Lib/Progs unsurprisingly play race card

This site and its authors have more interesting and important things to do (and say) than respond to gutter techniques of the Leftwing nutjobs in Longmont.   Apparently they aren't getting the attention they need, so as if right on cue they go down the racist route.

On one of their sites (which also ran in the Times-Call) they posted some rantings from a "Tom DeMers" with the line "Makes you wonder if (Glenn) Beck spends his weekends under one of those white hoods."   Always be careful when you see the telltale signs of race baiting when you see other lines like:  "...a socialist African American president with a funny name".  Try as they might to paint everyone who disagrees with President Obama or the liberal/progressive agenda as racists, well, it takes one to know one.

Dems launch propaganda barrage

Obamacare

After turning one-fifth of the nation’s economy, our once-private health-care system, over to the federal government at God only knows what cost and in defiance of the people’s wishes, the Democrats are frantically attempting to save face by unleashing a propaganda barrage the likes of which this country has never seen. Already their clever handiwork is showing up in the local media.

Earth Hour locally ignored

Were you one of the ones who sat in a dark, cold house to commemorate "Earth Hour"?  I can't speak for all of Longmont, but I took an unscientific poll of my neighborhood (my son drove me around in the car I just bought him) and found that 76% of the 97 homes in my area ignored this completely.  And I know that many of the dark homes are in foreclosure, abandoned, or for sale.  I'm also sure many of the people who had their lights on were not even aware of this idea "to raise awareness of climate change issues"  (straight from their website, right next a picture of a smiling Al Gore, hypocrite galore).

I personally hate wasting electricity, seriously.  I'm always the one who goes behind the rest of the family and turns lights off and, embarrassingly, sound like my Mom who used to constantly ask "are we supporting Edison?"  I've found all kinds of creative ways to cut my electricity usage, mostly through automation, programmable dimmers, and the occasional CFL (mainly for the lack of heat they put off).  No government bureaucrat or politician forced me into doing that, and no overzealous enviro-nutjob guilted me into doing it either.

This may shock some people (or not), but I'm fairly non-conformist on most things, part of the reason for the "Advocate" in Longmont Advocate is because often I play devils advocate on most topics, even ones I may completely agree with.  And I really loathe people or groups who feel they need to push their agenda onto me.  If it's good, it doesn't need to be force fed.  Needless to say every possible light was on in my house between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, and it was tough to not naturally go through the house and turn them all of.

When we drove around the area, one thing that made me chuckle were the homes that appeared to be trying to conform (yes, conform) to this simple minded concept and had all their lights off - except for the multiple coach lights in the front.  DOH!  Others it appeared, like me, were going out of their way to make a statement.  What's that statement?

We live in the greatest country ever devised by man, regardless of Flat-Earth-No-Growthers who would just assume we live in mud-huts with no electricity and just an outhouse in which to do our business.  We acknowledge we are grateful and feel damn lucky to be either born here or relocated here by one means or another (preferably legally).  If we wanted darkness and cold, there are more than enough choices in the world to live such a lifestyle, but something tells us those poor people would rather be here (and they'll do it legally or not).  We believe in light and life and will not be goaded by those who hate our country and system of government.  We give of ourselves, our time, and our money to those less fortunate (at a 2 to 1 clip of those same propagandists who demand we live in darkness and despair), for them we show that there is hope, and shine the light that is a beacon for that hope.  Actual hope - not some slick, yet increasingly buffoonish, politician or his blind flock's version of hope (and change).

The above sounds slightly familiar, but not intentionally, so I looked up similar themes on the Internet and lo' and behold here's what I found:  As Ronald Reagan emphasized, "America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere."  And, in his farewell address to the nation, 'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still."

If you choose to make a point by sitting in the dark, and being a beacon for nothing, that is your choice.  

As long as I have a choice, I choose otherwise.

