PETER YU WANTS TO BE US SENATOR He's part of the embarrassment of riches pool of candidates running to unseat The Useless Michael Bennet. He's joins me at 1 to talk about why he's running and if you like what you hear click here to find out more.
I HAVE TO THANK FOX 31'S PROBLEM SOLVERS Because they have been on the Union Station story with great regularity, following up aggressively and demanding answers from everyone in power. You can see their recent reporting here, here and here. They are digging to get answers and what they are getting is a whole bunch of people allegedly in charge pointing the fingers at everyone else instead. Once again, I think this problem has gotten significantly worse because of the actions of government. In 2019 the Democrat lead Colorado Legislature decided to make the possession of drugs like heroin and fentanyl a misdemeanor, which makes it just a ticket for the homeless addicts in Union Station. So even if they are meeting with law enforcement, they aren't getting arrested. The reason for the change was to stop "arresting away" the problem and allegedly save the city money. Except it's done just the opposite and unleashed a wave of homeless addicts running Union Station because the police have no means of stopping them. The Dems own this. Period. Without the Problem Solvers from Fox 31 staying on this like a dog on bone, I can assure you NOTHING would change. We all owe them a big debt of gratitude.
TWELVE COVID TESTING SITES ARE SHUT DOWN Because they don't have the proper licensing to administer covid tests. Nowhere in this story does it indicate a problem with the actual tests that have been administered by these companies, just that they did not go through the licensing process to be able to give the tests. Find all the sites affected by clicking here. Then ask why they were allowed to test so long without the proper paperwork in place. Why did that happen? It seems that it should have been easy for ANYONE with State to check but they didn't until another state started investigating one of these companies. Incompetence all around.
THE WATER WAR WITH NEBRASKA IS GOING TO HEAT UP And it wasn't a water war until Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts declared that Nebraska would build a long planned but never completed irrigation ditch near Ovid Nebraska that would pull water directly out of Colorado because some of it is ON Colorado land. Nebraska seems to think that we are going to hoard our water, but Senator Jerry Sonenberg clears things up here. He should send this column to the Governor in Nebraska.
VAIL SKIERS ARE NOT HAPPY WITH VAIL RESORTS And one guy has managed to get 40,000 signatures on his Change.org petition and now he's asking people to NOT automatically renew their Epic Passes until Vail offers something to make workers show up. Just like the rest of the world, the ski industry is short workers. This isn't new, as housing in the ski areas has gotten so out of control no one can afford to live there and be a ski bum, but it's WAY WORSE this year and many of Vail Resorts properties elsewhere have seen closed terrain and incredibly long lift lines. I've heard tell that there have been ridiculous life lines in Vail and Beaver Creek too, but as a non-skier I don't have first hand knowledge.
AND NOW THE BIDEN ADMIN RUINS MULTI DAY RAFTING TRIPS By reversing a rule by the Trump Administration which gave some leeway to companies who do overnight rafting trips when it comes to things like overtime. This is a perfect example of why central planning fails. They don't understand every part of the market because the market it too big, but they make rules that pertain to every part of the market whether they are good or bad. Read more here.
HEY, THE USELESS SENATORS BENNET AND HICKENLOOPER VOTED AGAINST SANCTION AGAINST RUSSIA We all know Russia is about to invade Ukraine. Biden knows Russia is about to invade Ukraine. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper know that Russia is about to invade Ukraine, and yet they voted AGAINST a package of sanctions that would be put in place immediately to vote for another package of sanctions that wouldn't kick in until AFTER Russia invades Ukraine. This is what a complete waste of space in the Senate looks like. Rand Paul voted against them because he doesn't think they do anything, which he has a point about. But since our President will not do anything to Russia when they do invade Ukraine I guess this is the best we can do.
WHY IS THIS EVEN A STORY? The ten richest men in the world got a lot richer during the pandemic. So what? They didn't take money out of anyone's pocket involuntarily. The Federal Government also got a lot richer during the pandemic and they can't say the same. OxFam is just trying to shame rich people while barely calling out the real reason behind their wealth: The Federal Reserve. The Fed has been carefully protecting markets while leaving the rest of us to deal with the rampant inflation they created with artificially low interest rates. None of these men stole anything from you, don't fall for this.
