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Since the Trail-Gazette is incapable of covering a school board meeting without having a hernia or finding someone besides themselves to blame, here is a recap, including some screen grabs of an individual who has been MIA since the late evening of November 2, 2021: To see the full YouTube video of outgoing board members, the link is  bye now But the really critical take home message from someone who promised a statement following release of the official election results (and for the Trail-Gazette, who breathlessly and repeatedly assured readers a statement would be forthcoming following release of the official results) is this: It is also worth noting the newly-elected board members were elected to leadership rolls on the board:  Stacy Ferree was elected board president.  Ava Kendall was elected board vice-president.  John Davis was elected board treasurer.  There are only three elected board positions for EPSD R-3, and the newly elected board members will fill...

If you are wondering why Estes Park is doing so well on case numbers and cases/100K when it comes to COVID, it is because we are doing such a poor job (on purpose) of testing and finding/isolating true positives.  And we are lying about our actual year-round population.  The bottom line, though, is that Estes Park is not doing well on preventing deaths, which is the only metric that really counts.  Does Wellington have a hospital?  No.  Does Berthoud have a hospital?  No.  Does Estes Park have a hospital?  Of course it does, supported by the federal government.  Didn't seem to help prevent any deaths.  Does Wellington have a nursing home/assisted living?  Of course it does.  Does Berthoud have a nursing home/assisted living?  Of course it does.  Does Estes Park have a nursing home/assisted living?  Marginally, but we couldn't chase the death magnets in Prospect Park away fast enough, closing down a facility when ...

 Is the Dow Jones Industrial Average: November 30, 2021 latest quote The lagging indicator is death. More (cr)on Canada:

Body found in Conifer following gunshot noises, Kalan woman apprehended in Jefferson County, so why does Estes Park get the nod?

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... As with Walter Cronkite's signature close, "If it's in Canada, fur sure it's already in the U.S." The even bigger picture:  If the omicron strain is indeed asymptomatic for a longer incubation time and can evade all current vaccines, we're gonna need a bigger boat (to ferry all the dead bodies over the river Styx, if you are having trouble following this thread).

$1000 each paid out in U.S. currency or its equivalent in .999 silver for the following Sanborn real-photo postcards: R-750  [Description in Sanborn notebook is "Pretty telephone upright (meaning portrait orientation) Trail Ridge Road and Ypsilon from up..." (five letter word, possibly "upper", essentially illegible)] R-1038 Lone Pine in Winter R-1153 On Rapids Hill in Thompson Canon R-1356 Brinwood Hotel - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo. R-1387 Geo. Ernst Glen Haven Store and Dining Room - Glen Haven, Colo. R-1409 Mark's Grocery - Estes Park, Colo. [with arrow pointing to] "Longs Peak" R-1465 A Deer Beggar Calling on his Friends R-1532 By the Way - Colburn Cottages - Big Thompson Canon R-1545 [No sleeve at Sanborn HQ, no information available in Sanborn inventory book] R-1665 Mt. Meeker from the So. St. Vrain Highway, Colo.

False prophet Dan Denning and his (American) legion of followers just got the Christmas present they so  violently wished for - A emerging strain of SARS-CoV-2 which will definitely make any current vaccine not worth taking. The newest devil offspring sprung from the richness of the human soil is called Omicron, with the same number of letters in its name as Denning.  Because its spike protein is so vastly different from its predecessors, yet still manages to bind to its target surface protein, it will evade all immunology-based treatments currently on the market or in the pipeline.  Even the current crop of monoclonals, which Dan and his DeSadist-based think tank grudgingly allow, will be worthless against Omicron. Woo-hoo.  Dan Denning got what he wanted all along - A response and an outcome based not on science, or cooperation, or looking out for your fellow man, but on selfishness and horrific, gasping death. What is desperately needed locally is what was request...

