Bolder Boulder coming soon!

Posted on April 26, 2009 by ChrisA

The 31st running of the Bolder Boulder

May 25th, 2009

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$3million for logo design

Posted on April 23, 2009 by ChrisA

What the ‘f? Is management at the Department of Homeland Security so stoopid that they need the President to tell them that’s a ridiculous amount of money for logos and seals? Hell, it should be easy to cut $1billion from the budget with idiotic spending like that.

It truly boggles the mind.

Blog posting at the Homeland Security news (not the Department) web site.

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Tea Parties

Posted on April 23, 2009 by ChrisA

Follow the link if you believe it’s lemmings following the Right Wings equivalent of George Soros and MoveOn.org.

If your brainwashed; I mean so open minded that you already know it all, don’t bother. Just remember what Neil Cavuto said, yea I know he’s a Fox News idealogue…

Such is the history of fringe causes. The media eventually, eventually covers them. If only to cover something else: their ass.

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Kagoshima, Japan

Posted on April 23, 2009 by ChrisA

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Trail of bailouts

Posted on April 23, 2009 by ChrisA

Bailout of the Boston globe? Pathetic.

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Taxing their way to prosperity

Posted on April 22, 2009 by ChrisA

Hope it works! Well, actually I don’t.

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Socialist to the rescue

Posted on April 22, 2009 by ChrisA
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$100 million budget cut

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

Graphic aids should help…


Pathetic.

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You just don’t get it!

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

To the political class and in my mind the liberal elite and MSM as well.

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LOL!

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

Bold move!

A senior administration officials says President Barack Obama is ready to ask federal department and agency chiefs to find $100 million to cut from the budget when he holds his first formal Cabinet meeting.


update 4/20 @ 12:15

Good comments on the Camera web site. I especially liked this one by “omni”;

At first I thought the headline was a typo…

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Tea party head fake

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

Must be a Tea Party misdirection play. I’m sure it won’t fool the msm or Nancy Pelosi and her ilk.

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Slowly boiling frog?

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

Well, the frog is starting to kick. It’s about time.

Of course, to read the MSM and comments from local progressives, the kickers are all controlled by the “Republican elite”.

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Ripped Off….

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

Ilene Kilbride of Boulder complains about the outrageous cost of health insurance in a letter to the editor today.

People think they will be taxed heavily for a single-payer system, but we are being heavily taxed now — count up what you actually pay for your health care if you are unfortunate enough to actually need it. Ours costs $1,929 per month for three people — nearly $24,000 per year so we can have the joy of paying the first $6,000 (our deductible) and $40 co-pays. That is $30,000 for insurance plus what we pay for the office co-pays.


First of all, that is highway robbery for a healthy family of three. Which begs one to ask at least two questions:

1. What is the health situation in the Kilbride family.
2. Has Ilene looked into other plans?

Also, some questions regarding her plan…

1. Is the deductible a family deductible?
2. Is it $2000/person or $6000/person or $6000/family, which I suppose is the same as $2000/person.
3. Is this private insurance or a COBRA plan?

Also, keep in mind that her family does get network pricing and apparently unlimited co-pays at $40/Dr visit, and most likely some type of wellness benefit.

No doubt, individual policies are fickle animals if your health is not good. There are many cases where a person is not insurable or has critical conditions ridered out or deductible increased, etc. In most cases there are alternatives. For example, the state risk pool, Cover Colorado, would certainly offer respectable insurance to Ilene at much lower prices. If she has 12 months of creditable coverage and hasn’t had a gap in insurance coverage of more than 63 days, they will cover pre-existing conditions. If there has been a gap of more than 63 days then she might have to wait a year for pre-existing conditions to be covered.

That said, it doesn’t appear her family has health issues or she wouldn’t be dropping her coverage OR it seems to me she would have made a point of that in her letter.

Now if her family is healthy, she simply needs to look for another provider to get better rates. Perhaps ehealthinsurance.com should be her next stop. Of course, if you read the rest of her letter, I suspect she wouldn’t purchase private health insurance at almost any cost.

One just gets the feeling that a piece critical information is missing that prevents a full analysis of the situaion. Is Ilene playing the “victim” because she is being charged a very high price and refusing to investigate alternative plans, or is she one of the many that can’t find an affordable plan?

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Again…

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

From the Ft. Wayne Indiana Tea Party…

The speakers called upon rally participants to forget party lines and unite in support of their country, their faith and capitalism.

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Dr. Helen on the culture of

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA
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Get your mail ordering done now!

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

Looks like Congress will be closing the mail order tax loophole soon. Can Boulder be far behind with rapidly declining sales tax revenues?


H/T to Instapundit

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Spokane Tea party grass roots effort

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

At least according to the LA Times via ‘twitterer’ Dann Selle.

Spokane Tea Party is a non-profit, non-political grassroots effort with a mission to create public awareness of the practices of past and current career politicians in Washington D.C.

Our volunteers are just ordinary small business owners, deeply concerned citizens, mothers and fathers and, grandparents expressing anger at the government for taking hard-earned dollars out of their pockets and giving it to failed mortgages of others and to major corporations. They do not believe this is the role of our government and flies in the face of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Spokane Tea Party was founded by Gary Edgington and partner Kirk Smith approximately 5 weeks ago. A Spokane Tea Party web page was started at www.spokaneteaparty.org. A massive media blitz was started about two weeks prior to the scheduled event News Releases were sent out to all newspapers, TVs, and Radio stations within a 100 mile area.

Ron Kiefer voices the typical Boulderites point of view in a recent letter to the editor.

“Methinks thou dost protest too much.” Did not Shakespeare, in a brilliant insight, have his character utter a universal truth that today’s ultra-conservatives now employ? Who is it protesting the policies that will hopefully extricate us? Why the people who got us here, of course! One of the lowest (but most effective) ways that humans use of saving face is to project the blame to someone else for their own actions and this is the function of the so-called “Tea Parties” promoted this week by radical conservatives. The so-called Tea Party espouses not fair taxes for average Americans, but unfair tax loopholes and government subsidies and favors for the super-rich. It is a not a tea party on taxes, but a gala for the conservative Kool-Aid. That’s why they are pushing — and financing — these bogus demonstrations.


Ron, you really need to get out more. Of course, those devious, wealthy, moronic rich Republicans are still pulling the strings. Yes, I must be, absolutely must be, TOO BLIND TO SEE!




Note the Spokane tea party site has merged into The NorthWest Tea Party. Attendence estimate at Spokane Tea Party is ~ 5000.

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Greeley (CO) Tea Party was on Saturday

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

Looks like the Greeley Tea Party at Bittersweet Park attracted about 200 people.

“Even a Gadsden flag”

That’s a surprise?

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Earth Day coming up

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

April 22nd is the Earth Day. Guess I’ll make some plans to consume more than my fair share of natural resources.

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Tea Party movement unhealthy

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ChrisA

He’s kidding right? Yea, I know he’s serious. Senior White House adviser David Axelrod would feel right at home in Boulder.

Bring on July 4th!

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