abramoff: "Total business angle. He is new COS of GSA."

* "A team of U.S. scientists has found the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes and that people with brain damage may make good financial decisions" (link)
that could be me!

* " Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Monday that there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career." (link)

* billmon has more on safavian: "I could go on, but to tell you the truth, now that I've run down what everyone else has reported about Safavian and the the slime trail linking him to Davis, Norquist and Abramoff, I don't have anything original to add -- other than my deeply held suspicion that God has subcontracted the fashioning of reality to the spirits of Mark Twain and Franz Kafka, who are sitting around in heaven like a couple of coked up screenwriters, dreaming up ever more ridiculous characters and swapping increasingly absurd story lines." (link)

* hannity is doing another MWG story - surprise- she's pretty too!

* ari2: "remember, when we came into office, the stock market had declined significantly, we were inheriting a recession, then you had the attacks of September 11th." (link)
hows that for torturing the language. and facts.

* " The Pentagon said today that it had blocked a group of military officers and intelligence analysts from testifying at an open Congressional hearing (Able Danger) about a highly classified military intelligence program that, the officers have said, identified a ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a potential terrorist more than a year before the attacks." (link)

* "It was Representative Ron Paul of Texas who read into the Congressional Record on June 25, 1997—well before the malfeasance of George Bush, the Constitution-bashing Patriot Act, and the reckless so-called war on terror—the following: “In a police state the police are national, powerful, authoritarian. Inevitably, national governments yield to the temptation to use the military to do the heavy lifting…. [O]nce the military is used, however minor initially, the march toward martial law … becomes irresistible.”" (link)

* "Sheikh Hassan al-Zarqani, a spokesperson for rebel Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, said that the two undercover soldiers seized by Iraqi police last Monday were armed with explosives and a remote control detonator. The soldiers were disguised as members of Sadr's militia, the Mehdi Army." (link)
remarkably, i havent heard the bit about explosives on the tv.

* "Stop the War Coalition will be holding a major rally in Central London on the eve (23rd) of the national demonstration." "Demonstrate, Saturday September 24 Assemble 12 noon - Parliament Square Rally in Hyde Park" (link)
everyone must rally on saturday. find one newar you wherever you are.

* the American Enterprise Institute has done a study on the costs and benefits of the iraq war: " The conflict, however, also has generated cost savings, especially in terms of resources no longer being used to enforce UN sanctions and people no longer being killed by Saddam Hussein’s regime." (link)
how funny is that! they no longer have to enforce the sanctions. thats the best theyve got!

* "The F.B.I. affidavit also suggested Mr. Abramoff's motivation in inviting Mr. Safavian was clear. In an e-mail message, a lobbyist colleagues asked: "Why dave? I like him but didn't know u did as much. Business angle?"
According to the court papers, Mr. Abramoff replied with another e-mail message: "Total business angle. He is new COS of GSA.""

* "Bill Frist, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, sold all his stock in his family's hospital corporation about two weeks before it issued a disappointing earnings report and the price fell nearly 15 percent" (link)