do not adjust your television

(updated - the links have been fixed - and yep, blogger has been spazzing for days - hopefully things are ok again)

heres a bunch of random stuff. regular blogcasting will resume tomorrow...

* how funny is the propaganda that 'saddam was given a tv and watched the proceedings of iraqs new parliament' - lol

* boltons nom hearings have been pushed back to monday LINK

* jimlehrer had blinky standing next to a filing cabinet wrt socsec. it was very funny.

* "But Bolton has little patience for such diplomacy. State Department sources say he has shown interest in the notion of America's bombing Iranian nuclear sites. So is Bolton's mission merely to prove the world body can't work? If his boss wants U.N. reform, not U.N. demise, is Bolton willing?
Unless the Foreign Relations Committee is brain-dead, someone will ask these questions. Tune in." LINK

* btw - someone pointed me to bugmenot.com which is a tool u can use to get access to websites with registrations. cool huh?

* amongst the hubbub of the last coupla days, i havent mentioned the cornyn thing. john aravosis has been covering it well LINK

* the NIST finally releases the long-awaited draft of its 911 study about the collapse of the wtc - for some reason it "specifies that it cannot be used in any lawsuit" LINK

* meanwhile, newscientist: "But some experts remain unconvinced by the study's conclusions." i wonder how many MSM articles on that report we'll see with that sentence... NS is hardly a weirdo magazine, and they found 2 dissenters in a one-page article...

* Krauthammer: "We need, therefore, to be relentless in insisting on a full (and as humiliating as possible) evacuation of Syria from Lebanon, followed by a campaign of economic, political and military pressure on the Assad regime. We must push now and push hard." LINK ahhhhh - neocon logic... the rest of the article is equally appalling.

* hannity slammed billclinton for saying 'the pope has left a mixed legacy' - and he said it on AF1 which apparently makes it worse.

* "In what one of his defeated regional governors described as a massacre, Berlusconi's centre-right coalition appeared to have lost 11 of the 13 regions at stake, holding on to just two - Lombardy and Veneto - both in its stronghold in the north." LINK

* how many divisions does the pope have?

* nyt ed: "It was appalling when the House majority leader threatened political retribution against judges who did not toe his extremist political line. But when a second important Republican stands up and excuses murderous violence against judges as an understandable reaction to their decisions, then it is time to get really scared." LINK

* joshmarshall is laughing at cnn trying to take care of DeLay - here,
here,
and here.
didnt cnn get the memo? everyone else has turned on DeLay. except all the repugs who are trying to look after him.

* i wonder if any of the uk tabloids will dare run parallel photos of the camilla wedding and the diana/chuck wedding on the front page...

* cjr wonders why the attack on abug got so little attention "There's no doubt that reporting from a war zone is a messy, confusing business, and military authorities have reasons for withholding certain information. But the utter disregard the American media have shown this story is astonishing." LINK

* meanwhile, WaPo's lead is "Insurgent groups led by foreigners and Iraqis asserted Monday that guerrilla leader Abu Musab Zarqawi's organization was responsible for a major assault on Abu Ghraib" which is funny for all the obvious/usual reasons. the only person they quote is an iraqi - but somehow wapo gets the 'foreigner' thing going front¢er... as it turns out, the guy they quote uses the term "IED" which makes me a lil suspicious for starters, and then we get the giveaway "It was 100 percent Zarqawi."

* theres so much shit going on that i can hardly keep up - DeLay has added another 5 scandals just this week. my fave is the 'physician of the year' award - which was offered to just about every physician if they gave the repugs $1250. priceless.

* frist either wants to destroy the judiciary or thinks they are really cool, depending on if he's about to hang.

* cornyn is going nuts, and DeLay is sticking up for him. cornyn wants to either kill or sack judges - depending on whether how threated he feels by them.

* boltons hearings are on monday and it looks like the dems are gonna go beserk on his ass

* it looks like the House dems are gonna go beserk on the bankruptcy bill

* notgannon is at the npc on fri

* the pope is still dead.

* frist totally wants to kill the filibuster but a big chunk of his own party are scared about it

* harryreid says he'll close down the senate if frist goes nukular

* the repug memo on schiavo was actually written by a repug

* the repugs want students to sue professors who dont teach creationism. dino liebermann thinks the country was founded on creationism

* in florida u will soon be able to kill people u dont like - oops, i mean, if u find them scary.

* blinky's ratings are going thru the floor

* neither iraq nor afghanistan wars appear to be going great. and theres still another 2 in the pipeline.

* the all-volunteer army is going great, except for the draft.

* pharmacists shouldnt give out birth-control if they dont want. doctors shouldnt treat anyone they dont like

* blair is promising to withdraw most of the ukgrunts outta iraq, at some point, depending on the situation. and it doesnt have anything to do with the election.

* fauxnews still has its heavy foot on the schiavo accelerator

* the pope is still dead

* theres no news on haririkiri

* we're about to see democracy in monaco. or something. red or black?

* the fcc is gonna get dumber and dumber

* nasa is launching a shuttle, and the head guy there is a new recruit from the cia. lets hope they didnt get it dead wrong. it might be the perfect excuse to completely throw science out the window. besides - imagine the culture-of-lifers on the tv. we'd never get to hear what was happening in the michael jackson case. perhaps we could pre-emptively give the astronaut a nickname: curve-ball? Dale Earnhardt?

* speaking of, tomfriedman writes "the world is flat" and im not sure if he means that literally or not.

* theres something happening in kashmir. im nervous. kashmir never sounds like good news.