AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 279) [Remember the Trade Center!!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | October 26, 2001 | All of Us

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Post your short news items, issues of interest, links, and so on. All are welcome.

[Mr. Mulliner]

First in war
First in peace
First on the ATRW thread

[Mr. Mulliner]

Prayers for your co-worker, Chairman.

The Senate overwhelmingly (98-1) approves anti-terrorism legislation.

Just curious, who was the one "no" vote?

[kachina]

Good morning Yank and Chairman, and everyone else when they show up. Chilly in NC this morning. I'll be in and out today, Friday, you know.

Have a great day.

[Reaganomics]

Just curious, who was the one "no" vote?

A traitor.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

Russ Reingold voted No.

[Neets]

Prayers for your friend Chairman....you sure have had your share lately eh???

Chilly morning here. I took a sick day, and of course Chaos conviently missed her bus.

[Reaganomics]

Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin voted against it. Mary Landrieu, D-La. did not vote.

If we lived in a country that allowed the government to eavesdrop on your phone conversations or intercept your e-mail communications, if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely, based on ? mere suspicion that they?re up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists, he said.
But he added, That probably would not be a country in which we would want to live, and that would not be a country for which we could in good conscience ask our young people to fight and die. ask our young people to fight and die.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

America – The Right Way!!
The Daily Update – October 26, 2001

AMERICA’S WAR ON TERROR – Day 46

We’re Rolling Now!! –Day 20

REMEMBER THE TRADE CENTER!!

The news as reported in The Washington Times:

[Note – All links go to The Washington Times’ website.]

1. The Senate, on a 98-1 vote – with only Sen. Feingold of Wisconsin dissenting, voted to provide expanded law enforcement power to combat terrorism.

[Presumptively speaking for all of us here in the most heavily attacked area in the anthrax assualt, Mr. Feingold, may God protect your loved ones because you, sir, have not.]

( Senate OKs bill for war on terrorism )

2. A State Department worker at their main mail sorting facility in Sterling, VA, contracts anthrax.

[Geographically speaking, that one was real close to home.]

( Anthrax infects State worker )

3. Israel agrees to a partial withdraw from the West Bank.

[Look for Al Qa’eda to attempt more trouble in that region.]

( Israel agrees to a partial pullout )

4. President Bush has stated he wants The Evil One “dead or alive,” but the consensus among officials is that he is better if found “dead.”

[The only way to go! Kill him.]

( Officials prefer bin Laden killed instead of captured )

5. The White House has created the Office of Cyberspace Security and will spend $10 million in the effort to keep terrorists from using the web.

[WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY too little in terms of resources.]

( Secure new Web urged for government only )

6. The sheer scale of the calamity in New York has been too much, even for funeral directors.

[It’s not too hard to understand why.]

( Funerals take toll, even on directors )

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We shall not rest until we have cut a swath 60-miles wide through the entire left - taking all that is before us with us as we go. We shall leave nothing to the enemy that may be of value to him. We shall show him that he may count on nothing and will be able to keep nothing, not his spirit, not his soul, not that upon which he shall feed. We shall not cease until the moment we have rent through their entire land and have arrived at the sea, with our glorious victory upon us.

Home Page of the December 19th Society

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List of organizations assisting terrorist victims & their families

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Now you have the info, go support the United States of America!!!

[Bitwhacker]

'Morning everyone!

Is it just me or should Sen. Frist just SHUT UP about how 'no one anticipated' and 'we were unprepared' for this bio-warfare stuff? He has been on just about every talking head show because he's an MD, but I don't hear any epidemiology coming out of his mouth, just medical platitudes. Think he likes the limelight?

[Cammysmom]

Good morning everyone. It's chilly outside..........Hotlanta isn't so hot anymore these days

[Bitwhacker]

You also may wanna check the following:

1. Since you are running a hub, and if you run static IP addresses, you may want to look for collisions (you'll see a red light blink on the hub a lot when this happens).

2. If you have DHCP installed, make sure the correct IP ranges are set, that your workstations have the right DHCP host set, and that the proper IP mask is set (if the last one is wrong, you usually won't see anything on the local net).

3. If you run a cable modem or DSL, you should seriously consider getting a firewall like the LinkSys EtherFast Cable /DSL Router (this is what I have), which not only will protect your network from attack but will also allow all of your workstations to access the internet without going through a proxy...

[Neets]

FRIST SHOULD SHUT UP...i said that a week ago, and I'm saying it again.

