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Add comment January 31st, 2008
Archive for January, 2008
Sit down and SHOUT!
I was recently challenged by your host and the editor of Aspen Post to write a piece critical of Hamas, Hezbollah and the violence against Israeli civilians by Palestinians in general. At first I didn’t see the merit in this idea. That territory seems to have been fully covered by the mainstream media and various pro-Israel organizations. But on second thought, I do believe it would be a positive step in my ongoing campaign to illuminate the Israel/Palestine issue for Americans. So I’m going to give it a try….
Continue Reading 56 comments January 31st, 2008
Immigration Explained
During World War II there were few men at home, and men were needed for farm labor. So the United States imported Mexicans. They were just south of the border, and it seemed very practical. So they legally contracted Mexicans to do a certain job at a certain ranch for a guaranteed wage, and these legal laborers came to be known as "braceros", arms, and between 1941 and 1944 fifty-five thousand were imported. Then after the war, having a taste of this good cheap labor, the farmers and ranchers of the southwest U.S sent lobbyist to Washington to say they needed this cheap labor. There were no Americans willing to do this back-breaking stoop labor. And so a few Mexican-Americans, Okies, Arkies and Philipinos, who had done this farm labor before the war, were forgotten and the importation of braceros was extended for a few more years, and it became a big business. Huge! One hundred thousand were imported that first year so by 1954 more than four hundred thousand were being imported yearly, and god only knows how many wetbacks, illegal braceros, came across the border a la brava .
At the time it was the dream of every young peasant man in Mexico to come north and make his fortune, and in Mexico many farms were forgotten, as the strong young men came north. Legal or illegal did not matter. Hell, the American Dollar was the god of the earth....
Continue Reading 1 comment January 30th, 2008
Dependent Claws
A listener writes the Con Man:
One of the ruses employed by in-the-know illegals (and they are as a group surprisingly "in the know") is to claim a large number of dependents because this increases the net size of their weekly paycheck. This works well for them insamuch as they often have no intent whatsoever to ever file an income tax return because it is their plan to have moved on to another employer, and another, and each and every time they arrange to have the least amount of money deducted from their checks....after all when tax time comes, they don't care that their single status would require that they make up the less than appropriately withheld difference...they won't be filing or paying taxes anyway. In other words, the only shot that the government gets at their income is through the deductions that come in for each pay period, and this little maneuver has side stepped that access to those taxes rightfully due from the illegal.
Continue Reading 2 comments January 30th, 2008
Your Body Right Or Wrong
A very smart and politically active woman and the Con Man had the following email exchange after his "Con Games" show about abortion and The Quiet Majority:
Michael,
I had a chance to listen to your show this am and agreed on most of your salient points regarding the silent majority.... But I could not disagree with you more on the liberal stance of abortion or pro-choice and your idea that ‘adoption’ could be the solution in order for there to be a meeting of the minds. Please don’t take this wrong, but it’s a typical male response. Until men are biologically capable of bringing a baby into this world, it really is about a women’s right over her own body. But in the spirit of being open-minded, if that were the answer and women would be subjugated to 9 months of pregnancy and to then give the child up for adoption, then it is only fair that the man who impregnated the woman should be castrated and not given the right to procreate ever again. How can you chattel one sex and not the other?
Continue Reading Add comment January 29th, 2008
CON GAMES: The Quiet Majority In The New Century
We have all no doubt heard of "The Silent Majority" and "The Moral Majority," but I would like to posit "The Quiet Majority."
The two previous "majorities"--both Silent and Moral--were a way of defining a fundamental shift toward conservatism marked by anti-communism, religiosity, and what were once known as "family values" before Republicans with multiple wives started to run for President. The Quiet Majority, in contrast, is not tied to these arcane formulations--or any others, for that matter.
Continue Reading 12 comments January 29th, 2008
What Ya Gonna Do When The Well Runs Dry?
In this second of a three part interview, Michael Folkerth’s book: “THE BIGGEST LIE EVER BELIEVED” exposes America’s greatest crisis—growth. He epitomizes a humorous economist and the “King of Simple.”
Continue Reading 1 comment January 28th, 2008
Barry Schochet flubs history again
For the life of me I can’t understand why Michael Conniff keeps touting Barry Schochet as a Middle East expert, a title that Barry himself denies. This is a con of the highest degree, and I’m disappointed in Conniff for falling for it. His show endorses liberty and justice, yet he allows Barry Schochet to promote the opposite agenda. This is a great disservice to Congames listeners, who hope to glean a better understanding of today’s issues and events. But it’s a greater disservice to the Palestinian people who are suffering and dying because of lies like Barry Schochet uses to justify Israel’s oppression of millions of innocent civilians...
Continue Reading 24 comments January 28th, 2008
Politics - A Cure-All?
[I]n my last post I referred to my challenge in finding other living accommodations in the valley as we had lost our lease as of March 1st. I also put it out there that I was leaving no stone unturned in meeting this challenge and was requesting assistance from Aspen Post readers. Well, a little bit of time has now passed and things have changed - most likely for the better. At least that's the feeling I have at the moment... After perusing the local papers for awhile, seeing the little bit that's available and most places renting for $2K or more, my roommate decided it's time to move to Northern California to be close to her youngest son and the grandkids.
Continue Reading Add comment January 27th, 2008
Step Into Enough Bindings And Something Changes...
I quit skiing altogether back in the early 90s, mainly because fly fishing was so much more cost effective. Then I had kids. As if children weren’t expensive enough, we enrolled them in ski lessons. Now, I’m sitting on a hotel-room bed in Leadville next to a slumbering eleven-year-old who is comatose with the exhaustion of skiing two Super Giant Slalom training runs, and one race. It’s good he’s asleep, for there’s another training run and two more races first thing in the morning.
Continue Reading Add comment January 26th, 2008
