BDS Dies Hard--Aspen Bomber Kills Self, Shuts Down Town

It may be 2009, with the ascension of Barack Obama upon us, but Bush Derangement Syndrome dies hard, especially in elitist liberal enclaves like Aspen.


BDS hits Aspen

Mentally unstable, BDS-ridden, the aspiring Aspen bomber commits suicide:

A man who left bomb threats and homemade bombs around Aspen on New Year's Eve shot and killed himself in his car a few hours after his threats cleared much of the resort town, Aspen Police said.

Assistant Aspen Police Chief Bill Linn said James Chester Blanning, 72, walked into two Aspen banks Wednesday afternoon and left packages wrapped in holiday paper along with notes saying the boxes contained bombs. The notes threatened "mass death" and demanded $60,000 cash, along with criticisms of President George Bush, Linn said.

The Rocky has a scan of the full note excerpted above, as well as more anti-Bush/Cheney rhetoric in a handwritten note to the editor of the Aspen Times. Judging from reactions to the long-time resident, Blanning had been an eccentric/unstable individual for some time.

Good thing he also happened to be an incompetent bomb maker and managed to kill only himself.

VP Dick Cheney Visits Grand Junction; Protestors Arrested; Local Media "Blasted"

Vice Presidente Dick Cheney was in Grand Junction for a fundraiser with GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, but that wasn't the real story.

First the moonbats, arrested for blocking the street:



GJ Sentinel has the story:

Around noon two local members of the activist group A Voice of Reason — Mallory Rice, 20, and Jacob Richards, 27 — were arrested by the Grand Junction Police Department for failing to “walk along the roadway as required” during Vice President Dick Cheney’s visit to Grand Junction.

The day began for the two on G and 26 roads around 11 a.m.

“Then we moved down to G 1/2 Road and 26 Road and Cheney went by there,” Rice said. “We were just chanting, all of us were yelling, holding signs.”

The chants from the crowd as he passed included: “Hey-ho, Dick Cheney’s got to go!”; “U.S. out of the Middle East!”; “No justice, no peace!”; and “Jail Dick Cheney!”

From their vantage point they could see Lynne Cheney, Dick’s wife, waving politely and smiling. People across the street told Rice that the vice president was “smirking.”

“People put their red paint on their hands especially when Dick Cheney drove by,” Richards said. “There was a good crowd out there at G 1/2 and 26 — probably about 70 people.”

After the limousine passed Rice and Richards, and a band of others marched down to Beaver Lodge Lane, the street on which Cheney was attending a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer.

Rice and Richards sat down in the middle of the street with a peace sign.

After being moved to the side by police officers they attempted to resume their spot in the middle of the road, still shouting when police blocked their path.

The local children, on the other hand, enjoyed seeing the Vice President, even if only for a moment:



Local media has a "blast" as VP Cheney's plane departs (note to media, get out of the way!):



Colorado Confidential has a profile of the protestors.

Boulder To Consider Impeachment For Bush, Cheney

Not to be outdone by other "intelligent" progressive cities, the People's Republic of Boulder--and Forbes' "Smartest City" in the USA--is set to consider a resolution calling for--wait for it--the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney:

Boulder's elected leaders are expected to decide next week whether to draft and vote on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

For the past few weeks, activists have been showing up at Boulder City Council meetings, carrying signs, handing out "impeach" pins and asking City Council members to take up such a resolution. Similar measures have passed in cities across the country, including Detroit and Telluride.

Liz Robinson, one of the organizers of the effort, said people hoping to see impeachment proceedings have given congressional Democrats — who won a majority in the fall of 2006 — plenty of time to act.

But since they haven't, she said, locally elected officials should take up the slack.

"Whether or not it's the city's business directly, like potholes, I feel this affects all of us," she said. "We're the ones who are paying the taxes to support this administration's depredations, especially the war."

While such a resolution means very little outside of the People's Republic it will, however, allow the moonbats to be put "on record":

Impeachment proceedings would be worth doing even if they only put the last few months of Bush's eight years in office at risk, Robinson said.

"We need to send a message that this all matters to us, whether it's last-minute or not," she said.

