BASEBALL EATS THE SHOW AT 12:30 BUT I'M GONNA MAKE THE BLOG COUNT
WHY DOES OUR GOVERNOR COMMUTE AND ADD TO GREENHOUSE GASES INSTEAD OF LIVING IN THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION? That's not the question being asked by this Colorado Sun story, but isn't the question that should be asked? They do eventually suggest that perhaps the Governor should move from his home in Boulder to the Governor's Mansion which is designed for the Governor to live in close to the Capitol, but mostly it's about why he doesn't drive an electric car for his commute. You know why? Giant SUVs aren't electric yet so his security detail has simply said no to something electric. So why not move? I'm not trying to be a nag, but this Governor has consistently made driving harder for the rest of us while not doing a single thing he tells US TO DO to save the world. So how important is climate change then, REALLY? If he thinks it's an existential threat, he should be more willing to change HIS lifestyle too, but instead, he gets driven hundreds of unnecessary miles in a gas guzzler while telling us to ride the unreliable trains and buses. Have your cake and eat it too, indeed!
WHY IS OUR GOVERNOR ATTACKING A GUY WHO WILL BE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024? I have thought and thought about what could possibly be behind our Governor's attack on Florida's Governor's decision to rescind the ridiculously sweet deal Disney got in the 1960s so they would come to Florida (they were coming anyway, but of course politicians wanted some credit). I just can't imagine why Polis would have made this statement:
Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away. In CO, we don’t meddle in affairs of companies like @Disney or @Twitter. Hey @Disney we’re ready for Mountain Disneyland and @twitter we’re ready for Twitter HQ2, whoever your owners are
First off, we can't handle Disney infrastructure and I don't want it here. Second off, why would he care what Florida does? Third off, it's rich that he thinks taking away ridiculously sweet deals that have shoved the cost of roads and bridges near Disney off on the taxpayers while allowing Disney to create their own water and energy production so they don't even pay into that is authoritarian and socialist. It's the exact OPPOSITE of that. He's simply going to force Disney off the government dole. But let's be real. Even though Governor Jared Polis says he isn't running for President, he totally is and this is the first shot over the bow at a likely GOP opponent. It's so, so obvious.
THIS AS CLIMATE CHANGE TAKES HOLD ON...NEPTUNE? This is so weird because I'm pretty sure Neptunians (if there are such a thing) don't use a lot of fossil fuels. It takes Neptune a whopping 165 years to get around the Sun, so scientists know their seasons are wonky, but there has been an 8 degree Celsius drop in about 15 years. That's kind of a big deal. Why is this? No one seems to know but you can read the study here.
THIS AS THE BIDEN ADMIN EMBRACES NUCLEAR And can we all agree this is something Biden may be doing right? He needs to go further and openly encourage nuclear energy development nationwide but I'll take a fund to help shore up existing facilities. We must get over our aversion to nuclear and look to creative solutions for energy development using that technology. It's the only reliable, carbon-free system out there and there should be no further discussion about adopting it wide scale.
FOR A GUY WHO SAYS HE FOLLOWS SCIENCE POLIS IS WRONG ON THIS ONE Our Governor is mad the FDA won't approve covid vaccines for children and babies under 5. Those of us who have been following the science know that there is an infinitesimal chance of a child that young having a life threatening issue with covid. But Polis lives in Boulder where shoving a mask on your tiny, unvaccinated child is some kind of statement. Instead of pushing back and telling parents the stats that clearly show that less than 500 healthy children have died of covid since the beginning of the pandemic, he makes demands that kids be given a vaccine they don't need to make their parents feel better. We already know about waning effectiveness, so I guess the Governor is going to jab his kids over and over and over again to protect them from a virus that has killed fewer children than swimming pools during the same time frame.
THIS IS HOW MUCH THE UNION CARES ABOUT WORKERS The recent grocery store strike saw many union workers crossing the lines to continue to do their jobs, and now the union is fining them for doing so, often more than they make in a day. UFCW Local 7, the union for grocery workers, is sending letters to members issuing the $250 a day fine, along with taking any monies earned while those workers worked. Workers can appeal the fines to the union that levied them. If this doesn't make you realize unions only care about enriching themselves I can't help you.
JON CALDARA TAKES ON XCEL'S MONOPOLY I'm going to get Jon on the show about his newest ballot initiative, this one to force Xcel to feel the pain it inflicts on rate payers. Read all about it here, we shall discuss at a later date.
CAN WE SEND PEOPLE TO PRISON FOR STARTING FIRES HERE? A Boulder woman has been arrested for igniting a fire that thankfully fire fighters were able to get under control before it did more damage. I say lock her up and throw away the key. If you start a fire in this tinder box deserves to have the book thrown at them, then beaten with said book and then time in a cell to think about how stupid they were.
SOMEONE SHOW THIS EDITORIAL TO COREY WISE AND VANESSA WILSON Because they need to understand that they both served in roles that served at the pleasure of an elected body. When the elected body changes, their jobs are at risk. It's that simple. Corey Wise signed a contract that he could be fired without cause, which he was. He took the job knowing the politics but now he's suing because he's a useful idiot for the teachers unions looking to sow discontent in DougCo. I will not stop bringing this to DougCo voter attention. This is an orchestrated effort and I guess he's not smart enough to realize how it will be HIS reputation that is destroyed in the process. He needs to get out of his bubble and find out just how bad he looks in all this. He looks like a whiny bitch. There, I said it.
