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2008 Democratic Convention Watch: Obama Weekly Address: Veterans Day and Fort Hood

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:00:00 -0500

WASHINGTON – With the investigation into the tragedy at Fort Hood ongoing, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to call for a careful and complete review of what happened before the tragedy.

Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
November 14, 2009

Full text after the jump.

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Peoples Press Collective: No beer summit for white girl?

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:25:05 -0500

This note is a guest blog post by one of my former Tahoe Trading colleagues who went by the acronym SAT; I thank him for finding the news report and contributing this piece to my site.

[Ed: SAT’s comment is in reaction to a NY Post story about a male [...]

2008 Democratic Convention Watch: Full Text of Obama's Speech at Suntory Hall, Tokyo

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:33:39 -0500

Note: if you remember how Obama went to Cairo early in his presidency and talked truth to the middle east, you'll want to read this. While this speech lacked the fanfare of the Cairo speech, it is still important, as he talks to truth to Asia, including addressing Burma and [...]

Haley's Comment: House of Arden Designer Tutu Review/Giveaway

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:13:15 -0500

Is there anything as cute as a precious little girl? Okay, other than a handsome little boy. For this review, we are going to focus on our girls. I know this sounds horrible, but when ... [...]

Haley's Comment: Healthy Kids Thank-A-Thon 2009

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:26 -0500

Thanksgiving is right around the corner! Need a unique way to blog about the holiday? Participate in the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition’s Healthy Kids Thank-A-Thon 2009! This is a FREE, fun, and easy way to utilize ... [...]

Haley's Comment: Free Skillet CD

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:46:36 -0500

You can grab this CD just by e-mailing lsomers@denverpost.com I just got my hands on two FREE Skillet CDs. E-mail lsomers@denverpost.com and if you are among the first I’ll send you free music. And thanks to Atlantic Records for the swag. [...]

Not My Tribe: Doug Bruce and Jury-mandering

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:23:50 -0500

since he’s deployed every other dirty trick in the service of his Corporate Masters… he’s now gone to the lengths of having people handing out pamphlets outside the courthouse, as they were reporting for jury duty for his trial on refusing to leave private property when the owners and tenants [...]

Haley's Comment: New Tires for the Season? Careful!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:07:57 -0500

Among the many things we hear about buying new tires for your car — size, value, all-season capability — there’s a new bit of info that’s worth keeping in mind. Tires will deteriorate with age so it’s in your best interest to ensure you are purchasing the newest stuff. Sort of [...]

Wash Park Prophet: Who Faces Implicit High Marginal Tax Rates?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:57:00 -0500

There are people in the United States who face marginal tax rates close to 100%.

Who are they?

Not the rich, but the working poor. For a family of three, near 100% implicit marginal tax rates impact those making between about $15,000 to $30,000 a year.
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Wash Park Prophet: Intellectual Hazard

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:40:00 -0500

Moral hazard, which basically amounts to a personal incentive to do something unfair to someone else, is a familiar concept in the world of law and economics.

A new paper on the financial crisis explores a parallel concept, "intellectual hazard", which is similar to the concept of [...]

Haley's Comment: Live review: GWAR @ the Gothic Theatre

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:19:37 -0500

Meet your doom, human. Photo by Mateo Leyba. From the crack-crazed depths of outer space, lodged unwillingly on this feeble spheroid we pitiful humans call “Earth,” came GWAR — Oderus Urungus, Flattus Maximus, Beefcake the Mighty, JiZMak Da Gusha, and Balsac the Jaws of Death — unto the stage of the [...]

Mount Virtus: PPC Citizen Journalists Query Ed Perlmutter’s Office on Pelosi Care

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:11:19 -0500

So yes, my Representative Ed Perlmutter voted for the costly, restrictive monstrosity known as Pelosi Care (HR 3962). But how does he justify his positions? How did his office respond to last week’s House Call on Congress rally? And how were citizen-journalists from the People’s Press Collective received when they [...]

Peoples Press Collective: PPC Citizen Journalists Query Ed Perlmutter’s Office on Pelosi Care

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:11:19 -0500

Haley's Comment: Responses to state senator’s anti-Obama tweet: 2 letters

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:07:18 -0500

Re: “Senator: Obama, 9/11 tie-in unwitting,” Nov. 12 news story. State Sen. Dave Schultheis’ tweet that President Obama doesn’t want “what is best for the U.S.” is hilariously ironic. Americans put Obama into office to fix the nation’s problems, which lay squarely at the feet of George Bush and the Republicans. [...]

Haley's Comment: Whither Tancredo? (McInnis better act fast)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:50:15 -0500

Tom Tancredo could force Scott McInnis to start running a stronger, meatier, more issues-based campaign. [...]

