Join us on Monday, May 13th, when we will be celebrating the first anniversary of the Flatirons chapter with a showing of “FrackNation” – a documentary that follows journalist Phelim McAleer as he seeks out the science behind, and truth about, fracking. After the movie there will be short Q&A with Americans for Prosperity, followed by the opportunity to network with other local liberty supporters. Come for the event, stay for the food and networking – you’re guaranteed a great evening no matter what!

Hope to see you there at Miller’s Bar and Grille in Lafayette

UPDATE: The movie was fun, the company was great and hopefully the fundraiser helped out the group.

The fracking people need a hook, a reason for people to be pro-fracking. Good luck with that.
Here’s the anti side: They poison us, they are ugly, they ream the earth and run off with the ugly profits and they want to drill right next door to you.
Here’s the pro side: Those anti people have no scientific evidence of any of that (except maybe the profits).

They’re not going to win with that argument.
Frackers should be engaging the world on how they have lowered emissions, and allowed drilling to occur in smaller areas than before. They should go on and on about no more need for Middle East involvement and how bad for the environment is importation of energy. They need a bunch of these guys talking about poor people and how fracking has helped to boost them. Instead they are suing the city of Longmont. [and good for them, they should]

Since really that’s the only way they will win, that’s what they need to do. I’ll support them, but to get me to care enough to leave my home and get involved in loud protests they’ll need a bigger hook. Maybe the old…..”First they came for the frackers and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a fracker…” line.

The Unseen Bean is GREAT coffee and it made it to the Huffington Post.

I tried to add this comment, but there was too much “logging in” for me to deal with this late. Anyway – still true.
Congratulations to Jerry!

True story: I was in Buena Vista looking for a cup of coffee. Went into a pie shop and the owner refused to sell me coffee, BUT, he would give me a cup. His delivery of the Unseen Bean coffee had been delayed (this was years ago) and he refused to “sell” any other because it couldn’t compare. It just wouldn’t have been fair to charge me.

Scientists are finding ways to get rid of ear worms!! Thank God.
I hate them. I have been visiting my niece and nephew who were in a School House Rocks play and practiced their songs day/night. And even more often and after the play was over once they realized ol Aunt Terri gets these horrid ear worms.

Note to self: add anagrams and Sudokus to my purse.

Researchers claim the best way to stopping the phenomenon, sometimes known as earworms – where snippets of a catchy song inexplicably play like a broken record in your brain – is to solve some tricky anagrams.
This can force the intrusive music out of your working memory, they say, allowing it to be replaced with other more amenable thoughts.
But they also warn not to try anything too difficult as those irritating melodies may wiggle their way back into your consciousness.

Dog gifs. Enjoy!

Hale-bopp was one of the coolest things ever to have hanging around our skies for so long.

Now we have a new one to look forward to next winter!

Excitement continues to rise among both professional and amateur astronomers about Comet ISON, which on Nov. 28 of this year might become one of the brightest comets ever seen, outshining such recent dazzlers as Comet Hale-Bopp (1997) and Comet McNaught (2007).

Fortunately, Comet ISON was discovered 14 months before this perihelion passage — its closest point to the sun — while still distant and faint, thus giving observers time to plan. Another major advantage is that this fine object will be favorably placed for viewing, first in the morning sky before perihelion passage on Nov. 28, and then both in the morning and evening sky afterward.