The Left's provocative victimization scheme

You need to make your own determination on what you believe when it comes to these threats supposedly being made on both sides of the political spectrum.  Based on my own experience I (shockingly) tend not to believe our friends on the left, with good reason:  I've caught them lying repeatedly, and have witnessed their tactics first hand.  What's so humorous is when they cry and whine after someone does to them exactly what they were doing previously.

Here's an example of their outright fraud:  I was at the "Porkulus" rally in Denver last year, along with other Longmont residents.  Lurking amongst the crowd was a well known hardcore leftwing agitator, so we watched to see what he was going to do.  A tactic they often use is to show up at something like this or a Tea Party rally, pretend to be one of them, and wave swastikas and say racist things.  It's not hard and comes naturally as many of these leftists are racist bigots at heart - I've seen it and experienced it.  Sure enough, this guy and his group didn't disappoint.

There is no doubt in my mind that is precisely what occurred recently in Washington D.C. during the health care debate and protests.  Case in point is the racial epithets hurled at John Lewis (Dem-GA).  One of two things happened, and this isn't just my opinion:  either a leftist plant hurled that epithet (quite likely), or someone is a liar.  Oh, how I'm sure they wish what was reported actually occurred, of course there's no proof whatsoever, no audio, no video - and there was video being taken of the event.  Why would I say they wished it occurred?  Witness Jesse Jackson Jr panning back and forth trying, imploring anyone to say anything racist.  Much to his chagrin, no one did.

(For the ongoing list of the left's fake hate campaign, read this.)

Then there's our own poor little Betsy Markey, who apparently had her vote bought based on recent advertisements paid for by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU, yes, that SEIU - Democrat strategist Pat Caddell said of them: "What I said about Andy Stern and the SEIU? Sure, they’re thugs").  And now she's receiving threats, or so it's reported.  How very "thuggish", ever thought it was one of your own Betsy?  You should.  Ah, the company you keep.

Actual bullets flew towards a Republican's office (Eric Cantor Rep-VA), not some phoned-in supposed threats from a left winger sitting in his basement in his underwear.  Prior to this incident he'd received letters negatively mentioning his religion (he's the highest elected Jewish politician in the country).  Yep, probably a leftwing nutjob.  Whenever any liberal/progressive feigns outrage at racially motivated incidents like this, or repeatedly reminds you how tolerant they are - don't buy a word of it.  The fact they constantly remind us should tell you something, right?  It's because more often than not it's total bunk.

This feigned outrage by the left I take about as seriously as Al Gore's concern for the planet as he leaves contrails galore in the sky.  I seem to remember 8 years of much worse from them towards President Bush, et al.  Do we really have to make a list of what they said about him, or say, Sarah Palin?  Hey, I almost forgot - they're bigots and sexists, and of course hypocrites.  Maybe some people have forgotten, but not all of us.  So spare me the manufactured outrage.  Then there's the misleading astroturf:  Seen all of those supposed "Republicans" in TC Line decrying Republicans in the health care debate?  Believe it at your own risk - this is yet another tactic of the Lying Left.

My favorite tactic of theirs is to go after something like a church (RMCC, LifeBridge, etc) knowing the church probably won't go after them with the same dirty, ugly zeal the leftists engage in.  And then when anyone comes to a church's defense, oh the humanity!  How could these "good church people" do/say such things?  It's something called being a "provocative victim", can spot it a mile away.  It shows a very infantile mindset, which is par for the course for some of our Longmont examples.

Lastly, another tactic used nationally and locally is this creepy stalking behavior.  Always on the lookout for irony, I laughed when I saw the Times-Call editorial about a guy who took video of someone and posted it on the internet, and paid a steep price for it, and rightly so.  We pretty much can't go anywhere without someone snapping pictures of us and posting them on the web.  Yep, right here in Longmont.  If you are thinking of taking your kids to a public event like a City Council meeting, beware that you and your underage daughter or cub scout may show up on these leftwing nutjobs websites (they have multiple names but are all the same people).  And they brag about it.  Yes, it's all innocent, sort of like those hidden cameras under tables during the anti-LifeBridge petition activities.  

