Posted on 09/19/2004 9:25:02 PM PDT by Mo1
It's currently 70 here right now.. and it's going all the way down to 61 tonight, lol. The pool is 84...;)
Oh my.. we've been talking politics all day. Nah..it couldn't have been Dims. Unfortunately they don't just suddenly disappear.
I was joking around LOL but you really are talking about the same place great!
I glad you share this!~
That was just a little bridge. We went over the 17 mile Cheasapeak Bay bridge/tunnel. That was some sight. Saw lots of cruise ships and tankers. I never knew that it had two tunnels so the ships could pass thru.
I didn't get any good pics of it..:( I did get a couple shots inside the tunnel tho.
I didn't get any good Q on the way down.. Darn it! I did get some crab cakes in Maryland and they sucked.
It was odd to go from a huge expansion bridge into a tunnel twice tho.
OMG... what a good transition..lol.
I just love the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.
Thank you for amusing tale.
You really do have a special relationship with the neighborhood fur balls!:)
I am listening to a story about Target other stores don't want the "Salavtion Army" http://salvation-army-news.newslib.com/ ringing the bell in front of thier stores and SA off the streets!
Whoa!
Nice tunnel.
Zoom!
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I can only imagine what it's like to drive the Keys.
They did that last year too Resty. They are a very rotten outfit, and I never shop there.
Woman Fined for Bungling Mexican Anthem
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URBAN LEGEND
SAVE SESAME STREET!
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I love all of you photos do have a Pbase link!
I hear about 90% of SA collects go to help the needy and they were at Ground ZERO helping to feed nourish the workers etc.
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ITS ABOUT TIME............
CIA plans to purge its agency Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers who were disloyal to Bush
BY KNUT ROYCE WASHINGTON BUREAU
November 14, 2004
WASHINGTON -- The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.
"The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."
One of the first casualties appears to be Stephen R. Kappes, deputy director of clandestine services, the CIA's most powerful division. The Washington Post reported yesterday that Kappes had tendered his resignation after a confrontation with Goss' chief of staff, Patrick Murray, but at the behest of the White House had agreed to delay his decision till tomorrow.
But the former senior CIA official said that the White House "doesn't want Steve Kappes to reconsider his resignation. That might be the spin they put on it, but they want him out." He said the job had already been offered to the former chief of the European Division who retired after a spat with then-CIA Director George Tenet.
Another recently retired top CIA official said he was unsure Kappes had "officially resigned, but I do know he was unhappy."
Without confirming or denying that the job offer had been made, a CIA spokesman asked Newsday to withhold naming the former officer because of his undercover role over the years. He said he had no comment about Goss' personnel plans, but he added that changes at the top are not unusual when new directors come in.
On Friday John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year veteran of the intelligence division who served as acting CIA director before Goss took over, announced that he was retiring. The spokesman said that the retirement had been planned and was unrelated to the Kappes resignation or to other morale problems inside the CIA.
It could not be learned yesterday if the White House had identified Kappes, a respected operations officer, as one of the officials "disloyal" to Bush.
"The president understands and appreciates the sacrifices made by the members of the intelligence community in the war against terrorism," said a White House official of the report that he was purging the CIA of "disloyal" officials. " . . . The suggestion [that he ordered a purge] is inaccurate."
But another former CIA official who retains good contacts within the agency said that Goss and his top aides, who served on his staff when Goss was chairman of the House intelligence committee, believe the agency had relied too much over the years on liaison work with foreign intelligence agencies and had not done enough to develop its own intelligence collection system.
"Goss is not a believer in liaison work," said this retired official. But, he said, the CIA's "best intelligence really comes from liaison work. The CIA is simply not going to develop the assets [agents and case officers] that would meet the intelligence requirements."
Tensions between the White House and the CIA have been the talk of the town for at least a year, especially as leaks about the mishandling of the Iraq war have dominated front pages.
Some of the most damaging leaks came from Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, who wrote a book anonymously called "Imperial Hubris" that criticized what he said was the administration's lack of resolve in tracking down the al-Qaida chieftain and the reallocation of intelligence and military manpower from the war on terrorism to the war in Iraq. Scheuer announced Thursday that he was resigning from the agency.
What is this black space loddy for?
I got a funcle!
Sallie, and a missionary that we know personally, are where our contributions go.
Who knows where the white hole?
Internet magic?
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