by Peter Boyles | Oct 21, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
It came to pass in those days, that the Republican Party has long doomed itself, and headed to the trash heap of history feeds up like the Phoenix bird out of its own ashes, emerges our hero, the modern Siegfried Republican stalwart Donald Trump. As I am writing this column in the middle of October I am about to predict everything that is important on your ballot as you read this and want to brag about being a winner as opposed to being a loser and making intelligent choices, follow along.
I watch Republican party moralists, other newspaper people and other radio talk show hosts, many of them I know and I know their private lives as well, seizing the moral high ground of Donald Trump’s language and alleged assaults on women. Suddenly, the left and some laughable Republican former office holders, decry Trump’s behavior — the smell of that permeates the entire state.
These are the people that say nothing about rap music, 50 Shades of Gray, any other sleazy thing that slithers out of Hollywood, and please never forget how many Democratic and Republican operative powerhouses slipped down to any one of the four locations of (“Players and Sugar”) to get their pay to play with a 22-year-old hooker. These are the same people seizing the high ground on Donald Trump. My prediction, Donald Trump will be beaten and beaten handily. The good news is I hope the Republican Party rots in hell. They do not deserve your vote. If you knew the private lies of these self-important men it would gag a maggot. As they call it further down the ballot, there are some really great young men running as Republicans that I would love to see win. Tragically, they will also lose.
In this last year, I have met two of the finest young men I know who are brave enough to climb into these congressional races. George Athanasopoulos and Casper Stockham both running for Congress are decent, fine young men, dedicated hard chargers who will get their hats handed to them as well. I have gotten to know these men, travelled with them, know their families and know their hearts and they will be beaten by Ed Perlmutter and Diana DeGette, respectively. But if you could find your way and you live in the 1st or the 7th, vote for these young men. At least perhaps we can light a fire that these other creeps can’t put out.
This has been a very angry year for me. I have watched the media’s foolishness, the lack of integrity of political parties, the influence of big money and what will eventually come to an ultimate great sadness. The week I am writing this, Donald Trump is spending his time tweeting about Saturday Night Live and Paul Ryan. Hillary Clinton on the other hand, dances in the moonlight, seems overly prepared for debates and frankly, beats Trump hands down. We have had bad electoral outcomes in the past. In this country, the late great Barry Goldwater who scolds said if he won there will be rioting in the streets of America and young Americans would die in Vietnam. He of course, lost and those things, in fact, happened.
I have no idea who Hillary Clinton is and, of course, no one knew who Barrack Obama was. Unfortunately, I believe we will find out who Hillary Clinton is.
Other things on the ballot — for God’s sake, if they have anything to do with RTD, give them nothing. You need only to recall “the train to the plane.” Isn’t that enough.
Wait there’s more:
- Amendment 69, the Colorado Care Initiative, that dog won’t hunt. Have you people learned nothing about Obamacare.
- Amendment 70, minimum wage, just say no.
- Amendment 71, requirements for initiated constitutional amendments, say yes to that. And stop the little creepoids from walking up to you with clipboards in Cherry Creek and asking you to save the whales.
- Amendment 72, cigarette and tobacco taxes, vote that down also. If you are not smart enough not to smoke, I can’t do much for you.
- Proposition 106, medical aid and dying, for God’s sake we do it for our dogs.
So let’s get a wrapup. Trump’s got no shot, so vote for him. Stay as far away from the Republican Party as you can. Stop these fools from getting more of your tax dollars, especially RTD. And hope for the best next time. And while we are at it one more … the only person worth their salt in the Senate Race is Lily Tang Williams. She grew up under the Maoists and the Red Guards. Here’s a woman who knows where we are headed. I wish she was running for Governor.
Let’s see how good I am about predicting.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Oct 3, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
I wou
ld be willing to bet every last dime I have, I have ever had, or I will ever make, that If Brandon Marshall and Colin Kaepernick were to kneel down on the sidelines to protest Muslim Islamic immigration into the USA or infringement of Second Amendment rights, neither the League, the President of the USA, or major media would defend them or, for that matter, allow it.