Last year, Telluride voted for impeachment, but liberal Aspen's City Council had better things to do with their time. At least one Boulder City Council member agreed:

But City Councilman Ken Wilson said he's not on board. During a recent retreat, the City Council agreed to priorities ranging from fixing structural problems in the budget to doing better land-use planning.

That doesn't leave much time for issues over which the city doesn't have direct jurisdiction, he said.

"We did not identify national issues as a priority for work by council and staff. We are already seeing scheduling problems trying to address our priorities and the immediate needs of the city," he said. "Hours spent discussing national issues will reduce the amount of time we can spend on city issues."

Peace Rally In Denver; Moonbats At The World Series

This past Saturday I joined Drunkablog at the state capitol (excellent pictures at the link--including more Mercedes owners for peace) to soak in more liberal moonbattery and here are some highlights of the anti-war shindig (and hey, they managed to attract more than a couple dozen this time!):

Some video captured by the moonbats:



Photos from the rally (scroll for moonbat pics from World Series Game 3 at Coors Field):


Ron Paul's supporters seem to be everywhere these days


Flags of fury


Continuing the non-viable candidate theme, there was a smattering of Kucinich supporters as well


Democrats were under attack


Some moonbat anti-war profiteering


I'm sure every rally participant walked or biked to the event


That's so 2002!


Ward Churchill makes a literary appearance


Follow the incoherence, Democrats!


I'm sure they'd love us back . . . just like 9/11!


Everyone's a fascist according to the totalitarian moonbats


Progressivism isn't healthy, or hygienic


Some brave souls who wouldn't let the moonbats go unanswered

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Denver was the center of the baseball universe this weekend, and the moonbats are like moths to the flame wherever cameras are found


Boston's sweep was an inside job!


The Paulians were at Coors Field for all the postseason games

Colorado "Impeach Bush" Moonbats Explain Motives

From Glenwood Springs--it's all about oil, and Bush's neocon cronies:



Controversial, or just lame?

Sue Gray organizer of the Glenwood rally was disappointed in the turn-out, but not really surprised that the local media shied away from releasing her press releases.

"Even the local community radio said it was too political," Gray related. "Supporting the impeachment of a president is a controversial subject," she admitted.

Gray had never been involved with peace demonstrations until 9/11. "After Sept. 11, 2001 it changed everything in my life," she said.

Colorado's mountain moonbat communities are split on the subject of impeachment--Telluride is going forward, Aspen has better things to do.

Telluride Moonbats Vote To Impeach Bush; Aspen Has Better Things To Do

Telluride's moonbats are an inclusive bunch:

"Telluride is today, and always has been through history, a very open and accepting place," said Scott McQuade, director of the Telluride Tourism Board.

Except for conservatives and members of the GOP, that is. Earlier this week they made headlines in their quest to join the ranks of similarly-minded BDS-afflicted moonbatopias.

Telluride joins predictable places such as San Francisco, West Hollywood and Berkeley in California and less well- known politically outspoken bergs like Marlboro, Vt., and Chapel Hill, N.C., in voting for impeachment.

Telluride would have been the second municipality in Colorado to do so, but the Nederland Town Board last year voted down a measure that would have urged their congressman to introduce an impeachment measure.

Telluride is a fitting place to be first in the state It's an independent-minded historic-mining-town-turned-resort without a single Republican in office. Democrats, Libertarians and Green Party members fill every elected chair.

But while Telluride seems to lack other pressing issues, nearby liberal hangout Aspen doesn't have time to waste on petty symbolic votes, no matter how popular:

There are hundreds of issues local officials want to address in Aspen.

Impeaching President Bush and Dick Cheney isn’t one of them.

It appears Aspen resident Sy Coleman’s request to have the Aspen City Council join a growing list of governments in officially calling for an impeachment will not be considered.

The request came Monday, with Coleman pointing to several cities throughout America that have passed resolutions calling for throwing Bush and Cheney out of office.

The Telluride Town Council is the latest, and the first community in Colorado, to join the list. Council members recently voted 6-1 for such a resolution. If the measure survives a second reading Aug. 7, it would become the town’s official position.

It doesn’t appear that will be the case in Aspen, where local leaders said they’ve got too much on their plate to concern themselves with such a politically charged national issue.

