THE MAYOR IS BACK AT 1 TODAY And I'm already loaded with questions for Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.
THE COLORADO LEGISLATURE OKAYS KIDS PLAYING OUTSIDE And THANK GOODNESS they tackled this burning issue and not refelonizing fentanyl, as kids being allowed to run around outside is obviously the most important thing right now. I'd love to tell you I'm being hypberbolic with my headline but read this story. They literally okayed your kids playing outside unattended. Whose Children are they again?
WANT TO FIGHT CRIME IN DOWNTOWN DENVER? JUST HEAD ON DOWN! This is an interesting take I wasn't quite prepared for. After a shooting at Union Station this weekend, CBS 4 sent a reporter downtown to do a report on things only to have a camera man attacked by a random homeless guy. The Downtown Development Partnership has an interesting thing to blame: you. She says that people need to come back downtown in order to stop the crime down there. Except there is a good chance if you do try to come downtown you won't be able to get back onto the light rail because someone got shot at Union Station. This idea has been WIDELY mocked online for good reason. While recognizing that a lack of people does leave things open for crime to take over, just putting them back doesn't make the crime go away. It just adds more potential victims.
ENFORCING THE CAMPING BAN WOULD BE A GOOD START And the Denver Gazette has a nice editorial about it here.
POLIS WITH A GUN HAS BEEN COMEDY GOLD Re Election Jared (much different than Governor Jared) has no street cred with people outside the urban corridor. How do I know? He had to be photographed shooting stuff. And the internet went wild with it.
HEY LOOK, WOLVES ATE MORE LIVESTOCK And this isn't going to stop any time soon. The wolves were from a pack which migrated down from Wyoming, but it's not the only attack since the vote to "reintroduce" wolves to the Western Slope. Not into downtown Denver, which voted for this, mind you.
YES, PUTIN IS A BIGGER THREAT THAN CLIMATE CHANGE And our own Mike Rosen writes about it here.
SOUTH KOREA PROVES THE VIRUS IS GONNA DO WHAT THE VIRUS IS GONNA DO Remember when we were all told if we were more like South Korea no one would get Covid and no one would die? And I said things like they are just putting it off until later? Guess who was right? Spoiler alert: not the other people. South Korea is getting CRUSHED by Omicron, and because no one has had it, lots of people are getting very sick. This as they still have the highest mask wearing compliance IN THE WORLD. The good news is that most Koreans are vaccinated so the death totals are not staggering. The virus is gonna do what the virus is gonna do.
KAMALA WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT THE PASSAGE OF TIME IS IMPORTANT This needs no comment. It's that bad. If this were Dan Quayle what would the reporting be?
WHY CASH MATTERS, OR WHEN THE GOVERNMENT TAKES YOUR STUFF VIRTUALLY This column is especially unsettling because I fear we are not that far away from something like this happening to here to American citizens. We've seen it in the "seizing" of assets by Russian oligarchs even though they have not been accused of a crime or been proven to be guilty of anything other than a cozy relationship with a Putin. In Canada Vladimir Putin (Justin Trudeau) used it to stop protests and those who supported them. It's the marriage of Big Tech and Government and they control all of your financial assets. Don't forget that. Read it here.
DEMOCRATS IN DANGER OF LOSING ARE NOW AGAINST MASK MANDATES And I welcome them to the science party, even if they are late and only doing it for political expediency. Read who has changed their minds about masking here.
BLACK FATHERS MATTER And this column, which is long and worth every second, describes how one black man is trying to start the conversation about how devastating the lack of black fathers is for kids. He knows about what he speaks.
HOW WILL WE KNOW WHO THE FATHER IS NOW??? Maury Povich is leaving his daily show after 31 years of telling men if babies were theirs.
WHY DIDN'T THE GOVERNMENT FUND COVID RESEARCH??? The National Institute of Health, which manages billions of dollars in grants, gave only 2% of such grants to scientists studying covid in 2020. As the virus was raging around the world, they found just 5.3% of their budget to spend on covid. What did they fund instead? All kinds of things, but mainly research on rare disease no one gets and social science research that probably doesn't mean anything. Now in the private sector, $50 million in grants were given out almost instantly to research covid. Once again, government sucks at most things.
HATS OFF TO FELLOW BROADCASTER PETER BOYLES Pete is retiring after a medical episode that has him rethinking his stress. Congrats on his retirement and I'm sure you'll see him on the slopes a lot more now.
I KNOW WHAT YOU CAN BUY ME FOR CHRISTMAS Because everyone needs an invisibility shield, amiright?
MODEL BELLA HADID SPEAKS OUT ABOUT PLASTIC SURGERY ON TEENS And she's talking about her own nose job at 14 that she now regrets. See, at 14, she had such bad body image issues that she decided to go under the knife to "fix it" and now it can't be undone. She now says kids shouldn't have plastic surgery because they "may grow out of it" and how can I not think about kids who think they are trans in this scenario?
LEARN HOW WEIRD CREEPERS HIDE CAMERAS IN RENTAL PROPERTIES And I am printing this out and taking it with me wherever I go because DANG there are a lot of ways creepy people can do this.
LET'S TALK ABOUT INFLATION FOR A HOT MINUTE I love takes like this one that says inflation only REALLY hurts when you make under $300,000. The author gives helpful suggestions like eating lentils and taking the bus to beat inflation. Oh and let your pets die of cancer. To say that the column was not well received is an understatement. Her column is a wish list of Progressive Approved Behaviors (tm) and by gosh you should adopt them all now that progressives have made the stuff you want too expensive!
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NBC NEWS AIRBRUSHED SWIMMER LEA THOMAS TO MAKE HER MORE FEMININE And if this is good journalism Bob's my uncle. Read more here and see the soft filter they used on Thomas' photos to make her seem more like a woman than she does in reality.
THIS DRONE FOOTAGE OF A TORNADO IS INCREDIBLE These storm chasers are insane, but they bring us video like this so maybe I should be grateful they are insane.
IS DEATH BY FLYING BOUNCEHOUSE AN ACTUAL CAUSE OF DEATH? We don't need it here, but you can see the parental panic that ensues when a bounce house takes flight.
THE MOST BORING PERSON IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN FOUND OUT and if you work in finance or accounting, it could be you. If you also happen to enjoy bird watching, tv watching, religion and smoking, bad news, friend, you're a snoozer.
WHY DOESN'T KENTANJI BROWN JACKSON GIVE TOUGH SENTENCES FOR CHILD PORN? It's a question she was asked but answered very weakly, imo. You can read more here but she's going to get confirmed anyway so don't stress about it because you can't change it.
BABY BLOWOUT
AND NOW, TWENTY GROSS HYGIENE TRENDS And I bet the add Gwyneth Paltrow's vajajay steaming to this list someday.