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12. september 2004
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But Bigger Dicker chapel was not renamed
Pastor Terry Brinkley didn't find the jokes about his church very funny. Little Dicker Chapel is now renamed to Golden Cross Chapel, ruining a good photo opportunity in the neighbourhood.
10:55:01 PM 
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Format
Some days ago, I lost my formatting through a rather strange Radio Userland error. I put the right sidebar up again quickly, but totally forgot about my donate button (yes, I am a crappy capitalist). I put it back in today, but initially messed up the blog in the process. So if you visited this page earlier today and couldn't make head or tail of anything, that was why. Sorry about that.
10:49:47 PM
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We the people
LA Times acknowledges the power of blogs. Very reluctantly.
8:24:30 PM
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North Korea mushroom cloud scare
A large explosion in the northern part of North Korea sent a plume of smoke "more than two miles wide" coinciding with a communist regime anniversary celebration. Considering the badly veiled threats of a nuclear test coming out of Pyongyang, many feared the worst.
US officials, including Colin Powell, are denying that this mushroom cloud is likely to be the result of a nuclear test (which are quite distinct and tracable on seismographs as well as satellites), but what exactly caused it is unknown. None of the country's nuclear sites are in the relevant area, but an underground missile firing range is.
It is probably a coincidence that the remaining parts of the axis of evil both plays up so close to the grim anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
4:24:43 PM
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— Iran to start processing that will give five nukes
This is definately not good news:
Iran has announced its intention to start processing 37 tons of uranium yellowcake that Western intelligence officials estimate will provide Teheran with enough weapons grade material to build up to five nuclear bombs, the Telegraph can reveal.
The decision to begin work on the yellowcake this month was disclosed in a submission last week to officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the international nuclear watchdog.
The European countries that have been playing good cops to the US bad cop have now come around to the idea that Iran must be faced with a strong ultimatum with a deadline in November (!) to comply with IAEA requirements. Maybe even the French will think Mullahs with nukes is a scary prospect. However, if it is true that Iran will go nuclear next summer, sanctions will hardly even have time to work. In this time, Israel is likely to consider the military options the only solution.
Iran is of course denying it has any intention to develop nukes, insisting they want to use nuclear technology for power production. Being one of the most oil-rich countries in the world, this excuse defies reason. And then there is this:
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the hardline spiritual adviser, said recently that he expects Iran's nuclear weapons programme to be completed by next summer.
If this statement can be confirmed, the denials are obviously bogus.
"Adviser" is hardly the right title for Khamenei. The theocrat is Iran's Supreme Leader.
4:07:00 PM
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Time poll shows landslide figures, again
The Time post-convention poll showed the mother of all bounces. This week, the numbers still show 52-41, advantage Bush, among likely voters.
Yes, there is a difference between polls of likely vs registered voters, but I haven't seen any empirical evidence showing one to be superiour to the other.
Moreover, since the previous poll, Kerry has done nothing right. His own emphasis may be different, but the message he gets out through the media is still attacks on Bush's war on terror and the Iraq war. Evidence shows that the majority of voters side with Bush on these issues. John Kerry is currently running a suicidal campaign.
Attacks on Bush's Guard service, like what CBS fronted recently, is a loser. It only attracts or impresses people who'd never vote for Bush in the first place. I fear the leftist media types and the Kerry campaign exist in the same echo chamber where such attacks resonate. Rather (sic) face it: nobody gives a shit what Bush did or didn't do in the American civil war (or whatever it was).
Three years ago, another war started, and so far nobody who really believes that the war on terror is a necessary and just war is convinced that John Kerry is the right man to lead it.
Howard Dean may be yesterday's news among democrats, but he succeeded in taking down John Kerry with him.
3:28:24 AM
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Last update: 01.10.2004; 07:24:15.
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