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Yahoo News is to blame for reporting this:

NEW YORK - A man accused of biting the head off his pet rooster was arrested Friday and faces up to a year in prison if convicted, an animal protection spokesman said.

A neighbor had complained about a dead rooster near his Manhattan apartment and agents found the body of the beheaded rooster on a fire escape, said Joe Pentangelo, spokesman for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The rooster's head was not located.

Does anybody . . . I mean ANYBODY really want to know where the rooster's head is now?  Really?

Part I was where we discovered that U.S. forces did in fact find Iraq-Iran War-era chemical weapons in Iraq.

Part II is where we see translated documents giving further reinforcement to the allegation that many of Saddam's WMD's were trucked to Syria just prior to the start of the Iraq war.  FreeRepublic poster JVeritas provides the translation:

Dear Respected Sir

Warm salute… and then

To review with regards and please and return the document to Mrs. Mona after the translation with thanks.

Signature

Abu Abdallah

13/7

To the Respected Responsible for the bureau of follow up and coordination.

CA11 RD

Subject: We have information about the location of the Weapons of Mass Destruction

In the day of 10 Mouharam before the coalition forces started the war on Iraq, 50 trucks for land transportation entered Syria on an intermittent convoy. I met some of the drivers and they did not know what they carried in these trucks. These trucks were loaded from an unknown location in Baghdad and was brought to the drivers and the Iraqi Intelligence was with them. Each time they crossed a certain distance, the Iraqi Intelligence stopped them and asked them what are they carrying and their answer was we do not know. And when these trucks arrived to Syria in the area of Deir Al Zour the drivers were taken out of their trucks and the Syrian Intelligence ride instead. These trucks were entered into large warehouses and when these trucks were emptied it was given back to the Iraqi drivers. And they were given a reward worth of 200 dollars for the safety of arrival. One of the drivers mentioned to me that this was second time they carry these secrets loads and the first time was 1 Mouharam.

I have a friend in Syria who works in a Syrian company as partner with a Syrian merchant. This person is an Iraqi ex-Consul in the Iraqi embassies and he resigned from the diplomatic circle and he has strong connection with the Iraqi Embassy in Syria and he knows all the Iraqi Intelligence and those knows that I work for the Iraqi opposition in Syria. I was visiting him daily during this period to find out the important news. When the trucks entered Syria I went to him and told him that Iraqi Weapons entered Syria so he said to me who told you that and I said to him I knew from my sources, and he told me to keep this confidential and not tell anyone because it indeed entered.

Singature

7/13

Under translation and print

Moustafa Al Khaliye.

D.O.D only, 7/13

Not proof, but evidence.  Those who have rushed to conclude "there were no WMD's in Iraq" may still be found to be mistaken.

Report from KOMO-TV web site:

Patti Simon was at work at the federation's newspaper on the first floor when she heard screaming, shots and what sounded like furniture crashing on the floor above.
. . .
"People got shot, some of our co-workers," Simon said, her voice shaking. "I just got back from Israel and made it out of there a half hour before the rockets started."

Simon said the federation has security in the building.

"Somebody must have lied there way in," Simon said.

The Knews Hound writes an article entitled The Last Normal Day:  21 August 2006:

When the Iranian President wrote to Bush in May of 2006, few realized he was offering the West a truce. If Bush were to convert to Islam, all past grievances would be forgiven. Although it was given scant notice in the news of the day, it was in retrospect a portent of things to come.

Which brings us to Aug 22, 2006.

Many theories were proposed as to what the Iranians would do on the 22nd as pundits of all stripes weighed on with their own pet ideas, and as it turns out a few of them were correct. The world has changed. A rethinking of our relationships and approaches are in order.

Now that the events of the day are behind us, what shall we do now?

Have you been paying attention?  Are you paying attention now?

Why are you even bothering with the Internet if you don't read Lileks?

A taste:

It wasn’t that you knew her well, even though you’d been in school together since tot-hood. Perhaps you had a sneaky crush on her, like the rest of the nerds. She was smart, killer smart; she was pretty, achingly pretty, but she carried herself in a way that deflected your attention. She hunched, as though she was trying to draw in her beauty and keep it from spilling out, making a mess. Everything about her seemed an improvised defense. Her smile could melt coal. She died.

You look at the faces, you ask around, you get the stats: rare blood disease. Parking garage accident in Vegas. Car crash.  How about her? What happened?

You discover that she married a fellow who founded a software  company known in these parts as the A-1 code factory. Microsoft bought the company. Lots of people made lots of money; you have relatives who owe their lake cabin to a judicious stock position.

She went down in a small plane with her husband.

You don’t remember a word you said to her or a word she said to you, but you stand there looking at that photo and you know you will never forget her. You’ll never knew her, either, but that’s a different matter.

The band is too loud.  Of course, the band is always too loud. Everywhere. It’s what bands do: be too loud. This has the effect of driving everyone into the hallway, but by the end of the night the magic effects of Mr. Liquor will drive a few couples onto the dance floor, which allows you the chance to stand by the wall, watch other people dance, and remember the other side of High School.

