The one ring. The most powerful ring created in Middle Earth was crafted by the Dark Lord, Sauron, in the fire that’s also known as Mount Doom. It was created to exercise control over all of the other rings of power. Sauron hoped to gain lordship over the elves and all the races in Middle Earth.
Now I’ve wondered this. There were 19 total rings. Three rings went to elves. Seven went to dwarfs. Nine rings went to men. So now, under the Dark Lord Polis who do you think has those rings? As a dwarf it’s clear Kyle Clark has at least one of them. I think the Dark Lord gave The Denver Post a ring. Tay Anderson has a ring. Clearly Councilwoman CdeBaca has a ring. Norm Brownstein has a ring. It looks like Brittany Bowlen is about to get a ring. Leroy Garcia has a ring. Ian Silverii and Brittany Pettersen have to share a ring because they’re married. John Hickenlooper, one of the enlightened dwarfs, will probably get his ring back in November. Don’t kid yourself, Cory Gardner is not an elf. The traitor Republican turned Biden supporter Ryan Call has a ring. Ted Trimpa has a ring. As the King of men, Phil Anschutz has a ring.
I know you’re all thinking, who is the Gollum? It’s Michael Hancock. He had a ring but he lost it.
Remember, Gollum was once a hobbit, which leads us to hobbits. If you are a true Tolkien fan, you remember when Frodo and Sam get back from the great adventure the Shire has turned into a homeless camp. Unlike the movie, in the book at the end the Shire looks like the State Capitol in August.
If you’re out there searching for a good wizard as in The Return of the King I don’t think Colorado has one. You and I spend our time looking for Gandalf and we keep coming back with the one ring that can control them all. So using his ring of power, Polis now rules high school football can begin again. Your Denver Broncos can play again but John Bandimere has to stay shut down. Certain restaurants can open, certain cafes must close. So the Dark Lord picks who wins, who loses. Businesses that open and businesses that need to go. The Dark Lord is never indecisive, his leadership is all bold. As it gets colder now how will dwarves and elves be able to eat outside without the blessing of the Dark Lord?
And remember, one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them. One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. The State Capitol. The ring can’t be tossed away or forgotten about. It always returns.
On the 27th of December of last year, Denver County Judge Johnny Barajas, using the 8th Amendment that stops cruel and unusual punishment, ruled that the urban camping ban enacted in Denver, Colorado, was unconstitutional. That, ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages, ushers in balls-to-the-wall, full blast boogie adventures in homelessness.
Like all good things it has a beginning, and the beginning of our problem of the unhoused is none other than the lizard king himself, John Hickenlooper. John Hickenlooper, when he was the Mayor of Denver, launched a program that he titled “The Ten Year Plan” to eliminate homelessness. If I recall correctly he was doing it to honor his mother, whom he took to an outstanding movie starring Linda Lovelace (winkie, winkie) as a young man. That plan not only didn’t end homelessness it put everything on turbos.
The 10 year plan has turned into the 20 year plan that has launched Hickenlooper’s stupidity, along with Michael Hancock, Denver City Council, and collective Denver media, into turning Denver into a mini San Francisco.
Hickenklooper’s legacy — Denver’s Road Home. Daily in Denver’s media, wearing rose colored glasses, we see the results of Hickenlooper’s utopian plan to do something that the late Bob Coté described as shoveling a certain substance against the tide. It just can’t be done. And now, of course, he wants to become Senator. Or does he? Depending on the moment, the day, the time, John Hickenlooper may or may not want to be Senator but he is leading in the polls.
Homelessness, Hickenlooper once said, is a sign of prosperity, and not a sign to be celebrated, but a sign, nonetheless.
Look what we have around you now. Infestations of rats, needles, on sidewalk defecation, 14th Avenue near the Colorado Capitol, Lincoln Park, Civic Center Park. And the appalling fallout when the Denver Police, trying to do their job, are met with a Denver Public School Board member and others trying to stop the police from cleaning up a rat’s nest. Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca called the camping ban an iteration of the black code vagrancy laws that were once used against the black population.
The agreed upon figure collected by Hickenlooper and Hancock in the plan to end homelessness is around $64-$65 million. Denver City Auditor Dennis Gallagher said, after auditing the program, they could not determine if that $64 to $65 million had any impact at all on reducing homelessness. The only thing we know for sure is all that money was spent.
Hickenlooper kicked it off in 2005, telling you and I he would end homelessness in 10 years. That was 2005. Now another $46 plus million has been allotted by the City of Denver and all you have to do is drive around and see the results of those millions of dollars.
