The following story is courtesy of KUSA-TV, known locally as “9News”:
Nazi group bumped from adopted highway by Baptists
DENVER – The Colorado Department of Transportation announced on Wednesday that due to an error in processing an Adopt-A-Highway contract, will not get to adopt the stretch of highway it initially wanted.
CDOT took the full blame for a contractual processing error and apologized for the confusion, saying the Elmwood Baptist Church had already adopted the stretch of highway on US 85 from 144th Avenue to Bridge Street in Brighton.
A spokesman for CDOT says transportation officials contacted both groups and were able to reach an “amicable resolution.”
The National Socialist Movement group is now adopting a stretch of US 85 from Bridge Street to just south of 186th Avenue, according to CDOT.
Yes, we are talking about the “socialists” who wear the swastika and all that. And they get the stretch of US 85 from the heart of my town to the north end. I imagine that if they’re out doing their good deeds, visibly and in uniform, they run the risk of actually increasing the amount of trash thrown preferably directly at them out along that stretch of highway.
Actually, I feel so distant from both of those groups I wish there were a legal loophole to prevent either of them from sullying the landscape.
Hmm, you raise an interesting thought. But then there’s that whole “freedom of speech” thing getting in the way. Make no mistake, being a card carrying Libertarian, I’d much rather see this program under the auspices of private enterprise and the resulting tasks and signs going to the highest bidders.
But I’m also handicapped by being a pragmatist — to the extent that government is already running (and therefore firmly entrenched) in such things, I say we gotta follow the rule book. A case of cure being worse than the disease, methinks.
and what detergent gets grass stains out of brown shirts?
i hope that the next mile is being patrolled by convicts on work-release, hopefully of the minority persuasion…
Insom, you are a completely diabolical and impressive thinker in these areas. Thank you for that.