http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5Interesting football weekend ahead. Not one ranked team is playing another ranked team. Which I guess makes it sort of un-interesting. Oh well. The Longhorns are playing either 'Bama or Florida for the National Champsionship so no worries, right? But Yogi Berra was on to something with his fam...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~689743.aspx11/19/2009 3:03:20 PMBrian Olson Oops. For the second time in a little over a year, the FAA has suffered a computer "glitch" in a system that can best be described as "Antiquated." Today's problem involved having to file flight plans manually. Lucky for those flying next weekend (which includes our family) it didn't happen t...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~689248.aspx11/19/2009 8:40:10 AMBrian Olson Well, well, well. A government "commission" reports that woman don't need to worry about having a mamogram until they're 50. Response has been quick. This is an early version of rationed health care. Who is this government panel? Who the heck knows. Very likely bureaucrats. The same folk...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~688578.aspx11/18/2009 8:33:06 AMBrian Olson World Leaders had been expected to gather in Copenhagen next month and all sign landmark legislation to put an end to this pesk global warming thing. They'll still gather, but nothing will be agreed upon, other than to put it off. It's a Kyoto thing. Or a Scarlet O'Hara thing. Fiddley Dee. Onc...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~688037.aspx11/17/2009 9:23:47 AMBrian Olson (Disparate Housewives/Desperate Housewives? The TV show? Never mind.) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disparate : Main Entry: dis·pa·rate 1 : containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements 2 : markedly distinct in quality or character ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~687862.aspx11/16/2009 10:05:02 PMJohn R HolmesAttorney General Holder wants to try the 9-11 terrorists in Federal Court in New York City. Yes, the same guy who called us a nation of cowards. I guess the whole idea is to show what a free and open court process we have before we execute the SOB's. Nonsense. These are military prisoners and ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~687602.aspx11/16/2009 9:59:53 AMBrian Olson Here's what to do... Take the terrorists to New York. Put them in a big, empty room with no windows, no cameras, no restrictions. Let anyone with a family member murdered or maimed on 9/11 into the room with them for one hour. See how they fare during one hour with those whose lives they des...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~687229.aspx11/13/2009 6:17:26 PMRoxanne Harrington I wonder how Darryl K, Royal, or Knute Rockne or Bear Bryant would feel about championships decided by computers? My guess is it wouldn't be positive. There would be adult words used. Things would be thrown. It would not be pleasant. Which brings me to the B(c)S. Take the Texas Longhorns for e...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~686294.aspx11/12/2009 3:00:17 PMBrian Olson With unemployment officially at 10.2%, and in reality north of 17%, President Obama wants to hold a Jobs Summit. Aka a Photo Op. It will be visual with all sorts of politicos and "business leaders" pre-selected to rubber stamp anything the Democrats have in mind. Sadly, many people will drink ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~686105.aspx11/12/2009 9:45:59 AMBrian Olson In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we l...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~685541.aspx11/11/2009 7:47:09 AMBrian Olson When I first heard about 3 Americans hiking in Iraq near the Iranian border my first reaction was "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???" Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, all graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, were arrested July 31 after straying over the Iranian border from no...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~683486.aspx11/9/2009 10:41:20 AMBrian Olson November 9th was the 20th anniversary of the toppling of the Berlin Wall. The commemoration was attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medyedev, French President Nichlas Sarkozy, England Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former head of the Polish Solidarity movement Le...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~684182.aspx11/10/2009 9:23:29 AMJohn R HolmesDIA's manager Kim Day was supposed to visit with Denver City Council last week to talk about the proposed $1 Billion expansion at the airport. I know, a Billion Bucks ain't much these days, but it's still more than I make in a year. When DIA's Chief Financial Officer Stan Koniz raised a few qu...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~682409.aspx11/5/2009 1:44:06 PMBrian Olson Thanks to this morning's Denver Post, I'm a new woman. I learned I'm not a Baby Boomer - as I've thought for years - but a Gen X'er. I'm not sure how Post came up with the division of years that determine who gets what label: Gen Y spans just 15 years, Gen X 20, the Baby Boomers 19 and the Gre...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~683389.aspx11/8/2009 8:35:55 PMJane Reuter The House of Representatives passed their version of the health care reform bill last night. Thank goodness that a majority of the thugs and looters controlling our government have prevailed in a free and democratic society. The vote was 220 to 215, with 218 required for a majority. The 220 mea...