How's immigration working out for you fellow Americans? Got a goober in your back pocket? Like what you see in Mexi-fornia? How about Mexi-zona? What can you say about Mexi-Texas? How about that 1965 Immigration Reform Act that added 100 million people in four decades? How about the next 100 million immigrants added by 2040?
Continue Reading 2 comments February 8th, 2008
I was sniffing around the internet for local news when I came upon this story about a new contraption that’s supposed to keep you safe in the event you find yourself being overtaken by an avalanche. In a week that has brought us two fatalities on separate occasions in the East Vail chutes, and a GSPI feature about some hair-raising backcountry travel by one group of intrepid locals, I learn of a device that takes charge of an avalanche critical moments before a beacon has a chance to be useful: the Avalance Airbag System.
Continue Reading Add comment January 13th, 2008
Today, California sloshes knee deep in its 37.5 million population overload. It grows by 1,650 people daily! Do the math. By 2050, if this immigration-driven population phenomenon continues, California explodes to 79.1 million people. Source: “Projecting the U.S. Population to 2050” by Jack Martin and Stanley Fogel, March 2006.
Continue Reading Add comment October 22nd, 2007
In 49 B.C., Julius Caesar defied the Roman senate by crossing the Rubicon River to wage civil war against another Roman, Pompey the Great. By crossing the Rubicon, Caesar made a decision whereby he could not turn back.
Today, “Crossing the Rubicon” means no way to change, repair or undo your destiny. Yes, Caesar conquered Pompey, but the Roman senate, along with Brutus, stabbed Caesar to death.
Continue Reading Add comment October 22nd, 2007
Click here to watch video for great shots of the four seasons in the Roaring Fork Valley--especially winter in Aspen.
Add comment October 13th, 2007
With winter around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about getting your body ready for ski season.
I have taught ski conditioning on and off for the past five years and I am consistently hearing the same question from clients: “How do I get my body ready to take a ski conditioning class?”
Going from zero to 60 in 10 seconds is OK for a car, but our bodies need a little bit more of a warmup. Pulled hamstrings and twisted ankles are no way to start the ski season. Those who did not do much physical activity this summer except maybe a couple hikes may want to get their heart rates up before the first class.
Continue Reading Add comment October 2nd, 2007
In tomorrow's America of suffocating political correctness and clashing cultures, unrestricted immigration, both legal and illegal, proves a merciless weapon of war. George Bush promotes it, Condi Rice facilitates it and Dick Cheney shoves it down America’s throat. All maintain memberships in the Council on Foreign Relations—a One World Order organization dedicated to dissolving the borders and sovereignty of the United States of America.
If you look at the ‘elite class’ in America, none of them or their families dwell in the midst of that which they create for Middle America. We do!
Continue Reading 6 comments September 10th, 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
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
