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	Thursday, June 3, 2004
	7:07:05 AM Boing Boing Enron traders gloating about screwing California. CBS has got hold of tapes of conversations between Enron employees during the California rolling blackouts. The conversations are amazing, basically a bunch of corrks gloating about the savage rogering they're giving to the people of California and how much money they're making. This has put fresh fire into the bellies of lawmakers who have renewed their vows to decapitate Enron's management and stake their heads on pikes outside of every polling place before election day. Employee 1: "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California? Employee 2: "Yeah, Grandma Millie man. Employee 1: "Yeah, now she wants her f-----g money back for all the power you've charged right up, jammed right up her a—for f-----g $250 a megawatt hour." Link (via Making Light) [Boing Boing]
	6:59:37 AM Yahoo! US frantic to soften harsh language in UN rights report on Iraq (AFP). AFP - The United States is scrambling to soften allegedly harsh and inflammatory criticism of the US-led coalition in Iraq that is expected to be contained in a UN human rights report to be released this week, US officials said. [Yahoo! News - Reader Ratings]
	6:58:44 AM Yahoo! CNN Sues Over Info on Florida Voter Rolls (AP). AP - The Cable News Network sued Florida's elections office Wednesday to get access to a state list with names of possible felons who may need to be deleted from voter rolls. The state uses the list to provide names of possible felons to county elections officials, who must review them to determine if individuals should be removed from the rolls. The list is of interest to journalists because of the potential for mistakes. [Yahoo! News - Reader Ratings]

Updated: 7/1/04; 1:58:12 AM.

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