President Kennedy’s inaugural speech included the famous phrase: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.” Forty-Eight years later, president-elect Barack Obama inspires Americans to revisit that question.
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Featuring work by Anderson Ranch fall resident artists and staff, this exhibition at Patton-Malott & Gartner Galleries runs from December 2-18 and the reception is Dec. 16 from 5 to 8 p.m.
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Black Friday, the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season, is the Friday after Thanksgiving and usually brings a boon to retailers and consequently, the national economy. In these difficult economic times, it’s anyone’s guess whether retail sales will suffer, further increasing the effects of the recession. One way to boost our local economy is to do our Christmas shopping right here in the mid-Valley. From Basalt to Carbondale one can find unique gifts to fit any budget.
Looking for books? Basalt’s Town Center Booksellers and Carbondale’s Novel Tea fit the bill and offer other items as well, from posters to pottery.
For electronics, audiovisual devices and motorized toys visit the Gadgit Shop, located in the City Market Plaza in Carbondale. Owner Cory Nielson broke from the national chain Radio Shack last year and opened his own shop to fill local’s electronic needs.
If you’re looking for exotic and unique gift items, try Sherpa Moonbeam Imports in Carbondale’s historic downtown. Nepalese immigrant Sumjee Sherpa McGavock and Dennis Collins joined forces several years ago to feature imported and locally made clothing, accessories, and home décor.
For the kids, check out The Artist’s Collective next to the Post Office in Carbondale where educational and creative toys abound. They also carry wonderful holiday decorations and stocking stuffers.
Harmony Scott Jewelry at the east end of Carbondale’s Main Street offers stunningly beautiful handmade necklaces, earrings, bracelets and more. Just entering the shop provides a visual feast of color and form.
The Kitchenstore in Basalt has everything for your favorite cook in a price range from budget lite to heavy hitter. And don’t forget your furry and feathered friends. RJ Paddywack’s in the El Jebel City Market center has toys, accessories, and treats for your pet.
Having a hard time deciding what to buy? How about a gift certificate to one of the area’s restaurants? Basalt and Carbondale are brimming with a multitude of excellent eateries so there’s a place to please every palate.
With all of the options in the mid-Valley, shopping locally is fun and nearly stress free. Best of all, supporting locally owned businesses means much of the cost of your purchases will go right back into the community. So forget driving to Denver, Grand Junction or even Glenwood Springs to visit the big brand chain stores. Make the economicly sustainable choice and keep it local.
November 27th, 2008
Thanksgiving has always been one of the more interesting holidays in my book. It all started with a "stray dog" thanksgiving one year at college. A few of us stayed at school for the holiday break and were invited to a faculty member's home for the holiday. There we found 20 unrelated people enjoying each others company with a feast of food and cocktails.
That is what sets this holiday apart. Its key ingredients are good food, good drink, and good people. Family is nice, but not necessary. A large part of Aspen is made of transplants that left friends and family "Back East" or elsewhere, and because of this, Aspen has a great tradition of welcoming randoms together to form that "family". So I hope you find yourself at someone's table or find someone at your table. If not there are a few Aspen Restaurants and others that invite you to dine.
Continue Reading November 25th, 2008
Tuesday November 25, 2008
Ski conditions pretty skimpy right now----man made snow makes up much of what we see on Aspen Mountain .
Aspen and Snowmass open for the season on Thursday and the prediction by the National Weather Service: Snow! On Thanksgiving Day.
Beaver Creek opens tomorrow for its 28th season----with one beginner and one intermediate trail------Vail opened last Friday.
City of Aspen elected officials have decided to take it easy on property taxes right now----no increase is planned for 2009----a rate increase was considered---instead, city tax rates on property will be just under 4.8 mills----instead of the full 5.41 mills…..the mill levy will be about $4.80 on every $1000 of assessed value.
The valley’s bus service---RFTA---will soon be distributing 250 light sticks at no charge to riders----in test of the device aimed at making the commute safer---the seven inch wands----manufactured by Boulder ’s Nite Ize company---double as a flashlight and strobe---------the wands will be given out to seasonal pass holders.
