A visitor to Glacier National Park in Montana lost his car keys while attempting to lure a ground squirrel by dangling the keys out in front of the critter.

The squirrel grabbed the keys and ran down a hole with them. The keys were never retrieved.

A ranger cited the man for harassment of wildlife, and a locksmith was called to make new car keys.

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“I’d always done a lot of glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, ‘Don’t smoke marijuana, it will kill you.’”
Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

I noticed that talk of war has been shunted further away. You see it takes time for real statistics to dawn on politicians. I don’t think Britain can do it full stop. Maybe if we still had an empire and wore red just maybe…. but we are not what we were. Two world wars stripped us of our youngest and brightest and I don’t think we have truly recovered. The last of the baby boomers are now 40 ish and after us? What sort of people are coming after us?

(My 3rd cake launch went very well, it had “go flight” even while it looked at me from the mixing bowl. Yum! Thats what you get for following the instructions down to the last second of cooking time….)

Well, words are surfacing which indicate the closeness of what it was we all expected anyway.

“The US has plans to establish an American-led military administration in Iraq, similar to the postwar occupation of Germany and Japan, which could last for several years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it emerged yesterday.”

Post-war occupation of Germany and Japan was necessary to counter any further threat from those particular countries and at the same time, ensure the wheels of war halted rather than an inbalanced division of power between the Allied forces. Iraq, obviously, wont be like this. The US and UK appear to be the only countries entering into this Iraq occupation,(should it happen of course) and the Gulf is a totally different kettle of fish to administer. Who will own the oil?

I wonder whether we are overstretching oursleves :-p

Next pause for thought:
“A military thinktank called the Role of American Military Power, has estimated that 75,000 troops would be necessary to stabilise Iraq after any war. It is possible that funds would be stripped from US contributions to international efforts to stabilise other regions such as the Balkans, to help meet the costs.”

Quite frankly…”oh shit” When the Balkans still hasnt reached a level whereby we can all get out of it and go home, why then, do we starve it of money needed? Surely, the money pumped into the Balkans is needed? If not…why?
Afghanistan. Does international efforts include Afghanistan? What a tangled web we weave. I wont bother to list numerous othe countries which you may or may not know about, who, be it through famine, war, disease or disaster, receives International relief.

Last but not least:
“We would have the commitment of resources necessary, and we would have the will to stay for as long as necessary to do the job.”

Translated could mean; “we would have the will to stay for as long as it takes to find somewhere else to go.”

These words, more than the threat of war, un-nerve me. Soldiers are bred for attack and defend. Not to stand around waiting to be picked off by the locals. Northern Ireland with a sun tan?

I can cook a mean pizza. This pizza would end most wars, at least until it came down to the last slice. Otherwise, cooking by numbers is my way. Without any directions on the package I wouldnt know what to do.

My standard of cooking has until recently been officially classified as a “form of unarmed combat”. My friends and family have known this for years. Recently I took the challenge up again and released a fruit loaf on an unsuspecting spaniel population (2). They did not expire and so said loaf was released on the general public (one of my neighbours).
However, the second loaf was a complete disaster and was verging on what I would call a “form of terrorism”. It was released in the kennel (where both spaniels blew up…. I digress they are fine but they did get a bit fatter!) and I am writing this to warn that attempt 3 is scheduled to go ahead this evening…..
Rosie

posted some recent AIM messages in the slice-o-time section

I used to play one of these until recently. At the time I thought it was a good idea. I even got to the point where I couldn’t wait until Saturday mornings to play still in my JimJams with my toast by my side. Eventually though, I found it repetitive and although I was playing my mind was elsewhere. Eventually it becames stressful for me to play, mostly because of the behaviour of (mostly teenagers) people in the game. I have kept some good mates from it but now we chat in MSN Messenger.
Only yesterday did I have an epiphany of sorts about this. These games don’t de-stress me. Most people have the ability to focus just on the game, which I didn’t. My way of brain dumping is by writing, either here or in my diary or listening to music, talking to like-minded people. Horses for courses. I think in the future games will be OK for me when I don’t have too much real life to think about. (What? Level up another wizard? Duuhhhhh)
Rosie.
PS I tried a Sim City but man it’s boring laying all that road…

My Sister-In-Law missed being a target for the Washington Sniper by minutes the other day. My wife, oddly enough, was also within 100 feet from a KGB Agent shooting a woman in the face during the early 90’s, in downtown England of all places. Whats the chance of this happening twice? Im not including probablity of Mr Military who goes round playing “duck” in strange countries….like…Wales.

US marine shot dead in Kuwait

White House ‘exaggerating Iraqi threat’

War words

Hello Hooly

Why does my Anti-Virus insist it wants to keep re-scanning my tripe compooter for viruses when I obtained the said product under the illusion that it would prevent future infection? SOD IT! Its a conspiracy. They are all out to get someone. Not me, im to lazy to be paranoid.