According to Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson, the United States surpassed 300,000,000 people in October 2006. Their current demographic predictions, based on immigration-driven growth levels, show America adding 100 million people by 2040. (Source: Fogel/Martin March 2006 “US Population Projections for 2050)
For those asleep at the wheel—that’s 33 years from now—a blink in time.
To place this kind of horrific growth rate into perspective, it resembles a “Human Tsunami.”
Readers of this column chastise me for not addressing what’s really happening to Colorado and America. They accuse me of dancing around the elephant in the kitchen. They want me to spell it out, to expose it, to say it like it really is. Here is what is happening to our country.
If you read about what happened in Broomfield yesterday in a Spanish class where a student chanted, “White power, white power,” you’re seeing responses, not to legal immigrants, but to the massive and unending illegal alien migration into Colorado and the rest of our nation. Illegal aliens force their language onto Colorado. It's wrong! It's against the law! Of course, you're going to see various responses erupt! You’re also watching the incremental breakdown of our cohesiveness as a nation. The philosopher Kant said, “The two great dividers are religion and language.”
American citizens in their own country suffer more deaths via illegal aliens in the United States annually than combat soldiers in Iraq.
Recent rifle blasts into a Basalt 7-11 illustrate the Roaring Fork Valley's dilemma. A Glenwood Springs officer shot in the chest by an illegal alien proves our vulnerability. When will Aspen businesses shun lawlessness by not hiring illegal aliens? Since they won't stop illegal hiring practices, when will the next shooting become the "Aspen Massacre" or "Aspen Rape"?
The Celts are my ancestors, but I have known precious little of this heritage as my biological familial bonds were severed in childhood. My surname is Preston, which means “priest town.” In twelfth century Scotland, there was (and still is) a town named Preston, run by priests. Researching the culture and mythology of the Celts, I have created a new awareness. Having been raised as a “ward of the state,” where African American, Native American, and Irish American children were all my brothers and sisters, I have discovered hidden treasure in life as an orphan: considering people from all walks of life to be my kin at an early age has led to a world-view that is inclusive all life and viewpoints.
I have never been one to get choked up at funerals before, but then I had never been to a memorial service for Howie Berg, a beloved Aspen local who died just days ago in a Denver hospital.
I never knew Howie Berg, and I never knew till I got to the service at the Elks Lodge in downtown Aspen that he was the husband of Kat Berg, a delightful woman who works at the Aspen Music Festival & School with my fiancee. But I felt like I knew Howie Berg somehow, and not from the pictures at the podium or the stories from his older brothers about breaking his collarbone or tying him to a tree. I knew Howie Berg because he is still in the DNA of the town, and nowhere was that more apparent than when the Vietnam veterans marched down Main Street in Aspen this summer to re-dedicate the Veterans Memorial on Courthouse Plaza.
He had just died in a Denver hospital from congenital problems made no better by exposure to Ancient Orange in Vietnam.
Have you signed up for this year’s ride? There’s still time to register, so don’t miss out on being part of one of the best century rides in the country, and help raise money to fight breast cancer at the same time. If you’re not up for a challenging 100 mile ride choose one of the shorter options (65, 30 or 10 miles). The 4th Annual Ride for the Cure takes place on Saturday, September 8th, starting and finishing at Koch Park in Aspen. Related events include a complimentary dinner the night before, with guest speakers Chris Carmichael, Dr Carolyn Kaelin and Raifie Bass (food provided by Gusto & Campo de Fiori, and beer and wine by Local Spirits), and an online auction (now open).
Montana Republican Senator Larry Craig (the chairman of Mitt Romney's presidential election campaign in Montana) seeks to withdraw guilty plea for misdemeanor lewd conduct charge. Was he soliciting for some hot steamy homosexual potty sex in the public restrooms in Minneapolis MN? Could he have been set up? It is one or the other, but then why did he plead guilty?? Is it possible he was looking for evidence of Bill Clinton's sex life in the wrong gender restroom?
Carlos Slim Helu with a Mexican residence, made it to number three on Forbes list of the wealthiest; 49$Billion with a "B" that's $49,000,000,000,00. He could give $1000.00 to each illegal immigrant and have $36.5Billion left. You just have to love the relationship our rich have with the wealthy of Mexico. Still think fences and the like will stop illegal immigration? It'll never happen, unless there is no motivation by the wealthy to continue this relationship.
Life in the blogosphere is not without its milestones. Here at Aspen Post, after little more than a year alive and online we passed a miraculous milestone in August 2007 when we crossed the threshold of 1,000 posts up and available, along with over 2,300 comments therein.
You could look it up, but in the annals of local blogging attention must be paid to this kind of output--with frequent passion, precision, and playfulness as the by-products. Keep in mind that when we threw the switch at Post Time Media Inc. we had no idea whether anyone would blog, or whether anyone would care. With 50 bloggers in the books, now we know they will and they do, and thereby hangs a tail.
