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Posted on 11/01/2006 8:20:24 PM PST by nwctwx
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Page Snippet (minus the photo): "THE RICHARD C. RESCORLA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
http://www.rickrescorla.com/index.html
Rick Rescorla - Battle of the Ia Drang - Viet Nam - 1965
My husband, Rick Rescorla, was one of the 3,000 Americans murdered by terrorists on 9/11/01. Rick was Vice President of Security for Morgan-Stanley/Dean-Witter, the largest tenant in the World Trade Center. His heroic actions on the day of the attack, along with his extraordinary foresight and preparation, saved the lives of 2,700 people. His story has been told on television and radio - in newspapers and magazines - and in the book Heart Of A Soldier, by Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart. Rick is also on the cover of another book, We Were Soldiers Once... And Young, written by General Hal Moore and Joseph Galloway. You see, 9-11 was not the first time Rick had distinguished himself. 9-11 was just the last heroic chapter of his heroic life.
I am so very proud to have had him in my life. I want so to have his legacy live on. Two years ago Rick's friends and I decided to establish The Richard C. Rescorla Memorial Foundation in Rick's memory, to keep present the magnitude of Rick's life and to promote the virtues Rick lived by – duty, honor, and courage.
To that end we commissioned a bronze statue of Rick, based on that iconic photo of him at the Ia Drang. This statue will be placed on permanent display at the new National Infantry Museum to be built at Ft. Benning, Georgia. This statue was unveiled April 1, 2006 at a wonderful ceremony at the old museum and is now in storage there while the new museum is being built.
Many people contributed their time, effort, and money to this project. To each of you, I extend my deep gratitude and enduring appreciation.
Susan Rescorla"
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and the photos:
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Here is the military gift giving thread run by Freeper patriciaruth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts?page=1469#1469
You can e-mail directly to patriciaruth with any questions.
She is the wonderful gal who knows everything about getting food and other items to the troops.
Thank you Donna.
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"Bible Classes Being Moved From Mooresville School Grounds"
AP ^ | 11-24-06
Posted on 11/24/2006 5:36:06 PM PST by digger48
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MOORESVILLE, Ind. -- Bible classes taught by a private group to third- and fourth-graders during school hours are being moved about a month after a lawsuit was filed over the practice.
The move off the grounds of the Mooresville Consolidated School Corp. is permanent and comes as the district nears a settlement on the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, said Curt Freeman, the school district's superintendent."
Odd News...
http://www.polizei.hessen.de/internetzentral/nav/a9a/a9a70ee1-825a-f6f8-6373-a91bbcb63046.htm
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and in English here:
http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/shocking_us_pol.html
"Shocking! U.S. Police Patrol on German Autobahn!"
(November 24, 2006)
JP, don't forget that Kelly Ripa, Rosie O'Donnell, and Clay Aiken are having some kind of three-way feud, and that has gotten more ink than the fact that a russian whistle-blower has been killed with some kind of nuke device, a Lebanese Cabinet Minister has been brutally assassinated, and Iran is going full speed ahead on weapons development.
It's frustrating what people find important.
In a recent conversation with a co-worker, we were discussing our 10 year old sons. I was telling her how my son asks where we will be volunteering during Christmas. And he and my 8 year old know that part of the money that they receive throughout the year they will donate to a needy family or local charity. With our help they can easily make the determination on where their donation will go. It helps them realize how blessed they are...and that in giving do they really receive. This is how I grew up and I think it has always kept me grounded in reality. I want them to be grounded and take part in these choices now while they are young.
While I know that in some way this shopping boosts our economy, creates jobs for those in the retail sector, etc. I find the coverage and over-the-top need for "things" very distasteful. Makes me pay more attention to keep praying for Iraq, our soldiers, their families, the middle east, our society, our government, etc.
Midnight bump!
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Iran and Syria Helping Hizballah Rearm
TIME.com (excerpt) ^ | November 24, 2006 | Elaine Shannon and Tim McGirk
Posted on 11/24/2006 9:41:54 PM PST by HAL9000
Excerpt -
Iran is smuggling weapons through Syria to re-arm Lebanese allies Hizballah, despite renewed efforts by United Nations peacekeepers and the Lebanese army to seal off the mountain borders with Syria in the wake of last summer's war between the Shi'ite militia and Israel, according to reports by Saudi and Israeli intelligence sources that have been confirmed by western diplomats in Beirut.