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~683294.aspx11/8/2009 7:01:05 AMJohn R HolmesDuring the last month, I have struggled to nearly the final page of Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth." It's not a difficult read, but a weighty one, with time needed between chapters for thought. And in my case, a sprinkling of fiction to offset the intensity of Tolle's ideas. This book was ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~682846.aspx11/6/2009 10:42:19 AMJane Reuter Ok ,Texas and Florida fans, book your flights and hotels for Pasadena. It's the 'Horns vs the Gators for the National Champsionship. To quote the great Lee Corso, "Not so fast my friend." There is no doubt in my mind that there is any sense of complacency in the minds of Mack Brown, Urban Meye...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~682310.aspx11/5/2009 11:54:32 AMBrian Olson Imagine you're playing one of those multi-million dollar Texas Hold 'em Tournaments in Las Vegas and you're holding a Royal Flush. It's just you and one other player and again, you're holding the highest hand in the land. Millions sit in the pot. How can you lose? It seems the Obama Administra...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~681740.aspx11/4/2009 10:18:49 AMBrian Olson Both parties are well into their spin cycles are last night's election results in New Jersey, Virginia and New York. GOPhad big wins in Virginia and New Jersey, the Dems hung on to New York 23. Blah, Blah, Blah. Here's what I've figured out. Next year's 'Off Year" elections will be the year of...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~681453.aspx11/3/2009 2:23:05 PMBrian Olson DID YOU LISTEN TO MSNBC THIS MORNING? WHAT'S THAT? CRITICISM OF BARNEY FRANK? WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? IT'S JOBS, STUPID? HMMM?THE IDEA OF MORE TAXES ISN'T BEING EMBRACED? VOTERS DIDN'T FALL AT THE FEET OF THOSE ENDORSED BY THE MIGHTY ORATOR? I think I'll have a cup of tea and enjoy the moment....http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~681683.aspx11/4/2009 7:24:29 AMRoxanne Harrington Next year all of the House of Representatives and 1/3 of the Senate are up for re-election. Regardless of your party affiliation, here's something to keep in mind. Unlike us, none of THEM pay Social Security. That's because they don't get Social Security. They have a "Pension." Some long term...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~681359.aspx11/3/2009 11:45:53 AMBrian Olson I took the time to go to a counselor this past summer. She told me to get out of my head. She suggested I was fretting about things a bit too much. She said if I identified a problem, I should also come up with a solution. I agreed and so I've had nothing to write about, because from where ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~681254.aspx11/3/2009 3:31:19 AMRoxanne Harrington $2.2 Million.-Cost per word of House version of health care reform bill. 640,000.-Jobs claimed to have been created or saved under stimulus. $234,000.-Cost to the taxpayer for each job created or saved. 129. -Jobs claimed to have been created at Florida Day care by Stimulus. 129....http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~680098.aspx10/30/2009 12:59:01 PMBrian Olson Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 To all the ghouls and goblins out there, once again you can turn a profit on all that hard Halloween work. And happy parents can find a good way to dispose of all that cavity causing candy. Instead of paying to have the cavities filled, why ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~680271.aspx10/30/2009 10:37:33 PMDr. Paul Bell Halloween in Stillwater, OK. Treat or Trick. The Horns take on the Cowboys is what should decide who will play in the Big 12 Championship Game. OSU is the team T. Boone Pickens built. Texas is the team Mack Brown built. Pickens knows gas. Mack knows football. T-Boone's boys are a...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~679339.aspx10/29/2009 2:59:47 PMBrian Olson Gov Ritter...Mr. Green. Welcome to Colorado, Windmills, Solar Panels. All well and good except for the fact there's no green to buy green. Ascent Solar? Their stock is rated "F" by Schwab. Vestas? The company is slowing back on hiring. Windfarms are great but they need capital financing and ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~678512.aspx10/28/2009 10:42:39 AMBrian Olson "Oh, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors..."-Charlie Rich. Works for affairs of the heart in country music songs, but not government policy, but closed doors seems to be the approach for the many versions of healthcare reform being floated about. The Bill that was voted out of the Se...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~677552.aspx10/27/2009 9:10:46 AMBrian Olson No two words shake the bones of the collective bureaucracy in Washington like "Public Option." It's on life support in both the House and Senate. So House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has re-named it as the "Consumer Option." Another name being floated around is "Competetive Option." Harry Reid propose...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~677201.aspx10/26/2009 1:27:37 PMBrian Olson Just saw the movie "Amelia" over the weekend. I thought it was a very well done film, Hillary Swank was very good and if you like vintage aviation you'll love the movie. The flying sequences were beautiful. We all knew the ending before we went in. Emelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disap...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~676875.aspx10/26/2009 8:16:41 AMBrian Olson I am opposed to a government-run Public Health Care Option as part of the current Health Care Reform bills circulating in Congress. Health care is not a right. You and I have no more right to force a doctor or hospital to treat us than we have a right to force a mechanic to fix our car or for...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~675625.aspx10/23/2009 11:36:32 AMJohn R Holmes