* ssri's are safe if you are over 30, honest. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=544714

* " on July 9 the conservative Chicago Sun-Times (one of the United States' top 50 papers) ran a commentary on US fascism, stating that "fascism' is not an exaggeration", and adding that anyone who doubted this "doesn't know what fascism is". http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FG27Aa01.html
"And indeed, the slippery slope of "groupthink" in effect provided the basis for the psycho-dynamics dominating the rise of 1930s fascism, its proponents of a "new order" perceiving endless lies, propaganda, repression, mass violence, and even mass murder as legitimate means to what they perceived as their "noble" ends, versus tragic and criminal delusions."

* Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma;
Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.

* "The U.S. Census Bureau has provided population data on Arab-Americans to the Department of Homeland Security, including their ancestry and the cities and postal areas in which they live, The New York Times reported on Friday." http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5826788 ("In 2000, the Census Bureau formally apologized for allowing its data to be used to assist in the locating of Japanese-Americans for internment during World War II.")

* hostile takeover list - iran, syria, saudiarabia, cuba, venezuela, france, the internet, hearts and minds and limbs, america, space.

* "The House voted Monday to restrict U.S. aid to Vietnam if that country fails to improve what lawmakers said was a deplorable human rights record. "Vietnam needs to come out of the dark ages of repression, brutality and abuse and embrace freedom, the rule of law and respect for fundamental human rights," said Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J." indeed. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/07/19/national1908EDT0691.DTL

* paraphrasing obama "If there's a president in the shitehouse who can't read, that matters to me"

* it seems that the only country in the world who didnt give the DNC much tv coverage was the US.

* dave mcgowan is back. " the last thing we should expect, in a climate of repeated warnings of an imminent terrorist attack, is a terrorist attack. Likewise with the notion of the elections being canceled." http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr61.html