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.
Up and down the Front Range and around the world people are beseeching the heavens. How could this great medical crisis befall the most refined, politically correct, loving generation of all times?
People are asking isn’t there some sort of medical breakthrough that could have us all returning to get haircuts, playing tennis at the park, and getting together for a few drinks after work at Elway’s? How dare this strike down God’s favorite people, the Front Range yuppie puppies?
Well folks, I know this is a tough go for many of you who, on Easter Sunday, turned on TV and watched what my Grandma used to view, Mass for Shut-ins, and searching the internet for a visit from Bishop Fulton Sheen appearing in his cape, little red hat and a blackboard.
People ask what medical advances could be made so they can play pickleball again with their inner circle of friends?
You know guys, I spent a couple of evenings reading about medical advances in our country. The one that stands out in my slightly diminished memory is 1954 when a remarkable scientist-physician named Jonas Salk defeated a far more deadly disease, polio. Why don’t I remember my mother, father and grandfather blaming Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower for polio?
Because, as you know, this current virus carries heavy politics, known on most media outlets as Trump’s virus. When almost every other major disease or plague rips through humanity it is rare that it picks up politics like this disease has. I recommend everyone read Randy Shilts’s book “And The Band Played On,” about how the horrible disease of HIV/AIDS became politicized.
Spend a little time reading about 1846 anesthesia. 1861 germ theory. 1895 medical imaging. 1928 penicillin. 1954 organ transplants. Stem cell therapy and immunology in the 1970s. Artificial intelligence in the 21st century and my personal favorite of all, birth control pills. Now that folks is a medical breakthrough.
Our nation has come through, in my father’s generation, the Great American Depression. No one was ever quite sure of the total cost of the Great Depression in 1929 when the stock market crashed, the roaring twenties came to an end, the life toll, the destructiveness, and as many historians believe, really doesn’t end until Pearl Harbor. How, oh my God, did families survive all of that? Then comes December 7, 1941. Our nation spent more than $4 trillion, more than 400,000 U.S. troops’ lives were lost . Then comes the Cold War. How many snuck up and covered up, rolled up and kissed our behinds goodbye under a desktop. That was fear factor.
This nation has gone to the moon, this nation has helped cure AIDS, polio and incredible lists of diseases. As a grandparent I no longer fear that my grandson or anyone’s grandson will contract polio.
There is a great line through history, life finds a way. Find one. Let’s get the lights back on. Compare men and women who came through the Great Depression in America, took on the Axis, returned to build a country and do all these wonderful things we listed to the young people today that require a soft warm puppy and a quiet place to go to because
they heard a discouraging word. Who now pick up telephones and rat out neighbors, who become social scolds on neighborhood networks? My God, that’s the kind of stuff that made the old Europeans proud.
I ask you, as my father would ask, what the hell is wrong with you? This is a virus folks. It’s nasty and it does kill people. But civilizations, nation states and individuals need to be challenged in order to grow and mature. These people claim they want to make a difference in our society. I wonder if the young kid who went down to the Marine Corps on December 8, had the same mindset?
I leave you with this. Are we good enough, are we tough enough, do we care enough to come through this? My answer is yes and the history of our nation makes the case.
If you grew up in a traditional ethnic working poor neighborhood anywhere east of Detroit and north of Washington, D.C., there were a couple of set aside days when you could feel a little bit of sense of pride about who your parents are and your grandparents were. One of them, of course, has now become green Halloween, Saint Patrick’s Day, and the other is Columbus Day. I remember as a boy watching the Labor Day Parade or the Decoration Day Parade later called the Memorial Day Parade and the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade watching the Knights of Columbus march. They had really cool capes, Napoleon hats and a really cool sword.
They got lots of cheers as they marched by holding up a tall cross of Jesus and an Italian flag. That innocence has now been taken away in Colorado because, of course, Christopher Columbus is now known as single handedly enslaving Native Americans.
