The New Elite

Are you credentialed? Are you entitled? Perhaps you’re a member of the New Elite. If you’re living in Boulder the odds have increased significantly.

Gotta work the “New Elite” into the blog header!

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Journalism and Capitalism

Free enterprise just hasn’t been good for journalism

Which lead Instapundit to comment…

MAYBE THIS EXPLAINS THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD CAPITALISM

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Americans dumbfounded….

As French Protest Increase In Retirement Age To…62

No Sh!t.

Of course City of Denver employees are better off than the French. Apparently they understand as they’re not rioting over increasing their retirement age from 55 to 60. Hey, the Denver Post calls that “Significant structural change”. I suppose it is, but while their at it, may I suggest 65 as an appropriate age?

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Obamanomics

Tne winners.

The payback

h/t to Instapundit..

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Easy Money

is not the solution states Bill Quick (and Ludwig von Mises).

Keynesian policies failed during the Great Depression, and they are failing today. An economic catastrophe caused by loose monetary policies, crushing levels of debt, and appalling lending practices cannot be solved by looser monetary policies, issuance of twice as much debt, and government commanding banks (or, in the case of Fannie and Freddie, “commandeering”) to make more bad loans.

Earth to legacy media!

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I worked so hard

Senator Boxer needs a rest….


Call Me Senator from RightChange on Vimeo.

It’s just a thing!

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We’re getting the picture

In reference to the dismimssal of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case…

“civil rights laws weren’t intended to protect whites.”

This is the worst possible news for the wrongdoers at DOJ, a week before the midterm elections. While purely anecdotal, I have received numerous emails from people around the country confessing their own mea culpa: that they once could not believe the DOJ could act in racially discriminatory fashion, but now they do. Mounting evidence moves minds.

That fits with the slow pace of action by the DOJ in the Houston voter fraud uncovered by True the Vote.

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True the Vote

True the Vote

“It’s about truth”

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Find voter fraud…

Get sued by the Democratic party.

Talk about denial! A group of liberal activists is making the media rounds, assuring reporters and editors that election fraud is a fairy tale. Nothing serious, they assert, nothing to see here. Too bad for them that citizens in Houston, energized by the Tea Party movement, have formed a group called True the Vote. Their hard work has demonstrated that, in some parts of the country at least, our election system is still infested with problems.

This includes voters who marked the registration form as non-citizens that were allowed on the voter rolls. 

True the Vote, staffed by volunteers is now being sued…

Houston has an ACORN-like group, Houston Votes, that harvests thousands of suspect voter registration forms. If some of the fraud uncovered by True the Vote was done by deputy registers working for Houston Votes, they should be prosecuted. And it won’t be too hard to figure out — every deputy registrar that roams the community must be approved by the clerk in Harris County and is issued an identification number. Bogus applications can, and will, be traced back to the particular registrars.

Of course, this may explain why True the Vote has been hit with a lawsuit by the Texas Democratic Party, an ethics complaint by Texans for Public Justice, and another lawsuit (for defamation) by Houston Votes and the Houston lawyer behind the voter registration drive that turned in multiple problematic registration forms (Harris County estimated over 7,000). That same organization has also sued Harris County — claiming the county is barred from correcting the voter registration problems!

True the Vote plans to go national (I can’t wait) …

Voter fraud practitioners should have something to worry about. True the Vote may be coming to a town near you soon. Though it is focused on Harris County for 2010, it plans to go national in 2011. The model it has developed is robust, effective — and to the chagrin of the wrongdoers — completely legal. After the congressional midterms, it will hold a nationwide summit of other citizens ready to start election integrity operations in the rest of the nation.

and why is this necessary, is voter fraud a more widespread problem than just Houston?

The country could use such dedication in 2012. The Obama Justice Department has demonstrated a shocking willingness to ignore laws protecting the security and integrity of elections. That should comes as no surprise given both the increasingly partisan approach to law enforcement undertaken by this Department under Eric Holder’s leadership, and the dogged determination of Holder’s ideological comrades who deny that voter fraud occurs, or that common sense measures like voter ID are needed.
In the great American tradition of self-reliance, citizen watchdogs across the country may stand watch in 2012. If the government proves incapable of protecting electoral integrity, the people can.