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Democrats' Secret Weapons
Investor's Business Daily ^ | Nov. 24, 2006 | IBD
Posted on 11/24/2006 8:44:15 PM PST by FairOpinion
Intelligence: Senate Democrats are focusing their new powers on one thing above all else: wrenching as many national security secrets as possible from this White House and using them for political assassination.
Giving Leahy and his staff secrets would, quite simply, be a security risk. Since the 1980s, Leahy's nickname inside the Beltway has been "Leaky Leahy" because of his willingness to provide the press with juicy secrets to be used against Republican presidents.
"The American people," Leahy wrote in a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, "deserve to have detailed and accurate information about the role of the Bush administration in developing the interrogation policies and practices that have engendered such deep criticism around the world."
Wrong. What the American people deserve from our government is not kowtowing to foreign criticism, but protection from terrorism. That is something President Bush has done to perfection — and Democrats seem willing to sacrifice protection in their crusade to destroy this presidency.
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"Midwest town sees return of old disease"
Scientific American ^ | November 22, 2006 | Deborah Cohen
Posted on 11/24/2006 10:04:55 PM PST by neverdem
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http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_033_2006_Release/index.asp
Ohio Firm Recalls Cooked Ham and Turkey Products For Possible Listeria Contamination
Recall Release CLASS I RECALL
FSIS-RC-033-2006 HEALTH RISK: HIGH
Congressional and Public Affairs
(202) 720-9113
Amanda Eamich
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 2006 - HoneyBaked Foods Inc., a Holland, Ohio, firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 46,941 pounds of cooked ham and turkey products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.
The following products are subject to recall: [View Labels]
6- to 11-pound packages of "SLICED & GLAZED FULLY COOKED HALF HAM." Each package bears the establishment number "EST. 15875" inside the USDA mark of inspection. Each label also bears a package code between "6261" and "6310."
12- to 16- pound packages of "SLICED & GLAZED FULLY COOKED WHOLE HAM." Each package bears the establishment number "EST. 15875" inside the USDA mark of inspection. Each label also bears a package code between "6261" and "6310."
3-pound approximate weight packages of "SLICED AND GLAZED COOKED BONELESS TURKEY BREAST." Each package bears the establishment number "P-15875" inside the USDA mark of inspection. Each label also bears the product code "30505 02099", as well as a package code between "6248" and "6258."
3-pound approximate weight packages of "SLICED AND GLAZED FULLY COOKED SMOKED BONELESS TURKEY BREAST." Each package bears the establishment number "P-15875" inside the USDA mark of inspection. Each label also bears the product code "30504 02099", as well as a package code between "6248" and "6258."
Recommendations For People At Risk For Listeriosis
Wash hands with warm, soapy water before and after handling raw meat and poultry for at least 20 seconds. Wash cutting boards, dishes and utensils with hot, soapy water. Immediately clean spills.
Keep raw meat, fish and poultry away from other food that will not be cooked. Use separate cutting boards for raw meat, poultry and egg products and cooked foods.
Do not eat hot dogs, luncheon meats, bologna or other deli meats unless reheated until steaming hot.
Do not eat refrigerated pate, meat spreads from a meat counter or smoked seafood found in the refrigerated section of the store. Foods that don't need refrigeration, like canned tuna and canned salmon, are safe to eat. Refrigerate after opening.
Do not drink raw (unpasteurized) milk and do not eat foods that have unpasteurized milk in them.
Do not eat salads made in the store such as ham salad, chicken salad, egg salad, tuna salad or seafood salad.
Do not eat soft cheeses such as Feta, quesco blanco, quesco fresco, Brie, Camembert cheeses, blue-veined cheeses and Panela unless it is labeled as made with pasteurized milk.
Use precooked or ready-to-eat food as soon as you can. Listeria can grow in the refrigerator. The refrigerator should be 40 °F or lower and the freezer 0 °F or lower. Use an appliance thermometer to check the temperature of your refrigerator.