In one of the greatest bait and switches I’ve been able to witnesses in a state full of great bait and switchers is the current attempt to establish Frances Xavier Cabrini Day. As I ride my motorcycle up I-70 I first thought the Mother Cabrini statue was an old Jupiter-C missile. It’s not. It actually honors a very lovely and kind ethnic Italian woman.
Now, wrestling fans “can you see and smell what ‘the Rock’ is cooking?” Not only if you continue to support Christopher Columbus, racists that you are, and you negate Mother Cabrini you become a sexist. Here’s a show stopper. There are historians that believe Columbus actually was Jewish which in today’s politics would make him a suppressor of Palestinians. The man simply can’t win.
But in my favorite turn of events, if you follow politics outside of Colorado, New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio had appointed a Director of the Manhattan Museum specializing in art by LGBTQ artists. What did they do? They snubbed Italian American icon Mother Frances Cabrini. The report is that somebody had to take the fall for the First Lady of New York Chirlane McCray who didn’t want Mamma there. They’ve told people that they want to quell the criticism of the statue. Why is that? Well obviously, she was a devout Christian woman. Are you starting to see the picture?
In my grandson’s lifetime these same politically correct witch hunters will also inevitably change Cabrini Day. She will go as Columbus goes before her. For exactly the same reason that the politically correct hacked her in New York.
Remember when Lenin said the end will justify the means? Columbus sailed for Spain, the sailors spoke Spanish, they conquered for the King and Queen, slaves were taken for the King and Queen of Spain. Close on his heels came Cortez, Pirazzo and deSoto who murdered tens of thousands of indigenous people while searching for gold, glory and the fountain of youth. Why aren’t we critical of Spanish language, Spanish culture and everything that came with it?
In 1979 out of that hotbed of intellectualism, Berkeley, also known as Baghdad by the Bay, comes Indigenous Peoples Day. The grifters at Colfax and Broadway couldn’t slip that one past you. So they set up Mother Cabrini who herself once celebrated Columbus Day. And as I leave you, Columbus Day was once stopped in the city of Denver in 1920s by the KKK. The Klan stopped the Italian Catholics from marching. The spirit of Mayor Stapleton lives on in the Democrat left, the political witch hunters of Colorado.
Remember the rhyme, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” In 2020, boys and girls, the legislative blue did what the KKK could not do. They stopped Chris in his tracks.
Jon Caldara who has been a longtime friend, pretty fair country talk show host and The Denver Post’s most read columnist, got unceremoniously canned from the ever shrinking Denver Post because he dared to say there are no more than two birth sex categories. Jon, who has had tremendous life struggles himself was deemed insensitive to people and their place in life. Unbelievably absurd but political correctness will destroy much more than just Jon’s career as a Post columnist.
In the news recently, the families of three
female high school athletes have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block
transgender athletes in Connecticut, from participating in girls’ sports. The
issue is coming up in other arenas as well.
I’m a huge fan of MMA, professional prize
fighting and, of course, the only real legitimate sport left, professional
wrestling. Now I have a question for the editorial board at the Post, the
politically correct of Colorado, and anybody that believes there are more than
two true sexes.
My example is MMA fighter Fallon Fox.
Fallon Fox was born biologically male and he beat two biologically born women
half to death in the MMA cage. The first woman that he beat is Erika Newsome in
Coral Gables, Florida. With Fallon’s hands gripping the back of Newsome’s skull
“she” delivered a massive knee, bringing her knee up and down while pulling
Erika’s head down. The blow landed on Newsome’s chin, dropped her unconscious,
face first and that was Erika’s last professional fight. The next woman that he
beat was Tamikka Brents, also giving her a concussion and breaking several
orbital bones.
Now the website Outsports, which proclaims
it focuses mostly on LGBTQ issues named Fallon Fox their “bravest athlete in history.”
Now remember, Fox is a biological male fighting physically weaker females and
inflicting life altering harm. That qualifies as brave?
So, let me ask you — how brave is it for a
man to beat up a woman? Here’s the hard part. A man who has his penis removed,
has surgery to create a false vagina, takes hormone shots and gets fake breasts
is just a man that cut off his penis, has a fake vagina, takes hormone shots
and got fake breasts.
