FIRST, DENVER FORCED WOLF REINTRODUCTION IN COLORAD’S RURAL AREAS. THEN THE INEVITABLE HAPPENED, AS IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO DO: Another calf death reported at ranch where 4 cattle were killed by wolves.

“We’ve got to keep up the pressure,” Ritschard said. “That’s all we can do right now, putting pressure towards CPW, but I don’t know. I really don’t know where we go now.”

Ritschard said the ranch where the most recent kill occurred is going to continue trying nonlethal methods to prevent attacks.

“How many more are we going to have until something’s done?” he asked. “Are we gonna have a yearling, or two yearlings, killed every 10 days?”

A map released Wednesday by CPW shows that gray wolves have crossed into watersheds east of the Continental Divide and onto the Front Range.

“They’ve still been in the area, and we’ve still been seeing them at night,” Ritschard said.

The new CPW map shows collared wolf activity between March 26 and April 23. The map shows that over the past month, at least one wolf with a GPS collar traveled in watersheds in Larimer County.

CPW also said on Wednesday that it has launched a website for wolf depredation reports to keep the public informed about confirmed livestock deaths by wolves.
CPW confirmed the latest cattle death Sunday evening on its website. The agency did not respond to 9NEWS’ questions.

Wolves have now killed six cattle in Grand County this month.

“At the rate this is going, there isn’t going to be any livestock left in this country,” Ritschard said.

Denver-Boulder Democrats don’t care what happens to the livestock, so long as the ranchers are eventually driven out.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Would You Like a Little State Propaganda with Your Amateur Pr0n? “I think they just wanted some edgy girl of color to just tell people – when they nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, they’re like, ‘Can you say as a person of color, you know, you feel reflected?'”

READER FAVORITE: Where Should We Camp Next?: Budget Camping: A 50-State Guide to Budget-Friendly Campgrounds and Free and Low-Cost Outdoor Activities. #CommissionEarned

WOEING: Boeing is borrowing $10 billion as it burns cash fixing its issues.

In March, Boeing CFO Brian West warned investors that fixing his company’s problems would be expensive. He wasn’t kidding: When Boeing presented earnings last week, it reported burning through nearly $4 billion in cash.

Bloomberg reports that there was nearly $80 billion in demand for the debt, which helped Boeing get a better interest rate. Both Moody’s and S&P have Boeing just a notch away from a speculative-grade (or “junk”) credit rating, which would substantially reduce the pool of money that would be allowed to purchase its bonds and notes. Moody’s reiterated its wariness in the rating it put on the new borrowings, giving the notes a “Baa3″ rating, also one step above speculative-territory.

“The negative outlook incorporates Moody’s view that the headwinds buffeting Commercial Airplanes will persist at least through 2026,” the firm said in a note explaining the rating for Boeing’s latest debt offerings. “The path to restoring compliance, higher quality and strong cash flow in its commercial aircraft assembly operations remains fraught with execution risk.”

The engineers need to be back in charge again but the Commercial Airplanes division’s new CEO is finance specialist Stephanie Pope.

PAYING THE PRICE FOR BIGOTRY: New York City to pay over $2 million settlement for discrimination against white educators.

SADLY, THE LEFT STILL CAN’T MEME: You Love to See It: Left Goes Memes-Out Against ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden.

GOOD FOR THEM: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jewish ASU frat boys speak out after viral video shows them helping cops throw away Gaza Glampers’ tents: “It’s our duty to help keep our freedoms secure. Jews should not have to feel threatened to hide on campus, when they call for ‘Jewish genocide’ the answer was extremely clear: help the police.”

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Can Turning Office Towers Into Apartments Save Downtowns? “Early in the conversion process, Berman’s construction team removed the fluorescent-tube lighting and the dropped PVC ceilings. Then workers knocked down the drywall that had once delineated corner offices, windowless offices, rest rooms, mop closets. “We do a very thorough gut renovation,” Berman told me. “We literally take everything out.” At 55 Broad, the result was nearly four hundred thousand square feet of raw space, with a potential to generate more than thirty million dollars in rental income annually. But Berman still had a major puzzle to solve: If no one wanted to work in a glum, out-of-date building, why would anyone want to live there?”

Conversions are expensive, time-consuming, and by themselves don’t do anything to address the policy decisions driving people away from Democrat-run urban centers.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Woke Scolds Won’t Be Able to Cancel Jerry Seinfeld. “Comedy has been under assault from the Left for quite a while now. There are a variety of reasons for that, a couple of which we’ll get to here. Chief among them, of course, is the fact that leftists are inherently miserable people who abhor levity. Oh, they’ll insist that isn’t the case, but they’ve got a rather large body of work out there to reference.”

LOOKING FOR A CRIMINAL/DUI LAWYER IN THE CHATTANOOGA/NORTH GEORGIA AREA? You can’t do better than my former student Meredith Mochel, criminal lawyer extraordinaire, who also serves as this blog’s Contributing Tik Tok Editor, which means that she follows Tik Tok so that I don’t have to, and shares clips with me that might interest other InstaPundit readers. I was speaking down her way a few years ago and I asked the public defender if he knew her and he responded that she had taken over a murder case from their office and done a truly amazing job. I was like well of course, she was my student. Helen and I get together with her from time to time, and it’s always fun to hear those two doing a deep dive on criminal forensics.

Her office is dog friendly, too.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

BREAKING: 43% of small businesses were unable to pay their rent in full in April due to economic headwinds.

That’s the highest rent delinquency rate since March 2021, per Bloomberg.

