Posted on 10/26/2001 4:29:08 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
Good Morning!!
Do not let them die in vain!!
There a lot of stuff to get everyone up to speed this morning, so I'm breaking the opening rant into sections.
ANTHRAX ATTACK
Another confirmed case of pneumonic anthrax - the postal worker in Sterling, VA, is diagnosed with the malady.
Anthrax has been found at the CIA, though termed "medically insignificant".
Anthrax has been found at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Anthrax has been found in a mail sorting facility in Manhattan.
Another possibly tainted envelope was reported at the New York Post, though it is likely "collateral mail".
Several suburban mail facilities in Washington, DC, are undergoing tests for anthrax.
Over 10,000 mail workers are on antibiotics.
CDC has changed policy regarding treatment of anthrax: exposed people should get 60 days of antibiotics, not the current 10 they are receiving. Pneumonic victims to receive multiple antibiotics - Cipro and at least two others.
SOUTH ASIA THEATER OF OPERATIONS
US warplanes and Northern Alliance troops step up attacks around Mazer-e-Sharif, though it is uncertain when the city will be captured.
Northern Alliance would like the United States to step up its attacks. The United States bombs Kabul and Kandahar.
Two American fighter aircraft narrowly missed a SAM shot.
There is growing criticism the United States is conducting the war too slowly.
Uzbekistan agreed to open some of its river ports to allow relief supplies to go to Afgoneistan.
HOME FRONT
The last President was mailed salmonella.
The Senate overwhelmingly (98-1) approves anti-terrorism legislation. The President to sign it today.
Groups have appealed to Tom Ridge to fortify the Nation's nuclear reactors.
A $1.4 billion package for emergency preparedness has been introduced in the Senate.
The UNITED WE STAND postage stamp will be available November 1 in Post Offices in Washington, DC, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
OTHER ITEMS
I learned this morning that another worker in my building - someone whom I've known almost since the first day I worked here, 14 years ago now - had her mother pass yesterday. I would ask for your prayers for her.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
The Senate overwhelmingly (98-1) approves anti-terrorism legislation.
Just curious, who was the one "no" vote?
Have a great day.
A traitor.
Chilly morning here. I took a sick day, and of course Chaos conviently missed her bus.
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.
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 )
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
List of organizations assisting terrorist victims & their families
Now you have the info, go support the United States of America!!!
No solutions...just rhetoric to panic the masses..just what we need.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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