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Heruka:
Cornish game hens for dinner. With sweet corn on the cobb and stuffing and wine. Eating out on the patio. Tis a lovely evening.
(Sat Apr 19, 2003 - 7:59:24 pm)

Detlef Sping:
stuffing and wine. Excellent.
(Sat Apr 19, 2003 - 9:27:51 pm)

Cornish game hens mmmm.
(Sat Apr 19, 2003 - 9:40:04 pm)

"Look at Ming, he's pulling his own finger"
SARS is passed in droplets, by coughing and sneezing, but the WHO is not ruling out the possibility that it may also be transmitted when people touch objects such as elevator buttons, or that it could be passed on in fecal mist from passing wind.
(Sat Apr 19, 2003 - 10:09:08 pm)

Queenie:
had a six hour meeting today with the radio personality who wants me to direct his one man show. we're going to do amazing things together. I am incredibly excited!!
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 4:46:50 am)

alt:
cool Queenie.I'll listenin
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:00:50 am)

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:24:35 am)

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:35:20 am)

alt:
i think a hawk moreso an Eagle flew by the deck last night as I sat out during a sunset. Light made it hard to tell but I trhink it ws an eagle because Ive seen them down here b4.
Also a crazy robyn keeps running into a picture window pecking at it's "enemy" then pirches on a tree and shits all over teh deck. This has been going on for quite some time I guess but I am not down at this house very often. So to remedy this I have drawn a rather bad scary face that looks more like a satanic goat head on mescaline. So far I think it gave him the creeps and he will not be back. Im hopeing tho hes a pretty fierce bugger. The rain we had has helped wash the shit away somewhat. Im gonna go have a smoke now.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 12:30:28 pm)

alt:
No dagnabit I take this back. Here he is as we speak pecking and pooping away. Grrrrrr
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 12:31:47 pm)

alt:
ive hung my bad scare art out side on the window. Aparently he didn't see it before as it was hung inside. Now its well hung.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 12:48:51 pm)

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Adventures of a lonely guy at the lakehouse
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The pictures from overseas didn't really cheer him up. The efeminate fear of SARS and whatnot. None of it made much sense and he looked at the clock. It was 20 till on a sunday. Close enough to noon he mumbled. Beer thirty he exclaimed but no one was present to give any sort of reply. He didn't mind it was 4/20 and it was beer thirty. Beside the damn robyn woke him up at 7:00 but he wasnt even sure at teh time what the thumping noise was. He thought the trip sout out of the city to the rolling hills and treeinfested landscape would provide him a better rest. After all ,8:30 on a saturday morning with a hangover, was never the time to be jared out a deep sleep by high powered professional lawn mowers. They proved to be benificial because for 20$ us dollars I finagled a quick cut for the yard at my dads house which I inhabit again. Going back to the house that morning I thought I'd head to the lake to sleep peacefully as ever. But now its noon on a sunday and mean spirited birds are attacking. Where did it all go wrong?
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 12:58:16 pm)

:
monster on the beach
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 1:03:21 pm)

Uh oh:

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 1:16:16 pm)

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 2:55:21 pm)

:
probably poor circulation in your brain.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 4:42:47 pm)

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pecking and pooping away probably going to die soon.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 4:43:33 pm)

:
bad scare art out side and it was beer thirty.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 4:44:27 pm)

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Close enough to noon he mumbled
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 4:45:05 pm)

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wash the shit away it gave him the creeps like a satanic goat head on mescaline.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 4:46:55 pm)

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 4:55:43 pm)

I wonder what Wax and Decoy are up to?:

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 5:16:58 pm)

I wonder what Wax and Decoy are up to?:

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 5:17:30 pm)

Decoy:
Close! You win a prize. We're back. Wax is still in route via Charlotte, though. All was great. More later.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 8:10:27 pm)

Queenie:
where did you go??
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 9:51:11 pm)

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:11:23 pm)

Heruka:
Pittsburgh, they went to Pittsburgh.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:11:42 pm)

:
http://policy.house.gov/html/news_release.cfm?id=51

For Immediate Release
Friday, April 14, 2000 Contact: Kate Whitman
202-225-6168

Clinton-Gore North Korea Aid Will Provide Plutonium for Nuclear Bombs
WASHINGTON - Two nuclear scientists told the House Policy Committee this week that nuclear reactors being built with U.S. taxpayer funds for the Stalinist dictatorship in North Korea will soon give the regime enough plutonium to make more than 60 bombs a year.

