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Low Humor
Heartland mixed marriages. Bride comes from a farm family that runs John Deere. The Groom comes from a farm family that runs Case-New Holland. Later their daughter marries into a farm family running Massey Ferguson.
Meanwhile, in Yellowstone.
And Cheyenne Frontier Days.
(I’ll go to my room now)
Ringling Bros Barnum and Bailey Circus Train
Yes, I have a minor interest in steam engines.
Car Insurance
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How Blue States Work
Nothing to see here folks, move on!
For perspective, the adult population of Colorado is approximately 4.7 million. Assuming all are taxpayers, this one nonprofit received approximately $1.40 from each taxpayer.
An estimated 2,111 nonprofits in Colorado receive federal, state, or local government grants. This figure is based on IRS Form 990 filings that track government grant funding. Overall, approximately 34,251 registered nonprofits operate in Colorado, meaning about 77.4% of the organizations that file detailed tax returns report receiving some form of taxpayer-funded government grants.
Immigrants
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The consequences are part of this article.
Tuberculosis was a scourge in the 19th and early 20th Century. Many came west hoping the clean air and dry climate would help. Notable examples include Ed Johnson who represented Colorado in the US Senate and as Governor. Eventually, TB became a rare disease in the USA. Not the rest of the world as this article highlights.
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Side note. 7/16 employees were trying to enter the facility to work. Protestors were blocking them. A protestor was shot and an employee was arrested. FAFO
Car Story
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“Sorry officer, you didn’t see the boot on your undercover car as you tore off in ‘hot pursuit’?”
Days after graduating from high school in 1961, I did what hundreds of rural young people did; I moved to Denver for opportunities. I wanted more than cutting brush in the summer for the Forest Service and plowing snow in the winter for the County. I arrived in time to witness the Denver Police Department scandal.
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This was just part of the corruption; perhaps a minor part. The Sheriff’s Department was involved at some level.
I came to know Deputy C----, who drove around in a station wagon immobilizing cars of drivers with unpaid tickets. To my knowledge, he never arrested anyone nor let himself become involved in any other police work. Execute the President in front of him? Shrug, but he would boot an ambulance parked in a red zone.
His second activity was dealing marijuana out of his official car. That was an open secret other cops must have known.
Back to the top. The undercover officers would use impounded cars.
Deputy C--- spotted a car on his list, booted the car, and drove off. When the officer came back to the car and attempted to drive off, hilarity ensued.
Later I learned in Paris they called the immobilizer, “the Denver Boot”.
For clarity, I never used nor was involved with drugs. They were around me but I stayed at arm’s length.
I worked a lot of different jobs, sometimes as many as three at a time. One was working security at professional wrestling shows, Denver Bears (AAA baseball) and Denver Bronco games for a Denver policeman’s side business. While he personally wasn’t corrupt, he knew what was going on and helped us steer clear of entanglements.
For a time I worked nights part time running a parking lot across from a hotel with a nightclub in the basement. Several hookers worked out of the hotel. He strongly urged me to drop the job. Nothing dramatic to report but who knows what a dumb country boy might have been sucked into keeping that particular job.
The Denver Police Department was corrupt from day one, 1859. Does the Department still have an element of corruption? Does a bear………
As always, YMMV
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