How, politically correct fans of this
column, can a biological male beating up a biological woman become brave and a
hero? As I’ve said many times, you can’t make this stuff up. The argument that
trans women are full women and should be allowed to compete against biological
females — is this another form of toxic masculinity? The male competitor will
almost always win and have the advantage over the female. Men have now claimed
for themselves the opportunities that were the domain of women’s sports. Are
women’s rights now officially dead with respect to athletic competitions? You
all better come to the dance.
A man identifying as a woman almost kills
his opponent in the ring. Remember that’s an actual woman in the octagon. And
this is applauded? Where are the Mile High feminists on this? This should have
never been allowed. If a traditional man got into the ring and beat a woman
unconscious what would they say? An act of hate? But a guy gets a few hormone
shots, changes his appearance to look like a female and it’s okay? You’ve come
a long way baby. You take care of yourselves you guys. Ring the bell.
— Peter Boyles
P.S. If I was at The Denver Post this would
have cost me my job.
Conversely What Saves More Lives — Law Abiding Gun Owners Or Safe Injection Sites?
Just when you thought it was safe to go
back in the water the trifecta of brilliance brings us back Safe Injection
Sites to Colorado. The slicky boy approach of Senators Brittany Peterson
(D-Jefferson County) and Kevin Priola (R-Adams County), members of the
uni-party, have introduced Senate Bill 20-007 and Senate Bill 20-028 subtitles
on treatment of the opioid and other substance use disorders and substance use
recovery. These bills have meaning and I personally believe it is the return of
safe injection sites that, after spending some time a year ago in Vancouver, I
can tell you personally what a mythology it is that injection sites save lives.
Right Albus?
To further my beliefs along, you all
remember Le Central the French restaurant on Lincoln Street and 8th Avenue? The
longtime home of Le Central? Asking price in 2015 was $1.1 million. Asking
price in January $1.8 million. Informed sources tell the Glendale Cherry Creek
Chronicle the building is now being leased by my close personal friends — The
Harm Reduction Action Center. The home of Executive Director Lisa Raville. These
people, I believe, are all indirectly involved with George Soros’s Open Society
Foundations. They’re closing their doors on Colfax, across the street from the
Capitol and opening now at 112 E. 8th Avenue.
The site has a giant parking lot to serve
the heroin addicts of the Denver area and, btw, it’s much closer to the
Governor’s mansion.
What did Barry McGuire say, “Look around
you boy. It’s bound to scare you, boy.”
We now have the insanity of Red Flag, as
the lawyers say, sidebar. It took just nine days for one of the first
violations to drop on a very fine young police officer in Fort Collins. Now I
know you all remember when the progressive left media outlets promised us that
you could not possibly misuse red flag and everybody with room temperature IQ was
surprised that it took nine days for it to happen.
Now just rationally think this through.
What do you think if heroin injection sites are enacted? What will kill more
residents of the Mile High City? Drug overdoses or law abiding gun owners. What
will save more lives? Law abiding gun owners or safe injection sites. The
answer is obvious.
Did you see the story last month about rat
infestations at Lincoln Park? That, dear reader, is third world stuff. That
stuff happens in Bombay, and now San Francisco, and now here. Did you notice
the TV news showing guys with high pressure hoses washing off the sidewalks to
clean up God only knows what interesting materials left behind by those brave
victims of capitalism? Do you have any idea where that water goes?
When is everybody going to wake up?
Right now, as a skier, ski congestion
starts on Friday, locks up I-70 until Sunday night. Give that 10 years.
Colorado’s overpopulation predicament, as some predict, we will add another
5-million people in a very short amount of time. Toxic air, water shortages,
endless traffic, species extinction, exhausted energy supplies and so much
more.
I legitimately ask you, what direction is
this state headed in? You, your children and grandchildren stand at the
doorway. You pick. Because if you don’t, you know damn well they will. Watch
the skies and where you walk.