Thankfully, this is yet a small minority of the Democrat Party - I won't say it's all of them, that kind of generalization insults both of us.  I'll just quote Pat Caddell again when he said “What they have created is a world in which there is no dissent. Don’t look at me. Look at [Sen.] Evan Bayh. People, with some justification, may think that I’m crazy. But he is the center of the establishment if there was ever was someone. When there’s no room in the Democratic party for him and there’s no room in the Democratic party for me, and the unions do get to make those kinds of calls in defense of the indefensible, because, ‘We own you,’ well, the Democratic party will be finished.”   

Time to flush 'em out and down the toilet, you Democrats.  Or down the toilet (where they live) you'll soon go to join them. 

(Pic source: politicalhumor.about.com/registeredmedia.com/notwhileiameating.com)

Failed councilmember crawls out from under hole

Ya know, I was just going to let the creative rewriting of history last week in the Times-Call Open Forum go.  But now this nonsense has spread to the Denver Post and the Longmont Ledger.  In some kind of feeble attempt to rehabilitate a destroyed public image (and for good reason), former Longmont City Councilmember Karen Benker has found time to comment on two of her monumental failures - and the main reasons why she was trounced in last Novembers election by Katie Witt.  Speaking of which, she still hasn't conceded or congratulated the victor of that race.  An opponent she laughed at and her clueless compadre Sean McCoy called a "city council wannabe".  Better than a "city council hasbeen" I guess.

Along with Ms. Benkers followers who prayed (to what God I have no idea) for Twin Peaks Mall owner Panattoni's demise, she has the gall to say "it's a good thing" the city didn't get involved with them.  No, it's because of the dismal former Bloc of 4 that stalled things that we still don't have a theater there or much of anything else.  It's fitting that she uses the words "dead shopping center" after she publicly proclaimed it a "dying mall" - she should know, she helped kill it.  Twin Peaks Mall was Karen Benker's "Waterloo" (a popular phrase these days), and she paid the deserved price at the ballot.

Further showing her completely out of touch attitude, she says we should just plop down millions of dollars and buy some or all of the property.  HELLO, thanks to her previous council's wasteful spending we aren't exactly flush with money, how misinformed does someone have to be to not know THAT?  A show of hands...how many people think the City of Longmont has millions of dollars, say $15 million, to shell out on this?  Anyone?  Didn't think so.

And the nerve to put her and the Bloc of 4's failure on this new council by asking, get this, "So does this new council have the vision and energy to get Twin Peaks Mall revitalized?"  And the ending is even better, "Or will it make excuses, dither some more...".   This is the absolute LAST person to ask this question.  Maybe she should have asked that question of herself when she was the swing vote that basically put the mall exactly where it is right now.

And then there's the Denver Post story about church growth creating conflict.  Out from a prairie dog hole comes Ms. Benker again, who up to this point has been "unavailable for comment" for Times-Call stories about, well, anything to do with Longmont, but is more than up for some church bashing in the Post.  The Longmont Ledger just copied and pasted this story, where it magically added another reporter, Electra Draper.  (Side note:  why is this publication still around?  All I get in my RSS feeds from them are obituaries, pet adoptions, and copied stories from other newspapers.  That, and wasted free papers up and down my neighborhood).

This story is chock full of laugh-worthy lines.  "Former Longmont City Councilwoman Karen Benker said she consulted with several pastors in the community before she cast the only "no" vote against annexing (LifeBridge)."   Huh?  Later on she says "I take my faith very seriously.  But I don't regret my vote at all. This wasn't a church issue; it wasn't a religious issue..."  IF IT WASN'T A RELIGIOUS ISSUE, THEN WHY DID YOU CONSULT SEVERAL PASTORS?  Or do they have this up to now unknown special knowledge and insight on annexations and residential and commercial development?  I wonder how many of these pastors disagreed with her, but considering she knows better she just ignored those voices.  Personally I'm doubting the entire "consulting" thing, or it was one of those screwball churches that worship cheese and dirt.

