gdp's Comments

Daily Camera.com: : Outcry from CU-Boulder students about limited seating at GOP debate - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:22:04 +0000

I can't imagine the effort that must have gone into that thoughtful analysis...

Daily Camera.com: : No debating it; GOP event at CU-Boulder to have select audience - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:45:57 +0000

Who said they'd take questions from the audience?

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder County GOP to be in national spotlight — ready or not - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:37:26 +0000

Not the smartest on the planet, but we don't lack for hubris, as anyone can see but the locals....

Daily Camera.com: : Outcry from CU-Boulder students about limited seating at GOP debate - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:18:49 +0000

I've been wondering the same thing, for 15 years...

Daily Camera.com: : Outcry from CU-Boulder students about limited seating at GOP debate - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:14:17 +0000

Right, because a small crowd correlates with only being interested in wealthy white men. I guess that leads to a lot of classist racism inside school courses. "What? You only allow in 30-40 students? You rich snobs! I don't care if most of the class is Latino. Check your privilege!"

Daily Camera.com: : Bob Greenlee: It\'s time to re-think Boulder\'s muni scheme - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 13 Sep 2015 01:19:40 +0000

This confirms what I finally came to suspect (after going down a blind alley or two): The City had no frickin clue what it was doing. The City made claims that it wanted to keep its plans secret so as to increase its leverage in negotiations with Xcel. The reality was it thought if it was transparent, enough people would figure this out, and not want to go "forward." (Running in place is more like it.) You've correctly identified that Boulder is a faith-based community. So I think we can all predict without effort that the City will not stop pursuing this dead end. I can't remember when, but I remember Shaun McGrath saying something interesting about this, probably before he joined the Obama Admin., that, "We don't know what form the municipal utility will ultimately take." I remember he suggested something that sounded quite modest as a possibility, nothing like creating a city utility. I don't remember what it was exactly. It seemed something on the order of providing a city subsidy or loans for homeowners to install their own renewables, but don't quote me on that. That, and expanding "Smart Regs" may be what we ultimately get out of this. And don't complain about the money involved, and what it could've been used to do instead. This is Boulder. We have money to burn like you wouldn't believe! This is just our version of "Bonfire of the Vanities"!

Daily Camera.com: : Bob Greenlee: It\'s time to re-think Boulder\'s muni scheme - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:43:30 +0000

"NO-vember = NO Occupation Tax = NO Muni" I voted against it when it first came up, and I'll vote against it again. The funny thing is when it first came up, the City made this claim that, "You know, with past referenda to renew taxes, we talked about how if they weren't approved, library hours might be reduced. Well now we really mean it. If the Occ. Tax isn't approved, library hours will have to be reduced." We approved the tax. I've been a rather frequent patron of the Boulder Public Library, and I learned a few months ago that library hours were reduced... The City lost that leverage. I'm sure they'll make some other empty claim to scare people, explaining forces that have nothing to do with tax revenue.

Daily Camera.com: : Gerry Valentine: The lesson the GOP is here to teach - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 30 Aug 2015 12:11:50 +0000

Knew about this already. You only bring this up because you think it can distract from the idea he expresses, since you think we're such moralizers. If Dinesh were a Democrat, you wouldn't give a rat's ass about it. Dinesh was separated from his wife when this happened, BTW.

Daily Camera.com: : Robert Porath: A much of our own making - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:00:54 +0000

I agree, but the term used is a misnomer. hydrocarbons do not contain "fossilized water." They contain hydrogen atoms, along with carbon atoms (hence the name). We'd have the same issue if we went with hydrogen fuel cells. We get most of our hydrogen from oil. Combine that with oxygen, and you'd get water vapor that did not previously exist in our biosphere.

Daily Camera.com: : Bob Greenlee: World Affairs Interruptus? - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:25:36 +0000

Having attended a few CWA events in the 2000's, I could see the criticism of it being a "progressive love-fest" as accurate. I looked over the events schedules, and looking at the titles, subject summaries, and who was on the panels, it seemed that 90% of it was just that. Typically I'd find 2 or 3 panel discussions each year that looked like they were worth the time and effort to attend, not because they featured anything politically moderate or conservative, but because they were the few that seemed to take an issue seriously, and had people who valued knowledge on those subjects on the panels to discuss them. I'd get something out of those few half the time. Each year I'd look and see, "Is there more of this quality," and sadly I'd see there wasn't. Each year, after I'd attended a few of the good panels, I'd skip the rest. I couldn't explain this disparity in quality, except to think that there was a heavy political influence in the event planning, and an unserious disposition towards knowledgeable discussion. It seemed that a lot of the events were oriented around merging an issue with "entertainment value," to keep things light and shallow. I'd be in favor of keeping the CWA around if I could see movement towards making it an event that cared about substance, rather than ego stroking.

