Boulder is a Stoopid Place

Shocked face time: Food Stamp Enrollment In Arkansas Dropped This Year | The Daily Caller

These seem like reasonable requirements…

Food stamp enrollment dropped by 25,000 people in Arkansas in 2016, after the state reinstated work requirements limited individuals to three months of benefits unless they found or trained for a job, Arkansas Online reports.

Common sense.

Something Boulder and BoCo should try – Flash – Iceland’s ‘crazy’ year ends without a government – France 24

Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs

Ever since the EU restricted sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs, homeowners have complained about the shortcomings of their energy-efficient replacements.

Both hands clapping.

Trump Stock Rally Spooks Liberals | Power Line

No one knows what the future holds for the stock market, but the spike in consumer confidence is significant in a couple of respects.

First, the press tried to hype the anemic recovery of the Obama years, but the public knows better. The U.S. economy has been stagnant for years, and many people expect different policies to bring better results, while hardly anyone (other than Paul Krugman) expects the opposite.

Second, it is remarkable how little impact the press’s war against Donald Trump has had. Reporters and editors have told us relentlessly that Trump is as dumb as Ronald Reagan and as evil as Richard Nixon, but people aren’t buying it any more today than they did on November 8. Less so, in fact.

When is the press going to realize they showed up to a gun fight with a water pistol? They’ve been neutered and don’t have a clue. More importantly, I guarantee you that when they start to figure it out, they’ll blame Trump instead of looking in the mirror.

Taking a step or two back, being able to admit one made a mistake is a talent that has long been lost. In fact, it was lost many years ago when I practiced engineering. I’m sure it’s been lost longer than that in journalism.

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Who cares? Mother’s little helper | Power Line

I wrote here about some worrying trends among whites in America. I noted: The out-of-wedlock birth rate for whites is higher now than the black rate was in the 1960s when illegitimate births among blacks so alarmed Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We also know that drug abuse plagues white communities as well as black ones. And whites reportedly are contributing more than blacks to the epidemic of disability claims which is

Nothing to see here, move along – 6 Syrians, 1 Libyan arrested in Berlin for attempting to set homeless man on fire on Christmas Eve – twitchy.com

Chancellor Merkel, call your office.

Why? Colorado is exploring how to keep its Obamacare marketplace after Obamacare repeal – Vox Their website is the equivalent of using MS-DOS.

So Boulder – ‘My Fellow Liberals, I’m Tired Of You’ | The American Conservative  I wonder if more than 11% of her fellow citizens voted for Trump? I’ve got to believe that the Boulder environment is at least as toxic as where she lives if not more.

By all rights, I should be a member in good standing of their tribe, “liking” their Facebook posts and joining their candlelight vigils against the evil Trump Administration. But November 8 and its aftermath revealed to me that I am just so tired of these people. I can’t be like them, and I don’t want my kids turning into them.

I am tired of their undisguised contempt for tens of millions of Americans, with no effort to temper their response to the election with humility or empathy.

I am tired of their unexamined snobbery and condescension.

I am tired of their name-calling and virtue-signaling as signs of supposedly high intelligence.

I am tired of their trendiness, jumping on every left-liberal bandwagon that comes along (transgender activism, anyone?) and then acting like anyone not on board is an idiot/hater.

As they say, read the whole thing.

There was some discussion on the fb page where I originally found this article that it’s “not real.” You can use that as an escape hatch to avoid any self reflection if you so choose.

Hidden Figures the movie.

Hidden Figures the book.

(broken down car on the side of the road)

Police Officer: You have identification on you?

Hidden Figures: NASA sir (as she hands him her badge)

Police Officer: NASA! Had no idea they hired…

Hidden Figures: They’re quite a few women working in the space program…

Police Officer: The least I can do is give ya’ll an escort

Hidden Figures (in the car): Three negro women are chasing a white police officer down the highway in nineteen sixty-one. That is a God ordained miracle.

The colored women bathroom sign comes down….