deranged bedfellows

* in case u miss it, the crew that is claiming that iran has secret nbc weapons is "The NCRI is the political wing of the People's Mujahedeen organization, which the State Department has labeled a terrorist organization." and for a nice twist, if u cast your minds way back to january, evilperle actually spoke at a fundraiser for these terrorists, caliming later that he didnt realise. so sweet. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A57465-2004Nov17?language=printer

* i wonder if anyone was ever justified in giving the egadmin the benefit of the doubt. or has *everything* actually turned out worse than we could have expected? and in much less time.

* "Aides said Bush and Rice know each other so well they have conversations based on body language, with maybe four words exchanged." good? harder. finished? yep.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53673-2004Nov16.html

* "Powell shared information with reporters Wednesday about Iran's nuclear program that was classified and based on an unvetted, single source who provided information that two U.S. officials said yesterday was highly significant if true but has not yet been verified." its from "a "walk-in" source" go read. i love andy mcdowell. and i like bill murray.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61079-2004Nov18?language=printer

* "Some U.S. law-enforcement officers based in London, NEWSWEEK has learned, have become extremely concerned about evidence regarding possible active Al Qaeda plots to attack targets in Britain. According to a U.S. government official, fears of terror attacks have prompted FBI agents based in the U.S. Embassy in London to avoid traveling on London's popular underground railway (or tube) system, which is used daily by millions of commuters. While embassy-based officers of the U.S. Secret Service, Immigration and Customs bureaus and the CIA still are believed to use the underground to go about their business, FBI agents have been known to turn up late to crosstown meetings because they insist on using taxis in London's traffic-choked business center." yeah right. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6514619/site/newsweek/

* "Citing estimates he said were based on the results of Merck's own clinical trials, Graham said that between 88,000 and 139,000 Americans probably have had heart attacks or strokes as a result of taking Vioxx, and that 30 to 40 percent probably died."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61157-2004Nov18.html

* " New York's flagship PBS station, WNET Channel 13 will not air ads about Kinsey not because of the content of the ads -- but because of the subject matter of the movie." we're all fucked. so fucked. http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000196.html

* "Israel's Channel 2 has run a documentary claiming that no less than 200 Mossad agents including seven department chiefs have resigned in recent months... They were furious because the Mossad's current chief Meir Dagan, a long time close friend of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was politicizing the agency" http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20041115-034117-6341r

* "“My assessment, however,” writes Garwin, “is that the present missile defense approach is utterly useless against ICBMs of new or existing nuclear powers because midcourse countermeasures are so effective.” (Richard Garwin, Scientific American, November 2004)." nobody thinks this will work. i hope its just a boondoggle, the alternatives arent pretty. http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_11_17.html#39B64D38

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Four more years. Seriously.
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