A bridge for sale?

President Bush continues to insist that he did not hype Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction. Well, if you believe that I have a wonderful bridge or two to sell you. Would you like one of those from the Bay Area or one from Sydney? They are all lovely works of construction. Tony Blair, too, is in hot water with the public and with parliament so the coming year in politics at home and abroad is going to be interesting. Who will survive? Perhaps this is a new version of the reality TV show "Survivor". Blair will be in Washington this coming week for talks with Bush. Perhaps it is time for a new script as they won't survive long on the current one. What had looked like a dull campaign in '04 looks like it could get very heated and contentious.

Say, do you get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom without turning on the light? Well, you might want to think twice about it after reading the following.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A pet python missing over the last two months made its reappearance by scaring a Dutch woman when it slithered out of her toilet bowl. The constrictor snake, which kills its prey by coiling around it and squeezing, had been on the loose for more than two months after breaking out of its terrarium in a town near the port city of Rotterdam, Dutch news agency ANP said on Thursday. As police and vets came to catch the two-meter long fugitive python, it slid under a bathtub that they had to demolish to capture it.

The snake was returned to its owner, but local residents were unhappy to hear the owner admit that a second pet python, this one almost one-meter long, had also escaped and was still on the loose.
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So ends a quiet weekend here in the City by the Bay. It was a surprisingly warm day and I have noticed recently that when they predict a cooling trend it warms up and when they predict a warming trend it cools off. Well, today's "cooling" trend was marvelous. We need more like them.

Back to work tomorrow so I hope everyone has a great week ahead.