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* getyourwaron "the only thing that could have been more botched would be if america had landed on the moon using a rocket that flew only one way - with a crew of 130000 astronauts who then killed 10000 moonmen. we botched this motherfucker like botching was going outta style. this thing was so fucking botched im surprised the name of the war wasnt misspelled" http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war38.html

* "A campaign worker for President Bush said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones -- or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040729/pl_nm/campaign_jobs_dc

* meryl streeep "Does Jesus understand collateral damage?" http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/30/1091080432329.html?oneclick=true

* zero dnc bounce. fancy that. extremely close.

* f911 was played on cuban tv :-) speaking of sunberg - remember that guy jonahgoldberg who sed that the f911sunberg interview didnt exist, only to quickly/quietly retract it? well, when anncoulter (who makes peggynoonan look reasonable) was sacked by usatoday for her dnc day1 piece, they replaced her with jonahgoldberg - just to give u some sense of his credentials... ftr - it seems that jonah and i are the only peep who think that vid doesnt exist - i still think that until we understand the full story about that vid we are unlikely to understand the broader probs that we face. but thats just me. btw - dadberg has gone underground - seems he has lost his enthusiasm. he could be sharing the stage with mmoore everyday of the week, avenging the death of his son and stopping the war and all that.

* there have been 2 very odd retractions lately - firstly 43's awol microfiche, and then the lost votes from florida. both got unlost not long after they were announced lost - im not convinced that the official stories are the true ones - praps surprisingly ;-) maybe all is as it seems and they are all just bungling incompetents, but im a lil suspicious. im not sure what it means.

* remember the foil4ood thing?

* more anti-terror arrests in britain - this time they arent giving the nationalities - lol. 2 weeks till they get released.

* sometimes i wonder whether things really are as they appear...

* i hate the nokia 'fashion squad' campaign. so stupid.

* "a diagram of the Prudential building had been found in Pakistan. It appears to be from the period around 9/11" (etc) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html?pagewanted=all&position= im not sure whats going on with this latest threat announcement nonsense - im a bit reluctant to simply laugh it off as an absurd fear exercise. i dont know what it means. beware the B-list? transamerica?

* i wonder when we'll see Out-CNN'ed

* 'when the kegparty ran out of beer, gwb said 'SEND ME'

* krug #1 at nyts 'most popular' as always http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/opinion/03krug.html

* i miss ari3. whereforeartthou?

* brooks finds another problem whose solution is the draft "My own instinct is that we need an ambitious national service program to demystify the military for the next generation of Americans." he has an incredible knack for confusing the reader as to his purpose, until the last para. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/opinion/03broo.html

* im sure france wants her statue back