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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
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Political Compass
Hellchild is planning to plot the family political distribution according to Political Compass. Coyote Gulch is howling with Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama in the left-social libertarian quadrant. Click on the thumnail.
10:04:50 PM 
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Biden for President?
Just in case there happened to be anyone that mistakenly believes that the war in Iraq won't be dicussed in 2008.
Joe Biden: "There is a credibility gap, a credibility gap that exists between the rhetoric
the American people are hearing and the reality of what is happening on the ground.
That does not mean the gap cannot be closed. But absent closing that gap, the American
people are not, in my view, going to be prepared to give the President the support and
time he needs to get it right in Iraq."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
9:46:15 PM
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Wiki
The Daily Kos is organizing a wiki to munge the documents about Guantanamo Bay that were obtained by the ACLU.
This is a new way to apply the concept of "many eyes." It's helping make our government more transparent.
9:41:43 PM
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Command Posts in Skyscrapers
I just had to post this line from the AP: "Investigators probing the collapse of the World Trade Center are suggesting that rescuers responding to future emergencies in skyscrapers should not set up command posts in the lobby." Do you think they were going for the laugh?
6:34:06 PM
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Beauprez for Governor?
Colorado Luis: "Just look at Beauprez' position now. His pseudo-apology is forgotten and he is now defending his 'Mexican time' comment by saying that's a phrase Mexican tourist bureaus use to promote vacations there. Even more revealingly, he is attacking Rutt Bridges (who hit Beauprez with a good soundbite that 'stereotypes and slurs don't represent Colorado values') for failing to address Beauprez' suggestion that the U.S. cut off aid to Mexico until it accedes to the Denver D.A.'s extradition request."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:19:22 PM
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RSS for Lists
 Dave Winer: "I am pleased that Microsoft is working with the community, this is a new model for them, and it's hard for big companies to turn this kind of corner. I see that they're really trying, and I appreciate that, and welcome them.
Passing lists around with RSS is great. I would like to point out that RSS was the result of the community routing around the complex technologies in this area. Winer makes the point that he gets grouchy when people try to re-define data types that are already defined by RSS. Developers consider the public API a contract. We don't want anyone rewriting the contract at will. Dave calls it breakage.
He's open to extensions however.
We all should email Dave and thank him for not patenting his early work in this area. There's a good chance that the uptake of RSS would have been lessened if he had. It's damn fine technology.
6:07:07 PM
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Bolton
Then Denver Post editorial staff is urging President Bush to realease the information about John Bolton requested by the U.S. Senate [June 22, 2005, "Time to fish or cut bait on John Bolton"]. They write, "After three strikes, John Bolton is not quite out as President Bush's nominee as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. But the time has clearly come for the president to call the bluff of Bolton's Senate critics by releasing information they have sought about his actions. Democrats have promised an up-or-down vote after they receive that information. Bush should give them what they've asked for - it seems germane - and hold them to their word"
Category: 2004 Presidential Transition
6:18:44 AM
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Referendum C
Voters will be letting the state keep $3.7 billion in TABOR refunds if they pass Referendum C, according to the Rocky Mountain News [June 22, 2005, "Cost of budget-balancing proposal revised"]. From the article, "State economists predicted Tuesday that a budget-balancing measure on the November ballot would cost Colorado taxpayers $3.7 billion of lost TABOR refunds through 2010. That's a half-billion dollars more than earlier projections, but only because Colorado's economy is growing faster than expected. And the numbers, which usually shift with the seasons, likely will change again before the election."
Peter Blake has more on Referendums C & D in his column in today's Rocky [June 22, 2005, "Blake: 'Bundling' political cash"]. He writes, "The Vote Yes on C&D folks, who are promoting the Nov. 1 referendums loosening TABOR's grip on the state budget, reported a cash balance of $290,144 as of June 1."
Here's the coverage from the Denver Post [June 25, 2005, "Budget-fix estimates vary by $700 million"]. From the article, "For the average taxpayer, the disparities would translate to about $84 in forfeited refunds, or the difference between $491 and $407 over five years."
Category: Denver November 2005 Election
5:58:36 AM
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