Ridge Holds Briefing at 3:30 EST

Fox Cable News | 12/29/2003 | FNC

[Semper Paratus]

Sec. Ridge will hold a briefing at 3:30 PM EST.
Nothing follows.

[Mo1]

If the feds were serious about preventing terrorist attacks, they'd secure the borders, and leave the rest of us alone.

I'm all for protecting our borders better

But if you think shutting the borders will stop threats and attacks .. you are fooling yourself

[Squantos]

I work for an alphabet agency and we have the Elmo posters that we had printed up that we back light the condition in our sheep pens.........Works well as a night light during my nap time ! Maybe the tickle me Elmo Dolls are still on E-Bay........:o)

Stay safe !

[MEG33]

Announcing sky marshals required for all flights from overseas.(Even if it is only in our air space.)

[Varmint Al]

There are autonomist communication out there that are would have to be jammed to be disabled: Here in Central CA on 2m Packet Radio for example:

BERRY:K6JAC-4} Nodes:
AUKUM:W6HMT-7      BENCA:WH6IO-7      BERRY3:WA6QPU-3    BIH:W6IY-1
CAHTO:K7WWA-8      DIA:K6UCB-2        EKA:KA6ROM-2       ELDOR:W6PJD-3
FOT:KB6ZJS-2       GBV:KA6ROM-1       GRSVLY:KF6DQU-4    KENO:K7DDI-2
KLMT:K7DDI-3       KLMTH:KA6ROM-3     LASSEN:KJ6MD-2     LPRC1:K6TAM-1
MLODE:W6ABC-9      MODOC:K6JKC-5      NAPA:N6GBU-10      NEVADA:KF6DQU-5
PAC:WA6TOW-1       PINOLE:WD6EZC-5    PLACE:N6QDY-5      PVNPK:N7PLQ-1
RDG:WA6YNG-1       RNO:W7TA-4         SACTO:N7SCQ-1      SHASTA:KJ6RA-2
SJC:K1JAM-7        SKUNK:K7WWA-6      STH:W6CO-3         TRACY:WA6QPU-5
WOLF:KG6BAJ-4      YREKA:KJ6RA-3      YRGTN:N7LPT-1      YUBA03:N6CDF-5

These packet radio nodes reach from Central CA to Oregon and Nevada. Many of them run on solar power. Can the Government shut off the sun too?

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[cmsgop]

Any idea what this is about? The stock market is still open and doing good.

[MEG33]

Sky marshals required for all flights from overseas..even if only flying over US.

[cajungirl]

Dog, I have taken a vow not to get fractious with the people who cynically talk about Tom Ridge, who have no faith in government, who let their paranoid ideas control them so they think everything in the Patriot act is designed to bother them,,I have vowed not to dignify their adolescent ideas and behavior with any posts so I am not sayiing a word. But I want to tell them to go find some strange site where people can engage in deconstructing all institutions and valuable things in our culture and stop botheriing us. But I am not saying a word, not a word!

[Dog]

All this pissing and moaning......by the same people from thread to thread.....what the government isn't doing.....but this same crowd would bitch if we got hit again..

[ShadowDancer]

I've got the bad feeling that Eddie Munster

ROTFL. That's the most appropriate descrption of him I've seen yet.

[cmsgop]

Good Deal.

[MEG33]

I admire your restraint!

[orlop9]

Or .....your the only one in their AOR ..........:o)

We're not, there are quite a few boats in this area being watched, it's not a comfortable feeling.

[Dog]

Dog, I have taken a vow not to get fractious with the people

But I haven't..

[Mulder]

They didn't lie about not having foreknowledge about 9/11.

The repeatedly denied having any inkling of what was going to happen.

What they had, and what they stated publicly that they had had, was a lot of very unspecific pieces of chatter

They had Americans working at flight schools calling them, and warning them that something wasn't right with those muslims who wanted to learn how to fly, but not takeoff or land. One flight school instructor (in Minnesota, I believe) actually suggested to the feds that they could use the planes as missiles.

Another flight school instructor contacted the FAA to complain that one of the muslims didn't speak English well enough to fly (English is the universal flight language), and something might be amiss. So the FAA sent a bureacrat to sit with the student. They suggested that the flight school instructor hire an interpreter to help him. The "student" later piloted a 747 into the Pentagon.

And then there is the Agent Williams memo. And countless other examples.

That they didn't find the needle buried in the huge haystack does not equate to lying.

When they denied ANY prior knowledge, that is lying.

It was more important to them to expand the government than tell the truth.

[Squantos]

LOL.........Exactly ! Thus my Comm Cockroach comments...:o) .....Can't stop em !

Ya'll can even bounce signals off the moon can't ya ? One of these days I'm gonna have to dust off that nifty IC706 I got for Xmas a few years back,..........soon as they make a 1 WPM code test for stoopid folks like me.....Semiphore yes....15 WPM Morse ?!?!? .... Heck !

Stay Safe !

[Howlin]

I'll be holding you to tha, CG!

[Mulder]

But if you think shutting the borders will stop threats and attacks .. you are fooling yourself

I don't, which is why I'm armed most of the time.

[Squantos]

LMAO...Eddie Munster !........gonna be interesting to say the least. Maybe we're going back to mere panic mode vs sh*t 'n go blind time ??

Stay Safe !

[MEG33]

A very wise move is made about sky marshals(armed) and I wonder if any "good news" comments will be heard!