I was actually banned from the city-data.com forums last year for having the audacity to assert that the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver is full of potheads.
I have a very difficult time believing that anyone who has lived in either Capitol Hill or it's neighboring areas of North Capitol Hill, City Park West, and Cheesman Park have a hard time believing that this area of town is full of pot heads. I can give a couple of perfect examples:
Very recently a man living near me had the police called on him because he was having some kind of bizarre fit, screaming incoherently and throwing things against the walls in his apartment. After upwards of an hour of this, police arrived and he was arrested for acting belligerently and resisting. He refused to open his door and give the police his name. That meant that when the door was finally opened, the police did an around-the-neck grip, dragged him out of his apartment by his neck and slammed him against the wall. The cops inspected the apartment exclaimed that he "broke everything" and even punched a couple holes in the walls. Why? His roommate would not buy him marijuana. This pothead has not been heard from since he was taken to jail and all of the broken things from the apartment were thrown outside upon eviction.
Another example circa 1988:
I had the fortune of having an eccentric man approximately 50 years old living across the hall from me. I think he was a Buddhist or something, I could sometimes hear bizarre religious-like chanting coming from his door. After some months of living by him I noticed a pattern in his behavior. Off and on he would have these odd fits, beating walls, breaking things, stomping and yelling. Shortly following that, the smell of some kind of marijuana would emanate from his apartment for several days nearly nonstop during which time he was placid and quiet. This repeated cyclically for months on end. In time, I noticed he would thrash around his apartment in rage for a time, then storm out of his apartment in utter anger, banging the door shut. He'd return about 15 minutes later holding a plain white package. Give him another five minutes and the smell of burning weed was strong, and his anger subsided, his rants ceased, his apartment quiet. I couldn't figure out where the soothing mystery packages were coming from until one day I was outside down the street and happened to see him emerge from the check cashing joint at East Colfax and Vine Streets, carrying a non-descript plain white box. There were rental mailboxes in that business. Someone was actually using the mail system to send this guy weed.
Ah, Denver.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Why is Northeast Park Hill Still a Dump?
Expending much energy citing "economic racism," it's common for leftist activists to cry about how businesses do not often establish themselves in the black community. Crying racism is the usual band-aid excuse to avoid a deeper look at the real reasons of what is going on. The nationwide pattern of crime-blighted black communities plays out in Denver, Colorado as well. Why? Because anywhere blacks settle in numbers, crime escalates and gangs are always present. Neither of these are conducive to business growth. Indeed, the only economic growth the Northeast Park Hill Area has seen in decades is the redevelopment of the land of the former Stapleton International Airport, and even this had to be done with a massive infusion of public dollars because the area is so gross that nobody wanted to touch it with a ten-foot pole. Results at Stapleton are mixed, and I have a sneaking suspicion that most of the whites who have moved in this area are relocated out-of-staters (much like you see around the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant) because locals know better than to go anywhere near the place. More on Stapleton later, for now we'll focus on Northeast Park Hill.
The "jewel" of Northeast Park Hill was a strip-mall style shopping center which was once probably decades ago a thriving economic center with room for a full-sized grocery store as an anchor. By 1990, when I first began taking the bus through there on the way to work near the old airport, however, the shopping center, Holly Square, was already a decrepit dump with few tenants. The back wall of the Square always seemed to be coated in gang graffiti, Crips and Bloods taunting each other back and forth. In the late 1990s, the "anchor" of the mall, as it were, was the local Nation of Islam mosque #51 with it's adjoining NOI-owned seafood restaurant. Old gang graffiti would be painted over only to be sprayed on again within a short time. The eastern side of the Holly Square lot featured an electronic switch box of some kind adorned with Crip death threats toward neighborhood Blood gang members in prominent blue paint.
In spite of this, the city kept pushing to develop the Holly Square. Some time in the 2000s, how I do not know but probably with government funding of some sort, Holly Square was quite extensively remodeled and updated. Efforts were made to bring in a few small local businesses, and things seemed okay. One problem. Holly Square was a longtime Bloods gang hangout and when the founder of the Rollin 30s Crips was gunned down by the Bloods, it didn't take long for the Crips to decide that a good way of exacting revenge was to burn down the favored hangout of the Bloods.. So, early one morning...
