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  • Gumbo Krewe's Back Feeding the Hungry Near Ground Zero (And this time, they brought king cakes)

    11/04/2001 7:44:57 AM PST · by Irma · 4 replies · 31+ views
    Nola.com ^ | 11/03/2001 | Mary Swerczek
    Gumbo Krewe's back feeding the hungry near ground zero And this time, they brought king cakes 11/03/01By Mary Swerczek River Parishes bureau/The Times-Picayune NEW YORK -- In September, the Gumbo Krewe brought an appetizer. This week, it came back to finish serving the meal. Bolstered by the reception it received in late September, the krewe, organized by a Norco couple, returned to Manhattan on Thursday to provide some good Louisiana cooking to rescue workers helping the city dig out from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. And whether drawn by the festive Mardi Gras music blaring from ...
  • Bill Clinton Helping Spearhead Post-Terrorism Revival of His Adopted City (MAJOR BARF ALERT!)

    11/02/2001 4:13:55 AM PST · by Irma · 40 replies · 447+ views
    AP ^ | 11/2/2001 | VERENA DOBNIK
    By VERENA DOBNIK The Associated Press 11/2/01 5:54 AM NEW YORK (AP) -- Former President Clinton called for a strong push for renewal and rebirth in New York City, telling a Harlem audience that this is a "do, do, do" city, battling "don't, don't, don't" terrorist threats. "New York is a city of doers," Clinton said Thursday, addressing members of the Association for a Better New York at the Apollo Theatre, near his Harlem office. Clinton warned that in addition to the families of victims of the terrorist attacks, "there are going to be more indirect victims of this tragedy." ...
  • Suspicious Substance Mailed to N.O. Business Sent for Further Testing; 4 Employees to Hospital

    10/17/2001 5:12:06 AM PDT · by Irma · 13 replies · 3+ views
    WWLTV.COM ^ | 10/17/2001
    A hazmat worker exits a decontamination tent at the scene  Suspicious Substance Mailed to N.O. Business Sent for Further Testing; 4 Employees to Hospital(10/17/01, 06:00 AM) Mayor Marc Morial, police, fire and other emergency officials will hold a news conference later today to talk about last nights anthrax scare and how residents should prepare to deal with a possible threat. Last night, a hazardous material team converged on an Airline Drive business Tuesday evening after tests could not rule out the possibility that a suspicious substance in a package contained anthrax spores. According to investigators, four employees of the Malcolm Faber ...
  • European Pilots to Protect U.S. Skies: NATO Sends five AWACS Airplanes to Oklahoma

    10/10/2001 4:27:16 PM PDT · by Irma · 73 replies · 412+ views
    AP via Nola.com ^ | 10-10-2001 | Richard Green
    European pilots to protect U.S. skies; NATO sends five AWACS airplanes to Oklahoma By RICHARD GREEN The Associated Press 10/10/01 7:07 PM OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- European pilots will help protect U.S. skies for the first time starting Friday, flying five AWACS planes that are being deployed to Tinker Air Force base from a NATO base in Germany. "They will be defending the homeland, flying combat air patrol," Air Force Capt. Steven Rolenc said. "They will be providing the capabilities that AWACS brings to the fight." The Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft are used to monitor battles on the ...
  • Pentagon Suspends Discharges During Conflict

    09/23/2001 8:18:49 AM PDT · by Irma · 1 replies · 4+ views
    CNS News ^ | 9/22/2001
    Pentagon Suspends Discharges During Conflict (CNSNews.com) - As American troops prepare for a possible military engagement in Afghanistan, the Defense Department has issued an order suspending discharges of service members for the foreseeable future. Known as a "stop-loss order," the measure is primarily expected to affect between 1,000 and 2,000 people a month from all service branches who are reaching retirement age or the end of a term of service. ~SNIP~ David Armor, a professor with the Institute of Public Policy with George Mason University and an expert in military personnel issues, said the majority of those affected - people ...
  • Celebrities, Activists Say No To War [Major Barf Alert!]

    09/22/2001 11:49:03 AM PDT · by Irma · 106 replies · 208+ views
    CNS News ^ | 9/22/2001
    Celebrities, Activists Say No To War(CNSNews.com) - A coalition of Hollywood celebrities, left-wing groups and pacifists are calling on the United States and President Bush to suspend any planned military response to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. As U.S. warships and planes head to the Middle East under Operation Infinite Justice, many who have traditionally preached non-violence are voicing concern about the use of military force. Hollywood celebrities Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover have signed a petition entitled "Justice Not Vengeance," sponsored by the left-leaning think tank the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). In the petition, ...
  • JW ASKS THAT IRS INVESTIGATE AND SHUT DOWN TERROR FIN. NETWORK LIKELY LINKED TO BIN LADEN

