Posted on 06/17/2006 6:15:31 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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N. Koreans Ordered To Raise Their Flag At 2PM, and Listen to Broadcast
N. Korean leadership ordered its citizen to raise their flag and listen to their (government) communique from TV in the evening, according to Sankei Shimbun (of Japan), quoting Japanese government sources.
The paper said it is paying attention this development because it could be related to the launch of Taepodong-2.
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I can't talk about stuff like that.
Interesting take.
Is this a bad time to not that Bush is considering giving IRAN 'peaceful' nuke reactors?
The Korean government is taking emergency countermeasures after judging that the injection of liquid fuel in Taepodong 2 or the multiple stage Taepodong 2 missile is a suggestion of an impending launch off. A government official said, “We think North Korea has poured liquid fuel into the missile propellant built in the missile launching pad at Musudan-ri in northern Hamgyong Province,” adding that “it is at the finishing stage before launching.” Injecting liquid fuel is the stage right before launching a missile, and therefore is interpreted as the most certain indication of a launch.
But the government has said that they have not been able to get a final confirmation whether the process of injecting liquid fuel has been completed. In the case that the missile is not launched within 48 hours after injecting fuel in the missile propellant, the fuel causes the propellant to corrode, so if the missile is not to be launched, the fuel must be removed.
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=050000&biid=2006061934088
Not true. The Sun Valley lefties are vacationers. They are not voting residents. Boise does have the majority of lefties as noted in the red/blue coloration of the last Presidential election. The lefties in Pocatello are mostly college students. Again, they are most mouth and don't vote due to their transient presence for schoool at ISU.
Great gun laws was a prime reason for moving to Idaho. CCW is easy. You can own anything that is legal under federal law. We even have multiple Class III FFLs in town.
The subzero weather is unusually less than a week each year in Pocatello. We get a couple big snows. Usually Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years work out to be big snows. The city road crew has the main streets plowed by 7 AM. I'm on a small cul de sac that is too tight for the plow, so I depend on a 4x4 to get in and out. It doubles as transport for my lawnmower to the rental house each weekend and eases driving to the range. Most winter days are in the 20's, so a light jacket is satisfactory.
Humidity tends to be low all year. That is a blessing when the summer temps rise into the 90's with a couple days over 100. It's mostly mid 80's in the day and 50's at night.
Spring and Fall are delightful times to be outside. Short sleeve shirts and shorts are fine. No fleas at 4600 feet.
You can pick your poison with respect to mosquitoes. I live a fair distance from any water, so they are rare around my primary residence. Not so at my rental. You want long sleeve shirts at dusk or you will be dinner for the mosquitoes.
When I moved to Mira Mesa (aka Manila Mesa), I was rewarded with many fine asian restaurants. Lumpia was available daily. Ditto for Vietnamese pho. Green curry with chicken was my favorite food at the Thai restaurant. I miss that aspect of my former existence in San Diego. We do have a fine Thai restaurant in Lava Hot Springs. It's a 37 mile trek vs 2 miles in Mira Mesa. We do have a fine asian restaurant in Pocatello as well. They offer a mix of Szechuan, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Thai. Good quality, but different from what I was accustomed to finding in San Diego. Sadly, we have no Indian restaurants. I have to patronize the frozen food section of the supermarket for tikka masala and other favorites.
One of the better RPGs.
Most of my family has found that it takes about 3 weeks for the dry nose and nose bleeds to subside after moving from sea level to 4500 ft. Once your nose is acclimated, it is much more pleasant. Physical exercise in the thinner air is also a bit more challenging. I spend time on the tread mill and lifting weights so that my trips to Yellowstone are a breeze. That bumps the elevation to the 6200 to 8500 foot range. Absent sufficient preparation, a visit can be fraught with lots of huffing and puffing up the trails.
Very, very interesting question.
And Che just happens to be today's feature article on Wikipedia's homepage, in a flattering light of course. I think you are on to something.
Che Guevara was an Argentine-born physician, Marxist revolutionary, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara traveled "rough" throughout Latin America, bringing him into direct contact with the poverty in which many people lived. Through these experiences he became convinced that only revolution could remedy the region's economic inequality, leading him to study Marxism and become involved in Guatemala's social revolution under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Sometime later, Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary 26th of July Movement that seized power in Cuba in 1959. After serving in various important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 with the intention of fomenting revolutions first in the Congo-Kinshasa and then in Bolivia, where he was captured in a CIA-organized military operation. Guevara died at the hands of the Bolivian Army in La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967. (More...)
geez, I din't know he was such a good guy.../s
With all due respect to the east coast I think it was this one: a new post summarizing the whole thing...NK was going to fire a rocket at 1am est last night. They didn't because of bad weather. Because they filled the tanks with fuming red nitric acid (one of the feul components) they have to either shoot it off or empty the tanks. The amount of time they have to shoot it off was listed upthread as 48 hrs but I don't believe that is anything more than a # picked out of the air. Any ways...this is a new improved rocket that could be sub-orbital (my own conjecture) or is at least some thing that the msm says could reach our shore (like the last long range nk missile might have). Hope that clears it up;-)
Did you check 1364. Have to go to the site listed but is most current article I have seen.
Apparently, the launch site has had bad weather (cloudy and probable rain.) Some say that might have held off the launch.
Best -- Dave
Dosa....you should charge people for your summaries! Thanks.
Some of us Leftcoasters were listening to shortwave and other stuff last night in light of NK's Official Announcement (trying to find Asian sources of news), and, when we realized the launch wasn't going to happen, diverted the Lighthouse Chat to other things. Mea Culpa - gardening, food, etc.
Sort of a Freeper "Night of the Comet".
Agreed. Like most all bullies, he's a coward. However, he's also a psychopath. Never bet on the actions of a psychopath. It's like that famous scene in Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon:
Lecter: If you caught me, by implication you must think you're smarter than me.
Will Graham: I know I'm not smarter than you Dr. Lecter. You had certain disadvantages.
Lecter: WHAT disadvantages?
Will Graham: You're INSANE.
NEVER bet against a psycho. Cowards are afraid to act man to man. Psychos with a finger on the button of a nuke will push that button. He'll push it because he knows there is no American marine with an unobstructed and clear line of sight to his head that's within range.
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