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VOTE
* "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today appointed Santa Cruz political stalwart Bruce McPherson to replace Kevin Shelley as secretary of state." CA turns red. if we ever have another election. grrr. http://www2.cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2005/02/11/n/HeadlineNews/MCPHERSON-NOMINATED/resources_bcn_html

* "Adults were evenly divided on Bush's job performance in January, but now 54 percent disapprove... The number who think the country is headed down the wrong track increased from 51 percent to 58 percent in the past month... Only four in 10 said they approved of Bush's handling of domestic policy... Most Republicans were strongly supportive of Bush and his policies. "I agree with almost everything President Bush says," said Beverly Bowman... Some (57 percent) said they (disapproved) of the president's handling of Iraq." stupid fucking AP headline? "Poll Shows Optimism About Iraq" http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050211/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_ap_poll

* grassley on mtp "the iraq election results are the first step in meaning that we wont lose 3000 ny'ers again" shut.the.fuck.up.

* speaking of georgia10 "GEORGIA was yesterday plunged into crisis after it was revealed a political associate of dead prime minister Zurab Zhvania had apparently committed suicide.
There were fears of a return to the old Soviet ways of dispensing with political foes by alleged accident or suicide after the third death in the government in as many days." You say you want a velvet revolution, Well you know... we all
want to change the world... http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=140962005

* "About 1.2 million Iraqis living abroad were eligible to vote in 14 nations. More than 265,000 of those Iraqis cast ballots" thats 22%. (cnn is saying how exciting it was that there werent any security probs (blowing up) for expat voting) http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2005/02/12/ap/headlines/d887oe200.txt

* no - the iraqi vote turnout WAS NOT 58%


WAR
* "Scott Ritter now says Russia has tested an SS-27 Topol-M mobile ballistic missile that would render the current Star Wars scheme useless." http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2005/nf2005024_2337_db038.htm

* "Perle also complained that CIA leaders had not been held accountable and noted that the official who had been in charge of the exposed Iran operation was later promoted." says richardperle, whose friends are famous for falling upwards. speaking of which, has the egadmin disproved the peterprinciple? http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cia12feb12,0,5143074.story?coll=la-home-headlines

* "In a recent unclassified report, the CIA says it believes Iran is "vigorously" pursuing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons" i missed the C&B elements of the purported iranian program. blinky only mentioned plutonium and uranium in his speech. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cia12feb12,0,5143074.story?coll=la-home-headlines

* "Mr Barton later worked as a senior adviser to UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix. In that role he says he advised both the US and Australian governments, before either had committed to the pre-emptive offensive, that Iraq lacked the means to deliver WMD in the unlikely event that it had any.
Yet Prime Minister John Howard continued to assert Australia had "clear intelligence that Iraq had a weapons of mass destruction capability"." http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12238565%255E2702,00.html

* how dare the ams criticise iran and syria for state-sanctioned terror for supporting hamas and hezbollah and others when the ams are actively using MEK.

* "Three quarters of patrols here result in clashes with insurgents, so trouble is likely... Sergeant Walton’s platoon has escaped lightly: only 20 of its 36 men have been wounded." a few dead-enders no doubt. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1479363,00.html

* btw - ill scream if i hear about another dead amgrunt 'who only had 2 possessions he cared about - a pic of his kids (that he showed everyone) and his bible'. bibles dont stop fucking bullets.

* natan sharansky is on mtp. grrr. stupidblinky 'i read one book and i agree with it entirely, otherwise id have to think'

* cnn talking about nthkorea - 'maybe they are bluffing, which would be really dumb. saddam was bluffing about his wmds, and look what it got him!' ummmmmmm


AMDOM
* russert keeps saying 'private or personal accounts' - he is reading joshmarshall! go josh!

* watching the beebs' dateline (which is often interesting) - it seems that the consensus is that condi is totally charming & beautiful (regardless what u think of her massmurdering)! parently it was even charming that she couldnt remember where she was at one point in her trip last week... fuckin ay. the meme that powell was a good guy is growing in juxtaposition to condi. i hope that history doesnt treat him well. nor the present. he is as guilty as the rest of em.