“People didn’t elect me to take a position on this,” said City Councilman Jack Johnson. “It is very difficult to take time away from what is important to us.”

If city government were to consider backing an impeachment effort, significant public input would have to come first, including public hearings.

“We don’t have time for that,” Johnson said, adding that if Coleman presented a petition with hundreds of residents’ signatures asking for a resolution, he would have to consider it.

City Councilman Dwayne Romero agreed that a national issue of that proportion doesn’t have a place in Aspen politics.

“It’s noble, but for the here and now, I’d like to take care of our own set of issues,” he said.

No time for tilting at windmills in Aspen, even though one councilman agrees that impeachment is a "noble" gesture.

Telluride Moonbats Vote For Impeachment

George W. Bush is not my favorite person right now (on immigration alone), but Telluride's resident moonbats have moved a bit beyond their pay grade (and intellectual level, for that matter):

The backlash the Telluride Town Council has received following its recent call for the impeachment of President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, is nothing new, according to council members.

Town Council member Andrea Benda said the city has received numerous letters deriding the council’s action, but people don’t understand that the vote wasn’t about impeachment, but about a citizens’ initiative.

“In our home-rule municipality, when citizens initiate an ordinance, we have to adopt an ordinance or put it on the ballot,” she said. “The one choice we don’t have is to say no.”

The ordinance was initiated by Thom Carnevale, Bernice Garber and Peggy Sue Richards, who gathered about 100 signatures so it would go before the town council.

The council approved the ordinance by a 6-1 vote last week at first reading and will have a second reading for final approval Aug. 7, Benda said.

So any moron with a crazy idea and 100 signatures is automatically approved? I like the Colorado Index's suggestion.

The fact that citizens came up with the ordinance to reflect their views is what makes Telluride great, she said.

“Telluride has always been a hotbed and has a long history of contentiousness,” Benda said. “Folks here feel free enough to stand up and say what’s on their minds, no matter what it is, and it’s nothing new to have the outside world not understand it … It makes me proud to live here.”

Since Telluride’s voters are mostly liberals, with a 5-to-1 ratio over conservatives, Benda said, she felt the resolution would have passed easily in November.

“This is an election year, with two council seats vacant, and I did not think it was necessary to have this issue part of our local political campaigning,” she said.

Scott McQuade, CEO of the Telluride Tourism Board, said he has gotten some angry e-mails about the council vote, but he didn’t take them to heart.

“Telluride is no stranger to controversy … and I don’t foresee this being a major issue,” he said. “In some ways it is a strength about our community, but certainly some people don’t agree with the measure.”

McQuade said he doesn’t think the resolution to impeach will hurt tourism in the ski town any more than objections to events such as Gay Ski Week, held Feb. 24 to March 4 this year.

And if the resolution keeps some ultra-conservative types away, so be it, Benda said.

“If people don’t like who we are, we don’t want them to come here and be disappointed,” she said.

Isn't that a little non-inclusive? We wouldn't want Telluride to lose its moonbat credentials, now, would we? Keeping those "ultra-conservative types away" with moonbattery--what a splendid form of discrimination.

Morons.

They aren't the only ones Telluride's moonbats are keeping away:

“It’s huge, unbelievable,” said Telluride Mayor John Pryor. “Ski groups are canceling for the winter. Hundreds of people are bailing. The (town) Web site is flooded with people saying they’re canceling their vacations here.”

Pryor called it a “silly initiative.” The council, he told The Telluride Watch, is too busy to weigh in on national global politics.

Oops!

Not every moonbat is displeased, with one declaring, “Let ‘em go to Vail."

Blog Sweep 6-26-07

Ben DeGrow--GOP: Tempering Confidence with Patience in '08 and '10

The Drunkablog--Paul Campos considers blogging, trashes Ann Althouse

XDA--Drawing a Moral Line over Stem Cells

PPH--On Not Being GOP Cheerleaders--as we say here, "Supporting party above principle does a disservice to both"

Colorado Confidential--Journalists are mostly liberal[!], but the critics' bias is worse, and besides, journalists are more informed (conservatives are stupid and uninformed) and simply moved by the stories they cover

And if you care, there will be an impeachment rally Wednesday in Denver