A DYING MAN JUST WANTS TO TRY I realize that we are ALL dying but my guest today is on a fast track none of us want to be on. Elijah is 23 years old and is fighting for his life. He was only six years old when he was diagnosed with a fatal and incurable disease – Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The disease has robbed Elijah of the ability to walk. He’s losing the use of his hands and arms. He likely only has a few years to live. There’s a potential genetic treatment for his condition that is sitting on the shelf, all because of government bureaucracy. It could save his life, and others like him. That’s why Elijah is advocating for the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments. Elijah he has become a strong advocate for Right to Try for Individualized Treatments (which we also call Right to Try 2.0). There is a treatment that could help him, but government red tape is preventing him from accessing it. So he has made it his mission to advocate for treatments like these/He also started a nonprofit, wrote a book, consults for biotech companies, and is working on a screenplay about his story. Read this story about his journey here. He joins me at 12:30 to talk about it. Find out more about Right to Try by clicking here.
GAYS AGAINST GROOMERS IS STILL FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT And I've got Rich Guggenheim on with an update since the passage of SB25-1213 made Colorado a hotspot of trans affirmation. He's on at 1pm. We can talk about how a group made entirely of LGBTQ people has been named "Anti-LGBTQ" by the hate group SPLC.
HOW ABOUT SOME GLOW IN THE DARK PETUNIAS? As gardening is my official hobby now I'm actually pretty excited to have Audrey Sharpe and Matt Niemann on the show. This year Plum Creek Garden Market is excited to announce the debut of the Firefly Petunia, the first bioluminescent petunia for sale (glow in the dark). This year we encourage Colorado gardeners to consider planting more native plants that have adapted to Colorado’s elevation and climate over generations. Audrey and Matt join me at 2:30 to talk about it, find your local Plum Creek Garden Market by clicking here.
WHY THE RUSH, DOUGCO COMMISSIONERS? That was one of the many frustrated things shouted at the three County Commissioners at the end of last night's meeting where only six citizens got to ask their questions. They couldn't be bothered to allow citizens to ask questions beyond the one hour they allotted for a meeting about one of the most important things voters will ever be asked to decide on. This is EXACTLY why I am a NO on this issue. The citizens of Douglas County deserve to get EVERY question answered and this is just indicative of how little these commissioners care about the opinions of the people they serve. Abe Laydon threatened to get the sheriff involved because people wanted more questions answered for crying out loud. I hope most of the 9,000 people on that town hall call heard that loud and clear. I don't trust this group. Period.
TARIFFS ARE DEAD FOR NOW As the little known Court of International Trade ruled that Trump can't use the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act or IEEPA to levy them unilaterally. I'm not sure Trump is going to be super upset about this honestly. I think he's always believed they were just to get other nations in line, which is sort of underway already, when it comes to trade. Now this is a way out for him on tariffs, and he can pivot to Congress and ask them what the heck they are doing about it. We'll see. You can read more here.
CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS DID A BAIT AND SWITCH And this one should matter because it was a bait and switch involving the most needy students in the district and their mental health. Read this column for more, but the long and short of it is CCSD asked for a bunch of taxpayer money to create a program to support kids in need at a very high level and even AFTER they knew they couldn't do what they were promising they still asked for MORE money to do it.
THE COVERUP IS ALWAYS WORSE Than the initial incompetence that spawns it. That's the story from Jimmy Sengenberger as he reports on stupidity at the Arapahoe Clerk of Courts office. When will public servants learn that if they make a mistake they need to come clean about it IMMEDIATELY to avoid making it worse by trying to cover it up? Apparently never, and that's good news for Jimmy as he'll never run out of things to talk about.
HOME HEALTH CARE IS ABOUT TO EVEN PRICIER Because in Colorado they are raising the wages of people who work in home health care. From the Denver Gazette:
The first bill, House Bill 1328, implements a number of recommendations made by the Direct Care Workers Stabilization Board, which was created through a piece of 2023 legislation and charged with finding ways to support better Colorado's direct care workers, which include nursing aides, home health and personal care aides.
The bill establishes a $17 per hour minimum wage for direct care workers, starting in July, and encourages the state to increase that wage to $25 per hour by 2028.
Home health care is already out of reach for many families and now it's going to be out of reach for so many more. Find out about Long Term Care Insurance by clicking here, you're gonna need it. I did the math, by the way, that equals $6,000 month for 8 hours of help a day. Just an fyi.
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY TRUMP COMMUTED THIS GANG LEADERS SENTENCE? The good news is there is zero percent chance that Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover will ever be out of prison, as he's serving 200 years of STATE penalties as well as the federal penalties that Trump just commuted. But why though? Why would Trump commute the sentence of this guy? He is a horrible person who was convicted of running a criminal enterprise FROM PRISON. WTF? Honestly, WTF?
HAMAS DEMANDS PALESTINIANS STARVE And that is not hyperbole or me being funny, that is literally the command coming down from the obese leader of Hamas, who is sitting in a hotel room in Qatar (them again) probably ordering lobster from room service.
