Set all your buttons, baby, as Jimmy Ibbotson likes to sing about "Con Games With Michael Conniff" on KNFO. The #1 talk show in the Golden Triangle from Aspen to Rifle to Vail is now available online full-time. Now that the original slogan "making the world safe for liberals" has achieved its mission, there is "liberty and justice for all" available on the Web right here on Aspen Post 24/7. So if you missed all or part of the show--or if you are exiled to your first home in a distant land--you now have a way to keep up with the cognoscenti as said Con Man continues into his fifth year "with liberty and justice for all." Move over, Rush. Foggedaboudit Hannity. There's a new boss in town.
“When a candidate for office changes his/her position on a subject” writes new Post blogger Pete in comment 10, “(Romney on abortion; McCain on taxes; Kerry on everything!) they are labeled a flip-flopper. But what is wrong with being a ‘flipper?’... [W]hen a candidate evolves his/her thinking on an issue based on new technologies, unforeseen outcomes, personal experiences, etc., that would be a positive for me. In other words, they start out with a belief on a subject and in later life they "flip" to being a strong proponent of a different point-of-view. What's wrong with allowing candidates one educated flip?
An internet fraud scheme cheated a group of Argentinean nationals destined for Skico jobs out of thousands of dollar. Ignacio Lemos and his friends were lured by a multi-bedroom, single-family home in Aspen advertised for rent on the internet. According to the
Vail Daily, “Lemos, 24, said he and nine of his future housemates were bilked out of $500 each after they answered an Internet ad to rent a single-family house in Aspen. They wired a total of $5,000 in deposit money to a man calling himself John Jacobson, who advertised he had a house for rent at the address of 73A Powder St. The problem is, there is no Powder Street in Aspen.”
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Last week, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, a man for all seasons and obliged to two nations, ordered raids in southern California that netted 1,200 illegal aliens. Hundreds of them proved deportation absconders, rapists, murderers and MS-13 gang members.
After Bush flamed out of the sky – crashing-and-burning in a stunning defeat for the amnesty bill in June – he pondered enforcement of our laws. What a concept!
Continue Reading October 11th, 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 August 31st, 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 August 5th, 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 August 2nd, 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 July 3rd, 2007
The mountain resort economy in the West, and by extension the entire country, is as endangered as the Polar Bear but a heck of a lot more valuable.
You could say the ski industry is the canary in the coal mine for climate change. If there’s one business sector that is going to suffer most and earliest, it’s skiing. And that’s not good for the economy: the ski and winter recreation industry in Colorado alone accounts $2 billion in revenue annually and employs fully 8% of the state’s population, or 31,000 people. On a national scale, roughly quintuple that number. That’s why, in response to growing media coverage, scientific consensus, and observed climate changes on our own mountains, we decided to explore the science. In fact, in addition to our own explorations, the cities of Aspen and Park City independently commissioned studies to determine what, exactly, the future might look like, because that information is critical to planning for the future in mountain resort economies. The Aspen and Park City studies focused exclusively on peer reviewed science, and found that the consequences for Aspen were dire—we’d look like Colorado Springs by 2050 and Amarillo by 2100—and for Park City even worse, because they are at a lower altitude.
Continue Reading March 25th, 2007
You talk about the hypocrisy of Cheney denying gay rights when he has a gay daughter, but you refuse to address the true hypocrisy surrounding the occupation of Iraq. I’ve heard you say you think we’re there because of oil, but then you dismiss the idea that this fiasco was perpetrated for the exclusive purpose of reaping a profit. I know you hold a dim view of conspiracy theories, but by saying the “war” is about oil, you’re effectively calling it a conspiracy.
Continue Reading January 29th, 2007
I yield to no man-woman-child in my consumuption of food and lots of it.
But there comes a time in every man-jack's life where he must look in the mirror--and in the freezer--and face what he sees like a deer in the headlights or an elk in the rearview mirror. In my case, I have to confess that I have become addicted to processed food.
Continue Reading December 14th, 2006
You don't always have to share much subtstance to share the truth.
Anyone who has ever served in a significant combat mission knows that there are essentially three rules of engagement/combat. Know your target; secure your perimeter, and have an exit strategy.
In Iraq we knew our target, based upon numerous (later known) false assumptions. We drove into Iraq, fought off enemy fire, and surrounded, then overthrew Baghdad and toppled Sadaam's statue. We later found Saddaam in a hole in the ground.
Continue Reading December 5th, 2006
RENO, NEVADA (Post Time News)--Envelope, please.
Swift Newspapers--owners of the Aspen Times and dozens of other dailies--has figured out a way to make its way in the gnarly world of The Internet and new media.
And the winner, according to sources close to the company, is...video.
That's right, a newspaper chain with over thirty dailies and weeklies in Colorado, California, Nevada, and Oregon has determined the route to 21st Century survival lies at the end of a lens that captures motion video news and information. The shift also has significant implications for commercial television in both the valleys, shifting the competitive media landscape to include Plum TV in Aspen and Vail, RSN, and the new TV Aspen.
Continue Reading November 30th, 2006
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