No solutions...just rhetoric to panic the masses..just what we need.

[kachina]

JeeZ! This early in the morning and you guys are already talking that gibberish? I need some more coffee.

[Mr. Mulliner]

I asked about who voted "no" on the anti-terrorism bill because I wanted to know who it was and what their reasons were. Russ Feingold, to me, has made a legitimate vote because he has demonstrated that he wants to expand our ability to fight terrorism without expanding government's powers. He was the guy who proposed that law enforcement officers, fireman and emergency medical personnel be allowed to carry arms on board by registering privately with airlines. That seems like a reasonable proposal.

I'm not saying that I'm against the bill. I'm just saying that Russ Feingold is probably opposing the bill on consistent and well thought out principles and I have to give him the benefit of the doubt that he's acted from his conscience. I can think of a lot of Senators who might have voted "no" on very different and ill-informed grounds.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Is it just me or should Sen. Frist just SHUT UP about how 'no one anticipated' and 'we were unprepared' for this bio-warfare stuff?

Being in the main battle zone for this stuff, and being more than a little apprehensive, I would like to offer a counter viewpoint.

I really do not have a problem with him saying this. I realize it is incendiary and panic-inducing, but I feel he cannot introduce any more panic than has already been let loose by the media.

That said, his statements have another effect I'm not certain everyone is considering. As a result of saying "we weren't prepared," two things result:

1. "Why?" (Which is helpful not so much in dealing with the current instance, but in formulating a long-range strategy); and

2. Pressure to solve the current crisis is moved upon those who actually can do something - HHS, CDC, etc.

When a forest fire is raging, another match isn't going to add to the conflagration.

[Mr. Mulliner]

I just posted this from CATO: Passenger Takes Gun Aboard Plane

In case you missed it, a guy was on a Southwest Airlines flight and realized that he had his gun with him. He informed the flight attendant and turned it in without getting into trouble (got questioned by authorities, of course). CATO uses the news item to talk about why it's a good idea to have some guns aboard all flights.

[Bitwhacker]

Sorry for the long post, but if anyone is still beating himself up over what we could have done better in border security, read on.

I don't usually watch it, but last nite I saw a PBS Frontline called Trail of a Terrorist. You should go to the link if you wanna see the details, but the following stands out:

1. The Canadian gov't. routinely allows 'political refugees' into theor country even when they know the passports and visas are falsified, and they make no effort to check with the 'home' country. The guy they followed in the documentary had a fake French passport, and Canada knew it.

2. After the guy gets in-country, he goes straight to Montreal and sets up shop with other known terrorists. He is arrested four times for robbery and assault, but a judge rules that none of these arrests can 'prejudice' the whack-job's asylum request.

3. A French Magistrate who goes after terrorists links this guy to a subway bombing in Paris and requests from Canada the permission to operate in Canada to go after him. Canada takes six months to process the request. Meanwhile, the disciple of Allah fakes a birth cert. and gets a real Canadian passport under another name.

4. This terrorist is caught in Port Angeles, Wash. with 100 lbs. of home-made explosives, intended for LAX (Los Angeles airport), to be detonated sometime around Jan. 1, 2000. He is caught only because a Customs inspector got suspicious when the guys story kept changing. The explosives were found in a rented car, in the spare-tire well, all of which passed inspection on the Canadian side of the ferry.

And the Canadian equiv. of the FBI says they were on the case, but they were looking for the guy with his real name and didn't consider the possibility that he was using aliases.....

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Russ Feingold, to me, has made a legitimate vote because he has demonstrated that he wants to expand our ability to fight terrorism without expanding government's powers.

I actually agree with his argument and respect his opinion, but did not find it sufficiently persuasive that, were I in a position of having to vote on the bill myself, it would have caused me to cast a "Nay". I believe that Sen. Feingold's concerns come in the area of "amendment" and can - and if circumstances bear him out, should - be dealt with as time moves forward.

Something needed to be done, NOW. And this, while important, shouldn't have been allowed to hold up the show.

The 98-1 vote was right, IMO, but as with any major legislation, particularly that which is rushed, there will be more legislation later. And that's all right too.

[lysie]

Good morning Chairman and **ALL** you wonderful people.Prayers for you co worker and family.

OM...so glad you are home resting. ....that is... after going to school first.

44 degrees here...windy...dark....perfect day to be lazy....curl up with a blankie and sip coffee or hot cider. :-)

Which reminds me....ML.... where are you? Have you checked in yet? You are missed.