The scientists who briefed the House Leaders were Dr. Victor Gilinsky, a former Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Ford and Carter administrations and former head of the Physical Sciences Department at the RAND Corporation, and Dr. William R. Graham, a former Science Advisor to President Reagan and Deputy Administrator of NASA.

The plutonium provided by two nuclear reactors being built for North Korea at the urging of the Clinton-Gore administration, the scientists said, would dramatically increase North Korea's ability to produce nuclear weapons. The scientists took strong exception to the Clinton-Gore administration claim that the reactors are somehow "proliferation resistant"-that their construction did not present a serious risk. That is most assuredly not the case, the scientists said.

"The light water reactors could produce about 500 kilograms of plutonium annually," Dr. Gilinsky said. "They are so much larger than the facilities North Korea stopped building, they will actually produce more plutonium than the gas graphite plants they will replace." Gilinsky also cited a study by the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences that concluded, "plutonium of virtually any isotopic composition can be used to make nuclear weapons."

The administration's argument that the light water reactors do not produce "weapons-grade plutonium" is misleading. First, the light water reactors can in fact be operated to produce essentially weapons-grade plutonium. Second, the plutonium normally produced in power reactors can be used to make powerful nuclear weapons. Some additional steps would need to be taken to employ the plutonium normally produced in light water reactors, but, as Dr. Graham pointed out, these steps would not pose an insuperable hurdle for the North Koreans. The U.S. successfully tested a warhead using such material in 1962.

The scientists also pointed out that North Korea's primitive power grid cannot possibly handle the enormous generation capacity of these two 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors-indicating North Korea's reason for demanding them from the U.S. is not to obtain electrical power. If that were their concern, they would have asked for help with conventional electric plants, which they could have obtained more quickly and more easily. The North Koreans' objective may well have been to gain the plutonium they will produce.

"Giving U.S. foreign aid to North Korea is foolhardy. Using it to build nuclear plants is dangerous-and giving Kim Jong Il plutonium to build nuclear bombs is madness," said Policy Chairman Christopher Cox.

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:14:59 pm)

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BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Jamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan, has surrendered to the Iraqi National Congress (INC), which will hand him over to U.S. troops, the anti-Saddam group said.

Sultan, on the U.S. military's list of 55 most wanted Iraqis, would be the first close family member of Saddam's to surrender. (Full list of most wanted Iraqis)

He is in Baghdad, where he will be put in U.S. custody Sunday evening, INC spokesman Zaab Sethna said.

Sultan served as deputy head of tribal affairs under Saddam's regime, according to the U.S. military's list. Sethna said Sultan also served in the special security organization headed by Saddam's son Qusay.

Sultan was marked as the nine of clubs in the deck of playing cards featuring regime leaders that was handed out to U.S. troops. (Gallery of images from most-wanted deck)

He had fled to Syria, and "we convinced him the best thing to do would be for him to return to Iraq and surrender himself," Sethna said. "We made it clear to him he had a better chance facing a fair process, and we assured him it would be a process rather than spending his life on the run."

Sultan is Saddam's only remaining son-in-law, Sethna said. Saddam had two of his sons-in-law executed after they defected.

(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:19:29 pm)

Myk Murphy:
clearly, it's tough to be a son-in-law in that family.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:20:39 pm)

Heruka:
I posted it because I thought the passage "He had fled to Syria, and "we convinced him the best thing to do would be for him to return to Iraq and surrender himself," Sethna said." was of particular interest. Things are getting hot on the sand.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:50:55 pm)

Myk Murphy:
well, bush appears to be making headway with assad in syria, so that's nice. the border is now closed to people who show up on playing cards. i've been the aussie commentaries in the forum section of ABC Online, thanks to the "german minister" link to the right. most of the forum posters appear to believe that the US is just as bad as every other country, and that they shouldn't impose themselves around the world, and that the israelis indiscriminately kill, and that the palestinians don't target children. in short, it's a comedy website.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 10:56:48 pm)

Heruka:
you should try the yahoo message boards at the end of each news article. too funny.
(Sun Apr 20, 2003 - 11:21:56 pm)