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So the apartment of one scary lady Cat Lady Supreme, Heidi E
ri
ckson, was stinking up Boston so animal control went in to take a look. They found more than 60 dead cats, wrapped in plastic bags and stored in freezers in the kitchen, bedroom and hallways.

Authorities also removed five live kittens and a Great Dane, all of whom were “severely malnourished” and had ringworm, Timberlake said. The apartment was filled with animal feces and blood, she said, and inside the refrigerator, inspectors discovered needles, syringes and vials of medicine. Sources said the tenant, Heidi Erickson, may have been breeding Persian cats to sell over the Internet.

City officials raided an apartment on Beacon Hill yesterday and found more than 60 dead cats and hundreds of syringes and medicine bottles in what appeared to be a secret laboratory. Officials from the city’s Inspectional Services department found most of the dead cats stored in freezers. They also found five live cats, which along with a Great Dane were quite malnourished. “There was something more sinister here and what that is we need to find out,” Inspectional Services Commissioner Kevin Joyce said.

Erickson’s website, White Persians, seems to be down, but here’s the archived version.

The Philosophy and goals of this cattery and WHITEPERSIANS are to facilitate the use of animals assisting humans in their daily lives. We uniquely train our kittens from birth by enhancing the environment to augment the development of affectionate companion behavior. We believe that the perfect kitten is one whose genetic quality demonstrates sweet behavior and still maintains the breed standard therefore we start with top show Persians who demonstrate such behavior. We have devoted much time and cost into selecting our foundation cats (parents) whose unique personalities and characteristics demonstrate and produce kittens with exceptionally sweet and affectionate behavior then we augment the environment of the growing kittens and reinforce those behaviors of companionship to produce the perfect lap sitting affection giving kitten who follows their human around and comes when it is called.

No mention of creating a CAT with FOUR ASSES there, but I’m sure it’s there someplace!

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So Krugman has also noticed the extraordinary “I am not a crook!“-like chutzpah of a White House that obviously feels it can now never be held accountable, when it dismissed Presidential lies as “as a matter of emphasis”.

We were not lying,” a Bush administration official told ABC News. “But it was just a matter of emphasis.” The official was referring to the way the administration hyped the threat that Saddam Hussein posed to the United States. According to the ABC report, the real reason for the war was that the administration “wanted to make a statement.” And why Iraq? “Officials acknowledge that Saddam had all the requirements to make him, from their standpoint, the perfect target.”

Earlier here.

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So I mentioned yesterday that US troops in Iraq had been shooting demonstrators again, this time in Fallujah. I see they shot more today. Way to build democracy! Anyway, it turns out that Fallujah is one of those lightning rods for dissent and grievance in Iraq – it has a history of nastiness and atrocity that goes back generations. Meanwhile, King Bush is getting ready for the money shot victory speech: the “end of combat in Iraq” Right. From now on it’s just a matter of crowd control.

Of course, many people will say that these annoying Iraqis are bringing this on themselves… On a side note, it’s almost 33 years to the day since Ohio National Guardsmen gunned down a crowd of protesting US students at Kent State U, killing several. At the time, a majority of US citizens polled believed that the students were to blame for their own homicide and most absolved the soldiers of any blame.

Earlier here.

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So the Feds have finally got around to charging Mike Hawash, perhaps prompted by the very public campaign against his internment. I can think of a few people who were falsely imprisoned for decades during terrorist media panics because of circumstantial association.

Earlier here.

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So Colin Powell, the My Lai apologist, has produced another opus. Contradicting the eye-witness accounts of literally hundreds of experienced war journalists and live footage from a French TV crew, he claims that the US’s tank assault on the journalists’ hotel in Baghdad was a justified response to “hostile fire appearing to come from a location later identified as the Palestine Hotel“. Uh-huh.
Powell also claims that “The U.S. military does not target civilians or civilian structures“… I wonder, then, who it was that destroyed Baghdad’s water and power. Still mostly non-functional, some doctors are reporting the early signs of a cholera and typhoid problem. And since when are journalists’ office *not* “civilian structures”?

