Colorado roots

Posted on August 4, 2008

Colorado is my first home state (I was born in Nebraska but was very young when my parents moved to the Denver area). I left in 1985 for New Hampshire and am now back in the Denver area for a while.

My high school reunion is this weekend and the DNC even starts then too. I plan to stay as far from the Downtown area and the DNC circus as I can.

Watching the preparations (mostly thru the news) for the circus have been interesting. The plan to move the homeless into suburban movie theaters, the plans to supply tax free discount priced gas to the DNC, the plans to keep protesters out of sight of the actual delegates, the ACLU suing the city and the DNC, a plan by some anarchists to blackmail millions from the city in exchange for not holding violent disruptions.

It will be interesting to see how the whole thing plays out. Businesses are being hurt - the whole area will be closed down, employees won’t be able to get to work, customers won’t be able to get to the businesses, businesses that should have been able to capitalize on the thousands of delegates and their cash have not been able to do so because of restrictions against non-union businesses, non organic foods, not green enough business policies.

The “Party of inclusion” is working very hard to exclude lots of people and businesses that are “not our kind”.

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Yet another reason I won’t be buying Tyson foods

Posted on August 4, 2008

I decided long ago that I would not buy Tyson Foods products. This was based on their close ties to the Clintons.

Now I do not celebrate Labor Day since it is a socialist/communist event but for Tyson to do away with it in favor of celebrating a Muslim holy day goes yet another step in the wrong direction.

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Wildlife Defenders want lower gas prices?

Posted on August 4, 2008

I just heard a very interesting political ad on a Denver TV station. It was criticizing Rep. Marilyn Musgrave for voting against increased gas mileage requirements and implied somehow that those votes drove gas prices up. It of course does not mention her votes on drilling for domestic oil.

Forcing Americans to drive smaller, lighter, dangerous econo box cars somehow would have kept speculators and hedge funds from driving up the price of oil and gasoline? But drilling in ANWR, western Colorado and off out coasts would not?

The real interesting part is that the Wildlife Defense people are using the high price of gas - which is more likely than government regulation to move people into higher MPG cars or into public transportation - in their campaign to defeat the popular eastern Colorado Republican.

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» Filed Under Colorado politics, Republicans, Democrats, Global Warming |

Name that party

Posted on July 30, 2008

Mass. state senator charged with groping woman

By DENISE LAVOIE
Ap Writer

BOSTON (AP) — A court clerk-magistrate on Wednesday charged a state lawmaker with groping a woman in a case the district attorney declined to prosecute because it lacked evidence.

The criminal complaint charges state Sen. James Marzilli with two counts of indecent assault and battery alleging he groped a woman after an arts fundraiser April 6.

I read the whole AP story and still found no clue to the party that claims this bi-polar senator.

A Google search found a Boston Globe piece that at least mentions the groping took place at a campaign event put on by the Democrat governor for the Democrat presidential candidate but still no clear mention of his party.

Another Globe piece headlining his defense based on “Bi-ploar disorder” finally mentions that he is in fact a Dem in the 9th paragraph.

Now then if the AP reporter had read the Boston Herald piece she would have had the answer in the second sentence.

The first Globe piece does mention the party affiliation of the Republican State Senator who called for Marzilli to be removed from a committee chairmanship even though neither Marzilli’s nor the Senate President’s. The Senate President of course refused to remove Marzilli. The Senate President is of course a Dem, though you will not find that in the piece.

The Globe does point out that one of the women worked for Women’s Action for New Directions which has as it’s executive director Marzilli’s wife and that the accuser was fired days after the accusations were made. It is curious why this woman was staying at Marzilli’s home while his wife was out of town. Was there not a time when married couples refrained from allowing that sort of thing to happen?

I guess Marzilli’s idea of Women’s Action for New Directions may have been somewhat different than the ideas others.

So to top cap this - two women accuse him of sexually abusing them - one at an Obama campaign event and one at Marzilli’s home - the AP sees no reason to mention:

Marzilli’s party
The Obama event connection
The second accuser
The fact that the second accuser was fired by the accused’s wife
That the accused’s wife allowed a woman to share her home with her husband while the wife was away

But then - knowing Marzilli is a Democrat - I have no trouble understanding the AP not really wanting to report it at all!