The Crip arsonists, being the intelligent lot they are, not only sloppily torched Holly Square but did it so that a nearby security camera caught the whole thing. I'm sure the Denver Police enjoyed watching as "one of the Molotov cocktails rolled off the roof and hit the head of the person who threw it, causing his head to catch fire." Being even stupider, they drove a truck full of molotov cocktail-making materials with a broken tail light away from the scene and were shortly pulled over for a broken light violation and very quickly found themselves in jail and charged with arson. (Source)
In the end, another liberal lift-you-up scheme goes up in ashes.
UPDATE: Last 2 of the 10 Crip arsonists have been sentenced to prison. See their downtrodden mugshots here.
The "jewel" of Northeast Park Hill was a strip-mall style shopping center which was once probably decades ago a thriving economic center with room for a full-sized grocery store as an anchor. By 1990, when I first began taking the bus through there on the way to work near the old airport, however, the shopping center, Holly Square, was already a decrepit dump with few tenants. The back wall of the Square always seemed to be coated in gang graffiti, Crips and Bloods taunting each other back and forth. In the late 1990s, the "anchor" of the mall, as it were, was the local Nation of Islam mosque #51 with it's adjoining NOI-owned seafood restaurant. Old gang graffiti would be painted over only to be sprayed on again within a short time. The eastern side of the Holly Square lot featured an electronic switch box of some kind adorned with Crip death threats toward neighborhood Blood gang members in prominent blue paint.
In spite of this, the city kept pushing to develop the Holly Square. Some time in the 2000s, how I do not know but probably with government funding of some sort, Holly Square was quite extensively remodeled and updated. Efforts were made to bring in a few small local businesses, and things seemed okay. One problem. Holly Square was a longtime Bloods gang hangout and when the founder of the Rollin 30s Crips was gunned down by the Bloods, it didn't take long for the Crips to decide that a good way of exacting revenge was to burn down the favored hangout of the Bloods.. So, early one morning...
The Crip arsonists, being the intelligent lot they are, not only sloppily torched Holly Square but did it so that a nearby security camera caught the whole thing. I'm sure the Denver Police enjoyed watching as "one of the Molotov cocktails rolled off the roof and hit the head of the person who threw it, causing his head to catch fire." Being even stupider, they drove a truck full of molotov cocktail-making materials with a broken tail light away from the scene and were shortly pulled over for a broken light violation and very quickly found themselves in jail and charged with arson. (Source)
In the end, another liberal lift-you-up scheme goes up in ashes.
UPDATE: Last 2 of the 10 Crip arsonists have been sentenced to prison. See their downtrodden mugshots here.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Why Did Mainstream Media Drop Downtown Denver Hate Crime Spree Into the Memory Hole?
21 more formally charged in downtown Denver attacks
Imagine the scene. A couple white gangs in Denver intiate new members by sending them to downtown Denver where they are told to selectively beat, attack, and rob people of black or hispanic origin who are known to have popular social spots in certain sections of the downtown Denver area. The Denver police, DA's office and even the FBI participate in creating a task force to stop these racial crimes. In the end, 35 arrest warrants are issued. The moment the police department holds its first press conference about having made 32 arrests the day before in this racist hate crime spree, media nationwide - no, worldwide - catch on and the story goes viral. All major US networks and nationally-read newspapers immediately catch the story and run with it much as they did with the Duke University gang-rape allegation. Civil and human rights leaders appear and gather before microphones hurling moralistic invective at racists everywhere. The name "Denver 35" is coined. Headlines are streaked with the shocking revelations about a white racist gang attacking people and the talking heads babble about the continued problem with racism and white supremacism in this country has and how can this still be going on, etc., etc., etc...
