Aiming at a very narrow slice of the market

Posted on February 8, 2010 by ChrisA

Audi that is.

I suspect, though, that Audi was aiming at a very narrow slice of the market — those people who can afford to buy an Audi and who want to achieve the sanctimony of the driver at the end. In that sense, it’s entirely successful. Bear in mind that it’s that narrow market that wants to impose the Green Police solution on the rest of us.

(emphasis added – ed)
Here’s a Coloradoan (actually a Longmont residence who should be living in Boulder by the sounds of it), Hunter Livens telling us what a beautiful world it will be when the green thought police take over.

Speaking of a beautiful world…

Needless to say, I can’t wait.

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Census

Posted on February 7, 2010 by ChrisA

Michelle takes on the reckless census spending.

A website called MyTwoCensus.com keeps track of various census idiocy including Michael Steel and the RNC’s idiotic fundraising mailer that imitates a census form.

MyTwoCensus.com feels that Michael Steele and the National GOP’s use of a mailer (click here to see a PDF version of what was sent to millions of households) that tries to emulate a 2010 Census form is immoral, unethical, and potentially illegal. And it will come back to bite the GOP in their own butts.


I agree and Erika Stutzman at the Daily Camera also took a deserved swipe at the RNC.

Here’s the pdf of the RNC mailer.

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Good thing they call it climate change (part II)

Posted on February 6, 2010 by ChrisA

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Good thing they call it climate change

Posted on February 5, 2010 by ChrisA

Record storm for Washington DC.

The global warming crowd really needs to get a new (cheer)leader.

Climate change skeptics “are people who deny the link between smoking and cancer; they are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder,” he said.

“I hope that they apply it (asbestos) to their faces every day.”


Beyond pathetic. Pachauri would probably get a parade if he came to Boulder.

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Louisiana Purchase

Posted on February 5, 2010 by ChrisA

Unbelievable… well it should be, the problem is it’s ALL TOO believable.

Memo to Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen. Hint… sooner is good.

added 02/06 @ 1:34

… and you wonder why the tea party movement has been so successful?

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Democrats, liberals and Socialism

Posted on February 5, 2010 by ChrisA

Gallup: Majority of Dems View Socialism Positively

The Gallup Poll reports that a majority of Democrats, 53%, have a “positive” image of socialism, which includes independents who lean toward the blue party.


I shudder to think what the numbers would be if the “People’s Republic” were polled.

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Barak Sings

Posted on February 5, 2010 by ChrisA

The messiah sings the hits of the 80s.

From K-Tel

Not sold in stores.

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Posted on February 5, 2010 by ChrisA

Blame it on the last administration.

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Bad science and where is the legacy media?

Posted on February 1, 2010 by ChrisA

Naturally, we’re talking climategate, glaciergate and just general global warming. Of course you wouldn’t know it if you depended on the U.S. legacy media. Nice summary from the linked article which concludes…

Bad science done using bad data to start with is a recipe for disaster. Or, perhaps more to the point, is a recipe for being able to manipulate public opinion. The scientific method is a way of discovering observable truths about the world around us. To use it as a propaganda machine is shameful and the mainstream media’s silence on the story is doubly so.

(emphasis added – ed)

Perhaps the legacy media could justify being silent if they hadn’t been such cheerleaders earlier. Now they’re just trying to avoid embarrassment and praying a lightening bolt will strike and there will be collective amnesia regarding the slew reports of documenting what passes for global warming research.

P.S. Legacy media, check out the UK Times to bring yourself up to date.

Added 2/1 @ 10:27a. The Chinese weigh in.

Xing then cites the recent revelations of significant problems in the IPCC work. These include how “some scientists had favored data which supports the case for ‘global warming’ in order to enhance their grant proposals,” the announcement that an IPCC claim of total glacier melt in the Himalayas by 2035 was based on “sheer speculation” — not peer-reviewed scientific work, and revelation that the IPCC had misrepresented an unpublished report linking climate change with an increase in natural disasters even when the report’s author, Dr Robert Muir-Wood, a researcher in risk management not climatology, had explicitly stated the opposite.

