Boulder is a Stoopid Place

“Definitely not. It’s not proof.”

Posted on November 21, 2011 by ChrisA

So, just speculating here, who would have 200lbs of human feces on hand to dump anywhere?

Yep, could be anybody.

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“This is stupidity writ large.”

Posted on November 20, 2011 by ChrisA

“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true,” Roger Helmer said.

Business Leaders Will Reportedly Face Jail Time for Claiming Water Prevents Dehydration

Hell, even Boulder isn’t this stoopid (yet). BUDGET CUT.

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“This is stupidity writ large.”

Posted on November 20, 2011 by ChrisA

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“Whose side are you on? And whose side do you think the Massachusetts legal system is on?”

Posted on November 18, 2011 by ChrisA

McKay knows. Here’s a guy who, everyone agrees, was in his own home with his family when a neighborhood druggie tried to break into his truck and steal his tools. These are the tools McKay uses to put food on the table for his three kids.

In addition to a rap sheet, the druggie had a nightstick and a knife. McKay had his fists and a family to defend. The good news is that the good guy won and the crook ended up with a broken jaw.

The bad guy: Obama Onyango Follow the link and read about justice turned upside down.

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“The problem of escalating costs comes in large part from consumers being shielded from price signals.”

Posted on November 17, 2011 by ChrisA

From Jonathan Gruber who advised both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama on health care reform.

I say YOU BETCHA. Here’s the complete paragraph.

Gruber also tells Capital NY that ObamaCare represents the last, best hope for a free-market solution to the uninsured, but ObamaCare is anything but a free-market solution. The best hope for a free-market solution would be to get insurance companies out of the way of routine care altogether. The problem of escalating costs comes in large part from consumers being shielded from price signals. Insurance should cover the possibility of large losses, not routine wellness and maintenance procedures. Getting to a retail climate would stimulate competition, encourage new providers to emerge, and allow for more innovation and improvement, just as it has in the areas that insurers won’t cover — elective plastic surgery and Lasik treatments. Insurers could then price catastrophic coverage much more reasonably to get the uninsured by choice covered, and safety-net programs for the poor could deal with the truly needy.

Does car insurance pay for your oil changes or your 50,000 mile checkup?

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Nations reach a point of no return when the number of people mooching off government exceeds the number of people producing.

Posted on November 17, 2011 by ChrisA

Yet Boulderites cling to the belief that Government is the solution.

Read on.

Are we there yet?

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VP’s closed-door transparency chat

Posted on November 17, 2011 by ChrisA

Surprised? If so, you haven’t been paying attention.

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“There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner,” says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, “because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis.”

Posted on November 17, 2011 by ChrisA

Not a pretty picture.

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The stunning silence from the White House on GSE bonuses

Posted on November 16, 2011 by ChrisA

Ed Morrisey at Hot Air highlights the Fannie and Freddie bonus situation.

This video highlights Obama’s hypocrisy.

Since the Enterprises have become government-funded entities, lavish payment packages have been doled out to their senior executives, and taxpayers have been footing the bill. In 2009and 2010, the Enterprises’ top six officers were given a total of more than $35 million in compensation. Of that amount, a total of $17 million in compensation was given to the CEOs of the Enterprises. Additional bonus installments for 2010 may still be forthcoming, and the two CEOs stand to make a total of $12 million in 2011. In addition, an executive has been awarded a substantial signing bonus – $1.7 million – upon joining the Fannie Mae. As these figures indicate, senior executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become the highest compensated workers on the federal payroll – making as much as eight times more than the President of the United States. The executives even make more than their conservator, FHFA Acting Director Edward J. DeMarco.

Makes me wanna puke.

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Chinese and US political systems

Posted on November 16, 2011 by ChrisA

From Larry Lang, chair professor of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong recent lecture…

Something in common:

He said that the regime doesn’t listen to experts, and that Party officials are insufferably arrogant. “If you don’t agree with him, he thinks you are against him,” he said.

The rest, not so much in common, but very interesting.

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Posted on November 16, 2011 by ChrisA

“It would only be a sign he was dumb if he were Republican.”

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New Boulder Mayor: Matt Applebaum

Posted on November 16, 2011 by ChrisA

Apparently it was contentious, something to do with ballot issues 2B and 2C. Imagine that.

Still, in my opinion, Matt is the perfect Mayor for Boulder.

This quote from Shikka Dalmia’s article ‘Why Smart Presidents do Stupid Things’…

So why do intelligent people consistently make such a hash of things? Because they are smart enough to talk themselves into anything. Ordinary mortals don’t engage in fancy mental gymnastics to reach conclusions that defy common sense. But intellectuals are particularly prone to this.

describes exactly why Matt Applebaum is a great fit for Mayor of Boulder.

Don’t disappoint Matt, “…make a hash out of things”. Frankly, I think it would be impossible for him not to fulfill the above quote.

P.S. I don’t live in the city anyway.

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How STOOPID does Steven Chu this we are?

Posted on November 16, 2011 by ChrisA

Obama’s energy secretary: Politics had nothing to do with the Solyndra loan

Guess we’ll have to wait until tomorrow, but I’d say “PRETTY DAMN STOOPID”.

Boulderites, feel free to disagree.

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Posted on November 15, 2011 by ChrisA

DEBT CLOCK: Only $66 billion away from $15 trillion!

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“A right wing smear”

Posted on November 15, 2011 by ChrisA

LOL. That’s Nancy Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill talking about 60 minutes.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office accused the news program “60 Minutes” of omitting key information from its report Sunday on how members of Congress use privileged information to profit from stock trades.

Unfortunately, in the case of 60 minutes ,it’s all to easy to believe that they would leave out “key information”. I just hope liberals and progressives can now view 60 minute reporting with a skeptical eye, as I do.

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Hope and Change

Posted on November 15, 2011 by ChrisA

Hope and Change 1

Hope and Change 2

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Justin Timberlake: Marine Corps Ball “changed my life”

Posted on November 14, 2011 by ChrisA

My first thought is that the article was a joke. Not so.

The GQ favorite has always been a vocal supporter of the armed forces — but his glimpse into the camaraderie and closeness of the Marine Corps taught him he’ll never fully understand just what men and women in uniform endure for us — and also that he can never appreciate them enough.

I sent this article to a Marine who now works in the local school system and made a point of thanking him for his service to our country.

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Boomers: The Big Picture not a pretty One.

Posted on November 14, 2011 by ChrisA

Walter Russell Mead: Listen Up, Boomers: The Backlash Has Begun

All of this was done by a generation that never lost its confidence that it was smarter, better educated and more idealistic than its Depression-surviving, World War-winning, segregation-ending, prosperity-building parents. We didn’t need their stinking faith, their stinking morals, or their pathetically conformist codes of moral behavior. We were better than that; after all, we grokked Jefferson Airplane, achieved nirvana on LSD and had a spiritual wealth and sensitivity that our boorish bourgeois forbears could not grasp. They might be doers, builders and achievers — but we Boomers grooved, man, we had sex in the park, we grew our hair long, and we listened to sexy musical lyrics about drugs that those pathetic old losers could not even understand.

h/t to Instapundit.

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