What is Wrong with Sheldon Killpack?

In America there are really four branches of government but the apathetic American people think that there are only three, Executive, Legislative and Judicial. The fourth part of the system is The People. If government isn’t representing you and your views properly they should be fired.Vote the bastards out of office. However The People have become disenfranchised with the system so they do nothing.They don’t vote, Nor do they voice their opinions.The coming of the internet has mad voicing one’s opinion easier than ever. Grassroots now has a platform in which to fight the good fight against politicians who have lost there way.Another blogger favorite of mine has described this eloquently here.I think Sheldon Killpack has lost his way. Sheldon Killpack is a local politician in Utah’s Senate. He is also the assistant majority whip.I believe Sheldon Killpack should be fired. Killpack should not be reelected.

Killpack believes that everyone should pay higher taxes especially for transportation. He believes in higher gas taxes based on the price of gas instead of a flat per gallon tax.He wants toll lanes and toll roads built and owned by private companies on public lands. He also wants “congestion pricing”. I have blogged about Sheldon Killpack before on his socialist beliefs. See Oh Give It To Me Sheldon. See Gas-tax hike, tolls during rush hour may be in future.

Our Government has an insatiable thirst for money.Killpack is part of this problem. In the Salt Lake Tribune article he states his belief in higher taxes.His justification is that in the last 17 years the population of Utah increased 47%. However during the same period Utah’s state budget has gone from slightly less than 4 billion dollars to almost 9 billion. My question is how did that increase budget not include roads?As the population increases so does the amount of fuel sold so where did that tax money go?

Our politician’s especially Sheldon Killpack seems to not understand some simple economics. The economic principle is when business increases tax revenues increase. The opposite is also true as business slows tax revenues decrease. Currently business is off due to a failure to regulate some basic principles like let Darwinism take care of business. Do not step in and bail out companies who failed to take care of their own interests IE: Banks and Airlines.Let some die to strengthen the herd.My point here is this… Business is struggling for a variety of reasons but one important one is the price of fuel. As the price of fuel has increased so has the price of goods and services.As price rises consumption of non-essential items goes down.This is Econ101.

In addition to Sheldon Killpack’s belief that everyone should pay more taxes because the government failed to manage its money properly, he also believes that people have the ability to choose when they can travel.Killpack thinks that there should be a penalty for rush hour driving.I know very few people who can control the times they go to and from work. So the average Joe Employee will now get an extra tax because his job requires him to be at work during peak traffic periods.What a bunch of crap?The middle class is already getting raped by everyone especially the Government. Average Joe cannot ask for a raise to pay for higher gas prices and a commuter tax.

This legislative season also had Killpack sponsoring a bill to increase the amount of car insurance coverage everyone must carry by law.This would raise our car insurance rates.

See Darwin? No, Sheldon.

Leaders like Sheldon Killpack are leading us down the primrose path of destruction. They are ruining business and losing jobs overseas because they believe in something for nothing. We need more taxes to pay for x.We need to regulate businesses more. We need more laws. More taxes cost businesses more money to do business and in today’s global market it is easier to take your business overseas and not have to deal with excessive taxes, too restrictive environmental laws, and too restrictive employee laws and just plain litigation.There are places in the world that have much fewer laws regarding the hows and whys of business.It makesAmerica uncompetitive. As long as there are politicians like Sheldon Killpack we will continue to lose businesses, lose wages and tax ourselves out of business.

The beginning of the greatest journey started with the first step.SaveAmerica with one small step… Don’t Reelect Sheldon Killpack. Vote in somebody new.

Accountable Utah ranks Killpack in the top 20 worst Utah Politicians in Office. Just slightly about Chris Buttars.

VoteSmart.org has reported that Killpack votes with the following organizations:

ACLU 25% of the time

Conservative 51% of the time

In Support of Education 28% of the time

Sierra Club 63% of the time and 100% of the time in 2004

Sheldon Killpack has also tried to increase the Government powers of Eminent Domain.

San Antonio Texas Home Inspection Service

My dad has been working to start his own home inspection business. He has experience in new home construction as well as years of professional level maintence and property upkeep.

