Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages Them

Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages Them

OPINION

By the time you read this I’m sure you’ve already voted or are about to head to the polls and vote in person. Have you gone through this listening to or reading how outfits like The Denver Post, Colorado Sun, or any hot air pro Republican talk show host in Denver putting on their editorial page or website who they think you should vote for.

Doesn’t it sound like they think you’re too stupid to do the work yourself? You’re too dumb to know who to vote for or, better yet, who the hell are these people to tell you how to vote. It’s really a free political ad for the group of people that have screwed this state up so badly in the last 30 years that they think you’ve become stupid enough that you want them to continue.

The late Alan Berg, a real political sage once said on his show, “I don’t vote. Because it only encourages them.”

I think there’s tremendous truth in what Alan said. I had a conversation about Soviet voting. If you read Soviet history, Khrushchev and others always bragged about how the Soviets could vote. And when you do some reading you discover they voted by not voting. Example, Ivan the Agricultural Commissar in the Ukraine is doing a lousy job so none of the factory workers or farmers would go vote and hence the Communist Party would know that people were unhappy or displeased with his performance and unless he was a really entrenched upper Russki they would get rid of him and you would get a new Commissar. Can you see where I’m going with this?

What’s the difference between any of these people? And why is the city of Denver and state of Colorado sliding downhill rapidly?

And so, I urge you not to vote. Stay away from these people. Don’t go near them. Back in the ’60s and ’70s on college campuses and anti-war demonstrations, guys held up their draft cards and burned them. Later we found out a lot of them were just burning their social security cards. They weren’t really doing it but thought of themselves as brave antiwar demonstrators. So, let’s all get together, have a big rally, and hold up your mail-in ballot and light them puppies on fire. That’ll show them. Seeing Michael Bennet’s name turned to ash. Because if he wins, and I certainly believe he will, he’ll continue to turn you into the same thing.

When we all watch the results coming in on election day, remember I wrote this here in the Chronicle. Why is it that every two- or four-years people show up on your television screens endorsed by radio hosts and newspaper columns, and then two or four years later, you’re so pissed off after these people promised you how things are going to change. In the words of Elton John in Honky Cat, “the change is gonna do you good.”

In all seriousness, why do you celebrate an election outcome only to be terribly angry two or four years later at the results of the last one? Stay home. Stay safe.

— Peter Boyles

Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages Them

Bennet Goes Fishing . . . With A One Day License

OPINION

As a reader of history there always seems to be themes running through trying to understand a nation and its people. Long ago I discovered the story of the underclass is the history of prize fighters beginning with the Irish immigrants. The great John L. O’Sullivan, and James J. Corbett were Irish immigrant fighters. The next generation in that era was Jewish fighters who often fought under Irish names. The advent of African American fighters wasn’t until the time of Jack Johnson. Italian and Sicilian fighters Rocky Marciano and Rocky Graziano. And today it’s Russian immigrants, a lot of Latinos and people coming out of the third world in general are great fighters both boxing and MMA.

Being a fight geek, the life of Jack Dempsey has always been intriguing because of a moment in Jack’s career. My uncles always talked about Dempsey and how the Irishman was accused of draft dodging in the First World War. The evidence that was presented was a famous picture of Jack Dempsey as a working man, dressed in working man’s clothes, working with a shovel. The problem was the closer you looked at Jack’s feet. As in the photo at right, Jack is wearing patent leather shoes. It turned out to be quite a problem and Jack eventually landed in a courtroom. But the term “slacker” was always applied to Jack until he redeemed himself during the Second World War.

Every picture tells a story.

Here’s our current slacker, Michael Bennet. Notice Michael fishing in a recent ad. Many of my angler friends have pointed out Michael in the Arkansas river with a fly rod is the equivalent of the Manassa Mauler in the coal yard. They say he has no idea what he’s doing with the rod in his hand as if the prop man just handed him the rod. Turns out he got a one day fishing license just to shoot the ad and to save public lands in Colorado. And if you don’t believe him just ask the guy in the water with him. That ad has been pulled along with a companion ad promoting Michael Bennet hiking in the mountains. I think of Grand County as my second home, I’ve spent a lot of time there hiking, skiing and biking. I have yet to see anyone hiking along the trails in khaki pants. Maybe that works for the Country Club or walking around Cherry Creek. But it’s hardly mountain attire. Thinking of fish, Bennet looks like a fish out of water in that picture.

