These damned intransigent Republican wingnuts are nihilistic extremists!

Posted on July 18, 2011 by ChrisA

Read all about it.

It’s more of a case of legacy medical liberal bias.

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Gold over $1600/oz

Posted on July 18, 2011 by ChrisA

More government, higher debt, higher gold.

Get your own charts at kitco.com.

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Debt limit trade

Posted on July 18, 2011 by ChrisA

Hike in debt limit and 5% across the board cut in Federal spending. It’s a good starting point.

Why won’t this idea get any traction? Unfortunately the answer is too obvious.

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Global Warming and it’s distant relative, Science

Posted on July 18, 2011 by ChrisA

Some time ago, Daily Camera columnist Clay Evans informed us that when it comes to Global Warming, the commoner should step aside for the experts. You can read his November 2009 column here, but this excerpt from a recent NY Times editorial pretty much sums it up…

…But nonexperts are in no position to argue against the consensus of scientific experts. As long as they accept the expert authority of the discipline of climate science, they have no basis for supporting the minority position. Critics within the community of climate scientists may have a cogent case against A.G.W., but, given the overall consensus of that community, we nonexperts have no basis for concluding that this is so. It does no good to say that we find the consensus conclusions poorly supported. Since we are not experts on the subject, our judgment has no standing.


You can read the takedown here. It starts…

Unfortunately, the good professor fails to recognize the tremendous change in thinking that came about through the development of natural philosophy – scientific philosophy. Under scientific philosophy, the pronouncements of climate authorities are not as important as how and why they acquired their claimed knowledge. Did they adhere to the principles of acquiring scientific knowledge? If the climate authorities did not, then anyone familiar with scientific principles is perfectly capable of challenging these experts, even though the challenger is not, necessarily, an expert in climate science.

There are many glaring scientific defects in AR4, particularly in the SPM. Among these defects are the
following:

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Colorado Daycare Overeach…

Posted on July 15, 2011 by ChrisA

…makes it to Fox (or Faux as Boulder Progressives refer to it) News.

If Erika Stutzman, of the liberal Daily Camera editorial page, doesn’t like it, it must be very bad. Now if only she is capable of expanding her world view. Not holding my breath.

In my opinion, The Department of Human Services is a great place for the State to start budget cutting. Furthermore, I’m sure other parts of the State government must also have this micromanaging disease.

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Next Stop, $1600

Posted on July 15, 2011 by ChrisA

For Gold that is.

Quotes from kitco.com.

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With Obama, we were supposed to be getting both a first-rate intellect to go with a first-rate temperament, but it is increasingly obvious that Obama has neither.

Posted on July 15, 2011 by ChrisA

Steven Hayward on the budget negotiations.

I go into considerable detail about the 1982 budget deal in chapter 5 of The Age of Reagan (which in retrospect shows Reagan had much more patience, foresight, bargaining skill, and statesmanship than Obama is showing), but suffice it to say this episode is an anti-precedent for Obama. Not that you would expect him to have any appreciation for this. Increasingly it is apparent that Obama is not the second-coming of FDR, as he hoped, but the second-coming of Woodrow Wilson (Jimmy Carter also fits for multiple reasons), chiefly his arrogance toward Congress and condescension of the American people. I think it was Felix Frankfurter who said of FDR that he had “a second-rate intellect, but a first-rate temperament.” With Obama, we were supposed to be getting both a first-rate intellect to go with a first-rate temperament, but it is increasingly obvious that Obama has neither. Jennifer Rubin dilates this point more fully in her Washington Post blog yesterday.

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Obamacare fables

Posted on July 15, 2011 by ChrisA

Obama and cronies lying to the public to score points for Obamacare. And the government is worried about Roger Clemmons?

The tall-tale-teller-in-chief cited mom Stanley Ann Dunham’s deathbed fight with her insurer several times over the years to support his successful push to ban pre-existing condition exclusions by insurers. In a typical recounting, Obama shared his personalized trauma during a 2008 debate: “For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they’re saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don’t have to pay her treatment, there’s something fundamentally wrong about that.”


