dont forget pooland

* "An influential employee of voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems left the company recently to take a job as elections manager for a California county." http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65120,00.html?tw=wn_story_mailer

* the home of the brother of british hostage Kenneth Bigley was raided by intelligence - i wonder if we have another fake hostage/unheading thingy? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=320131&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

* "But never, Mr. Pavitt said Friday, does he recall anything like "the viciousness and vindictiveness" now playing out in a battle between the White House and the C.I.A." can the cia save us? i hope the dod is on the cia's side. praps we could be saved by a military coup.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/02/politics/02intel.html?pagewanted=all&position=

* ftr - i mentioned yesterday the kidporn story missing from The Oz - it turns out that murdoch front-paged the story in the paper - but it was bumped in the online edition. for some reason. or by accident. probably accident.

* tomdelay is a real piece of work. texas politics is a tuff bizness.

* "Bush advisers were described as stunned by how negative the reviews were of the president's performance, which many of them regarded as not his best but not so bad." i think this is kinda what i reckon what happened - people who know how much of a goon he really is are just happy to see him stand up for 90 minutes. thats the best they can hope for. i didnt think he did really poorly, for him, and the reviews have been overshooting like crazy. it seems the campaign people forget how effective they have been in pretending the 43 is human and somehow even a president.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2925-2004Oct2.html

* flashback to sep 16 "* "But counterinsurgency specialists say the Bush administration appears to be caught in a trap that's afflicted many foreign occupiers in centuries past: Too little military force allows rebels to flourish, but too much causes a popular backlash and increases grass-roots support for the insurgents." this line is getting repeared again and again. dbrooks at nyt did it as well. all just warming up for something bigger one imagines." - the americans are hitting three cities from the air in iraq. precisionly, no doubt.

* Newsweek has Kerry leading Bush 49 to 46 percent - the title is something like 'dead heat'