We have talked about this before. You can’t feed the bears in Yellowstone. If you put a bird feeder in the backyard you’re going to get squirrels. The late Bob Coté knew the truth. Bob, in that war on homelessness, was George Patton. He knew. The 10 year program with all the collection boxes set up all over the city, all these millions of dollars, take a walk down the 16th Street Mall. Enough is enough.
Air conditioning for the Denver homeless.
The man who did everything he could to turn Denver into what it is today, now wants to be the next U.S. Senator. I’m not telling you Cory Gardner is any day at the beach, but I think we said it before. In the words of Barry McGuire in that telling song, Eve of Destruction: “Look around you, boy, it’s bound to scare you, boy.” And you tell me we’re not on the eve of destruction?
One of the great double speak, hands over your ears, hands over your eyes, hands over your mouth moments came when Jared Polis, the Governor of Colorado, commented after rioters tore down and defaced Colorado’s Civil War statue of a Union soldier. He said, “Those responsible for the damage whether they were hooligans, white supremacists, confederate sympathizers or drunk teenagers….” Of course it was. Why would I think it was Antifa characters, Black Lives Matter dumpster fire starters, and members of the Democrat Party? I’m sure that those raging drunk hooligan supremacist rebel sympathizers who searched out that statue are responsible. The laugh out loud funny aspect is no one in other media outlets challenges that statement. As always, he gets away with it.
Can I ask you when did Mount Rushmore become the face of the conquerors, a symbol of white supremacy and the statue that was responsible for the genocide of indigenous people? It obviously wasn’t when Barack Obama visited. It must have occurred in the past three months.
In last month’s column we spoke about when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. On the award-winning radio show (yeah Peter keep this up), I mentioned the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key’s poem actually known as the Defense of Fort McHenry had the politically correct red dot on its forehead. And now the left and progressives scream we should change the national anthem to Woodie Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land or Lean On Me or John Lennon’s commie anthem, Imagine. Someone ask Polis which one of those works.
I read about Lyndsey Parker with Yahoo Music explaining why it’s time to finally replace the Star Spangled Banner. My response is, if you’re really upset by the Star Spangled Banner maybe you really just need to leave and find another country in which to live your life.
Now, of course , we have the decapitation of the Virgin Mary statue that took place in Chattanooga. This is also equally predictable when the Jesus statue is proclaimed as a racist portrayal of Christ. Maybe they’re right. Maybe if we all take Jesus and make him into the Semite that he was maybe we’re just setting it straight, but instead, hell let’s kill his Mom.
How many places in Colorado do you think are still available in the plain brown wrap that you grew up used to. This is my prediction. Buffalo Bill’s grave. When you read the revisionist history of William Cody, Indian fighter, he killed as many buffalo as he could thus denying native people their food. Reducing the herd, reducing the tribes and forcing them on to the reservation. The old Billster doesn’t have a chance in hell right now. And if you remember, the citizens in Cody, Wyoming, wanted his body when he died. So the city fathers of Denver, at the time, buried him and Mrs. Bill and covered them with railroad ties and concrete so the bodies couldn’t be stolen. Somebody call the Mayor of Cody. He’s all yours.
So maybe you could change the name of Cody, Wyoming, to Stapleton, Wyoming. How long will this last? Well, now George Washington University wants to release Winston Churchill and James Madison. The winds of change are blowing through Denver and Colorado. The Virgin Mary has been vandalized a number of times Shaun King, known as “Talcum X” has proclaimed, “tear them down.”
The deep state has made its move. I leave you again with a couple of great pictures and citing Creighton University’s Smith’s declaration that pro police rally attendees are white supremacists. Defund the cops. Democrats are advocating a social revolution to correct the American Revolution. The Declaration of Independence states why the American Revolution took place. They intend to undo it. We really have mass amounts of really stupid people in this country.
How things have changed … how political correctness, which, in fact, is nothing more than Social Marxism reminding you all that the first person to use the term “we must be politically correct” was Trotsky in the Thoughts of Lenin.
Thomas Jefferson’s statue was pushed into the mud outside a high school in Portland, Oregon, named for the former President. The statue had been spray painted with the phrase “slave owner.” The group behind that act, Rose City Justice, is just one of many organizations demonstrating over the tragic killing of George Floyd. Many of these organizations are calling for an ever increasing number of statues to be torn down and destroyed.
Regarding Jefferson, I take you to April 29, 1962, when President Jack Kennedy was making remarks at a dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners from the entire western hemisphere. Jack Kennedy told that extraordinary tale when he said, “I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, human knowledge that has ever been gathered together in the White House with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” Wow.
