if it's shitty news, it must be monday...

now playing: jackson browne, "barricades of heaven"



so today, i thought we'd first take a look at some of the good news coming from iraq:


first of all, a new york times article from friday points out that there's apparently significant amounts of saudi money going towards financing the insurgents in iraq:

Their financing is supplemented in great part by wealthy Saudi donors and Islamic charities that funnel large sums of cash through Syria, according to these officials, who have access to detailed intelligence reports.

Only half the estimated $1 billion the Hussein government put in Syrian banks before the war has been recovered, Pentagon officials said. There is no tally of money flowing through Syria to Iraq from wealthy Saudis or Islamic charities, but a Pentagon official said the figure is "significant."


from that hotbed of liberal journalism the des moines register, we find out that people who even smell like trouble are being told that they'll be spending their time at bush rallies in the crosshairs of snipers. inn't that special?


the Most Trusted Name In News has a whole page of good news from iraq, including a picture of a burning bradley armored vehicle freshly hit by a roadside bomb that was probably made from a small portion of the 350 tons of conventional explosives formerly policed by the IAEA that seems to have turned up, uh, missing. not recently, no...over a year ago - right after the invasion.


we may as well have handed it out to the insurgents ourselves.


but, hey! not to fear! a week from tomorrow, we can all go to the polls and make this right, right? right?

well, maybe. or maybe not.

or maybe it doesn't matter what lever you pull.

maybe it'll be deja vu all over again.


some say the election is every bit this simple. maybe so, but will the outcome reflect it?


i'm really starting to have my doubts.

but if the idiots running the bush circus keep doing shit like this, then they might all find themselves out of work in a few months.


anybody see jon stewart last night on 60 minutes? he's such a sarcastic ass...i love it.



as we speak, my buddy mitch is making his way to love park in philadelphia to see john kerry and bill clinton. me? well, i'll be gettin' in my van shortly to make my somewhat-regular pilgrimage to kutztown to pick up a laptop from one of our vendors. i have a route that i usually take that brings me a great deal of peace. today, being somewhat overcast (and with me bein' somewhat melancholy myself at the moment), i'll just take whatever comes.