Now if you go to chase this down you see a picture of Michael on the web only it’s Michael waist up. Along with a limp hand on the fly rod and Michael being pictured hiking from the waist up. It’s hardly being a slacker but it does cast some interesting thoughts on how the Democrat Party tries to tell you that Bennet is fighting for public land as he’s standing in the river with a fly rod in his hand.

Back to the Mauler, and you need a license to fight. Would Jack have a one day fight license, or better yet, a one day union card to work as a working man? You don’t think Michael Bennet is trying to pull one over on you do you? Remember the great line, how can you tell when a politician is lying? And you know how to answer that question as well. It is when their lips are moving.

Michael’s campaign spent $600,000 on the ad. According to what I read doubling to the $1.2 million that he’s spent since mid-July. Wonder if that includes the $14.46 one day fishing license. He could have spent $22 more to get the license for the year. Wow.

I think its’ interesting. Probably will have no reflection whatsoever on the outcome of this entire fiasco. Chalk one up for the slick advertising of the Democrat Party. The commercials, of course, have been yanked down. Remember the great ending of the ad, “I’m Michael Bennet. I approve this message and I caught that fish.”

The mail-in ballots will soon be in your mailbox. Have a nice day.

— Peter Boyles

Let JonBenet RIP

Let JonBenet RIP

OPINION

For God’s sake, let this little girl rest in peace. Recently again the murder of JonBenet Ramsey reappears in Colorado, the nation, and the world’s media spotlight. Having been through the Ramseys for so many years and seeing now her father John Ramsey and her brother Burke Ramsey (who did that unforgettable interview with Dr. Phil that was brokered by none other than Lin Wood, who was one of the original attorneys for the Ramsey family, only to move on to be the March Hare for Donald Trump) are petitioning Governor Jared Polis to call for an outside review of DNA in the murder case. The Ramseys, and even perhaps Jared Polis, have introduced yet another foil to attempt to misdirect the attention of people who know the truth of the murdered six-year-old little girl. This time CeCe Moore of Parabon NanoLabs, who mainstream media now will tell you can solve a crime, that years ago an FBI agent said to me “this ain’t no who-done-it.”

So, I’d like to once again introduce sealed court documents that the Colorado grand jury voted in 1999 to indict the parents of then six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death, and being accessories to the crime.

Fighting DA Alex Hunter decided not to go after John and Patricia, claiming insufficient evidence. That was before any of us could see what the grand jury had actually concluded. And then along comes Mary Lacy in 2008, that same District Attorney who said John Mark Carr was the true killer, clears the Ramseys and their son in the death of the little girl.

Patsy, of course, died from ovarian cancer in 2006. But let me quote from the grand jury: Patsy Paugh Ramsey and John Bennett Ramsey did permit a child to be unreasonably placed in a situation which posed a threat to the child’s life or health, which resulted in the death of JonBenet Ramsey. The grand jury also said each parent did render assistance to a person with intent to hinder, delay, and prevent the discovery, detention, apprehension, prosecution, conviction, and punishment of such person for the commission of a crime, knowing the person being assisted has committee and was suspected of the crime of murder in the first degree, and child abuse resulting in death. Gee, I wonder who that person was.

There was little evidence of an intruder. There was no evidence of a break-in. Four people went in that house that night, three of them woke up. In October 1999 the grand jurors went home sworn to silence. Eight women and four men met for 13 months, 30,000 pieces of evidence all with one question, who killed the little girl.

The great sadness of this isn’t that someone got away with murder. It’s the ability of the family, people like District Attorney Mary Lacy, media laydowns, and sob sisters. So, they’ll try again to be able to lay the blame on somebody else.

Remember the paint brush from Patsy’s hobby kit was used to tighten the cord that choked the little girl to death? The ransom note that came from a notepad inside the house and made reference to little-known details about the family’s past finances? There’s a statement that people use talking about the case as plain as the nose on your face. I think the little girl would have been more than 30 years old now. A long time ago her mother found a note demanding $118,000 for her return. She was dead in the family basement. Like so many others, this family and people that attach themselves to it simply have no shame. This case has been solved, let’s see what Jared Polis does after the election.

