Boulder is a Stoopid Place

STILL Not too late to stock up

2012-01-29T20:29:00.000-07:00

Bought a 16 pack of 60w incandescent light bulbs at home depot this very morning for $2.97. Gotta love it. Yes, yes... I know, it's the 100w that are going away in the immediate future.

SOTU

2012-01-29T09:03:00.002-07:00

Victor Davis Hansen: What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore
The State of the Union could have been written by a computer program. All the now familiar Obama furniture was in the room: the mock outrage at “them,” the psychodramatic first-person boasting (as in, “I will oppose..,” “I will not work with…,” “I will decline…,” “I will not stand by …,” I will not cede…,” “I will not walk away…,” “I will not back down…,” “I will not go back…”); the now customary rear-view-mirror jab at his fading predecessor; the monotonous promising that something is so bad that we must have a new program for it (each year the same threat, the same solution, the same failure); and the silence about the Obama legacy of stimulus, debt, and ObamaCare.

Marco Rubio from the weekly Republican address:

“This president didn’t talk about his record for one simple reason; he doesn’t want you to know about it. But you do know about it, because you feel the failure of his leadership every single day of your life,” Rubio said.

“The bottom line is this president inherited a country with serious problems. He asked the Congress to give him the stimulus and Obamacare to fix it. The Democrats in Congress gave it to him. And not only did it not work, it made everything worse.”

Time to go.

"But the main point is this, neither one of these men, whether they’re really conservative or not, whether they’re a rino, liberal, progressive, or just opportunistic, is Barack Hussein Obama. And that’s enough for me."

2012-01-28T08:49:00.000-07:00

Me too.

A new upper class that makes decisions affecting the lives of everyone else but increasingly doesn’t know much about how everybody else lives is vulnerable to making mistakes.How vulnerable are you?

2012-01-26T22:29:00.000-07:00

How thick is your bubble?

Boulderite's bubble is very very very thick. Talk about out of touch. The subtitle of this blog fits into this as well.

I don't claim that I'm not a bubble member, but I DO know where the NASCAR Hall of Fame is and who Jimmie Johnson is.

'1000 days' button

2012-01-24T16:05:00.000-07:00

From 'The Hill'

"I’m on the hill today, visiting with Congressman, and we are finding that many of the GOP members are saying, “It’s against House rules to wear the ’1000 days’ buttons at the SOTU tonight…”

2012-01-24T16:03:00.002-07:00

reports Keli Carendar as posted by Instapundit.

She then points out...

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it “against the rules” to not pass a freaking budget for 1000 days???

If it's convenient I guess rules means something, if not, well then not so much.

1000 days part 3 (and 4)

2012-01-24T15:50:00.000-07:00

From Powerline blog:

John Hinderaker: What Can You Do In 1,000 Days?
Lots of difficult and important things, as this excellent video from the Heritage Foundation points out. One thing you can’t do, however–at least, not if you are the Democratic Senate–is fulfill your legal obligation to pass a budget. Today is the 1,000th day since the Senate last fulfilled its legal duty by adopting a budget. The fault lies 100% with Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats, who have been in control of the Senate throughout that time:

Steven Hayward: Footnote to 1000 Days
Further to John’s post below on the shame of the Democratic Senate for failing to pass a budget for 1,000 days, Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, notes that the last time the Senate passed a budget, “you had never heard of the iPad, Tiger Woods was only known for his golfing abilities, General Motors had never declared bankruptcy, you had never heard of Swine flu. And the national debt was $4 trillion smaller than it is today.”

It's so interesting, when the Democrat's have problems such as this, once the press finally has to acknowledge it, taking all of a sentence or two on a Friday afternoon before a 3 day weekend, then it's time to put it behind us and let's all work together to move forward. Yet, if it's the Republican's, no such allowances. Is it STILL George W. Bush's fault? Just wonderin'.

1000 days part 2

2012-01-24T10:37:00.000-07:00

“I think they should all wear a 1,000 Days pin on their suits tonight. That would force the MSM to report the issue.”
Yea, I keep waiting to read about this in the local paper. Hah.

How do I qualify?

2012-01-23T23:21:00.000-07:00

Becoming depending on government. Gotta love it. Lead the way progressives.

Debate moderators

2012-01-23T22:58:00.000-07:00

"...As long as they can make the Republican debates look like a circus and the candidate chosen seem irrelevant, the better chance their candidate has of squeaking out a second term.” "

More examples here.

1000 days tomorrow

2012-01-23T18:23:00.000-07:00

Since Democrats last passed a budget.

In other news today, Obama announced that he will not meet the statutory deadline to submit his budget to Congress–again. Of course, no one is holding his breath awaiting the president’s budget proposal. Obama’s last budget was so fiscally irresponsible that it was voted down in the Senate, 97-0. Not a single Democrat supported it.

