aspendailynews.com - 1/2/2009
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“May Bob help to understand it all,” wrote Jim Blanning on the note he dropped off at The Aspen Times on New Year’s Eve between 7:02 p.m. and 7:45 p.m., about seven hours before shooting himself in the head. Blanning was referring to Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis. His scrawled note was ...
driftglass.blogspot.com - 12/29/2008
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As a public service, I thought you should
be made aware of a tiny flaw in your...
normally-reliable column. Hardly worth mentioning, really. See if you can spot it. "Stop Being Stupid" I’ve got a new year’s resolution and a new slogan for the ...
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Dear Bob Herbert,
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A Fuller Picture of Aspen's Jim Blanning
TalkLeft —
... In one of Jim Blanning's notes that he left at the Aspen Times after dropping off packages with homemade bombs at two banks on the afternoon of News Years Eve, he wrote “May Bob [Sheriff Braudis]help to understand it all.” In an interview with the Aspen Daily News, Braudis explains Blanning. He was mostly a man obsessed with mining claims. ...
The problem of blame shifting and lack of accountability
QandO —
... AFTER WE ARE FULLY CLEAR AND KNOW FOR SURE ALL HAS GONE WELL. F—- THE WHOLE WORLD, ALREADY.His last sentence sort of says it all doesn’t it? In reality he was just a common criminal trying to shift blame (unsurprisingly to Bush) and the spotlight from his crude attempt at extortion: PUT $60,000 IN USED $100s IN THE WHITE BOX. ANY DYES, TRACKERS, OR OTHER BULLS—-T WILL CAUSE DISASTER TO ALL.Of course, I’d bet Blanning also blamed Bush for this: According to the Denver Post, Blanning was ...
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Bomb Threats Shut Down Aspen on New Year's Eve
talkleft.com 1/1/2009 — One of the biggest nights of the year in Aspen is New Year's. Not this year. Police evacuated downtown -- 16 blocks in all -- because someone, possibly this 71 year old man dropped off two suspicious packages with threats inside. Police identify the man in the photo as Jim Blanning of Denver ...
Another Moonbat Goes Off the Rails —
Moonbattery
Evidence continues to accrue that moonbattery and mental health do not go hand in hand. From a note written by Jim Blanning, before he shut down Aspen by delivering gasoline bombs to local banks and then blew out whatever served him as brains:
DO NOT F*CK WITH US OR THERE WILL BE MASS DEATH ...
Bush Derangement Syndrome In Aspen —
Sound Politics
Here's the story. After delivering a series of crude gasoline bombs to two Aspen banks and bringing life in the ski town to a virtual halt, after promising a "horrible price in blood," Jim Blanning drove out of town, parked...
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