I had a brief conversation with a fellow yesterday at our local gym, no names. Let’s call him Roger. He is an avid biker, and recalled that once on a long and tiring ride, he found himself in Boulder Colorado, known locally as “The People’s Republic.” He was parched and needed both some hydration and to refill his water bottle to complete the remaining fifty miles of his ride.
We once lived in Boulder, very close to the King’s Sooper where on March 22, 2021 they held a fake mass shooting. 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa allegedly fired 33 bullets in the confines of that store before being shot in the leg and frog-marched out of the store at 3:30 PM. Since none other than jazz musician BB King reminded us that “all police and judges are Freemasons”, it is safe to assert that the event was staged, and that the use of the number “33” was used to signal to all insiders that it was indeed fake.
Anyway, there’s something about Boulder. During the Covid hoax, mandatory masking was enforced in all of Colorado, but Boulder took it one step beyond the normal insanity. That town council required masks to be worn everywhere always, including outdoors! We did travel through there one time during Covid, and the atmosphere seemed to me to be oppressive. Roger found that out as well. He did not have a mask on him, but went to a store and asked to be admitted without it, and was refused. He claimed he was parched and needed water, but still, the store masters were adamant. He went so far as to take his shirt and pull it up to cover his face, but no cigar.
That’s Boulder, the People’s Republic. (Colorado Springs is known as Ayn Randistan, equally stupid on the other side of the political poles.) The question is, how did a small city come to be ruled by intolerant jerk-offs, more so than any other place in Colorado?
- It’s a college town. The University of Colorado is in the heart of the city, and 40,000 attend. The students could be a mix of ideologies, maybe even some conservatives, but the faculty of the place is notoriously liberal.
- It’s a wealthy town. It is surrounded by a “Green Zone”, or swaths of public land that have long been off limits to development. I am ambivalent about that, but who cares what I think. The natural result of the quarantine was to restrict development within the borders, driving up real estate prices and limiting ownership and rents to the wealthier classes. People who work in Boulder most often live outside the boundaries in more affordable places like Lafayette, Longmont, Erie and Superior.
The combination of the college and wealth led to insinuation of local power into the hands of intolerant liberals. For that reason, against all intelligent dissent, masking became a public ritual both indoors and out. It truly was a public display of stupidity and insanity.
One more thing about Roger, our biker friend. Within the last year he suffered a heart attack, and recovered. However, it was not a small event and knocked him flat on his ass for a good long period before he could return to work. Since we do not do research about such matters, his claim will go unanswered and he will be left to suspicion without proof: He says his heart attack was caused by the Covid vaccine.
We lived in Boulder for a year, 2009-2010. We wanted to be close to our two kids and two grandkids. We even looked around for a place we could afford. What we found was that we would have to purchase a fixer-upper, as everything else was beyond reach. This included the foothills around Boulder and outside the green zone. We gave up and moved south to a place where we had two more kids and two more grandkids (total: two sons, two daughters-in-law, four grandkids). We have been in our current house now for over 13 years. The Covid madness spurred a migration to Colorado from the west coast, and this house would now be unaffordable too if we were shopping. It’s a mad mad mad mad world.
What about Boulder? In the year we lived there did we find it intolerable? Not at all. People are people. There was about me a sense of entitlement. I remember one day during our move to this place that I drove a rental truck. I stopped at a stop sign and then started out into traffic, and forced a biker to veer off course to go around me. She yelled and cursed at me without letup. Of course I was in the wrong, but her attitude was one of supreme intolerance to a human error. Was that representative of Boulder? I don’t know. It just sticks in my mind. Roger is an avid bicycler, and adjusts his routes to avoid traffic if he can. But in Boulder, bicycles are an expression of moral superiority, a liberal trait.*
When I think of Boulder, I think of dogs and bikes and stupid intolerant people running around in masks, even outdoors. Here where we live I routinely went into our local King’s Sooper, where there have been no staged mass shootings, unmasked. The store management left me alone, as did other customers. That would not have flown in Boulder. Local folks mostly did as required, and our King’s Sooper slapped six-foot keep-your-distance stickers all over their floor. I avoided each and every one, thinking that standing on one of them would signal that I approved of mass insanity.
