1. sibel gets some help "At one time, Edmonds stood alone. Now some big legal guns have wheeled into her case --which is fast becoming the most prescient threat to the whitewash engineered by the 9/11 commission."
http://www.breakfornews.com/Sibel-Edmonds.htm

2. as to my point re tomfriedman and his queues of chinese students loving america and her technology, the Financial Times has american student visa apps down 32% http://opendoors.iienetwork.org/?p=44149

3. fox just makes up poll numbers http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_06_20.php#003100

4. wolfy is in trouble - it seems u can kill and lie without blinking, but its dangerous to criticize journos http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000552123

5. cheney is in trouble - it seems u can kill and lie without blinking, but its dangerous to tell senators to go fuck emselves isnt within appropriate bounds. and apparently there was a fun DailyShow mo as well http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2004_06_20_digbysblog_archive.html#108818773681108205

6. the kids are in trouble - it seems u can get some of em to kill and lie without blinking, but forcing everyone to do so isnt so popular... "as early as next June, men and women as old as 34 will be subject to random, mandatory military service." note the age bracket creep out to 34, but its 'random' now - not blanket - or praps the random bit will be for straight cunning linguists and so on in the 26-34 bracket.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1557/4844069.html

7. creepy olson has resigned http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/06/24/national1743EDT0735.DTL

8. only a few days to go till the iraqi standover. woohoo.