by Peter Boyles | Dec 16, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
OPINION
This is not the end of 2022 and not the beginning of 2023. I see this as a very sad era ending with no clean solutions for the time period ahead.
Denver has fallen into such disarray under the Hancock administration; the rise of drugs, crime, homelessness, violence, the lack of people wanting to go to a downtown which was once a warm and vibrant place to visit. Denver Police have been set back on their heels. Politicians are so unworthy of anyone’s respect, but this is a product of this last time period.
People will have to judge the time period for itself. I see it pretty much as the last decade. In 2023 we will select a new mayor for the City of Denver. Have you looked at this circus of people who want this job? The state of Colorado is now pretty much a one-party state. The country appears to me to be rudderless. It appears there is no captain on the bridge. So, as Lenin asked, “What is to be done?”
Denver media, talk radio, television news, and much of newspapering (with the exception of this fine publication) is lost on me. It seems to be background noise, meaningless babble. Political correctness has permeated and put fear into the hearts of people who, in the past, would have taken many of these issues on a hell of a lot harder than is being done today. So, what is to be done? Frankly I really don’t see a Ronald Reagan character. I don’t see an FDR, Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela.
Baby New Year, you’re supposed to be bringing us hope, a bright shining future and a brave new world. Ask yourself honestly, do you think COVID’s over, the insanity in Ukraine, big tech censorship far more powerful than Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst combined?
Most of the people I know are most upset about the Denver Broncos. And maybe it’s far more easy and simple to spend your time talking about Russell Wilson and the head coach, and your Colorado Rockies and their inability to hit the ball on the road, than trying to understand the depth of our malaise. Historians repeatedly say all empires fail. Are we an empire in failure? All the signs are there.
So, what will 2023 bring? Is it the start of something new, or look over your shoulder? This is a crap shoot. But can you honestly see any potential leader, Republican or Democrat, that can bring us home? My pessimistic answer is no.
But remember, all Dorothy had to do was click her heels and bring herself home. We have the power to save ourselves. Or do we? I don’t think so.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Nov 17, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
In this past election the only thing that came to the surface about your children in school was the Furries. The allegations of litter boxes in classrooms and children who spoke to one another in snarls and barks. It actually sounded like the neighborhood I grew up in.
But in a recent headline in the city of Denver, the Archdiocese of Denver issued guidance to Catholic schools. Don’t enroll transgender children. The guidance on handling LBGTQ issues, including telling administrators not to enroll or re-enroll transgender or gender non-conforming students, and that gay parents should be treated differently than heterosexual couples. The document was titled “Guidance for Issues Concerning the Human Person and Sexual Identity” was obtained by The Denver Post. The spread of gender ideology presents a danger to the faith of Christians. Now which of us is going to be the first to laugh. The Catholic Church?
How many cases of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, nuns, cardinals, popes, and members of the religious life? Beginning in the 1990s the Catholic hierarchy has covered up sex abuse allegations by moving abusive priests to other parishes where their abuse continued. Kind of sounds like the Boy Scouts, doesn’t it? Remember the coverage of the Catholic Church scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston exposed by the Boston Globe in 2002? The abuse was in Europe, Australia, Chile, and certainly here in Denver, Colorado.
We saw how many times Roman Catholic priests were moved on to another diocese to do it again. Isn’t it a little hypocritical to now do this to people who are open about their sexuality, want to bring their children or grandchildren for a private education in Holy Mother Church?
If you do a bit of background work, in the French church 216,000 children, mostly boys, were sexually abused by the clergy of the French Catholic Church. 216,000. That study is 2,500 pages long. Start to tie into Jehovah’s Witnesses the number of cases of sex abuse. Pulling the same rabbit out of the same hat as the Catholic Church by covering it up.
The Boy Scouts also knew about Scout Masters who were molesting boys. And also moved them from state to state. Some horrible stories that you can read about where these one-time Boys Scouts, now grown men, talk about what the Scout Masters did to them. The manner of abuse and grooming the boys seems to follow suit with exactly how the Catholic priests did the same.
So now how does Jesus, who wants to speak and show compassion have these people turned away at the door? Is that unconditional love? Faithful to church teachings? In Michigan the Catholic Diocese says gay and trans people cannot be baptized or receive communion. They instruct priests on how to develop pastoral relationships with persons who have same sex attraction and lead them closer to Jesus Christ by being consistent with Church teachings on being gay.
I’m always told by my fanatical religious friends that being gay is a choice. So, I ask all of you reading this, when was your choice day? I didn’t have it. The first girl I ever kissed came to a ball game where I was playing baseball with some older guys and she was one of the girls when the sun went down you could kiss her. I didn’t want to kiss the shortstop, or the kid on second base, and I certainly didn’t want to kiss the kid who played catcher. But boy did the lights go on the first time I got to kiss (her name will be not be used to protect the innocent). But that was my magic moment. Sure, I loved the Pittsburgh Pirates and Bruno Sammartino, but I’ll be dammed if I had a choice in the matter.
I’d like to thank the Catholic Church for once again airing the hypocrisy in their sex abuse cases across the country. And why is it the deeper you go into your reading, the more you go into these horrific crimes, the more times it appears it’s religious organizations and institutions, and outfits like the Boy Scouts who are involved?
Peace on Earth good will toward men.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Oct 21, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
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
by Peter Boyles | Sep 28, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
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
by Peter Boyles | Aug 26, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
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
by Peter Boyles | Jul 22, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
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?