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» Filed Under Republicans, Obama, Democrats, general nonsense, Legislators, Media Bias, National Politics |

One ton of CO2

Posted on July 29, 2008

The Massachusetts delegation to the DNC convention in Denver is buying credits from a group saying they will turn the credits into reductions of CO2 by installing compact fluorescent bulbs in poor people’s homes. They say 5.5 bulbs equal a ton of CO2.

Now let me see how this will really work - some liberal volunteer will decide that Roxie and Tomas are a low income family and give them a dozen of the bulbs to replace all the Thomas Edison conventional bulbs in their apartment, maybe even make them come to some charity site to pick them up. Tomas takes the bulbs which cost about $72 a dozen at Wal Mart, sells them for $36 and buys a six pack of beer and a dozen Tom Edisons and has cash left over.

This sounds like a fine way for the Mass Dems to help out the poor people of their state.

Other states are spending their Green Bucks buying credits that funded a wind mill in Colorado that has not produced a watt.

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Buy your carbon credits here!

Posted on July 29, 2008

Having nothing worthwhile to do today, I decided to get into the carbon credit business. Not producing energy seems to be a valid reason to sell off carbon credits. The DNC has been selling credits to the delegates coming to their Denver convention that are based on a wind project that has yet to produce any electricity but that doesn’t stop them from selling the credits.

As I understand it a carbon credit is based on the idea that some activity which would produce CO2 will not take place and in exchange for not producing CO2 someone is claiming the right to sell to someone else this right to produce CO2.

I’ve been thinking about what to base my carbon credits on, what CO2 producing activity will I promise not to allow to happen? It occurred to me that I could claim it based on not currently operating my own household - I am today staying in my mother’s home and therefore not consuming any electricity for AC (she has never had AC and even though the temp here in Denver has been above 90 for 16 straight days we are surviving, thank you) I don’t see that as enough to make a salable base. Now I think I could make a case based on the amount of energy consumed by Algore’s mansion and claim the difference between what I do consume and say 80% of what he does.

But again that still seems too little in order to make the millions of dollars I wish to make off this enterprise (why set my sights low?)

Looking around, there are numerous companies that have gone out of business and I could claim their unused rights to produce CO2. Super Target Store here in Lakewood, CO. They have been closed for several years and therefore are not consuming electricity for lights and AC and not burning any gas for heating. They also have a pretty good carbon sequestration program going - all the weeds that are growing in their vast parking lot plus the trash and debris that accumulates in and around such buildings should count for something.

But then again that may not be enough. And Target may decide to claim it themselves. So I got to thinking about all the gas stations that used to occupy nearly every exit from I 70 across Kansas. Most have gone away and even the buildings have disappeared so I am sure there is no company left to take credit for all the CO2 they are not producing. Now some of these are now selling XXX videos etc. but most are just gone!

Still, that may be less credits that I am looking for, so I came up with late aunt Edna. Edna once drove all over the country visiting her kids, sometimes she flew. She had AC and kept it cranked up and in winter the heat was at least 78. Now, basing the credits on her usage - when sh was alive - and the fact that she will now forever be dead, that equates to an infinite amount of future CO2 that will not be used. Being dead she now consumes none and add in the fact she was buried not cremated so the carbon in her body is now sequestered and the burial plot is a greenspace growing CO2 consuming grass.

So therefore I can offer an infinite amount of credits based on the non-use by late aunt Edna.

Now as to the credits themselves, I see the DNC is asking people attending the convention in Denver not to print out the e-mails they get and thereby save the wasted paper. This is just wrong - I am asking that when you buy one of my credits you print it out, several copies, and store them safely away in bank security boxes or fireproof storage. This is an added CO2 saving aspect of my credits - these paper copies are all sequestered carbon!

So, send me $10 per desired credit. I am not saying how much of the CO2 Edna will not be using is represented by each credit nor am I disclosing her real name - privacy and all. In fact I am not really going to promise that Edna really existed. Maybe it is better if she never was born, I can then claim retroactive credit for the energy she never used in her non-existent lifetime.

But if you do buy one make sure to print out the certificate and keep those copies forever sequestered.

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Marines get slandered by HBO series

Posted on July 23, 2008

When I saw a brief promo for the HBO series “Generation Kill” just from the name - I expected the worst from this. It seems to be a precisely targeted hit on our troops. I have not seen any of it beyond the promo, I do not subscribe to HBO and have not for about a decade.

