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WAR
* i just heard blinky threatening zark - lol. zarqawi must be shaking like he has just seen a ghost...

* imagine if 911 was committed by some muslim extremists from france or germany or england.

* 1500 dead amgrunts in iraq. and if u pay close attention, you'll also count the 300 dead amcontractors. (and theres a bunch of others that can be added in - like those who have joined the gruntness with the promise of a greencard. and those who died after they get shipped to hospital. and all the others)

* the syrians need better pr.

* a body has been found at the site of haririkiri. 17 days later. is that the funniest thing u ever heard? what sort of investigation are they doing? dont bodies smell?


NOTGANNON
* " (Those who think the Times and the Journal were justified in ignoring Gannongate for so long because it didn't qualify as news should note that for the week of Feb. 21, "Jeff Gannon" was among the "Top Ten Gaining Queries," according to Google's weekly tabulations.)" http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/02/media/index1.html

* g reports in on the robcordry bit on jons - pretty funny - esp the interview with jayrozen - u can see it here http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/03/03.html#a1776 - g also points to an ari1 interview but i cant find it at the mo

* notgannon is a top, which,of course, isnt really gay. who in the shitehouse was using his services? cos they are most definitely gay.

*- "JG: Who are the Pet Shop Boys?" (just cos its funny)
- asked if there is a rovian connection: "JG: Why would I want to deprive them of one of their favorite conspiracy theories?"
- "I am more of a talker than a writer, and more of a writer than a technician"
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/069934.php

* conyers: "For nearly three years, the White House has been granting Mr. Guckert, a right-wing activist with no press credentials, access to the White House briefing room and presidential press conferences." the 'three year' thing is interesting. i thuoght we were talking 2 years... http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=146

* the real question about notgannon isnt the security breach - its why he didnt take the opportunity to assassinate the president when he had the chance. great tv. and u can just imagine notgannon screaming "softball???? softball??? dont call me soft!!! i wanna play hardball!!!" or something.

AMDOM
* " The Bush administration announced Wednesday a 60-day, 60-stop barnstorming tour to promote the president's plan for overhauling Social Security" hmmm - praps they want him out of washington so that they can plan the war without blinky getting bored over the tedious details. he already knows what the country(s) is called - thats all he needs to know right? the good news is that the more he talks, the more people get informed, the more they hate it. i hope the same is true for when he sells the next war.
http:+//www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-social3mar03,0,3463443.story?coll=la-home-headlines

* " After that the Department of Homeland Security will decide whether it will order all non-citizens applying to stay here to wear the electronic monitoring device. " http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/03/1524203

* with all the slamming of wardchurchill lately, the ADL has decided to step in to try to stop those defaming him. just kidding.

* everyone is pointing to this "The coming crackdown on blogging." ive been long predicting of course... http://news.com.com/The+coming+crackdown+on+blogging+-+page+2/2008-1028_3-5597079-2.html?tag=st.next

* on columbus' boat, there wers heaps more workers than retirees

* congress is rushing thru a bill that "attempts to address the problem of what would happen should a significant portion of congress get wiped out by a terrorist attack. " itll be interesting to see who happens not to be there on the day that happens... cheney4pres.
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/3/113728/5055

* u cant get pregnant in texas if u get raped cos of the trauma, therefore no emergency morning after pill. apparently. cept im sure i read somewhere that women are *more likely* to get pregnant from rape - maybe up to double(?)-likely. 7% is the figure i have in my head for some reason - the logic seems to be evolutionary - its a 'good' source of genetic diversity ergo fertility increases (or the less likely: rapists have 'good' sperm ). that was the argument i read anyways. in any case, the xfascists (continue to) scare the hell out of me. and Dog must truly live in texas.
some other nice snippets:
- "She added that emergency contraception would reduce the pregnancies due to rape by up to 50 percent. However, only 1-in-10 women know about emergency contraception, she said." are texans really stupid? 90% of women have never heard of the morning after pill? and the morning after pill has a minimum 50% chance of failure?
-and chix dont need emergency pill because " the woman may already be on contraceptives" and "Very seldom does an assailant ejaculate" (listen fuckjob, if theres no sperm, then yuor precious fucking little zygote-to-be doesnt exist.)
- "I don't see how rape victims will not be able to get emergency contraception under my bill," said Corte, contending that even rural places have access to more than one pharmacist." - they want pharmacists to have the choice, ya see, but not chix. its not obvious what happens in a town with only 2 pharmas who are both christfascists. you idiot.
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2005/03/02/Focus/A.Matter.Of.Choice-882239.shtml

* expectations for 225k new jobs... hmmmmmmm

* every time u see portergoss on the teeve, just remember what he was doing on 91101

* speaking of frist08 - ive seen him look totally presidential on teeve. i mentioned he was on lerher the other day and he looked anything but.

* "Bush has net negative approval ratings on the economy, on foreign policy, and on Iraq. You would think that would be fatal, but it was the same in late October. Generally speaking, the picture is the same throughout. The numbers make the president look very, very, very weak. But he looked just as weak right before the election, and obviously it didn't work out." http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/03/index.html#005624


MEDIA
* can anyone actually read a tomfriedman piece for start to finish anymore? he used to be fun to criticize - i cant even be bothered these daze

* what was mr lefkow doing at home on monday afternoon? (im not really interested in/following the story - its just a question)

* someone was saying the other day that airplane films have been edited/censored such that when someone says 'ass', it gets dubbed over as 'ashcroft'. hard to imagine. funny tho. i think it was actually verified but im not sure. praps theyll also change 'cunt' to 'president'

* some folk are actually waking up to the fact that easonjordan was actually correct. he didnt get no respect from hardly anyone. cept me.

* ive decided to annoint jonah goldberg: jogo. other people prolly have already, but i havent seen it.

* "If you're wondering why we're suddenly talking about the fall of Communism again, it's because we're in the middle of an outbreak of the dreaded Happy Talk Virus, which periodically explodes from the right-wing Prozacosphere into the editorial pages of major mainstream publications. Symptoms of HTV include interpreting all world events as signs that We're Winning, re-living the fall of the Berlin Wall, and claims that Democracy is, once again, On The March." (just cos its funny - and cos i thought the same thing watching tfriedman and wsafire with goofygrins on mtp - it was quite unnerving)
http://thepoorman.net/gl/article.php?story=20050302083443474

* " "Their explicit goal is to get us to the point where there are blue [state] facts and red [state] facts," Brock says. Eliminating agreed-upon facts has obvious political advantages for the White House." http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/02/media/

OTHER
* karstadt in trouble again.