Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Two

[Cindy]

Smiling...

[Oorang]

Thanks for all your translations. Your efforts are appreciated.

[JustPiper]

Militant about "Islamism"
Daniel Pipes wages "hand-to-hand combat" with a "totalitarian ideology"
by Janet Tassel
"It's a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution."

~Daniel Pipes

Richard Pipes, Baird research professor of history, recounts in his recent book, Vixi, that when Daniel, his first child, was born in 1949, he felt as if he himself were being reborn. To mark the event he even quit smoking.

And, in a sense, with the birth of Daniel, Richard Pipes was indeed reborn, perhaps even cloned. Daniel '71, Ph.D. '78 (early Islamic history), is what old-timers would call a chip off the old block. Both are essentially loners, non-belongers (the subtitle of Vixi is Memoirs of a Non-Belonger), and fighters. Pipes the elder, the fiercely anti-communist cold-warrior, head of President Ford's Team B (formed to evaluate the CIA's estimates of Soviet nuclear intentions) and Soviet policy adviser to President Reagan, was cursed as a "wretched anti-Sovietist" by Pravda—and pretty well marginalized at Harvard for his politics.

more...
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2300
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/010540.html

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Ping 4066 here we have them all together. I saw somewhere Bush is meeting with Putin after the first of the year, go figure.

[JustPiper]

Hub targets LNG tankers - Fall River seeks White House help
By Jay Fitzgerald and John Strahinich
http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=60017

Tanker danger report boosts plan for offshore LNG facility
http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/04/g/gstory.pl?fn-glng22

Utility to sell Iowa's only nuclear power plant
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/10475780.htm

[Oorang]

Thanks for the info. I also got error messages but wasn't sure if it was my computer (security settings) or them.

[Cindy]

I think it's them.

[JustPiper]

Steve

May the Angels surround her and make her comfortable

[Oorang]

Well now, that Hub targets article sure is interesting JP. Thanks for posting.

[JustPiper]

prayer warrior ping

[Cindy]

Yep. By the way, don't lower whatever security settings you feel comfortable with just to look at any of these links of interest.

[Oorang]

Trust me I don't :-) I learned the hard way, months ago.

[JustPiper]

http://www.purposedrivenlife.com/

Getting me through since last week

[JustPiper]

http://www.zondervan.com/

[Cindy]

I'm sorry to hear that.

I had a hard crash the other day -- first time in a long time.
Made me grouououchy.

[Velveeta]

An American Married to al Qaeda

Woman Says Her Husband Helped Set Up Sleeper al Qaeda Cell
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=352268&page=1

[JustPiper]

Leslie Cifelli, a spokeswoman for Public Service Electric & Gas Co., said an automatic transfer switch failed for an unknown reason at 11:55 a.m., cutting power to fewer than 1,000 residential and commercial customers. Most of those who lost power were in the sprawling Newport development along Jersey City's waterfront, including the mall, Cifelli said.

[MamaDearest]

Sorry to hear about your Great Aunt Clara, and will offer prayers for her recovery. Please keep us posted on her condition Mossad!

[JustPiper]

Sure would cause a disaster wouldn't it

[JustPiper]

Parts of Indiana, Ohio may get foot of snow
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2959839

Snow storm snarls much of southern, central Indiana
http://www.southbendtribune.com/breakingnews/posts/2177.html

Storm packs wallop with snow, ice and bitter cold
The Associated Press
A winter storm battered states from the Plains across the Midwest on Wednesday, sending travelers slipping and sliding over icy roads, dumping a foot of snow over some areas and pushing temperatures to bitter-cold levels.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stormcenter/2004-12-22-wed-nite-storm_x.htm?csp=34

Chicago:
Overnight - Cloudy with periods of light lake effect snow. Localized accumulations of 1 to 3 inches possible by morning... especially across southern Cook County nearest the lake. Lows zero to 5 above...except 10 to 15 along the lake front. Breezy north winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph. Wind chill readings 10 below to 20 below zero.

Thursday - Cloudy with flurries possible in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the lower teens. Breezy northwest winds 15 to 25 mph. Wind chill readings 15 below to 25 below zero.