Political correctness as I have said many times on my radio show, and in this award-winning newspaper, is a death knell to the United States of America. We have extremely wealthy, spoiled men living in a nation run by a black president protesting what a rotten country the United States of America is. And now it has filtered down to other NFL stooges, high school teams and, if my guess is right, into fan stands at a theater near you. About a month and a half ago, your Dallas Cowboys asked the league to place a sticker on Cowboys’ helmets for the 2016-2017 football season in support of police officers murdered by a sniper this summer in Dallas. The League said no.
As Joseph Farah has written, members of your LA Rams football squad ran out on the field last year in St. Louis with their hands up spreading the lie that Michael Brown (remember: “Hands up, don’t shoot”) was an innocent victim of police brutality in Ferguson — and again no League consequences. NFL players have scrawled in black markers the words “I can’t breathe,” referring to Eric Garner, the black man who died in NYC, supposedly at the hands of brutal cops. Does anyone remember Reggie Bush being punished for that? I am, like so many thinking people, realizing what political correctness has done to destroy this country and its allegedly hard-hitting media. Kaepernick, on a national level, is being treated like a Beatle, and did anyone ever witness the fawning by Denver’s mommy media of Brandon Marshall?
I was the only one, in the Front Range media to point out that Century Link was advertising Brandon Marshall, in a Broncos uniform with the snake head horse picture, bundling Prism TV and all of your NFL games.
Enough of our audience, getting contact information for Century Link from our KNUS website, began calling Century Link and by 4 p.m. that afternoon, the company kicked Brandon Marshall to the curb.
I personally want the Denver Broncos, The Denver Post and Century Link to know, I take full responsibility for what happened to their spokesperson. I watched enough of the Monday Night Football games with the San Francisco 49ers on it and local sportscasters and media outlets treating Marshall and Kaepernick like heroes.
And now we discover, earlier this summer Marshall claims in Miami, in an unnamed restaurant with three unnamed people, he was manhandled, tackled and shackled and had a taser put on his chest by five of Miami’s finest. Who knows what happened to his three unnamed friends but in any event they just wanted Brandon. He claims that they promised to release him if he didn’t tell anybody. Of course, if the story is true he just broke his word, but what kind of idiot would trust Brandon in the first place. Secondly why has it taken this courageous social warrior so long to tell the story.
There, of course, would be reports and police communications that would be public records if he wanted to have the public truly believe him.
In an act of incredible generosity, Brandon has announced he will donate to some yet to be determined charity, $300 for every tackle he makes this season which will total $30,600 based on his performance last year. Considering he makes $8,666,666 base salary this year it is the equivalent of a $350 contribution for someone making $100,000 a year. How about showing you’re, in fact, a real social warrior Brandon, and you tithe 10% to as many of the of socially conscious like to do, or $866,666. This would leave you a mere $7.8 million to live on this year. How about it your wonderfulness.
For a man who says he wants to stop the hate and promote love why did you get fined $24,309 for a cheap shot on another African-American (Cam Newton). I thought that black lives matter.
Now it’s important to remember that during professional sports in Denver, baseball teams can empty dugouts and fight on the field, professional football players can remove their helmets and swing at one another, soccer players intentionally trip one another and your Colorado Avalanche, well that speaks for itself. Anybody see the cops get involved? The fact that the Chief will meet with him just simply shows the Mayor, Manager of Safety and the Chief of Police approve of Brandon Marshall’s social warriorism.
Now, here are my questions. By what metric will Brandon Marshall be satisfied that progress will be made over a problem he can’t define? Not one brave combat ready Denver media member will ask Brandon Marshall that question or “Brandon, when will you stand again?” or “When will you be satisfied that your nebulous demands have been met?” Not a chance in hell — those people would become overnight racists.
So when linebacker Marshall was told that his sponsors were dropping him, his quote was, “I won’t lose any sleep over that” — WHAT DEDICATION. What a sense of pride he must have taking people’s money to be their spokesperson. What a bunch of lay downs run the NFL. We know, political correctness does not tolerate free speech. The National Anthem and the U.S. flag hardly represent every racist thing in the United States of America. The flag and the anthem represent the Constitution, the freedoms and the rights. The good of our country outweighs the bad more than any country in history. Hey Brandon, go try it in North Korea. I don’t know about the rest of you, this reflects on the ownership of the Denver Broncos as well. The “blood of the city,” my dying rear-end.
