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 Attorney 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 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 DIA'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 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 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 $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 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 The first B(c)S poll came out last Sunday, Texas is ranked #3 behind Florida and 'Bama. Fair enough. Florida and 'Bama likely will play each other in the SEC Championship and anyone with common sense should feel that the loser drops out of the national title race. Although some say the B(c)S Na...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~674938.aspx10/22/2009 11:11:05 AMBrian Olson President Obama sent a pretty strong message to CEO's and other senior execs living high of the hog (our hog) on TARP Money. These poor folks, used to making tens (even hundreds) of millions of dollars a year will have to settle for a million or so. No corporate jets and a reminder there are ot...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~674815.aspx10/22/2009 8:04:45 AMBrian Olson President Obama sent a pretty strong message to CEO's and other senior execs living high of the hog (our hog) on TARP Money. These poor folks, used to making tens (even hundreds) of millions of dollars a year will have to settle for a million or so. No corporate jets and a reminder there are ot...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~674814.aspx10/22/2009 7:59:06 AMBrian Olson Back during the days of the Nixon Administration, there was an "Enemies" list, mainly the news media. Kathereine Graham of the Washington Post, (She employed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein) Daniel Schorr and Dan Rather neared the top of the list. They invented the word "Paranoid" just for the ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~673938.aspx10/21/2009 8:03:07 AMBrian Olson A rare moment for me as I actually salute the Obama Administration for its decision to keep the Feds out of state's business when it comes to the use of medicinal marijuana. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying "prosecutors will be told it is...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~673166.aspx10/20/2009 8:14:08 AMBrian Olson The Larimer County Sheriff reports that indeed, the Heene Family also known as the Balloon Family's airborne adventure last week was indeed a publicity stunt. The Heene's wanted more than their 15 minutes and at least a million bucks. So they launched, the kid hid, the kid puked, we puked, the ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~672586.aspx10/19/2009 8:24:58 AMBrian Olson Amidst the rides and chicken fried bacon in Dallas tomorrow, a little shindig called the "Red River Shootout" makes its yearly appearance. TEXAS vs OU. Gird your loins. The stadium will be equal parts Burnt Orange and Red. It will be 100% rivalry. Longhorns vs Boomer Sooners. (Which by the wa...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~669724.aspx10/14/2009 1:39:26 PMBrian Olson I'll keep this short. Ok, so Rush Limbaugh isn't the kind of people the NFL wants in its ownership ranks. So what's the NFL's excuse for Al Davis?http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~669713.aspx10/14/2009 1:21:44 PMBrian Olson Everyone made a big deal yesterday about the Senate Finance Committee passing its version (keys words being "Its version") of healthcare reform. Everyone was all a twitter about Republican Senator Olympia Snowe goving over to the dark side to vote for it. I know, because I read all the Tweets. ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~669410.aspx10/14/2009 8:01:46 AMBrian Olson First came the SNL "Do Nothing" skit followed by the Nobel Prize win and admission from the President he really hasn't done anything. Quck! Let's blame someone!! I know!!! FOXNEWS!! The folks working in the White House should know better and take a cue from Richard Nixon and his scraps with Da...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~668400.aspx10/13/2009 8:08:35 AMBrian Olson