Where do you stand?

November 5, 2003

Political Compass will help you see where you stand. This is a very interesting two-dimensional analysis of positions instead of the more common one-dimensional left to right description.

Informationgate

October 16, 2003

Americans are wondering more and more where the "tons" of biological and chemical weapons that Iraq was supposed to have stockpiled are. A very disturbing story on 60 Minutes II last night suggests there are few if any.

The report adds to the list of claims that were known to be false when they were perpetrated on the US and the world. How much evidence do we have to accumulate before an independent council is called upon to investigate?

Battle to expand gambling in Colorado is costly

October 14, 2003

With several weeks to go before the election, Colorado's Amendment 33 is already setting records. The supporters of the amendment say it will provide much needed tourism funding for the state. In fact the supporters first commercials mentioned nothing about putting slot machines (euphemistically called "Video Lottery Terminals") on the Front Range. The amendment's detractors (which includes nearly every, if not every, newspaper and political party in Colorado) say the man goal is to line the pockets of London-based Wembly corporation who owns 4 of the 5 dog tracks where the slots would be located.

Crisis of one sort or another

July 1, 2003

On January 28, 2003 President George W. Bush said in the State of the Union address to Congress: "Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them."

It seems that we have a crisis. Possibly the claims were not as substantiated as they were stated to be, in which case we have a crisis of leadership. Perhaps we have a military and intelligence service that is incapable of finding hundreds of tons of hideous materials in which case we have a crisis of security. Finally the possiblity exists that our intelligence agencies are not up to the task and we have a crisis of intelligence gathering.

Three bad options.

Hart joins blogging community

May 31, 2003

This isn't really "news" as much as a topic I'd meant to touch on a while back. Gary Hart senator and former presidential candidate has joined the blogging world. It will be interesting to see how successful a high-profile politician in the real world will be in the cyber-realm. While he didn't claim to invent the internet he is one of the first high profile politicians to move to the first-person world of blogging.

Meanwhile elsewhere in political space Coyote Gulch has been keeping up on the political races in Denver.

Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten?

April 21, 2003

The Darryl Worley song Have You Forgotten? should be renamed. I'd go for "I wish I could forget," not about the tragic events of September 11, 2001. To equate those tragic events to a war on a country whose wrongs have not yet been proven and the further killing of innocent civilians is disgraceful. Mr. Worley makes a common mistake in believing that people who are against our current war don't want to take action. It is not so. It would not be so bad if one could get into the car and take a short trip without hearing this ill-guided political statement passing for a song.

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