No parachute----pilot Eric Scott successfully flew himself over the Royal Gorge outside of Colorado springs on Tuesday in a promotional stunt----flying a James Bond type jet pack in 21 seconds across the 1100 foot deep span--at 75 mph.
Jim Laurence
News Director
TV Aspen--KUUR radio
970-379-1261
Monday November 24, 2008Aspen city leaders meet tonight to discuss again the final proposals for the Lift One Development.
The eight acres at the base of Aspen Mountain, located near Durant Avenue and Aspen Street----will see two new hotels, hundreds of underground parking spaces—a ski museum, new lifts; all if the plans are approved. There will be two more meetings in December before a decision is reached.
The lifts at Aspen Mountain and Snowmass will be open this Thursday, say the managers of the Aspen Skiing Company----but some natural snow would certainly be appreciated by the women racers in the world cup competition being held this week on Aspen Mountain.
Flu shots! Time to get yours----it is a serious threat to all of us---but especially the young and the aged. You can call Pitkin County Community health to find out how to get yours----920-5420
November 24th, 2008
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By Frosty Wooldridge
"America: the world's most powerful nation, bankrupt and armed to the teeth; flooded with diametrically opposing cultures--turning it into a balkanized third world country. Frightening! " Rolando
Our U.S. Congress signs America’s death warrant by the tens of thousands every month. While one in every six American children lives below the poverty line, Congress imports 200,000 immigrants every month that equal 2.4 million legal and illegal immigrants annually that need housing, medical care and education. While 28 million Americans subsist on food stamps, we host 20 million illegal aliens that displace jobs from those Americans without jobs. With 14 million Americans unemployed, our U.S. Congress outsources, insources and offshores jobs with incredible alacrity.
Now, as if we do not suffer enough problems, the Bush administration flies 1,000 Iraqi refugees into our country every 30 days. Thus far in 2008, 11,000 more Iraqi immigrants live off American tax dollars, with another 17,000 expected in 2009. But these aren’t just ‘usual’ immigrants; these people represent Sunni and Shiite Muslims that have battled each other for hundreds of years. These folks don’t just ‘hate’ each other; they despise and kill one another!
Why not inject ourselves with the Bubonic Plague, import Israel and Palestine immigrants or more Saudi immigrants who flew airliners into the World Trade Centers? Can anyone imagine ‘how’ angry these immigrants must be? Bush bombed them back into the stone age? He killed thousands of their women and children! Can you imagine how many live for revenge? How many of the 12,000 that make our shores this year and the 17,000 arriving next year will be angry, livid and outraged?
Immigrant multitudes pour into California without end. A whopping 1,650 people, mostly immigrants, per day, arrive into that already overpopulated state. One reader wrote, “This proves the people of California have lost their minds. There are 1.5 million Californians out of work and now they are doing this just when we are in a financial crisis. I think they are trying to kill America. How many more people can we absorb? Our government has lost its mind if they allow this. They should be marching in the street in Los Angeles to NOT bring in more people. More people for the taxpayer to pay for does NOT make any sense.”
“Your most recent article TEN REASONS WHY MEXICANS CAPTURED AMERICA, Nov. 13th, 2008 cannot be more plain in telling a chilling reality most Americans seem so passively be accepting of and apparently indifferent to our country’s invasion by Mexico,” said one reader. “Manuel Alderete, of the Mexican Movement is proudly expressing the fact of the matter to America’s future result of a brainwashed, ignorant or lethargic bundled state in a majority of our fellow citizens.
“If the Gallup Poll July, 2008 linked in your article, truly and accurately reflects Americans opinion on immigration, finds that only 39% of Americans favor a reduction on immigration, there is no hope left for America and I rest my case.
“If our fellow-citizens would take the 10 minutes time or less to read your bi-weekly columns and nothing else, by now, they would be well informed about America’s perils and incoming bleak future. And maybe, they would also feel as I do, mad as hell, and join the efforts of others to stop it.
