BASEBALL EATS THE SHOW AT 1 So I'm gonna get in a lot of stuff before that.
SOMETHING COOL JUST HAPPENED WITH OUR KOREA AND JAPAN TRIP The way these trips are booked is really fascinating but Cruise and Tour does it in steps, with the last piece often being airfare. They factor guesstimated airfare into the total price and for the first time EVER the airfare came in WAY LOWER so we were able to drop the price on the trip! If you've already signed up you get the new price too, but you may want to check out a brochure or call Cruise and Tour to get signed up! Just call 800-383-3131 or visit here for more info.
DAVE WILLIAMS WILL NOT GO QUIETLY And now and his minions are trying to change the bylaws to make it harder to call a meeting to oust bad leadership, which his most certainly is. He's an abject failure, a grifter and an unethical person so of course he's trying to stay in power. Read it here, but mark my words, if the Central Committee doesn't recognize how bad he is they deserve to completely destroy the party or what's left of it in Colorado. Todd Watkins says it's "Textbook despot" and he's right. He also called Williams "Xi Jing Dave" in a nod to the communist leader of China and since we know Dave's only job outside government has been importing cheap Chinese crap he may like it and it certainly fits.
A SERIAL RAPIST IS FOUND GUILTY And I hope this guy goes to prison for the rest of his life. Dr. Stephen Mathews was found guilty of 35 of the 38 counts he was facing after raping almost a dozen women that we know of. He is a special kind of despicable. A man whose life and career were probably the envy of a lot of people who decided to drug and then rape women while they were unconscious. Disgusting.
HEY LOOK, A TRIPLE SHOOTING ON THE 16TH STREET MALL They can doll up the mall with all kinds of new stuff, but if they can't get the crime under control no one is ever coming back and stories like this one don't help.
HIS SON'S DEATH BROKE HIM This story is so incredibly sad. An anti-violence activist whose life work was trying to give kids alternatives to violence is now charged with murder after killing a man who was connected to his son Lumumba Sayer Jr.'s shooting death last year. Lumumba Sayers, Sr walked into a child's birthday party last weekend and shot and killed 28 year old Malcolm Watson. From the Denver Gazette:
Sayers Jr. — an open anti-violence activist who created Glovez Up Gunz Down Get Your Heads Up in the Hood, a nonprofit organization which guided youth to ditch their guns and, instead, use their voices to solve their problems — was allegedly protecting his sister during the shooting.
Suspect Tyrell Braxton, 24, was arrested a month after the shooting on suspicion of first-degree murder and first-degree assault. But that case has been sealed and the Denver District Attorney could not talk about its disposition. Denver Police Department has announced no other arrests in the year-old double homicide.
The case has been sealed? So someone kills your son and the case just goes away? I can only imagine and if this were Chuck and someone hurt Q I'm not saying he wouldn't have done the same thing. What a horrible awful resolution to this case. It will be very interesting to see what he has to say at trial.
WILL ANYONE ELSE BE CONVICTED FROM J6 NOW THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN CHECKED AGAIN? The first part of the death of the J6 prosecutions happened when the Supreme Court ruled that the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding doesn't apply to the protest. From SCOTUS Blog:
The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the charges against a former Pennsylvania police officer who entered the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks. By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the law that Joseph Fischer was charged with violating, which bars obstruction of an official proceeding, applies only to evidence tampering, such as destruction of records or documents, in official proceedings.
Friday’s ruling could affect charges against more than 300 other Jan. 6 defendants. The same law is also at the center of two of the four charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith against former President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.
Now the second nail in the coffin with a new ruling from the Fifth Circuit tossing out anyone swept up by massive geofencing warrants the Feds used to scoop up people like the J6 grandma who was just sentenced. Read this:
So what does this mean for the people whose cases have already been fully adjudicated? I really don't know.
STEPHEN COLBERT GETS A BIG LAUGH When he says CNN is an unbiased source. Watch his face to see how genuinely SURPRISED when the audience, which we know is left wing, bursts into laughter.
OH HEY LOOK HUNTER BIDEN TRIED TO CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO HELP BUSINESS DEALS And JUST NOW the New York Times is interested in Hunter Biden. JUST NOW. Super weird coincidence, amiright? They say the timing had NOTHING to do with Joe Biden dropping out of the race, nothing at all. Yep, I believe em. Nope, I don't. Here is the story NOW that Biden is out of the race.
Hunter Biden sought assistance from the U.S. government for a potentially lucrative energy project in Italy while his father was vice president, according to newly released records and interviews. The records, which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S. ambassador to Italy in 2016 seeking assistance for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where he was a board member. Embassy officials appear to have been uneasy with the request from the son of the sitting vice president on behalf of a foreign company.
“I want to be careful about promising too much,” wrote a Commerce Department official based in the U.S. Embassy in Rome who was tasked with responding.“This is a Ukrainian company and, purely to protect ourselves, U.S.G. should not be actively advocating with the government of Italy without the company going through the D.O.C. Advocacy Center,” the official wrote. Those acronyms refer to the United States government and a Department of Commerce program that supports American companies that seek business with foreign governments. Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Mr. Biden, said his client “asked various people,” including the U.S. ambassador to Italy at the time, John R. Phillips, whether they could arrange an introduction between Burisma and the president of the Tuscany region of Italy, where Burisma was pursuing a geothermal project. “No meeting occurred, no project materialized, no request for anything in the U.S. was ever sought and only an introduction in Italy was requested,” Mr. Lowell said in a statement, calling the outreach by Mr. Biden a “proper request.”
So he DID use his dad's position as VP to try and enrich himself and his clients. You don't say. You don't say.
FUNNY PARENTS RAISE HAPPIER KIDS and if this is accurate I should have the happiest kids ever if I do say so myself. Read more here.
IS BURNING MAN OVER? For the first time since 2011 tickets to the desert drug fueled party have not sold out. The weather has sucked in the last two years and since tickets start at $575 bucks many people just can't afford it right now. I believe this is the beginning of the end for Burning Man as we know it.
SO MANY OF THESE CAUSES OF DEATH ARE LIFESTYLE RELATED And it's so sad that we can't get people to take their health seriously. Read the top ten causes of death in the US and you begin to see what the Standard American Diet and no exercise looks like.
THE UKRAINE OFFENSIVE INTO RUSSIA HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL As war watchers point out that it took Russia months to capture less land than it took Ukraine to capture Russian Territory in one week. Now Moscow is being forced to move resources away from the front they want to fight to a place they don't want to fight. This is a good strategy so far if you ask me.
THEY ARE JUST MAKING STUFF UP IN CLIMATE SCIENCE And Roger Pielke writes about it here.
AND NOW YOUR DAILY REMINDER Because this is important.