Happy Halloween.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Aug 29, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
The Butcher, The Baker and the Stooges ruin any notion of justice or political correctness in Colorado (you thought I was going to say the Candlestick Maker).
I have written many times and talked endless hours on radio shows about what happened to a very religious baker named Jack Phillips. Jack, if you recall, owns a very small bakery that goes by the name of “Masterpiece Bakery.” He was adjudged by the politically correct police, a borderline criminal Nazi, because he refused to make a wedding cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins who I believed stalked him and set him up for their civil rights lawsuit. Last August an administrative law judge from the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled his business would be shut down and/or fined out of existence if he did not start designing gay wedding cakes and that ruling has been upheld in the courts.
As I do on the radio show, I 100 percent disagree with Jack Phillips’ beliefs concerning gay marriage. I am 100 percent for gay marriage, gay adoption, or any so-called right, as an old straight white guy like me should be for the rights for all of us. But, Lady Justice takes another turn. Which brings me to what I believe is a suicide pact this country has signed with itself — political correctness. Let me take you back in time again, this time to Fort Morgan. The evil incarnate this time is Cargill, the giant multinational meat packer and agri-business employer.
Muslims who worked at Cargill, walked off the job for reasons of their faith. The Somalis claimed that on December the 18th of last year they didn’t get a chance to leave the production line to pray. Cargill, the Somalis say, put restrictions on their prayer breaks. The council on American Islamic Relations and Denver’s Rathod Mohammedbahi Law firm, told us that the Muslim employees are hardworking and should be allowed to pray at work in accordance with their “deeply held religious beliefs” (remember those words). Cargill, after allowing this practice, put a halt to it. Again, I ask you to remember that Jack Phillips had never changed his policies, but was relying on his deeply held religious beliefs. From a statement from the Somalis’ law firm, “fear and prejudice cannot be allowed to violate a nation’s founding principles that all may practice their religions free from prosecution.” Again like a broken record, remember those words.
On August 4, the State of Colorado, this time the Department of Labor, ruled that the 150 Somalis who actually quit their jobs and walked off, were now eligible for unemployment benefits from Cargill. The State said, “a company cannot force workers to choose between their religion and their jobs.” Further on in the court order, these words are written, “No person should be expected to choose between fidelity to their religion and their job. And it is important for you to know, that you, as the taxpayers of Colorado, are going to pay their claims. According to The Denver Post, this decision will cost Colorado’s unemployment fund nearly $1 million. Unemployment funds are funded by the state’s employers, i,e., you and your boss.
Now, let’s return to Jack Phillips and the case of Masterpiece Bakery. I have spoken with Jack many times. Jack, like the Somalis, has deep spiritual beliefs. And unlike the Somalis, never walked off the job.
Jack believes that God granted him creative abilities and that his Christian beliefs are opposed to gay marriage. Subsequently he will not use those abilities to create a wedding cake for gay men and women. Hold that thought. Jack will make, create and bake cakes, other than wedding, for gay people. Breads, cookies, brownies, cupcakes, any bakery product you can imagine. Jack is more than willing to sell to anyone, obviously including gay men and women. So, as they used to say in your intro college courses — let’s compare and contrast how Jack was treated by the State of Colorado and how Colorado treated the Somalis working at Cargill. Those words I asked you not to forget, such as, a company cannot force workers to choose between religion or their jobs, but the State can. And remember no person should be expected to choose between fidelity to their religion and their jobs. The workers claim they were denied prayer to their God and won their case. Jack Phillips claimed allegiance to his and was called a Nazi.
Conclusion; what have you learned? Cargill violated the greatest of all politically correct crimes, Islamophobia. Along with the fact that Somalis are sub-Saharan Africans, subsequently black. That’s the next worse political crime, racism. On the other hand, Jack is a white, male Christian and political correctness deems he has no rights other than being the perpetrator.
