no bail to the thief

* synchrony, schmin-crony. lol - i made a dumb mistake yesterday with the nickcave/petgoat thingy! turns out that the noise was coming from a website i was opening in the background in my browser - lol. its a damn shame tho - the goat-chanting seemed to fit perfectly! spazzzz

* teresa h. kerry: "I think nobody is truly qualified to be president of the United States," she said in an interview with Reader's Digest." murdoch headline "Wife speaks up, puts Kerry down" http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10501504%255E2703,00.html

* stoopid AP "Sadr's Mehdi Army are a chaotic circus of men in flip-flops and sandals." geddit - alsadr=jfk2 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10501501%255E2703,00.html

* heres a retrospective on that " remarkable intervention by United States policymakers in the Australian political process. ...the oz media assisted a successful American intervention to manipulate a change in Labor policy on Iraq (thoughtlessly rather than conspiratorially, I would argue)" http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/19/1092889273139.html of course, i argued that it was conspiratorial, which still leaves open the 'why?' question, which gets me nervous. my sense is that it was bigger than the 'need' to keep oz troops in iraq, and seemed to be setting up a madrid-type situation. it was led by murdochpress of course, echoed thru the chamber. even if the media was merely 'thoughtless', it still leaves open the question why the cadmin put the fullcourt press into play - bush, powell, armitage et al

* "IRAN has hit back at hawkish US comments over its nuclear program, warning it reserves the right to launch a pre-emptive strike against US forces in the Middle East to prevent any attack on its atomic facilities." http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10500303%255E2703,00.html

* "Fewer than 55 per cent of young people surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that "Australia is a democratic country"." how bout dem(ocratic) apples??? http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10502758%255E2702,00.html

* re fahour, i prolly imagined the whole thing!

* helenthomas: "Kerry has made a colossal mistake by continuing to defend his October 2002 vote authorizing President Bush's invasion of Iraq... Does Kerry realize that the U.S. invasion of Iraq without provocation violates the U.N. Charter and the Nuremberg Tribunal principles?" and "In 1964, a Los Angeles Times cartoon by famed Paul Conrad showed a pollster knocking on a door. A woman sticks her head out of a window and the pollster asks her voting preference: "President Johnson or Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.?" She replies: "Who else have you got?"
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/186677_thomas18.html

* re Najaf & elsewhere, did it ever occur to anyone that non-lethal weapons might be an option? if, for whatever reason, they decide that they need to kick al-sadr out of the shrine, how about using teargas or some such? doesnt that save the mosque and save lives? and avoid the martyr fear?

* "The feds face a stunning blow to credibility by releasing a long-jailed U.S. citizen." (hamdi) http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081804X.shtml

* "When Sequoia Voting Systems demonstrated its new paper-trail electronic voting system for state Senate staffers in California last week, the company representative got a surprise when the paper trail failed to record votes that testers cast on the machine." how much more evidence is needed before all these machines get thrown in the bin *before* november? http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64569,00.html

* goarmy.com is advertising on the dailyshow's website - "Respect. Become a Soldier" lol. ironing is dead.

* cnn: " jfk ordered, of course, a cheese steak, but he ordered it with Swiss cheese. That's kind of a food faux pas in Philadelphia... There were also complaints that John Kerry took dainty bites of his Philadelphia cheese steak"
make it stop. make it GOP.

*the nader bucket: "Nader's presence in the race is currently taking Kerry from Electoral College victory to a dead heat with Bush. As shown by the "Nader 04 Impact Map," at http://www.theunitycampaign.org/battleground/, Nader costs Kerry slight leads in Minnesota and Missouri, and gives Bush slight leads in Ohio and Nevada. No less crucial, Nader may also tip the balance in several states that are essentially tied (Iowa, West Virginia, New Hampshire, and Maine), where his support equals or exceeds the margin between Bush and Kerry." http://www.alternet.org/election04/19602/




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