She wasn't done yet:  "So many churches have a mission of helping the sick and incarcerated and, in my opinion, they shouldn't be building strip malls," and she knew LifeBridge wasn't going to do that - or was incredibly uninformed.  LifeBridge said a developer would do that, and sure enough, as the Post story reported, they've transferred that very land for that very purpose.  She's wrong (along with her hairbrained followers) and LifeBridge was truthful.  But a large majority of voters already figured that.


It's a damn good thing that people like Ms. Benker in her capacity as city councilmember, and entities like "What's In It For Longmont" and the hateful crowd that now populate their spun off "FreeRange Longmont" website can't be sued into oblivion by a group like LifeBridge (or can they?).  But since Longmont, thanks to the above, has lost just about every decision regarding LifeBridge, it will be the City of Longmont who pays LifeBridge's and Firestone's legal fees.  Which means we all will be paying those fees.  I don't see the church going after them to recoup that money, they don't have to.  But maybe the taxpayers who are picking up the tab (and that's all us residents) should demand justice and get some of that money back.

This whole debacle has given Longmont a black eye that will be talked about for decades.  Never forget who led these people in their quest against a Longmont church, that one "no" vote, the one who hosted petition parties against this church at her house as a sitting councilmember, the one who attended WIIFL meetings and bake sales, and who made sure Twin Peaks would become a "dying mall".  Longmont voters "consulted" facts and common sense and gave Karen Benker the boot.


I cannot tell you how many times city employees, from all levels, have come up to me since the election and are ecstatic that she is gone.  I am not exaggerating.  Everything you heard about her (much of it here) was true...and worse!  Even I was surprised, as hard to believe as that may be.  I even held back repeating some of the truly nasty rumors that were circulating.  I never mentioned her "faith" (don't know, don't care) nor was I the one who was incorrectly identified as posting that "Kill The Christians" nightie.  Yet another lie from her leftwing nutjob brigade.

So Longmont, pat yourself on the back.  You did yourself a much bigger favor than you realize in changing the makeup of the city council.  Now follow through and remove the remaining remnants of the Benker Bloc in 2011.  Think of it as unfinished surgery where you accidentally left a couple of tumors behind.  

Open letter to Betsy "Pelosi" Markey

I received the following from Chris Treharne of Longmont Watch, a local political advocacy group, and am only too happy to repeat it here.  Feel free to contact Congresswoman Betsy Markey about this issue, never forgetting she votes about 90% of the time with the absolute worse elements of Congress, including her apparent idol and often face-lifted Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi (nod Mark Levin).  Here's to hoping the unemployment rate in Colorado goes up by one in November (for you sarcastically challenged Progressives/Socialists/various miscreants, that one being Markey).

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I am terribly distressed to hear that you are changing your vote on healthcare, which you voted against last year.  Voting for this bill will hurt the very constituency it allegedly will help by endangering the economic and political future of our country.  The unintended consequences will be tragic.

I truly cannot imagine the political pressure to which you are subjected.  Nonetheless, I see you change in position as further evidence of the corruption, alienation and detachment of our national government.

Even when I have legitimate policy differences with others, I try to be sympathetic toward them because I recognize that leadership roles always carry great burdens and demand great personal sacrifices.  Nonetheless, be assured that I will do all I can to make sure you are not reelected as my Congressional representative.  I pledge to you that I will campaign for, raise money for, contribute personal funds to, and vote for the opposing candidate.

I am angry, disgusted and disappointed at your change in position.

I am blind copying my 100+ person political advocacy distribution list hoping that many of them will forward my email to you or otherwise express their concerns about your change in position.  I’m also encouraging them to forward my email to their friends hoping they, too, will express their concern with your actions.

