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“Damn” was her audible response
I recently heard a surprising story: A female CEO was briefed on a stellar candidate for a top job at her company. “Sounds ideal,” she said to the group in the room. “Male or female?” Male was the answer. “Damn” was her audible response. The guy wasn’t even interviewed. Why Are Men SilentSearch BIS
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- “This has been the coldest season with the most ice since we started Arctic Watch in 2000. Almost no whales. The NWPassage is still blocked with ice. Some of the bays still have not melted!”
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BOULDER IS A STOOPID PLACE
An 11-year-old boy whose Gold Hill neighborhood burned in the Fourmile Fire has joined with a friend afraid of losing favorite hiking trails and an 18-year-old student with a growing asthmatic condition in a lawsuit against the state for failing to protect the environment.
“Our children and our children’s children will suffer the harms and losses caused by the state’s lack of necessary action,” states the lawsuit, filed with the help of parents and legal experts in Boulder County District Court last week. “A failure to immediately take action to protect and preserve the earth’s climate will cause irreparable harm to plaintiffs.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Added 5/10@12:47p
Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air weighs in on the general movement, not Boulder in particular. Turns out James Hansen, NASA’s chief climate scientist is “in” on the action.
Obamacare: A Preview
A new poll of 838 Massachusetts doctors finds patients are still waiting weeks — in some cases as long as a month and a half — for non-urgent appointments with primary care physicians and certain specialists.
More here.
Where else but Massachussets. Of course, I’m sure Obamacare will do even a better job than Romneycare.
Mother’s Day
You can depend on the editorial staff at the Daily Camera to politicize Mother’s Day and push their progressive agenda.
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SF Landlords “Going Galt”
Due to Rent Control, S.F. Has 31,000 Vacant Housing Units As Frustrated Landlords Give Up
“Increasingly, small-time landlords are just giving up, like one who has left two large apartments on the second and third floors of her building vacant for more than a decade, after a series of tenant difficulties. It’s just not worth the bother, or the risk, of being legally tied to a tenant for decades.
I promise I hadn’t seen the last line of the linked article when I created the post title!
Ya think this could happen in Boulder?
It has?
Wow, I need to get out more. Obviously I don’t hang out in polite society.
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Hermain Cain
I didn’t watch the debate but I did see an interview on TV this morning (not sure what network but it’s probably safe to assume it was Fox, or as Boulderites like to say, Faux). I noticed the eagerness of the interviewees to dismiss Mr. Cain. This article is an interesting counterpoint.
Despite the candidate’s obvious strengths, it’s not considered “smart” to cheer for a longshot, and so the very fact that Cain has been described as a “second-tier” candidate is, to some people, reason to dismiss him altogether. I’d hate to see that attitude become a self-fulfilling prophecy, so that the GOP is stuck with a bland moderate like Mitt Romney or T-Paw.
I can hardly think of anything more refreshing than a successful (and humble) businessman as the President after having to endure the anti-businesss President Obama and his anti-business administration (GE and brown nosing Jeff Immelt excluded).
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Food Stamp Recovery
Morning Jay: If Our ‘Food Stamp Recovery’ Persists, Obama Will Lose Big
And so, we can lay down the following marker: if the economic recovery does not begin to show substantial improvement, the likes of which we have not really seen in the last two years, and if the GOP nominates a reasonably acceptable alternative, this president is going to lose in 2012, and the final result will not be close. Nobody gets reelected with employment way down, real income way down, and 14 percent of his fellow citizens on food stamps. Nobody.
One can only hope.
Osama
The raid was handled by the military. The post-raid has been handled by the usual gang of incompetents.
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Border Corruption
The failure of our government to control our borders is a mind boggling embarrassment.
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Yes it is….
Boulder leaders to CU: Eliminate annual parking permits
Boulder to consider ban on disposable plastic bags
Hell, let’s throw in the letters to the editor for today too.
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Stoopid, Stoopid Effing Boulder Crosswalks
A true tale from this Sunday morning.
Driving into town Sunday morning, on my trip to Ecocycle I came up to the Crosswalk near 28th and Iris on 28th street that crosses the street from Safeway to Sports Authority.
To further complicate matters there is a bus pulloff between 28th and Safeway.
As I approached the crosswalk from the North (travelling South) in the right lane, I could see a couple approaching the bus pulloff heading to cross the street from Safeway to Sports Authority.
