Freeskier Magazine: OCTOBER SKIING?

Happy Friday. My email has been blowing up with reports of snow here in Colorado – again. Check out these shots from Snowmass – and more snow on the way!

We’re headed into our third week of the ski season in the high country and most of us in the office have had the chance to dust off the sticks and get up to Loveland or A-Basin to sample the goods. After 16 ski seasons in Colorado, I can say with no exaggeration that this is one of the best early seasons I can remember. And here comes El Nino!

Twitter / American Patriot

Obama jeered at MIT. As he started his speech, someone yelled "Liar. Where's the global warming?" FYI, it snowed in Boston last week.

[But are they even climatologists?  4 soldiers pose by a sandbag "350", with massive fossil-fueled vehicles in the background]

The vehicles in the background are no longer in use as the soldiers here walk everywhere when they go on key leader engagement with the local villages elders.

What’s Good for Kleiner Perkins Is Good for America? - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Detroit — Rent-seeking is the new venture capital model, Kleiner Perkins managing partner Ray Lane explained to an electric car-conference here Wednesday.

In an extraordinary speech, Lane laid out how market socialism can guarantee profits for politically connected VC firms like Kleiner — far more preferable to the old model of “throwing a dart at a dart board,” as Lane has put it. While Silicon Valley–based Kleiner made its reputation as a financier of tech startups like Netscape, Lane confided that they are inherently risky ventures in uncertain, fast-moving markets.