Chris Treharne

Longmont Watch

Losers just can't stop losing

Talk about a losing streak!  A Times-Call Open Forum letter from recent City Council loser Karen Benker and some comments in the always entertaining comment section at the TC online website got me to thinking.  Fellow LA contributor Dave Larison and I have been throwing back and forth the growing list of failures and defeat of the Longmont leftwing losers - sort of like how a pair of cats toss around a dead or dying mouse.  

But let us count the ways these people, who are absolutely wrong for Longmont (aka Wrongmont ©me), have been incorrect and on the losing side of just about everything.  And this is just from last November!

1. LOST 4 council seats up for election, including Mayor.  This one had to sting, especially the unexpected defeat of their Queen Bee Benker.  Remember how they scoffed and laughed early on at the odds of Katie Witt pulling this off?
2. LOST County Issues 1A & 1B (Open Space Tax and ClimateSmart extensions).  You could almost hear the jaws hitting the floor on this one.
3. LOST Times-Call Open Meetings suit.  Here's yet another one these screwballs incorrectly handicapped, repeatedly. 
4. LOST  Longmont Fair Campaign Practices Act (LFCPA) suit.  Since I was part of this suit, this was especially gratifying, again, mostly because of the uninformed buffoons who said we'd never win in Federal court.  Or what the victory actually meant, for all, not just the plaintiffs.
5. LOST to FAA over prairie dogs at airport.  Plain old common sense won out on this one, really a no-brainer.  How dare human safety trump rodent hugging.
6. My appointment to the Airport Advisory Board.  This is really 5a, but it was hilarious watching these fools make, well, fools out of themselves trying to get me booted off this board.  We voted unanimously to support #5 by the way.
7. HeavenFest permit approved.  They spent a lot of political capital (not that they had any to spend) on this issue, FAIL.  They're new lame little website is pretty much devoted (pun intended) to this issue - that and copying other news sources, sort of like what the Longmont Ledger does.
8. Losing the LifeBridge/Firestone issue.  Now Firestone has annexed a path directly to the LifeBridge/Union development.  Just about anyone could see this coming, but I'm sure they cried in their latte's over this news.
9. Losing the Rocky Mountain Christian Church (RMCC) issue.  Remember, regardless of #7, #8 and this, they aren't anti-Christian or anti-religious!  Just keep on telling us that, maybe someone actually believes it.  This is another issue that just keeps being dragged through the courts, and the losers just keep losing.  Getting a trend here?  They want to financially bleed those they want to get rid of, very Stalinist, and not so "of the people". 

So when you see and hear them make their predictions, usually with some pseudonym on the TC's website or their own, keep in mind they've been incorrect on just about everything.  Scratch the "just about" part of that last sentence.  Picture an echo chamber with screwballs yelling at each other and you just about have it right.  But they sure are a good lookin' bunch - not.

Who's antigovernment?

With the demise of the Rocky Mountain News, no major newspaper is left in the Denver market to duke it out politically with The Denver Post on a day-to-day basis. Naturally, the Post’s opinion pages have swung even farther to the left, and the March 7 “Perspective” section is a good example.

Front and center, Post editorial writer Alicia Caldwell sings the virtues of renewable energy sources (RES), replete with a panorama of a massive installation of ugly solar panels shown against the background of our beautiful Rocky Mountains. It makes no sense for us taxpayers in Boulder County to have gone into debt for one-hundred-and-ninety-eight million dollars to buy open space for the alleged purpose of protecting the environment, when cluttering up the landscape and wildlife habitat with RES devices (panels, windmills, wires, poles) so clearly defeats that purpose.

Another photo shows solar panels installed on a roof. But nowhere does Caldwell, or the author of a backup commentary, explain who will pay for removing and replacing the panels when the roof needs to be re-shingled. Who will divert the hailstorms?

Typical of the Post’s disdain for conservative thought, Caldwell wastes no time in scolding Republicans for asking questions about this huge, costly government program which, of course, is based on the shaky science of global warming, and she does so in her second paragraph.

