Locks superglued prior to protests of Governor Walker at local school

Posted on August 26, 2011 by ChrisA

Pathetic. Calling these thugs “Poor losers” is doing a grave injustice to the phrase.

I’m afraid we’re going to see a lot more of this type of action.

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100+ CEOs promise no campaign donations

Posted on August 25, 2011 by ChrisA

I don’t care. Cry me a river.

They sound like a bunch of spoiled brats too me.

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Pat Summitt diagnosed with early onset Alzeheimers

Posted on August 24, 2011 by ChrisA

Pat Summitt diagnosed with early onset dementia

Pat Summitt, Tennessee women’s basketball coach, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease

This is very easy to believe..

“There’s not going to be any pity party and I’’ll make sure of that.”
Pat Summitt, Tennessee women’s basketball coach


A tragic diagnosis and a sad day. We’re cheering for you Pat.

Big h/t to Instapundit.

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Just to piss off Boulderites

Posted on August 20, 2011 by ChrisA

Not that any of them read my blog!

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NY Times bungles hatchet job on Rep Darrell Issa.

Posted on August 20, 2011 by ChrisA

John Hinderaker at Powerline picks apart the New York Times hatchet job on Darrell Issa. Shooting fish in a bowl is easier than picking apart this story. John comments…

Why can’t the New York Times ever report a story straight? Why do the paper’s reporters and editors have to just make stuff up to advance their political agenda? Maybe the paper’s Public Editor will try to answer these questions.


I wish, I wish, I wish I could find local editorialist Clay Evan’s column where he informs the general unwashed hands of the public what a great unappreciated serivce the MSM does.

It wouldn’t be so bad if the Daily Camerea didn’t follow the lead of the Times.

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Federal Regulatory Hiring

Posted on August 18, 2011 by ChrisA

IBD comments on the Federal Regulatory hiring binge. Great way to get the economy moving again.

Another reason to not raise taxes.

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Union Thuggery

Posted on August 18, 2011 by ChrisA

“Imagine the hysteria if Tea Partiers did such a thing!”

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MSNBC uses selective editing to portray Gov. Rick Perry as racist

Posted on August 17, 2011 by ChrisA

Watch what was reported by Ed Shultz and MSNBC vs. what was really said.

Ed Schultz used a deceptive edit to misinform his audience about the content of Gov. Rick Perry’s speech in Iowa yesterday. Schultz claimed that Gov. Perry was calling President Obama a “black cloud hanging over America” when in fact, the governor was talking about the national debt.


Two questions:

1. Why would the MSM (is MSNBC MSM?) do this?

2. Why are they so stoopid that they believe will not get caught.

3. Does getting caught matter?

Of course, since this is from Breitbart it doesn’t really matter. It didn’t really happen.

Except, it DID happen and Ed admits to it. Well not exactly, he admits to selective editing.

On tonight’s “The Ed Show” on MSNBC, Ed Schultz admitted he was in error in deceptively editing a clip of Gov. Rick Perry, removing the meaning and context of the governor’s statement. The deception was first revealed here at Breitbart.tv.

He did not apologize, and he did not explain to his viewers that the deceptively edited clip was used by Schultz to make a false allegation of racism against the Texas governor.


Oh well, no surprise I suppose.

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Added 8/23 (between lines): I’ve been very busy and too tired to fix this. Commentor Darren was kind enough to point out that the way I excerpted the clips from Glenn Reynolds and Allahpundit (see below) could be misinterpreted if taken at face value. Darren probably says it best, especially since I’m too tired when he states to me…

You *do* understand that Reynolds and Allahpundit were *mocking* the justifications for that “selective editing”, don’t you? Because it’s not clear from your post that you do.

To which I say “Yes I do” and when I’m posting about material like this I need to be more careful about my presentation and view it from multiple viewpoints. Thanks Darren.
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Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit comments..

Hey, if you’re running against Obama you’re racist by definition, right? So this should get the “fake but accurate” defense. . . .


Allahpundit over at Hot Air states…

Perry’s a racist because he’s a Republican from Texas who doesn’t like Obama, ergo “big black cloud” is a veiled racial slur no matter what Perry was ostensibly talking about at the time. QED. Again: Fourteen more months of this. Day in, day out.


I guess if it fits the narrative, selective editing is “ok”. Sorta like the ends justify the means.

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The Barbarians Inside Britain’s Gates

Posted on August 16, 2011 by ChrisA

Unbelievable.

The rioters in the news last week had a thwarted sense of entitlement that has been assiduously cultivated by an alliance of intellectuals, governments and bureaucrats. “We’re fed up with being broke,” one rioter was reported as having said, as if having enough money to satisfy one’s desires were a human right rather than something to be earned.


Which brings us to Robert Heinlein’s quote regarding “bad luck”, which Glenn Reynolds recently felt the need to repeat one more time (and has done it again even more recently, like today)

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”


No doubt, Britain is having the “bad luck” that it apparently deserves. Is the United States far behind?

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Good as Gold

Posted on August 16, 2011 by ChrisA

The graph should be logarithmic.

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“The President will have specific ideas on deficit reduction”

Posted on August 15, 2011 by ChrisA

Will have?

Krauthammer: Obama Is ‘Clueless’

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Big projects

Posted on August 15, 2011 by ChrisA

The high speed rail to nowhere.

Perhaps “Thinking Big” isn’t such a grand idea.

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“In other words, exactly what carry advocates predicted, and exactly the opposite of what anti-gun folks predicted. Again.”

Posted on August 14, 2011 by ChrisA

Same story over and over again.

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Obama can get back on Track…

Posted on August 13, 2011 by ChrisA

… but no need for concern.

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“Each year, the college experience gets closer to that of a TSA line at the airport….

Posted on August 12, 2011 by ChrisA

Whether your own college experience was more like The Paper Chase or Animal House, you can be sure that today’s campuses are neither. Instead, your tuition and tax dollars are funding an ever-growing army of bureaucrats that police everything from free speech to dating. Administrators now outnumber faculty on our nation’s campuses, and even students’ innermost thoughts are subject to their oversight. Each year, the college experience gets closer to that of a TSA line at the airport — but one that you have to live in for four years.


The nanny college.

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Gag me.

Posted on August 10, 2011 by ChrisA

Probably pretty close to education in Boulder…

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“We’ve always been, and always will be, a AAA country”

Posted on August 9, 2011 by ChrisA

Now there’s deep thought for you from President Obama. Just because somethings always been that way, it will remain that way.

How simple minded, which is pretty much what he thinks of anyone who’s not part of the progressive elite.

Allahpundit at Hot Air concludes…

This is an epic fail to some extent not because Hopenchange is a spent force, which it is, but because the western world’s finally been cornered economically by entitlement liabilities that were foreseeable when The One was a toddler. The bill’s come due. What else can he say?

Here’s a synopsis of reactions to President Obama’s underwhelming speech yesterday.

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NOW defends Michele Bachmann

Posted on August 9, 2011 by ChrisA

Color me speechless.

From the comments (someone who isn’t apparently speechless)…


I just saw a pig fly by.

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Gold setting sites on $1800

Posted on August 9, 2011 by ChrisA

Less than 24 hours after breaking $1700/oz, Gold is setting its sites on $1800.

Follow gold at kitco.com.

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Boulder wants government handout to provide free Wi-Fi on RTD busses

Posted on August 9, 2011 by ChrisA

Gag me.

If it’s such a great idea, you don’t need a $250,000 “grant”.

What an entitlement mentality. Just feed at the teat of taxpayer money. The worst part is the citizens of Boulder pay an employee to figure out how to suck money out of the bankrupt federal government.

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