http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5(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 HolmesNovember 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 HolmesThe 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 HolmesI 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 HolmesSpeaking of our free local bi-weekly community newspaper, the Highlands Ranch Herald, kudos on the new look. The seperate sections and generous use of color make it much more readable. AND, it has much more NEWS. What a novel idea! It was my opinion that previously there were too few news stori...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~675564.aspx10/23/2009 10:19:15 AMJohn R HolmesCongratulations to the Metro District and its hard working employees. As reported in this week's Highlands Ranch Herald, the Highlands Ranch Veterans Monument reached its funding goal. Contributions from remaining tile spaces will go towards maintenance. As you may or may not know, this is a M...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~675549.aspx10/23/2009 10:02:37 AMJohn R HolmesI had been thinking about commenting on Palin's Sept. 9 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal ( Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care ) shortly after it was published on the day of Obama's evening health care address to a joint session of Congress. Now that Palin is publishing a book perhaps...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~666436.aspx10/10/2009 12:16:04 PMJohn R Holmeshttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33237202/ns/politics-white_house/ The jokes of life and fate just never stop. Nominated just 2 weeks after taking office. What a travesty. I guess the Nobel committee Hoped there would be Change. Of course now the great peacemaker has every reason to protect hi...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~665291.aspx10/9/2009 4:37:50 PMJohn R HolmesRef my previous posts, I have prostate cancer, post #1 and I have prostate cancer, post # 2 ,I no longer have prostate cancer. I had a DaVinci Robotic Radical Prostatectomy (removal of the cancerous prostate gland) last Tuesday 29 Sep. The pathology report (which I haven't seen the d...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~662938.aspx10/6/2009 7:45:47 AMJohn R HolmesThis is a more data-laden followup to my first post: I have prostate cancer, post #1 . Feedback from the prostate-knowledgeable are invited. General comments of course are always welcome. I'm 63 ½ years old. I've lost 35 pounds since the first of January, due to diet and exercise. I'm h...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~649046.aspx8/23/2009 4:44:47 PMJohn R HolmesBe there if you can to express your CIVIL opinion on National Health Care. Coffman Announces Douglas County Town Hall Meeting · Who: Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora) · What: Douglas County town hall meeting · When: Monday, August 17, 6:30 p.m. · Where: Commissioner's Hearin...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~647122.aspx8/17/2009 9:14:05 AMJohn R HolmesI only know that 6 of 12 biopsies showed positive for prostate cancer and thus that I should see the Urologist to discuss treatment, so I'm otherwise naïve and glib about it presently. I'm 63 ½ years old. I've lost 35 pounds since the first of January, due to diet and exercise (mostly due to di...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~646088.aspx8/13/2009 8:04:40 AMJohn R Holmes2 1/2 years into her first 4 year term as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin is resigning. That is her choice, whatever the real underlying reasons. (Devotion to family? Too many ethics complaints?) I hope she does Conservatives AND Republicans a favor by STAYING OUT of national politics. She was...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~633062.aspx7/4/2009 8:03:04 AMJohn R HolmesBlogging, that is. Don't YOU wish! I am getting caught up. I have a brief blog drafted on military service. I'd also like to explore, for my own edification, the topic of majority rule (that's freedom isn't it, except we don't want to crush the individual (freedom for little old me) in the pr...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~632876.aspx7/2/2009 10:16:17 PMJohn R HolmesMy weight. Hopefully it's not UP but still DOWN. This is an update to my previous blog\diary of my weight loss this year (same blog, different sites): ONCE THERE WAS A WEIGHT ONCE THERE WAS A WEIGHT ONCE THERE WAS A WEIGHT How am I doing, and what works? Short answer: A...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~632872.aspx7/2/2009 10:07:56 PMJohn R HolmesI attended yesterday. Although I'm as patriotic as the next guy, and a flag-waver, usually from a distance, I found it very moving to see so many that are serving, have served, or have made the ultimate sacrifice. I've posted numerous pictures of the Highlands Ranch Veteran's Monument dedicat...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~632869.aspx7/2/2009 10:02:29 PMJohn R HolmesAs I am perpetually in child-like awe when seeing gigantic ships float and huge planes fly (despite my fundamental awareness of the science of displacement, lift, drag, etc.) I keep an eye out for new and amazing innovations. In this day and age we are spoiled for choice and bombarded with new t...