Then we turn inside to the Post’s editorial page editor’s column where Dan Haley continues the Post’s incessant war on TABOR, branding as extremists Coloradans who use the initiative process to protect themselves and their property from the relentless overreaching of state and local governments. Far from being antigovernment and knowing that money does not grow on trees, these people are interested mainly in seeing that their hard-earned tax dollars are spent wisely.

Here we have Haley trying to picture Sam Mamet, personable head of the Colorado Municipal League, as a “leader in fighting the forces of extremism.” But the CML, funded entirely by the taxpayers, is one of the most extreme political forces around as it lobbies the state Legislature on behalf of Colorado’s towns and cities for increases in taxes and fees from everybody else. CML’s own headquarters building at 1144 Sherman Street in downtown Denver, valued officially at over $1.5 million, will never be affected because it is tax exempt.

In this year alone, CML escapes from paying about $30,000 in property taxes into the schools and city and county of Denver. Now that is truly antigovernment.

Here’s to the late Sue O’Brien: The Post’s editorial page will never be the same.

ADDENDUM: Affiliated Media Inc., parent company of Dean Singleton’s MediaNews group, the second largest newspaper chain in the U.S., which locally owns and operates The Denver Post, Boulder Daily Camera/Longmont Ledger and Broomfield Enterprise, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy this month. Under a reorganization plan approved by a federal judge in Delaware, a $930 million debt was reduced to $165 million, with Bank of America and Wells Fargo ending up with 89 percent of the reorganized company’s stock.

This week, the Freedom Communications chain, headquartered in Orange County, CA and longtime publisher of the Colorado Springs Gazette, also went through Chapter 11 proceedings in Delaware. Its debt of $770 million was reduced to $325 million, with J.P. Morgan Chase Bank ending up with a majority of that reorganized company’s stock.

In both cases, Wall Street banks that are now deeply intertwined with and obligated to the federal government via the administration’s bailouts, will be big players in the communications game. This is not good news for the First Amendment.

Longmont LEFT caught lying again

Over at the Longmont Advocate-wannabe website (oh, I have to say their name as obviously inept as they are they need all the help they can get: Free Range Longmont), they've now resorted to flat out lies and complete fabrications for content.  I'm sure it will be pulled down once they figure out someone has "punked" them, but this is more of the comedy gold that the Loony Left Without A Clue is purporting as a "source for news".

A Wendell Wyler, probably a fake name, and more likely one of the loons we know and love, reports (and I use that term loosely) that the Longmont Examiner (who happens to be my wife) was, get this, "last seen skulking around the recent Coffee with Council – I use the word ’skulking’ because the Examiner didn’t go inside but rather remained outside in a vehicle".  

ROFL, please, do tell, what kind of vehicle was it?

Oh, the paranoia gets better with this gem: "It’s been suggested (LOL, by who?) that the only reason someone would sit in a parking lot for an entire meeting would be to record the event clandestinely with the help of a second party."  And who might that be?  Again, please do tell!

There's only one itsy bitsy little problem with this typically deranged charge and theory - she was at home with me at the time!  She didn't go to this meeting!  Oh, my side is killing me.  I do enjoy these fits of laughter at the expense of these complete buffoons.  Sort of like their recent charges that I'm anonymously posting on the Times-Call - NEWSFLASH, It ain't me who's posting what you think.  I don't need to, I can do it here or there under my website name.  Do I hold anything back here or under my own name anywhere to the point that I'd need to post anything anonymously?  Seriously?

These are the kinds of amateurish screw-ups that doom sites from ever being taken seriously, not that this one ever had a prayer of that.  I'm sure the story will disappear without a correction, and definitely without an apology (they did charge that because of this incorrectly reported story that the Longmont Examiner lacks manners - pot meet kettle, hahaha).

