empire on steroids

AMDOM
* "blinky said: "Oh, I know they say certain people aren't capable of investing, you know, the investor class. It kind of sounds like to me, you know, a certain race of people living in a certain area." LINK
please tell me hes fucking kidding. just once i wanna hear that.

* "The night before the (socsec) event, the chosen participants gathered for a rehearsal in the hall in which the president would appear the next day. An official dispatched by the White House played the president and asked questions. "We ran through it five times before the president got there," Darr said." LINK
thats funny. they fucking practise. a lot.

* "When asked whether the argument over Mr Bolton threatens to make the Democrats appear aligned with the French and Germans, the official responded: 'Worse. They look like Canadians.' "" LINK .

* "U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's top aide said on Thursday that he slightly resented the suggestion that "somehow democracy is President Bush's invention."
"I kind of think there are 42 other American presidents who might resent that as well," Mark Malloch Brown, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's chief of staff, told a news conference. "Democracy has a lot longer roots and a lot more friends than just the current campaign of President Bush."" LINK
biatch.

* tomdelay is getting into increasingly hot water.

* henry waxman is finally getting some attention. of all the great causes he champions, the baseball issue is the one that gets traction. go figger.


MEDIA
* dbrooks refuses to make sense. again http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/opinion/12brooks.html

* g notes that the tsunami hits the news cos a prince falls off his horse. the good looking one too. amblog joins in the disdain "Who says CNN can no longer deliver the goods?"

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"By all official accounts, Yuri Kravchenko died by his own hand.
The former Ukrainian interior minister, scheduled to meet in just a few hours with prosecutors to give testimony in a high-profile case of political murder, aimed a gun at his chin and fired, sending a bullet ripping through his cheek and out his upper jaw. Then he aimed it at his temple and fired again. Suicide, government investigators ruled."
"Zvarych, the justice minister, (said) "I have certain doubts personally speaking about whether someone can pull the trigger twice in order to commit suicide,""

the latimes does a wonderful investigative piece. this isnt news when it happens in america. LINK

* blogtopia is abuzz with shitehouse propaganda stories - i hope they arent fucking surprised - this one and stories of ahnuld doing the same

UK
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"Two million Britons could die in the bird flu pandemic that experts warn is both imminent and inevitable, one of the country's leading authorities has told The Independent on Sunday... Ministers have sought to play down the potential impact of bird flu by saying that only some 50,000 people would die in Britain. But this has already been contradicted by Scotland's chief medical officer, who says it would be 10 times worse."

the independent isnt known for being shrill LINK

* arsenal couldnt score against 10 men for 85mins.