In Texas it is common for new home purchasers to hire an inspector to inspect construction as its built to assure that problems by the builder are averted as well as before you purchase an existing home. Inspections are often purchased by those who need an independant 3rd party to assess home repair needs, and protect against dishonest repairs.

My Dad’s company is Evan Bair Home Inspections. He is currently creating a blog to help people understand the needs, the importance and the how to of home inspections. Visit His San Antonio Texas Home Inspection Service Site

Webnovate - Innovating & Renovating the Web One Site at a Time!

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Sundance Resort

SilverCreek Development

Harris & Carter Law Firm

Bella Fine Decor

Utah Citizens Alliance

Evan Bair Home Inspections

Heber Valley Railroad

HBC Custom Home Builders

Backcountry Bound

Arctic Air

Sundance Resort Named to Conde Nast Traveler’s Gold List Ranked Second in U.S. for 2008 Best of Food

(Sundance, UT ) January 2008—- The Sundance Resort, located in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, was listed in Conde Nast Traveler’s prestigious Gold List for January 2008. The Gold List is a comprehensive list of the world’s best places to stay. In addition, the Sundance Resort received special culinary recognition for 2008 Best by Food with a score of 96.8. The Inn at Thorn Hill in Jackson, New Hampshire ranked first with a score of 100. The Resort tied with the Inn at Little Washington, Washington, Virginia, for the Best by Food award.

These awards come on the heels of the Sundance receiving the esteemed Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Award, ranking second for the Top 50 United States Resorts with a score of 94.6 and 34th in the world. Lodge on Little St. Simon Island, Georgia was the first ranked resort on the Readers’ Choice U.S. list.

Sundance, the picturesque destination resort, founded by Robert Redford in 1969, is a year round resort at the base of 12,000-foot Mt. Timpanogos offering an array of mountain activities including snow sports, hiking, mountain biking, fly-fishing, and horseback riding as well as unique offerings such as art classes, exhibits and periodic film screenings.

More than 28,000 Conde Nast Traveler’s readers offered the magazine comments on what distinguishes the best resorts in the world. The result is the 14th Annual Gold List.

“Sundance is very proud to be listed in this prestigious list,” commented Chad Linebaugh, Co General Manager, Sundance Resort. “The Conde Nast Gold List sets the standard for the top hotels in the world and Sundance is honored to be a part of it. We are especially proud of our culinary team for its Best by Food ranking.” 

Sundance Press Release by Lucy Rudolphi

History Of Sundance Resort

Centuries ago, the Ute Indians retreated to this canyon to escape the summer heat and hunt the abundant game. By the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the Stewarts, a family of Scottish immigrants, had settled the canyon. While the first generations were mostly surveyors and sheepherders, the next generation saw excitement and opportunity in the snow-laden slopes beneath Mount Timpanogos. In the Fifties, the Stewarts opened Timphaven, a local ski resort which boasted a chair lift, a rope tow, and a burger joint named Ki-Te-Kai–Somoan for “Come and get it!” (One of the Stewarts had served as a Mormon missionary to the islands.)

In 1969, Robert Redford bought Timphaven and much of the surrounding land from the Stewart family, and Sundance was born. Rejecting advice from New York investors to fill the canyon with an explosion of lucrative hotels and condominiums, Redford saw his newly acquired land as an ideal locale for environmental conservation and artistic experimentation. As with most experiments, there were a few early setbacks. A dinner/movie night was abandoned when waiters repeatedly collided in the darkness. A mountain man rendezvous never saw past the first year because the deafening roar of musket and canon competition sent both wild and domestic animals scrambling for the Wyoming border.

Years of experimentation and refinement have ultimately resulted in what we now call Sundance. The Sundance Institute, the spectacular skiing, the stunning natural scenery, and the tasteful excellence of the accommodations combine to make Sundance dynamically unique. Sundance is a process as well as a place. It is the blending of process and place, which puts Sundance in uncharted waters, on a steady course of its own. People here come from all walks of life, but one belief is shared: our community should represent who we are and what we believe in. Sundance is an arts community, a recreational community, a community of people who appreciate the beauty of nature–and feel the responsibility to preserve it.

We want to help you find those elements of the Sundance experience which will most meet your needs and your dreams. As you’ll see, Sundance has many shapes, many moods, and many possibilities. Somewhere in our community awaits an experience, which belongs to you and we are committed to helping you find it.

