Tag Archives: Cripple Creek

Deportation and Ethnic Cleansing

That should be “deportation IS ethnic cleansing” and it shouldn’t even be on the agenda in “the land of the free” like the lying song says. Nay, verily. But it is. The part about deporting anybody who is awaiting citizenship … Continue reading

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Colorado Springs corruption detectives sniff desperation of lottery ticket clerks

You’d think Colorado Springs’ many kleptocrats, considering our locale’s famously embarrassing lower than average IQ, must be stupid enough to get caught. Other than the odd treasurer with a gambling habit, law enforcement is not going after them. Instead, according … Continue reading

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Transit Authority “Let them Eat Cake” meeting Oct 11

Public meeting that was scheduled for this past Monday, 27 Sep 2010, postponed until Monday after next, the 11th of October. Strong-arm Mayor Rivera and his Puppet Council are pushing to sever Front Range Express, thus ending any chance of … Continue reading

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Our prejudice against tent-dwellers

What do home-enabled Coloradans have against disadvantaged people forced to live in tents? The Great Depression saw migrant workers having to subsist under canvas, striking miners have been forced from their homes and into camps in Ludlow and before that … Continue reading

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WTF? OMG! Is it Real? Could it be?

Due to pollution from Mountaintop Removal, usually from Coal. But there’s also the Mountaintop Removal approved as a dying act of revenge by the Bush EPA up at Victor/Cripple Creek. Not only dumping such lovely “nutrients” as mercury, sodium cyanide … Continue reading

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Jena 6? No, Cripple Creek One…

It’s not about Immigration, legal or undocumented, it’s racism. If they tell you different, they LIE! So a racist kid at the high school up there was harassing minority kids. Guess she figured that she was “heavy” with the Racist … Continue reading

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Blackwater changing name to “Xe”….

Erik Prince, Killing Korporation CEO and founder, is Allegedly a Christian.   Throws in gratuitous references to “Knights Templar, USA” on his website. Nothing new in all of that. Speculation is rising that “Xe” means Christ Everlasting. They’ve got a … Continue reading

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Another local political rally shot down in flames

According to the Omygodzette, The City Fathers of Cripple Creek starting putting so many restrictions on the Annual Veterans Memorial Bike Rally, the usual organizers for the event said freak it, and are moving the Rally to Winter Park. Everybody … Continue reading

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Some Colorado labor history

Labor day. It commemorates the likes of Samuel Gompers, Big Bob Haywood and Mother Jones and their efforts to unite working class peoples. They met great resistance from gullible populations of consumers and business owners who weren’t going to give … Continue reading

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