On the same day as the attack on the Palestine Hotel, a US aircraft fired two missiles at the Baghdad bureau of Arabic satellite TV channel al-Jazeera, killing the station’s correspondent, Tareq Ayoub. American forces also opened fire on the offices of Abu Dhabi television on the same day.

Mr al-Ali has given me a copy of his letter to Victoria Clarke, the US Assistant Secretary of State of Defence for Public Affairs in Washington, sent on 24 February this year. In the letter, he gives the address and the map coordinates of the station’s office in Baghdad–Lat: 33.19/29.08, Lon 44.24/03.63–adding that civilian journalists would be working in the building. The Americans were outraged at al-Jazeera’s coverage of the civilian victims of US bombing raids. And on 8 April, less than three hours before the Reuters office was attacked, an American aircraft fired a single missile at the al-Jazeera office — at those precise map coordinates Mr al-Ali had sent to Ms Clarke — and killed the station’s reporter Tareq Ayoub. “We find these events,” Mr al-Ali wrote in his slightly inaccurate English, “unjustifiable, unacceptable, arousing all forms of anger and rejection and most of all need an explanation.”

The lack of concern by US journalists over the execution of these “foreign” journalists is a sign either of spectacular cowardice, or craven complicity. When you start giving assent-through-silence to your military’s slaughter of “foreign” journalists, then it’s just a matter of time before you find yourself in front of a firing squad.

Meanwhile, US troops continue to fire on Iraqi demonstrators, this time in Fallujah. With mass looting, chaos, rapine, and armed bandits controlling large areas of Iraq, that country now uncomfortably resembles the shambles of a country that Lebanon became after its invasion by Israeli and Syrian forces.

Earlier here.

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Here are Joss Wheedon’s 10 favourite Buffy episodes.

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These are nice clear graphics illustrating much of the recent hot air talk on the news.

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So according to this person, Japan’s second-highest ranked politician Taku Yamasaki is a closet pee drinker, and a bit of a randy old sort. Apparently, in Japan this sort of thing doesn’t cause many ructions. Maybe he’s a buddy of Saddam’s old friend, the horny Tory (ex)Alan Clark?

He enjoyed having sex while watching a pornographic movie on television, with the volume on full blast. She quotes him as saying: ‘If I were not a lawmaker, I would definitely have become a porn star. If I fail to get re-elected, I would like to be a professor in a women’s college. It will be a treasure mountain.’ … His craving for ‘abnormal play’ included forcing her to drink his urine or enduring intercourse with sex aids that he received as gifts from a like-minded colleague. But she put her foot down firmly when he spied a photograph of her mother and suggested that the lady join them in a menage a trois.

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No pulp fiction here when a guy chomped down on a Burger King Whopper and got a mouth full of poo. He’s suing, of course.

“I took a bite out of it,” the truck driver told the jury. “It tasted funny. I started to get sick, and I ran to the bathroom and threw up.” … “I took the top bun off it. I saw something brown mixed in with the fixings of the burger. It smelled real bad. It smelled like crap. It looked like something … how can I phrase this? … like you’re going to use the bathroom.” King took the hamburger to the Greenbrier County Health Department for testing. Laboratory analyst Ron Ramirez testified it had a high fecal coliform content.

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So the Bush gang are now furiously backpedalling. Bush has announced he believes Iraq may have destroyed any banned weapons before the US invasion, while Bush Gang insiders claim it’s all a matter of “emphasis” as the mass media primes the public for a “victory” speech soon from Bush, absent of any WMD smoking guns or a coherent Iraqi replacement regime.

Iraq may have rid itself of weapons of mass destruction in advance of a U.S.-led attack that was launched in the name of disarming that country, President George W. Bush said yesterday.

Officials inside government and advisers outside told ABCNEWS the administration emphasized the danger of Saddam’s weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the United Nations and to stress the danger at home to Americans. “We were not lying,” said one official. “But it was just a matter of emphasis.”

Earlier here.

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