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Comment by Sylvia M Maresca on May 4, 2012 at 3:33pm

Just popping in from Arizona. Do you guys know DOD has approved Russian Airborne troops drilling at Ft Carson May 24-31? Just woderin'

Comment by Richard Michael on January 28, 2012 at 5:38pm

How Do You Take Power in Colorado This Year? ...

... By becoming a precinct committeeman or delegate from the precinct where you vote.

>>> Colorado Precinct Caucuses Approaching br/> Subject:

While all the media are focused on the presidential and other federal elections. There is a small local election that you won't hear anything about on the news or from the blogosphere. From Grand Junction to Denver to Pueblo, voters will be attending caucuses on February 7th in their local communities to elect delegates to the county party assembly and to elect committeemen to the county party central committee.

And if you're just not getting enough presidential politics, after the delegate and committeeman elections, you can also participate in the presidential straw poll. That might be the sizzle, but it's not the steak.

When you're elected as a delegate or precinct committeeman, it's you, not the registered voter, who will have a say in how your political party is run for the next two years.

To learn more about what committeemen are, if you don't already know, take a minute and read Precinct Committeeman - A Center of Power. To find out how easy it is to be elected in Colorado, take a look at Colorado Precinct Caucus. To get an idea of what to expect, you can also accept an invitation to How Do You Take Power This Year? ....

Fine-sounding rhetoric doesn't accomplish much. I'm challenging you to take the single most powerful action that ordinary people like us can take. Join the conference call for Colorado voters who want to shake up the status quo in your political party this year.

Unless you're an invalid and never leave your home, this is something that you CAN do.

The conference call is set for Monday, January 30th at 7:00 p.m. (Mountain). If you're getting your appendix removed on that day, the call will be recorded, but you should really try to join the live call where you can get your questions answered.

The call will focus on the specifics of getting elected in Colorado at your caucus on February 7th. Some of the information applies equally to many other states, so even if you don't live in Colorado, you will learn something.

This is your last chance to gain this powerful position for the next two years. Don't be kicking yourself later for missing this opportunity.

To get the teleconference details, text 'Colorado PC' with your name and e-mail address to (973)498-8066 or sign up at Project City Hall.

--
Richard Michael
Director, Project City Hall
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You have family, friends, and neighbors. Share this message with them so that they can learn how to really shake things up in the party.

Colorado Precinct Caucus Teleconference
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Comment by Karon McCormick on December 4, 2011 at 9:14pm

Establishment- the new dirty word.

The word establishment has taken on a new meaning. People are now accused of being establishment, as though it is evil, the word itself is whispered in the dark hallways of established grass roots organizations and other establishments, GOP headquarters all across the country. This new evil applied to a word peeked my curiosity, so I looked it up just as I would any dirty word.

According to Webster the definition is: 1. Bring into existence. 2. Business or a place of Business. 3. An establishing or being established. 4. Controlling group.

The Republican Party was established in 1854 by a group of anti-slavery activists. In 1860 they established a place of business, 1700 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington D.C when President Lincoln as a member of this establishment was elected to office. The Republican Party was established in order to control, another word for organize, a movement against slavery. I have to ask myself, what was evil about this or the outcome? Does that mean that anyone who is a member of an established party, evil? If it is evil why would anyone become a member of any establishment even the newly formed grass roots establishments?

Or is your definition of establishment equate to the length of time that our GOP candidates were representatives or governors? Keep in mind that I am not implying that I agree with the philosophy that career politicians make bad politicians.

Rick Perry- first elected to the House of Representatives in Texas in 1984 where he served 3- 2 year terms and was elected Lieutenant governor in 1988, was elected governor in 2000 and is the longest running governor of Texas at 10+ years. That equals 27 years as a political servant.

Ron Paul- congressman from Texas- totals 12- 2 year terms: first from 1976-1977, after he won a special election, then from 1979- 1985 and finally from 1997 to today. That equals 24 years as a public servant.

Newt Gingrich served the 6^th congressional district in Georgia as a congressman starting in 1979 and ending in 1999. That equals 20 years as a public servant.

Rick Santorum served as senator from the state of Pennsylvania from 1994 to 2006. That equals 12 years as a public servant.

Michelle Bachmann served as a state senator for the state of Minnesota from 2000-2006. In 2006 she was elected to the United States congress and remains a congressional representative for the state of Minnesota. That equals 12 years as a public servant.

