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["David R. Matusiak" <dave AT matusiak.org>]

1. just overheard on BBC News - some yuppie economist defending the 
system "Hey, if some terrorist wants to make $30 bucks to tell us what 
their next target is, then all the better!!"

(one interpretation might be that our current Security Infrastructure 
is SO BAD that we have to pay the terrorists to give us information.  
and i am sure it would always be accurate and complete information...)

2. also out of that piece - this gambling/payola initiative has been 
underway for TWO YEARS.  two years, people -- do you really think they 
are going to throw it in the gutter to appease some wussy Democrats?

3. did anyone else find it wickedly amusing that Japan decided to send 
its Army Troops to fight the War on Iraq /LAST/WEEK/ ??  one would 
imagine with all the DoCoMo phones and fancy electronics over there 
that they would have found out that the war was already over.  and 
America (the Sprinting Empire) had already won.  (this was all on the 
cover of some time/newsweek "Special Edition" proclaiming "How the US 
won the War on Iraq").  gotta love objective news.

well, at least we know in future conflicts that Spain has our back.
(and to a lesser extent, Japan).
/drm