[WestCoastGal]

During the Code Orange heightened terrorism alert level in December, when dozens of flights to the United States were canceled, Broderick often worked 36 hours straight. Ridge would join him at 3 a.m in the center for a sandwich.

"He was here at 4 and 5 in the morning," Broderick said. "It was very serious. There were threats to blow up airlines and the possibility of large numbers of American casualties." Broderick said he slept on the floor of his office several nights. (He has asked for a sofa in his new office upstairs. "The floor is very hard," he said, "and I'm an old Marine.") But recently things have been calmer, and by the end of this day, many of the morning's incidents have been resolved: ************************************************************************* Thanks to them and all the rest who are standing watch!!

[Quix]

Thanks for your informative post!

HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD THIS THOUGHT . . .

watching all the treasonous DIMRATS pontificating the last several months . . .

it has sometimes seemed like they took what THEY KNEW THEY AND THEIR ILK were DOING

and accused Bush of it.

I don't have a quick example off the top of my head. Just curious if anyone else had that thought.