Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
Why we must tell the truth about what happened in Boulder. In 2021, a Syrian Muslim gunman opened fire at a Boulder supermarket killing ten Americans. Ahmad Al-Issa, the gunman, had been convinced that Americans were ‘Islamophobic’ and his family had moved from what would become the ISIS capital in Syria. The Al-Issa family lived … Read more
A new study shows the number of children and adults diagnosed with autism has increased by 175% over a decade. That’s just…astonishing. There’s a lot of disagreement as to why this is happening, and this episode will not shed any new light on the potential reasons…nor will it delve into the surrounding controversy. It will, … Read more
A new law in Colorado frames abortion as a cost-saving measure — a chilling milestone in the logic of utilitarianism. Here’s a fact for people looking to move to Colorado. It’s one of the main reasons why some people might wish to live there, especially if they happen to be poor and pregnant. Which means, … Read more
A Colorado nurse who saved a mother’s baby now fights to keep her medical license Mackenna Greene was 25 years old and had just started a new position at work late last year when she learned she was pregnant. Unmarried and already mother to a toddler, the Colorado Springs, Colo., resident was ready to jump-start … Read more
U.S. — Millions of homosexuals have reportedly starved to death after Colorado’s Supreme Court affirmed the right of Jack Phillips to refuse to bake gay wedding cakes. No homosexuals could be reached for comment because they are all tragically dead. “After years of harassment I am finally free to just bake cakes,” said Jack Phillips, … Read more
Dorothy and Harryette Bercu were sisters and Vaudeville performers across the West during the 1920s and 1930s. An exhibit featuring several of their Vaudeville props is on display now (November 2018)! Their acts involved acrobatics, contortion, Mexican style dances, and tap dancing, and they often performed wearing extravagant costumes. Vaudeville was a popular form of … Read more
Frantic residents of an Arizona suburb are hoarding water after nearby Scottsdale cut them off from future deliveries at the beginning of the New Year, according to a report. Citing a worsening drought, city officials said they could no longer provide water to roughly 1,000 denizens of the Rio Grande Foothills. “There is no Santa … Read more
Despite California’s immediate deluge, the ongoing water problem in much of the West is drought — reduced rainfall, increasing use of water, dry rivers, mandated cuts. In all the stories I keep reading and hearing about the water crisis in the Colorado River basin and elsewhere, two words are absent: markets and prices. Instead the stories … Read more
DENVER (KDVR) — With a family of five dead in an unsolved house fire, night-vision images of the masked suspects haunted the metro for months — until Google led police to the accused killers. At age 16, Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour — along with another teen charged as a juvenile — were arrested on … Read more
Last month, I mentioned the case of Karen Garner, a seventy-three-year-old, eighty-pound woman with dementia who was beaten by police for “resisting” arrest in June 2020. At the time, Garner was allegedly guilty of almost stealing thirteen dollars’ worth of merchandise at Walmart after apparently forgetting to pay. When confronted by store workers, Garner attempted … Read more
A months-long effort to remove from office more than half of Westminster’s City Council over rapidly escalating residential water bills continues to inch forward despite the city twice rejecting the recall attempt as insufficient. . . . “We were seeing people were angry,” said 20-year resident Debbie Teter, describing the distress she said she witnessed … Read more
Every school day for almost two years, Jenica Thornby would spend her lunch hour in the library at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Every day, except April 20, 1999. “I was sitting in my art class when all of the sudden I had this urge to leave school. I remember thinking, there is no … Read more
WorldOmeter – US with state by state listing List of states and territories of the United States by population PolicyMap – Covid-19 Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) COVID-19 projections assuming full social distancing through May 2020, from the Institute for Health Metrics … Read more
It was a trip to a conference in Lake Tahoe that got Jake Wolf thinking. Like Wolf’s own Vail Valley, where he’s an Avon town councilor, Tahoe is a ski and summer recreation destination for second homeowners. Those empty, luxury homes are a contributing factor to Tahoe’s tight housing market for year-round residents — especially … Read more