At this point it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this out. When is the legacy media in the USA going to start reporting on this sloppy science? It is news, it should be reported. What are you trying to hide or protect? What is your agenda? Don’t tell me you don’t have one, you’re way past late to this party. There are only two excuses:

  1. Your ignorant and want to stay that way.
  2. You have an agenda

Neither choice is pretty.

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Longmont trying to become more like Boulder

Posted on February 1, 2010 by ChrisA

Longmont looks to add red-light cameras.

It’s all about the money and perhaps you can throw in a little bit of power.

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Amateur hour (day, year, decade?) at IPCC

Posted on February 1, 2010 by ChrisA

The International Panal on Climate Change is turning out to be an international joke and embarrassment. Let’s see bogus claims based on non peer reviewed amateurish research include:

  • Global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest
  • Climate change was likely to melt the Himalayan glaciers by 2035
  • Climate change may be increasing the severity of and frequency of natural disasters

I wonder if local Boulder scientists (here and here) are still standing behind the IPCC?

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Longmont and speed cameras

Posted on January 31, 2010 by ChrisA

Looks like they are seriously considering them. It’s all about the money. I have trouble with sentence in the linked article…

In the city of Boulder, cameras have significantly reduced red-light violations and crashes at intersections where the systems have been implemented, Bell said.



At least it’s attributed to the Longmont police Sergeant. That doesn’t make it a statement of fact and I wouldn’t trust the Boulder Police department or City council either. I’d like the accident records examined by an independent agency, consultants that are from Denver or fu

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Melancholy….

Posted on January 30, 2010 by ChrisA

Box of Rain… This is one of the first Dead songs I fell in love with. To my knowledge, it wasn’t performed frequently and Phil Lesh, singing it was certainly less common…

The story behind the song…

…. the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean

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Ideologue in denial

Posted on January 29, 2010 by ChrisA

Pretty centrist?

I’m still waiting to see the debate on C-span.

Seems to me Obama should have been more involved in creating the bill instead of leaving it to Pelosi and Reed.

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Legacy Media quick to the draw

Posted on January 29, 2010 by ChrisA

Too quick.

It has been amazing to witness the journalistic malpractice committed by many of the organizations covering this story. MSNBC falsely claimed that I violated a non-existent “gag order.” The Associated Press incorrectly reported that I “broke in” to an office which is open to the public. The Washington Post has now had to print corrections in two stories on me. And these are just a few examples of inaccurate and false reporting. The public will judge whether reporters who can’t get their facts straight have the credibility to question my integrity as a journalist.


I sure wish I could find the Daily Camera editorial authored by Clay Evans telling us how great the legacy media is if you want real news.

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Bridge design contest

Posted on January 29, 2010 by ChrisA

For students age 13 – 12th grade.

More info here.

h/t to Darren.

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Michelle Obama and her entourage

Posted on January 28, 2010 by ChrisA

Unbelieveable…

1.$172,2000 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2.$140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3.$113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4.$102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5.$102,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6.$90,000 – Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7.$84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8.$75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9.$70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10.$65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11.$65,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12.$62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13.$60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14.$60,000 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15.$52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16.$50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17.$45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18.$45,000 – Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19.$40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20.$36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21.$36,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22.$36,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)

There’s more, follow the above link.

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Master Programmer

Posted on January 28, 2010 by ChrisA

hey, time and effort!

h/t to Newmark’s Door.

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Foreign corporations spend unlimited money on U.S. elections?

Posted on January 28, 2010 by ChrisA

Think again. Well Obama and his advisors need to think to begin with.

This is either blithering ignorance of the law, or demogoguery of the worst kind.


Take your pick. Neither reflects well on the President.

Alito… “Not true”


Watch CBS News Videos Online

There’s something about how he says “With all due deference to separation of powers” that leaves me just a little skeptical that he means it.

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Obama calls for bipartisanship

Posted on January 28, 2010 by ChrisA

Powerline analyzes the SOTU. On bipartisanship..

Obama claimed to be “speaking to both parties.” But his message to Democrats was “don’t run for the hills” (i.e., follow me) while his message to Republicans was don’t obstruct me. It’s difficult to believe that independents were impressed by this odd version of bipartisanship.


Fairly level headed analysis (IMHO) of the rest of the speech as well. The Supreme Court comments seemed destined to cause a stir.

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