“It’s time to get real. Hope and change ain’t working.”

Posted on May 21, 2011 by ChrisA

Hermain Cain declares is candidacy for the Republican nomination for president.

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Coming soon to a Nation near you

Posted on May 21, 2011 by ChrisA

Dear Congress, Your Credit Application Has Been Turned Down

A hypothetical letter from the American People to the House of Representatives and the Senate starts….

Thank you for your interest in the American Public Trust’s Gold Card credit program. Rest assured your application has been given thorough and careful consideration by the American people.

After reviewing the information provided in your application as well as your credit report, we regret to say that we are unable to extend you further credit at this time. The reasons for our decision are as follows:

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Free Speech: It ain’t what it used to be

Posted on May 20, 2011 by ChrisA

This video could have been taken not only on the University of Colorado campus but on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder.

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Transparency

Posted on May 20, 2011 by ChrisA

Obama and gun control.

h/t to Instapundit. How does he know what’s in the Greeley Gazette?

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“Team Obama is beyond transparent — it’s utterly shameless.”

Posted on May 19, 2011 by ChrisA

The Boston Herald takes on the President Richard Milhaus Obama.

Giving a reporter the boot because you don’t like the Herald’s coverage — classic Obama, says David Freddoso, author of the book “Gangster Government,” who reminded me that during the 2010 campaign, the president promised that “We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends.”

As Darren remarks over at Right on the Left Coast…

And remember, this is the administration that wants prospective government contractors to disclose how much money they’ve given to Republican causes before they get the government contracts.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Added 5/19 @ 16:25

Perhaps their priorities are wrong?

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Waivergate

Posted on May 19, 2011 by ChrisA

Sweet.

Although the administration has approved more than 1,300 Obamacare waivers and published the recipients’ application information online, it has not made public which companies and other entities have been denied waivers and why they were denied. Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) won’t release that information, nor will they publicly release the identities of those still waiting for a decision. HHS won’t even say how many applications are in the queue.” This is the most transparent administration in U.S. history, and everybody knows that when something’s transparent, you can’t even see it. Duh. (emphassis added – Ed)

h/t Instapundit.

Source article here.

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The Gingrich meltdown

Posted on May 19, 2011 by ChrisA

Read all about it.

Well, either Newt’s out of touch are the rest of the Republican party is out of touch. I know what Boulderites think as groupthink is easy to predict, but I tend to believe Newt just doesn’t get it. I’m willing to debate whether Ryan’s plan is worthy but I’m also willing to accept it as a starting point. He get’s kudos in my book for having the courage to propose a budget/debt reduction plan, on paper, to be discussed and debated. Anyone else done that?

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Cover the news fairly or get “kicked out”

Posted on May 18, 2011 by ChrisA

Not a surprise to me. The liberals and progressive it should surprise don’t care as they are more than willing to prostitute their values for anything Obama.

One big difference between Bush and Obama is one had a thick skin and the other has a very thin skin. Ah, the entitlement of the elite.

h/t to Instapundit. More on intimidation of the press here, once again thanks to Instapundit. Here’s a teaser…

The Cook County prosecutors’ actions are certainly shameful. But they may be excused for thinking that attacks on media critics are, in today’s political era, business as usual. Indeed, they need look no farther than the White House, whose occupant has sometimes styled himself the nation’s chief media critic.

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One more time with feeling

Posted on May 17, 2011 by ChrisA

Boulder is stoopid and Macon Cowles proves it.

A city councilman wants Boulder residents to vote this fall on a referendum that would call for “reclaiming democracy from the corrupting effects of undue corporate and monetary influence” by amending the U.S. Constitution.

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Newt trying to appeal to Boulderites…

Posted on May 17, 2011 by ChrisA

or something.

You can’t make this stuff up. Yea, I know this is old news.

Staying on the Political theme, Betsy declares this a Good Week for the GOP. Any week that Huckabee decides not to run, Donald Trum drops out and Newt skewers himself is apparently a good one. It’s easy to agree with her.

More on Newt here.

So there’s his campaign slogan in the making. “Newt 2012: Don’t Be Messing With Entitlements.” A surefire winner with 80-85 percent of the 65-and-over vote.


Sounds like a winner if you’re a liberal, progressive or a Boulderite.

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Politics and Obamacare waivers

Posted on May 17, 2011 by ChrisA

Nancy Pelosi and waivers.

Just a small foreshadowing of the interaction between politics and healthcare.

Pelosi’s district secured almost 20 percent of the latest issuance of waivers nationwide, and the companies that won them didn’t have much in common with companies throughout the rest of the country that have received Obamacare waivers.


More favors for politicians to doll out to brown nosing, ass kissing contituents.

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More waivers

Posted on May 17, 2011 by ChrisA

We’re talking Obamacare. What a surprise.

Geez, I feel like I’m missing out somehow.

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It’s for the children

Posted on May 16, 2011 by ChrisA

Good grief…

The “he” in the above line is not Santa Claus. It’s Big Brother. And thanks to a $2 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he will be keeping an eye on schoolchildren in San Antonio both during and after school lunch.

