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Posted on 04/01/2007 6:46:34 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Ok, let’s add your link, mamadearest to the other link I have. This is pure political correctness and this pc is dangerous in itself.
TOWNHALL.com: "WHITEWASHING JIHAD IN THE SCHOOLS" -Column by Michelle Malkin (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Three years ago, I wrote about a mock terrorism drill at a public school district in Muskegon County, Mich. Instead of Islamic terrorists, educators substituted Christian homeschoolers. Yes, Christian homeschoolers. Here was the description of the school drill plan: "The exercise will simulate an attack by a fictitious radical group called Wackos Against Schools and Education who believe everyone should be homeschooled. Under the scenario, a bomb is placed on the bus and is detonated while the bus is traveling on Durham, causing the bus to land on its side and fill with smoke." Flabbergasting, but true.") (April 4, 2007)
Thanks, MD.
Raises some eyebrows for sure. Can we say “politically correct?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=mexico
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6536263.stm
Last Updated: Saturday, 7 April 2007, 21:00 GMT 22:00 UK
“Outcry over slain Mexico reporter”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Pacific resort has been hit by violence linked to drug gangs
Journalists and relatives have called for a probe into the murder of a prominent television reporter in the Mexican resort of Acapulco.
Amado Ramirez, a correspondent for TV news network Televisa, was shot dead on Friday as he left a radio station.
Security officials said two gunmen were waiting for him as he neared his car.
In recent months, Acapulco has been hit by a wave of violence believed linked to the drug trade and control of key coastal smuggling routes.
In February, seven people were killed in simultaneous attacks by gunmen on government offices in the resort.
The attacks came just weeks after President Felipe Calderon ordered 8,000 troops and federal police into the city to tackle drug-related crime.
‘Execution-style killing’”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813464/posts
China Accelerating Ballistic Missile Tests
By Craig Covault/AviationWeek.com
Secret new U. S. intelligence about China proves the Chinese are accelerating the test of new medium and long range ballistic missiles, Aviation Week & Space Technology will report in its April 9 issue.
China is also demonstrating a wide range of new tactics with those missiles, Aviation Week will report.
The new Chinese missile development could affect Taiwan and U. S. strategy toward China, especially if it were ever to attack Taiwan, the magazine reports.
The Chinese tests indicate that China is gaining a much more powerful ability to militarily deter the U. S. or attack U.S. soil or assets such as aircraft carriers at sea, the magazine reports.
Much of this information comes from several U. S. Air Force Defense Support Program (DSP) missile warning spacecraft watching China from geostationary orbit, 22,300 mi. above the Earth.
The 2.5 ton satellites are built by Northrop Grumman. They are 33 ft. long, and carry powerful infrared telescopes that watch the missile test activity. They are not “spy satellites” but rather missile warning spacecraft that also provide intelligence on missile tests around the world.
The April 9 issue of Aviation Week will carry an exclusive report about how the DSP constellation of missile warning satellites monitors not only China, but also Iran, North Korea and other countries.
The same spacecraft are also seeing a similar acceleration of Iranian ballistic missile test activity, the magazine will report.
“Both the Chinese and Iranians have very vigorous test programs. The number of (ballistic missile launch) events we are seeing with DSP are increasing,” says Dr. Edward Tagliaferri, a long time independent consultant to the Air Force and Northrop Grumman on use of the spacecraft. “DSPs are not just seeing new missiles, but also new tactics and all kinds of new capabilities,” the Aviation Week article says.”
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/06/asia/AS-GEN-China-Central-Asia-Highways.php
“China plans 12 highways to Cental Asia to boost trade”
The Associated Press
Published: April 6, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BEIJING: China plans to build 12 highways linking its desert northwest with Central Asia and regions as far as Turkey in order to boost trade, a government news agency said Friday.
China has been steadily expanding trade with Central Asia since the Soviet breakup in the early 1990s.”
SPECIAL EVENT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nwi8bSbRAk
Prayers for that baby and the family, MamaDearest
Three cheers for The Washington Times' March 24 "Nobles and Knaves" editorial. The Noble: "The French court that upheld the ideals of free speech over political correctness" in the acquittal of Philippe Val, who was facing a six-month prison sentence and $30,000 in fines for printing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad." The Knave: "The Iraqi insurgents who used children as decoys in a car bombing, murdering them." This is not news to be ignored. The truth must be told.
BIG DITTO Mama Dearest.
Better watch out for us eeeeevil homeschoolers! (sarc)
I feel the same way Texpat72. It's the loss of a beginning life that never had a chance. Most sad, it was preventable.
I agree.
about it being preventable
Now that you've been made an example of (sarc). "Homeschoolers" are less likely to litigate more than likely from their perspective.
At last someone with a spine!
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Note: The following breaking news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3385681,00.html
Rampaging gunman kills 10 in southern Philippines
Published: 04.08.07, 06:50 / Israel News
An unidentified gunman killed nine soldiers and one civilian in a rampage inside a patrol base in the southern Philippines, a Philippine general said on Sunday.
“We are not certain yet if the one who went on the rampage was a soldier. He could be the civilian who is among the dead,” Major-General Nehemias Pajarito said, in reference to a pre-dawn Saturday shoot-out. “We are investigating.” (AP)
UPDATE:
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070408/NEWS05/704080392/1025/NEWS09
“Indian Point 3 may restart at low level”
By BRUCE GOLDING
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: April 8, 2007)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BUCHANAN - The crippled Indian Point 3 nuclear reactor may be turned back on at low power while workers assess the giant electrical transformer that burst into flames and led to an official downgrade of the aging plant’s safety rating.
A spokesman for plant owner Entergy Nuclear Northeast said contractors from the Siemens company were expected in the next few days to begin investigating the cause of Friday’s explosion and fire about 50 feet from the Indian Point 3 containment dome.
Spokesman Jim Steets said the problem had been traced to the middle bushing in the high-voltage transformer, which steps up electricity generated by the plant’s turbine from 22 to 345 kilovolts.
“What we’ll concentrate on is determining whether the problem originated with that bushing or that there was a problem in the transformer that manifested in that bushing,” he said.
Federal and local officials said no radiation was released by the blaze. But it triggered an automatic trip of the plant’s reactor, marking the second unplanned shutdown in a week and the fourth since July.”
Bushing’s fault?
Smiling...is everything his fault? (sighing/sarcasm off).
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