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God's blessings on you all for your sweet encouragement and love.

Purdue, I wrote you on yesterday's thread, but want to say again how MUCH your words encouraged me!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to your hubby!!!
You have to know God used your faithfulness as a light to others, and is still using you to encourage.

I love you all!!!!

I had a troubled night, but was able to give it to God sometime in the wee hours of the morning....

..and best of all, this AM, hubby & I are on the same page & pulling those oars together :)

We are dependent on God's will.....and rejoice in His goodness.

Mr. Chair, welcome back. There's a thread going on a WSJ editorial on the President's hydrogen car initiative. This thread is classic FR: acrimony, debate, and some great thinking.

Hydrogen Car Hype

As usual, rather than doing his work, Nicollo chimed in. My publisher just threw back at me the revisions I gave them back in November. "Great stuff, but it's too much," I was told. Oh, and the book's already in the catalog and sales are strong, so there can be no delays. Yes, no, and why the hell are you only telling me this now??? The announcement is here: McFarland & Co., Publishers

As my uncle says, God made editors in order to torment authors. I have to revise in one week two intense months of work I gave them last Fall. The key will be to keep it all the same without them noticing it. Hmmm...

OK. To work!

Continuing saga----

Our Family Member had her interview with the SS today. (She is 7 hours ahead of our Central Time.) She felt it went sort of OK.

I don't know if I mentioned that after the incident happened, she joined the Federal employees union--something she previously had not been intending to do. They immediately provided her with a lawyer, for which she has been very grateful. This lawyer just told her that in the 10 years of this work, she has never had a case like this. (Oh, great!)

After everybody hung up except FM & the SS agent in charge of the inquiry, he told her that the situation had been aggravated by a culture conflict--between State Dept & SS. The female SS agent, after speaking to FM, had emailed that there were no witnesses to the incident claimed by Chelsea & that FM didn't appear to be a threat. However, when FM did what was required by State & immediately notified a superior, who then called SS & said what's up, this girl is not a security problem, then SS gets their feathers ruffled & says you can't tell us how to do our job.

State is fairly flexible if you tell them everything about yourself. She would have lost her job if she had not notified her employers about this situation. But Secret Service feels that no one else has a right to speak to them about their work. (Sigh)

She also found out & is VERY upset that X42 lied about his confrontation & said that she made a series of statements & said ugly things to him--that she hated him & a bunch of other emotionally negative statements. (She told me that if she were to have said those things, she would have said them in a much more succinct & pithy manner than he reported!) Apparently, he said she refused to shake his hand, but he never offered his hand.

The SS has more to do. I don't know when they will close their investigation. Of course, she had to give her immediate family's names, addresses, ph #s, & lots of personal info.

State Dept holds its own inquiry next month regarding her suitability to retain clearance & her professional abilities.

She doesn't understand how people can lie so horribly & readily. And people believe them against their own eyes & all other evidence.

She is severely depressed right now--sleeping too much & eating everything, crying a lot. She is rational & knows she shouldn't be doing this. But it is a natural reaction, especially for someone who has high hopes & aspirations, is an inspired & praised worker, and is of good character--much better character than many of the people she has encountered.

Thank you for all your concern.

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Mr. Mulliner, this is one Grandma who LOVES to be considered useful. Glad your girls are feeling better.

Jim, I forgot to mention who else was at our table besides Jane Russell, General Jack Singlaub. Just in case you don't know who he is check this out.

An OSS officer in Nazi-occupied France, Singlaub was one of the founding members of the CIA. He fought behind enemy lines in Europe and Asia, headed CIA operations in postwar Manchuria, led troops in Korea, managed the secret war along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and worked with the Contras in Nicaragua. And in a celebrated encountered with President Jimmy Carter, he opposed the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea

Psalm 15
¹   Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
²   He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
³   He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
⁴   In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

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