1. otto reich is joining the bush election team. look out florida/cuba http://www.workingforchange.com/adunit.cfm

2. prospect asks, presumably facetiously, whether 43 is an iranian spy http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=7799

3. msnbc chimes in with "Is Bush more loyal to spies for ‘Axis of Evil’ Iran than to our own? Let’s see: The alleged Iranian spy sits in the president’s box during the State of the Union and the American spy has her career destroyed because her husband told the truth about administration deceptions designed to take us into war—on behalf of the alleged Axis of Evil agent.

"And let’s see, Tenet is forced to walk the plank immediately after Chalabi accuses him of fingering him and a group of neocons storm into Condi’s office demanding that everybody stand by their man, spy or no spy."

chigtrib writes that "Students mobilize against the draft" make some noise kiddies, and tell your friends, and your parents. remember: thats "*all* young persons between the ages of 18 and 26, including women, to perform a period of service." 30million is a lot of people to make/keep bizzy...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0406060386jun06,1,2833883.story?coll=chi-news-hed

4. krugman takes a solid swipe @ greenspan http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/06GREENSPAN.html?ex=1087559008&ei=1&en=ed53da65be977088

5. guess how this story ends:
"Specialist Baker, 37, is an American, and he was a proud U.S. soldier... Then in January 2003, an officer in Guantánamo asked him to pretend to be a prisoner in a training drill. As instructed, Mr. Baker put on an orange prison jumpsuit over his uniform, and then crawled under a bunk in a cell so an "internal reaction force" could practice extracting an uncooperative inmate..."???
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/opinion/05KRIS.html

6. mccain on the hastert/GOP energy bill "Sen. McCain said on the Senate floor: "[T]he name of this bill should be the `Leave No Lobbyist Behind Act.' . . . At a time when it is crucial for our national security and economic welfare that we pursue a new course toward energy independence and global environmental protection, the provisions in this bill take exactly the wrong direction: increasing our dependence on conventional fuels; increasing environmental degradation; increasing our energy use; increasing our national debt; and diminishing protection for consumers and public health.""
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-0406040258jun04,1,2190223.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

7. laird story o' the day: "An elderly Taiwanese man who plummeted 12 storeys to the ground after he fell from his apartment balcony while changing a lightbulb survived with only minor bruises." http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/02/1086058913927.html

8. im setting up another blog which will lay out the case for an election attack here in oz - but itll be G-rated - based primarily on the official version of 311. if i can get that sufficiently convincing, then we might be able to keep some friends/family outta melb/syd cbd's on the morning prior to the oz election, or be wary about getting on planes/trains - without having to resort to any spookiness, and it could be something that we arent embarrassed to send to people that we know... there wont be any gloom/doom - but just 'the terrorists who attacked spain might attack australia cos the situation looks analgous - if so, here are the likely times/techniques/targets/terrorist - it prolly wont happen, but some mild avoidance steps include abc'
some reasons why u might