Read the whole thing as the above just scratches the surface.

Since the Daily Camera editorial staff hasn’t met a Democrat they don’t like, one wonders if they find voter fraud or how the Democratic party in Texas reacted troublesome?  As long as the voter fraud favors the issues the paper supports is it a bad thing?  This is a paper that ignored the Tea Party until you had to be from Mars to not know it existed and had developed substantial political influence.  Since that time as an editorial staff they have basically denigrated the Tea Party movement at every opportunity.

How long will they ignore True the Vote? 

I want to be involved in this effort when they go national.  As I’ve said before,

 “I can’t wait to vote”!

(Guess I should go down to Twin Peaks mall and vote then, eh?)
NOTE:  All emphasis was added by ME. 
 
Oh, and you can’t make this stuff up.

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6000 fraudulant Colorado voter registrations

Sure hope we read about this in the Boulder Daily Camera.  No doubt these would be voters that would follow the DC’s endorsments.

I predict you’ll be blue in the face if you wait to hear about this in the DC.

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A vision of the Not to Distant Future

Just look to France to see the future United States.

For Gilly and many other Frenchmen and women, social benefits such as long vacations, state-subsidized health care and early retirement are more than just luxuries: They’re seen as a birthright — an essential part of the identity of today’s France.

Pathetic, absolutely pathetic.  Cry me a river.

I guess you just print money and everything turns out OK?

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Juan Williams

Years ago, I heard part of an interview Britt Hume did with Juan Williams.  I can no longer remember the details of the interview, but it made enough of an impression that I’m pretty sure I paid $1 for the transcript.  Obviously this was long before You Tube, etc.  I’m doing a word search on my hard drive to see if I can find the transcript.  If I do, I’ll post it.

The bottom line is although there are many issues Juan and I will never agree on, I would make an extra effort to listen to his point of view and give it more credence then I would coming from some other (left leaning or fully tilted) members of the media.

I sincerely believe this door being closed by NPR will lead Juan to a world of opportunity he never imagined.  NPR just got a whole new set of problems especially adding the George Soros funds they recently received.

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League of Women Voters

The LVW seems to have a problem saying the Pledge of Allegiance prior to a debate, at least in Illinois.  I wonder if that’s a problem in Boulder?  If it was, it wouldn’t make the fine print in the Daily Camera, not when they’re Republican’s to “diss”..  Doesn’t sound like a non-partisan organization to me.  It does sounds much more like a group concerned with political correctness.

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Oppose Obamacare, lose Daily Camera’s endorsement

However, Suthers did willfully join other Republicans in what we see as a strictly partisan affair — attacking federal health care reform, which we support.

Yea right.  Gotta love that Commerce Clause.  There’s an infinite (+ 1) number of excuses before the Daily Camera would have endorsed Suthers, this one was simply the most convenient.  Great comment from “Flang” …

Seriously? The DC staff see criticism of current health-care legislation as a “strictly partisan affair”? Many of the local people I know criticizing it now pulled a lever for Mr. Obama. Your inability to see (or perhaps acknowledge) anything there but partisan battle lines is disappointing. Why don’t you just put the DNC logo on your building?

Read the Daily Camera endorsements for State offices here.  You will find no surprises and that goes for the rest of their endorsements as well.

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Credentialed media

are they special or stoopid…

WaPo/AP Caught Revising the O’Donnell Story Without Issuing a Correction

Instapundit chimes in…

Meanwhile, I agree that the O’Donnell focus is a deliberate distraction. But I also think it’s important to use this opportunity — like the Sarah Palin “1773″ brouhaha — to point out that the credentialed gentry class isn’t nearly as smart, and certainly isn’t as well-educated, as it thinks it is. Because, you know, it isn’t.

