CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? I absolutely LOVE what Wayne Williams and AG Phil Weiser are doing in supporting the Colorado Unify Challenge, which is designed to bring people of differing views together to have discussions about issues they might disagree about. Wayne is on the show today at 1 to discuss it, but you can sign up and participate by clicking here. I already signed up.
FIREFLY AUTISM IS A GEM OF AN ORGANIZATION And we are so lucky to have anything like this in the Denver metro. I'll speak with Dr. Amanda Kelly, CEO & Executive Director of Firefly Autism, at 2:05 about their upcoming fundraise Laugh Yourself Blue starring comedian Josh Blue. I'm excited to be attending the event this year as I've heard it's one of the best events in Denver. Find out more and buy your ticket by clicking here!
HOW IS CHINA'S COVID ZERO STRATEGY WORKING OUT? Right now, really, really bad. Shanghai is having a massive breakout and the Chinese Communists are using their totalitarian playbook but this time, the people are complaining. They are resisting having their children taken from them to be quarantined, they are complaining about the crappy conditions in the quarantine buildings and more. This is a huge test for the Chinese Comms and they are failing. This is proof that you can't control the virus, you can simply delay the virus. The virus is gonna do what the virus is gonna do, and they would do well to let it rip through the population and get it over with. Read more here. Can we all stop taking medical advice from the Chinese now? Sweden was right.
MORE PEOPLE MOVED OUT OF COLORADO THAN INTO COLORADO LAST YEAR At least according to this stat from a moving company which tracks such things. Be sure and look at the map embedded in this story to see which counties have lost and which have gained. The Red leaning counties have been flooded with people. I wonder why. JK I know why. They smell like freedom.
THIS AS 60% OF NEW YORKERS SAY THEIR LIVES WOULD BE BETTER SOMEWHERE ELSE New York City has been miserable during covid, largely because of the mismanagement of the now disgraced Governor and incompetent former mayor. That being said, people are kind of done. A new poll shows that even if you can make it there, you might want to make it somewhere else. An even larger percentage of Black, Hispanic, and Asians surveyed said they'd do better elsewhere. Not good news for The Big Apple. Perhaps some rot has set in.
"CLEAN" ENERGY MURDERS A BUNCH OF EAGLES And the parent company of the deadly wind farm is going to have to pay a huge fine because of its slaughter of our national bird. It's not only bald eagles that are cut out of the sky by wind turbine blades, but golden eagles and other majestic predators. Read this fun part of the story:
Prosecutors said the company's failure to take steps to protect eagles or to obtain permits to kill the birds gave it an advantage over competitors that did take such steps — even as ESI and other NextEra affiliates received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits from the wind power they produced.
NextEra spokesperson Steven Stengel said the company didn't seek permits because it believes the law didn't require them for unintentional bird deaths. The company said its guilty plea will resolve all allegations over past fatalities and allow it to move forward without a continued threat of prosecution.
I did a quick google search to find out what kind of "steps to protect eagles" there actually are and found that there really ARE NONE. The government just wants wind farm operators to pay for a permit to slaughter the birds. Of course they do. Here is the article I found on that. I love the part at the bottom where the wind farm people basically say "we don't kill as many as power lines" as an excuse for avicide.
LAUREN BOEBERT IS SPOT ON IN THIS LINE OF QUESTIONING Frankly I am sick to death of having "woman" erased to include an infinitesimal number of trans men who may want to give birth at some point. Boebert is 100% right on this line of questioning.
GERMANY HAS PROOF OF RUSSIAN WAR CRIMES as they have intercepted radio chatter of Russian troops discussing how they questioned civilians and Ukraine soldiers and then shot them on the spot. So what does the world do now?
THE SECOND COVID BOOSTER DOES ALMOST NOTHING as a new study shows the benefits only last a few weeks. I think we can be done with the boosters at this point.
THIS GUY HAS A SUPER SPECIAL CAR PROTECTION SYSTEM But is it legal? Watch it first.
Before you decide to go full on Home Alone to protect your stuff, read this. The law does not look kindly on booby traps, even the bad guy deserves what he got.
WE LOVE OUR LIBRARIES! This is a great article about how many people use libraries on a regular basis and it's encouraging. With the online library options available today there is no excuse for not reading!
PALM SPRINGS IS GIVING MONEY TO TRANS RESIDENTS In the form of a Guaranteed Monthly Income program designed ONLY for people who check the trans box. I fundamentally disagree with treating any group differently, especially when it comes to carving out money for some protected class. This is clearly unconstitutional in my opinion. If they want to do it, they need to find a private donor to cough up the 200k to fund it. Period.
JENNIFER RUBIN MAY BE THE WORST COLUMNIST SINCE PAUL KRUGMAN And that's saying something because he's literally an idiot. Rubin got taken to the woodshed after saying that Biden's economy was dynamite if you looked past the pesky inflation he created. The internet was not kind. They were kinder than I wanted to be when I read it. One of the worst economic takes I've ever seen, and again, Paul Krugman is still out there. Please remove any "conservative" credentials from this woman's quiver. She deserves nothing but scorn.
THE SNACK POLICE IS COMING TO A PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL And this is a less controversial example of schools thinking they have more control over your children than parents do. A school district in Pennsylvania announced they would be searching the bags of middle and high school students and if they brought in a bag of chips larger than four ounces or a soda more than 20 ounces they will be confiscated. The school says kids are bringing in bags of chips and sodas to sell to other students. The parents are not happy and lit up the school's facebook post until they took it down.
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS IS GOING TO BUS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO DC And I LOVE THIS PLAN. It's easy for Kamala to ignore the humanitarian crisis at the border because it's SO FAR AWAY. Now Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has to deal with the influx on a daily basis, has announced he will be sending new arrivals straight to America's House in DC. Read more here.
WHEN IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK COOL
HUNTER BIDEN'S LAPTOP CLEARLY SHOWS JOE WAS GETTING GRIFT TOO Even as the media, which voraciously sold the "it's Russian disinformation" narrative before the election, is now selling "it has nothing to do with Joe". This column from Insights and Issues asks the question "Is the Big Guy In Trouble" which references multiple references to Joe Biden as The Big Guy. Those references included mentions that he "gets ten percent" of everything. Read it here before Big Tech censors it. The New York Post, which was banned from Twitter for first publishing the accurate story, has 12 time Joe Biden colluded with his son to help ChiComs or corrupt Ukrainians.
DENVER HIGH SCHOOL DESTROYS HONORS PROGRAMS IN THE NAME OF EQUITY This story is so infuriating but completely predictable. When efforts to increase minority enrollment in Honors classes didn't work, Denver's South High School decided to create equal outcomes by gutting Honors classes. Now, students in normal classes will have opportunities to do "honors extension" assignments in normal classes to earn an Honors designation for this class. In other words, they have dumbed down honors classes to mean nothing and are offering grade inflation by allowing students to earn honors credit for getting a C in a normal class. This is trash.
SENDING A LETTER WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE, WHILE EMAIL IS STILL FREE The Post Office is still trying to be a thing even though mail quantity has dropped dramatically and they lose money hand over fist each year. They are getting ready to raise the price for a single stamp to 60 cents. Mmmkay.
PLEASE BECOME AN ORGAN DONOR It's easy, and frankly, you won't be needing those perfectly good parts if you're dead. Read why you should give the gift of life when you die here.
MAN IDENTIFYING AS A SIX YEAR OLD CRUSHES T BALL RECORDS And oddly, only the Babylon Bee covered it.
OLD MAN GOES NEXT LEVEL IN BREAKDANCING BATTLE
YES, SHE'S NINETY, WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE?