I like speed

* "Randi Rhodes says now and then that she’d like to provide the phone numbers of the people who still support Bush’s Excellent Adventure to all the telemarketers in the country. As Randi says: “Those people will buy anything.”" (link)

* "A coalition of 14 media organizations and public interest groups organized by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have filed an amicus brief in federal court in New York urging the release of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse photos. The coalition, which includes CBS, NBC and the New York Times, supports a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Pentagon, which has been pending since October 2003.
The government argues that the information is protected by Exemption 7(F) of the FOIA, which protects law enforcement records from disclosure when they "could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual." Citing recent riots in Afghanistan following Newsweek's publication of an article about claims of Koran abuse at Guantanamo Bay, the government says the release of Abu Ghraib photos could similarly incite violence against military personnel overseas." (link)
so *that* was the purpose of that phony koran-in-the-can brouhaha...

* "DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources register a volume and heightened sense of anticipation in al Qaeda’s internal communications, signals, publications and Websites - mostly in code - that recall its electronic traffic in the months leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks... This surge of activity, electronic and human, seems to signpost an al Qaeda offensive in the works" (link)
debka is a psy-ops shop

* monbiot: "I have no idea why I should love this country more than any other. There are some things I like about it and some things I don't, and the same goes for everywhere else I've visited. To become a patriot is to lie to yourself, to tell yourself that whatever good you might perceive abroad, your own country is, on balance, better than the others. It is impossible to reconcile this with either the evidence of your own eyes or a belief in the equality of humankind." (link) http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1545289,00.html

* "Fitzgerald's tendency to invoke the laws against lying comes from two things, colleagues say: the particular way he uses grand jury testimony when he conducts an investigation, and his deep-seated aversion to being lied to.
Many prosecutors go before a grand jury only after they have a case pretty well wrapped up. But Fitzgerald's approach is to use the grand jury as a tool for compelling witnesses to disclose information. And if he thinks a witness has fiddled with the truth, associates say, he becomes indignant." (link)

* blinky: "I like speed. Again, it's not a race, but there's something exhilarating about heading down a hill at 25 mph on a mountain bike" (link)
i wonder if he enjoys his presidency accelerating over a cliff at 9.8 m/s/s (or doesnt he believe in gravity?)