Thankfully we don’t have killer tornados around here, just small furry kittycats racing like a tornado into my house. Straight for the food bowl. Again.

Meowza was trying to make up his mind whether or not to go out. I opened the door wide enough for him to move. Instead of going out like a good kittycat, he just stood there letting Cece run in. I caught up with him chowing down at the food bowl, picked the kitty up and escorted him out telling him he doesn’t live here. He just meowed at me.

I’m wondering how long this will keep up before I just give in and let him stay.

Other fine catting: BKCFoC CotC ARK WCB

Perhaps even more disturbing than John McCain’s multistate win yesterday is this story at Yahoo or maybe not. McCain is known for his explosive temper. Just his isn’t enriched.

Iran is testing an advanced centrifuge at its Natanz nuclear complex, diplomats said on Wednesday, a move that could lead to Tehran enriching uranium much faster and gaining ability to build atom bombs.

…Tehran’s quest to produce usable amounts of nuclear fuel has been hampered by its use so far of a 1970s vintage of centrifuge, the “P-1,” prone to breakdown. Iran had 3,000 P-1s operating by November, creating in theory a basis for industrial scale enrichment, but was running them only at low capacity.

Aw, gee they break down. Would have been a good break for us if it weren’t for that advanced model.

“The Iranians have begun to run in the advanced model. It’s not yet known what stage the testing has reached or exactly how many there are, although it appears to be several dozen,” said a Western diplomat with access to intelligence.

The IAEA knows about them but doesn’t know where they are at? What good are the inspectors?

A senior diplomat familiar with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s file on Iran confirmed it recently began testing centrifuges based on a “P-2″ design, used more recently in the West and able to enrich uranium 2-3 times as fast as the P-1.

This is not good. Faster enrichment leads to more bombs sooner than expected. And there’s no reason to not expect Iran to build bombs.

A U.S. intelligence report in December said Iran stopped actively trying to “weaponize” nuclear materials in 2003.

But it also said Iran is steadily approaching the threshold of being able to produce uranium in proliferation-sensitive amounts and could easily relaunch a bomb effort at undeclared locations due to restrictions on inspector movements.

And that’s the problem. How do you monitor them if they refuse to let you check what they are up to. Looks too like Iran has no intention of suspending enrichment, far from it. Not unexpected really. Israel should take note.