* nypost editorial titled "THE PANEL THAT WON'T DIE" http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nypost/20040720/cm_nypost/thepanelthatwontdie - it hasnt even given its final report yet!

* "The biggest story of the Iraq war is about the torture of Iraqi children."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/072004A.shtml remember - this raping of kids story was around when the abug thing hit the wires. theres presumably nothing new in hershs aclu speech.

* ftr - im not concerned about errorist activity @ democon. not for any particular reason - im just not nearly as nervous as i could be. which doesnt mean much.

* xymphora sez "... it becomes clearer that the attack (madrid) was actually an attack by the extreme right against Spain itself." http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2004/07/aznars-amazing-admission.html im usually happy to defer to xymph, but it still seems to me that madrid was something other than a domestic issue - altho i know nothing of domestic spanish issues. praps interestingly, the msg coming out of spain is morocco/alq, morocco/alq, morocco/alq. brd - i'd begin to be a lil more judicious in your travel schedule - esp with family. and iran is likely to become somewhere u wish u werent at some point in the next year.

* "The resolution in the 191-member assembly passed by a vote of 150 to 6, with 10 governments abstaining. The United States opposed the resolution, saying that the international court and the General Assembly are inappropriate venues for resolving the Middle East crisis. Israel, Australia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau also opposed the resolution." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A108-2004Jul20.html the oz govt is a whore
meanwhile israel cant slam latham for his support for israel but "Unfortunately, many of his Labor colleagues do not feel the same way and are openly hostile to Israel." http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=3949 oztralia is fucked. what a fucking emminent bunch of friends. im not sure if oz is in the category A) level of whores with sharon and bush, or in category B) - presumably murder for $.