Fun Things to Watch and Do in Denver

It has a proud frontier history, clear mountain air and a modern collection of skyscrapers and highways.

Everybody should visit Denver at least once.

You can even visit when it's most "eco friendly" to do so. A "travel carbon calculator" will tell you how much your trip and stay in Denver will bang up the planet and melt the polar caps. The "travel carbon calculator" can do this whether you fly in on Frontier or United, or hop into your non-hybrid SUV and take the trek. There is no calculator function for private jets, so the footprint of the "Obama 1" jet is not able to be figured.

Okay, you get to the "Mile High City" and the earth is still holding together -- then what? Denver, especially now during the Democrat Convention, is a great blending of the old and the new.

There are hundreds of art galleries in Denver, according to the official Denver Tourism web site. There are museums by the score, ranging from the dead white rich guy museum, Astor House Museum, to the Black American West Museum, to the the old exploiters museum of Buffalo Bill (which as a bonus contains old Bill's grave). In Barrack Obama's home town, Chicago, there are some great art galleries and museums, too, but most people just think that "Art" is the old peeping tom down the block, and a museum is what kids visit on field trips from school.

Denver is an active city, where ordinary citizens are slim people in spandex suits, cutting through the thin mountain air like an arrow shot from a bow. This compared to Barrack Obama's home town, Chicago, where the typical bike riding citizen is dressed in a wife beater t-shirt with a middle finger salute stitched on it. Jostle too close in your car and your likely to get that middle finger aimed at you (at the very least), along with a string of obscenities when the Chicago lad removes the cigarette from his mouth. There are miles of bike trails in Denver, and the odds greatly favor your living should you complete one, as opposed to the neighborhoods close to Obama's mansion, where a bullet decides when the bike riding is finished.

Denver has you covered, no matter where you go, even if it's outside of the city. There are many convenient "Visitor Information Booths", which most likely point you back into the city for more fun things to do. In Chicago, the Democrat Machine, which is synonymous with the Daley (as in Richard J. -- "da mayor") Machine, has that figured out, too. The official motto of Chicago is "Where's Mine" or those more ed-u-macated Denverites and Democrats, "Ubi est mea". This leads to the tourism and work for hire motto, which is, "We don't want nobody nobody sent". Have a good time somewhere else, but if you do visit, we will tax your fool hardy brains out at max 11.25 percent in "da Loop" should you be so stupid as to buy something there, or along the Magnificent Mile.

One can even take a winery tour in Denver. Obama's old stomping grounds, where he did his community organizing, has tours too. Any number of skinny, booze soaked drunks take the liquor store tour, which lasts the entire day. Go by anytime and see the clerk behind bullet proof glass. He sure is organized -- speed dial set to 911 and 9 millimeter under the counter (though this is technically against the law in this Obama organized city).

A new addition in Denver is a bow to the Democrat vision of free speech. It's been called the new "Gitmo" of the West. Actually, it's just the latest Chicago import. It seems a number of aging, smelly hippies want to relive their glory days and disrupt the Democrat Convention. They call themselves "Re-create 68". This does not refer to their IQ, but to the riots that raged during the Democrat Convention in Chicago, in 1968. Raged that is, until Mayor Daley the First, Richard M. Daley (Richie's dad), had the very capable Chicago police pound the then young smelly hippie's skulls till the raging stopped and business as usual was completed. This new fenced off area in Denver keeps the protesters out of sight and out of earshot of the organized ears of Obama. See no evil. Hear no evil. There is no evil. The coronation can be accomplished in peace. The 1000 year reign can begin. Free speech is allowed in Blue Land, but only when it doesn't cost the Democrats any bad TV sound bites.

The first night of the Democrat convention will have the whole Chicago gang there. Some are even speaking. Among the "honorable" speakers tonight are some of the royality of Chicago Machine Politics. You have Emil Jones, President of the Illinois senate, who just annointed his dunce of a son to be his successor. Jones was the guy who took a young Barrack under his wing and showed him the way of Chicago politics: pay to play. You'll meet the Illinois Comptroller, Dan Hynes, who has overseen the State of Illinois debt explosion, and who has never turned down a cronie in need for a little public lifestyle financing. There Lisa Madigan, the bean pole progeny of Michael Madigan, the Illinois Speaker of the House and one of the clout bloated ruling families of Illinois.

Lisa Madigan, however, won't be the only Illinois girl there. Another hometown sweetheart will be mighty present at the Denver Democrat Convention: Hillary Clinton. She grew up in Park Ridge, which is a Metra train line escape from the inner city of Chicago. I'm not sure if it will be Hillary's first trip to Denver. I suspect not. It might be her last, though, as these days won't be easy on her, and who wants to relive and revisit any city under these circumstances.

Denver is a great city to visit. I've been there. I love it. Denver better get used to Chicago politics. Once the Great Obama acends to the Oval Office throne, there will be change. It will be change you can believe in, if you are a former machine hack organizer from Chicago, who can read pretty words from a teleprompter.

Change that will make any grifter smile, including Tony Rezko, when he sits down to what used to be called a Denver Omelet but is now the Chicago-Denver combo called the Obama Omlet.

Let's hope the polar ice caps are still intact when this convention is finished, because the travel carbon calculator will be hot off the charts with all the Chicago hot air that has blown in.