Y'ALL HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE RADIO CALL OF YESTERDAY'S DALLAS GAME And to say their announcers were not happy is a huge understatement. I don't blame them.
THE REMAKING OF JOSS WHEDON AS A VICTIM Here we go again. Though I appreciate trying to give context to what might lead someone to behave reprehensibly, without a full taking of responsibility it is simply excuse making and that is what this story on writer-director Joss Whedon is. I am a HUGE fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Whedon's first big work, and have enjoyed his Marvel movies, but he was not a nice man on those sets. He was "casually cruel" to the women he worked with even as he wrote powerful female characters who would never put up with such nonsense. Rather than admit his wrongdoing he continues to deny it ever happened while telling us it's his childhood to blame. Whatever sympathy that may be engendered by this article is completely undone by these two paragraphs:
Whedon acknowledged he was not as “civilized” back then. “I was young,” he said. “I yelled, and sometimes you had to yell. This was a very young cast, and it was easy for everything to turn into a cocktail party.” He said he would never intentionally humiliate anyone. “If I am upsetting somebody, it will be a problem for me.” The costume designer who said he’d grabbed her arm? “I don’t believe that,” he said, shaking his head. “I know I would get angry, but I was never physical with people.” Had he made out with an actress on the floor of someone’s office? “That seems false. I don’t understand that story even a little bit.” He removed his glasses and rubbed his face. “I should run to the loo.” When he came back, he said the story didn’t make sense to him because he “lived in terror” of his affairs being discovered.
He had some regrets about how he spoke with Carpenter after learning she was pregnant. “I was not mannerly,” he said. Still, he was bewildered by her account of their relationship. “Most of my experiences with Charisma were delightful and charming. She struggled sometimes with her lines, but nobody could hit a punch line harder than her.” I asked if he had called her fat when she was pregnant. “I did not call her fat,” he quickly replied. “Of course I didn’t.”
Read the whole thing here if you want, I came away even more disappointed than I did the first time I heard he was a creep.
THE WHO SAYS NOT TO TRY TO GET COVID BUT I'M SURE THIS WILL CHANGE AT SOME POINT People are having covid parties trying to pick up the Omicron variant which has been far less severe than prior variants. Why? They all know that naturally acquired immunity is far better than vaccinated immunity. Now the World Health Organization is here to say NO and don't do this, but honestly, they have been wrong over and over again so I no longer care what they say. That being said, a covid party? Just go out and about all the time and you'll be exposed. It's everywhere.
MICROSOFT UNVEILS WOKECHECK And this should be parody but it's not. Now when you are writing on a Microsoft product and you use certain gendered or color based language Microsoft will let you know you are a horrible person for saying "showgirl" or "blacklist" via a purple line under the word. You can turn it off. Mine is already off.
5G COULD ACTUALLY MAKE PLANE TRAVEL WORSE Although I am seeing a lot of "maybes" in this alarm sounded by airlines worried that 5G could affect their altimeters that tell planes how high they are off the ground. They are asking that 5G service NOT be rolled out within 2 miles of airports and of course cellphone providers are fighting this. We'll see who has the better lobby. My guess is airlines win, though the FAA should give them a serious timeline to update the equipment needed to make this change.
REAL SUGAR VS SWEETENERS...TRUST YOUR GUT Because your taste for sugar comes from there. This is a really interesting study on why some people crave sugar and it has nothing to do with our taste buds. It's all about the gut. Read more here.
THE PAPARAZZI FOLLOWING USAIN BOLT
GERMAN SHEPHERDS REVIEW FOODS
THIS MOM REPORTER NAILS IT SO PERFECTLY
RAND PAUL IS WAITING FOR HIS APOLOGY FROM BIG TECH This time on cloth masks, which the CDC has now admitted do nothing to prevent covid. Read more here.