Turns out is was NOT a Health Insurance coverage issue. The HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY PAID. Repeat after me, “THE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY PAID”.

And we’re supposed to believe this guy when he says that 80% of American’s are for increasing taxes. Especially when consumer confidence has fallen to it’s lowest level in 2 years? We’re supposed to believe this guy when he doesn’t now the difference between health and disability insurance? Believe on, just don’t include me.

Ahh… the means justify the ends. At least that must be the thinking of his minions. (added about 15 minutes after original post)

I’m not naive here, a dear friend of mine died of Colon cancer a few years ago. His wife had a helluva a time with the insurance company. They did finally pay but it was not a pleasant experience. My experience is much better, first no one died and second, my insurance company has paid every penny that’s been their obligation. I haven’t totalled it up but at this point I feel confident in saying over $125,000 and I expect by the time we’re done it will be over $200,000.

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Obama the Senator

Posted on July 15, 2011 by ChrisA

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.


Guess the fiscal policies aren’t reckless anymore?

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Obama out of touch

Posted on July 15, 2011 by ChrisA

With Gallup poll in hand, Don Surber takes on Obama’s assertion that 80% of American’s want a tax increase.

From the above chart only 4% of Americans want to close the deficit with taxes only.

Only 11% want to close the deficit mostly with taxes.

President Obama is one of the 4%.

He has not said that, but that is what he proposed.

in his budget he called for increased spending by $100 billion — or in Washington terms by $1 trillion (they keep reporting everything over a 10-year period).

He has not proposed a single spending cut.

Not one.

Not even by a penny!

(Emphasis added – Ed)

Don goes on…

Today, President Obama told a press conference on raising their taxes: “The American people are sold. The problem is members of Congress are dug in ideologically.”

No, the problem is the White House is in a bunker mentality on taxes.

President Obama’s plan all along was to raise spending so high that Republicans would have to raise taxes.

That is irresponsible and rash and the American people overwhelmingly rejected that — and him and his zany Obamacare plan — in last November’s election.

(you know the story)
His story might sell well with the 6-sigma distributions of Boulder and Berkeley but it doesn’t work with the middle of the distribution. To say that 80% of American’s support his tax increases, and one must assume no spending cuts since our fearless leader hasn’t proposed single one, can only be made by someone who is either delusional is out on the 6-sigma part of the distribution. While these qualities may be a badge of honor to progressive wingnuts (to hijack a Krugman line) but it’s no way to run a country.

Big h/t to Instapundit and more links to other stories.

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Don’t call my bluff

Posted on July 15, 2011 by ChrisA

LOL!

Credit where credit is due.

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Government Operating w/o a Budget

Posted on July 14, 2011 by ChrisA

For over TWO YEARS. This is the responsibility of the Senate Budget Committee.

Sessions to Dems: Obey the Law!

Adopting a federal budget is not optional. The Congressional Budget Act requires the federal government to operate under a duly enacted budget, and sets out an annual timetable for the Congressional budget process. The Democrats have simply been ignoring the law because they think it is in their political interest to do so. They don’t want voters to see, in black and white, their plan to raise taxes while simultaneously expanding the national debt, with no end in sight.


Seems like a reasonable request.

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Stuxnet

Posted on July 14, 2011 by ChrisA

How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History

The fact that Stuxnet was injecting commands into the PLC and masking that it was doing so was evidence that it was designed, not for espionage as everyone had believed, but for physical sabotage. The researchers were stunned. It was the first time anyone had seen digital code in the wild being used to physically destroy something in the real world. Hollywood had imagined such a scenario years earlier in a Die Hard flick. Now reality had caught up with fantasy.


When’s the movie coming out?

h/t once again to Newmark’s Door.