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Technology-The-Web/Blog~631835.aspx6/30/2009 5:30:31 PMJohn R HolmesEconomics Nobel prize-winner Krugman now opinionates on EVERYTHING under the sun from the pages of the NY Times. In his 28 June Op-Ed Betraying the Planet he says of the no-votes on the recent House climate change bill: "And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn't help ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~631831.aspx6/30/2009 4:35:23 PMJohn R HolmesWriter George F. Will, that is. He wrote yet another reasoned and rational piece in the Washington Post recently titled A Health 'Reform' To Regret . The very same piece appeared in the Sunday, June 28, Denver Post with the title Don't make bad health care worse . From my readin...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~631790.aspx6/30/2009 3:26:09 PMJohn R HolmesSpeaking of Health Care, this guest commentary in the Denver Post recently, Debunking Canadian health care myths , just smacked me in the face when I read it. Despite the arguable debunking of myths throughout, the first and last paragraphs speak volumes: First: "As a Canadian living in th...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~630006.aspx6/24/2009 8:47:42 PMJohn R HolmesI was casting about for some reading recently and stumbled across the Clarence Thomas auto-bio My Grandfather's Son - A Memoir . I thought it might be interesting to read about a current Supreme Court Justice who might also have empathy based on ethnicity and race. It turned out to be a s...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~630004.aspx6/24/2009 8:33:49 PMJohn R Holmes...Islands, that is. I have to get some pictures posted while I'm still here. May add or edit later.http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Travel/Blog~628577.aspx6/19/2009 8:13:42 PMJohn R HolmesREF my blog Takin' it to the STREETS! about street repairs in my neighborhood, the next phase has begun. All the major cracks in the area have been dug up and filled to street level for a uniform surface. Now the road milling has started. (As I'm not a road constructionist, milling appears ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~626303.aspx6/13/2009 1:11:15 PMJohn R HolmesREF: the Holocaust museum attack this one is annoying the heck out of me, to put it mildly. Idiots, idiots, idiots. I'm a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant male (raised Methodist\Presbyterian, ancestral ministers in both on both sides of the family) and proud of it. These White Nazis do NOT r...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~625915.aspx6/11/2009 7:54:25 PMJohn R HolmesNot Bing... badda (bad) Google, but Bing... gooda (good) Google. I'm referring to Bing.Com , the newly released Microsoft search engine to compete with Google. It's FAST, at least on the modest-speed mini-notebook I've been using from my collection. (I haven't tried it on my hi-power laptop...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Technology-The-Web/Blog~624043.aspx6/6/2009 8:52:14 AMJohn R HolmesSupreme Court nominee Sotomayor should not be vilified. She should not be crucified. She should be scrutinized, and verified, to be qualified. At age 54 now, she could easily serve on the court for 20 to 30 years. This is no time to be timid or tepid in exercising diligence. I'm already reading ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~620293.aspx5/27/2009 8:10:00 PMJohn R HolmesThere are 2 excellent opinion columns in the Friday, 22 May, Denver Post newspaper. David Harsanyi writes about Fear: Our national pastime. Mike Rosen writes about Empathy and the Supreme Court . Democrats accuse Republicans of fear mongering and being the party of NO anytime Repubs d...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~619003.aspx5/23/2009 7:09:32 PMJohn R HolmesI'm probably not the first to say it, but dare I try anyway? LIZ CHENEY FOR PRESIDENT. Too much Dad Dick Cheney baggage you say? By the time she gets around to it (she's not even old enough yet (43 in July) (she and hubby Perry have 5 children however)) Obama and the DSP (Democratic Socialist Pa...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~618857.aspx5/22/2009 8:09:40 PMJohn R HolmesNo money for closing Guantanamo Prison, that is, at least for now. I just had to add my 2 cents worth to this widely reported story. Wednesday's 90-7 Senate vote stripped the $80 million from a war-spending bill, and the decision to bar, for now, transfer of detainees to the United States, rais...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~618232.aspx5/21/2009 4:08:59 PMJohn R Holmes(And now for something completely different. Hope you can suffer through this mundane topic.) Street maintenance, that is. We're getting major road repairs in my neighborhood and it's a welcome site. (Pun.) Road maintenance is something I've always favored be done by government, though I can ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~617718.aspx5/20/2009 2:07:18 PMJohn R Holmes