gdp's Comments

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder workout: Stand-Up Paddleboard Yoga - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:48:40 +0000

I can't wait for "Stand-Up Paddleboard Yoga for Vegan Pet Guardians".

Daily Camera.com: : Secession vote cleared for ballots in Weld County - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 23:18:57 +0000

I am not an uninformed voter. But I do base my opinions on facts and not ideology. By the way, my use of "farther" was correct according to Dictionary.com, Webster, and Oxford. Now if I had said I had "no farther comment", that would be wrong. But I was speaking strictly about relative distances. "Further" is also fine, but "farther" is very correct.

Daily Camera.com: : Secession vote cleared for ballots in Weld County - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:58:29 +0000

Global Warming is killing the ski industry. Just wait until that runs out. I'd wager that the oil lease money is going to last a whole lot longer than skiing... As oil becomes more scarce, it becomes more valuable. As temperatures rise, ski revenues simple melt away...

Daily Camera.com: : Secession vote cleared for ballots in Weld County - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:56:14 +0000

Yep. It's a total waste of time. But it does give those people a chance to vent their frustration at the way their interests are being ignored by the liberal state government.

Daily Camera.com: : Secession vote cleared for ballots in Weld County - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:54:52 +0000

Yep, the surface and groundwater is already spoken for... by the towns on the plains. For instance, Greeley has first dibs on the water running right through Fort Collins. The law gives claim to those "first in time". It was the prairie towns that were founded first.

Daily Camera.com: : Secession vote cleared for ballots in Weld County - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:52:14 +0000

"... Hickenlooper isn't exactly liberal." And that pretty much identifies you as having drifted as far or farther to the left as you accuse the conservatives of having drifted to the right.

Daily Camera.com: : Secession vote cleared for ballots in Weld County - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:48:18 +0000

Ever hear of a "severance tax"? Probably not, or you would know that the "innocent children" won't be suffering in "crumbling unfunded schools". The severance tax is paid by oil companies when they extract oil. If North Colorado were to become a reality, most of Colorado's oil revenues would go with it. The new state of North Colorado will be far richer than the parts of Colorado left behind.

Daily Camera.com: : Rep. Diana DeGette draws criticism for "pretty stupid" ammo-magazine comment - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 5 Apr 2013 22:04:39 +0000

Check your facts. According to Gallup you're dead wrong. Deal with it. It's called reality. "Overall, Americans in 2012 remained slightly more likely to identify as conservative (38%) than as moderate (36%) or as liberal (23%), a pattern that reflects the general consistency in ideological self-reports over recent years." http://tinyurl.com/ctlz95p

Daily Camera.com: : Rep. Diana DeGette draws criticism for "pretty stupid" ammo-magazine comment - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:50:53 +0000

Perhaps Diana DeGette's spokesperson's next "clarification" will be more accurate: "The Congresswoman has absolutely no idea of what she's talking about."

Daily Camera.com: : Carl Heck: Our last Republican president started two wars - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:39:14 +0000

Unfunded entitlements are more expensive. Compare the total cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ($1.3 Trillion according to the ANTI-WAR website http://costofwar.com/) against the cost of Obamacare ($2 Trillion according to the PRO OBAMACARE website http://obamacarefacts.com/costof-obamacare.php). I highlight the sources to point out that these are the most "negative" estimates for the Wars and the most "positive" estimates for Obamacare. If you're a progressive, this is as good as it gets. The difference is that the cost of the wars stops the minute we end our engagement while the costs of Obamacare continue to rise over time, a function of population growth and a continually depressed or regressive economy (thanks to Obama's economic policies). When it comes to cost, Obamacare is a loser.... big time.

Daily Camera.com: : Carl Heck: Our last Republican president started two wars - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:24:06 +0000

Has anyone asked Obama if he intends to follow in the footsteps of a previous Democrat president and drop a nuclear bomb? Yes, that question is idiotic, just like Carl Heck's.

Daily Camera.com: : Paul Ryan visits Colorado, raises cash and Democrats ire - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:00:59 +0000

You dedicated more space reporting Permutter's criticism of Ryan than you did on why Ryan was here in the first place. At least your article is a clear example of bias.