By the end of this week, Worldometers will reach 800,000 U.S. deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 infection.  The Johns Hopkins Covid map, which generally lags Worldometers data by 20,000 U.S. deaths, will get to this number around the second week of December. How sad this is so predictable, and how very sad this number, or any number, means so little to so many people.  Losing 800,000 people is the equivalent of losing everyone who lives in Denver.  And Golden.  And Castle Rock.  If, this New Year's Eve, a meteor wiped out Denver and Golden and Castle Rock and Dan Denning said "bring on another meteor", it would be tragic for most rational beings, granted, but it would be supremely problematic to determine if that was even the stupidest thing Dan Denning had said ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY. For misguided idiots like Dan Denning, 800,000 U.S. deaths means absolutely nothing.  It means another day of cranking up the lies and spewing out the hate and misinformation wrapped ...

This guy is looking for ways to make your national park experience more expensive and less free - Eventually, Rocky will be closed to everyone not employed by the National Park Service  One interesting thing that came out of the recent ROMO presentation slash "here's what we are shoving down your throat regarding timed entry without public input because it is our park not your park" was a 30% no-show rate when people make reservations on line to pick a particular day or time slot.  This no-show rate, according to some guy named John (is Darla incapable of presenting information related to her evil machinations?), was consistent throughout the entirety of the 2021 summer.   Although none of the trustees commented on this, forfeiting your deposit when you don't snow was likely a significant amount of free revenue for the NPS.  Suppose 1000 people/cars (a low estimate during the height of the summer) make reservations each day, and 30% of them never show up.  ...

For those who can't add, Danielle Wolf tallied 2021 votes, John Davis amassed 2041 votes.  John Davis took the third school board spot by 20 votes.  This was also true two weeks ago, back when the Trail-Gazette and Peggy Mauerman (their official source and bed partner) were in complete denial. Everything has gone final, and so we breathlessly await the latest updates from the Trail-Gazette.  Remember, they think Boulder County is still counting ballots, and they also promised a statement from Danielle Wolf after everything went final.   Think this statement will appear in Wednesday's edition?  Think this statement will appear in Friday's edition?  Think this statement will ever appear?  You will likely have better luck trying to teach a wallaby to code in Fortran.

E-mails to the town trustees have been dominated of late by: (1) The Chamber of Commerce (2) A guy who wants to know if there are any dog trainers in town (3) A moron named Dan who says vaccines should not be a part of any plan to prevent disease - Our natural immunity to things we have never encountered before should suffice to kill off, oh, say, 1% of U.S. for no good reason except to have morons named Dan have a larger ratio of active listeners ignoring them.   By the same logic, we should not attempt to prevent meteors from hitting the earth, just eat more kale so we can lift the rubble from our bodies. (4) "Look, I know there is a fire going on and all, but I wonder if you could devote more attention to my need for a dog trainer" (5) Folks who should probably be spending more time in the new mental health facility, rather than writing about it (6) The Community and Family Advisory Board wringing their hands over their very existence (7) Mike Romero saying "These sil...

And as predicted, the Trail Gazette is ignoring this. Deaths in the community.  They are not reporting deaths in the community.  By choice.  A preventable, communicable disease. We have to keep this a secret like incest or racism or pedophilia.  We don’t mention it in the obituaries.  Vaccinated?  Unvaccinated?  By choice?  No problem.  SARS-CoV-2 is a “no-fault” virus.  It doesn’t care about your beliefs or intentions.  It just cares about, when it knocks on your door, whether you let it in or sic the dogs on it.  In this metaphor, Ivermectin is pointing a tube of toothpaste at it.  No impact.  Worthless. Yet this is what half our population is touting.  How would you like your death handed to you?  How do you treat an intruder at the door?  Do you try to fight him off with a tube of toothpaste, or do you grab your Walther-PPK specially tailored for maximum penetration?  Or do you claim this weapo...

Could we please have more evacuation routes out of Estes Park?  P.S.  I have asked the current administration, the past two administrations (including town administrators) and the current and past county commissioners about 17 fucking times if they would consider opening up historically used yet currently ignored additional routes into and out of Estes Park. Signed - Gal who would like a fighting chance to survive.  

