Outside the 24 square miles lies reality…

Posted on September 3, 2010 by ChrisA

and the 70%.

Two years into what had been sold as a new politics and a new approach, the 70 percent are fully aware that they have been conned, suckered, and taken to the cleaners by a hyper-ideological amalgam of leftist public intellectuals, snarling bloggers, career politicians with limited abilities who are often corrupt, and a president wholly inexperienced in the management of complex problems who is in way over his head and prisoner to slogans and schemes that make for great campus debates — but for disaster in the real world.

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Houston, we have a problem….

Posted on September 2, 2010 by ChrisA

well… I guess I mean Dallas.

City Council members propose $25 fee for garage sales in Dallas

No doubt an idea coming soon to Boulder.

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A lesson in Open Space marketing

Posted on August 29, 2010 by ChrisA

Boulder Daily Camera guest columnist Bob Greenlee takes the County Commissioners out to the woodshed for their misleading Open Space ballot language as they ask for more open space funds.

The language is rather sneaky because it asks voters to approve a new sales tax in order to generate $5.85 million in 2011. To compute the full amount of the tax, however, you need to multiply $5.85 million by a factor of 20 because the tax runs until 2030! A simplistic estimate produces a total cash haul of over $117 million without contemplating inflation adjustments of tax revenues that will obviously occur during the two-decade term. It should also be noted that nowhere in the ballot language will you find that $117 million figure.


However, most aggregious of all is this little gem…

The ballot language says some other things. For example, if the bond and interest payments aren`t covered by the new tax the county`s general fund and “other legally available funds” will be garnished to pay the debt.


I’m sure the purpose of that language is to get the lowest bond rates available.

The Open Space department and the Boulder County Commissioners need a total overhaul. I’m sure there’s a Ron Stewart clone ready to step into his footsteps without missing a beat but it would be nice if there’s at least a single County Commissioner that doesn’t worship prairie dogs and would at least question open space spending?

Where’s my “No more open space spending” bumper sticker? Enough already.

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The Press and Obama

Posted on August 28, 2010 by ChrisA

Now here’s a surprise

Obama, Democrats got 88 percent of 2008 contributions by TV network execs, writers, reporters

The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880.

By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863. The average Republican contribution was $744.

I wonder how the Daily Camera fairs in this category? I have reservations that this information should be disclosed, however you are part of the press that has special priviliges. That said, none of this is very surprising is it?

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the medial isn’t biased is it? No, they are just so damn enlightened that they no what’s best for the rest of us.

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No paving of subdivision roads in Boulder County

Posted on August 25, 2010 by ChrisA

When it comes to County news the Longmont Times call scoops the Boulder Daily Camera every time.

Here are the results from the ballot the County mailed to affected residents regarding their proposed $130 per year fee for 15 years. It was solidly defeated.

What happens next? About the only thing I can predict with confidence is the County Commissioners will declare it’s not their problem.

I hope they will at least haul away the crumbling asphalt in our subdivision.

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If you wonder why President Obama

Posted on August 25, 2010 by ChrisA

is so popular with Boulderites, this Rasmussen poll explains it. Something about extreme political views. Of course, that brings us back to that 24 square mile thing.

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High-tech trash carts…

Posted on August 20, 2010 by ChrisA

It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders’ trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling — and fine them $100 if they don’t.


What’s not to like about the high-tech trash cart can concept? from the Boulder City Government. Mind other people’s business, make everyone recycle and it’s a revenue generator to boot.

No, I’m not against recycling, you can find me at ecocycle almost every Sunday morning.

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Alzheimers Progress

Posted on August 13, 2010 by ChrisA

Alzheimers progress through data sharing.

The key to the Alzheimer’s project was an agreement as ambitious as its goal: not just to raise money, not just to do research on a vast scale, but also to share all the data, making every single finding public immediately, available to anyone with a computer anywhere in the world.

No one would own the data. No one could submit patent applications, though private companies would ultimately profit from any drugs or imaging tests developed as a result of the effort.

