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Dream

8:42am JST Monday 1 January 2007 (day 13431)

Guys throwing knives to each other as a secret handshake so they could identify themselves after they broke out of prison. The prison break started when a kid drove his truck crashingly into a fence and pretended to have his hair on fire running around and everyone climbed out and I could fly so I told them how much further they had to go, and through what they had to go in order to get past the fences. Some guys were asking about the leadership of the group and one guy was like, "look, 6 months ago you weren't even friends, and now you have a secret handshake and have escaped prison. I did all that, so I'm the leader."

We got nearly out of the prison, but had to go through a final wall. It was not well-secured, but secure enough that we couldn't get through for a while, until one guy went into the restroom and realized there was a fan vent out through which we could climb. Climbed onto the roof of the place and then heard commotion below so we had to zoom away. I flew to the next thing and some girls tried to climb up onto the roof to meet me. A guy climbed out onto the roof through a window, and I flew away, all like, "I just want some time alone," and went out through a wall somewhere.

Electric toothbrush

4:44pm JST Monday 1 January 2007 (day 13431)

I bought an electric toothbrush as my happy new year's, happy palindrome, and happy Xmas gift. I've been wanting one for a while, and decided that today would be a fine day for gifts to my teeth.

Flash

5:43pm JST Monday 1 January 2007 (day 13431)

Have gotten some progress in the new flash clicking game. Had to create an object with actionscript, drawing lines and such. It's not done, but I've gotten a good start.

naptime for a bit.

9:48pm JST Monday 1 January 2007 (day 13431)

Okay, now naptime. I stayed up working on my marble track, coding a bit more, reading news, and a letter from Saddam Hussein to the American people:

Letter from Saddam Hussein to the American people

9:51pm JST Monday 1 January 2007 (day 13431)

I just read this letter to the American people, ostensibly from Saddam Hussein while he was in captivity. I'm posting it for posterity, and there's definitely some truths in it.

Two of my favorites:

	America is a big country on the other side of the Atlantic. It has developed a unique unparalleled
	power such that I think some people there imagine that it is on its way to attaining the crown of
	the world all for itself as a world empire. Have they not learned a lesson from their war in Viet
	Nam? The west used to promote the idea that world Communism and the Soviet bloc threatened their
	interests and also the security of the entire west. But despite that promotion, this was nothing but
	a flimsy cover. Nevertheless, America used it and wrapped itself in it until the heroic Vietnamese
	people expelled them by force.

and

	On this basis I said to some Americans when I was in my prison, why don't you come to an agreement
	with the Resistance to designate a country with a charter and power to which the Resistance can hand
	over those American soldiers whom they capture, rather than executing them as currently is said to
	be taking place. In fact the extent to which the Resistance is responsible for this is unknown, but
	people who are equitable know that America has not abided by international law in any of its
	activities in Iraq, including the Geneva Conventions regarding prisoners and detainees. The
	Resistance has no secure place in Iraq where prisoners can be kept. So whether the Resistance is at
	all responsible, or whether the responsibility lies with some other parties that have no connection
	to the Resistance, the justification for it is that there is no secure place for prisoners to be
	kept.
	
	Therefore in order to fulfill humanitarian needs and to eliminate the justification [for killing
	prisoners] I make this proposal to you and to the national Resistance and to anyone concerned, and I
	make this with the best of intentions. If you accept it and respect the Geneva Conventions then the
	argument of those who kill rather than detain prisoners will have vanished. But if your government
	does not accept it, then it will bear the responsibility for refusing and for whatever befalls our
	people and the heroic Resistance as a result of your government's violation of international
	law. This will be particularly true if the number of American prisoners increases in the future, and
	we think that it will increase. Or is it that your government can't see anything until it feels it?