The issue is that instead of giving aid to the wildly corrupt UNRWA, and American organization teamed up with Israel to deliver aid directly to the Palestinian people. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, by going around the UN, has kneecapped Hamas's ability to steal aid for their own benefit. And now that fatass from Hamas is telling the people we've all been told are suffering from famine, to NOT take the aid. Good luck with that, Fatty Fat Fat. Hamas has gone so far as to create blockades so Palestinians can't reach the aid and firing shots into the air over the heads of those in line waiting for aid. Read this bit of claptrap so you understand how corrupt every aid organization in Gaza is:
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the United Nations humanitarian office called the work of GHF a "distraction from what is actually needed," which the spokesperson said was the reopening of crossings into Gaza and the end of Israeli restrictions on the kind of aid entering the territory.
The GHF has been tasked by Israel with taking over the handling of aid in Gaza despite objections from the U.N., which, along with other aid groups, has pushed back against the new system. They assert that Israel is trying to use food as a weapon and say a new system won't be effective.
The "distraction" has delivered 462,000 meals and zero chances for Hamas to smuggle in weapons. I'm good with that and frankly don't give a rip what the UN thinks.
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR KIDNEY STONES IN KIDS For some reason especially teen girls. Read more here about the signs and symptoms.
ELON MUSK HAS MET HIS MATCH And it is the intractable DC bureaucracy. This New York Times piece on how he is distancing himself from Trump and government isn't really surprising to me. If I put myself out there in a way that was damaging to my companies and brand only to find out no one was serious about the work but me I'd bow out too.
WHY DID THE GOVERNMENT LIE TO US DURING COVID? And oh boy, they lied and lied and lied. I'm going to go over some of this today.
DEMOCRATS HAVE MORE THAN A YOUNG MAN PROBLEM The national Democratic party is in serious disarray. When I read about how they are spending $20 MILLION bucks to find out why young men are running from the party that tells them are toxic and oppressors I laughed out loud. What will that $20 million get them? Glad you asked, because we are about to be treated to the "Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.” What's in this genius plan? This is where I started laughing hard:
The New York Times was the first to report on the proposal, known as “SAM” for short. As they explain, SAM “promises investment to ‘study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in [male] spaces.’ It recommends buying advertisements in video games, among other things.”
It doesn't seem to occur to them that their rhetoric is repulsive to young men. Trump got 6% more of the young male vote than Kamala did, and the numbers were even more stunning for Black and Latino men:
That shift was more pronounced among racial minorities – Trump performed seven points better with Black men and an astonishing 12 points better with Latino men.
But THAT'S NOT ALL, FOLKS! Now we have this column from a feminist about her experiences with Democrats when it comes to protecting women's spaces. I especially love this part:
Last week, a group of feminist activists met with various members of Congress to discuss women’s sex-based rights. The group was led by members of the Women’s Liberation Front, an unapologetically radical feminist organization that supports women and girls as a sex class and opposes the inclusion of men in female-only sports and spaces. One of the women in attendance was Irene Lawrence, a board member of Women’s Declaration International USA.
The group’s meeting with Sen John Fetterman’s (D-Pa.) staff in particular could not have gone worse. According to Julia Hing, Fetterman chief of staff Jason Smith reportedly mocked a rape survivor and accused the women of lying about the importance of female-only spaces. When they told him that women are leaving the Democratic Party over such treatment, he reportedly responded, “Good. Leave. Go.” Then he threw them out of his office.
YIKES. If you know anything about Democratic politics these women are the backbone of the party in recent years. With abortion being codified as legal in a vast majority of states, Democrats have lost their key argument for women and have decided to side with men who say they are women now instead. Keep up the good work, Democrats. And I'm guessing the $20 million will be well spent. Perhaps they can hire Steve Buscemi.
(In case you were wondering I've had this meme saved for about ten years now waiting for the perfect time to deploy it on the blog and today is the day)
WHY I DON'T TRUST SAUDI ARABIA IN ONE STORY Did you know that there are STILL prisons for women who misbehave by not enjoying sex with their abusive husbands or fathers? And in these "care homes" women are tortured until they beg to go back to the men who abuse them? Saudi Arabia can go pound the many, many grains of sand they live on.
IT COSTS WHAT TO REPLACE THE BATTERY ON A FORD LIGHTNING??? First I saw this:
But I thought that CAN'T be right so I did some digging and came up with this, which says the battery ALONE costs $28556 and with labor it is $32,000! Ford says the warranty, which runs for 100,000 miles, covers the battery, but who is going to buy this truck in the used car market? Seriously. The car retails for $79,000 so in eight years or 100,000 miles it's still gonna be at least 20 grand and someone is going to have to pony up for that battery at some point. This is so stupid and unsustainable on any level.
I'M NOT SURE THIS IS AS CLEVER AS THEY THINK IT IS Because Doris still seems like she might kick your booty to me. Just saying. Watch below or click here, but I'm not crossing Doris anytime soon.
NOT EVERYONE LOVES THE FREESTYLE BOARDING ON SOUTHWEST And it's people like these sourpusses who ruined it for those of us who do. Watch below or click here.
COWS LOVE JAZZ Watch below or click here.
THIS CAT IS NOT HAPPY Watch below or click here.