* an increasing number of folk who arent on the Right are increasingly concerned that the stupid mob will increasingly turn against us - cos we HateAmerica(TM). dissent is evil. they think we are paranoid, but they see enemies wherever they look.

* will jeffgannon get suicided?

* " "My professional name is Jeff Gannon, and that is what people called me,” he explained, adding, in an odd reference, “It is like Kirk Douglas, they do not refer to him when they meet him by his real name."" yeah - and marktwain. he also said that he changed his name so that people could remember/spell it. its not obvious why 'james' is difficult to spell. jeff/geoff.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000799182

* "House Democratic leaders yesterday sought the removal of two recently appointed Republicans from the House ethics committee, questioning whether their contributions to Majority Leader Tom DeLay's legal defense fund would color their judgment on issues involving him." delay is truly awesome. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15284-2005Feb10.html

* "A federal judge is weighing whether to make public a secret Justice Department report that officials say is sharply critical of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for failing to piece together terrorism leads before the Sept. 11 attacks." u listening sibel? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/national/nationalspecial3/13FBI.html

* "One possibility raised by these facts is that Ms. Rice was unaware of the FAA warnings when she appeared before the press and testified before the 9/11 Commission. This would raise serious questions about her preparation and competency. Another possibility is that Ms. Rice knew about the FAA warnings but provided misleading information to the public and the Commission... Given the gravity of these questions and significance of the new disclosures, the Committee should investigate what Ms. Rice knew, when she knew it, and why she testified as she did." i love henrywaxman. http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0210-12.htm

* "During his failed campaign last fall against Barack Obama (D) for the Illinois Senate seat, Alan Keyes lashed out at Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Cheney. Keyes told a radio interviewer that Mary Cheney was a "selfish hedonist." Then, without having been asked anything about his own family, he volunteered that "if my daughter were a lesbian, I'd look at her and say, 'That is a relationship that is based on selfish hedonism.' I would also tell my daughter that it's a sin and she needs to pray to the Lord God to help her deal with that sin.""
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20005-2005Feb12.html

* modo: "Poor Condi Rice couldn't even get George W. Bush to read her presentation of his foreign policy goals in Foreign Affairs during his 2000 campaign." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/opinion/13dowd.html
in related news, if you search for "condoleezza rice intellect foreign affairs" at yahoo, somehow wotisitgood4 is at number 6 on the list. fancy that. no wonder people use google. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=condoleezza+rice+intellect+foreign+affairs&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt

* chriswallace slams hdean for saying a) getting rid of saddam didnt make us safer b) saying that obl shuold get a fair trial. what kind of world do we live in?

* "A day after Canadian officials suspended the use of a hyperactivity drug amid reports of deaths associated with its use, Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa contended that United States health officials had asked the Canadian regulators not to do so.
Senator Grassley, a Republican, said on Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration had made the request of Canadian health officials because the F.D.A. could not handle another "drug safety crisis."" lol. the FDA's idea of avoiding a drugsafetycrisis is to keep killer drugs on the mkt. and the only surprising thing is, well, that it isnt surprising. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/politics/11drug.html and just to show how disgusting the nyt (and the FDA) is "Dr. Temple of the F.D.A. said that 7 children taking Ritalin and Concerta died during the same period that 12 children taking Adderall died, suggesting equivalent risks." ummm - only 4% of ADDers take adderall. (and its not obvious if the 7 refers to each of Ritalin and Concerta, or jointly.) and its not obvious who suggested equivalence. is it the journo? the unhealth industry is so appalling. murder for $. and journos along for the ride... and media companies. and politicians. appalling. disgusting.

* xymphora is on the adderall case too http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/02/adderall.html

OTHER
* does liverpool deserve to be within striking distance of everton?
* have u ever seen anything odder than the jamesbeattie headbutt?




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