* deputy sherrif "Am Oz ban on gay marriages has been given priority over new terrorism laws, sparking claims that the Howard Government is "soft on terror but hard on homosexuals"." straight people: youre next. http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/12/1092102595712.html

* "Australian authorities would have issued tougher travel warnings on Bali before the bombings there had the United States passed on key intelligence, a Senate inquiry has found.
The inquiry confirmed that information the FBI got from a senior al-Qaeda operative in early 2002 was not provided to Australia until well after the October 2002 attack in Kuta that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians."
oops. sorry. ftr - the ams passed the warning to everyone *except* oz. way to get a TWOT ally, guys.
http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/12/1092102597234.html

* they hate us for our scamocracy

* does anyone read these emails?

* 'today is friday' said someone on condition of anonymity

* id vote for kerry on the economy, and bush on terror. its gonna be really close.

* all anti-doping laws shuold be thrown in the bin. they shuold just let everyone take whatever they want and do away with the farce

* "Can Bush and his neocons get away with such an outrageous thing a second time (iran) after being so thoroughly discredited the first time (iraq)? Why not? They got away with it before." http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/11/iran/print.html

* another thing about iraq/wmd is that even if the invasion turned out to be a cakewalk with flowers - the cadmin still knew that theyd never find wmd. praps they thought the 'victory' would have papered over that little problem. its not obvious that the brits would have had it so easy.

* this from wapo may02 about nwe cia head "On the morning of Sept. 11, Goss and Graham were having breakfast with a Pakistani general named Mahmud Ahmed -- the soon-to-be-sacked head of Pakistan's intelligence service. Ahmed ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban." ahmed of course is the guy who sent 911 culprit atta $100k just before 91101 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A36091-2002May17¬Found=true odd that we didnt hear much of that this past week http://www.villagevoice.com/thebushbeat/

* speaking of breakfast meetings that morning - from memory ghwbush was having breakfast with binladen family members that same morning - with a view of wtc if i remember.

* speaking of promotions - gen.myers was head of norad that day - till he got a promotion the following week (?? - shortly after anyway)

* speaking of promotion, john scarlett got promoted to head of mi6 - he's the one who put together the dodgy dossier among other things.

funny how things turn out sometimes.