Here are the grades for the Trail-Gazette “news” articles covering the school board election:  F...F...F...F. And the most recent one, even after being corrected by admitting two additional ballots = 6 votes were added to the final Larimer County update, not NONE as the reporter initially outright lied about to continue his false hopes and failed narrative, is.... F https://www.eptrail.com/2021/11/11/update-ferree-kendall-davis-final-unofficial-winners-of-epsd-school-board-seats/ It is unclear why the Trail-Gazette reporter continues to propagate the myth of votes being identical to ballots.  This was not a vote for U.S. president, where one ballot and one vote are identical, since you can only vote for one candidate, or if you voted for more than one (overvote), have your ballot thrown out (figuratively - if additional state or local offices and/or proposition/bond issues were on the ballot and these were marked correctly, only your vote for president would be thrown out). In...

Okay, now I understand why Tim is having such problems reporting this election fairly, or even coherently.  He can't distinguish between ballots and votes.  Larimer County very much did change between the pre-final and the final.  Two more ballots were added to the count, with each ballot contributing three votes to the total vote count.  Note how the final vote tally went up by six.  Six.  Not zero.  Not unchanged.  Six.  From two ballots, each marked for three candidates.  Or three ballots, each marked for two candidates.  Or six ballots, each marked for one candidate.  There are plenty of potential ways to divy up these six votes, but "unchanged, no ballots or votes added" is not one of the choices. Compare these two tables.  Do they look identical?  They do to the Trail-Gazette reporter. And the idea that Danielle Wolf somehow gained nine votes in Boulder County from the next-to-last unofficial to the last un...

This battle to find ballots to count in Boulder County has found yet another 28,000 foot mountain to climb, on top of the 28,000 foot mountain we are already attempting to scale, because Boulder County released their latest numbers, most likely their last unofficial numbers, and it doesn't look good for the Trail-Gazette and their supporters. Despite Boulder County STILL COUNTING, since their last update on November 5, they have only managed to dig out a couple more ballots and a couple more votes for Danielle Wolf.  This is NOT looking good for Danielle Wolf, people.  Her lead over John Davis in Boulder County is 41, but her deficit in Larimer County is 61.  She is still 20 votes short.   How hard is it to print up 20 fake Boulder County ballots and mark them all for Danielle Wolf?  You can do it, Trail-Gazette.  You have access to a printing press, and you certainly lack the ethics or morals necessary to ask why.

Here are the precincts (915 and 916) in Boulder County that encompass Allenspark and what surrounds Allenspark.  The first number is the precinct number, the second number is the number of registered voters in that precinct who voted in the 2021 election, the third number is the total number of registered voters in that precinct, and the fourth number is the percentage of registered voters in that precinct who voted in the 2021 election. Obviously, the voting members of these precincts who are part of the Estes Park School District is a fraction of the total potential pool.  So let's first calculate the total number of registered voters in districts 915 and 916.  That number, Tim (just a general, generic Tim, I'm not directing this towards any specific reporter named Tim), is 440 + 497.  Pull out your calculator, Tim, and add together those two numbers.  440 + 497 = 937.  (The easy way to do this is to just consider 497 as 500, and then add 440 to 500 (940)...

The final unofficial results from Larimer County increased the separation between the three Estes Park School District candidates in the lead and the "team" pulling up the rear.   Boulder County is REALLY going to have to start getting busy counting ballots now.  Since somewhere north of 124 Allenspark residents bothered to cast votes for Estes Park School District to begin with, they are going to have to unearth 25 additional ballots (20% of those who voted in the regular election) from SOMEWHERE.  And all of these ballots will have to mark Danielle Wolf, with NONE of them voting for John Davis.  Sound suspicious?  Of course it does.  Sound possible?  Well, does the Trail-Gazette have a box of uncounted Boulder County ballots sitting forlornly in their unoccupied building?  If so, they should move this box across the border to the dumpster at Charles Eagle Plumes, because Boulder County is STILL counting.   Larimer County is DONE counti...

