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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
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Justice Center
MakesMeRalph: "Salazar is coming out for the pro-Denver jail side. Now all of us against the PATRIOT act have something to look forward to when Denver cops finish using nightsticks on us."
7:54:23 PM 
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Chicken
 The Moderate Voice: "Playing chicken with OUR government."
Media Matters: "MSNBC host Keith Olbermann noted that the Family Research Council (FRC), which is currently campaigning to stop filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees by Senate Democrats, was quite vocal in the late 1990s in defending the right to filibuster another presidential nominee, James C. Hormel, who was nominated by President Clinton as ambassador to Luxembourg."
Political Wire: 'Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), "in a rare news conference conducted on the Senate floor, said he would not accept any deal that keeps his Republican majority from confirming judicial nominees that have been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee,' the AP reports."
Bull Moose: "You have to feel sorry for Reverend Bill Frist, M.D. (Faith-healer - TN). He genuflects before the religious right on 'Justice Sunday' and all he achieves is getting his pants dirty. But as is said in John 4:22 - 'When ye takes the path to pandering, there are no detours', or something like that."
Blogs for Bush: "Senate Democrats have made a sudden shift in tactics over judicial filibusters. It is no coincidence that just as it is reported that Republicans have the votes to ban judicial filibusters that the Democrats suddenly want to compromise."
Category: 2004 Presidential Transition
7:37:10 PM
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Conservatism
The Bull Moose is reporting on conservatism in U.S. politics. He writes, "The Moose observes that conservatives appear dazed and confused."
All conservatives are welcome here at Coyote Gulch. We're all about making a home for the "dazed and confused." 
7:07:26 AM
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Justice Center and Gulchies
Still undecided about the new Justice Center? Here's some background from the Denver Post [April 26, 2005, "Sides doing the hard sell on jail vote"]. From the article, "ease crowding in the city's jail without raising taxpayers' net burden. Opponents say taxpayers would rather pay for other pressing needs, such as schools. The opposition campaign, Citizens for Responsible Spending, stoked the issue last week in a press conference decrying the jail expansion amid job cuts and school closures by Denver Public Schools. A press release publicizing the event chastised the city's 'upside-down priorities' of funding a new jail but closing schools."
Coyote Gulch will announce the winner(s) of the Gulchies for the May election next Tuesday.
Category: Denver May 2005 Election
6:52:53 AM
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Draft Hickenlooper
People are wondering who is behind the Draft Hick(enlooper) website, according to the Rocky Mountain News [April 26, 2005, "'Draft Hick' hits Web"].
A quick "whois" search of the domain name by Coyote Gulch didn't reveal much. Apple's whois turned up, "Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC." The whois tool in Radio Userland shows, "Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc., DomainsByProxy.com, 15511 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353, Scottsdale, Arizona 85260."
Coyote Gulch suspects at least one fellow North Denver resident but ...
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:28:46 AM
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Salazar and the Dems
U.S. Senator Ken Salazar is making up some ground he lost with the liberals in his party with his recent stand on judicial nominees, according to the Denver Post [April 26, 2005, "Salazar wins points in filibuster tussle"]. From the article, "Salazar was booed by many at Colorado's March 5 Democratic State Central Committee meeting for a series of aisle-crossing votes that set the tone for his first months in office. He endorsed Bush's nominations of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, along with legislation making it tougher for people to use bankruptcy to get out of debt."
Mike Littwin weighs in on the flap over filibusters in his column in today's Rocky Mountain News [April 26, 2005, "Littwin: Key issue for Dobson goes beyond the filibuster"]. He writes, "No matter how it's framed, the filibuster is hardly a moral issue. The filibuster has been used by both parties, and for both good and ill. In the past, particularly in the Clinton years, Republican senators have held up judicial nominations without the filibuster. If they had to use it, though, as they did back in 1968 to stop Abe Fortas from becoming chief justice of the Supreme Court, they would. This isn't simply a question of whether you need 60 votes or 50. And it's not simply a political showdown. The stakes are far higher. The real issue is tolerance. And this is where you may have seen Dobson overreach." Ahhh tolerance ...
Ed Quillen takes on the premises of "Justice Sunday" kids in his column in today's Denver Post [April 26, 2005, "Justice Sunday belies its name"]. He writes, "They say that Senate Democrats are blocking votes on nominations for federal judgeships because those nominees are 'people of faith.' It follows, then, that the nominations which did get through must be those for 'people of no faith,' since they were acceptable to the faith-blockers who would have otherwise used the rules of the Senate to halt the nomination. Now note that of the 215 judicial nominations made by President Bush, 205 have been confirmed by the Senate. This means that 95 percent of the time, Bush must have proposed a faithless judicial nominee - an agnostic, an atheist, a humanist, who knows? Why weren't they railing against the president if they think it's so important to have federal judges who are 'people of faith'?" Ahhhh logic...
Category: 2004 Presidential Transition
6:18:02 AM
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Chatfield Reservoir
In the never ending search for water supplies Front Range communities are hoping to use Chatfield Reservoir for storage, according to the Rocky Mountain News [April 26, "Chatfield's water may toil harder"]. From the article, "Completed in 1977 by the Army Corps of Engineers, Chatfield was originally built to control flooding by capturing the roaring waters of the South Platte River and Plum Creek during periods of high flows. Its other mission was to help keep metro Denver residents cool and happy during Colorado's sometimes blistering summers. Now, to make room for water needed by such fast-growing communities as Castle Rock, Parker, Highlands Ranch and Brighton, the Corps of Engineers is being asked to slightly reduce the amount of space it reserves to capture flood waters, allowing that same space to be used for municipal water storage. If the corps agrees, it means 20,600 acre-feet of storage space - enough for more than 41,000 urban families - will be created almost overnight. A final decision is expected in 22 months. The Colorado Water Conservation Board, which is spearheading the project, believes that the reservoir's giant storage pool can be safely rearranged."
Category: Colorado Water
6:08:13 AM
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Official: No WMD
The search for weapons of mass destruction is Iraq is over, according to the AP via the Rocky Mountain News [April 26, 2005, "Weapons inspector ends WMD search in Iraq"]. From the article, "Wrapping up his investigation into Saddam Hussein's purported arsenal, the CIA's top weapons hunter in Iraq said his search for weapons of mass destruction "has been exhausted" without finding any. Nor did he find any evidence that such weapons were shipped officially from Iraq to Syria to be hidden before the U.S. invasion, but he couldn't rule out some unofficial transfer of limited WMD-related materials. He closed his effort with words of caution about potential future threats and careful assessment of this and other unanswered questions. The Bush administration justified its 2003 invasion of Iraq as necessary to eliminate Hussein's purported stockpile of WMD."
Yesterday, the U.S. deaths stood at 1,573. And the President still wonders why so much of the country questions his wisdom, decision making and motivations.
6:01:13 AM
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