In winded and breathless voices: News flash!!! Bruce Ivins also possessed the toxic liquid di-hydrogen-oxide which is a powerful solvent and can be 'highly toxic' officials have said and has killed or been implicated in the deaths of millions or perhaps billions of people in the last thousand years. Small amounts are used in some areas of research but what troublees investigators is the massive quantity of the substance that was stored in his office and the haphazard way in which it was stored. It was found in small plastic roughly flask shaped containers stacked in the office closets. The containers were not viewed as being 'child resistant' and could have potentially leaked their contents and caused massive damage to the building and anything in the floors immediately below if they fell to the floor.

Officials also found several boxes of yellow sticks containing a long chained molecule that has been linked to several subversive groups and has facilitated attacks on the government and the many agencies that are working hard to keep America safe. These devices have been phased out of most research labs and their use is viewed as an oddity in today's modern research offices due to their highly destructive potential for lab equipment and research materials. Their use is viewed by many researchers as reckless, costly and potentially extravagant. There are more stable and easier to work with alternatives that are less expensive and easier to track.

'Unnamed White House officials' said that the combined stash of chemicals amounted to a 'treasure trove' of agents that could rain destruction on the country. They pledged a full scale investigation into who supplied these items to a known psychopath and whether government funds were improperly used to procure these substances.

They assure us that the substances were handled with all due care and that never was the public in danger. All road blocks were cleared within hours after the cleanup operation was concluded. This case continues to produce many unanswered questions.

Film at eleven...

(What were the substances? Di-hydrogen-oxide is the chemical name for water: H2O. The yellow sticks? Ordinary 'number 2' pencils.)

When will marketing folks learn to actually go to the source to find out what women want?

Maybe when they stop uncontrollably giggling at the word 'breast' and freaking at the word 'period'?

"Why can't a woman be more like a man?" Because they aren't and ain't it great!

Sorry that I brought up my mom. She's been on my mind a lot lately.

Insulting her?

In the meantime, your insulting her makes you a very ugly little person. Pretty ain't all about the outside, sister.

How do I insult her. She is a crazy old lady and I love her. By saying that I choose to not have her issues when I get there makes me a bad person? Huh. I see the struggles that she deals with. The people that DO insult her, on a daily basis, to her face! I see the trouble that she has walking, sitting, getting up, laying down.

She's my mom. She's better than the entire olympic team in my book! Those people don't hold a candle to her. She's a tough old bird and she'll tell you too.

By recognizing that I don't want to end up like that, I'm a bad person. Well, then I'm a bad person with a wonderfully crazy fat mother.

I guess I'm mean too because I won't let her get a scooter (they market those damn things to oldsters like candy to children). She can still walk well and putting her in a scooter will take years off of her life. In my mind, she doesn't need one. She needs to 'keep moving her meat'. Keep putting one foot in front of the other! I hope that by New Years she will have a new knee!

She can't run marathons and jump hurdles and pole vault but her heart is as big as the great outdoors and she inspires me to be better. (She actually jokes about her weight being because she's Irish and married an Italian. The food is just too damn good.)

Whatever...

It's interesting that when you are born you get certain body types. What you do with it after that is largely your choice...

For the Olympic participants, I don't hope they bring back the gold as much as I hope they have a good time and live the moment, make memories and friends and stay safe. I'm proud enough that they are there...

So anyway...

...back to talking about the Olympian bodies...

Beautiful, aren't they... 'Purpose built' bodies. Fine machines of flesh and bone. Impressive...

And my god, a heart rate of 28bpm! WOW! Incredible... Mine is in the mid 50's. One could argue that a fat percent under 20 isn't healthy but her body is a furnace that burns that up.