Jon Huntsman elected governor of Utah in 2004, re-elected in 2008 but resigned Aug 11, 2009 to become a diplomat to the Republic of China under President Obama. That equals 8 years as a public servant.

Mitt Romney elected governor of Massachusetts from 2002 to 2006. That equals 4 years as a public servant. Yet, Mitt Romney has been branded with the evil word of being the establishment candidate, when he used to be the darling of conservatives in 2008. What happened, you ask? Obama care and the other dirty word, mandate, but did you know that it is mandated that we wear clothes in public or be arrested for indecent exposure? Personally, I like this mandate as I would not want my grandchildren exposed to the horrific sight of a bunch of middle aged, sagging, overweight bodies parading down our public streets in their birthday suits. As my grandfather an artist, who painted live nude models used to say,” everyone looks better with their clothes on.” I concur.

And-- is it alright for you Constitutional purists and  liberty lovers to allow those freedom loving Wall Street protestors to step all over my liberty by not purchasing their own health care plan while I and others get to pay for theirs’ with higher health care costs, higher insurance premiums and higher taxes? Is that your idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Is it your idea to stand on your principles, while you are standing on my toes and taking money out of my wallet to pay for someone else’s irresponsibility?  I think not.

Critical thought is a good thing for all conservatives, we need to apply it or risk sounding like the Wall Street protestors de-crying the evils of corporations while they are using their corporate made computers, talking on their corporate made cell phones, wearing corporate made clothing and eating corporate made food.

 

Comment by Karon McCormick on November 16, 2011 at 11:04pm

I got it Elaine, I can't wait to come, I was alerted to your post through the e-mail, so hopefully everyone in Colorado Springs now knows about the event. You might want to send Teri at the top of the page to see if she can get this event posted on her calender. Looks great!!!

Comment by Karon McCormick on May 14, 2011 at 1:41pm

Dear Conservative Friends,
 
I will soon graduate from the Leadership of the Rockies Program. It is an intense prestigious program that covers economics, free market solutions, The Constitution, individual liberty and foriegn policy. My classmates come from all different backgrounds, previous military, business and community leaders, healthcare, small business owners, some who just recently graduated college, young, old and in between. Many are tea party patriots, republicans, independents and even a couple who lean libertarian. Our goal is to promote the conservative platform and return our country to fiscal discipline, limited government, constitutional law and regain economic freedom and prosperity to our nation. We are taught to spread the word and the reasons that limited government and capitalism are good things, not evil, as they are often portrayed by the left.
 
Our instructors are world re-nown experts in their fields from economics, constitutional law and foriegn policy. In fact, many of you have most likely seen them on the Fox News Network.
 
It is important to all of us that we continue this invaluable program and someday spread it the other 49 states. The actual cost of tuition is approximately $5,700 but through your generous contributions LPR is able to keep the tuition affordable to all future leaders. The cost for the class for 2012 after your generous contribution will be $1,795 per student, there are also scholarships available. Many of LPR's former graduates have gone on to become representatives at local and state levels. They have the knowledge and the experience to change the minds of Americans and right our country back to where it needs to be. I hope you will consider giving a minimum of $25.00 to this incredible program. Your donation is tax deductible as this organization is not for profit. The future depends on you, please forward this to your conservative friends and family no matter what state they live in. Someday LPR will be there too.
 
Send your donation to http://www.leadershipprogram.org/donate
 
Thank You,
 
Karon McCormick

Comment by Karon McCormick on May 14, 2011 at 1:35pm

Dear Conservative Friends,
 
I will soon graduate from the Leadership of the Rockies Program. It is an intense prestigious program that covers economics, free market solutions, The Constitution, individual liberty and foriegn policy. My classmates come from all different backgrounds, previous military, business and community leaders, healthcare, small business owners, some who just recently graduated college, young, old and in between. Many are tea party patriots, republicans, independents and even a couple who lean libertarian. Our goal is to promote the conservative platform and return our country to fiscal discipline, limited government, constitutional law and regain economic freedom and prosperity to our nation. We are taught to spread the word and the reasons that limited government and capitalism are good things, not evil as they are often portrayed by the left.
 
Our instructors are world re-nown experts in their fields from economics, constitutional law and foriegn policy. In fact, many of you have most likely seen them on the Fox News Network.
 