Give this insanity another five to 10 years. There will be more and more people charged with politically correct crimes. Eventually, the witch hunters will come for you. Do you recall Martin Niemoller? If you don’t, look him up. Have a nice day!
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Jul 22, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
I have written before about growing up in Pittsburgh’s lower end of a working class family with one true gift — I loved to read. And I really loved to read history books. Looking back, I best described them as history, fiction, adventure stories.
I can’t remember not being able to read. The long humid summers of western Pennsylvania, and grade school years went slowly by, but what always stood out is my mom taking us to the local neighborhood Carnegie library. I didn’t know there was more than one. And until later in life, when I read about old Andy himself, I thought he was this great old guy who happened to put a lot of books in a big old building so kids like me could check out free books.
I read Ivanhoe, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, a lot of Jack London books and I really thought that Moby Dick was about a one legged guy hunting a bad ass whale.
I’m always drawn to these earlier times when incredibly brave men faced unbelievable odds. They were living through great events, fighting evil kings and despots, facing dragons and enduring unrequited love.
I didn’t realize it at the time that these were all morality plays. Good versus evil, devil versus god, dark against light and later Japanese versus Marines, and good guy pros versus bad guy heels.
But the story line that I loved the most always took place in the Middle East. Richard the Lion Hearted and Saladin, Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, mysterious Cairo and T.E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia who I dubbed “Larry the Arab”). Those bold and strong men who always fought for what was right and good. The way we saw the world I later came to learn was from the European view point. The Balkans and Turkey were called the Near East. Asia was the Far East and we called Egypt and Arabia the Mid-East. Again as I progressed in my thinking and reading, the whole idea and my thought process shifted.
There seems to be more than enough blame to go around for what is happening in the Mid-East. More broken promises, assassinations and overthrows, enough inside jobs to make a mob boss blush.
Ruthless power, crazy religions invaders and defenders — a world I just returned from again. This time from Egypt. Traveling once more with Father Andrew Mhanna, Lebanese Maronite Catholic priest. As you may recall I went to Lebanon last summer and wrote about it here in the Chronicle. So now another personal look at the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and the lack of media coverage; both an outrage.
Last year seeing the outcome of the colossal failure of the Bush/ Cheney war of lies, this time I saw the aftermath of the Obama/Clinton Arab Spring. These are two of the saddest chapters in the history of American foreign policy. These two administrations have unleashed forces of radical Islam, overthrown governments, Byzantine plots and given rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood. There are growing attacks of terror, the same insanity that seems to be grafting itself into the fabric of our own country.
We met with families whose husbands and fathers were beheaded in Libya simply because they were Christians. We went into old Coptic Christian churches that Islamic police throw you out of simply because they can. One of my childhood dreams was to visit the Valley of Kings and see the face of the Sphinx and of the great pyramids — and in fact they are unbelievable.
The great line rings true — man fear time, time fears the Pyramids. It is also very real and time stands still.
Later I sat next to the Nile River at a restaurant and ate dinner with young Muslim men who loved my tattoos but they knew that they would be deemed religious criminals, if they dared to get any themselves.
All things come to us from the Nile. They flow from the water starting from Africa’s Lake Victoria to become the forces of civilizations. The Nile, where baby Moses was found, the Nile that I read about in the early 1950s laying on what my family called the day bed which was just really a fold out bed in my old man’s living room. Like Jem Finch I too tried to walk like an Egyptian.
So I wonder what Ramesses II (not John and Patsy) but the Pharaoh Ramesses would think now when a guy in a long dirty gray robe wearing a Chicago Bulls baseball hat, hustled my guide for some duty free Dunhill cigarettes so we could park our car closer to the Pyramids. What would he think of the horrible slums that grow almost to the edge of the Valley of the Kings? It is an unthinkably huge area entitled the City of the Dead and stretches as far as the distance from Orchard Road to Speer Boulevard, where people live in tombs for generations never leaving the equivalent of Gas Town in the latest Mad Max movie. In old Cairo we had full water bottles thrown at us as the Egyptian Army keeps a lid on all of it, and the City of the Dead could be the fuse that makes it all explode.
