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Colorado Political Analysis: 2010

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Colorado’s own (and the Rocky Mountain Alliance’s own) Night Twister has been published on Red State with his Colorado Political Analysis for 2010. If you are interested in getting involved in Colorado Politics, taking our state back from Progressives, this is a good place to start.

Reflections on 2009

Before I start on my note for the day, please allow me to thank all my readers (and especially those who took the time to offer comments) for an interesting 2009 from the perspective of a blogger.  It’s increasingly difficult to find the time to have at least one new blog note for all but maybe a dozen days a year.  Hearing from readers (whether you agree, disagree, or just want to have a conversation) helps keep me going.

2009 for me was better than 2008 in all ways except for the trends in our nation’s government.  It’s been an amazing year watching my kids grow.  My 2-year old son now almost seems like a real person, versus last year when he was less than a year old and wasn’t really that interesting.  Similarly, my 4-year old daughter has developed a personality that lights up a room.

Financially, it wasn’t great, but it was certainly better than 2008.  I’m sure the same is true for most people.

Writing was fun, particularly writing for Human Events, and I enjoyed each of my opportunities to guest-host talk radio shows in Greeley and Denver.

Around the house, my wife spent dozens of hours (and many hundreds of dollars) building beautiful gardens in rock-walled terraces, full of spectacular flowers and relatively drought- and animal-resistant plants called sedum (aka “stonecrop”.)  Although the flowers only stick around for a few months at our altitude (well over 8,000 feet), it’s really changed the character of our property for the better…and given my wife enthusiasm to stay where we are rather than trying to sell the house to avoid the long, cold high-altitude winters.

On one hand, those who only know me through my blog may think that my entire life revolves thinking and writing about politics.  It’s not true, and I realize that politics is just one part of life.  That said, at some point politics because truly important and truly impactful on our lives.

And we are at that point, thanks to the American voters who decided to elect a president for no real reason other than his skin color and despite many bright red warning flags waving in their faces.

I’m very torn as we watch what’s happening here.  Part of me believes, as I’ve said many times, that we’re living Atlas Shrugged and that the only quasi-permanent way to keep voters from supporting fascist/socialist candidates like Barack Obama is to let the suffer through what comes from actually electing one.  And part of me believes the permanent damage to the country I love may be intolerably great and nearly impossible to undo.

At this point, I have to hope that my Randian approach is correct because at least for the next several months the tyrannical Democratic majorities in Congress will keep going down their radical path of government takeover of absolutely everything.

The moochers and the looters are in charge.  Americans are getting the government they deserve.  But I can’t feeling that my children are suffering for the brain-dead idiocy of Democrats, Independents, and even Republicans who voted for Barack Obama.  For the record, and in line with my Randian approach, I maintain my position that I was correct to vote Libertarian. If John McCain represents winning, then we’ve already lost.  I’d rather take my chances with living through Barack Obama and having the public possibly learn a multi-generational lesson than to have people believe that someone like McCain is the best America or the GOP can do.

So, as America suffers through the Obama Administration, all I can do is try to show my children (admittedly too young to understand political lessons, even by example) what is important and to try to impart some of those views to my readers. At some point, there will be another American revolution.  Whether it’s more like 1776 or 1994 is yet to be seen.

In the meantime, I plan to remind myself that politics isn’t everything and to take pleasure from life’s “simple things”, like my family and even my wife’s garden, and to notice that those are really what’s important.

Link to Original post at Rossputin.com.

Colorado ballot inititiative to block parts of Obama Care

Update: Become a fan of this cause on on the Defend Colorado from ObamaCare Facebook page.
From the Denver Post:
Coloradans will likely be asked in November to blunt the impact of federal health-insurance reform with a state constitutional amendment that would attempt to undo some of what Congress is trying to pass.
Jon Caldara of the Independence [...]

Transparency for taxpayer funded non-profits?

In her recently published opinion editorial, COST intern Elizabeth Matecki suggests that transparency should extend to taxpayer-funded non-profits such as Community Centered Boards (CCBs), which are state-established service providers for the developmentally disabled.
Elizabeth discovered that some CCBs hide behind their 501c3 status, refuse to answer questions about how they spend taxpayer dollars, and claim they can’t provide necessary [...]

What’s in a name (or title)?

Over at Politico.com, they have an article about security reviews ordered by President Obama.  At least, that’s what you get when you click on the article’s title from the main page.  However, based on the title itself, I wondered if Politico wasn’t delving into proctology:

Exclusive: Details from Obama’s probe

I’m not necessarily suggesting you read the article.  Just thought you might enjoy a brief chuckle, at least if your sense of humor is as easily dragged into the gutter (or other less than clean location) as mine is…

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Link to Original post at Rossputin.com.