    09/21/2001 2:22:31 PM PDT · by Irma · 41 replies · 376+ views
    Judicial Watch ^ | 9/20/2001 | Judicial Watch
         JUDICIAL WATCH ASKS THAT IRS INVESTIGATE     AND SHUT DOWN TERROR FINANCIAL NETWORK     LIKELY LINKED TO BIN LADEN NETWORK                     (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today joined the                    war against terrorism by filing a complaint with the                    Internal Revenue Service requesting a full-scale                    investigation of a number of front operations, most                    pretending to be charities, for radical Islamic terrorist                    organizations. The complaint was filed with IRS                    Commissioner Charles Rossotti and a copy was sent                    to the President, the Treasury Secretary, and the                    Attorney General to further insure swift action. A ...
  • Muslim Hard-liners in Pakistan Challenge Musharraf's Pro-U.S. Stand on Terrorism

    09/21/2001 5:08:56 AM PDT · by Irma · 3 replies · 3+ views
    AP ^ | 9/21/2001 | AMIR ZIA
    By AMIR ZIA The Associated Press 9/21/01 7:27 AM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Thousands of Pakistanis threatened war against Americans, and police fired tear gas at demonstrators in the nation's largest city as Muslim parties launched nationwide strikes Friday to protest Pakistan's support a U.S. campaign against terrorism. The demonstrations were called throughout Pakistan after its leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, gave his support to U.S. efforts to apprehend alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and to break up his suspected terrorist network operating from neighboring Afghanistan. Several thousand people turned out as the anti-U.S. and anti-Pakistan rallies began in the ...
  • JAPAN PM TO MEET BUSH, PLEDGE FULL SUPPORT

    09/21/2001 4:58:05 AM PDT · by Irma · 2+ views
    Reuters ^ | 9/21/2001 | Kazunori Takada
    Friday September 21 6:17 AM ET Japan PM to Meet Bush, Pledge Full Support Japan PM to Meet Bush, Pledge Full Support By Kazunori TakadaTOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Friday he would meet President Bush (news - web sites) in Washington next week to pledge Tokyo's full support for a ``war on terrorism'' after attacks on New York and Washington.``I plan to tell President Bush that we share a strong anger at these extremely cowardly acts,'' said Koizumi, confirming he would meet Bush on Tuesday.``I plan to say that Japan is not an observer in ...
  • Bush's Senior Adviser On What's Ahead

    09/21/2001 4:47:14 AM PDT · by Irma · 1 replies · 4+ views
    ABC NEWS ^ | 9/21/2001 | ABC NEWS
    As President Bush continues to try to build a coalition for war, Karen Hughes, his senior adviser, is at his side and has his ear. She talked to ABCNEWS' Barbara Walters. ABCNEWS' Barbara Walters: Karen, you were with the president when he toured the site of what was the World Trade Center. What touched the president the most? Karen Hughes, senior presidential adviser: Well, I think the spirit of the people … It was an incredible day. Nothing can prepare you, no matter how many times you've seen it on television, nothing really prepares you for the moment when our ...
  • Taliban Spurns Bush's Ultimatum on Bin Laden

    09/21/2001 4:40:16 AM PDT · by Irma · 4 replies · 4+ views
    Reuters ^ | 9/21/2001 | Steve Holland and Tom Heneghan
    By Steve Holland and Tom HeneghanWASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s ruling Taliban on Friday rejected an ultimatum from President Bush (news - web sites) to surrender Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and said a U.S. military strike on the country would be a ``showdown of might.''Girding his nation for a long ``war on terrorism'' after last week's hijacked airliner attacks on America, Bush earlier warned the Taliban to turn over the Saudi-born Islamic militant and his leading followers or ``share in their fate.''``We are not ready to hand over Osama bin Laden without evidence,'' Kabul's ...
  • Ashcroft Says Hijackers Had Big Ground Support

    09/13/2001 6:31:31 AM PDT · by Irma · 3 replies · 8+ views
    Reuters ^ | 9/13/2001 | Sue Pleming
    By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Thursday the hijackers who steered commercial aircraft into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Tuesday had "significant ground support." "(To have) operated with technical proficiency to target and to land an aircraft of that size with the deadly accuracy of these acts of war, was something obviously that resulted from a complex organization with significant ground support," Ashcroft said. In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" program, he said there had to have been extensive ground support and coordination for the hijackers to ...
  • U.S. to Reopen Airspace From 11a.m. EDT

    09/13/2001 6:18:56 AM PDT · by Irma · 4+ views
    Reuters ^ | 9/13/2001
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it had ordered U.S. national airspace reopened to commercial and private aviation effective at 11 a.m. EDT. U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said in a statement that U.S. airports will be reopened and flights resumed on a case-by-case basis, only after they implement more stringent levels of security imposed following Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. "I must caution everyone that a system as diverse and complex as ours cannot be brought back up instantly," Mineta said in the statement distributed by the White House. "We will ...
  • Attacks-Victims-Capsules