But this whole episode raises a couple of questions and concerns:  1) Since that wasn't the Longmont Examiner they were scoping out and was just some innocent bystander sitting in a parking lot, who was this poor person and why where these people stalking and keeping tabs on them?  That paranoia is going to get you in trouble.  And 2) Who fed them this "information", and who is this Wendell Wyler who wrote about it?

I've got 3 guesses who this Wendell is, but I need to verify who was at this Coffee With Council - since neither one of us were there.  The line at the end "if you see me, you can be assured my camera/recorder will be in plain sight" clearly points to the private-citizen-and-child photographing Doug Wray (and never forget the camcorder-under-the-table-at-skirt-height at the anti-LifeBridge petition gathering), which drips with irony (yep, I love pointing out irony, in addition to hypocrisy and double standards, I can't help it if readers copy my words) since he charged me with writing under a pseudonym.  But I also heard that John Bigger (who's gone by "Griffin Dunne" in a couple of publications, and "James" during a radio call-in show) was at this Coffee With Council.

Does that name sound familiar?  It should if you've followed this site and my podcast.  I promoted and played his former band repeatedly on my podcast/website.  But the Biggers' Obama/Benker Infatuation got the better of them and they put a liberal/progressive jihad out on my wife and I.  They even recruited (thankfully) former friends in this quest.  This is what these type of people do, and now they hang with even nastier, stalking types.  

Yes, this goes on right here in Longmont, sorry to report.  You're best treating these people as if they are covered in cow dung - if you get too close you'll feel as if you rolled around in it yourself.

Longmont LEFT out of Heaven(Fest)

A self-described "charlatan of limited understanding" tried to plead his case for Longmont to halt the permit process of the HeavenFest Christian concert festival at Union Reservoir.  This was the disconnected, fanatical, deranged, lunatic (or fill in your own adjective) fringe at its finest.  The video is worth watching, along with the hilarious commentary, which you can see at this YouTube link. 

The speaker is non-Longmont resident Duane Leise, who is also the registered agent for "What's In It For Longmont?", the LLC that's currently listed as delinquent with the Colorado Secretary of State, which is ironic in and of itself as these same people were just seen recently picketing a reception for a Secretary of State candidate.  The other names in the LLC filing should sound somewhat familiar:  M. Douglas Wray, Kaye Fissinger, and Anita Lynch, sort of a who's who (more like a what's that?) of the Longmont leftwing scene.

We keep being told by them that their problem is not with religion or "the good people" who attend certain churches, so are we supposed to take it as a coincidence that they almost exclusively target churches?  Examples:

• LifeBridge Christian Church - where to start, they got their name and reason for existence because of the Union annexation and development.  But they couldn't stop at agreeing to disagree, there was no level they wouldn't stoop to.  This has been written about here and other places ad nauseum, and all they accomplished was pushing a church out of Longmont into the welcoming hands of Firestone with probably lower property taxes (not in Boulder County) and more lenient building codes (like sign height limitations).  

• Rocky Mountain Christian Church - the same hate filled diatribes aimed at LifeBridge were also voiced by these same people in the case of this church's expansion plans.

• Front Range Christian Fellowship Church - the church by the Super Walmart they went after because of its very modest expansion plans.  Remember this article and YouTube video of Councilmember Sean McCoy making his usual cheap shots?  That was followed up by Kaye Fissinger making her usual demands from the podium.                ...and now

• HeavenFest - they are using every medium available to put a stop to this Christian-based concert festival: their own new website, Longmont Ledger, local radio, city council speakers, etc.  Sounds like it's all for nothing as City Council wont even vote on this and the permit should be issued any day now.

 I bring the anti-religious angle up because as you see in the video, this crank complains that people have called him an atheist for being against the LifeBridge development.  Maybe they have, but that's not why people find this group detestable (notice he didn't deny it?).  I personally don't care what the religion or politics are of these people or anyone else for that matter.  It's the intent and actions that speak louder.  These people, which include most of the others who have recently spoken out against HeavenFest, aren't content with just making their case - they have to go into character assassination of the groups they are fighting against or people who may not agree with them.      

