Posted on 11/04/2002 4:16:06 AM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail! [President Bush]
Good morning!! Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our Freedom, die in vain!!
Yesterday, a 7.9 magnitude quake struck Alaska, south of Fairbanks. The quake was felt as far away as New Orleans. Only one injury has been reported. The Alaska Pipeline is intact, but shut down this morning. Some support structures are broken about 50 miles south of Delta. Damage exists on the Alaska Highway. There is also some damage to the Parks Highway, as shown in the following photo:
Zogby has Jeb Bush with a 15-point lead going into the last day before the election.
Mondale still leads Coleman, but only by 5 percentage points.
Carnahan and Talent are tied in the Zogby poll, both at 46%.
The New York Times is conceding the Republicans will likely make gains in the House.
And authorities are investigating whether a shooting in Clinton, Maryland, was related to the sniper. While previously not believing that to be the case as it didn't fit the MO - the victim was shot several times at close range, but still managed to survive, authorities are taking another look because a laptop computer owned by the victim was among the items recovered from the sniper's car.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
/john
I don't care if it were Newt Gingrich hosting the show, if a national party Chairman has a chance to be on a show with 2.3 million viewers on election eve, a Democrat trying to win an election would go on. I would go on a show hosted by Daschle if there were 2.3 million people watching.
But McAuliffe had agreed to be on O'Reillys show with his Republican counter part but McAuliffe didn't call and didn't show. O'Reilly had an empty chair on the screen.
That is not what a man who expects to hold his job does.
That may indeed be a sign.
O'Reilly was saying he fully expected Sununu to win. And Ari was cautiously optimistic on the plane with reporters. This may be a bad year for Repubicans but you can't tell it by the actions of the players.
I can't imagine McAuliffe not showing up. It is the petty act of an angry man. People who are about to win elections are not angry. They will come on a hostile show just to gloat and rub it in.
Hot Dog! I didn't see this because I had to run to the grocery. Thanks, good news indeed!
/john
I just talked to my Mom a little while ago...the doctor did a biopsy on Friday on what they thought was a "hematoma" between his neck and shoulders. They went back today to get the results and they were not good. It is a cancerous tumor. So now he has two tumors to battle with instead of one. The oncologist also told him that because it was a tumor and not a "hematoma", he is now in the Stage IV category, which means it has begun to spread and is the last and final stage of the large cell cancer. They are going to start him on radiation therapy this Wednesday and he will be going in for the radiation 5 days a week for 7 weeks, and see if that will shrink the tumor. I am not sure if they will be doing the radiation on both of them or just the one on his neck/back, but I would think that since they are no longer going to do chemo, they will use it on both tumors.
My mother is very upset (naturally) because this came as a complete shock because 4 doctors looked at the catscan and said "hematoma", and so naturally they did not think too much of it, since the oncologist told him on Friday that the "biopsy" was only a precautionary measure but he didn't think it was anything to worry about.
When the doctor gave this news to my Dad, my mother said it was absolutely heartwrenching when she saw the look of fear and panic on his face.
My Dad asked the doctor if this was the beginning of the end and wanted to know what the probable outcome was...was it hopeless? The doctor said, "No, it isn't. We are going to treat it very aggresively with the radiation." Thank God the next door neighbor took them to the doctor because there was no way my mother would have been able to drive safely after the visit. My Dad was sleeping when she called me with the news, and she said that he cried all the way home from the hospital and then when he got home, he just sobbed his heart out for about 30 minutes. He kept saying over and over, "I don't want to die. I'm not ready to die yet." He broke the news to my brother Joe, but he (my Dad) got so emotional after talking to him that he asked my Mom to make the rest of the phone calls and asked her to tell us that he didn't want to talk to anyone or see any of his children right now. He went into his room, shut the door and cried himself to sleep. He is thinking that he has already lost the battle. There is an organization of cancer patients that survived the worst of the worse, and they are going to go see my Dad tomorrow and will be his "support group" outside of the family. They've been exactly where he's at now and I think that even though we have been loving and supportive of my Dad, we cannot possibly imagine what he is going through, but these men can and my mother said the man from the Cancer Survivors support group will be there for him as long as he needs them...they will take him and my Mom to the doctor's, tell my Dad how they made it through and just give him some hope. Thankfully, my Mom contacted a Cancer Support group for the family, and she has been talking to her for the last few days.
I am still shocked and dismayed about this development, but I refuse to give up hope. My faith in God is all I have right now and I am hanging on for dear life, as are my brothers and sister.
If you would, please continue to keep my Dad and Mom in your prayers as you have been doing all along. Tonight I am scared, heartbroken and terrified, but I know what the power of prayer and absolute trust and faith in God can do, and no matter what happens, I'll make it through this ordeal.
Deej
I was living abroad when I went through the change too.
For two years just about our only source of news was Newsweek - and to this day I cannot stomach to look at that magazine.
I was teaching my Chinese students a class on "newspaper reading" (no fooling!) and began to look a little more closely at what was being reported and how.
When Newsweek did a major story on the abortion issue, it suddenly became clear to me that they were anything but impartial.
I jettisoned those beliefs so fast and the rest, as they say, is history.
/john
Thanks GC6. God bless you and yours.
/john
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