I admit I was an isolate in that regard, as the mass of people around here did not want to stand out and went along with the stupidity. I was just reminded this week that I had to resign my membership in the Evergreen Audubon Society because they would not allow anyone unvaccinated to participate in their activities, even outdoor walks. We have reluctantly rejoined but will be gone like bottle rockets if they try again to force us to go along with such intolerance.
You can’t fix stupid.
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* One time while we lived there a large tree was felled by a microburst on Broadway in the heart of Boulder. Thankfully no one was hurt, but it did hit two Priuses, which I thought both typical and funny. In one of South Park’s more hilarious episodes, Prius ownership had created a cloud of “smug” over the town. In Los Angeles, a cloud of smug formed over the city after George Clooney’s acceptance speech at the Oscars. The two clouds came together and created a storm that did tremendous property damage in South Park.
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Nice post Mark. You’re right, the upper classes, especially the liberal ones, are psychotic about the most petty things. Like when I was flying out of Logan in Boston last weekend on a Sunday morning and it happened to be crowded with Spring Break kids. A woman I was having a pleasant chat with about New Orleans, where I was going (great city I had fun), freaked out when someone had to cut the security line because they were going to miss their flight. She said all these nasty things at the young woman “cutting the line” and was joined in by some middle aged guy who was just piling on. Just unbelievable.
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Mark, when you mentioned the mass shooting in Boulder, that the number 33 was used as a signal to the “insiders”, I’m wondering why the need for a signal at all? Aren’t these people above it all? Do they care if other humans beings kill each other? As long as it isn’t them…
And one other comment. When I was fired from my job for not getting the jab, with the help of Dave, I wrote a letter to all concerned (the higher ups) speaking my mind, declaring that I would never step foot on their grounds, never promote the organization (it’s a 501c3) and never contribute to them again in any way. They kept the Show Your Papers as a requirement of employment (I checked) for way too long. Almost two years. Then a new CEO took over (due to retirement) and she became active on LinkedIn. I started getting her Thoughts emailed to me and made a comment. I think I questioned the proof of vaccine requirement now that we all now the vaccines are useless. Shortly thereafter, I noticed the requirement was gone…but replaced with DEI. I will never know if she read my comment. And it doesn’t matter. I will never work for an organization that behaved this way. If it happened once, it will happen again.
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Diversity, Equity, inclusion?
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Yes, unfortunately. I don’t check the Careers section any more. Truth be told, I only looked at it occasionally, hoping people didn’t want to work there anymore. Looking back, I could have handled the situation differently. I knew I was going to take the jab. I told my superior as much a year before it was mandated. He asked if I was an anti-vaxxer. Stunned, I replied I was a vaccine skeptic and changed the subject. I should have been more outspoken to the lefty higher-ups!
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You should have just told your doctor you know where his kids bus stop is and if they have a vaccine-lite you’d prefer that brand. Works like a charm.
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By the way, I do not get the 33/11/8 signaling thing. I just know they do it. I am only guessing why.
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Maybe it’s for future generations to realize when they get older but too young to know at the present time of event. Or just a past protocol they still follow. Today’s communication between organizations, different areas on the planet is instant, no waiting for information.
I don’t like to judge a town by one visit, but i’m not planning on visiting Boulder anytime soon. The stupidity was everywhere. Surprised the Covid hoax was a one off like 911. They really had a chance to keep it going and make it worse. Now too many people have woke up.
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Just came across this piece on organization theory, it’s so fascinating I thought I’d share –
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
A little off topic, but so broadly applicable it could probably even apply here. For instance, to the question above
“Aren’t these people above it all? Do they care if other humans beings kill each other? As long as it isn’t them…”
One could use the organizational caste system it employs – sociopaths, the clueless, and “losers” (not used in the derogatory social sense) – to reply that, while “sociopaths” at the top may not care, there may be true believers (“clueless”) throughout the org who do care. And/or, since people aren’t black or white, some may be a blend of sociopath and clueless, or other mixes.
