[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Post your short news items, issues of interest, links, and so on. All who advance the Cause are welcome.

LET'S ROLL!!!

[Jemian]

Good morning.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Good morning on a fine Monday to be a Republican!

Fallujah is ours!

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

The Great American Left

I prefer "PINKO, COMMIE STOOGE!!!!!" followed by a few slaps that would make my alter ego, General Patton proud. ;^)

[DollyCali]

Nice opening chair. Thank you

That is a sad story about your friend for back home Kassie. I recall at Kent State we had a large group of international students from the mideast. the Men were quite the charmers & I recall the girls in the dorm talking about how desirable they were for dates. These men were in demand & told stories of (and I am sure MOST were stories) of being from wealthy oil families to secure bed & breakfast, if you get the gist.

I found most undesirable & besides had a SO at the time.

[M Kehoe]

Good morning.

I wish I could ping Nancy Pelosi to this thread.

And little Tommy Daschle is saddened, deeply saddened.

5.56mm

[Molly Pitcher]

Excellent essay, Chairman. You laid it all out.

We finally had the time to finish "Band of Brother" this weekend.

I couldn't help but think as I watched the last of that series of all the lives that might have been saved if Hitler had been confronted in the '30s.

Then, just before going to sleep, I was going thru some old articles I'd set aside to "read later."

One compared Bush to Churchill....but not the familiar war leader we know so well, but Churchill in the '30s when he was the single voice proclaiming the dangers of an increasingly powerful Hitler and Germany.

And today we have Bush, often alone it seems like, warning of the dangers of the growing terrorist threat.

The comparison held I think, BUT, and as the essay pointed out with this major difference: Churchill was out of power in the 30s...on the sidelines, and quite thwarted and frustrated at what he was seeing.

President Bush is in power...too often vilified and hated, he DOES have the full support of US, a majority of the American people.

Anyway, it was interesting to me to finish "Band of Brothers", thinking about the human cost of those years, and then read the Churchill/Bush essay.

There was an excellent BBC series in the late '80s about Churchill at this time, BTW. We taped it, and I still have it. Excellent, excellent, excellent Masterpiece Theatre!!

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

Great open, Chair! Good morning, All.

[Peach]

And a very fine morning to read your essay, Chair. What fun it was to read!

[kayak]

I'd like to call everyone's attention to a thread and the website to which it refers:

4th Annual Tree for the Troops

It's a cyber-tree with the decorations representing messages to the troops that one can leave at the site. No registration, no strings of any kind, apparently.

And then I would like to call your attention to the latest revision of the ATRW ping list. Please copy and use this newest version (especially if you use the list for pinging people to other threads) because someone has requested that their name be taken off.

If you would like to be added to or removed from the list, please let me know.

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[bevlar]

Your opening statement is always very good, but today's opening is SUPERB!!!!!

[duckbutt]

Hi Chair and All! Chair, since you're in No. Virginia you may be aware of the funding raising effort by WMAL, our flagship talk station here in the Wash. DC area. They are raising money for Fischer House, a "Ronald McDonald" like set-up for the families of service members who have been wounded and getting treatment at Walter Reed or Bethesda Naval hospital. Most of these families can't afford the airline tickets or hotel stays to be with their loved one while undergoing treatment. And, it's such a blessing and a boost to our service men and women to have their family with them. Apparently the DoD only flys in family if the serviceman or woman is is "serious" condition - - but the DoD bureaucracy usually determines that if one of our poor military personnel has a hand or foot blown off, that's not "serious" enough to warrant paying for the family to come in. Hence, this is where the Fisher House comes in. Good charity. They're looking to raise $500,000 by the end of the year and have raised around $200K so far. May want to check out the station's web site and click on the line for Fisher House. http://www.wmal.com/

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[The Raven]

>>>Well, Nancy, here's something for you to ponder. We have heard your message. We Americans have learned the Great American Left wants to take our money and to leave us more poor, more weak, and more dead.