Your daughter’s friend’s story about the coyote incident is credible. (Although teenage boys have been known to fabricate to impress girls, there’s no reason to think that’s what’s happening here.)

The Oak Ridger’s disjointed coverage of the meeting in Country Club Estates notwithstanding, the speaker at that meeting (which I attended) did not completely dismiss the potential risks from these animals. They do kill cats and they have been known to attack people. (Come to think of it, I’ve had a few similar experiences with domestic dogs.)

The Environmental Quality Advisory Board is planning to disseminate some public information on living with coyotes. Reality lies somewhere between the fearmongering about these critters that was decried at that meeting (“Oh my God, the coyotes are coming to carry off grandma!”) and the fantasy that they are cute and harmless.

“Also, Saddam had tried to import enforced aluminum tubing which some think could be used to build centrifuge enrichment process—the modern method of enriching uranium.”

Uh, no. No informed American thinks that the aluminum tubing could have been used to build centrifuges. That was an administration lie that was debunked long ago. The tubes were for Nasser-81 ground-to-ground conventional rockets.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2004/isg-final-report/isg-final-report_vol2_nuclear-05.htm

It should tell you something that Terry Franks continues to recycle this lie.

“In other words, why have no major media outlets, Congress, the Republican Party, or even the President, given the American public the information to make their own decisions regarding the intentions of Saddam Hussein and his storage of over 1 million pounds of uranium?”

Uh, they were. This story has been around for years. Sorry you couldn’t read.

http://www.mahablog.com/oldsite/id13.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003502.php
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/17/171214.shtml

The reason most intelligent and informed people didn’t wet their pants over this the way Terry (belatedly) is, is because yellowcake uranium is useless to make a bomb. Yellowcake is not a WMD. Saddam had no weapons-grade uranium. Saddam had no nuclear weapons program. No amount of hyperventilating over old news is gonna change that, Terry.

“Providing the information on what Saddam did possess is a necessary step in allowing the American public the ability to make their own determination of what Saddam Hussein’s intentions were or were not.”

Uh, no. Intentions cannot be deduced from possessions. In my lab, for instance, I have chemicals that could kill hundreds and give cancer to thousands more. What are my intentions?

“In the meantime, printing a news story like this one is often the opportunity to see who doesn’t mind making a fool of themselves.”

In this case, the fool is Terry Frank. I’m not surprised.

Netmom, Terry Frank is an ignorant rube. Why do you link to her?

I find Frank rather incredible. She is such a rabid wing nut, and I have found some of her information to be well… inaccurate and what she writes is laughable.

Please don’t fall into her trap and for sure don’t turn into her clone.

The only foreign “yellow cake” in Oak Ridge is from Libya. Don’t you think if there was evidence of this substance in Iraq with all the flack the administration has gotten over WMD’s they would be parading it around, not classifying the info? Their major justification for the war and it is kept a secret? To what end?

I doubt very seriously that a rabid blogger would break a WMD story of such magnitude. Her goal is 15 minutes of fame, to defend this administration and the extreme right wing of the Republican Party to the end. Hopefully we can all see through this charade.