1. "the Bush campaign began openly incorporating Ronald Reagan's death into its reelection message yesterday, revamping its website to give Reagan a dominant role and distributing official campaign letters that invoke the former president."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/06/09/campaigns_seize_on_reagans_legacy/
check it out http://www.georgewbush.com/ - thats the bush/cheney re-election campaign btw...

2. "O'REILLY: Finally, the ACLU -- we talked about this yesterday and I -- and, you know, I have to pick on the ACLU because they're the most dangerous organization in the United States of America right now. There's by far. There's nobody even close to that. They're, like, second next to Al Qaeda."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200406080005

3. "Most vehicles average in rollover tests" i saw this headline and couldnt wait to see the math but by the time i followed the link, the headline had changed to "SUV rollover ratings reported to improve" http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Rollover%20Ratings

4. "President Bush has been campaigning around the country and today the crowd got so pumped up they started chanting, 'Four more wars, four more wars.'" Craig Kilborn

5. "Hoping to avoid partisan attacks, the Sept. 11 commission has drafted a final report that avoids placing blame on individuals in the Bush or Clinton administrations but sharply criticizes the FBI and intelligence agencies for missteps prior to the catastrophe.
"The commissioners who spoke to the AP said the panel wants to avoid blaming individuals to avert charges of partisanship that could undermine their work.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040609/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_commission&cid=519&ncid=716
one report down, 2 to go - why did tenet jump again?

6. "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has sharply limited the information he is willing to let Congress see on a controversial defense contract that is the focus of multiple investigations. "
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8832590.htm
this article is worth a quick glance - ive said oft before, this Boeing deal should be enough to bring down half the cadmin.

7. "The State Department is scrambling to revise its annual report on global terrorism to acknowledge that it understated the number of deadly attacks in 2003, amid charges that the document is inaccurate, dangerously outmoded and politically manipulated by the Bush Administration.
http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/09/1086749775931.html
u mite remember them touting this report as proof that we were winning twot - seems some numbers were inadvertently omitted.

8. "Reversing itself, the Army said Tuesday that a G.I. was discharged partly because of a head injury he suffered while posing as an uncooperative detainee during a training exercise at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
"The Army had previously said Specialist Sean Baker's medical discharge in April was unrelated to the injury he received last year at the detention center, where the United States holds suspected terrorists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/international/09SOLD.html

9. "TIA now verifies flight of Saudis - The government has long denied that two days after the 9/11 attacks, the three were allowed to fly."
http://www.saintpetersburgtimes.com/2004/06/09/Tampabay/TIA_now_verifies_flig.shtml

can we call it a pattern yet?

10, powell joins in re oz. COLIN POWELL: "It would be disastrous for Australia to say 'well yeah, we see this international consensus, we see this new resolution, but we are going to head for the door.'
I don't think that is the Australia that I have known and respected for so many decades."
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1129241.htm

and armitage takes another shot, threatening to pull intelligence sharing (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/10/1086749840556.html) "But I don't think you can pick like an a la carte menu - 'I like the intelligence sharing but I don't like to talk about global policies', or 'I'd like a strategic relationship but I don't want to be involved with the economic', The world doesn't work that way now." of course, the examples given by mr armitage are purely hypothetical, and have *nothing* to do with lathams policies. you're with us or against us. and "Think about life without the US" and "He made plain that he thought Mr Latham neither understood nor appreciated the alliance." http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/10/1086749842549.html
"Mr Armitage is the fourth senior Administration official to criticise Mr Latham in the past week" - one thing is for sure - latham-bashing is on the memo and everyone is joining in - taking the time to do one-on-one ozzie interviews and all that. one wonders whether these people might not have other things on their plates - the ozzie election hasnt even been announced yet, and howard has a lead anyway. i cant remember the ams getting so excited when the other countries (not spain) actually pulled out. have u seen any of this latham discussion in the US? its prolly nuthinbutraegan at the mo. can u let me know if u do? praps latham is too under-the-radar - in an exquisite piece of timing, anti-american pete garrett from midnight oil has just switched all his politics (conservation/antinuke) and joined the latham team yesterday - praps thatll give the issue some media interest.

11. "For the first time ever, a nuclear power plant this week incorporated a 9/11 scenario into its security drills: a terrorist strike using a commercial aircraft." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5181243/
hmmm - thats 100 nukular plants. better late than never...

12. speaking of 911 - this (http://rense.com/general53/oarabl.htm) looks at a bankrobbery analogy of 911. interestingish in a BigLie kinda way. and here (http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=323) is a spooky story that has been getting some traction over the last months about another plane in cleveland. i dont vouch for it.

i am cable tv getting connected tomorrow - ill be able to watch the raegan thingy and euro04. woohoo. btw - i dont really think the world will blow up today... juicy target for alq tho!
ftr - on a non-commercial fta tv channel here (sbs) they show pbs' The Newshour with Jim Lehrer which is pretty good if its in your neighbourhood