WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THE PARKS WE'VE GOT BEFORE BUYING MORE LAND That is the word from an auditor who checked out what's happening with Denver Parks and Rec. From the Denver Gazette:
“The city has millions to spend but a lot of work to do before the parks are in the condition expected by anyone who cares about our city,” O’Brien said. “When the public sees graffiti, human waste, drug paraphernalia and unsafe conditions at parks, it’s reasonable for them to wonder where those tax dollars they approved went.”
The audit team found that several city parks failed on-site evaluations based on Parks and Recreation’s maintenance standards. Grounds for failure included graffiti, exposed electrical wires, human waste, drug paraphernalia, needles, deep holes and other conditions deemed hazardous to humans and animals.
The failed parks were Civic Center Park, City Park, Confluence Park, Harvey Park, Joseph P. Martinez Park, Overland Pond Park, Rocky Mountain Lake Park, Thomas Ernest McClain Park, Greenway Dog Park and Montbello Central Park.
Check out that list of parks. These are supposed to be the best of the best, right? But they are crapholes and Parks and Rec is stockpiling money for more parks they won't take care of. This is madness and further proof that government doesn't run anything very well. Even our parks system.
THERE ARE STILL TICKETS TO THE NERD FAN EXPO THIS WEEKEND And as it falls on Halloween weekend I'm expecting the cosplay to be NEXT LEVEL. You can meet William Shatner if you want, here is the link to the website.
THE NEIGHBORS IN LINCOLN PARK ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT SANCTIONED CAMPING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD And who could blame them? I wonder how many of the members of the City Council live next to a sanctioned homeless camp? I'm guessing zero but I'd love to be proven wrong on that. Neighbors who say they were JUST TOLD about a new camp coming to their drug and homeless infested neighborhood say they will fight back. Randy Corporan, they are paging you. He's representing another neighborhood in this situation.
IT'S AMAZING WHAT A FEW DADS ON DUTY CAN DO AT A HIGH SCHOOL This story is fantastic and I hope the idea spreads to other schools who could use a little dadness.
THE BORDER IS MORE THAN THREE TIMES WORSE THAN IT WAS UNDER TRUMP But you sure wouldn't know by the complete lack of media interest in the 1.7 million plus border apprehensions in fiscal year 2021 which just ended. Compare that to just over 450,000 in fiscal year 2020 when Trump was in office. You'd think the media would be somewhat interested in what's going on down there, but oddly, they are not. By the way, these are just the migrants who walk over and get caught, imagine how many are making it into the country unchecked? But I'm sure it's fine.
OUR PRESIDENT LITERALLY HAS NO CLUE WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT And this editorial about his performance at last week's softball laden "town hall" on CNN demonstrated how little he actually knows. This should be concerning to everyone, this guy is allegedly in charge.
FACEBOOK IS HAVING TROUBLE STOPPING PEOPLE FROM SELLING PEOPLE ON IT'S PLATFORMS It's amazing to me that they have time to flag anything you might write about covid but stopping someone from selling another human into domestic servitude is hard. It is so challenging that Apple threatened to remove Facebook and Instagram from it's stores until they fixed the problem. Facebook says it is scrambling to fix it, but as soon as they take down sites new ones pop up. Correct, that's how scumbags work, but Facebook has to figure out a way to prevent this from happening on their platforms EVERY day.
GOOD GUY WITHOUT A GUN STOPS IDIOT KID WITH A GUN And this is why I love military men.
HALLOWEEN IN THE 80S VS NOW And this is so true it hurts me.
DRIVING AN ELECTRIC CAR COSTS MORE THAN DRIVING A GAS CAR And this is on the ownership side, not the purchase side. A nerdy economist bought an electric vehicle and did what nerdy economists do, he broke down the actual cost in both time and money of driving an electric car. He found that there is no comparison, especially when it comes to "refueling" while on the road. Read more here but this is why I'm not going electric until some of these kinks are worked out.
THE NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION IS SUPER SORRY THEY CALLED PARENTS DOMESTIC TERRORISTS So much so that they issued an apology on a Friday afternoon so no one would notice it. Too late though, the damage has already been done because they said the quiet part loud and we all heard it.
THE GUN IN THE ALEC BALDWIN SHOOTING WAS USED FOR TARGET PRACTICE OFF HOURS This according to TMZ who said multiple sources confirmed that the crew was using the gun off hours for fun. This is likely why there were live rounds in the gun AT ALL, which there never should have been. This is what happens when idiots who don't know about gun safety use firearms. Baldwin was practicing drawing the weapon when the gun went off and killed the cinematographer. The Assistant Director also had a reputation for unsafe working conditions too. This is a mess. No charges have been filed.
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA CALLS OUT STACEY ABRAMS WHILE THE BRAVES ARE IN THE WORLD SERIES And this is what I would do if I were a politician.
Braves and Astros it is, and the network is probably not happy about this one.
MAYBE WE SHOULD HIRE OUR OWN SECURITY FORCE Like families are doing in San Francisco where crime has skyrocketed under the current DA Chesa Boudin, more on him later. Now families are hiring private security in addition to the cameras and lights that they already have on their homes to protect their property, in addition to no longer walking in their neighborhood at night. You get the government you deserve.
SAN FRANCISCO'S FAR LEFT DA HAS DRIVEN A THIRD OF PROSECUTORS OUT OF HIS OFFICE Why? Because he simply refuses to prosecute crimes. That's fine if you're just some dude, but Chesa Boudin is the District Attorney whose job it is to prosecute crimes. Now two more attorneys have quit and joined the recall effort against Boudin. These are the kinds of policies being pursued by members of the Denver City Council, by the way, to make life easy for criminals and hard for everyone else.
DENVER SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS ARE SUPER IMPORTANT And here is who I want you to vote for and why.
ONE GUY USED HIS PANDEMIC BUSINESS RELIEF FUNDS TO BUY A POKEMON CARD And this is just one of many stories from the $4.5 BILLION in fraud paid out to bad actors when the government was trying to throw money at people they put out of work. Read more here.
DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER? WAIT FIVE MINUTES It's an old joke here in Denver but now we know it's TRUE. A dude looked at the entire country for areas where the temperature changed more than five degrees on the regular and we were near the top of the heap! This is why I own fourteen jackets of varying warmth now.
THE DOUGCO RESPONSE TO THE DOUGCO SCHOOLS MASK LAWSUIT IS SPOT ON And you should read it below, although it is a PDF. They make the case that the parents who sued out of fear not actual harm would set a dangerous precedent that would keep kids in masks forever. We'll see what a judge says today.
Douglas County Board of Health's response to the stupid mask lawsuit filed against them by Douglas County Schools.
MISSISSIPPI STATE HEAD BALL COACH HATES CANDY CORN And this unexpected interview about candy is sheer perfection.