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Daily Archives: Thu,August/26/2004
THE NIGHT CHERNOBYL EXPLODED
Alexander Yuvchenko was on duty at Chernobyl’s reactor number 4 the night it exploded on 26 April 1986. He is one of the few working there that night to have survived. He suffered serious burns and went through many operations to save his life, and he is still ill from the radiation. He recently broke his silence for a documentary to be shown on the Discovery Channel.
>“I began to feel sick. I knew one of the first symptoms of radiation illness was vomiting, but I was thinking, have I eaten something? I was trying to keep the worst thoughts at bay. Half an hour after the explosion I had met a man with a dosimeter, he was fully covered so I don’t know who it was, and I asked him what the reading was. He showed me the counter, which was off the scale. That was a frightening moment. It was impossible to say how much radiation we were taking in, but I knew it was a large dose. I was taken to the local hospital at about 5 am because I was too weak to walk. I was taken to Moscow that evening.”
CARRY IT ON OR LOSE IT
Packing for trips is always an exercise in compromise. Do I pack too much or too little? Too much and you have to check the bag at the airport and run the risk (or probability) or having it go to Denver when you’re on your way to Vancouver. Too little and after a few days you start thinking about going on a shopping spree.
This site advocates the theory that it is possible to pack everything you need into one carry-on bag. Interesting information that I will definitely use.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Herman Wouk
>“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
HERO AND ASSHAT OF THE DAY
The hero is the unamed marksman from the Toronto Emergency Task Force who ended a tense hostage taking standoff yesterday morning with one well placed shot. Article from the Toronto Sun.
Asshat of the day award goes to the man he shot. After attempting and failing to shoot his estranged wife, this cretin with a long history of spousal abuse pistol whipped her and then took a 20 year old woman hostage and held the police off in front of Union Station in downtown Toronto. He dropped his guard for a second and the sniper took his shot. Don’t know if this was a case of “suicide by cop” or not but, if so, he got what he wanted and the hostage was unharmed.
Well done officer and good riddance scumbag.
Update: Thanks for Rachel Ann for pointing out that the Toronto Star link didn’t work. Replaced with the more sensational Toronto Sun.
ON THE GROUND IN NAJAF
Christopher Allbritton writes from Najaf Iraq to give us a chilling view that the news cameras and talking heads can’t come close to matching.
His excellent blog “Back To Iraq” is always worth reading. An excerpt where he describes a visit from the local police:
>“These are Najaf’s finest. They’re like the old regime, only less disciplined. They’re terrifying and they’re the most dangerous element in this conflict. The Americans and the Mahdi Army have pretty set positions and you know they’re not targeting journalists. But the police here have been engaging in a systematic intimidation of us for three weeks now. The governor of Najaf has reportedly threatened to jail journalists who don’t write down exactly what he says when he says it in interviews.”
Extremely powerful eye-witness accounts.