Note: the dinner was held in the State Dining Room and in the Blue Room as well. Nobel Prize winners were throughout the rooms and following the dinner that was emceed by Fredric March, winner of the Oscar twice, reading excerpts from Sinclair Lewis, George Marshall and Ernest Hemingway. How would any of those three men fare today?
I have used George Orwell so many times in my life and on the radio and in this award-winning column. We have spoken about Orwell before. You remember Winston Smith, the protagonist of the novel 1984. Do you remember what Winston Smith’s job was? Winston Smith’s job, while working at the Ministry of Truth, was to rewrite history every day. Remember also what the people of the Soviet Union would say — how they were sure of today and the drudgery and sure tomorrow the drudgery would continue. The problem they really had was the past because it changed from time to time to suit Stalin or Khrushchev.
Thomas Jefferson was brilliant. Roosevelt used Thomas Jefferson as a symbol to fight European fascists and in the famous Four Freedoms speech. Every time any politician begins with “We the People” he is stealing from Thomas Jefferson. And now Jefferson lays face down in the mud.
I think all of us understand how intense a time it is. And how on edge we all are and how many lessons from the past we must study and learn from, and please God, not repeat.
But Orwell says it best. The Orwell quote, writing about Winston Smith: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified. Every book has been rewritten. Every picture has been repainted. Every statue and street building has been renamed. Every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History HAS stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party and Big Brother are always right.”
So what do we learn? To teach my grandson that Jefferson was a slaver and white supremacist and a crypto fascist? Or, that because of the brilliant man that Jack Kennedy wrote about, I’m allowed to write this, the Chronicle to publish it, and you to read it.
March 1, 2020. Our nation was at full employment, the lowest unemployment rates among women and minorities in our history. A couple of months later over 26 million Americans are out of work. The sky fell, hair salon owners are being jailed because they won’t apologize to judges. Small cafes in Colorado are being stomped on for offering an omelet for Mother’s Day. The Chinese are claiming they had nothing to do with this. The World Health Organization has no idea. We, folks, have a virus pandemic/epidemic plague.
As the smartest talk show host I know is me, and the literary giant I have become, I have spent the past six weeks reading about mother nature’s little nasty bastards, the viruses. I’ve become a great respecter of viruses. In fact, I’m in awe of the little guys. It’s important to note viruses don’t have any politics. They don’t circle in the air deciding which minority person to drop on. They don’t think at all. They’re not political, they’re not analytical. They’re viruses dude.
They’re not Trump’s virus, not Putin’s virus, not Merkel’s virus. In reading the middle eastern press, the Iranians believe it’s the Israeli’s virus. And in our country, the major media, the progressives and the deep state believe Trump owns this virus.
The first recorded instance of virus is 5,000 years ago when an epidemic wiped out a prehistoric village in China. The bodies of the dead were stuffed inside a house that was later burned down. Starting to understand this now? Throughout history these have come before and will come again.
The Black Death radically changed the course of history. I am currently reading about Napoleon sending an army to Haiti, to quell a slave rebellion. Disease killed them all. Subsequently, Napoleon was flat broke and sold the Louisiana Purchase to Thomas Jefferson for money. The plague hit Europe in 1347. Most historians believe it came from, guess where, China; to the Crimea; and to Sicily. And then in 1352, the Black Death petered out. But it killed about a third of Europe and returned five times before the end of the century killing at least half of the continent’s population or 80 million people. That you guys, is a virus.
I read David Hackett Fischer’s book, The Great Wave. How many times these eruptions have come. Including the 17th century and 1850s in the Middle East. Recommended reading: Davis Quammen’s Spillover. He cites viruses as lions in the Serengeti. And when they kill, they kill the old, fat, weak zebras and the slow and sick wildebeests. When we look at how many died are they not the equivalent of the old zebras and wildebeests?
But we have been through SARS, MERS, Swine flu, Avian flu, Hong Kong flu, Spanish flu. Last month we talked about the brilliance of medical science eliminating polio, measles, and smallpox. This, some scientists argue, is not really the next big one. The next big one they say will be the equivalent of the Spanish flu. And my friends, that’s coming.
The viruses have stopped the Crusades after nine attempts. Probably helped the Bolshevik Revolution, destroyed the Roman Empire, knocked the living daylights out of the German army and stopped the U.S. from invading Canada. Viruses are to be gazed upon as phenomenal and there’s not going to be any inoculations to make people well and better, but my reading suggests only a couple of things can happen. One, like SARS it goes into a reservoir somewhere, or it morphs and that’s very Darwinian. Or we adapt to it which is what some people believed happened eventually in 1920. Or it hangs around and we all go back to work.
But it has no politics, no intelligence. It is only what it is and what it does. It’s the coronavirus. Like it or not, it doesn’t care at all about what you think.
