bfwebster on October 31st, 2009

Much like Cash for Clunkers, but on a vaster scale, the Obama stimulus package is being revealed as a fraudulent failure. The Denver Post shows that the numbers here in Colorado just don’t add up: The federal government reported Friday that Colorado created or saved 8,094 jobs through grants, loans and contracts funded by the [...]

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bfwebster on October 30th, 2009

Yeah, the process scares me as well. Hat tip to Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on October 30th, 2009

I’ve got a nephew (CPL Darren Green, USMC) who’s just coming back from Afghanistan (Helmand Province, no less). I’m very thankful he wasn’t one of the ones that Pres. Obama met at midnight at Dover AFB, and that my sister, brother-in-law, and niece didn’t have to travel there to meet him as well. While (like [...]

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Bruce Henderson on October 29th, 2009

I have largely put presidential politics on “mute” since March or so, it is clear that given the dynamics of the current government, the Democrats have a clear field and may do as they wish for now. As such there has been little going on that I would single out for compliment. But today is [...]

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bfwebster on October 29th, 2009

It started snowing here about 9 pm on Tuesday evening and hasn’t stopped since. The wind has been blowing constantly, pretty much between 10 and 20 mph (I can’t tell for sure — my outside anemometer appears to have frozen up). The local news station is reporting 14″ of snow so far here in Parker [...]

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bfwebster on October 28th, 2009

Hat tip to American Digest for the link. I’m in the early part of a two-day winter storm, still struggling a bit with the flu and reading documents. I’ll be back by the weekend.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on October 26th, 2009

. . . check back later.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on October 25th, 2009

For those of you who only know of this 1978 TV show from vague rumors, here’s some more background information. I tried watching the special all the way through about a year ago and couldn’t do it. I have wondered if the original Japanese novelist for “The Ring” (you watch a specific video tape and [...]

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A JetBlue flight that landed at JFK (New York) airport around 9 pm ET tonight would not let its passengers off for nearly half an hour, until two police offices went on board. The plane, which landed at gate 3 and was scheduled to turn around and go to Denver at 9:05 pm, instead sat [...]

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bfwebster on October 22nd, 2009

Cartoon by Nate Beeler at the Washington Examiner. And now from S. Weasel over at, well, S. Weasel: On the road for the next few days; postings may be light.  ..bruce w..

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