Daily Camera.com: : Jason Katzman: Study shows change caused by man not a certainty - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 21 Jul 2015 05:18:39 +0000

You're asking for scientific reasoning from these folks. As you can see, that's a bridge too far for them. All you will ever get from them is "respect mah authoritah!!!"

Daily Camera.com: : Ulla Hester: Keep Boulder special - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 3 Jul 2015 07:04:36 +0000

I agree with you, though I think what the other side would say in response is Boulder businesses need to get employees bus passes, and encourage growth in RTD bus routes, or carpool. I have not seen them have sympathy for car drivers, nor businesses, no matter the circumstances, even though if you look at the traffic Boulder has, there is no doubt that many people here use them. The only question is perhaps a lot of those car drivers come in from out of town, in which case Boulder residents would rather get rid of the traffic jam they see every day along 36 by telling the car drivers to "take a hike."

Daily Camera.com: : Ulla Hester: Keep Boulder special - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 3 Jul 2015 06:50:44 +0000

FYI, I didn't just arrive yesterday. I've lived in Boulder since 1980. I very much liked being here from then until about the late '90s, and then Boulder's character worsened from then on (IMO). I had no complaints about it until then. Back in the '90s, while Boulder was to the left of center for as long as I could remember, there was a conservative presence here. Conservative, business-oriented members of our community served on the City Council. They were never the majority, but they had a voice. There always seemed to be about 3 of them on Council. Bob Greenlee, a Republican, was actually mayor here for a bit back then, which I considered a damn miracle. I never thought I'd see the day. That's gone, though. As far as I'm concerned, George Karakehian is the last of the conservatives on Council. It's been my suspicion that the town I loved was supplanted by residents who moved here from CA (which has experienced a population drain for the past 20 years) and other parts of the country, which have moved it politically farther left than what I remember. I've met people who say they've been here for 50 or 60 years, and they love what's happened to the place. So people who are long-time residents can disagree about what the ideal Boulder would be.

Daily Camera.com: : Ulla Hester: Keep Boulder special - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 3 Jul 2015 06:30:46 +0000

http://www.dailycamera.com/editorials/ci_28325209...

Daily Camera.com: : Chris Hoffman: The ethical opportunity in climate change - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 3 Jul 2015 02:01:58 +0000

If scientists do not know how to test a hypothesis, there is no point in demanding, "Show me a better way." That's like asking a physicist to demonstrate warp drive. They don't know how yet. Just because they don't know, does not mean that warp drive exists, or is possible.

Daily Camera.com: : Chris Hoffman: The ethical opportunity in climate change - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 3 Jul 2015 01:55:33 +0000

Another possibility is it may not matter if emissions are changed or not. Human influence may have no discernible effect, since natural forcing may drown it out as noise.

Daily Camera.com: : Chris Hoffman: The ethical opportunity in climate change - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 2 Jul 2015 22:15:43 +0000

"We know it's more than we're paying, since we're paying precisely dick." No, that was 123's point. We don't know squat about what could be considered negative impact of climate change. You know what you think is consequent damage, but that does not take into consideration what other people besides yourself think about it. As for "paying dick," we're paying precisely dick for Earth's warping of space-time, and the fact that 8 planets orbit the Sun. You're trying to make a point without an argument. "Your argument, however, means unless we are prescient, we do nothing. That's not a credible reaction." Sure it is. If my basement isn't flooding, I don't need to spend money to hire a remediation service to pump out the basement, and I don't need to hire a decontamination crew to clean it out, either. In your argument, I should do that regardless, because even though I don't know whether my basement is flooding or not, it will somehow reduce my costs. That's nonsensical.

Daily Camera.com: : Chris Hoffman: The ethical opportunity in climate change - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 2 Jul 2015 21:48:47 +0000

Probably the reason they call it "revenue neutral" is they say they'll provide a subsidy for those who can't afford the resulting price increase. How noble of them.

Daily Camera.com: : Chris Hoffman: The ethical opportunity in climate change - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 2 Jul 2015 21:46:28 +0000

I think what you mean is that it sets a price floor...just like the minimum wage, come to think of it. To progressives, it's a good idea, just like putting a massive tax on cigarettes. Though, since they've set it so high, it's encouraged a black market in cigarettes, called "loosies." That's what caused the confrontation that got Eric Garner killed. Rather than focus on that, it's "institutional racism," "I can't breathe" (or is it "hands up, don't shoot"?...) Price fixing is when parties that compete agree to keep their prices within a range, and they tell each other what their prices are going to be so the others can adjust theirs accordingly.

Daily Camera.com: : Mike Dorsey: Leave the county out of the muni - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 21 May 2015 01:42:21 +0000

Unfortunately, I think you're right. It's also called "sunk cost."