So what looms for the future of Egypt, nobody know for sure, but with time and history as our guide what happens in Egypt will affect the world.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Jun 24, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
Several times in the past in my column space I’ve written about the 28 pages, that have been suppressed by the Bush administration pertaining to the 9/11 attacks on this country. A decade ago, 46 senators led by Chuck Schumer, demanded that George Bush declassify the 28 pages. Many people have speculated what is locked inside. Since the last time we got together to talk about this, the 47 pages of footnotes pertaining to the 28 suppressed pages have now dropped. Featured throughout those 47 pages of footnotes was Colorado-based Homaiden al Turki a fascinating fact pretty much unmentioned in Denver’s hard hitting media.
As a result of those footnotes it is believed Al Turki’s name appears at least six times in those 28 suppressed pages. Six times!
He is a wealthy Saudi with ties to the royal family that had a radical Islamic book Arabic language translation and publishing house based in Aurora, Colorado, and a person of interest regarding the 9/11 attacks. While never charged in the 9/11 attacks he was eventually convicted of, inter alia, sexually assaulting his Indonesian housekeeper.
There was a concerted effort beginning in November 2006 to get him out of Colorado’s prisons and take him back to Saudi Arabia. The current mayor of Colorado Springs, then Attorney General John Suthers (unaffectionately known in some circles as “King Rat”), made a trip on the behest of some unknown power to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to meet with King Abdullah, Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz and al Turki’s family. Suthers has turned into a clam on the subject. The only time he ever mentioned the topic of his trip was to declare, “The State Department paid for the flight, but the King (of Saudi Arabia) has now offered to pay for my air fare.”
So John boy, what did you, the crown prince and the king talk about? Fracking, the euro, legalized marijuana, or how to get this 9/11 terrorist home free? My money’s on the last one. Al Turki was convicted of felony counts of unlawful sexual contact by use of force, theft and extortion, false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment. The young woman they kept in their place was a slave.
Memo to Hal Haddon (al Turki’s lawyer), fast Jack Finlaw, (Governor John Hickenlooper’s general counsel), and Roxanne White (Hickenlooper’s chief of staff), dudes and dudette … he had a slave! Because of the great work done by Fox 31’s Julie Hayden, we read their email exchanges of how they were brokering Hickenlooper to get a fast pass release. In one of those emails in December 2012, Finlaw actually tells Horrible Hal, that he had “good news!” — Al Turki may be able to go home!
Good news? A slaver? Involved up to his eyebrows in 9/11? Good news that he was going back to Saudi Arabia? You people really have no shame. And now we have the entire report from the Texas Department of Corrections; again thank you to Julie and Fox News. If you remember how the father of Evan “Evil” Ebel, (murderer of Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements and pizza delivery guy Nathan Leon) was portrayed in all the front range media outlets as the grieving father so unaware of his son’s behavior.
Now we know he and his son stalked a delightful woman and dancer named Crystal. According to the Denver police department, she had sex with both father and son. Back in the day, that was known as the “Sportsman’s Double.”
And that same grieving father, also sent money to the family members of the infamous white supremacist prison gang known as the 211 Crew. Now you think that would be a front page in The Denver Post or at least a mention on Channel 9. It was instead the silence of the lambs.
Because column space is limited let’s review: Someone very powerful in the Bush administration, sent attorney general John Suthers (aka King Rat) to apologize to the Saudis, that was the first step in getting that known terrorist back home. It has since been followed up by some of the most powerful influence peddlers around the state capitol, like so many buzzards, jumping on-board for undisclosed petro-dollars. The questions are still unanswered.
The Denver Post slipped up and asked John Hickenlooper to appoint a special prosecutor, to do what? To investigate John Hickenlooper? John Suthers? The powered influencers of the Saudi Arabians in Colorado? Not gonna happen.
I understand that Homaidan is now in a federal institution in Beaumont, Texas, for a state of Colorado sex crime. Why move to a federal jail? The Saudis threatened to dump 750 billion of U.S. debt if anyone was permitted to sue them for 9/11 and the beat goes on. But they did “nothing wrong” so why threaten a dump?