The ham and turkey labels also state "Dist. by HONEYBAKED FOODS INC., HOLLAND, OH 49528."
The ham and turkey products were produced between September 5 and November 13, and were sold at the company's retail stores and kiosks in the Toledo, Ohio, region, as well as through internet and telephone catalogue sales nationwide. HoneyBaked Foods Inc. has contacted catalogue sale customers who purchased products subject to recall.
The problem was discovered through the company's microbiological testing. FSIS has received no reports of illnesses associated with consumption of this product.
Consumption of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Healthy people rarely contract listeriosis. However, listeriosis can cause high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea. Listeriosis can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths, as well as serious and sometimes fatal infections in those with weakened immune systems, such as infants, the elderly and persons with HIV infection or undergoing chemotherapy.
Consumers with questions about the recall should contact company Customer Service Hotline at (800) 461-3998. Media with questions about the recall should contact company Vice President of Public Affairs, Crises and Issues Management Steve Behm at (800) 461-4105.
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/ Food_Safety_Education/ Ask_Karen/index.asp #Question. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from l0 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day.
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"Second Robber Sought After Fatal Home Invasion - Police Say Victim Shot, Killed One Robber (CA)"
KCRA ^ | November 24, 2006 | Staff
Posted on 11/24/2006 10:16:42 PM PST by DaveLoneRanger
SACRAMENTO, Calif. --
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The second robber has been identified as a black man with a light complexion, 25 to 30 years old, 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall and 160 to 170 pounds. He had a thin mustache and medium-length, wavy hair that was bleached or blonde in color. Police released a sketch of the robber.
Anyone with information regarding this crime may contact the Sacramento Police Department at 916-264-5471 or Crime Alert at 800-AA-CRIME or 916-443-HELP. Callers may remain anonymous and be eligible for up to a $1,000 reward."
...and the violence in Thailand continues...
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014172.php
November 24, 2006
Islamic jihadists in southern Thailand burn teacher alive
Will the Islamophobia never end?
"Insurgents in southern Thailand burn teacher alive," from Deutsche Presse Agentur, with thanks to Doc Washburn:
Bangkok - Insurgents shot a school director Friday afternoon in southern Thailand then set his vehicle on fire killing him in the flames, the English-language Bangkok Post newspaper website reported.
Police said the director of a school in Pattani province, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, was shot in his pickup truck while driving out of school.
He was wounded but not killed in the shooting before insurgents set his pickup truck on fire. He was burned alive inside the truck.
Thailand's three predominately Muslim southernmost provinces have been increasingly restive the past three years, but no insurgent groups are claiming responsibility for the violence or making demands in exchange for stopping it.
Bangkok's new military-installed government has apologized to the people in the southern provinces for past injustices and is making a new approach to ending the violence peacefully a top priority.
It is the jihadists who should be apologizing, and being called upon to apologize.
Posted by Robert at November 24, 2006 07:58 PM
I agree with your take on this. Too many people could care less about death in Iraq, or elsewhere. They just can't survive without their toys.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6182804.stm
Last Updated: Saturday, 25 November 2006, 06:10 GMT
"Police probe Russian spy's death"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Counter-terrorism police investigating the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko are examining hours of CCTV footage as they bid to crack the case.
Detectives are also trying to trace anyone he met around the time he initially fell ill on 1 November.
The officers have also asked the Kremlin for help, despite Russia denying any involvement in the death.
The ex-spy's death has been linked to the presence of a "major dose" of radioactive polonium-210 in his body.
Scotland Yard confirmed radioactive traces were also found at Mr Litvinenko's home, a sushi bar and a hotel, but the risk to others was said to be very low.
The Home Office said anybody concerned should contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647, who have been briefed about this issue."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "A post-mortem examination on Mr Litvinenko has not yet been held.
The delay is believed to be over concerns about the health implications for those present at the examination."
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"Toxic 'bomb' killed ex-spy"
By Peter Graff
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY
November 25, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LONDON -- British authorities said a rare and highly toxic radioactive substance was found in the body of a former KGB spy who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of his killing in a statement dictated on his deathbed.
"You may succeed in silencing one man, but a howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life," Alexander Litvinenko said in a statement read aloud by friends outside the hospital where he died.