Haley's Comment: Photo essay: Chali 2na, Mr. Lif, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born @ the Fox Theatre

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:50:06 -0500

The “Deadliest Catch” tour featured an array of stellar MCs at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday. Photo by Joshua Elioseff. The “Deadliest Catch” tour swung by the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, featuring hip-hop heavies Mr. Lif, Willie Evans Jr., Lyrics Born, Gift of Gab and former Jurassic 5 member Chali 2na [...]

Haley's Comment: Chipotle? “Luxocratic” food?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:45:38 -0500

I just ran across Newsweek’s “The Decades 10 Indispensables,” in which Dana Cowin, editor in chief of Food & Wine magazine, writes on Chipotle at #6. Though Chipotle is often my primary source of sustenance, the overcooked reasoning for this lofty placement is something to behold. Chipotle does that at [...]

2008 Democratic Convention Watch: Hutchison won't pull a Palin and quit early

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:33:37 -0500

Or maybe she's thinking her chances of winning the primary in Texas aren't looking so good:

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) will announce she is delaying her resignation from the Senate so that she can continue to represent Texas in the Senate while pursuing the Republican nomination for governor in [...]

Not My Tribe: These Colors Don’t Run… America.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:11:29 -0500

Although the Tea Party has been using the one on the left a lot.

The arguments against health care have taken on the same reason the Supreme Court declined to abolish slavery in America… that it would deprive the Slave owners of Property and that it [...]

5280 Magazine: Colorado’s Top Model

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:04:29 -0500

Nicole Fox, an 18-year-old University of Colorado sophomore from Louisville who describes herself as "just the girl next door," is the state's first finalist on the popular reality television show "America's Next Top Model." [...]

Not My Tribe: The REAL Welfare Fraud.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:54:42 -0500

This started as a comment on a comment, on Eric’s post about HR-3962.
You forgot, C Ella, to mention subsidies to Big Pharma like penis pumps (which used to be called “sex toys”) Cialis and Viagra (which can be gotten on Medicare and Medicaid, but Not CONDOMS because they’re birth [...]

Haley's Comment: Harris out; McBean questionable for Sunday

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:43:50 -0500

As expected right tackle Ryan Harris (dislocated toe) was formally ruled out Friday for Sunday’s game in Washington. Harris has not practiced all week, but the team is still hoping to get him back for either next weekend’s game against San Diego or the Thanksgiving night affair against the Giants. Defensive [...]

Haley's Comment: There’s a gardening app for that

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:39:44 -0500

This just in on a day with glowering skies and three days of snow/rain mix coming on: There’s now an iPhone app for gardeners. Broomfield-based seed company Botanical Interests has put together an iPhone app ($5.99) that lists the company’s vegetable and herb seeds and compiles growing tips and invormation on [...]

Colorado Confederatarian: Rocky Mountain Alliance 2.0 announces blogger Steve Nielson's "resignation"

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:12:39 -0500

Here.

Word ohn th' street is-att th' separation wuz a little more complikated thin wut's made out thar on-att RMA2 announcemint.

T' be fair, it ohnly makes sainse-att a blogger who ain't no longer in Colorader shouldn't be associated with an outfit called "Rocky Mountain Alliance." But I have predicted ohn [...]

The Drunkablog: Balloon head gets plea bargain for Balloon Boy parents

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:08:00 -0500

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Yes, BB's parents pled guilty, Dad to a felony. Another win for Clarence Darrowish Wart-lawyer David Lane, who said an incredibly stupid thing after the plea:After the hearing, Richard Heene's attorney David Lane said that the seriousness of the charges reflects the anger Americans felt after learning they had [...]

Peoples Press Collective: Remembering the Victims of Communism

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:42:00 -0500

#tcot #socialism #communism #che
With America hurtling headlong towards more socialism than free marketeering, we need to remember that socialism is communism without the testosterone to man the barricades and build the prison camps. The leap however is not far.
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The Daily Blogster: Remembering the Victims of Communism

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:42:00 -0500

ColoradoPols.com: Will Penry Even Keep His Senate Seat?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:29:17 -0500

As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports:

No longer a candidate for governor, Josh Penry is planning to leverage his withdrawal from the race for maximum Republican advantage.

It's also possible that he'll run again for the Senate seat he already holds, Penry said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Sentinel' [...]

5280 Magazine: Ted Haggard’s “Kumbaya Moment”

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:18:57 -0500

If anyone is making a comeback this year, it's Haggard, who says he was "trying to go low" with his open-to-the-public prayer meeting last night at his house, his first time leading fellow Christians since he resigned from New Life Church in 2006. [...]

5280 Magazine: Park Burger’s Breakfast Sandwiches

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:18:57 -0500

These are breakfast sandwiches made with care. They take a little time to arrive, but when they do, the egg is cooked to your liking, the cheese is perfectly melted, and the bun is soft enough to keep the whole mess glued together. [...]

5280 Magazine: How Happy Are You?