Local actors Bryan Gonzales and Jennetta Howell join Michael Conniff on KNFO’s Con Games Monday, November 5th to talk about ACT’s Fall Production of “She Loves Me.”
Bryan plays Kodaly, a dashing clerk who woos his lovely co-worker, Ilona (Jennetta) then does her wrong. Jack Cassidy won the Tony for best supporting actor in a musical in this role in 1964.
Add comment November 4th, 2007
By mid October, 2006, America reached 300 million people. In the next 33 years, through unrelenting immigration, the United States of America adds another 100 million people. By 2050, our country adds 20 million to reach a total of 420 million. Many experts expect higher numbers. Is it a milestone, millstone or societal nightmare?
Continue Reading Add comment September 23rd, 2007
During the final days of his presidency, Bill Clinton signed into law Executive Order 13166. Under that far-reaching order, any entity that receives federal funds, including state, county and local governments, must provide translations upon demand in any language a person wishes to conduct business, with the costs of translators and translations carried by the providers, private and public.
Continue Reading 3 comments September 2nd, 2007
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.”
Continue Reading Add comment August 31st, 2007
Arthur Piubeni, the most outspoken and irreverent of the troupe, let me know loudly and often that comics do not rehearse. I saw it as an opportunity for a bunch of first-timers to work through a few kinks and get used to the room. Arthur, Michael Yoder and me were the only ones with any standup experience. I had started in 1996 at an open mike at Comedy Works in Denver, and had been working at it for ten years while I toiled away in big-city newspaper advertising management jobs at papers across the Sunbelt.
Continue Reading Add comment August 22nd, 2007
Mexico has more than tripled its population numbers over the last 50 years, and by 2050 it is projected to add 43 million more to its numbers, to 148 million. Studies have shown that the opportunity—even just the prospect—to emigrate for citizens of nations and members of cultures with unsustainable population growth rates keeps them from implementing the necessary measures to stabilize their population growth.
Not surprisingly, Mexico has no substantive population stabilization policy, and it is unlikely it ever will, given current mass immigration levels from Mexico into the U.S. Meanwhile, Mexico has three-million come-of-working-age citizens each year being dumped into a non-existent Mexican job market.
Mexico, with a GDP larger than most European countries, will not invest its financial resources into primary education, although it does pamper the children of the elites with virtually free education at the University of Mexico.
Continue Reading 2 comments August 5th, 2007
Shortly before 11:00 pm last Thursday night, Representative Michael R. McNulty (D-NY) gaveled the vote on H.R. 3161 closed. What appeared to be a final tally of 215-213 Nay, McNulty declared a 214-214 tie. This was followed by a chorus of "shame, shame, shame" and House Republicans walked out on the proceedings.
So what did the Democratic leadership do? While Representatives argued over the two different vote tallies, the Democrat leadership strong-armed Democrats who voted Nay. In a creative application of parliamentary procedure, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) then offered a “motion to reconsider,” which was seconded. This un-did McNulty's gavel and reopened the tally. In the time it took to “reconsider” the vote, the Democratic leadership managed to flip three votes. The final tally was recorded 216-212 Yea.
Continue Reading Add comment August 3rd, 2007
In an email to the Con Man, Oldman writes:
Well it seems that we are destined to live in a gang land type setting in the near future. The peaceful valley is not very peaceful anymore.
Who is responsible for this problem?
Are the people that hired the illegals to cut their grass and clean their houses to blame for the shootings? Are the children of the peaceful gardners and maids that do work in the area the culprits ? Or are the companies that hire the illegals to do the labor that they say no one else will do responsible?
Continue Reading Add comment August 2nd, 2007
There is a false set of choices to solving illegal immigration being perpetuated by the illegal-alien amnesty crowd They claim that our only options are to institute a draconian and implausible mass rounding up of illegals or to give them amnesty, or its euphemistic equivalents (e.g., “regularization,” “earned legalization”). Among those spreading this nonsense are the worse president in U.S. history, Jorge Bush; the notoriously fowl-mouthed presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, and Sen. Ted Kennedy, the killer of Mary Jo Kopechne. Quite the cabal.
Continue Reading 1 comment August 1st, 2007
Having royally had it, on April 1, 2005, hundreds of peaceful but righteously indignant civilian volunteers of the month-long Minuteman Project assembled in the storied southeastern Arizona city of Tombstone to petition their government for a redress of their grievances—probably thinking they'd catch some hell for doing so, but not knowing the holy-half of it.
Continue Reading 3 comments July 3rd, 2007