Legacy media…

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Recycling

Just saw my Western Disposal bill for the last 3 months (or the upcoming 3 months) while logged onto my checking account.  $63 of which $33 is for trash service and $30 is for recycling that I don’t use.  I have about the cheapest service one can get in the County with the smallest cart (32 gal?). 

And one wonders why it didn’t bother me in the least that my broken computer power supply and old speakers were in the outgoing trash this morning. 

I think it’s about time to start taking my trash into Western once a week on my own.  It probably costs me more money at 50 cents/mile but it robs the county of the $30 tax (err fee) that they charge me for a service I don’t use.

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Annual deductibles and copayments will increase for all its plans next year

That would be Boeing.

Wonder why?

Still, it’s hard to feel sorry for their employees…

Deductibles, the share of medical costs that employees pay annually before their plan kicks in, will go up to $300 for individuals, an increase of $100. For families, the new deductible will be $900, an increase of $300.

No wonder they were worried about the so called “Cadillac tax” although that doesn’t phase in until 2018.

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The Great Hurricane Flameout

Art Horn: What Happened to All the Hurricanes, Al?

Various tidbits…

  • there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of hurricanes in the last five years. The total energy of all hurricanes around the world has plunged since 1993 — the opposite of what was predicted. How could that be, if global warming is real and is impacting our climate today?

  • The crazy 2004 and 2005 seasons were supposed to be the new normal. Pretend scientists like Al Gore said global warming was here, and we had better listen to him because he had all the answers. People pay Al Gore $200,000 to speak, but that doesn’t mean he knows anything.

  • To date, no Category 3 or stronger hurricane has hit the United States since 2005.

  • Interestingly, the great hurricane flameout has been a worldwide phenomenon. The ACE index measures the energy of all tropical storms and hurricanes around the globe: currently the ACE index is at its lowest level in 30 years. Worldwide hurricane activity has been not only lower since 2005, it’s much lower.

  • This won’t last forever. The active phase of hurricanes has not gone away. However, it is very unlikely we will see a season like 2005 for a very, very long time.

Natural disasters happen.  The greater the population the more people they will affect.  Oh and of course all emphasis is added by moi.

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If it’s broke, I sure don’t wanna fix it

at least not Obama’s way.  We’re talking Washington of course. 

Rich Lowry notes

If your party has the White House, 59 Senate seats and 255 House seats, though, for all intents and purposes it is Washington. The Obama Democrats have completed a period of surpassing legislative mastery.

They got a 1,073-page stimulus bill, a 2,409-page health-care bill and a 2,319-page financial-reform bill. That’s 5,801 pages in just three pieces of legislation, at a very conservative cumulative estimated cost of $1.9 trillion over 10 years. If this is what Obama’s broken Washington produces in three bills, what would a functioning one do?

For all their reputation as obstructionists, Republicans weren’t able to stop any of this. Unlike in the early Clinton years, Republicans aren’t benefiting from obstructionism so much as from failing to block a president’s deeply unpopular priorities. Washington worked for Obama — and now he’s paying the price. (emphasis added – Ed)

Rich concludes…

People think Washington is broken because it spends too much, it’s instituting massive changes without knowing how or if they’ll work, it’s creating new entitlements when we can’t afford the old ones and it’s inevitably going to ask for wide-ranging tax hikes to pay for the overhang of deficits. Obama used all the Washington muscle and marketing acumen he could muster to push the policies that have created these entirely rational — nay, common-sensical — concerns.

Ya think!?

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Bogus Shovel Ready Projects….

Betsy summarizes and comments…

So the President is willing to admit in an off-the-record bull session with David Brooks that the projects that he has been claiming to have funded weren’t really what he was telling us that they were. I guess we’re just such rubes that we don’t rate honesty from the President about the billions of our money that he is spending.

At least Boulder got the light at Hwy 36 and N. Broadway.  One has to wonder why that intersection wasn’t higher priority than prairie dogs…  well not really if you know Boulder.

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