Democrats like Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi have tried to blame their dereliction of duty on the Republicans, claiming that it would be futile to propose a budget since the Republicans would filibuster it. As usual, the Democrats rely on ignorance: under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, budgets pass the Senate by a simple majority and cannot be filibustered.

Oh the spewing vitriol if the Republican's ever pulled a stunt like this.

Fast and Furious update: 5th amendment

2012-01-20T11:29:00.000-07:00

Oh, this is a big problem.

It’s every citizen’s right to take the Fifth Amendment in court and Congressional hearings when testifying. When the sitting chief of a criminal investigation division for a US Attorney’s office does it, though, it certainly calls into question what in blazes the Department of Justice has been doing, especially with Operation Fast and Furious:
Budget cut. (yep, I added bold and coloring)

Obama take down from Canada

2012-01-18T23:43:00.002-07:00

Obama Admin: Beyond unbelieveably stoopid

2012-01-18T10:23:00.000-07:00

REPORT: State Department To Reject The Keystone Pipeline

Transcanada will however be able to reapply with an alternate route going through Nebraska

I suspect Transcanada isn't that stoopid. They will do one of two things:

Build the pipeline to Canada's west coast and export to China
Wait until a new administration.

If there isn't an new administration this November, it's option #1. Let's keep sending our money to our enemies instead of our next door neighbor.

United States: We have a problem

2012-01-17T12:10:00.000-07:00

Lawmakers Proposed $1 Tril In New Spending Last Year

Despite endless talk of spending cuts and fiscal restraint in Washington over the past year, lawmakers continued to act as though the government doesn't spend nearly enough.

Imagine that. Don't worry, as Warren Buffet says, we can print money.

How dare this man keep campaign promises, govern soberly, balance the budget, and refrain from raping the taxpayer?

2012-01-16T08:32:00.000-07:00

We're talking Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker.

Fastracks

2012-01-16T07:41:00.001-07:00

Fastracks cost projections continue to increase.
Back in 2004 when voters approved FasTracks, they were told the Northwest rail line would cost $565 million. In just four years that figure ballooned to an alarming $894 million because of construction add-ons, materials inflation and RTD's decision to discard the rose-colored glasses it had conveniently donned for the '04 election.

Now $894 million looks like the good old days. The latest breathtaking estimate: $1.714 billion.

Just say NO.

Hey... the boondoggle could be worse.

"...As a Swampscott police spokesman said at the time, “We don’t urge anybody to fight back. We want them to call us.”

2012-01-13T14:50:00.000-07:00

Massachusetts, you have a problem.

Obama and troops

2012-01-13T07:05:00.002-07:00

“He didn’t want to take pictures with any more soldiers; he was complaining about it,” a State Department official tells me. “Look, I was excited to meet him. I wanted to like him. Let’s just say the scales fell from my eyes after I did. These are people over here who’ve been fighting the war, or working every day for the war effort, and he didn’t want to take fucking pictures with them?"

The future Commander in Chief was only a candidate then. Pathetic.

Gotta be something more

2012-01-11T16:42:00.002-07:00

Oh yeah....

Sweet.

SOPA becoming a political liability

2012-01-10T15:28:00.000-07:00

Stoopid politicians getting what they deserve.

"For those who pay attention, it is astonishing to witness the non-stop, over-the-top efforts of liberal mainstream media like the New York Times to discredit Wichita-based Koch Industries and its principals Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch. "

2012-01-09T21:24:00.001-07:00

Obsessive Koch disorder at the Times

Here's an excerpt from a January 8th letter from Melissa Cohlmia of Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC to Arthur S. Brisbane, the Times’ public editor, or readers’ representative.

In other words, Times writers apparently must perform contortions so bent-over-backward that it involves medieval references and politicizing children’s Christmas ballets, all to squeeze a disparagement about Koch into their copy. My question to you is: if the paper is going to be indulging a hostile approach that is this far-fetched, then don’t we deserve some explanation from editors for the sheer frequency and the underlying purpose?

Shouldn't the Progressive wannabees at the Daily Camera wonder the same thing?

Goodbye ethanol subsidy

2012-01-09T13:47:00.002-07:00

Thank you Tea Party.

Good riddance.

It's not too late to Stock Up

2012-01-09T08:31:00.000-07:00

Home Depot in Longmont also has 100w incandescent light bulbs on display. Can't miss them as you walk in the store.

"Was this garbage written by hardcore dyed-in-the-wool southern racists seeking to inflame old passions? Or was it someone with a stake in demonstrating that racism in the twenty-first century U.S. is alive and well?"

2012-01-08T22:52:00.000-07:00

Oh, I'm betting on the second option.