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"I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr. Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country...."


- British Member of Parliament George Galloway, testifying before a U.S. Senate committee to refute charges of corruption in connection to the Iraq oil-for-food program.

Source: The Times

Don't wanna waste my life, Don't wanna waste my time

The heat has brought out all the tourists. The tube was packed on my way home with Americans, Germans, Israelis, Spanish-speaking folks. Sweat was pouring down everyone's face. I stopped at Paddington station to get some food at Sainsbury's. It looked like a mass exodus was in place: suitcases everywhere, teenagers sitting on the floors with their bored cigarettes, passengers looking expectantly at the train information; long line-ups to withdraw money, to buy food, to enter the trains. I'm so glad I'm not travelling during this bank holiday weekend.

I had to get out of my sticky clothes and take a shower. I've got all the windows open and 4q's For England mix on the stereo. I'm sitting in shorts with no t-shirt on. It's fucking beautiful outside - a pale blue sky with no clouds, children playing, people standing outside pubs with their red faces and their large pints of ale. The city is going to move tonight to the sound of drunks getting laid, travellers ready for good times, dancers dripping on the dancefloors. The canal outside our building is still like a lake. As I was walking from Paddington station home, I could smell the rotting leaves in the water, the carcasses of fish and birds brewing a typical London stew.

If this heatwave persists through the weekend, I can only guess what earthquake will bring London down.

Summerness

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Woo Woo Woo!!!