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The Six Political Illusions

Posted on July 14, 2011 by ChrisA

From the book Six Political Illusions A Primer on Government for Idealists Fed Up with History Repeating Itself…

• The Philanthropic Illusion: the idea that government has money of its own.

• The Voluntary Illusion: the impulse to want to believe that government action is not based on force.

• The Illusion of the Frictionless State: the idea that the State can transfer resources with negligible overhead cost.

• The Materialistic Illusion: that money alone buys public-policy results.

• The Watchful Eye Illusion: the idea that the government has greater knowledge and wisdom than the public.

• The Illusion of Government Preeminence: the belief that the government is the only problem-solving institution in society.

I’d say they are alive and well inside the People’s Republic of Boulder.

Giant h/t to Newmark’s Door.

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Gold

Posted on July 13, 2011 by ChrisA

Release of Fed minutes from June meeting leads to…

More info here.

Charts from kitco.com.

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Jeffery Immelt – Loser

Posted on July 12, 2011 by ChrisA

Jammie Wearing fool does a takedown on GE CEO and chair of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, Jeffrey Immelt.

Hypocrisy Meter Explodes: After Shedding 36K Jobs, Obama Adviser Immelt Tells Businesses to Start Hiring

Immelt patronizes American business…

“The people who are part of the business sector, the people in this room, have got to stop complaining about government and get some action underway,” he told the group. “There’s no excuse today for lack of leadership. The truth is we all need to be part of the solution.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Wonder why….

Posted on July 11, 2011 by ChrisA

Instapundit comments on the recent attack on the US embassy by Assad loyalists…

Well, if Obama wants an excuse to bomb Syria, he’s got his act of war. But as eager as he seemed to be to bomb Libya, he appears to be looking for excuses not to bomb Syria, even though it’s an Iranian ally and major enemy of Israel.

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Broadband for everyone

Posted on July 10, 2011 by ChrisA

Doug Powers asks the simple question “How Much is that Broadband Stimulus Per Unserved Household?“

So how much did it cost per unserved household to get them broadband access? A whopping $349,234, or many multiples of household income, and significantly more than the cost of a home itself.

Sadly, it’s actually worse than that. Take the Montana project. The area is not in any meaningful sense unserved or even underserved. As many as seven broadband providers, including wireless, operate in the area. Only 1.5% of all households in the region had no wireline access. And if you include 3G wireless, there were only seven households in the Montana region that could be considered without access. So the cost of extending access in the Montana case comes to about $7 million for each additional household served.


Pathetic.

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Greens Drive British Electricity Costs Through the Roof

Posted on July 10, 2011 by ChrisA

Coming soon to Boulder.

John Hinderaker at Powerline concludes…

This is what the environmentalists have in mind for us, too. The ostensible purpose of these schemes to soak the public is the need to reduce carbon emissions, an essentially bogus claim. What is really going on is that enormous amounts of money are being made by companies who find it easier to lobby the government than to compete on price. Consumers, as usual, are being stuck with the tab.


The only difference is in Boulder the consumers are enthusiastically lobbying for the increased tab.

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Talk about Stoopid Democrats

Posted on July 8, 2011 by ChrisA

Asking the Kock brothers for $$$’s. Can you spell “desperation”, “no pride” of just plain “stoopid”.

I’m hoping you can help me understand the intent of your request because it’s hard not to conclude that DSCC politics have become so cynical that you actually expect people whom you routinely denounce to give DSCC money.

It is troubling that private citizens taking part in the discourse have become the targets of White House and DSCC fundraising missives, and we would certainly encourage you to rethink that approach. Ultimately, I expect voters will see through that and will weigh the issues on the merits alone. But in the meantime, if you could provide me some insight on what exactly you are asking of us and why, I would be most grateful.

(emphasis added).
Read the whole thing.

Unbelievable. If the Koch brothers were as stoopid as the Democrats they would believe that if they gave the Dems lots of $$’s the volume of criticsim would decrease dramatically. To bad for the Dems, they aren’t that stoopid.

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