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Friday, May 18, 2007
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From today's Denver post, "Conservative Christian evangelical leader James Dobson said Thursday that if Rudy Giuliani receives the Republican nomination, he may not vote in a presidential election for the first time in his life. Citing Giuliani's three marriages, an extramarital affair, and his support of gay rights and abortion rights, Dobson said that if he's forced to choose between Giuliani and Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, he will either vote for an 'also-ran' or not vote."
"2008 pres"
6:50:07 AM 
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Blogs for Bush: "Checking around the right side of the aisle, I don't find too many people happy about the proposed immigration/border security reform. The point that sticks in the throat is the fact that the 12 million or so illegals in country will be given legal status prior to their return home to re-apply for entry into the United States. The reasonable worry is that once they are legalised, all the rest of the provisions (fines, need to eventually go home for a period) will be tossed aside and we'll have de-facto amnesty, followed by 24 million more illegals flooding into the country (the previous amnesty, back in 1986, covered about 1.2 million; today's would cover ten times that number, so it is reasonable to figure that the next batch would be at least double the size of the current group)."
Elevated Voices: "Details and reaction to immigration compromise."
Colorado Luis (via SquareState): "If there is one thing Colorado Media Matters has managed to demonstrate during its first few months here, it's that racism (perhaps more accurately, white supremacy) lies at the heart of conservative misinformation in Colorado. This is what we're up against. Fight it, or cooperate with it -- you make the call."
"2008 pres"
6:41:18 AM
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Left In the West: "The thing is, distrusting power is the American way. It's the basis for our system of government and the civil liberties we enjoy. The authors of the Constitution were well aware of the abuses of power held in a single hand - they had just severed themselves from a King they thought tyrannical, and desperately wished to avoid repeating the experience of living under another despot. In fact, the Constitution was written under the assumption that those in power would attempt to agglomerate it, and that, among the safeguards to liberty, a free and independent press was necessary."
"2008 pres"
6:39:42 AM
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State regulations for runoff from oil and gas development are good to go for another 5 years, according to the Glenwood Springs Post Independent "reg". From the article, "Regulations controlling storm-water runoff from construction sites, including oil and gas well pads and roads, will stay in place, at least for another five years. The Colorado Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) held a public hearing Monday in Denver to take testimony on whether or not the regulations are working and should continue. The regulations have been a bone of contention between conservation groups and the oil and gas industry, as well as the WQCC and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. The most positive outcome of Monday's hearing was lack of opposition from the oil and gas industry to the regulations...
"The storm-water regulations took effect on June 30, 2006, and cover gas well sites of one to five acres that are under construction. Operators disturbing more than one acre of ground are now required to file a storm-water management plan with the Water Quality Control Division and obtain a discharge permit. The commission has regulated larger construction sites under a separate rule since 1992. The regulations do not apply once well pads, roads and pipelines are built, because they're covered by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Storm-water permits are used to help limit runoff of sediment when earth is disturbed by construction-related activities. 'Any time you build roads you're going to have runoff and sedimentation,' said Bob Elderkin, president of the Colorado Mule Deer Association. 'There's no way that a lot of it isn't going to land up in the river.'
"COGA and the Colorado Petroleum Association had filed a lawsuit to block the WQCC from adopting the regulations, arguing that the Energy Policy Act of 2005 makes clear that oil and gas development activities do not require federal storm-water permits, even if they are considered construction-related. They maintain that because of the federal law, states are prohibited from mandating that it obtain storm-water permits. The groups have since dropped the suit."
"colorado water"
6:03:27 AM
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