And he gets paid to write about it, too! By the way, I have TWO lyophylizers, one a bench-top Labconco which is probably what Dr. Ivins borrowed. There is no way someone is going to freeze-dry a culture to an electrostatically charged powder without it's being all over the place. Did the fbi check the (lyophylizer's) vacuum pump oil for spores?

And someone, please explain the OD on Tylenol w/ Codeine to me. I had a junkie friend who downed a large bottle with no harmful effects, aside from continuing his addiction. I appreciate that Tylenol is hepato-toxic, but this suicide seems thing very fishy to me.

I seem to recall that as well. Ironic that o'bama would choose the man whose influence has resulted in the incarceration and voting disenfranchisement of a major portion of an entire race, the race to which o'bama himself claims membership. And the fact that the crack/powder disparity is still law shows that this disenfranchisment IS the desired effect of the drug laws. That, and property confiscation.

For Canucistan BOb: overheard (and said loudly) in an unemployment line in DE:

Who's it gonna be, the baby killer or the coon?

For Cabdriver: you think the military isn't infiltrated? Think mcvey.

He was pestering demonstrators at the last large anti-war rally in DC. I was there to pester the press, so he got an earful from me:

jenkins: who's the greatest terrorist: ObL or sean hannity?

larry, dfh: the greatest terrorist is in my pants.

Got to give him credit though, I was an inch from his face most of the time and he didn't back down.

While I don't favor a violent outcome in Denver, which will only help mccain, I also don't think the press deserves anything but disrespect from anti-war demonstrators. I'm glad griff got such treatment.

First, ghwb and helmut kohl recognized the sovereignty of Croatia. Then Croatia started to clear the Serbs out of their newly recognized country. They drew 'first bolood', soon after ghwb's speach on the new world order.

The most effective way to make yourself heard is through the $$. Next Microwave Oven you buy, make it a NON-GE, and send the packaging label off to GE. Or next family trip you take, do it at a NON-Disney destination, and send the motel receipts to george mitchell.

...the turmoil wracking the world financial markets is a crisis of confidence... That would be a crisis of confidence men.

...It does not rely on any system of checks and balances, but on the wisdom and public spiritedness of those in charge. . . . Ahh, that would be Dr. Guillotine.

a local news-babe put a microphone in my face and asked if the film wasn't 'biased'. I answered "if someone is telling the truth, what are you going to do, go out and get a liar for 'balance'?" She couldn't handle the question, but the camera-man was chuckling.

He's the guy who publically called Clinton a scumbag. Pretty shrill language for one wanting his opinions treated with respect. Par for the hometown paper of Langley, VA.

Mohammed el Baridai's statement the other day that Iran is not posing a threat. That was sure to shake up the neo-cons. And don't the Caspian Sea Nations have a mutual-defense agreement, which includes Russia? Leave it to these fools to overlook a slight problem for their plans.

No way anybody's stealing from Ed Rendell and Michael Nutter. The demographics might indicate that the fix could be applied, but it's not New Mexico. Rendell and Nutter didn't rise to the top of a hard-core political machine by acquiescing to republicans, but rather by covering their bases. In 2006 John Street kept the goons out of the Philly precints. There won't be any surprises coming out of PA.

With a $trillion and a half on the line, you can bet the bailed-out billionaires will be barack's BFF. They'll get their way, and we'll get screwed, again.

In trying to understand Obama's actions toward the c.i.a., one can never afford to assume that threats were not made.

The cabinet choices of PE Obama are pleasing to pat robertson, as shown on the 700 club, at about 4 minutes. Understand that pat robertson is a multi billionaire, and his only concern is about making money. His endorsement of PE Obama's economic advisors speaks much more clearly to me than all the feints and excuses of the guardians of the left-leaning discourse. Basically, anything which pat robertson endorses will make him more $$, ultimately at my expense.

In evaluating the constant stream of experts and serious pundits in the media, one really has to ask: why are these people where they are? The answer is: because the advertisers/sponsors want them there. So in fact it is the ideological bent of the advertisers which determines the discussion in the media. It is the ideology of the sponsors which determines who is an expert, and who, in turn in competent. And we all know what that ideology is.

In sympathy with 'the Canadian', for a while now I have considered 'frontline' to be a front for the c.i.a. It did not surprise me that their show this week on Chavez was blatantly one-sided. There was NO mention of the endowment for democracy, which has used money to determine political outcomes in several countries. And there was no mention of conditions in Venezuela before vs. after Chavez; just a hit piece on Chavez. It seems no coincidence that both the nyt and pbs are running the same sort of propaganda simultaneously. It's like the 'product' was completed and within a week shipped out to the various display affiliates.

The 'Jewish Center' atacked in Mumbai was Chabad Lebovitch. From my experience, the Lebovichers tend to be the most rabidly pro-israeli, anti muslim of the Hasidim. Not to paint all Hasids with the same brush, there is NeoHasid.org, a site steeped in justice for the M.E.

And for the authoritarian-inclined wobgonne, the illegal federal electronic eavesdropping started BEFORE 9-11.