10/8    It's almost November, let's review some of the memorable highlights
        of 2004-2006:
        -Terry Schiavo on news
        -Cheney shoots his friend
        -Abramoff scandal
        -Kenneth Lay finally dies
	...

4/3     Corrupt thieving scum, Tom DeLay, withdrawing from his 2006
        congressional bid.  (cnn.com breaking news)
        Story from Time:
        http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1179853,00.html
        (and goddammit, stop overwriting, sprawl bitch)
        \_ He needs to leave so that his colleagues can do a better job
	...

2/15    Bill Tierney, former UN weapons inspector and CENTCOM intelligence
        analyst, releases tapes of Saddam talking about the inevitability of a
        WMD attack on the U.S., even though Iraq would have no part of it, and
        the effort to hide an Iraqi biological WMD program from inspectors:
        http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Investigation/story?id=1616996
        Mr. Tierney was also convinced Saddam had a nuclear capability, and
	...

9/4     The Schiavo response vs. the Katrina response:
        http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/09/three_days.shtml
	...

8/27    There are 3000 pro-war anti-Sheehan protestors on tour, with lots
        of television broadcasts paid for by moveamericaforward. So, where
        are Cindy's ads? Poor liberals can't afford expensive broadcasts?
        Secondly Cindy's campaign seems so disorganized, with no clear
        financial backers. The first link to her web site says "Donate."
        This is sad. We fucking liberals are apathetic and pathetic need to
	...

4/8     First Bolemic Lady and now a woman in Georgia is being starved to death.  In
        this woman's case however the woman's living will is being ignored.
        She's not in a persistenet vegitative state nor is she comatose.  The
        granddaughter says  "She has glaucoma and now this heart problem, and
        who would want to live with disabilities like these?"  She's also
        prayed about it apparently and says "Grandmama is old and I think it is
	...

4/7     Watch popular conservative blog get it wrong on authenticity of
        Schiavo memo:  http://powerlineblog.com/archives/2005_03.php#009953
        The third possibility is that the memo is a Democratic dirty trick.
        At the moment, that looks most likely.  It is easy to picture how the
        document could have been constructed.  A Democratic staffer wants to
        put in some language that will sound authentic for a Republican memo.
	...

4/5     So it begins.  Welcome to the culture of death:
        http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/43933.htm
        \_ Big churches esp. Catholic, gives me this image of having a
           lot of clout like the ones mafias have. I would think that if
           pro-lifers seriously want her to live, [weathly] Churches like the
           ones in Utah would have no problem coming up with Save-a-Shiavo
	...

8/19    "American girl in Italy" wasn't a staged photo after all:
        http://www.csua.org/u/u2d (news.yahoo.com)
	...

9/4     RIP Idan...the best soul i have known.  And the best security
        researcher ever...He will be missed beyond words.  He died at
        a rave in italy 50m from his tent and was found blue and dead in the
        morning.
        http://csua.berkeley.edu/~sky/idan.jpg
        http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120940113154
	...

9/2     California will survive its crackup:
        http://tinyurl.com/qfzdpn
        \_ not if we can help it.
        \_ I like the comparison with Italy.  Maybe someday we can have
          dozens of political parties fighting!  yay chaos!!
          \_ Do you think Italian people have a lower quality of life than
	...

3/30    The fascist bargain goes something like this. The state says to the
        industrialist, "You may stay in business and own your factories. In the
        spirit of cooperation and unity, we will even guarantee you profits and
        a lack of serious competition. In exchange, we expect you to agree
        with--and help implement--our political agenda." The moral and economic
        content of the agenda depends on the nature of the regime. The left
	...

1/8     Macy's closing 11 stores:
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/9f6576 [newsday]
        \_ I wish I had saved this graph that compared retail space per
           capita between Britain, Sweden and the United States.  We had
           something like 20x-30x more retail space per capita which suggests
           there are a lot more store closings coming up.
	...

11/18   "Italian soccer strategy gets a racy look"
        http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=ap-italy-shortsdown
        Can't wait until the Italian women's soccer team adopts this new
        strategy.
	...

8/28    the officer's description of what happened is funny:
        http://www.dlisted.com/node/14383
             \_ Italy. Monica Bellucci. She is a goddess. The movie is bad
                despite all of the awards it won.
	...

6/23    In a technologically symmetrical war, why would historians (on
        the History Channel) say that taking over Okinawa exacted a heavy
        toll on the Americans? The total stat on the History Channel is:
        American deaths: 12,000
        Japanese deaths: 120,000
        This is a technologically symmetrical war, and the Japanese had
	...

6/20    Clint Eastwood's twin Iwo Jima movies triggered island name change.
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070620/ap_on_re_as/japan_iwo_jima
        \_ Of course, the proper romanji is "ioutou" or "ioujima."  Can't
           they get anything right?
        \_ more like they are reverting it to original name, and Iwo Jima
           was just a mistaken name brought about in WWII that stuck.
	...

11/7    The Press at War: What ever happened to patriotic reporters?
        http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110009203
        \_ The country at war: What ever happened to just conflicts?
        \_ OP, do you actually believe any of this crap?  Do you think
           the sectarian thugs who are making our life miserable in
           Iraq read the NY Times?  Also the writer of this article seems
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