* a gay repug outed: "Schrock is married and a conservative who voted for legislation to ban gay marriages." http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Congressman-Retires.html?pagewanted=print&position

* "The VVAF poll found that only 43 percent of draft-age Americans would be willing to comply if the draft were reinstated. Perhaps even more surprising, it found that fewer than half the parents surveyed would want their child to serve." http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5852831/site/newsweek/

* safire "On a recent visit to D.C., President Harmid Karzai told me he expected that seven million out of the nine million eligible Afghan voters would register to vote. That seemed a vain hope, since nobody had the habit and with opium growers and warlords roaming the precincts, voting would be risky.
What happened? So far, 9.9 million Afghans have registered, which is a little embarrassing, but the lust to get more than one registration card is only human to a populace that hid its oppressed womenfolk until the U.S. and its allies overthrew the Taliban. The Afghans don't take the right to vote for granted, as half of us do." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/30/opinion/30safire.html?hp really mr safire. is that 10% of the population has 2 cards? just a little democracy overreach? (praps the like dual-voting floridians/nycers?) or perhaps karzai vain hope was accurate - and there are 9.9m votes for 7m voters - say a 30% democracy premium? or perhaps the original doubts were valid - how bout 3.1m voters with 9.9m votes? or maybe its kinda like the us where one supremecourt vote is worth all the voters in the land? gimme votelust.

* zogby "half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," according to the poll conducted by Zogby International. " - and zogby is a whore org!!! praps not surprisingly, this report didnt get any coverage.
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=855

* "Homeland Security whistleblower Mary Schneider was removed last Thursday from her duties as an adjudications officer" http://www.tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=71

* "Yukos insists Yuganskneftegaz is worth at least $30.4 billion. Other independent analysts talk about $16 billion. But everybody seems to agree on one point: it could be sold for as little as $1.75 billion." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FH26Ag03.html

* the israel/dod spy thing is much bigger than it seems - the latest 'low-level-desk-guy' thing (franklin) is an adjunct to a wider investigation and franklin had already turned and was gonna out the rest of them. all the usual scum are involved - or something. and it seems iran is the target - somehow.

* nice to see giuliani bringing up syria again. i always thought that syria would be next - but the latest iran noise has kinda pushed the syria thing outta the way. time will tell. the only question is which is first.

* "The 9/11 Report: A Dissent" by Richard A. Posner - a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School

* BUSH
LIKE A ROCK
ONLY DUMBER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1291916,00.html

* oh yeah - thers a war in iraq



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