at least the planes run on time

* imagine powells place in history if he resigned in october.

* i wonder how much vennemans new job pays. i wonder if itll be someone in the chicken coop. again.

* the iran noise has a familiar ring to it...

* robertfisk is a pretty reasonable seeming bloke. and one of the best journos around. he isnt for conspiracytheories - but he asks whether margaret hassan was killed by someone weird (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1117-29.htm) and in a separate article, "just what did Arafat die of?" http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1116-34.htm

* btw sorryeverybody.co.uk is available - apparently no chance that blair will lose the next election - therell be many more apologies.

* sorryeverbody.com "a whopping 50 million hits to the site so far, moving nearly two terabytes of information. And growing fast." http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/ (its a nice article)

* " President Bush's new national security adviser is an even-tempered, unassuming Washington lawyer. Around the White House he's known as ''Dad."" - damn. and i was worried about hadley. i must have been wrong - according to this opening reuters paragraph. i feel ill. make. it. stop. now. please. really. 2nd par "he's a man of few words and fewer photo ops. He wore a pinstriped suit and sat silently in the front row yesterday" 3rd par "he was as an administration fall guy for Bush's mistaken claims about Iraqi nuclear weapons ambitions" last par "Hadley is an extremely hardworking loyalist" make. it. stop. as of this moment, i reject any of my prior aspersions on mr hadleys character. i was wrong. and i deserve punishment. he smells nice.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/11/17/white_house_veteran_will_succeed_rice/

* " President Bush on Wednesday named Harriet Miers , a longtime Texas associate, as White House counsel... Formerly Bush's personal lawyer in Texas...
Miers is often one of the first staff members to arrive at the White House in the morning and among the last to leave. She enjoys an especially close relationship with Bush, and she is sometimes the only woman on the brush-clearing excursions at his ranch in Crawford, Texas."" can we stop it with the texans? please. there must be a lot of qualified people down there. she smells nice too. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4622340,00.html

* "Two weeks after Election Day, explosive allegations about a media coverup are percolating." http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/11/17/media_accused_of_ignoring_election_irregularities?mode=PF

* btw - there are a lot of amgrunts getting killed

* "According to Francis Boyle, Professor of Law at University of Illinois, “In international legal terms, the Bush Administration itself should now be viewed as constituting an ongoing criminal conspiracy under international criminal law in violation of the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the Nuremberg Principles, due to its formulation and undertaking of aggressive war policies that are legally akin to those perpetrated by the Nazi regime”." http://informationclearinghouse.info/article7314.htm

* "In the wake of the apparent extrajudicial execution by a U.S. soldier of a wounded Iraqi prisoner in Falluja, caught on video-tape by NBC, Amnesty International is calling on the U.S. authorities to issue “unequivocal orders” for the proper treatment of unarmed or wounded insurgents. " ummm - we didnt get it after abug. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article7315.htm
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