~ according to today’s cnn.com poll, 19% of internet yokels who play polls think that somalia should be the next target in the united states of america’s war on terror, a distant second place to iraq’s 59%. seems like most of them still have a hard-on for iraq after ten years of saddam hussein’s refusal to either die or stop mocking the united states. somalia probably got a few points of support as a candidate in that it might make an easy target in that it doesn’t have an army to face the u.s., but we wonder if the reports that somalias laughed at the actors pretending to be american soldiers getting killed in the ridley scott docudrama ‘black hawk down’ would help them pull ahead. what is more likely, that the bush cabinet fed the story about the somali glee american at death to drum up american hatred for somalis, or that mr. hussein hired some folks to act like riled up somalis in the hope that some attention is taken away from what he’s got going.

~ time for an aclu take action! aclu action update: oppose attempts to allow unchecked domestic spying! click here to read more and to send a fax to john ashcroft, an attorney general who doubtlessly has much concern for input from the aclu in particular or from american citizens in general.

~ we have made a couple of mistakes recently: ‘nurse betty’ and ‘free enterprise’

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