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Space Planning at Auraria

Obviously we're running out of space at Auraria. A committee - SPARC - has been organized to:

ensure that all voices are heard in the planning process, the membership of SPARC comprises constituents from different departments and different categories of College employees. (Seehttp://www.mscd.edu/~sparc/about/membership.shtml for a list of members.) After incorporating feedback from various constituencies with strategic planning goals of the College, SPARC makes recommendations for the use of space to the President’s Cabinet or the vice presidents.

The link is here: http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/artman/publish/sparc_twv6061009.shtml It's also on the most recent Metro Connect

Guess which constituency has not been invited to take part in this?

Howie

I'm in a quandry

Recently national events Have me deeply disturbed. In my humble opinion, our national lunge to the left has resulted in runaway spending and a move towards socialism. Our foreign policy has no direction and will invariably result in both the loss of American prestige and death of innocent Americans. I can support neither of these movements.

However to continue writing about this situation will turn me into a bitter critic, a position I refuse to adopt.

Therefore the Flomblog, in it's current form, will cease to exist. I will use this blog as a portal to the sites that I enjoy. If I do blog, I will concentrate on technical issues.

Let us pray for our Nation and Civilization

Howard Flomberg, The Flomblog

Stephen Hawking needs our Prayers

Physicist Stephen Hawking is quite ill. Please join me in praying for this unbelievably brilliant and brave man!

I'm a Vet. I served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. when I came home I was treated, shall we say, poorly. I now teach college. I have Veterans in many classes. As a whole - they are hard working, studious, well dressed and polite. I proudly say - They are better than we were!

Now the Department of Homeland Security is walking to beat of the same drum as the left-wing morons did when my generation came home. Not to be left out, the FBI has joined in the stupidity, as reported by the Wall Street Journal:

The aim of the FBI's effort with the Defense Department, which was rolled into the Vigilant Eagle program, is to "share information regarding Iraqi and Afghanistan war veterans whose involvement in white supremacy and/or militia sovereign citizen extremist groups poses a domestic terrorism threat," according to the Feb. 23 FBI memo.

Perhaps the Tea Parties have been influenced by the condemnation of traditional American Values by the Left Wing Party in Power?

OK, Lets give the President a chance now

Warships move slowly. 30 knots (MPH?) is fast. The US Navy is moving the pieces onto the chessboard.

This is President Obama's first real challenge. So lets see what happens.

G-d be with him!

Update - 11:58 - Hotair.com

Second time’s the charm. Phillips jumped overboard again, and this time, the Navy was ready to take out the pirates. Great work, Navy!

UPDATE - 11:47 4/12/2009

Drudge Headline - Captain freed, 3 pirates dead, 1 pirate in captivity

MSNBC:

MOMBASA, Kenya - The U.S. Navy has rescued the American sea captain held by Somali pirates.

A senior U.S. intelligence official said hostage Richard Phillips was not hurt in what appeared to be a swift firefight off the Somali coast on Sunday. Phillips was safely transported to a Navy warship nearby.

The official said three pirates were killed and one was injured.'

SUMMARY:

Three dirtbags dead. One dirtbag in custody. The Captain and Crew safe.

There's an old Vulcan saying:

"Only Nixon could have gone to China." Perhaps the funniest lines in all of the Startrek Movies. However the line had a lot of truth to it. Nixon made his "bones" as a fierce anti-Communist. This fact gave him credibility when he opened communications with Communist China.

Why is this relevant? Benjamin Netanyahu, the new Prime Minister of Israel just might be the present day incarnation of President Nixon - minus Watergate of course. Bibi Netanyayu is a hard line rightist. He will only bargain from a strong position. If there's anything that the 12th century denizens of the Middle East respect, it is strength. Perhaps G-d willing we might see peace in Eretz Yisrael?

Now, if only Bibi was born in this country.

Re: Protesters at G20

Maynard: I'm an Angry Young Man
Dobie: Maynard - why are you angry?
Maynard: I Don't know [pause] Thats' why I'm angry

Income Tax

April 15th is just around the corner. If I don't file can I get a Cabinet post?

A new link

I added a new link to the right, err the left, but on the right. One Salient Oversight is a fascinating critique of our American society, coming from Oz. While I frequently disagree with him, I always find myself learning from our discourses. As an aside to OSO -- Mate, that's a good thing, right buddy?


