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Unfortunately, it takes only one…

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?

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

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.

Did he need a bat?

A man in Dallas was angry when his cat was taken to a local shelter.  From the Austin-American Statesman:

Man wields baseball bat to get cat from shelter

Police are looking for a man who took his cat back from the Dallas Animal Shelter while fending off employees with a baseball bat, authorities said.

Kent Robertson, the shelter’s manager, said the man came to the shelter in early October and found his cat. After employees told him he had to pay a $132 fee to get his cat, the unidentified man became upset.

He returned Monday, signed the guest book, loaded the cat into a carrier and threatened workers with the bat before leaving without paying the fee, according to police.

He left in a brown Ford F-150, nearly hitting two employees, said senior Cpl. Kevin Janse. No one was injured.

I guess, I understand.  I have a cat.  I don’t know if they are worth going to prison over, I mean, $132 isn’t much.

I wonder if this guy actually needed a bat?  He’s a pretty scarey character!

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I used to sell used cars in a past lifetime.

Hat Tip: The Jawa Report

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

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.