What Happens in Vegas: Property with Spacious 70s-Era Bomb Shelter for Sale

There are a couple of surprising things about this story, first, that an unassuming Las Vegas house has a huge fallout shelter beneath it that would rival most 70s upper-middle-class homes. And second that I've driven right past this area countless times over the past 20 years, and never knew it was there. I used to shortcut down Viking to get to the Boulevard Mall, back when people still went to malls. And on several occasions, I've eaten at the TGIFridays that is this home's next-door neighbor. Wild.

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Las Vegas Bomb Shelter for Sale: Luxurious Blast From the Past

While "unique" is probably the most overused word in real estate listings, this five-bedroom, six-bath Las Vegas home just blocks from the Strip delivers on that while still managing to be one of those trendy luxury doomsday bunkers. The luxuries in this case are 1970s vintage, though -- hot tub, outdoor barbecue, intercom, large master bath -- and actually date from kind of late in the era of Cold War paranoia that started driving people to build nuclear bomb shelters back in the 1950s. . .

Read more at: AOL

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John Bolton Jokes About Annihilation of Chicago

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What's left of the far right of the Republican Party is throwing its annual shindig in Washington, D.C. right now. It's called the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and it used to be the hottest ticket in town. It's chock full of humor, mostly of the unintentional variety, like "Joe the Plumber." And there are also the things intended as humor that just aren't funny.

Former UN Abassador (by recess appointment) John Bolten--who once joked about the UN building being blown up--made a joke about Chicago being blown up. The crowd ate it up. Which tell you a little something about the crowd.

This CPAC thing used to sort of freak me out. Every bigwig conservative was there to curry favor, and the overriding message was far, far to the right. To me, it was an embodiment of the normalizing of far-right politics, something that wasn't true, but had quietly taken the place of more moderate views. With Sarah Palin, not-a-plumber Joe, and now Bobby Jindal, the GOP has become more of a punchline than a serious threat. I like it that way.

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John Bolton at CPAC: The Benefits of Nuking Chicago

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton believes the security of the United States is at dire risk under the Obama administration. And before a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Thursday morning, he suggested, as something of a joke, that President Barack Obama might learn a needed lesson if Chicago were destroyed by a nuclear bomb. . .

Read more at: Mother Jones

Iran Ended Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003

Hmmm. So the spectre of a mushroom cloud is a little more unlikely than we've been led to believe. Maybe this will stop the drumbeat to war with Iran? Sure hope so, but I won't count my chickens yet.

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U.S. Says Iran Ended Atomic Arms Work

A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting judgment two years ago that Tehran was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb.

The conclusions of the new assessment are likely to reshape the final year of the Bush administration, which has made halting Iran’s nuclear program a cornerstone of its foreign policy. . .

Read the rest at: New York Times

Iran's Nuclear Ambitions Exaggerated... Surprise!

In the drum up to war with Iran we've been lead to believe that they have the bomb & only "Chimpy McFlightsuit" is keeping them from nuking us & Israel. He is such a hero... and that swagger... I digress.

Please read on to discover some of the... dare I say, TRUTH, regarding Iran's agenda & technology.

Don't be fooled by the talking heads of main stream media about this matter. They're idiots.

Experts: No firm evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons

Experts: Danger of nuclear-armed Iran may be hyped

Thanks to McClatchy Newspapers for these articles.

No Evidence of Iranian Nukes or Program?

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I hate to over-saturate the blog with purely political stuff, but this is what's popping up in front of me, and I think this particular story needs to be read by just about everybody. We already know that the Bush Administration (and their media arm, FOX "News") really wants a war with Iran. We know that the rhetoric has been cranked up. And we know that it somehow sounds very familiar.

Many blogs, and some political TV and radio shows have already pointed out that the drumbeat to an Iran war sounds virtually identical to the leadup to the Iraq War. And now, something else eerily familiar:

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No evidence of Iranian nuclear-weapons program, experts say

WASHINGTON -- Despite President Bush's claims that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons that could trigger ''World War III,'' experts in and out of government say there's no conclusive evidence that Tehran has an active nuclear-weapons program.

Even his own administration appears divided about the immediacy of the threat. While Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney speak of an Iranian weapons program as a fact, Bush's point man on Iran, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, has attempted to ratchet down the rhetoric.

''Iran is seeking a nuclear capability . . . that some people fear might lead to a nuclear-weapons capability,'' Burns said in an interview Oct. 25 on PBS.

''I don't think that anyone right today thinks they're working on a bomb,'' said another U.S. official, who requested anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity. . .

Read the whole story at: The Miami Herald