Everything in the above paragraph happened except the races of the attackers and victims were reversed the national media coverage never manifested. Why did this story which is obviously huge in scope - in fact the largest hate crime spree in Denver history - not get a single drop of national media coverage? Why, indeed? Why, worse, did many, including myself, predict this would happen? Because the victims of this racial crime spree were white and the perpetrators were black. Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrisey stated that young white males were specifically singled out. One white woman was sexually assaulted (while being told that white women want it) and injuries to some white male victims included a broken jaw, a broken eye socket, a skull fracture and coma as well as another man being thrown through a plate glass window.
The same national media who chose to pick up on the Duke University scam and run with it like a quarterback on steroids are the same people who to a man ignored this story. Isn't that something? I kept hoping for just a bit of coverage.. Something. Anything. I kept looking at CNN, MSNBC, and even FoxNews, the so-called white racist network. Not a peep. The day following the police press conference. Nothing.
If this does not illustrate the anti-white bias of the modern politically correct walk-on-eggshells climate in this country, what does? "Anti-racist" my ass.
Click here for mugshots of the perpetrators.
Imagine the scene. A couple white gangs in Denver intiate new members by sending them to downtown Denver where they are told to selectively beat, attack, and rob people of black or hispanic origin who are known to have popular social spots in certain sections of the downtown Denver area. The Denver police, DA's office and even the FBI participate in creating a task force to stop these racial crimes. In the end, 35 arrest warrants are issued. The moment the police department holds its first press conference about having made 32 arrests the day before in this racist hate crime spree, media nationwide - no, worldwide - catch on and the story goes viral. All major US networks and nationally-read newspapers immediately catch the story and run with it much as they did with the Duke University gang-rape allegation. Civil and human rights leaders appear and gather before microphones hurling moralistic invective at racists everywhere. The name "Denver 35" is coined. Headlines are streaked with the shocking revelations about a white racist gang attacking people and the talking heads babble about the continued problem with racism and white supremacism in this country has and how can this still be going on, etc., etc., etc...
Everything in the above paragraph happened except the races of the attackers and victims were reversed the national media coverage never manifested. Why did this story which is obviously huge in scope - in fact the largest hate crime spree in Denver history - not get a single drop of national media coverage? Why, indeed? Why, worse, did many, including myself, predict this would happen? Because the victims of this racial crime spree were white and the perpetrators were black. Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrisey stated that young white males were specifically singled out. One white woman was sexually assaulted (while being told that white women want it) and injuries to some white male victims included a broken jaw, a broken eye socket, a skull fracture and coma as well as another man being thrown through a plate glass window.
The same national media who chose to pick up on the Duke University scam and run with it like a quarterback on steroids are the same people who to a man ignored this story. Isn't that something? I kept hoping for just a bit of coverage.. Something. Anything. I kept looking at CNN, MSNBC, and even FoxNews, the so-called white racist network. Not a peep. The day following the police press conference. Nothing.
If this does not illustrate the anti-white bias of the modern politically correct walk-on-eggshells climate in this country, what does? "Anti-racist" my ass.
Click here for mugshots of the perpetrators.
If You Didn't Think Denver Was Nuts Already...
Denver voters will be asked to create commission to probe UFOs
Jeff Peckman, a self-described entrepreneur who at the age of 55 still lives with mommy and who came up with a fake UFO video made with some kind of sock puppet that moves like a human arm in an obvious cheap media stunt to sell DVDs has collected enough signatures to get another one of his trash initiatives onto Denver ballots in the next election. He collected 10,000 signatures (only 4,211 of the names turned out to be acceptable) to place his kooky idea to force the city of Denver to create a UFO commission for the purpose of gathering evidence that space aliens have been visiting the earth.
Perhaps Richard Heene has been hanging out with this guy. Why are they attracted to Colorado?
Jeff Peckman, a self-described entrepreneur who at the age of 55 still lives with mommy and who came up with a fake UFO video made with some kind of sock puppet that moves like a human arm in an obvious cheap media stunt to sell DVDs has collected enough signatures to get another one of his trash initiatives onto Denver ballots in the next election. He collected 10,000 signatures (only 4,211 of the names turned out to be acceptable) to place his kooky idea to force the city of Denver to create a UFO commission for the purpose of gathering evidence that space aliens have been visiting the earth.
Perhaps Richard Heene has been hanging out with this guy. Why are they attracted to Colorado?
