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The New York Times

Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.

The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country’s main nuclear plant at Natanz. The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium.

Several experts said that was enough for a bomb, but they cautioned that the milestone was mostly symbolic, because Iran would have to take additional steps. Not only would it have to breach its international agreements and kick out the inspectors, but it would also have to further purify the fuel and put it into a warhead design — a technical advance that Western experts are unsure Iran has yet achieved.

“They clearly have enough material for a bomb,” said Richard L. Garwin, a top nuclear physicist who helped invent the hydrogen bomb and has advised Washington for decades. “They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that’s another matter.”

Iran insists that it wants only to fuel reactors for nuclear power. But many Western nations, led by the United States, suspect that its real goal is to gain the ability to make nuclear weapons.

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American intelligence agencies have said Iran could make a bomb between 2009 and 2015. A national intelligence estimate made public late last year concluded that around the end of 2003, after long effort, Iran had halted work on an actual weapon. But enriching uranium, and obtaining enough material to build a weapon, is considered the most difficult part of the process.

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That uranium has been enriched to the low levels needed to fuel a nuclear reactor. To further purify it to the highly enriched state needed to fuel a nuclear warhead, Iran would have to reconfigure its centrifuges and do a couple months of additional processing, nuclear experts said.

“They have a weapon’s worth,” Thomas B. Cochran, a senior scientist in the nuclear program of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private group in Washington that tracks atomic arsenals, said in an interview.

He said the amount was suitable for a relatively advanced implosion-type weapon like the one dropped on Nagasaki. Its core, he added, would be about the size of a grapefruit. He said a cruder design would require about twice as much weapon-grade fuel.

“It’s a virtual milestone,” Dr. Cochran said of Iran’s stockpile. It is not an imminent threat, he added, because the further technical work to make fuel for a bomb would tip off inspectors, the United States and other powers about “where they’re going.”

Attack and take out Iran, President Bush.

Please.

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

UPDATE 1: It looks like Drudge Report has copied my headline.

The Jerusalem Post wonders if it is too late to stop Iran.

News Of The World

SEX-MAD Terri Hunter has slept with 1,000 men, but says, ‘I’m not a slut’ — insisting her insatiable lust is an illness that’s driving her crazy.

The 25-year-old customer service manager needs sex up to a dozen times A DAY and admits her addiction is out of control.

Randy Terri even trawls the internet for partners, agreeing to sleep with them no matter how ugly they turn out to be.

“That’s another sad parts of this problem — my desire for sex overrides any quality control issues,” said Terri, from Dagenham, Essex. “It doesn’t matter to me how it happens or what they look like and it’s a bonus if they’re well-endowed.”

Terri, who struggles to maintain a relationship because of her addiction, became a slave to love at the age of 17, when she lost her virginity.

She recalled: “It was like someone had flipped a switch. From then I just developed an insatiable desire for sex. I’ve done it with hundreds and hundreds of men. I don’t keep a tally because I’m not a slut — I am just satisfying a need.

“Most people who know me think I’m really sweet and charming. I don’t smoke, I hardly drink, I’ve never taken drugs, yet I’ve slept with nearly one thousand men.”

And if there’s no man around, Terri slips off to satisfy herself, even if she’s at work. She added: “Other people have fag breaks, so I don’t feel too guilty. On a bad day, I can have up to a dozen comfort breaks.”

Terri has tried hypnotherapy, SAA (Sex Addicts Anonymous) and has been prescribed anti-depressants — but still can’t control her urges. Her lustful thoughts would often happen during sessions with her psychotherapist.

“I was laying on the couch telling my shrink that I was turned on at the thought of sleeping with him. I was hoping he’d jump on top of me and we’d have sex!

“I’ve been on nights out where I’ve ended up in the bedroom with married couples. Often I’ll bring some sex toys with me, or I’ll ask them to bring some along. I am looking for complete satisfaction.”

Despite her bed-hopping, Terri has managed to stay faithful to her current boyfriend, Wayne, for two months. But she says: “I know that my appetite will probably wreck this relationship like it has done to all the rest.

“Men can’t cope with my sex drive. I’ve ended up having sex with a their mates before — I was that desperate for it.

“It’s like having dry skin: You know you shouldn’t scratch it, but when you do it just feels so good.”

This is the best story ever featured on Scoop This.

Yes, I know we are a predominantly breaking news / political website. Honestly, who really cares about Barack Obama’s administrative cabinet selections?

A woman named Conna Chillura entered Breast Christmas Ever on the MJ Morning Show and won a free breast enhancement procedure! Check out her winning video! Tits In A Box

Conna’s video is a spoof off Justin Timberlake’s “Dick In A Box” song on Saturday Night Live.

