* Kurt Vonnegut: "In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were." http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/i_love_you_madame_librarian/

* "Mr Khan was watched and then, when he tried to buy an airline ticket for Ahmed Khlafan Ghailiani, a Tanzanian wanted in connection with US embassy bombings in Africa, both he and, subsequently, the African were arrested." http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=549066 heres the thing - alq's computer genius mastermind (khan) and repository of all communications apparently isnt very bright. he apparently kept all the comms on his computer, he was personally sent to survey all the terror targets, and personally bought plane tickets for 'known' terrorists. really??? one expects that he'd be a bit more careful than that. surely alq is sufficiently smart to quarantine someone so sensitive. and if not, then US intelligence (sic) would surely have found and arrested everyone a long time ago. if i was alqs computer guy, id be more cryptonervous.

* heres an article on that bush speech last week that didnt go so well
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20040811/OPINION01/408110301/1035/OPINION

* praps nyc mite see some of the rioting that ive been calling for for so long http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/11/rnc_protest/print.html
RNCNotWelcome.org - the msg needs to be that the world hates 43 and that neoconism must stop - not that the rnconcon isnt welcome in nyc. and there shuold also be marches across the country.

* "Fueled by a fierce sentiment against President Bush, California donors have given nearly $3 million more to Kerry's presidential bid than Bush has raised from his home state of Texas, traditionally his biggest source of campaign cash." http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-califmoney11aug11,1,360132.story?coll=la-home-headlines

* todays a bad day to be in najaf

* remember the kansas edu evolution/intelligentdesign rubbish from a few long years ago? we can expect more of that rubbish from jan05

* we hate women cos of their freedom