Then you go outside and have a cigar with a cheerleader, which reminds you how things can change.

You catch up with other people’s profession. Giant retail mall manager. Gravestone coordinator. Gas-pump repairman / musician. Photographer extraordinaire. Corporate-function entertainer. Educator, realtor, high-end small-market auto detailer. Computer chip designer.

As Evil Glenn says, read the whole thing.

From the Washington Times:

Intelligence reports indicate the leader of Hezbollah is hiding in a foreign mission in Beirut, possibly the Iranian Embassy, according to U.S. and Israeli officials.
. . .
"We think he is in an embassy," said one U.S. official with access to the intelligence reports, while Israeli intelligence speculates Sheik Nasrallah is hiding in the Iranian Embassy.

If confirmed, the reports could lead to an Israeli air strike on the embassy, possibly leading to a widening of the conflict, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Foreign embassies are sovereign territory and an attack on an embassy could be considered an act of war.
 . . .
U.S. officials confirmed the existence of intelligence reports about Sheik Nasrallah hiding in a Beirut embassy after Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper reported Wednesday that the Hezbollah leader was thought to be in the Iranian Embassy. The newspaper, quoting intelligence officials, said Sheik Nasrallah has set up an operations center in an embassy basement that is coordinating Hezbollah attacks.
. . .
Iran's embassy in Beirut is located in the Shi'ite stronghold known as the Bir Hasan section, in the western part of the city.

The embassy also is a major base for Iranian intelligence and is used by large numbers of Ministry of Intelligence and Security agents, as well as by senior members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's shock troops that are linked to international terrorist activities.

Emphasis added.

Hat tip Instapundit, who pithily notes:

The Iranians are no doubt confident that no one would be so depraved as to disregard the sanctity of an embassy . . . .

I find this story oddly disturbing . . .

LONDON - Daniel Radcliffe will strip off his Harry Potter eyeglasses and robes for his London stage debut next year.

The 17-year-old actor, who plays the bespectacled schoolboy wizard in the Hollywood adaptations of J.K. Rowling's novels, will star as a troubled stableboy in Peter Shaffer's "Equus."
. . .
In one scene (Radcliffe) is required to simulate sexual ecstasy while riding a horse naked. But Davies said nudity was not the focus of the play.

UPDATE:  Upon further review, the entire concept of a male human attaining sexual ecstacy while on horseback is . . um . . well, use your imagination.

Ouch.

Australian animal lovers are apparently in a tizzy about a bar which serves its two resident pigs watered-down beer.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Pub owner Anne Free said Wednesday she was outraged that the tourist attraction had been attacked as cruel in the latest edition of a magazine published by animal welfare group Choose Cruelty Free.

Free said the pigs liked beer. She also watered the beer down to ensure they never got drunk.

"When it's very, very quiet, I often actually have to go over and give them a couple of drinks because, yeah, they do look forward to it," Free told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

"I get quite irate when people come in and say: 'Oh, is the pig inebriated?' There's no way that these pigs are being mistreated like that," she added.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals often investigates complaints about the pigs' drinking but have found the porkers unharmed.

God, I love Australia.

Starting Monday, July 31:
710 KCMO:  Laura Ingraham 9-11 am and Michael Savage 5-8 pm (both live, and moving over from 980 KMBZ).
980 KMBZ:  Mark Levin, 7-10 pm;  Neil Boortz, 10 pm-1 am (times are not confirmed).  Boortz was on KCMO several years ago but hasn't been in the Kansas City market recently.

KC Star article on the KCMO side of the move is here.

All in all, improvements almost all the way around.  Boortz is an unreconstructed libertarian.  Laura Ingraham is one of my favorites and a definite upgrade from the moribund "Brian & The Judge" show (that replaced Tony Snow when he went to the White House).  I'm looking forward to hearing more from Mark Levin.  The only move that isn't (in my humble opinion) an upgrade is KCMO's bumping of hilariously funny nutcase Glenn Beck for dreadfully unfunny nutcase Savage, who is simply unlistenable most of the time.

Also, KCSP 610 and KMBZ 980 are swapping Kansas Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers sports broadcasts, with the Jayhawks going to Sports Talk 610 and the Tigers to Newsradio 980 KMBZ.  Both KCSP and KMBZ are Entercom stations.

In the Aberdeen American News (via the South Dakota Politics blog):

With more than 2,000 new jobs expected to spring up in Aberdeen during the next three years, it's time to launch big-time advertising for workers, said the head of the Aberdeen Development Corp.

The word needs to get out to people in Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha, Neb., Jim Barringer said Tuesday at the development group's annual luncheon meeting at the AmericInn in Aberdeen. He is its executive vice president. The meeting attracted 55 people.

Given Aberdeen's low unemployment rate of 2.6 percent, the city might need to attract workers from elsewhere to fill all the openings, he said.