Transcript:  Mike - Attached are screen grabs of the recent School Board work session from November 9.  In case you don't recognize these folks, they are the folks currently holding the top three positions by vote count.  How is it that the school board is allowing these "still counting" and not yet officially elected board members to sit in on the meeting and introduce themselves as new members when Boulder County is "still counting"? Hint: Because Boulder County is not "still counting".  Boulder County, as the School Board recognizes, is done counting.  Only the Trail-Gazette holds out some misguided hope that additional votes are out there, and indicates as such with "Boulder Still Counting" in its October 10 headline. Note:  The three people pictured (well, two people are pictured, and Stacy Ferree is identified by voice on the YouTube video and with her name attached to the graphic) if you don't recognize them, are John Davis, Ava Ke...

When you are part of the local political "elite", you schedule perpetual lunch meetings.  I'll bet some of these folks didn't even bring masks.  They knew they could just keep putting their fork up to their mouth if there was any question of adhering to the mask mandate.   This meeting was held earlier this month - When Larimer County had a mask mandate Town board meetings will now be buffet-style.  Enjoy your second and third helping of Covid, brought to you by the same folks pretending to attempt to slow down the spread of Covid.

The counting is over.  There is only certifying.  Boulder County has nothing left to count in Allenspark.  Everyone who could have legally cast a ballot has already done so, and these ballots have all been counted.  When will the Trail-Gazette get its head out of its ass?  (Note:  The update on November 10 was to correct a horrific spelling error in the first paragraph.  But what else is new?)

I don't believe it.  I don't believe anyone in Estes Park over 85 years old hasn't already been vaccinated and boosted. Latest Larimer.org postings indicate a 91-year-old Estes Park female died from SARS-CoV-2 infection on Halloween 2021 But I'm sure the local newspapers will be all over this (not).  Remember, if it's COVID, you hear it here first, only, often, and always.  One week prior to death, this unfortunate lady was diagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 positive, and another case reported on or around that same day was a 90-year-old male.  So this may be a case of a married older couple living at Good Sams both being infected, and we may be waiting for the other shoe to drop.  You won't learn of this from other sources.  The other local media outlets have decided COVID is OVID.

 “Guys We Fucked” is coming to the Stanley on December 30.  There, I said it.  So we can all stop diddling and move on with our lives.

And I’m pretty sure it is not Mark Igel, seeing as how its sole reason for existence appears to be to attack Mark Igel, but I have to admit, its limited (thus far) imitative parody content is kind of funny, for a one-trick pony.  Nothing stirs creative juices like 100-proof hatred of a mortal enemy, but now that the school board election is over, and paid parking decisions are finalized but for the shouting, will this Onion wannabe continue when there are no more sources of righteous indignation?

Stacy Ferree, who did everything a candidate should do to win a seat on a governing board in Estes Park, including putting in hundreds of hours of sweat equity, will not get enough votes to join the Country Club, sorry, school board.  The last minute T-G newspaper whitewash of “oh my gosh, suddenly Estes Park is testing better than Harvard” is pathetic and sad.  If they improved that much during Covid, the first thing I would explore is the potential for rampant cheating. Inbreeding kills Campaigning as a “team” is pathetic and sad.  But that is what works in Estes Park, where no one gets involved except to ask Bill Pinkham how they should vote.  He just streamlined the process of voting without thinking, basically, voting on the toilet between bites of sandwich and scrolling the most recent People magazine profile.  The kids suffer, the hospital patients suffer, the smart money votes with their feet anyway.  Bill Pinkham rules over a squalid redneck empire...

We shall see.  Because Citizens For Responsive Government didn’t pay for any advertising, the T-G has yet to acknowledge a recall is underway, assigning no reporters (one) or editors (one) or publishers (one) to cover the recall, or admit it even exists.  Remember, this recall effort was undertaken at a specific time specifically to take advantage of an already scheduled town election in April 2022, so will occur at no additional cost to the taxpayers.  Democracy in action.