Just look at the rants on their websites (those that haven't been deleted, that is) and how they talk at City Council meetings.  It's no wonder the two candidates they've put up for election (Kaye Fissinger and WIIFL co-founder Richard Juday) were trounced in their run for city council.  Yet all you'll hear is that we just had a low voter turnout - who's stopping their supporters from voting?  Yep, it's nonsense.  Fact is they don't have the support they think they do - they're screwballs in the eyes of most normal, rational people in the city.

So, remember, laugh when you hear them say "this has nothing to do with religion".  Or better yet, make a drinking game out of it!  

(I invite commenters to help me recall the names of the people who have spoken out against the bulleted points above)

Carbon Dioxide Has Lost Its "Footprint"

The following is a guest editorial by Longmont resident Alf Modahl.  This appeared in the February 26, 2010 Times-Call and is used with permission by Mr. Modahl, who is a retired atmospheric scientist and mechanical engineer.  Also, a thanks goes out to our own Percy Conarroe for getting in touch with Mr. Modahl about this excellent article.  Enjoy.  (emphasis added by me)

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We now know that global warming carbon-dioxide theory failed nature's supreme test, which unfortunately involved reality. The computer-derived theory held that as atmospheric carbon-dioxide content increased, it would cause increasing global temperature due to radiative effects. But actual measurements over a 15 year period showed that a significant increase in carbon-dioxide resulted in no warming; in fact a slight cooling may have occurred. Because historical data shows that global temperature rises first, and then after an average of 800 years, carbon-dioxide content peaks, raising the question,why didn't carbon-dioxide rise first if it causes temperature to rise, as claimed?

                                            
A possible explanation for this contrary, but real behavior is provided by the following: like  carbonated 7-Up or beer bubbling as it warms up, a warming ocean cannot hold as much dissolved carbon-dioxide in solution and the carbon-dioxide is progressively released from the water. (See any chemistry textbook on solubility of gases in fluids as a function of temperature. Reference Henry' s Law, which was proposed and confirmed about two hundred years ago).  So if the ocean warms from some natural source, like sunlight, carbon-dioxide is released into the atmosphere, as observed.

Carbon-dioxide is one of the least effective greenhouse gases from the standpoint of radiative heat-trapping effectiveness, but it is the linchpin of global warming theory. Methane is about 25 times more effective as a greenhouse gas than carbon-dioxide, and water vapor/cloud particles is at least 100 times more effective. Politicians would have considerable difficulty in taxing water vapor, even though it is a much greater global warming villain.

The earth's history is replete with instances of hotter/colder periods on both short and long term time scales. Some warmer than the present period, and all without man's participation. How could greater than five thousand feet of ice depth over Chicago melt without SUVs, as George Will put it?

Doesn’t endorsing global warming theory seem impractical, if not foolish, in consideration of the historical fact that mankind prospered and advanced during warm periods and starved and perished during cold periods? Especially so in recognition of the fact that carbon-dioxide is essential for life and a necessary fertilizer for enhanced plant growth. Think trees.

It is worth asking why carbon-dioxide was singled out by the United Nations as the greenhouse gas to vilify and control in the first place, considering its low ranking in effectiveness. Could it be the ready availability of industrial and energy usage information (the “footprint” highly coordinated with carbon-dioxide) needed in order to identify, tax, and control the guilty producers? Perhaps it is all about requiring buying overpriced, interruptible, renewable energy from young politicians, rather than reliable energy from  traditional widows and orphans.

Certainly it is all about trying to extract trillions from all Americans, destroying our prosperity and freedoms for no valid reason. Europeans are already bowing to such impositions and are discovering considerable inefficiencies and economic distress. We can all be thankful that carbon-dioxide has lost it's trillions-of-dollars "footprint"! Go "Cap and Trade"! Just Go.