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Mayor Hickenloopy Wants to Feed Pigeons With Your Tax Dollars
Oh boy!
I can’t help but ask (if I haven’t already?) what the hell is wrong with liberals? This city has a mayor who since day one of his occupancy of the mayor’s office has made it his personal crusade to “end homelessness in Denver.” Unless you’re 5 years old or such a blinded Utopian, anyone with half a brain knows there is no such thing. You would assume, and usually correctly so, that such bubbly nonsense would just be some warm-fuzzy political slogan. But oh, no. This guy is serious, and he’s trying to do it largely with public tax dollars.
Does it matter that we’re in a recession, that nearly 200 Denver city employees have been laid off, others required furlough time, cutting pay raises for city hospital workers, postponing raises for cops and budget cuts that affect city libraries? Nope! Somehow, magically, this Utopian bobblehead has declared that the city can afford over two million samoleons to house derelicts who already flock to Denver in large numbers even from out of state because they heard on the grapevine about the services offered to the homeless in the downtown Denver area, hence the pigeon comment.
What happens when you try to take a small amount of food and feed a few pigeons?
You think its bad downtown now? Keep feeding these pigeons.
Source
I can’t help but ask (if I haven’t already?) what the hell is wrong with liberals? This city has a mayor who since day one of his occupancy of the mayor’s office has made it his personal crusade to “end homelessness in Denver.” Unless you’re 5 years old or such a blinded Utopian, anyone with half a brain knows there is no such thing. You would assume, and usually correctly so, that such bubbly nonsense would just be some warm-fuzzy political slogan. But oh, no. This guy is serious, and he’s trying to do it largely with public tax dollars.
Does it matter that we’re in a recession, that nearly 200 Denver city employees have been laid off, others required furlough time, cutting pay raises for city hospital workers, postponing raises for cops and budget cuts that affect city libraries? Nope! Somehow, magically, this Utopian bobblehead has declared that the city can afford over two million samoleons to house derelicts who already flock to Denver in large numbers even from out of state because they heard on the grapevine about the services offered to the homeless in the downtown Denver area, hence the pigeon comment.
What happens when you try to take a small amount of food and feed a few pigeons?
You think its bad downtown now? Keep feeding these pigeons.
Source
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
This Explains Everything!
Now I realize what's wrong with Denver! 65,000 reptilians live here! Thank goodness this fine man stepped forward!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
When Trash Attacks
If only I had brought my camcorder.
Downtown Denver McDonald's restaurants are a magnet for the barrel scrapings of society. If its not the homeboys speaking in excessively loud voices while making grandiose hand gestures and mixing "yo yo baby" into their narrative while they chew their fries with open mouths and simultaneously rap, then its winos who will either buy a small coffee or a dollar burger and act as if that entitles them to loiter for the next 4 hours and stink up the place, or its winos sneaking into the restaurant and sitting in the back trying to go unnoticed since they haven't bought anything and want to loiter for hours and stink up the place. Tonight, however, I experienced something a little different: The hungry drug addict.
Alcoholics and drug addicts will spend as little money on food as is possible, consequently they'll either depend on food lines or food theft. Entering McDonald's right after me was an unsavory couple, loud, obnoxious, and demanding. The female of the pair, an American of Mexican origin who spoke unaccented, perfect American English with semi-scraggly hair and prominent blubber-like lips -- especially the lower one which both portruded and hung downward as if an invisible weight was hanging from it -- plunked down an extremely wrinkled McDonald's bag on the countertop (cutting in front of me) and immediately and loudly demanded to speak to the manager. When he came over, the woman angrily said that she was given "frozen fries" and "a flat soda" and plunked down an empty drink cup on the counter. Loud "I can't believe this" and "what kind of place is this" followed from her mouth. The manager said they don't give people frozen fries which only caused her to be even louder. If that wasn't bad enough her idiot boyfriend began chiming in, louder than her. Putting on a lame act of pretending to be Mexican, this blonde-haired, blue-eyed pale face began speaking bits of Spanish like, "Papas, mi papas... No salt.. Si, mon!!" and, "I no speak good Eeeenglish." He would look down at his blubber-lipped love and speak a few more words of Spanish as if we were supposed to think this guy was actually a Mexican. In a quieter, yet still very audible voices, the two conversed in perfect American English between the outbursts "papas" and "si, mon!!" which got the Mexican employees laughing. At that point the manager got sick of the crap and offered a refund and then gave them a free meal. The two finally shut up and began speaking to each other in more perfect American English. Clearly this blonde moron has had enough experience with Mexicans to know that one game they enjoy playing is pretending they don't understand Gringo to get out of trouble. Too bad his pale face, blonde hair and blue eyes give him away, the idiot. You can't expect drug-addled refuse to think things through, though; after all, they got what they wanted. Free food. Either one ate the food and the other came for free seconds or they found a discarded bag outside and cashed in.
