* ""There is evidence that Islamic Jihad, headquartered in Syria, was in fact involved with the planning of those attacks in Tel Aviv. And so the Syrians have a lot to answer for," Rice told ABC." most of the official version of 911 was planned in the US - they are in so much trouble. story http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=4&u=/nm/20050301/ts_nm/mideast_rice_dc
* abizaid on lehrer: 'a million amgrunts have gone thru iraq - its good for the unity of the country'
* didja see that news about shoebomber two? all the tv reports kept saying "it was significant that lots of people would have died" or some such. it was quite odd.
* "Former UNSCOM arms inspector and honest Republican ex-Marine Scott Ritter stated recently in a talk in Washington state that Bush had "signed off" on a decision to bomb Iran in June. Apparently Seymour Hersh will be forthcoming with details in an article in the New Yorker." http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp02282005.html
* "Butler's revelation was striking in itself. But it also suggested that Goldsmith's opinion, which led to the resignation of Elizabeth Wilmshurst, the FO's foremost expert on the legality of military operations, was even more finely balanced than we had thought.
Missing from the Butler report is the information that it was not ministers who requested that final legal opinion from Goldsmith. It was the senior military and top civil servants in the Ministry of Defence who did so." http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1427023,00.html
* did syria collect the $onemillion reward for capturing saddams brother?
NOTGANNON
* "Gannon says he thinks that the big questions surrounding his situation are still unresolved. He says he wonders whether institutions like the White House or Congress might move towards a "Gannon clause" or a "Gannon standard" in determining who represents a journalist." awesome. ""I'm a positive-looking guy. It's a making lemonade thing," he says." http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/online_media/default.asp
* " ‘It’s pronounced Goo-kert,’ he said. ‘I always have to impress it on people. It detracts from what I’m trying to do.’”" http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=133
MEDIA
* " If the bill passes the Senate, Bono saying "fucking brilliant" on the air would carry the exact same penalty as illegally testing pesticides on human subjects. And for the price of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl, you could cause the wrongful death of an elderly patient in a nursing home and still have enough money left to create dangerous mishaps at two nuclear reactors." http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7047694/bobdylan?pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1109583119548&has-player=unknown
* "When Bush confronted his Russian counterpart about the freedom of the press in Russia, Putin shot back with an attack of his own: "We didn't criticize you when you fired those reporters at CBS."" cool. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7037620/site/newsweek/
* "The citizens-initiated World Tribunal on Iraq, which met in Rome in February, asks a question that can't be deflected: "Are Mr. Jordan's claims accurate?"... "If independent journalists can be killed with impunity," said the report, "and executives forced out for asking about it, aren't we facing something more serious than has been raised so far?" http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0228-20.htm
* the villagevoice does a piece on condi08 - with a photocaption that reads 'The future leader captured on grainy film' - cute. http://villagevoice.com/news/0509,mondo1,61605,6.html
AMDOM
* frist on lehrer : "the only way the Senate can perform its advise & consent role is to have an up&down vote"
* btw - i love this language re socsec "through the miracle of compounding interest" - in other new miracles, blinky can walk on wooden paths...
* "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said today the U.S. has the right to hold suspects in the war on terrorism ``for the duration of hostilities,''" http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ahwDnIy3lffs&refer=top_world_news
* ""For the court to find for (the U.S. government) would also be to engage in judicial activism. This court sits to interpret the law as it is and not as the court might wish it to be. Pursuant to its interpretation, the court finds that the president has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor statutory, to hold (Padilla) as an enemy combatant," Juge Floyd wrote (in the ruling)." lol - love it.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/4240038/detail.html
* btw - wherever we hear/read about padilla and get this sort of nonsense: "The administration has said Padilla planned an attack with a "dirty bomb" radiological device." - we should probably remind the journalist that the govt backed off on that story a long time ago, in that shameful pressconference when they announced that he was gonna kill people with heaters. not even ashcroft had the shame to stand up and tell those lies
* the cool thing about the juvey death penalty decision is that it was a 5/4 decision... so close to actually not celebrating a new slither (sic) of sanity... wait for the legal challenges. half of all kids murdered-by-state in the last 15 years have been in am... who knows, maybe it wont be long till the ams actually ban the death penalty like *every* other western society.
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four moron years.
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