AND…

“We weren’t sure, frankly, how it would work out having data available to everyone,” he said. “But we felt that the good that could come out of it was overwhelming. And that’s what’s happened.”

Inquiring minds have to wonder if the Global Warming/Climate change scientists could benefit from this type of attitude.

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Registered Republican for the first time

Posted on August 12, 2010 by ChrisA

With rare exceptions I believe I’ve been registered as non-affiliated since coming to Boulder in 1979. Those exceptions have been in primaries where I registered as a Democrat to vote for the least of all evils. Let’s face it, if you want a voice in Boulder politics you need to vote in the Democratic primaries.

This year it wasn’t an easy decision. Register Republican and vote for Ken Buck or register Democratic and vote against Michael Bennett. I decided to register Republican to do my part in contributing to Republican turnout.

The next question is how long will I remain a Republican. As the few readers of this blog can probably appreciate, I never stayed a Democrat for very long!

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What’s wrong with these guys?

Posted on August 12, 2010 by ChrisA

Harry Reid: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.”

Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama ‘ought to be drug tested’

Amateurs?

Frustrated? Must be frustrating to be so enlightened but surrounded by the unwashed masses.

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Can’t come to Boulder fast enough….

Posted on August 12, 2010 by ChrisA

Business facing a wave of green taxes

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Whenever the government collect information…

Posted on August 5, 2010 by ChrisA

“… it lies about what it will do with it. This is a near-universal law.”

Hmmm. I’m dumbfounded.

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More Boulder County Taxes

Posted on July 28, 2010 by ChrisA

Boulder County to ask for tax increase to buy more open space

Boulder County puts property tax hike on ballot to bolster social services

One can only hope the Open Space tax is DOA. Expect the full court press from the County political machine.

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How do you spell LOSER?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by ChrisA

Barney Frank

Yea, we could add Scott McInnis.

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What boycott?

Posted on July 27, 2010 by ChrisA

Boycott a Bust? Study Shows Arizona Tourism Booming

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They just got more desperate

Posted on July 26, 2010 by ChrisA

Peru Government Declares Cold Wave Emergency in 16 Regions

LIMA – The Peruvian government declared a state of emergency because of the cold wave gripping a number of districts in the nation’s 16 regions, according to an urgent decree published Saturday in the official gazette.

Repeat after me, “It’s climate, not weather”.

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Desperate days for the warmists

Posted on July 25, 2010 by ChrisA

Sweet.

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Money for nothin….

Posted on July 21, 2010 by ChrisA

From cell phone to a Porsche Boxster S.

Makes one wonder about the “chicks” and were any transactions taxable?

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Tea Partiers are so racially biased

Posted on July 20, 2010 by ChrisA

Well someone had to resign!

Andrew Breitbart concludes…

Yet again, the juxtaposition of the real video evidence shown here versus the mainstream media’s straight faced reportage of the NAACP’s baseless accusations demonstrates that, once again, the American main stream media has asserted itself as the number one enemy of the truth, when the facts don’t fit the left-wing narrative. Like the NAACP, it has become no better than Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in its willingness to exploit race for political ends and their unflinching support of the Obama’s left-wing agenda.

She was among friends I guess. It’s like talking politics with a Boulderite. It never even enters their “event horizon” that they could possibly be talking with someone that doesn’t drink the Boulder kool-aid.

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Bob Schieffer didn’t know?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by ChrisA

Repeat after me, “You can’t make this stuff up”.

We’re talking about the New Black Panther Party and voter intimidation.

Not that I’m expecting the Daily Camera to report on this news item, but Bob Schieffer and his whole staff must be reading papers that report in the same style as the DC.

Michelle MaulkinDoug Powers concludes…

The great thing about being in the mainstream media is that you get to take plenty of vacations, even while you’re working.

Schieffer was on vacation in late July of 1969, so if anybody really wants to make his day, just let him know that we finally landed on the moon.


Gotta love it.

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