This, by the way, happened less than an hour before closing so a Denver CARES paddy wagon for drunkards had pulled up and was rounding up the drunken homeless loiterers in the restaurant and piling them inside the van for an overnight trip to detox.
At the same restaurant some years ago, I had a black guy in front of me who ordered only a sandwich. He was given the sandwich, then lingered a moment, then grabbed a straw, stuck it in a drink intended for someone with me and walked out with it, slurping.
Downtown Denver McDonald's restaurants are a magnet for the barrel scrapings of society. If its not the homeboys speaking in excessively loud voices while making grandiose hand gestures and mixing "yo yo baby" into their narrative while they chew their fries with open mouths and simultaneously rap, then its winos who will either buy a small coffee or a dollar burger and act as if that entitles them to loiter for the next 4 hours and stink up the place, or its winos sneaking into the restaurant and sitting in the back trying to go unnoticed since they haven't bought anything and want to loiter for hours and stink up the place. Tonight, however, I experienced something a little different: The hungry drug addict.
Alcoholics and drug addicts will spend as little money on food as is possible, consequently they'll either depend on food lines or food theft. Entering McDonald's right after me was an unsavory couple, loud, obnoxious, and demanding. The female of the pair, an American of Mexican origin who spoke unaccented, perfect American English with semi-scraggly hair and prominent blubber-like lips -- especially the lower one which both portruded and hung downward as if an invisible weight was hanging from it -- plunked down an extremely wrinkled McDonald's bag on the countertop (cutting in front of me) and immediately and loudly demanded to speak to the manager. When he came over, the woman angrily said that she was given "frozen fries" and "a flat soda" and plunked down an empty drink cup on the counter. Loud "I can't believe this" and "what kind of place is this" followed from her mouth. The manager said they don't give people frozen fries which only caused her to be even louder. If that wasn't bad enough her idiot boyfriend began chiming in, louder than her. Putting on a lame act of pretending to be Mexican, this blonde-haired, blue-eyed pale face began speaking bits of Spanish like, "Papas, mi papas... No salt.. Si, mon!!" and, "I no speak good Eeeenglish." He would look down at his blubber-lipped love and speak a few more words of Spanish as if we were supposed to think this guy was actually a Mexican. In a quieter, yet still very audible voices, the two conversed in perfect American English between the outbursts "papas" and "si, mon!!" which got the Mexican employees laughing. At that point the manager got sick of the crap and offered a refund and then gave them a free meal. The two finally shut up and began speaking to each other in more perfect American English. Clearly this blonde moron has had enough experience with Mexicans to know that one game they enjoy playing is pretending they don't understand Gringo to get out of trouble. Too bad his pale face, blonde hair and blue eyes give him away, the idiot. You can't expect drug-addled refuse to think things through, though; after all, they got what they wanted. Free food. Either one ate the food and the other came for free seconds or they found a discarded bag outside and cashed in.
This, by the way, happened less than an hour before closing so a Denver CARES paddy wagon for drunkards had pulled up and was rounding up the drunken homeless loiterers in the restaurant and piling them inside the van for an overnight trip to detox.