NewsBusters.org

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: The battle for same sex marriage continues. And one of the movement’s motto’s is “gay is the new black.” At least that’s what some people are saying. That’s what’s on the cover of “The Advocate” this week. And some people don’t agree with comparing this to black suffrage. I don’t even know if I understand what that word is, suffrage, but I’ll leave it alone, black suffrage.

SHERRI SHEPHERD: I guess it’s when black people had to, you know, they didn’t want to die for being black. They didn’t want to be lynched. They wanted to be able to walk through the front door. They wanted to, you know, you had Jim Crow laws that said you could only, you can not do certain things if you were black.

Suffrage means “the right to vote”, not “feel pain or distress”, Sherri and Whoopi. The latter is the definition of suffer.

I love when liberals think they have a monopoly on intellectual superiority. They often prove themselves as idiots.

UPDATE 1: Not to be outdone, Michelle Malkin writes that Joy Behar dissed students who partake in home schooling.

Not safe for work.

I used to sell used cars in a past lifetime.

Hat Tip: The Jawa Report

The American Spectator

It looks like the voter selected Norm Coleman.

What is the problem? Does penmanship really count?

Also, I doubt Al Franken knows anything about farming and labor.

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

breitbart.tv

What the hell was the father thinking?! Well, he was not thinking, especially when he is downing double-shots of vodka.

There is no reason for a 6-year-old to handle a Colt 45 Double Eagle. I cannot believe Richard Peters also let his 8-year-old and 3-year-old handle his weapons.

Perhaps 30 years behind bars on a manslaughter charge will be enough for Richard Peters to beg G-d for forgiveness.

Det News

U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., said it is insane to stop building automobiles and trucks. But it’s also insane for the Big Three CEOs (General Motors, Chrysler, Ford) and Gettelfinger (United Autoworkers Union) to fly to Washington on private jets.

He asked all four to raise their hands if they flew to Washington on a commercial plane.

“Let the record show no hands went up,” he said.

He then asked the foursome to raise their hands if they would vow to sell their jets and fly home on a commercial plane.

“Let the record show no hands went up,” he said.

Finally! For the first time in America’s history, a Democrat actually made some sense.

Representative Sherman said this with slyness, too.

If General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford need money, they should take some direction from my girl, Sarah Palin, and put their corporate jet planes on EBAY.

Metro.co.uk

A man has been fined after he was caught by police in his car with his penis in a pasta jar.

Keith Roy Weatherley, 46, was spotted acting suspiciously in his car by police near Nobbys Beach in Australia.

When police approached him, they suspected he might be armed, so they drew their weapons.

When he saw the officers, Weatherley pulled away and led police on a 20kph chase which lasted up to ten minutes.

When he finally stopped the vehicle, he refused to exit the car, and officers used batons and spray to remove him. They found him with a 750ml pasta jar around his penis.

While they were trying to restrain him, Weatherley continued to pleasure “himself in between bouts of wrestling”.

Police found a number of items in the car, including pornography, a home-made sex aid, women’s stockings and a Jack Russell terrier.

Weatherley pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction.

He said he resisted police because he was trying to make himself “decent”. He was fined £257.

A Jack Russell terrier?

Is bestiality part of this case?

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

breitbart.tv

My Way

HOUSTON (AP) - Flight controllers were revamping plans Wednesday for the remaining spacewalks planned during space shuttle Endeavour’s visit to the international space station, after a crucial tool bag floated out to space during a repair trip.

The briefcase-sized tool bag drifted away from astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper on Tuesday as she cleaned and lubed a gummed-up joint on a wing of solar panels on the space station. She and fellow astronaut Stephen Bowen were midway through the first of four spacewalks planned for the mission. The tool bag was one of the largest items ever lost by a spacewalker.

As Stefanyshyn-Piper cleaned up a large gob of grease that seeped from a gun used to lubricate the joint, the tool case somehow became untethered from a larger bag and floated away along with a pair of grease guns, wipes and a putty knife attached to it.

“What it boils down to is all it takes is one small mistake for a tether not to be hooked up quite correctly or to slip off, and that’s what happened here,” said lead spacewalk officer John Ray.

Stefanyshyn-Piper and Bowen finished the spacewalk in almost seven hours by sharing tools from Bowen’s bag. Ray noted that Stefanyshyn-Piper showed “real character and great discipline” by continuing on. She was the first woman to be assigned as lead spacewalker for a shuttle flight.

“Despite my little hiccup, or major hiccup, I think we did a good job out there,” Stefanyshyn-Piper said after returning to the space station.

Women always screw things up.

Just kidding.