    09/11/2001 6:04:20 PM PDT · by Irma · 6 replies · 377+ views
    AP ^ | 9-11-2001 | AP
    Some of those killed on flights commandeered by terrorists Tuesday: BARBARA OLSON, 45, was the wife of U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson. She was aboard American Flight 77 from Dulles International Airport when it crashed into the Pentagon. She twice called her husband as the plane was being hijacked and described some details, including that the attackers were using knife-like instruments. Barbara Olson was a chief investigator for the House Government Reform Committee in the mid-1990s. She later became a lawyer on the staff of Senate Minority Whip Don Nickles, before branching out on her own as a TV ...
  • Major Oil Companies Freeze Gas Prices

    09/11/2001 5:00:59 PM PDT · by Irma · 30 replies · 739+ views
    AP ^ | 9/11/2001 | BRAD FOSS
    Major Oil Companies Freeze Gas Prices                                       Updated: Tue, Sep 11 7:37 PM EDT   By BRAD FOSS, AP Business Writer   NEW YORK (AP) - Gasoline wholesalers and retailers quickly raised prices on fears   supplies would be disrupted following Tuesday's terrorist attacks. The nation's largest oil   companies immediately tried to allay those worries by freezing their prices and pledging   to keep distribution steady.   Nevertheless, consumers in the various parts of the country lined up for an hour or more to   fuel-up on gasoline costing as much as $5 a gallon.   Panic caused by ...
  • Democrats Warn Bush They Want More School Funding

    09/01/2001 3:36:31 PM PDT · by Irma
    Reuters ^ | 9/1-2001 | Reuters
    Saturday September 1 11:12 AM ET Democrats Warn Bush They Want More School Funding Democrats Warn Bush They Want More School Funding WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the new school year gets under way, congressional Democrats on Saturday signaled they were stepping up the pressure for more federal funds to improve U.S. schools, especially in poor districts.``Currently, there are 10.3 million children in our nation who, because of poverty, may not get the quality education they deserve. Yet, under the president's budget, only one-third of these children can be served,'' said Sen. Mary Landrieu (news - bio - voting record) of ...
  • Bush Urges Education Deal as Kids Go Back to School

    09/01/2001 3:25:48 PM PDT · by Irma
    Reuters ^ | 9-1-2001 | Reuters
    Saturday September 1 3:18 PM ET Bush Urges Education Deal as Kids Go Back to School Photos Reuters Photo   WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many children head back to school after Labor Day, President Bush (news - web sites) Saturday urged the two houses of Congress to settle their differences over his plan education reform plan.Touted by supporters as the broadest education reform in 35 years, rival bills passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate would test students in reading and math each year. However, they differ on how to hold schools accountable and are billions of ...
  • THE GUILD, TUESDAY 8-07-2001

    08/07/2001 6:28:12 AM PDT · by Irma · 63+ views
    8-07-2001
    The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2 Party at Howlin's ALL PREVIOUS THREADS PROJECT DAFFODIL-Updated Summary 7-25-01 In light of the Daffodil Principle where individual efforts over time add up to a mammoth contribution, we use this lesson as we seek to promote conservatism, the Republican Party and the administration of George Bush. Here is the link to the article if you are interested. THE DAFFODIL PRINCIPLE List of suggested projects: Volunteer/Get Involved in Republican Party, in individual campaigns Join GOP groups-Republican Business Women's Assn, become ...
  • Breaux Talks of Running For Governor

    07/29/2001 7:03:36 AM PDT · by Irma · 2+ views
    AP ^ | 7/29/2001 | Associated Press
    Breaux Talks of Running for Governor The Associated Press 7/28/01 7:47 PM NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- It's looking more like Sen. John Breaux will run for governor of Louisiana before his current U.S. Senate term expires. "We're going to take a look at it," Breaux told WDSU-TV Friday night. "I'm very happy in the United States Senate. I think I can be helpful to our state there and will continue to try to do that. It also is a challenge to think about coming back home as you sort of wind down your political career. We hope to make a ...
  • White House Twisting Arms on Patients' Rights

    07/24/2001 6:08:58 PM PDT · by Irma · 165+ views
    ABC NEWS ^ | July 24, 2001 | Tamara Lipper, Linda Douglass and Brian Hartman
    Tuesday July 24 07:52 PM EDTWhite House aides and House GOP leaders are admitting they don't yet have the votes to pass the president's priorities on health care reform. President Bush returns from Europe tonight facing an uphill battle over his priorities for health care reform.After weeks of armtwisting, White House officials and GOP leadership sources now acknowledge the president's intensive lobbying has done little to sway moderate Republicans to back his preferred version of a patients bill of rights.Two competing versions of the legislation each would expand access to health care, requiring coverage of emergency room care and, for ...