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First the US fanfared the placement of two F-22 Raptors in the Osan airbase of South Korea. Then it demonstratively launched a B-2 stealth bomber on a training mission over a South Korean gunnery range. Then it deployed an anti-ballistic missile defense system to Guam and positioned two guided-missile destroyers in the waters near Korea. And now, courtesy of the Aviationist, we learn that the Pentagon has escalated once more in an ongoing cat and mouse game with North Korea, of who blinks first, and dispatched several B-1 ("Bone") Lancer strategic long-range bombers to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants. The legal memo was written about a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It says constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure would not apply to terror suspects in the U.S., as long as the president or another high official authorized the action. >snip The memo was one of nine released Monday by the Obama administration.

Last week I told my husband I had started this thread. He asked if I could get a recipe for toast. He thinks he's funny. This week's topic is family recipes. You don't have to devulge your secret recipes that are too precious to give out. But, maybe those loved and cherished ones from when you were a kid or those that bring back great memories. For years the big treat at Christmas time in my husband's family were the yummy Sweet and Sour Meatballs that his grandma made. After she died I overheard his aunts talking and asking about...