Boulder is a Stoopid Place

Why?

Posted on May 10, 2010 by ChrisA

Organization…

What do you do?

How do you do it?

Why do you do it?

Hint….. reverse the order.

h/t to Feld Thoughts.

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Helvetica

Posted on May 10, 2010 by ChrisA

Who knew?

More here.

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Fannie and Freddie belly up to the bar

Posted on May 10, 2010 by ChrisA

Feed me Seymour. Fannie and Freddie just can’t get enough.

In case you’re keeping score, that would bring Fannie’s cash to almost $85 billion. Freddie has spent over $50 billion. Under the original terms of the bailout, they would have already used more than half of the $200 billion Congress allocated for their rescue. The Obama administration lifted that limit in December, however, so neither GSE needs to worry about running out of cash. Only taxpayers have to worry about that, apparently.

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Understanding the Tea Party movmement…

Posted on May 10, 2010 by ChrisA

This describes the Boulder media and progressive elites in their efforts to understand the Tea Party movement…

It’s like watching a 3 year old struggle with a jigsaw puzzle for AGES 14 AND UP

Here’s a more direct link and the concluding paragraphs….

Here’s an explanation of the Tea Party for Misters Blow and Lilla that any three year old could understand. Federal spending and the expansion of government under eight years of George W. Bush was bad. Under Obama, it’s already worse.

Libertarianism is not the enemy and the Tea Party movement is not racist.

Now who wants a cookie?!

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Arizona governer Jan Brewer’s message to Obama

Posted on May 8, 2010 by ChrisA

I’m sure it also applies to the Boulder progressive elites, not to mention newspaper editors…

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Pushback….

Posted on May 8, 2010 by ChrisA

Boulder city council gets an earful on their decision to ban city sponsored trips to Arizona.

The comments are well worth reading. Why this is a surprise to anyone who voted for the present council members is beyond me.

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Boulder weighs in on AZ immigration law…

Posted on May 6, 2010 by ChrisA

Boulder suspends official travel to Arizona over immigration law

The city of Boulder will immediately suspend sending any employees to Arizona on business, and may take additional action against the state, in a show of opposition to its wide-reaching new immigration law.

City Manager Jane Brautigam on Wednesday morning sent a memo to all department directors ordering them to cancel any plans to travel to Arizona for conferences or other city business, even if the tickets have been paid for.

Two comments:

Oh what a surprise
Inquring minds want to know what took you so long?

You can’t find politicians and government officials more predictable than those in Boulder City government.

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Those Racist Tea Partiers

Posted on May 5, 2010 by ChrisA

Yea right!

Earth to Boulder progressives…

The narrative of Tea Party racism has been a contrived political tactic from the start, launched and perpetuated by Democratic Party operatives and their mouthpieces in the media and left-wing blogosphere.

Horror of horrors, the source article for the above posting is from the left wing journalistic equivalent of “god”.

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Boulder’s goal: 9,000 parking tickets a month

Posted on May 4, 2010 by ChrisA

You can’t make this stuff up.

Repeat after me “It’s all about the money”….

Of course it’s not “ALL” about the money but you can be damn sure it’s ALOT about the money.

Red light camera’s, of course not! LOL.

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How’s the economy doing?

Posted on May 3, 2010 by ChrisA

I’ll vote with Warren…

Hey, $15/second off of Goldman Sachs!

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The real immigration scandal…

Posted on April 28, 2010 by ChrisA

Yes, the real scandal isn’t how Arizona is treating illegals, it’s how the Federal government treats people who try to legally immigrate.

More here.

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Dissension

Posted on April 28, 2010 by ChrisA

The “One” has trouble with dissension.

Grow up and get a thick skin. Of course, if it was going to happen it already would have.

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Boulder County Survey

Posted on April 28, 2010 by ChrisA

The better half was privileged enough to partake in a survey regarding Boulder County open space I’m sure funded by Boulder County in partnership with Talmey-Drake.

It was a pleasure (so says my wife) to give Boulder County a piece of her (our) mind. Also, the survey was stupid in that the measurement metric was changed multiple times. No legitimate survey firm would do that unless the people wanting the survey were meddling greatly in the survey design. Boulder County meddling?

Hilarious.

Meddling is in their DNA.

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Protecting free speech at the University of Tennessee

Posted on April 26, 2010 by ChrisA

Congratulations to my alma-mater, the University of Tennessee, in protecting free speech.

Now if only they weren’t so insistent on giving Al Gore an Honorary Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

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Renouncing citizenship

Posted on April 26, 2010 by ChrisA

In Q4 of 2009 more than twice the number of poeple renounced their citizen ship than all of 2008. We’re talking 502 people, not a large amount.

The Wheels on the Obamacare bus go round and round…

Posted on April 26, 2010 by ChrisA

except it appears the wheels aren’t round!

Not one of its major programs has gotten started, and already the wheels are starting to come off of Obamacare. The administration’s own actuary reported on Thursday that millions of people could lose their health insurance, that health-care costs will rise faster than they would have if the law hadn’t passed, and that the overhaul will mean that people will have a harder and harder time finding physicians to see them.

Medicare Chief actuary Richard Foster is probably going to looking for a new job soon. His report includes the following highlights…

People losing coverage
Huge fines for companies
Higher costs for consumers
A program created to fail
Spending increases
“Free riders”
Spending reductions are fiction
You can’t keep your doctor
Coverage but no care

The article concludes…

Obamacare is far from settled policy. There are two more federal elections before the major provisions of the law take effect in 2014. Doctors are fighting mad, patients are scared, and companies are starting to realize that the promises of health-care-reform legislation could turn into a huge and costly burden.

The studies released today only fuel the fires to repeal and replace the health-overhaul law.

Let’s hope the author, Grace-Marie Turner, is correct. Of course, this is a problem tailor made for a continuous stream of legislative bandaids.

Here’s the link to the original report, Estimated Financial Effects of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” as amended.

h/t to Instapundit.

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GM repays government loans! (???)

Posted on April 25, 2010 by ChrisA

Lying through omission.

The federal securities laws require public companies, whenever they speak, to disclose all material information that would be necessary to present the truth entirely.”

GM, Fannie and Freddie are all getting a pass from the Obama administration. How can you have finance reform that ignores the corruption of Fannie and Freddie and the recent lies told by GM?

How’s that hope and change working?

I ain’t feeling it.

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