* " Garry Trudeau said an "unfair process" led to a vote to drop his "Doonesbury" comic from a consortium of 38 newspapers." http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000583669

* " First, let's stop calling the enemy "terrorism," which is like saying we're fighting "bombings." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/opinion/29ehre.html

* "Voters cannot be expected to trust computerized voting machines with such serious flaws. Nor should they have to tolerate public officials who withhold critical information until they are asked the right question, or forced to tell the truth by a court." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/opinion/29thu2.html

* sibel gets a half-break "The Justice Department's inspector general concluded that the allegations by the translator, Sibel Edmonds, "were at least a contributing factor in why the F.B.I. terminated her services," and the F.B.I. is considering disciplinary action against some employees as a result, Robert S. Mueller III, director of the bureau, said in a letter last week to lawmakers." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/politics/29fbi.final.html?pagewanted=all&position=

* "F.D.A. Finds Traces of Poison in 2 Jars of Baby Food in California" http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/politics/29ricin.html yeah yeah - actually, make that castorbeans, not ricin. and, ftr, we are learning this helpful news 2 months after it happened - presumably after the supermarket shelves have been cleared (via the cashregister, not the trashcan). let it not be said that mark mcclelland doesnt care about the kiddies.

* "a notice went out today in the Green Zone saying that meal service was being cut back to military rations and cold cuts "due to unforeseen circumstances."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/international/middleeast/30IRAQ.html?hp=&pagewanted=all&position= how bout dem apples? (or at least, a single, freeze dried, half-apple?)

* "Adjusted for inflation, the income of all Americans fell 9.2 percent from 2000 to 2002...newly disclosed information from the Internal Revenue Service shows." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/business/29tax.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1091146633-1B+CF9jDc3foulxnrp45gw&pagewanted=all&position=
i wonder how long the irs has sat on this data, and when the 2003 numbers will be 'disclosed'...

* when was the last time u heard 'how do u ask the last man to die?'

* "The FBI agent in charge of investigating whether top Bush administration officials leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent as political payback against her husband has been named (promoted) to head the Philadelphia FBI office."
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/9249173.htm?

* "Dean to Hannity: "You Should Watch 'Outfoxed.' It's a great movie that says why people like you say things like that on this television station." http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/07/ana04013.html

* "Just 10 days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon enraged French leaders by urging France's Jews to leave for Israel, a group of 200 French Jews arrived to start a new life in the Jewish state" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/world/main632610.shtml?cmp=EM8706
these 200 people will look pretty clever if france gets suicided.

* is 43 really gonna debate jfk2?

* imagine if hitlers military was as big (wrt the row) as americas

* i wonder if theres a sign on 43's desk "the buckshot stops here"