It may be a moot point anyway how they feel about it since logistically, faking events may just make more practical sense on every level. I think that’s sort of what Ab the fakeologist holds.
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Fake atrocities/hoaxes make a lot of sense. And in contrast with real atrocities, for which you would never widely, or ever, publicize. That way you’re protected from legal entanglements, at least from a populist/crusading journalist perspective (if such an archetype still exists). I have a lot of anecdotal evidence that a lot of crimes never ever go reported in the mainstream, only stories you are meant to see are ever published.
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I see someone likes my comments, thank you very kindly. And that fake HIV killed someone close to them.
Boy do I love to mess with peoples minds and try to wake them up. Was talking to a gay friend recently and I just threw out there “what do you think of HIV?” The look on their face was priceless. Then I explain it’s quite possibly a scam and they start looking extremely confused saying “but you, are a doctor, and say its fake? Like when Kirk challenges Nomad in “the Changeling”.
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This is also a good one where Kirk is teasing Khan: “I’m laughing at the ‘superior intellect.'”
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Ray wrote
“Fake atrocities/hoaxes make a lot of sense. And in contrast with real atrocities, for which you would never widely, or ever, publicize. “
I always wonder about this, the extent of “real atrocities”.. usually after watching shows like Better Call Saul, with its depiction of a hidden underworld of crime and intrigue. Obviously a lot of that is TV drama baloney, however entertaining. But they often convince you in those shows that there’s some level of plausibility to the overall “world” they describe.. that there might be something sort of like that going on out there, just as there really are offices somewhat like The Office (just not quite as artistically heightened for entertainment value.)
Then there are endless movies and shows about special ops agencies and their atrocities.. or at least their bad apples. I used to watch 24, which was completely absurd.. but some are more grounded and plausible. MM wrote about The Ghost Writer one time, and said the intent of black washing these agencies was to give people a healthy fear of the authorities. Sort of protective plumage. Makes sense. OTOH does that mean nothing of that sort goes on? “Real atrocities”?
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From that link I posted, check out this quote from The Organization Man –
Of all organization men, the true executive is the one who remains most suspicious of The Organization. If there is one thing that characterizes him, it is a fierce desire to control his own destiny and, deep down, he resents yielding that control to The Organization, no matter how velvety its grip… he wants to dominate, not be dominated…Many people from the great reaches of middle management can become true believers in The Organization…But the most able are not vouchsafed this solace.
Wow! I’d heard of the book of course, but had no idea the writing was so sharp and provocative. Doesn’t sound dated at all, at least that quote.
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My old man is the ultimate organization man. Still going strong at 81, so he’s no fool. He was in DeMolay until age 18 and he said the Masons tried to recruit him, thank God they didn’t succeed. He started working for GE when he was 16, and worshiped at the altar of corporate America. I think I’ve slowly brought him around to the important things in life. It’s amazing how smart and stupid some people can be at the same time. I have a copy of the Organization man I grabbed at some free book library, I’ll take a gander through it.
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Hint … your father is a Mason.
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I wanted to mention a topic that has not been sufficiently discussed IMO. Which is hand sanitizer. Which I’ve known for many years is very, very bad for you – or at least I seriously doubt it’s harmless. Rubbing an alcoholic gel mixed with God knows what chemicals, so that they can be absorbed into your skin. Ewww! My skin crawls every time I see someone slather that poison into their hands. I completely avoided that shit since the beginning of Covid.
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I don’t think I’ve ever used hand sanitizer, or maybe long long ago. I don’t worry about germs, since we have billions of them aboard with us. I also tend to agree with Florence Nightingale and others that they are pleomorphic … they morph into various forms as the body requires. Streptococcus, for example, is always with us, but multiplies in form when needed to fight various ailments … toxins? I cannot say I understand it well enough however. I do know I get what appears to be a cold when we travel to visit relatives in Florida. I finally figured out the place is rife with pesticides to keep mosquitoes down and tourism up.
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