“The result of the poll tells me that our countrymen still do not “Get it”, that our government, our two major political parties and their corrupted whores posing as the representatives of the “people”, along with the fifth column MSM and the ethnocentric special interests groups, are each pursuing interests that will change America into a borderless territory as a non- Nation as part of a global feudal-like community in the Northern-Southern hemisphere.
“Our fellow citizens with the aid of the fifth column MSM have systematically being conditioned or coerced into accepting political correctness tactic effective in the use of words to discourage attempts and to quell any meaningful opposition.
“As an example, being opposed to illegal immigration- -racist! A term skillfully employed which most Americans are quick to deny it and to run away from. La Raza’s and their ilk intimidating tactics have effectively quieted Mr. Lou Dobbs, an outspoken champion of the legal immigration issue and many others in TV land. Radio talk opponents are next and the Internet perhaps not far off.
“I reside in the South West Texas gulf area in the Rio Grande Valley, the entire region along the border and beyond it is Mexican dominated; grocery products, music, radio, TV programming, all government services and offices, politicians, you name it. The displaying of the Mexican flag and signs in the Spanish language and among themselves speaking in Spanish is not uncommon. A large portion of these people, perhaps Mexicans-Americans are capable of speaking English, but if you are not Anglo looking in appearance, you will be most surely, spoken in Spanish. I often hear comments- Anglos should learn to speak Spanish.
“Their displaying of the Mexican flag and speaking in Spanish, it is nothing more than an “in your face” demonstration of their arrogant and contemptuous attitude.
“Mexicans are fiercely pro-Mexican and very resentful of European-Americans. I will venture to guess that there would be nothing more satisfying to Mexicans than to see America on “its knees”. Our fellow citizens not becoming active in the defense of our country, and those living in their pristine communities enclaves in particular, are in for a rude awakening!”
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Another reader, Brian said, “You ask the question, "Where will Americans flee?" I think the question to ask is where will Mexicans flee? Mexico, according to economist Thomas Sowell, is actually richer in resources than the United States. But Mexican culture has made it a violent, corrupt, impoverished, hellhole. Who can blame Mexicans for fleeing to a better place which has been built by Americans who value education, justice, private property, and the rule of law--all those qualities of our nation which made it free and prosperous?
“Unfortunately, when Mexicans reach this relative paradise, instead of embracing our Constitution and the values which have made this country so much better than Mexico--or any other place I know of--they proceed to make it as much like Mexico as they can. They encourage more Mexicans to come here, driving down their own wages, bankrupting hospitals, and creating crime-ridden slums. Indeed I have read about Mexicans already fleeing Mexicanized areas of the United States for those better areas still largely populated by, and run by, Americans.
“Mexicans apparently believe that wealth is somehow intrinsic to this place--they do not realize that it is the principles and values of Americans which made it wealthy. Mexicans apparently believe that they can just take this wealth away from Americans--and for a time, they can, but the wealth will run out. Already Mexicans have bankrupted California--a study found that if it were not for all those immigrants consuming more in state services than they pay in, California would actually have a budget surplus instead of a huge deficit.
“Now Mexicans have helped elect Obama. Bad as Jorge Bush and his predecessors have been, Obama will only accelerate the decline with his socialist programs. Of course it is in Obama's interest to bring in and give citizenship to as many more third world immigrants as possible to assure his next election victory. The more minority interest groups clamoring for handouts, the more secure future socialist administrations will be. America will become a hellhole to rival Mexico itself.
“Mexicans should be worried about how to preserve America as Americans made it. When the entire country has become Mexicanized, where then will they flee?”
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Become a member of "Frosty's Press Agent Corps" whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America's overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration. Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.