It is important to all of us that we continue this invaluable program and someday spread it the other 49 states. The actual cost of tuition is approximately $5,700 but through your generous contributions LPR is able to keep the tuition affordable to all future leaders. The cost for the class for 2012 after your generous contribution will be $1,795 per student, there are also scholarships available. Many of LPR's former graduates have gone on to become representatives at local and state levels. They have the knowledge and the experience to change the minds of Americans and right our country back to where it needs to be. I hope you will consider giving a minimum of $25.00 to this incredible program. Your donation is tax deductible as this organization is not for profit. The future depends on you, please forward this to your conservative friends and family no matter what state they live in. Someday LPR will be there too.
 
Send your donation to http://www.leadershipprogram.org/donate
 
Thank You,
 
Karon McCormick

Comment by helen sabin on May 14, 2011 at 1:32pm

A Different Take on the Obama Birth Certificate
By Helen Sabin
I questioned why Obama hadn’t released his birth certificate to prove he is a citizen. It seemed such a simple thing to do. When The Donald finally forced the issue, I received many emails with a video link to “prove” that the recently released Obama’s birth certificate (BC) was a forgery. http://www.webpronews.com/obamas-birth-certificate-new-conspiracy-t...

What is on the video is impressive. However, I am also computer ignorant, so I contacted a friend who is a computer expert and asked him to look at it and give me his opinion as to its validity.

He shot holes through what they had to say. He stated that the BC released by Obama probably is a real and correct birth certificate that has probably not been “doctored” by anyone. (He doesn’t trust Obama any further than I do!) According to both my friend and Nathan Gould from National Review below, what you're seeing in the recently released Obama birth certificate is the combination of two processes.

First, the BC was on microfilm. Hawaii takes that image and places it over top of a canned "official" background like a new BC would be on. To get it onto the background they have to use some Photoshop techniques that will leave halos and other artifacts.

Finally, they turn this image into a PDF. A PDF is a compressed image file. In order to save space in the file but maintain clarity, the software automatically selects areas of the image to be compressed at different rates. If it thinks one area needs more or less compression, then it intelligently chooses. This is what results in the patchwork-like appearance of the file when opened in Illustrator.
If you were to request another BC and if Obama would allow it to be released, the state of Hawaii would do the same thing and it would have similar effects to it.

He stated that National Review created a PDF of their most recent magazine cover and opened it in Illustrator - the result was very similar. What most convinced their graphics people that the BC was not a forgery was the way that many layers were created out of an image that was originally a "flat", un-layered image.

Nathan Goulding from National Review had this to say about the process:
“The PDF is composed of multiple images. Using a photo editor or PDF viewer of your choice, you can extract this image data, view it, hide it, etc. But these layers, as they’re being called, aren’t layers in the traditional photo-editing sense of the word. They are, quite literally, pieces of image data that have been positioned in a PDF container. They appear as text but also contain glyphs, dots, lines, boxes, squiggles, and random garbage. They’re not combined or merged in any way. Quite simply, they look like they were created programmatically, not by a human.
What’s plausible is that somewhere along the way — from the scanning device to the PDF-creation software, both of which can perform OCR (optical character recognition) — these partial/pseudo-text images were created and saved. What’s not plausible is that the government spent all this time manufacturing Obama’s birth certificate only to commit the laughably rookie mistake of exporting the layers from Photoshop, or whatever photo editing software they are meant to have used. It’s likely that whoever scanned the birth certificate in Hawaii forgot to turn off the OCR setting on the scanner.”
If you are skeptical and still believe that Obama’s BC is a forgery, try the techniques above at your own home.   Post your results here for us all to enjoy!  Thanks!

Comment by Nancy R on April 13, 2011 at 5:09pm

I'll be attending. :) I'll have my four sons with me, but I'm certain I'll be the only one in my family wearing pink (even though they fully support me). :) Do you need help setting up? My boys are 15, 12, 10, and 5 so I have some strong, handy workers, along with my hubby. :)

 

Comment by Julianne Alvarez-Wish, CO Coord. on April 13, 2011 at 5:06pm

Colorado Springs Smart Girls -

We will meet at 4:30pm on 4/15 in Acacia Park for the Tea Party.  Let's meet by the stage (band shell).  I am bringing SGP brochures, bumper stickers and cards for us to hand out/share.  I'll have my SGP colors on. 

Please let me know you'll be attending so I can look for you.

Comment by Julianne Alvarez-Wish, CO Coord. on April 11, 2011 at 8:00pm

Plans are being finalized for 4/15!  I'll post in the next day or two the meeting time and place (in the park) for Smart Girls to get together.  Looking forward to meeting you all in person!

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