The timing of this hit is no coincidence - coming as it does during the Presidential campaign. Obama’s campaign should probably have to claim the costs of the production as an in-kind-donation.

The following is the carefully worded response from the Marines about the series:

The information below is provided to you as an official Marine Corps response regarding this series. We ask that you distribute this comment to your constituents as you deem appropriate.

From: Acting Director, Division of Public Affairs, Headquarters Marine Corps

The recent airing of the first episode of HBO’s “Generation Kill” has generated numerous inquiries regarding Marine Corps support of the series. The Marine Corps did not provide any official support to the filmmakers. The series is based on the book by the same title by Evan Wright, a former Rolling Stone magazine reporter who was embedded with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While there are certainly aspects of the film that are accurate, it is at its heart a commercial production. It’s raw and has elements that are very much out of synch with the core values our nation rightly expects of its Marines. Viewed as a whole, in my estimation, it does not accurately portray the honor and professionalism of our Corps of Marines.

Major David Romley
Director, Community Relations
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps
3000 Pentagon Rm 4A532
Washington, DC 20350-3000

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Are Dems getting free parking too?

Posted on July 23, 2008

After writing the preceding piece about the DNC Convention committee getting tax free gas I noticed this picture with the very simple caption:

Hybrid vehicles, some bearing tags for the Democratic National Convention, sit in a storage lot at Denver International Airport.

Are the Democrats paying for parking at the Denver Airport? Seems like everyone else has to!

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» Filed Under dirty tricks, Democrats, Media Bias, Taxes, National Politics |

Democrats dodging paying of gas taxes

Posted on July 23, 2008

The DNC Host committee - the people preparing for next month’s Democrat Convention in Denver has been skipping payment of the state and federal tax on gas - over 40 cents per gallon. The city (after the practice became public) has ended that practice. The story also relates that the committee members were not even paying for the gas they got at the city’s pumps. The whole issue came up when the Dept of Public Works asked the city council to approve a contract that would have the dept reimbursed for the $9700 already expended on fueling and WASHING of the committees’ vehicles.

The practice, which began four months ago, may have ended hours after its disclosure. An aide to Mayor John Hickenlooper released a statement Tuesday evening saying that Denver 2008 Host Committee members would pay market prices for fuel and would also be liable for all applicable taxes.

Note that is says the committee members will “pay market prices” which seems to imply that either they were not paying at all or were paying some lower than market price.

Denver’s Democrat Mayor tried to deflect the charge of impropriety by claiming the GOP committee in Wisconsin is doing the same, but:

Teresa McFarland, a spokeswoman for the Minneapolis-St. Paul host committee, said its members are getting their gas at public pumps.

“We’re not getting a tax break on fuel,” she said. “That’s not the setup at this end.”

It is not surprising that the Democrat Mayor of Denver should think that the taxpayers should be footing the bill for this - his view is that the taxpayers should foot all the bills, for everything - he is afterall a Democrat!

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» Filed Under Reid, Pelosi, Republicans, Democrats, general nonsense, Legislators, Taxes, National Politics |

FDA finds one jalapeno with salmonella - reccomends no one eat or serve jalapenos

Posted on July 21, 2008

How many tomatoes were sent to land fills recently because the FDA thought maybe some of them might have salmonella. They claim “Since April, more than 1,000 people infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same genetic fingerprint have been identified in 42 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada.” Notice they are not claiming any deaths associated with the “outbreak” and now think maybe all those tomatoes were probably OK because they now have found ONE pepper with the Saintpaul salmonella.

The tomato producers are estimating that the damage to them is $100 million. All this over a disease that is hardly rare - some 1.4 million cases are estimated per year in the USA. An estimated 1000 people per year die in the USA of salmonella - mostly the very old the very young or with already weakened immune systems. It is not surprising that they can find no deaths related with the 1000 cases of Saintpaul salmonella - the average is only one for every 1400 cases.

So, how many millions of dollars will it cost for scrapping all the jalapenos?

Get a life people - people get salmonella all the time, there is no valid reason to scare people about their food when they are not even sure there is a problem! Tell them instead what my mother still tells me - WASH THE FOOD BEFORE YOU EAT IT!

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