Sundance Resort Photos

Willie Holdman is one of my favorite Utah photographers.  With his photographs he captures the indescribable beauty that is Utah with an emphasis on Timpanogas and Sundance. I first met Willie while working as the webmaster for Sundance Ski Resort in 2002.  A few years later I moved into his neighborhood and met his family. Here is his biography that he wrote for the Sundance Resort website in 2002.

“Many found memories are still dancing in my head of my early days at Sundance. The most prolithic being getting first ski tracks down grizzly bowl when I was 10 years old with my father. This was before the arrowhead chair was installed and bishops bowl was named the ozone. If you were extremely lucky the cat would take you up what is now Amy’s ridge where you could get tracks down the bush-ridden bowl. After a big dump of snow it was guaranteed this is where you would find me. Sundance was close, convenient, and never crowded, but most importantly an inspiration. Nowhere else had the volume and shear beauty of craggy rocks, bowls and colures that Timpanogos had to offer. I came back a little more aware, alive, and fulfilled after each visit. But at the same time wanting. Wanting more of the experience.

This is where my love of the outdoors began. So it only seems natural to spend most of my time capturing its’ beauty on film. I love the experience of outside. Exploring, wondering, watching the changing seasons around me. Nowhere else does the term “Picture Perfect” fit so well than here. It’s a never-ending quest of discovery. I continue to find myself here. I hope you enjoy the journey with me.

Willie Holdman is a native Utahan and started experiencing the wonders of nature at an early age by assisting his father, Floyd, on photography assignments for National Geographic throughout the country. He managed to slip out and photograph the rural areas of Utah while at Brigham Young University where he received his BFA degree with an emphasis in photography. Willie resides at the base of majestic Mt. Timpanogos in Lindon, Utah. Although he has photographed nature all over the world, it can’t compare with the versatility and beauty of Utah. Whether it is high in an alpine meadow, or low in the red rock desert, this is home.

Willie’s work has been used in numerous publications throughout the country and is collected by many corporate and personal identities; some of which include Robert Redford and senator Orin Hatch. His work is seen in many issues of Outdoor Photographer magazine. Some of his other products are a calendar on Utah, posters, and screen savers for computers. Willie Holdman Photography Pricing Guide.

Visit us online for a complete portfolio at www.willieholdman.com

See or purchase more of Willie Holdman’s work by visiting his site at www.willieholdman.com.”

Sundance Resort Opens for the 2007-2008 winter season.

I must admit that I am still a Sundance employee at heart.  Some how in the 3 and half years I spent there I was smitten. I will continue to post positive information about the resort on this site in addition to figuring out what to do with this site.

The Sundance Ski Resort eked out another opening day on time opening last Friday, December 7th. Sundance is a small resort nestled in the North Fork of the Provo Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. What Sundance lacks in size and amenities is made up with charm known as rustic elegance. What I think makes Sundance unique and a reason to visit is its folksy down to earth people. The resort’s staff is mostly locals who give Sundance a special feel.

Sundance doesn’t always offer the longest ski season but it receives plenty of Utah’s famous powder making its season good from late December to early March as the best time for thick snow. Sundance sits much lower than the other local resorts about 2000 feet lower. It also requires storms that come from the south and west to put lots of Utah’s famous powder on the slopes.

Sundance Resort’s Mountain Stats

Average Annual Snowfall: 300 inches

Vertical Drop: 2,150

Base Elevation: 6,100

Top Elevation: 8,250

Skiable Acres: 450

% Beginner Terrain: 20

% Intermediate Terrai: 40

% Advanced Terrain: 40

Miles to Major Airport: 55

Number of Runs: 42

Sundance is a great hidden treasure.  Some of its best features are weekday skiing is awesome with very small lines. Incredible views that I think are even better than most all of the Utah resorts. I loved skiing all day and then having a Reuben Sandwich from the Foundry Grill to top off the day.

A New Beginning

I bought this domain years ago when I worked for Sundance Resort.  I had inside information and I thought it would be a good way to start a web based business.  Since leaving Sundance I have struggled to figure out what to do with this domain.  I currently am just using it as a web dev lab until I find what I want to do with it.