A potential dam breach that has been likened to the 1976 Teton Dam disaster is threatening the town of Leadville Co. and communities downstream the Denver Post reported yesterday.

More than 1 billion gallons of water—enough to fill 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools—is backed up in abandoned mine shafts and a drainage tunnel in the mountains above Leadville, and officials worry it could blow out and cascade through the historic town when the heavy snowpack melts.

A partial collapse of the 2.1-mile tunnel created the pooling of water. The tunnel normally drains water that seeps into some of the hundreds of abandoned mine shafts and other mine workings in the mountains north of Leadville and deposits it into the East Fork of the Arkansas River about a mile north of town.

OK  I can't believe this. But a highly recommended diary on Kos is based on a blogpost by right wing WaPo columnist Shalaigh Murray and not one commenter notices this? The post received 250 tips for heaven's sake.

I am not saying whether the assertion that Kennedy "expressed those frustrations directly to the campaign but was reportedly infuriated when Bill Clinton yesterday compared Obama's South Carolina victory to Jesse Jackson winning the state's much smaller caucuses in 1984 and 1988" is true or not. But I do question the source and that a "Control f" search of the comments received zero hits on Murray.

Come on people. We are better than that. Posters, find and cite reputable sources, not wingnuts. Commenters, keep the posters honest, no matter how you feel about the subject matter or which candidate you endorse.

Remember she is The Devil

Please let me know if this has been posted before and I will delete.

OK I've been listening to Ed Schultz roll over for right wing propaganda in the last 20 minutes of his program and listening the news reports repeating the right wings claim that "Clinton fired 93 attorneys"

By now, we all know the US attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president and that it is traditional for a president to appoint new US Attorneys at the beginning of the term. But no one is mentioning Bush's dismissals.

It took me about 3 minutes to find this announcement by the administration in 2001.

If you don't have an Amazon account. you can contact the American Red Cross. (below the fold)

In a column today Ollie North accuses the "media elites" of ignoring the story of a heroic Marine who died in Iraq in favor of the story of a sailor who refused to deploy.

Such a liar. So out of touch.

But it serves as a good reminder to Colorado voters

Bring an ID OR Vote Early

Bring ID
to the polling place:

If you want to be insured that your vote counts on November 2, 2004; don't forget to bring one of the following forms of ID with you to your polling place:

    * Colorado 's driver license;
    * Medicare/Medicaid card;
    * A utility bill that shows your name and address;
    * A military or other government issued ID

We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That's becoming real life
But when mislead who knows a person's mind
Can turn as cold as ice...

Today the words are still powerful, if not prophetic.

In today's NY Times column.Brooksie tells it like it is.

...When you see that our enemies are primarily an intellectual movement, not a terrorist army, you see why they are in no hurry. With their extensive indoctrination infrastructure of madrassas and mosques, they're still building strength, laying the groundwork for decades of struggle. Their time horizon can be totally different from our own.

As an ideological movement rather than a national or military one, they can play by different rules. There is no territory they must protect. They never have to win a battle but can instead profit in the realm of public opinion from the glorious martyrdom entailed in their defeats. We think the struggle is fought on the ground, but they know the struggle is really fought on satellite TV, and they are far more sophisticated than we are in using it. ...

Now if he'll only come out and say what those who were against the Iraq adventure have been saying. That after invading Afghanistan, the US should have gone after AQ and mounted an ideological campaign to win the hearts and minds of Muslim moderates rather than alienating them.

Except for what I take to be an unwarranted swipe at Juan Cole. I agree with what Brooksie says.

And have a happy Fourth of July. Wave that Flag.

"U.S. Blues"

    Red and white/blue suede shoes
    I'm Uncle Sam /how do you do?
    Gimme five/I'm still alive
    Ain't no luck/I learned to duck

    Check my pulse/it don't change
    Stay seventy two/come shine or rain
    Wave the flag/pop the bag
    Rock the boat/skin the goat

    Wave that flag
    Wave it wide and high
    Summertime
    Done come and gone
    My oh my

    I'm Uncle Sam /that's who I am
    Been hidin' out/in a rock and roll band
    Shake the hand that shook the hand
    Of P.T. Barnum/and Charlie Chan

    Shine your shoes/light your fuse
    Can you use/them ol' U.S. Blues?
    I'll drink your health/share your wealth
    Run your life/steal your wife

    Wave that flag
    Wave it wide and high
    Summertime done
    Come and gone
    My oh my

    Back to back/chicken shack
    Son of a gun/better change your act
    We're all confused/what's to lose?
    You can call this song/the United States Blues

    Wave that flag
    Wave it wide and high
    Summertime done come and gone
    My oh My
    Summertime done come and gone
    My oh My

from The Annotated US Blues

Aside from his calling David Brooks brilliant (is this a satire?), my favorite Koch line is..."That's what you radicals on the left always do. You don't debate issues, you denigrate your opponents."  

Uh, Eddie baby.... got some flashes for you. Do the names Richard Clarke, Paul O'Neill, Joseph Wilson, Michael Moore, Howard Dean, George Soros, .... mean anything to you? Or are you saying the the people who denigated them are "radicals on the left"?

Without comment here's what the American Jewish Congress said about the Moveon submissions. Update [2004-6-26 13:9:0 by GP]:Update: My point is that the Faces of John Kerry" ad is FEATURED on the Bush website and the AJC response was FEATURED on the WSJ Op Ed page while the Move On submissons were 2 out of over 1000. I'll bet a Reagan $10 bill that there won't be a similar outrage at AJC or WSJ about Bush interspersing images of Hitler with Kerry, Gore and Dean. Don't believe me? Note that Drudge hasn't picked up on it.

The next time David Brooks or some other administration apologist tries to tell you that your candidate wants to "raise taxes on the middle class". Please tell them that the Bush/Repub "tax cuts" did nothing to change the AMT (and here).

Six Companies to List on NYSE and Nasdaq

If this is the start of a trend, maybe the NASDAQ is the market for the next 100 years.
       

n 1: an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions [syn: flag waving] 2: fanatical patriotism [syn: chauvinism

I am surprised that Ms. Mitchell's startling admission on last Friday's Imus in the Morning that the US media was guilty of "jingoism" in the run up to the Iraqi war hasn't gotten bigger play in the media and blogosphere.

What was less surprising was Imus's response. The response of an ex Marine who presumably would identify with our soldiers dying in Iraq.

His response?      Look! Hillary Clinton!