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  Friday, July 7, 2006


Bill Richardson is polling well in New Mexico in his quest to stay at the helm there, according to the Western Democrat, (Rasmussen Reports 6/27/06), Bill Richardson (D) 56%, John Dendahl (R) 32%." The New Mexico governor is a crowd favorite out here in the west. Many hope that he'll be the Democratic party nominee for 2008.

"2008 pres"
6:10:45 PM    


Tammy Sloulin (via the Helena Independent Record): "Why I quit teaching and joined the Army."

Thanks to Left in the West for the link.

"2008 pres"
5:54:17 PM    


Western wildfires are increasing in frequency, size and destructiveness and may be a result of global warming according to this article from the Denver Post. They write, "Rising temperatures throughout the West have stoked an increase in large wildfires over the past 34 years as spring comes earlier, mountain snows melt sooner and forests dry to tinder, scientists reported Thursday. More than land-use changes or forest- management practices, the researchers concluded, the changing climate was the most important factor driving a quadrupling in the average number of large wildfires in the Western U.S. since 1970. All told, the average fire season has grown more than two months longer, while fires have become more frequent, longer-burning and harder to extinguish. They destroy 6.5 times more land than in the 1970s, the researchers found. Last year was the worst wildfire season on record, with more than 8.53 million acres burned nationwide by the end of December. This year, more than 60,000 wildfires have charred almost 3.9 million acres - twice the number of fires during the same period last year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho...

"Rising average temperatures are worsening the regional pattern of annual wildfires. The scientists found that climate change magnified a regional pattern of natural disaster that every year costs more than $1 billion in federal firefighting expenses and untold property damage...

"Average spring and summer temperatures in the West were more than 1.5 degrees higher between 1987 and 2003 than during the previous 17 years. In fact, the seasonal temperatures were the highest since record-keeping started in 1895, the researchers said. They reported that almost seven times as much forested federal land burned between 1987 and 2003 as during the previous 17 years. During the same period, the length of the wildfire season increased by 78 days. The average time between when a fire was discovered and it could be extinguished also lengthened - from 7.8 days to 37.1 days. The impact of rising temperatures on wildfires seemed most profound in the forests of the northern Rockies, which accounted for 60 percent of the blazes from 1987 to 2003, and least pronounced in arid Southern California, the researchers said."

"2008 pres"
6:55:04 AM    


Here's an article about Aztlan and immigration from the Los Angeles Times. From the article, "In the churning debate over immigration, there are perhaps no words as loaded or controversial as Aztlan, the name of the mythical Aztec homeland. For many it carries potent political overtones, for others it is a romantic ideal, and to those most opposed to illegal immigration it represents a strategic effort to reclaim land that was once part of Mexico...

"In Aztec folklore, Aztlan was believed to have been in northern Mexico, possibly along the western coast. Other accounts put it farther north, perhaps in what is now Arizona, Colorado or New Mexico. During the Chicano rights movement of the 1960s, Aztlan became a powerful rallying cry for militants who spoke of a reconquista, or reconquest, of the U.S. Southwest, turning it into an independent homeland for Latinos."

"2008 pres"
6:14:40 AM    



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