign would at least try to mask its hostility toward business owners on the trail. But we’ve seen the exact opposite. The president and his advisors have made a very conscious decision to pit middle-class and low-income Americans against job creators. The message to them has been: Don’t blame the president for low GDP growth and high unemployment; it’s their fault.

It’s a strategy that might work in the end, if enough Americans believe that the golden goose of business can birth new jobs while fighting a hostile government. But business owners have had enough. Whether the recent Democratic National Convention papered over the anti-business tone is doubtful. One big voting group — America’s job creators, entrepreneurs and business owners — have decided: You slammed us for almost four years; why would we support you now?

(emphasis added – Ed) It’s all so obvious if you have any type of business sense at all. If you’re all about class warfare, perhaps that’s not the case.

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John Hinderaker: “My father, the least cynical of men, used to quote a political philosopher to the effect that democracy will work until people figure out they can vote themselves money. I fear that time may have come.”

Posted on September 9, 2012 by ChrisA

I fear the time has come too. This paragraph, which the post title is the last few sentences truly does strike terror into my heart…

On paper, given Obama’s record, this election should be a cakewalk for the Republicans. Why isn’t it? I am afraid the answer may be that the country is closer to the point of no return than most of us believed. With over 100 million Americans receiving federal welfare benefits, millions more going on Social Security disability, and many millions on top of that living on entitlement programs–not to mention enormous numbers of public employees–we may have gotten to the point where the government economy is more important, in the short term, than the real economy. My father, the least cynical of men, used to quote a political philosopher to the effect that democracy will work until people figure out they can vote themselves money. I fear that time may have come.

Of course, many are apparently glad this time has come or perhaps their using their superior intellectual reasoning. If you believe that to be the case, I refer you to the subtitle of this blog.

John concludes…

…I am afraid the problem in this year’s race is economic self-interest: we are perilously close to the point where 50% of our population cares more about the money it gets (or expects to get) from government than about the well-being of the nation as a whole. Throw in a few confused students, pro-abortion fanatics, etc., and you have a Democratic majority.

To me the issue is when a person’s “economic self interest” means $$$’s from the government. This must be the reason I’m on the AARP’s do not call/contact/mail list.

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Glenn Reynolds: “I’M GOING OUT ON A LIMB AND SAYING THAT OBAMACARE WON’T HELP”

Posted on September 8, 2012 by ChrisA

Heh…

U.S. Health Care Waste Larger Than Pentagon Budget

That’s a pretty damn safe limb Glenn’s crawing out on IMHO.

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