Enjoy his stuff

Flom

It ain't my fault! My sister did it

When my kids were young,they perfected the "Blame someone else" strategy for avoiding responsibility. It actually worked more than it should have. As adults, however, they look back and laugh at themselves.

As a nation, we have fallen into that trap. It ain't my fault. The evil banks made me take out a loan that I couldn't afford. The evil credit card companies made it too easy for me to collect a gazillion credit cards and accumulate a bazillion dollars in debt.

It's Bush's fault. No, it's Clinton's fault, no it's Reagan, fault. Hell it's all Carters fault.

Folks, it's our fault. We, as a nation, acted like children yelling gimme, gimme, gimme. We need to let companies fail when they act stupidly. People are going to lose houses that they should never have purchased in the first place. People will have to take jobs that are "Beneath Them". The old Chevy will have to last a bit longer.

We need to stand up and take the consequences for our actions! If we have a tough decade, let the chips fall as they might. We'll come out of it as the America we used to be.

How Dare You "GARDEN?"

Nanny state keeps encroaching.

House Resolution 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 provides a fine for those miscreant who organically have the temerity to grow crops in their back yards. The details are Here

If this is true - How much longer do we have to put up with the move to socialism and rule by special interests?

We won the battle, but the war is still far from over.

According to Fox, the president withdrew the Screw the Vets idea. Apparently he heard us. However notice that the MSM did not cover this at all. Please call your local TV stations when something like this occurs and ask them why they are not covering it?

Also - Thank You Matt Drudge for being one of the few journalists left.

Hey, screw the Vets!

It's all over the internet. According to JoshuaPundit:

Currently, our wounded warriors get care free of charge the Veteran's Administration. The Chosen One wants them to pay for it themselves and go through their own private health care:

Apparently the President wants to offload the cost of caring for those vets with service connected disabilities to private insurers, or the vets themselves. Yahoo News also covers this. Perhaps you might check Hot Air

The last prominent Democrat to challenge the Veterans was... John Fn. Kerry. We all saw what happened to him.

Us Vets took a lot of crap from the liberals when we came home from Southeast Asia. I pledge that if this happens I will work tirelessly to see that President Obama is a one term president, as was his intellectual mentor, Jimmy Carter.

Rushbo; The New Jew

Traditionally when leaders have to face a fiscal problem, they gain breathing room by finding a scapegoat. For centuries the traditional scapegoat has been the Jew. Well President Urkel has found a new scapegoat, Rush Limbough. Now apparently, all of us Republicans are marching in lockstep to the words and philosophy of El Rushbo.

Does the President understand that there are still some people who can actually think for themselves?

Note - the image was stolen from Michelle Malkin. Read Hot Air and Michelle Malkin!

This bears repeating today

"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."

~~ Pastor Martin Niemoeller [specific quotations vary]

With a tip of the flomberg homburg to Lucianne.com

Hugo - the mental dwarf - Chavez has joined the Blame the Jews crusade.

Never Again!

Sometimes even the Pope has to answer for his mistakes.

When the Pope un-excommunicated an antisemitic moron, Israel protested strongly. Apparently this newly-redeemed Prince of the Church did not believe that the Holocaust really happened. The Pope is now going to "Address the Jews" Perhaps it might take a few centuries for the Pope to apologize for the Church's inactivity during the Shoah, as it took for the Church to apologize for the Inquisition. After all, Pius XII was really a nice guy.

The miscreant bishop involved has promised to "examine" the historical evidence. The fool said:

"If I find proof I would rectify (earlier statements)... But all that will take time," Bishop Richard Williamson was quoted as saying by the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel.

I'll bet that there are still a few Jewish folks wandering about with numbers tattooed on there arms, simply ask them!

Never Again!

Taxes? Hmm

A third Obama nominee has been caught fibbing to the IRS. I wonder, Perhaps the real reason is that the tax code is garbage?

Obama's putting his foot into it -- real quickly

I tried to be nice but the new administration won't let me. The new UN Ambassador, Susan Rice wants Israel to investigate itself for War Crimes. Apparently getting tired of endless missles being thrown at them is now a crime? Hey - we get to elect a new congress in two years - lets get to work?

Profanity!

Senator Robert Ford (D - SC) is pushing a bill to:

outlaw lewd language and is pushing for a bill that would prohibit profanity.

I'm curious - who gets to decide what's profane? I have a recommendation. The most profane statement that I can think of is:

From each according to his ability to each according to his need.