— Peter Boyles

BACK In The USSR

BACK In The USSR

When I was a young boy, I didn’t know either one of my grandfathers, but I always envisioned Dwight Eisenhower as the grandfather I never knew, keeping the commies off me growing up in Pittsburgh.

I believe that if you were in the time frame of the Cold War regardless of where you grew up, your parents, or friends, or teachers would tell you your city was targeted for thermonuclear war. I later met guys from Detroit, Cleveland, Washington, D.C., and New York City who believed they were the first place to be struck when Khrushchev or Stalin launched. My Uncle Gene was sure it was Pittsburgh because of the coal mines and steel mills. Giving this some thought later, I don’t know how much steel would have made a difference.

But it affected the movies we saw from Hollywood, it was the foreign policy of the United States bringing us McCarthyism, The Thing From Another World, and the Vietnam War.

Now seemingly we are at war with Russia. But not against communism and certainly not against Stalin or Khrushchev. Back to Eisenhower, he warned us of the military industrial complex. Now as the last man turned off the lights in Afghanistan, and all the rending of garments and tearing of hair that we left hardware behind, I think the complex cheered that on because now we can sell them more. Joe Biden, remembering what his former boss said about there being nothing Biden can’t “f” up, has sent over $64 billion of military hardware and assistance to Ukraine.

We have all up and down the Front Range now what we should be calling Bidenviles. And yet Putin is the devil and somehow these people believe the Russians are subverting American democracy. The industrial lobby makes it clear sanctions just aren’t good enough. Advocates on both the GOP and Democrat sides and the media summon up the cry for blood.

Joe Biden and Uncle Sam, what a team.

Do you understand how this is going to be the inevitable outcome? George W. Bush screwed up American foreign policy in the Middle East and to an unforeseeable future; now Biden has done the same in central Europe. We now have the biggest war in Europe since the end of the Second World War. We were able to stay out of it all through my childhood, my young adulthood, and now as an old man, what am I watching?

Remember Eisenhower stayed out of it when the Hungarians were crushed, the Poles were crushed, and Stalin and Khrushchev stayed out when we crushed the government in Guatemala and Iran. How do these fools think they can end this? As people far smarter than me have said, it’s easy to get into a war, the hard part is getting out.

Orwell knew this. So, people have said whether it’s lockstep or goosestep, what is it the industrial complex now wants of you and your children when we face such domestic catastrophes that we now must stake the future of our country with a NATO alliance against Vladimir Putin.

Remember Eisenhower’s warning and the warnings of Thomas Jefferson. After the endless wars in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, and Central America, imperialism isn’t just a term thrown around by the Marxists, it really was the policy of our country. Like so many different things happening in the country today, people just don’t want to believe it. The truth speaks for itself. This is a rathole. If the European Union wants Ukraine to be in the EU, so be it. if Ukraine wants to be in the EU, so be it. The question to ask is, why are we involved?

Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages Them

The Bentonville Broncos

There’s a philosophical theory if you took all the money in the world and divided it up equally the same people who have all the money today would have all their money back in just a few years.

Wouldn’t you love to have a job where you vote yourself your own salary? What a gift. Recently one of the greatest lucky sperm club families in the history of Denver sports, the Bowlen’s sold your Broncos to an even greater lucky sperm club factory, the Waltons. No, it’s not John Boy; it’s not Walton’s Mountain. However, hide and watch.

The first thing on the agenda is Stan Kroenke, the founder of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, which is the holding company of the LA Rams of the NFL, the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL, the Colorado Rapids soccer team, the Mammoth lacrosse team, the Arsenal FC and Arsenal WFC, and the esports teams the LA Gladiators and LA Guerillas.

Now his wife is the lovely Ann Walton Kroenke. Ann is the daughter of Walmart co-founder Bud Walton. Now enter the dragon. You call him Rob Walton and he is Ann Walton Kroenke’s cousin. He now owns your Broncos who play at Empower Field, previously known as Broncos Stadium at Mile High, before that INVESCO Field at Mile High, aka Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Is it all starting to come together for you?