Daily Camera.com: : Sean DePaula: Free speech is for people, not corporations - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 2 Mar 2012 05:04:32 +0000

"...the current precedent negatively impacts the validity of our elections..." The precedent that needs to be overturned is the limitation on free speech called McCain-Feingold. Super-PACs exist because of the limits imposed on campaign contributions and spending. For every regulation there is a way around it. It's a pointless game. Union contributions are every bit as corrupting as corporate contributions. Citizens United did nothing more than give corporations the same power unions enjoy, but even that's misleading. Unions don't have "customers", no one will boycott a union because of its politics (especially in states without right-to-work laws). Corporations on the other hand have to worry about alienating customers, so they can't really contribute as freely as unions. The playing field still isn't "level", it's tipped toward the unions. After 20 years of trying to "clean up campaign spending" things are worse than ever. Money will flow into politics no matter what rules are in place, it's madness to pretend otherwise. The only answer is to let people, corporations and unions speak and spend freely, not to pretend "rules" can actually solve the "problem".

Daily Camera.com: : Sean DePaula: Free speech is for people, not corporations - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 2 Mar 2012 04:53:18 +0000

"... the U.S. Supreme Court is being given a second chance to fix the enormous mistake it made..." Perhaps the good liberals in Boulder should take up a collection to send Mr DePaula to Washington so he can school the justices of the Supreme Court in Constitutional Law. I'm sure they're anxious to hear his argument.

Daily Camera.com: : Bill would create database of CU salaries, teaching loads, expenses - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:13:59 +0000

With public money comes public scrutiny. If the faculty and staff of CU don't want the public scrutiny, they should campaign to take the University private. Until then, the people who pay their salaries have a right to know what the salaried workers are doing. I find it amusing that the same people who resist this idea are likely many of the same people who demand complete transparency in the funding of political action groups, even though those groups are privately funded. Hypocrisy anyone?

Daily Camera.com: : Bill would create database of CU salaries, teaching loads, expenses - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:07:59 +0000

Great! You now understand that I know far more than "little if anything" about these issues, and that my statements are not "a litany of falsehoods and misrepresentations" but are the result of personal experience. I will further enlighten you. I now work in the private sector because I wasn't interested in the relatively cushy life in the academic world, I wanted to work in the world of startups and entrepreneurs. I find that very exciting and rewarding. Oops. I guess you didn't want to hear that, did you?

Daily Camera.com: : Bill would create database of CU salaries, teaching loads, expenses - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:10:48 +0000

> My god how dumb does CU think we are.... Very. If you were smart you'd be a professor, right?

Daily Camera.com: : Bill would create database of CU salaries, teaching loads, expenses - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:07:16 +0000

Yes. No. Yes. I now work in the private sector. Many of my friends are full-time faculty members. Next question?

Daily Camera.com: : Bill would create database of CU salaries, teaching loads, expenses - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:22:33 +0000

If CU faculty were underpaid, they'd be anxious for their salaries to be made public so they could generate sympathy for higher wages. (see the post from halehail immediately above as case-in-point) The outcry from the faculty against this proposal is probably driven by guilt over the fact they're overpaid. If their salaries and teaching loads were made public, not only would the taxpayers be less sympathetic to their pleas of impoverishment, but it would call attention to the fact that the faculty has more in common with the 1% than the 99%.

Daily Camera.com: : Bill would create database of CU salaries, teaching loads, expenses - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:12:19 +0000

The salary paid by the state to the Regents and state legislators is already public information. > There is a distinction between a history professor who's salary is paid 100% by CU and an electrical engineering professor who has 40% of his salary paid by a multi-year multi-million dollar research grant. Good point. Perhaps the public interest is better served not by reporting the salaries (which can come from a variety of sources), but by reporting the portion of the salary paid from public money. That's really the intent of the bill, to help the public understand how much of their tax money is being used to pay professors who don't teach or who turn out graduates with degrees in Humanities who can't get jobs but are burdened by huge debt.