As we were writing this The Denver Post employees held a demonstration outside their building, some were wearing t-shirts that said “Journalism Matters,” as if it ever really did at The Denver Post who cannot even mention the name Homaiden al Turki.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | May 27, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
There have been many dynamic duos throughout history, fictional and real, Batman and Robin, Roy and Dale, Woodward and Bernstein.
So keep those cards and letters coming in, and in spite of them, Anonymous and I are teaming up to do a scathing hard-hitting exposé on how the power elite in the front range can virtually get away with anything — or can they?
So return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when out of the clear blue of the western sky comes Denver Players and Sugar dubbed at the time the priciest, most exclusive adult service provider in town. Westword, at the time, wrote that Denver Sugar catered to wealthy and powerful men, and according to several former employees included politicians, sports stars, and CEOs, and the leading partners in the most prestigious law firms in Colorado.
The story about Mayor Hancock buying prostitutes from Scotty Ewing’s Players and Sugar had, at this point, disappeared from the radar screen for over a half decade, other than my two-bit radio show. If you all recall, over five years ago the mayoral race was between Chris “son-of-Roy,” Romer and the developers’ favorite son, Michael Hancock.
It was a mail-in ballot, no one was sure who was ahead in the voting, and I was bootlegged a copy of Denver Sugar’s client list. All the names had been blacked out except for Michael and the number for the city and a phone number. It was his cell phone and we called it on the air and his automated voicemail went on. Hancock always appeared on my radio show, we appeared to have a great relationship, and I had already voted for him. He actually went to high school with our then morning show producer Greg Hollenback.
I’m not a moralist, I believe prostitution should be legal, but these are the people who enforce Denver’s Johns ordinance. That’s where they seize your vehicle, and tell your wife and your boss that you were trying to buy sex on West Colfax, but not if you’re a city council member. Where’s the justice? It’s seemingly okay for wealthy and powerful men to pay $300 for a session with a young woman. These pleasure palaces seemed to be operating in the open. But the same power put bait cops on Federal Blvd. to catch a working man on a Friday night who had too much to drink. Why is it okay for the power elite to do exactly the same thing as some hapless blue collar working man who had a little too much to drink on the weekend? Needless to say Michael Hancock never talked to me again.
But it’s a greater story than just a mayor/ former city councilman procuring sex. I really don’t care. But what it is about is the power elite. It’s the same people who brought you DIA, and are building massive apartments and buildings on park and church land, and give each other countless awards — man of the year, humanitarian awards, husband of the year, at $500 a plate dinners and testimonial plaques you can hang on your office wall. Haven’t you had enough?
And slipping in comes Anonymous. I completely disagree with Anonymous on Denver’s homeless policy. Hancock and Hickenlooper created this mess and Anonymous wants this to expand and continue. But here’s where we agree, Anonymous says they’re going to tie the can to Hancock’s tail about his involvement in buying ladies of the night if he doesn’t rescind the homeless sweeps. This ain’t Hobson’s choice; he’s jammed.
But even better, with really smart people viewing the Anonymous video, is seeing Hancock being told they’re going to put him on the sex ring. What is the first document that appears in their video? None other than the five-year-old story that appeared here in the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle. “What, you expected they were going to use The Denver Post or Channel 9?” This was a very sophisticated video so we’re writing this in the middle of May, who knows what the skyline will look like when the paper drops.
But what is conspicuous by its absence, with the exception of Westword, Channel 7, 710 KNUS, and the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle, is the local Denver media. I was heavily influenced by a Marxist sociologist from the ’50s, whose name is C. Wright Mills, who wrote a book titled The Power Elite, and in a nutshell if you control 51% of anything you own it. So I ask you how much power does it take to kill a series of stories that threaten to shake the very fiber of the establishment. Let’s see what happens next.
So Anonymous — stay in touch —Peter@710KNUS.com, waiting to hear from you — together we can get the story out. I am Legion, I am everywhere, and I, also, do not forget. Mayor Michael Hancock, expect me.
— Peter