Compelling books to read:
“The Long Emergency” By James Howard Kunstler
“Peak Everything: A Century of Declines” by Richard Heinberg
“Too Many People” by Lindsey Grant
Roy Beck's "IMMIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS" is the single best educational appreciation of America's future if we allow ourselves to add another 100 million people. Just click on this site for the most sobering experience of your children's future.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=roy+beck&hl=en
Roy Beck gives a graphic presentation of our fate if we continue to allow legal and illegal immigration to swamp this country. If you have children, you will be particular unnerved at their fate. I know Roy Beck personally and his integrity and knowledge stand at the top. Pass this web site 14 minute video far and wide across America to educate everyone you know. We either stop this human tsunami or the future of this country will be much like Rome's. We must, as a nation and a civilization, move to secure our country from this massive, unrelenting population overload from a line that never ends. This will be the most compelling 14 minute video of your life.
Once you see it, go to my web site for action items www.frostywooldridge.com and join www.numbersusa.com to become a weekly faxer of pre written letters and join the phone calling teams.
Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our 'window' to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on "Your Show" May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a "Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy"; "Colorado Environmental Impact Policy"; "Colorado Water Usage Policy"; "Colorado Sustainable Population Policy". Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's Adam Schrager:
Go to: www.frostywooldridge.com and click on "Audio/Video" tab
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents "The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it" to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
November 24th, 2008
I don't know if that is how Keith Jackson, college football's greatest announcer, would have said it, but that is how I remember it. But is this a game I am asking about? No, it is the economy. We are in serious trouble (duh), here's why;
In 1929 we had 129,000 of rail lines, the Mesabi Ranges of banded iron ore deposits were not played out, there was still a major dependence on barge traffic, people didn't travel that much unless it was by mass transit, or rail. By 1932 The Dust Bowl was in full fury a once in a 500 year or so event; agriculture therefore had great upside potential. The TVA and rural electrification had begun, enabling the use of telephones and the information age was ready to explode exponentially. The American people were the best educated and healthiest people in the world. So what is different this time?
Continue Reading November 20th, 2008
Aspen, Colo. , Nov. 18, 2008—Aspen Sports has teamed up with SnowSports Industries America (SIA) to offer Aspen residents with a place to recycle their old ski and snowboard gear for free for three days only—Nov. 28-30 from 9 am to 6 pm. at the Aspen Sports shop on Cooper Street . This offer is for residential recycling only. There is no charge for dropping off old gear but Aspen Sports will be adding $2 to the purchase of every pair of skis, boots, and snowboards to help offset the costs of recycling. However, buyers who don’t wish to support the new recycling effort can opt out of the charge.
Continue Reading November 20th, 2008
What the heck, let’s open up a can of worms! Let the cat out of the bag! Let’s jump on the pile! Let’s cause the Pope an Excedrin headache the size of a pumpkin throbbing around his temples. Let’s invite him to address overpopulation in the world. He addresses environmental destruction on the worldwide scale, but he promotes unlimited births while decrying abortion. He stands against birth control, which results in millions of children that cannot be fed, water, housed or given any chance of a reasonable existence. In other words, the Pope promulgates starvation, disease, misery and human suffering on a global scale.
Continue Reading November 20th, 2008
Before the experience fades into the gloaming, I'd like to take a moment to pay tribute to the play "Chicago," as performed over the past two weekends by the Aspen Community Theatre.
Ed Foran's "Mr. Cellophane" quite rightly got its share of the kudos, but I was amazed at the depth and breadth of the cast, the costumes, the music, the dancing, the set, the staging--and the general feeling of naughty enterprise that kept the evening sailing along from start to finish.
Continue Reading November 19th, 2008
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—The harshest critic of both Aspen City Council and City of Aspen staff now admits there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by anyone in the Burlingame Ranch affordable housing brouhaha.
“There were no criminal actions,” Marilyn Marks told Post Time News, “and we are not accusing anybody.”
Marks, a citizen advocate who has found a calling in monitoring city governance, supported a criminal investigation into Burlingame when another Aspen activist, James Perry, made the formal request to Aspen City Attorney John Worcester—who quickly turned thumbs down on the idea. Marks, nonetheless, continues to call for an investigation
“We never broke any laws,” Worcester said. “Besides that I have no other comment.”
The admission from Marks represents a level of vindication for the targets of her considerable ire—including Mayor Mick Ireland and City Manager Steve Barwick.
Continue Reading November 18th, 2008
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