DUDE PULLED A DRAGON TO GET TACO BELL TO BRING BACK STUFT NACHOS This story is a unique one. A guy who was overweight discovered the Grilled Stuft Nacho at Taco Bell and loved it. Unfortunately, it was discontinued right after he discovered it. So he began his own TikTok challenge where he was going to exercise EVERY DAY until they brought it back. He's down 85 pounds now, but Taco Bell says they aren't bringing back the Stuft Nacho, although they brought it back for ONE DAY so he could have another one.
THIS IS WHY WE DON'T ASK GRANDPAS TO RECORD VIDEOS But this is so stinking cute.
WHAT OUR KIDS DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT OUR LIVES VS THEIRS I was crying this morning about how bad our lives were compared to now.
IT'S OKAY TO FIGHT THE STUPID NOTION THAT MATH IS RACIST And Florida made headlines when it did just that by rejecting a bunch of math books that slid racist anti-racist concepts into math for elementary school students. This article details the myriad of ways that CRT and it's spawn have infected public schools. I especially love this part:
PEN America, a New York-based free speech advocacy group, said in a statement Monday that Florida’s rejection of the math textbooks is part of “a multi-pronged effort to undermine faith in public schooling.”
“Questions remain about the grounds for these rejections, and whether these removals are really about scoring political points,” PEN America said.
Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor in the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania, said Mr. DeSantis and other GOP leaders who seek to remove K-12 textbooks have used “the bugbear” of critical race theory to “fire up” their voter base.
“Of course, we disagree about those subjects, and we should discuss those disagreements in our classrooms. But purging textbooks will inhibit that discussion, instead of promoting it,” said Mr. Zimmerman, author of an upcoming book about Trump-era culture wars in public schools.
I love it so because we're supposed to allow textbooks which tell children they are oppressed or that math is a "social construct" so we can then discuss them in the classroom instead of teaching kids math. If I used that argument to keep The Bible in the classroom it would be laughed out of court. Please pay attention to what your kids are being taught.
WAPO DEFENDS TRASH REPORTING ON LIBS OF TIKTOK And the best part, and I only say that because there is no best part, is that the internet is now doing to this reporter what she did to the friends and family of the founder of LibsofTikTok. Oh, and WaPo's Senior Managing Editor defended Taylor Lorenz and her reporting while lying about what the reporting contained. This should go a long way towards restoring trust in the media.
TOBYKEITH HAS SET A RECORD Not the famous country star, the 21 year old chihuahua. He is now the Oldest Dog in the World according to Guinness.
CNN+ HAS TURNED INTO CNN NEGATIVE And Discovery, CNN's new owner, is not having any of it. They have pulled the marketing for the fledgling streaming service and it's future looks uncertain. I feel a bloodbath coming at CNN. I'm glad I don't work there because I bet they can feel it too.
SAN QUENTIN IS HOME TO THE COUNTRY'S FIRST ACCREDITED JUNIOR COLLEGE IN PRISON This is a GREAT story about how a simple thing like a college program inside a prison can change lives for the better. If we take the rehabilitation part of prison seriously, we need to expand these opportunities and pursue something like this in Colorado. This is the ultimate second chance. Find out more here.
IS INFLATION KILLING NETFLIX? I have to tell you, I just cancelled a bunch of subscriptions. When groceries cost what they do, if I can't write it off (like newspaper subs) I am not doing it. Netflix just announced they lost 200,000 subscribers in the last quarter. I fully expect them to go beast mode on password sharing now, so if you're using someone else's password get ready for some complications on that front. I won't be surprised if they go to two-step log ins. I hate two step log ins.
IT'S NOT EVIL WE NEED TO BE WORRIED ABOUT, IT'S STUPIDITY At least according to a man imprisoned and killed because of the stupidity of his fellow Germans.
THE BIDEN ADMIN IS STUMPED ON HOW TO STOP THE IMMIGRATION NIGHTMARE THEY CREATED .More immigrants tried to break into the southern border than any time in history in March. The Biden admin has indicated it would repeal Title 42 restrictions, which have used public health as an excuse to turn them back. They know if this summer is full of thousands of illegal immigrants flooding into the country they are dead in the water in November. So what to do? If they weren't partisan idiots they would admit this is a problem, use the 23 known terrorists apprehended at the border as a national security emergency and adopt the policies Trump put in place. Haha that will never happen because they are partisan idiots.
OH PLEASE LET THE CDC FIGHT THIS RULING. OH PLEASE. Biden's Department of Justice says it will fight the ruling that ended the federal mask mandate...if they HAVE to. They say if cases go back up, which they surely will because we've seen a seasonal effect with covid, they will fight it. You know when seasonal cases are supposed to go back up? In the fall. Please fight it right before the election. Please.
THIS DUDE DIDN'T SHAVE FOR ALMOST THREE YEARS So of course he made a video of it. I skipped the end, not gonna lie.