"May God forgive you for what you have done, not only to me, but to beloved Russia and its people," said the statement, which Mr. Litvinenko dictated shortly before he died Thursday night. "
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"Thailand: Hundreds of schools to close after killings ("Islamic Militants Suspected")"
The Australian / AFP ^ | November 25, 2006
Posted on 11/25/2006 12:53:48 AM PST by Stoat
Hundreds of schools to close after killings
From correspondents in Bangkok
November 25, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "THAILAND will close more than 300 public schools in the country's restive Muslim-majority south after two Buddhist teachers were killed by suspected Islamic militants this week, an official said.
The decision will affect all 334 schools, ranging from elementary to high schools, in Pattani, one of three violence-torn southern provinces bordering Malaysia, the official said."
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ON THE NET...
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"Russian ambassador chides Canada for arrest of alleged spy"
Adrian Humphreys and Stewart Bell, CanWest News Service; National Post
Published: Friday, November 24, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: TORONTO - The Russian ambassador urged Canada Thursday to move beyond ''spy thrills'' and focus on co-operation, adding Moscow was providing intelligence that was safeguarding Canadian troops in Afghanistan.
In a brief television interview, Ambassador Georgy Mamedov said he had no information about the suspected Russian intelligence officer arrested at Montreal airport last week except what he had read in Canadian newspapers."
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23455_Irans_Suicide_Brigades
(November 24, 2006)
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http://www.meforum.org/article/1059
"Iran's Suicide Brigades
Terrorism Resurgent"
by Ali Alfoneh
Middle East Quarterly
Winter 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "More than five years after President George W. Bush's declaration of a global war against terrorism, the Iranian regime continues to embrace suicide terrorism as an important component of its military doctrine. In order to promote suicide bombing and other terrorism, the regime's theoreticians have utilized religion both to recruit suicide bombers and to justify their actions. But as some factions within the Islamic Republic support the development of these so-called martyrdom brigades, their structure and activities suggest their purpose is not only to serve as a strategic asset in either deterring or striking at the West, but also to derail domestic attempts to dilute the Islamic Republic's revolutionary legacy.
Such strategy is apparent in the work of the Doctrinal Analysis Center for Security without Borders (Markaz-e barresiha-ye doktrinyal-e amniyat bedun marz), an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps think tank.[1] Its director, Hassan Abbasi, has embraced the utility of suicide terrorism. On February 19, 2006, he keynoted a Khajeh-Nasir University seminar celebrating the anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa (religious edict) calling for the murder of British author Salman Rushdie. As Khomeini often did, Abbasi began his lecture with literary criticism. He analyzed a U.S. publication from 2004 that, according to Abbasi, "depicts the prophet of Islam as the prophet of blood and violence." Rhetorically, he asked, "Will the Western man be able to understand martyrdom with such prejudice? [Can he] interpret Islam as anything but terrorism?" The West sees suicide bombings as terrorism but, to Abbasi, they are a noble expression of Islam.
So what is terrorism if not suicide bombing? To Abbasi, terrorism includes any speech and expression he deems insulting to Islam."
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Hamas chief issues ultimatum, threatens 3rd intifada within six month
AFP via translation | November 25, 2006
Posted on 11/25/2006 2:21:13 AM PST by HAL9000
ALARM - Ultimatum 6 months to regulate Palestinian crisis with less 3e Intifada
CAIRO - the chief of Hamas, Khaled Mechaal, threatened Saturday to launch the third Intifada if the problem of a Palestinian State in the borders of 1967 were not regulated within six month.
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Ultimatum six months to regulate Palestinian crisis with less 3e Intifada
CAIRO - the chief of Hamas, Khaled Mechaal, threatened Saturday to launch the third Intifada if the problem of a Palestinian State in the borders of 1967 were not regulated within six month.
"We give six months to the international community for (to find) a true political scene. There is a true political opportunity for a Palestinian State in the borders of 1967", declared Mr. Mechaal at the time of a press conference in Cairo.
"If our requests are not filled, the Palestinian people will close all the political files and will launch the third Intifada", it threatened.
3 posted on 11/25/2006 2:25:43 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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