Night Twister Comes Through Again with Colorado Political Analysis 2010

Randy Ketner, aka The Night Twister, has outdone himself once again. He started off the year back in January with an encyclopedic blog post for political activists titled Getting Connected in Colorado. Now, to close down 2009, on the eve of a most crucial election year, he has created the thorough and aptly titled “Colorado [...]

Another Obama Administration travesty of justice

[Update: Coincidentally, over at the WSJ, Shelby Steele has written a note on the same path as this one, though with a wider view about Barack Obama: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704254604574614540488450188.html?]

While the Obama Administration is busy charging a Muslim bomber with a standard criminal charge, they’re also doing their best to protect domestic terrorists, the New Black Panthers.  After an obviously criminal evening at a Pennsylvania voting location during the 2008 election during which members of the New Black Panther Party were intimidating voters, the career Justice Department attorney who wanted to pursue the charges against the thugs has been transferred out of DC to a US Attorney’s office in South Carolina.

So much for a post-racial presidency, when the Black president and his Black Attorney General and his Black assistant, Loretta King, drop charges against a group whose only reason for existence is anti-white racism mixed with virulent socialism.

If there were ever a slam-dunk conviction for violating voting rights, this was it.  In fact, a judge had already issued default rulings against the defendants…which Holder and Co. simply dismissed.

Apparently the only criminals in America are bankers…particularly bankers who didn’t break any laws.

The Obama Administration becomes more reprehensible and tyrannical by the day.

America, you are getting the government you deserve with your lazy, brain-dead, cult-like following of The One, despite all you knew about his friends and influences, his lack of experience, and the fact that the only reason he is president is because of his skin color.  Yes, it’s that simple.  For those of you who are not socialists but who voted for him anyway, feel free to apologize.

Link to Original post at Rossputin.com.

To defeat government-controlled medicine, repudiate morality of need

Opponents of the Democrats’ health care “reform” proposals have said the new legislation would lead to higher costs, lower quality, and less access.   But with the passing of HR 3692 (House) and HR 3950 (Senate) looks like the Democrats will have their way. Why?  In the Investor’s Business Daily, Yaron Brook and Dan Watkins of [...]

Year in Review Dave Barry

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Obama and Democrats are not going to like this one…he’s only supposed to make fun of conservatives. DB is an equal opportunity offender. Happy New Year to everyone. Here are some excerpts but take the time to read it all!

It was a year of Hope — at first in the sense of “I feel hopeful!” and later in the sense of “I hope this year ends soon!”

It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power to a group of fresh, young, idealistic, new-idea outsiders such as Nancy Pelosi. As a result Washington, rejecting “business as usual,” finally stopped trying to solve every problem by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at it and instead started trying to solve every problem by throwing trillions of taxpayer dollars at it….

The No. 1 item on the agenda is fixing the economy, so the new administration immediately sets about the daunting task of trying to nominate somebody — anybody — to a high-level government post who actually remembered to pay his or her taxes. Among those who forgot this pesky chore is Obama’s nominee for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, who sheepishly admits that he failed to pay $35,000 in federal self-employment taxes. He says that the error was a result of his using TurboTax, which he also blames for his involvement in an eight-state spree of bank robberies. He is confirmed after the Obama administration explains that it inherited the U.S. Tax Code from the Bush administration.….

FEBRUARY

. . . that Congress passes, without reading it, and without actually finishing writing it, a stimulus package totaling $787 billion. The money is immediately turned over to American taxpayers so they can use it to stimulate the economy.

No! What a crazy idea THAT would be! The money is to be doled out over the next decade or so by members of Congress on projects deemed vital by members of Congress, such as constructing buildings that will be named after members of Congress. This will stimulate the economy by creating millions of jobs, according to estimates provided by the Congressional Estimating Office’s Magical Estimating 8-Ball…

The Obama administration’s confirmation woes continue as Tom Daschle is forced to withdraw as nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services following the disclosure that he, too, failed to pay all of his federal taxes. He blames this oversight on the fact that his tax returns were prepared by Treasury Secretary Geithner…

Baseball star Alex Rodriguez admits that from 2001 through 2003 he used steroids, which he claims he got from Treasury Secretary Geithner….

MARCH

. . . an angry nation learns that the giant insurance company AIG, which received $170 billion in taxpayer bailouts and posted a $61 billion loss, is paying executive bonuses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. This news shocks and outrages President Obama and members of Congress, who happen to be the very people who passed the legislation that authorized both the bailouts and the bonuses, but of course they did that during a crisis and thus had no time to find out what the hell they were voting for….

READ IT ALL HERE

Health bill: In defense of Senate “obstructionism”

OK, the Senate passed HR 3590 last week, but Gene Healy at Cato has some great observations:
In [the] Washington Post, E.J. Dionne cursed “the bizarre habits of the Senate,” which show that “we are no longer a normal democracy.” In a “normal democracy,” apparently, you get to ram through a scheme that the public opposes [...]

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