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 29, 2024

More:

Independent restaurants are having the most trouble, with 52% not paying April rent on time. On the other hand, just 20% of small manufacturers are delinquent.

More than half of small-business owners say that their rents are higher now than they were six months ago. Of those, 11% are paying at least 20% more than they did last fall.

Alignable found that fewer than a third of businesses founded prior to March 2020 are earning as much or more each month than they did before the pandemic. And among firms founded after the pandemic, 60% are making less than they did a year ago.

Bidenomics is working.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Notes on the Asylum Where I Was Raised: In Which I Visit the Harvard Protests, Among Other Things.

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THE ENEMY WITHIN: K-12 ‘Action Civics’ Trained Students Encamped on College Campuses. Here’s What Parents Need to Know.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: 10Ft Extension Cord with Multiple Outlets, Flat Plug Power Strip Surge Protector. #CommissionEarned

I’D SETTLE FOR JUST ONCE — AND SOON: Outlaw Joe Biden Wants Us to Believe That He Has Been Arrested At Least Twice.

OF COURSE: Biden Civil Rights Chief To Speak at Columbia Law Commencement Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal.

CORN, POPPED: A Massive Scandal Is Brewing in Los Angeles After DA George Gascon’s Number 3 Is Charged With 11 Felonies.

Unlike many alleged felons in Los Angeles County, the Diana Teran scandal has the potential to topple the county’s power structure, or to put a severe dent in it.

That potential exists because of the sheer volume of personnel and criminal cases Teran was involved with that might now be challenged in court, and because her actions at issue in the criminal case allegedly involve coordination with high-ranking county officials, such as Inspector General Max Huntsman, District Attorney George Gascón, and current and former members of the county Board of Supervisors.

According to a press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Teran “accessed computer data including numerous confidential peace officer files in 2018, while working as a Constitutional Policing Advisor at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and, after joining the LADA in January 2021, impermissibly used that data at the LADA.”

That sounds rather vanilla, but additional details on what Teran is alleged to have done demonstrate that there’s nothing vanilla about it at all. It’s more convoluted than any script Hollywood could come up with.

Read the whole thing.

BLUE ON BLUE: ‘Blood Libel’: ADL Rips Ilhan Omar for Calling Jewish Students ‘Pro-Genocide.’ Of course, ADL has stood idly by — or cheered — while so many other people have been similarly smeared by lefty politicians. It’s not like they’re against all defamation.

DO THE LETTERS “F O” MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? Shocking moment pro-Palestine protester tells counter-demonstrator ‘You’re just a white person, we don’t like white people’ at UCLA.

Oh, we know.

THEY’RE COSPLAYING A REVOLUTION:

Moral authority only inheres to those actually willing to risk their future for deeply held beliefs. Only pretending to risk mocks those who did.

This is a form of stolen valor.https://t.co/poNHP7Pir5

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 28, 2024

HAHA: “Mastectomies for cancer patients but not for trans women? Don’t they mean mastectomies for cancer patients but not for trans men?! The Washington Post is having trouble keeping up, just like the people it looks down on.”

FROM THE BIRTHPLACE OF ENGLISH LIBERTY: Iranian Arrested in UK for Calling Hamas ‘Terrorist’ Praises Israel, Jews.

JESSE SINGAL: So Columbia Really Screwed This Up, Huh? Plus some other thoughts on the protests, including the anti-Semitism debate.

WHAT ABOUT? The problem of evil. How can evil — like, just to cite one obvious example, the October 7 Massacre of 1,200 Israelis — happen if an all-powerful, all-good God exists? Cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace takes on that challenge this morning on HillFaith.

WHY DID THEY HAVE TO CALL IT “OPERATION MINCEMEAT”?:  On this day in 1943, a British submarine surfaced off the coast of Spain.  As the captain read the 39^th Psalm, the body of a Welsh homeless man, dressed up to appear to be a military courier, was gently cast adrift.

It was all part of an audacious plan.  Attached to the body was a briefcase containing documents—false ones—that suggested that the Allies would soon be invading Greece and Sardinia and that the upcoming attack on Sicily was merely a diversion.  In fact, the real Allied invasion was going to be Sicily.

The hope was that the body would wash ashore and that the Spanish authorities would assume that the man had been the victim of an air crash.  With luck, they would deliver the documents to German intelligence, and the Germans would be fooled into shifting reinforcements to Greece and Sardinia. Sicily would be left relatively undefended.

The British worked hard to make the whole thing seem believable.  The body was given the name Captain (Acting Major) William Martin.  He carried a wallet with a photograph of a fictitious girlfriend “Pam”.  Also in the wallet were two love letters from “Pam,” a receipt for the purchase of a diamond engagement ring, and a notice of overdraft from a bank.  The overdraft notice was a nice touch.

The scheme worked.  The Germans did indeed beef up their positions in Greece and Sardinia at the expense of Sicily.  The Allied attack on Sicily was no picnic, but in the absence of Operation Mincemeat, it would have been a lot worse.

And, of course, they made a movie out of it.  How could they not?  The 1956 thriller starred Clifton Webb and was given a wonderful title–The Man Who Never Was. (This had also been the title of the book written about the operation by Ewen Montagu, who had played a leading role in the scheme.)  I just love that title.

Here’s the part I can’t understand.  In 2021, Warner Bros. did a new movie about Operation Mincemeat, which they named … Operation Mincemeat.  What?  Shouldn’t they have come up with a better title?

A few years back, the BBC did a documentary about the operation, which is available on YouTube.  Some of the players are interviewed in it—including “Pam” (or rather the woman in the picture).  I recommend it.