The latest step in the government’s efforts to curb childhood obesity—mainly by means of unprecedented overreach into the realm of personal choice—is to install surveillance cameras in school lunch rooms.


Childhood obesity IS a problem. Spending money on video monitoring equipment IS a problem too. The latter is a waste of money. The US government has better ways to spend the dollars they are borrowing.

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Canary in a coal mine

Posted on May 15, 2011 by ChrisA

We’re talking Massachusetts and Obamacare.

Fortunately, it’s not too late for the rest of America to learn from Massachusetts. Instead of adopting that failed system at the national level, Americans should demand that Congress “defund” and repeal ObamaCare — and adopt genuine free-market health care reforms like those advocated by Tea Party physician-activist Dr. Milton Wolf and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. Such reforms include fixing the tax code to put employer-provided health insurance and individually-owned health insurance on a level playing field, repealing costly mandates specifying which benefits insurers must offer, allowing individuals to purchase health insurance across state lines, and eliminating monopolistic medical licensing requirements that prevent doctors from practicing across state lines. These reforms would lower costs and improve access to quality medical care, while respecting the individual rights of patients, doctors, and insurers.

The ongoing failure of the “universal health care” plan in Massachusetts serves as a clear warning to the rest of America. The only question is whether we’ll heed it.


What would Boulderites say?

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Obama and the border

Posted on May 14, 2011 by ChrisA

Governor Jan Brewer skewers Obama. He deserves it and more.

“I think he should get back to business being the president of the United States,” Brewer told Fox News on Saturday.

“I don’t think his comic attitude and laughing at a serious issue is being very well received, certainly not here in Arizona, I would imagine not across America,” she said. “This is a serious situation. And for him to go to a pep rally and make light of the situation is unbelievable.”


Is 44% a passing grade in school? It isn’t a passing grade in securing the border either.

And imagine this, some people don’t find President Obama’s tone deafness and attempted humor regarding border security a laughing matter. They’re people who should know.

The residents of the Chiricahua-Peloncillo drug and human smuggling corridor that runs from the Mexican border north through eastern Arizona and western New Mexico are circulating a petition to send to the White House in response to President Obama’s recent immigration speech.

“It is with great wonderment and sadness that we listened to your May 10 speech on immigration issues. All of the joking about moats and alligators cut residents of Portal, AZ, to the core as we sheltered with friends or at a Red Cross evacuation site, to survive a terrible fire that still threatens our lives and property, as well as our ecotourism-based economy,” the letter reads.

On Sunday, a massive fire broke out in Horseshoe Canyon, about 50 miles north of the Mexican border, which residents and law enforcement say they believe was started by criminal illegal aliens. Last year, a fire in the same location caused more than $10 million in damages.


Property rights, even that of the United States government, mean very little to this adminstration.

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Disney is Stoopid

Posted on May 14, 2011 by ChrisA

The arrogance of Disney Corporation boggles the mind.

There should be some Disney execs in the unemployment line next week.

More here and here.
From the last link…

Inevitable, I suppose, but it strikes me as odd and a little inappropriate that a media company would be allowed to appropriate the name of an American military unit for their own exploitation.

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Google Blogspot and Ann Althouse

Posted on May 14, 2011 by ChrisA

Unbelievable.

As we explained here earlier this evening in a couple of posts, a “support” tech at Google calling himself “nitecruzr” was rude to Ann Althouse in this Google “support” thread. However, he kept taunting Ann, and then removing (memory-holing) his own taunts, but leaving her responses — making the thread an unreadable mess. At a Facebook site there is a collection of screenshots, but it’s tough to understand the flow from a collection of random screenshots. When I e-mailed Ann about it, she said she was receiving the responses in e-mails. I asked her to forward those to me. Now can you see Google representative nitecruzr’s abusive conduct towards Ann, in all its original glory and splendor.


Oh, Ann’s blog is still not fully restored. Just try looking back in the archies.

Let there be absolutely no doubt this blog will be finding it’s own domain. I already have my own domain and experimented with WordPress so I don’t expect it to be too difficult.

At that point in time, I’ll have a final parting word.

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Border Protection and

Posted on May 13, 2011 by ChrisA
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Why hasn’t Boulder thought of this?

Posted on May 12, 2011 by ChrisA

San Francisco may be 1st city to cut Yellow Pages

Let’s see, the race to be 2nd will include Boulder, Berkeley and Seattle?

I do like Ed Driscoll’s comment over at Instapundit…

That last item may be so (12 years or so ago when we got our first cable modem, it seemed obvious that the Yellow Pages was suddenly superfluous) but that’s not the role of the government to decide. If I was the publisher of one of the city’s myriad free and/or alternative newspapers, I’d be worried.

(emphassis added – ed)

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Outside the office window

Posted on May 12, 2011 by ChrisA

NOT a Kitty! This was yesterday…

Hey, no wonder the foxes have disappeared from the neighborhood.

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