Liberals are Dumb as Dirt, Sometimes

This afternoon, we observed that the Aspen Daily News had something it wanted to hide. Here it is:

Send'em back to the Potato Farm

Letter to the Editor-

Mon 09/24/2007 11:01AM MST

Editor:

I wonder what part of our Constitution Senator Ken Salazar and other Republicans in drag will defile next. By denouncing MoveOn.org's ad on Gen. Betray-us, Salazar (and the other 20 Dems) show their disregard for our (anybody's) First Admendment right of free speech.

At least Mr. Salazar is consistent with his neo-fascist worldview, with past support of the Military Commissions Act (stripping of Habeas) and warrantless wiretapping.

As with brother John (Salazar) in the House, the bros have shown that they stand for the powers behind war: the military industrial complex, big oil, and the Israeli lobby, and not with we the people.

Can't wait to vote against these Bush enablers and send them back to their San Luis potato farm.

Ben Newell
Aspen

Just last week, Can't See The Center found something in the Google cache that Mark Udall was trying to hide. The word should go out. If you put it up, it can be found. You only look bad for taking it down.

Thanks to BC for the original find, for pointing out that games were being played after our post, and for finding the verbiage that might have otherwise been lost. GREAT JOB! We couldn't have done any of it without you and A.

The 700,000 Club

So, what was Carolyn Bninski and her allies doing at the offices of Mark Udall that got them in so much trouble?

Why, they were reading aloud the names of all 700,000 Iraqis killed since the invasion.

Let's see if we can put that number into perspective.

1. On average, that is about 600 Iraqis a day, every day, for four years. Just the other day, NBC made a big deal when 50 Iraqis got killed by two car bombs. That wasn't 50 per bomb. 600 a day seems a bit much.

2. If one assumes that the names are printed in two columns on a sheet of paper, that is about 250 names per sheet if both sides are used. At that rate, it would take 2800 sheets of paper just to print the names. Carolyn must have some serious muscles if she carries 2800 sheets of paper around.

3. If one assumes that the names can be read at the rate of one per second, night and day, non stop, a difficult task given the language barrier, it would take 8 days. If Bninski only scheduled three weeks of protests, it is hard to see how she could have expected to read 700,000 names.

Can't see the Center has more.