He bought your Denver Broncos for a record $4.65 billion. The real question that seems to be pending in the background is a new stadium.

Now remember you marks paid $400.9 million in 1999 to keep Pat Bowlen from skipping out of town with your Broncos back then. It appears your current owners, the Bentonville gang, are going to want a new stadium. They probably will move Elitch Gardens and redevelop that entire valley where the Platte River runs, possibly move the Ball Arena along with a new stadium. How much money do you think they’re gonna make? How much will the Broncos fans go into their pockets again?

But the better one is for all of us in the media to know that Stan Kroenke controls Altitude Sports. If you put together a sports package for every Colorado team but the CU Buffs and Colorado Rockies these guys are going to have some serious power. KOA has the radio rights to broadcast the Broncos games and every TV outlet claims to be the official Denver Broncos station.

The Broncos haven’t been that successful in recent years and people I know and respect tell me Russell Wilson is the quarterback that saved KOA Radio. With one family owning almost all of the teams and controlling almost all of the broadcast rights that’s a lot of political and economic clout. Kind of reminds me of DIA, light rail, the 16th Street Mall, and every other such project where you paid for it and someone else got rich off of it.

This is an early warning. Watch what happens and see if after these people paid all that money how long it will take for the Bentonville team to get all of their money back… from you. You get marked again. That’s called sports grifting. You got sports grifted again.

— Peter Boyles

BACK In The USSR

2000 Fools Or When The Snakes Left Ireland

When I was a little boy and went to the movies, I saw Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston in the role of Moses. Using that as my go-to, that clearly proves the existence of a historical character by the name of Moses. Well… I would defy anyone with at least room temperature IQ to seek out or show me any historical evidence of the existence of that character/man, Moses. This just in, there ain’t no Moses.

Moses is the equivalent of King Arthur, Paul Bunyon, and Babe the Blue Ox, or any other mythological creature that people use and need to prove their point. Substitute Dinesh D’Souza for Cecil B. DeMille. Here’s your proof the election was stolen for Donald Trump. By the way, Donald Trump is another mythological figure.

The premise is for 2000 fools. People will go through history, life, and religions seeking square pegs to fit into round holes and D’Souza has done it.

When I was a little boy raised in Irish culture, I truly believed Saint Patrick ran the snakes out of Ireland. You guys all know there’s no proof of that, and the other question is where did all the snakes go? And also, by the way, Patrick the mythological figure wasn’t even Irish.

So, we’re at this point where the cheerleaders tell me this film shows clear evidence and is the truth. Then why don’t all these media outfits and individuals who are being sued, and now working to payoff, not taking Dinesh into the courtroom with this so-called proof?

The answer is obvious. It’s a mock-umentary. I watched it, and the company that I still work for underwrote the cost of the operation and it really is third rate, endorsed by any number of people who are in the employment of Salem Broadcasting. Donald Trump is mad at Fox News and OAN and others who will not even begin to cover this film. I’ll give you the reason why they haven’t, they’ve had their rear ends sued off. They’re not going to make any further problems for their chief financial officers. This is the Shroud of Turin. This is Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph Of The Will.

And for any of you who want to know where the snakes went when they left Ireland, many of them are here in Colorado in the Republican Party, and others are doing talk radio.

I thought it was interesting and it also reminded me of 1950 science fiction movies with horror movie music and what used to be called bad video or grainy video of these shadowy figures stuffing ballot boxes. This nefarious conspiracy of these so-called mules, a name Dinesh lifts from people who illegally bring narcotics into this country. These people submitted ballots in large amounts based on their surveillance video of drop boxes and cell phone data. In watching the trailer, they actually make the charge that it’s organized crime. I’m sure that was funny for John Gotti and Rudolph Giuliani. Nothing that was shown supports their charges. If there is any credible evidence it should be in the courtroom defending OAN or Fox News. And, by the way Dinesh, if it is criminal activity you don’t try to deliver it to the Secretary of State you take it to state or local prosecutors like the AG or District Attorney or the Justice Department.

From my reading the movie is based on research by Texas-based True the Vote which was founded in 2010 and has been a misinformation spreader that equals Black Lives Matter, the Proud Boys, Progress Now, and any number of organizations that exist in the country today all leading to a very bad place.

— Peter Boyles