At the same restaurant some years ago, I had a black guy in front of me who ordered only a sandwich. He was given the sandwich, then lingered a moment, then grabbed a straw, stuck it in a drink intended for someone with me and walked out with it, slurping.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Inner City Apathy and Blame
In the summer of 2007, several hundred volunteers worked to give Manual High School a face lift and ready it for re-opening. Manual High School is in a predominantly black and Mexican neighborhood with very few white residents. However, the bulk of the volunteers that worked on this school were whites. Locals are too apathetic (or perhaps possess a strong sense of entitlement which relinquishes them of personal responsibility) to pitch in to care for a school their own children attend, while they at the same time complain about the school system and poor results.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
DIA's Baggage Boondoggle Still Haunting City
As recently as January, 2008, the city of Denver is still throwing money into the DIA baggage system money pit which has haunted local politicians for some 15 years, and it is still wringing its hands over installation of a permanent baggage system.
Quotes from the Rocky Mountain News' story of January 12, 2008:
Source
Back in 1994 or so when DIA was not yet open and the city of Denver was already in damage-control mode, free public tours were offered of the airport and I was one who pounced on the opportunity to wander the place. In one of the concourses, I noticed that some signage was wrong and pointed toward things that weren't there, but the most entertaining part of that day was when in the terminal I came across the baggage test area in what is now the Frontier Airlines check-in counters. The area in front of the counter was a literal graveyard of baggage; mangled bags, torn, missing sides, wheels either torn off completely or partly ripped off, belongings such as clothing, blenders, and hair dryers lying either loose or sticking out of mangled bags, most bags were either barely holding together and those that were not were duct taped shut. Some suitcases missed zippered tops that were either a few feet away or nowhere visible at all. Some bags even had dark skid marks on them. Few bags showed no damage at all. If only I'd have taken a camera, what delights I could have recorded! About 30 of us viewed the scene, alternately laughing and shaking our heads.
Quotes from the Rocky Mountain News' story of January 12, 2008:
The system, once touted as the most advanced in the world, had problems from the start and never worked as intended. Officials planned it as the main system to serve all airlines at DIA, but United was the only carrier that used it and then only for outbound luggage.
It was one of the reasons DIA opened 16 months behind schedule and almost $2 billion over budget. Some estimates say the system's price tag has stretched to $700 million, compared with initial projections of $250 million. The airport doesn't have exact figures but has said it will compile that data for council members.
United stopped using it in 2005 and reverted to a manual process. The airport then struck a deal to pay off $110 million that United owed on the system.
DIA is now laying plans to install a new baggage system in coming years, one that will use more conventional technology and methods.
Even to this day, the old baggage system haunts Denver.
"The news keeps getting worse," Councilman Charlie Brown said at a recent City Council meeting, referring to the fact that DIA will have to spend more money to remove part of the system. "I mean, we can't get away from this baggage system. This is unbelievable."
Airport albatross
Costs of a baggage system that never worked right:
$250 million initial projected price tag
$100 million additional construction costs
$341 million additional interest payments to try to get the system working and build a separate, manual one for other airlines
$18 million maximum for steel removal, including parts of the baggage system
$700 million estimated actual cost
Source
Back in 1994 or so when DIA was not yet open and the city of Denver was already in damage-control mode, free public tours were offered of the airport and I was one who pounced on the opportunity to wander the place. In one of the concourses, I noticed that some signage was wrong and pointed toward things that weren't there, but the most entertaining part of that day was when in the terminal I came across the baggage test area in what is now the Frontier Airlines check-in counters. The area in front of the counter was a literal graveyard of baggage; mangled bags, torn, missing sides, wheels either torn off completely or partly ripped off, belongings such as clothing, blenders, and hair dryers lying either loose or sticking out of mangled bags, most bags were either barely holding together and those that were not were duct taped shut. Some suitcases missed zippered tops that were either a few feet away or nowhere visible at all. Some bags even had dark skid marks on them. Few bags showed no damage at all. If only I'd have taken a camera, what delights I could have recorded! About 30 of us viewed the scene, alternately laughing and shaking our heads.
Tornadoes Near DIA
Here is a video and photographic montage of tornadic activity near Denver International Airport.
Weather radar spots tornado over DIA, April 2003. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/2120991/detail.html
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Weather radar spots tornado over DIA, April 2003. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/2120991/detail.html
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