Good day Colorado KOS readers. Hope you all had a wonderful Colorado Day weekend. Let’s take a look at what’s “news worthy” this Monday morning: Record breaking distance running on a treadmill. If you’re inclined to question why someone would want to “race” up and down Colorado’s 14K peaks as fast as possible, then you’ve really got to wonder about spending 12 hours on a treadmill. But someone at DU up and spent 12 hours running on a treadmill at the Ritchie Center and racked up the equivalent of 81-point-62 miles to beat the record of a “friend” of 80-point-53 miles. There are things and people more absurd than artists. Running for 12 hours to go nowhere? Yes, when I was a runner, I usually ended up where I started, but I always got to enjoy a changing scene along the way. This guy never moved forward more than a foot for the entire 12 hours.
I read over the weekend that the Imam Klingenschmidt had issued a fatwa that all gay Boy Scout leaders should be assassinated. And this was not just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill suicide bombing on sight sort of fatwa. Nope, not our Family First Values Ayatolla Klingenschmidt. This is a drown them with a mill stone around their neck fatwa. Seems to me that Ayatolla Klingenschmidt needs to spend some time on the treadmill contemplating the irony of his fatwa. Here is a Imam who would have us believe that he’s a prophet for the God who advised “turning the other cheek” and that the greatest commandment was to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
And while I’m on irony, there is an ironic letter to the editors of the Denver Post purporting to be about government irony. The author notes that while the Department of Ag is boasting about giving free meals and food stamps to 46-million people, the same department’s National Park Service is discouraging people from feeding “wild” animals because “We the People” (aka the government) don’t want the animals to become dependent on the free handouts of food. Mr. Firebaugh finds this ironic. Has he considered that these wild animals which aren’t dependent upon handouts are out and about in the woods killing and eating each other, whereas the far fewer of the 46-million people getting food stamps and free meals are out self sufficiently killing people who have money in order to steal it and buy the food they want and need. There’s an irony there, I’m not certain that it’s the one Mr. Firebaugh believes he’s pointing out.
