"The latent and endemic bigotry as bad as it is," writes Post blogger Edward Troy in comment #3, "is a mask for deeper economic troubles the bigots refuse to acknowledge and then address. The scape goating bigotry covers the voting based on the pathos of the strong silent simple minded morons who voted for a party based on one thing they were told through implied rumor; the republican party was for the "white working man." This stupid myth was dismissed by those who wanted the best person in contention for the job."
" have said that DJIA could end up between 5000 and 6000 to select friends," writes Post blogger Edward Troy. "This could happen in the next 12 months. The Fortune 1000 needs to be reviewed, and many of these corporations should be rescued, after decapitating the top level executives and the irresponsible boards that put them in place, after a stimulus that may need to be more than a trillion dollars, with tax deductions on; made in the USA, real estate, education, cogeneration, health care and hiring. The workers (read producers) whether union or not are not at fault when it comes to working."
"It struck me as I watched Obama give his acceptance speech," writes Post blogger reckless G, "that now African Americans must truly be seen as Americans."
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Hello all from Texas. I am currently waiting out my third hurricane in three weeks...this one being IKE. Lots of rain and wind. I am working sheltering for the American Red Cross and just a little over 2 weeks ago while working Hurricane Gustav most of my clients were from the town of Beaumont and I remember the first time I encountered the residents from Beaumont. I was sent to oversee evacuation shelters in Kilgore Texas during Hurricane Gustav, and at one of the shelters as I stepped to chat with the American Red Cross staff a young African-American girl tapped my leg and stated "I made this for you" and she handed me a blue cross made out of foam paper with a heart glued to it and sprinkled with gold sparkles.
Continue Reading September 13th, 2008
Aspen Filmfest 2008 presents five days of documentaries, features, and premiers, including FLASH OF GENIUS starring Greg Kinnear, a conversation with composer and Oscar® and Golden Globe® winner Dario Marianelli, PETER PAN 55th Anniversary, and Bill Maher's RELIGULOUS.
Continue Reading September 8th, 2008
Linda Chavez noted in that national column carried by major newspapers nationwide, that by 2042, the United States transforms from a majority nation to a minority dominated nation. She said, “Hispanics, Asians and blacks will outnumber whites by 32 million…but so what?”
Continue Reading September 4th, 2008
How do terrorist groups end? The evidence since 1968 indicates that terrorist groups rarely cease to exist as a result of winning or losing a military campaign. Rather, most groups end because of operations carried out by local police or intelligence agencies or because they join the political process. This suggests that the United States should pursue a counterterrorism strategy against al Qa'ida that emphasizes policing and intelligence gathering rather than a “war on terrorism” approach that relies heavily on military force.
Continue Reading September 3rd, 2008
One of my biggest regrets as a journalist in Aspen is that I knew in 2002 about the cruel and unusual punishment meted out to helpless sled dogs at Krabloonik in Aspen and I did nothing about it. I put it on the list--the list of stories that I would get to when I had a chance. I never got to it, and months went by while the dogs at Krabloonik suffered.
Fortunately, two women walked in off the street one day saying they had been to Krabloonik and I referred them to Thomas Watson, a reporter from England who did a bang-up job on a series of exposes. Krabloonik owner Dan MacEachen stopped shooting unneeded dogs in the head, and some reforms were made. Thomas and his wife Katie even adopted one of the dogs. But now there's evidence that conditions for the dogs are as bad as ever, if not worse, at Krabloonik.
A new group of citizen activists--including Bill Fabrocini, Lisa Consiglio, Leigh Vogel, and Lee Ann Vold--have put together a Web site to stop the abuse of the Krabloonik dogs, and Leigh's pictures are unforgettable. Some of them met Tuesday again with MacEachen, and again promises of reform were made.
Continue Reading September 3rd, 2008
In a brilliant expose’ of America’s accelerating immigration crisis, Ms. Froma Harrop of the Providence Journal smashed the ‘silent assertion’ nightmare hushed-up by the main stream media. In her August 28, 2008 piece, “Shhh! This scares both parties”, she thrilled me by writing about what I’ve exposed for the past 20 years!
Continue Reading September 1st, 2008
Galia Golan in her Aspen Institute lecture on Monday 8/25 confirmed everything I have been saying and writing about Israel for the last six years. Dr. Golan is a Jewish woman who has lived in Israel since 1966 and has been on the faculty of the Hebrew University since 1967. She has been active in Peace Now, an Israeli organization dedicated to ending Israel’s occupation of Palestine and was the director of Bat Shalom, a Jewish women’s peace organization.
Continue Reading August 27th, 2008
On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect.
My husband and I had an argument just this morning concerning whether activism really works to effect change and whether it really even matters. As an activist myself, I’m personally invested in the belief that it does work and it does matter. My husband is of the opposite opinion. In these all too frequent arguments (usually spurred by the publication of one of my letters to the editor) I often cite the women’s suffrage movement along with the civil rights movement as examples of how grassroots activism leads to changes in social attitudes and government policy.
Continue Reading August 26th, 2008
A question for today’s class: in the history of television advertising, has any private citizen ever ponyed up $50 million-plus for the greater good of the American people, with no strings attached?
The answer, of course, is no—not ever—maybe because it’s just not the American way. There’s always an angle to be had, most especially when we’re talking about oil.
This just in: as the chief bottle-washer at both a radio talk show and blog called “Con Games,” I consider it my particular duty in our unprecedented republic to keep a close eye out for the con, especially when it arrives right here in my adopted hometown of Aspen, where I keep my first, second, and third homes.
Thus T, Boone Pickens, the billionaire oil man who has now turned his attention to the Pickens Plan (pickensplan.com), an energy revamp that will accelerate our wing-flapping when it comes to wind—ramping it up to 20 percent or so starting with Sweetwater, Texas, and then points north—and cleverly deploying the freed-up capacity to replace imported oil with natural gas in the transportation sector. The goal, as he said in Aspen last week: to fix “our $700 billion problem”—the $700 billion in imported oil that we need per annum to keep the economy pumping like, well, like an oil well in Texas. The Pickens Plan includes spending $58 million of his own T. Boone coin on advertising to get the point across.
Continue Reading August 18th, 2008
Well, my friends, if John McCain calls his audience “my friends” one more time I will never say the words “missing in action” again. If he refers to “my fellow Americans” again I will force-feed the Republican nominee with quotations from Chairman LBJ about marital fidelity.
The Straight Talker his ownself made his way to the rock-ribbed Republican Rocky Mountains Thursday for a late-summer idyll, stopping to shake the money tree in Vail and then again in Aspen, going home on the Straight Talk Express with something like $500,000 minimum—not so bad for half-a-day’s work and no ad hominem attacks. In between, under the gentle aegis of the Aspen Institute, he did what pols do when they come to the place where power speaks to power: they sit back like movie stars accepting lifetime achievement interviews on AMC, albeit without the kettle corn and film clips.
The moneyed interests hereabouts in Aspen and thereabouts in Vail long ago made their peace with the erstwhile maverick, deciding they could live with him and his melanoma in the face of Obama Nation. And why not? There was much to like about McCain in person on the stump—he was a war hero, my fellow Americans—including his Surging references to integrity, his faux-more-years liberalism, and his cornball jokes about turning his nose up on ethanol in Iowa.
Continue Reading August 14th, 2008
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