Because this is Boulder, I automatically slowed down and started to come to a stop before they had even reached the official crosswalk. The couple reached the crosswalk, pushed the button and strated crossing the street without breaking stride. I heard the sound of a car coming up from behind me and sure enough a car in the left lane blew through the crosswalk.
The situation at that time was as follows:
1. The couple had pressed the flashing button and the crosswalk light was flashing.
2. The couple had not broken stride and were approaching the left lane when the car blew through.
3. To the couples credit, they must have been paying some attention or they would have walked in front of the car and without a doubt suffered very serious injuries and it’s very easy to imagine they would have been crippled for life.
So thankfully no one was hurt but I find myself troubled because of the following…
1. By stopping before they even touched the crosswalk light, did I give the couple a false sense of security that they should walk out into the crosswalk without breaking stride?
2. By not breaking stride in their walk into the crosswalk did they setup a situation where there was almost a human/auto collision where it shouldn’t have been that close?
I absolutely hate the fucking Boulder crosswalks. I believe they create a very dangerous situation where a small error can result in a tragic accident. A tragic accident was about 2 strides away from happening only feet away from me Sunday morning.
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Let them buy smaller cars
But President Barack Obama did tell an American worried about gasoline prices that he should buy a new car: “If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting eight miles a gallon, you might want to think about a trade-in,” Mr. Obama joked in response to a questioner at a campaign stop near Philadelphia April 6.
It apparently didn’t occur to the president that people for whom it is a hardship to pay a dollar more a gallon for gasoline can’t afford to buy a new car.
The remark makes Mr. Obama sound clueless, or callous, or both, but most of the journalists who covered his visit to Gamesa Technology Corp. didn’t report this exchange. They couldn’t drop it entirely down the memory hole, though. Blogger Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) made a screen grab of the initial AP story that reported it. Video of the exchange was posted on YouTube.
And the “can’t afford to buy a new car thingy”… Obama can make a government program for that. Just order up QE3 and print the money.
And one must wonder why this is so…
But only 1 percent of the oil price stories on the evening newscasts of ABC, NBC and CBS since the drilling moratorium was imposed have mentioned there might be a connection between administration policy and rising gasoline prices, noted the Business & Media Institute.
Legacy media carrying Obama’s water. Eventually that’s going to become to heavy, even for them.
Financial potpourri: Gold, US debt, QE2
While Gold may be getting ahead of itself, perhaps it’s related to the Ponzi scheme called QE2?
Bill Gross, manager of the Worlds largest bond fund states:
Going into next week’s elections, Gross said voters need to realize that this Ponzi scheme is unusually “brazen” and has been brought on by the government – of every political party – and its citizens.“It is not a Bernanke scheme, because this is his only alternative and he shares no responsibility for its origin,” he said.
Such a plan “raises bond prices to create the illusion of high annual returns, but ultimately it reaches a dead-end where those prices can no longer go up,” Gross wrote. “Having arrived at its destination, the market then offers near 0% returns and a picking of the creditor’s pocket via inflation and negative real interest rates.”
Oh and let’s not forget that Pimco, or at least Gross’ fund no longer holds any US Treasuries. As recently as June of 2010 63% of the fund was in Treasuries.
PIMCO’s Total Return Fund, the world’s largest bond portfolio, unloaded all of its remaining U.S. Government-related holdings in February. The fund’s Treasury holdings’ recent peak was back in June 2010 at 63% to then steadily fall since to where they are now slashed to 0% from 12% ($28.6 bln) in February. Certainly a statement of first a vote of no confidence in the U.S. budget situation but also an indictment of the current artificial low interest environment.
Further research (i.e. googling) shows that Bill Gross is actually short US Treasuries. The worrisome part is so many people think he’s right. That said, over a longer period of time, I don’t see how he can possibly be wrong.
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White House thuggary
Deny.
Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.
The Chronicle’s report is accurate.
If the White House has indeed decided not to ban our reporter, we would like an on-the-record notice that she will remain the San Francisco print pool reporter.
Mr. Tranparency, riiight.
Will the liberal media continue to give Obama a pass?
Is this even being covered in the media outside the blogosphere?
Obama vs. Carter
Because as bad as Carter was, Obama is shaping up to be worse. Much worse.
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