smirkingchimp, sniggeringmonkey

VOTE
* letter from conyers to triad - go read -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/23/94319/014

* georgia rocks - here's here blog http://www.dailykos.com/user/georgia10

* keith writes a reasonable piece - which is nice cos his prev one
was miserable. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6667405/#041221a

* " John Kerry will file today, in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Ohio, papers in support of the Green
Party/Libertarian Party recount effort. Specifically, Kerry will be
filing a request for expedited discovery regarding Triad Systems
voting machines, as well as a motion for a preservation order to
protect any and all discovery and preserve any evidence on this
matter."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/122404Y.shtml

WART
* journo on bbc 'the insurgents tried to cause as much damage in
fallujah as they could - they were hiding in the houses so the
amgrunts had to destroy the homes'

* wapo editorial title "warcrimes" (and they arent talking about
the dreaded insurgents) wow.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20986-2004Dec22

* stupid news headlines are saying 'residents of fallujah return' -
of course less than 0.25% are allowed in.

*tfriedman: "As the Johns Hopkins foreign policy expert Michael
Mandelbaum so rightly pointed out to me, "These so-called
insurgents in Iraq are the real fascists, the real colonialists,
the real imperialists of our age." They are a tiny minority who
want to rule Iraq by force and rip off its oil wealth for
themselves. It's time we called them by their real names... We may
lose in iraq because most Europeans, having been made stupid by
their own weakness, would rather see America fail in Iraq than lift
a finger for free and fair elections there."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/23/opinion/23friedman.html

* "Officials said U.S. marines were killed (today, in fallujah) but
would not specify the number. Several insurgents were also killed,
they said." http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041223/w122320.html

* ""The Americans are losing the war in Iraq and in their frustration have started using chemical weapons and napalm bombs on civilian populations," alleges Khudur al-Azawi of the Iraq National Democratic Party." cwly? http://www.thehindu.com/2004/12/21/stories/2004122104311200.htm

AMPOL
* " A portrait of President Bush using monkeys
to form his image that was banished from a New York art show last
week amid charges of censorship was projected on a giant billboard
in Manhattan on Tuesday... Organizers expect more than 400,000
drivers to see the billboard each day for the next month." i love
censorship blowback
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=4&u=/nm/20041222/od_nm/monkeys_dc

STOOPID
* "It turns out that one out of every five drugs that are approved by the FDA, within about a 20-year period, either are taken off the market, or more commonly, are the subject of a black box warning. What advice we have from all of this, because most of these drug bans or black box warnings are in the first seven years after a drug comes on the market, is don't use any new drug unless it's a breakthrough drug... almost one-fifth of the Food and Drug Administration scientists surveyed two years ago as part of an official review said they had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug despite reservations about its safety, effectiveness or quality. " http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/22/151224

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