Monthly Archive for March 2003

Kurds Who Love US

CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHNAired March 24, 2003 – 06:48 ET But first, I want to show you the family that lives here. Now three families are living in this cave. One of the families belongs to Kareem Jilti (ph) and his wife, Nockmor (ph). That’s astead (ph), Kareem, Island (ph). And [...]

Rachel Corrie, Neo Nazi

The 23-year-old American “peace activist” was fatally injured when she purposefully obstructed an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer engaging in counter-terror operations. What the Israelis graciously called a “regrettable accident” should never have occurred, because Corrie should have first been arrested, either by Israel or the United States.

The tunnels Corrie was protecting are underneath the Israel-Egypt [...]

God Has Another Angel

Smokey 1987-2003Have fun with Midnight and Tuffles.WE LOVE YOU!

My brother calls my attention to this:CBS NewsAmericans who flock to Canada for cheap flu shots often come away impressed at the free and first-class medical care available to Canadians, rich or poor. But tell that to hospital administrators constantly having to cut staff for lack of funds, or to the mother whose teenager was [...]

Medal of Honor Due to my illness last Friday, the weekly post honoring the bravery of America’s military did not occur. So, here’s two, for this week. You know, I read these and am dumbfounded by the courage displayed.
*HANDRICH, MELVIN O. Rank and organization: Master Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 5th Infantry Regiment. Place [...]

We’re in mourning, and I’m fighting the mother of all stress headaches.I’m glad Elizabeth Smart was rescued.

President Bush called Afghan President Hamid Karzai last week to apologize for the way he was treated in a meeting with members of a Senate committee on Capitol Hill late last month, according to senior Afghan officials…Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) warned that if Karzai told the committee everything was going well, “the next time you [...]

Airport screeners have seized more than 4.8 million items – including guns, knives, a kitchen sink pipe and a circular saw – in the 13 months the federal government has been in charge of security.

The Transportation Security Administration on Monday gave its most thorough accounting of seizures at the nation’s 429 commercial airports.

At the same [...]

Then in June 1995, on the day that Chirac took office as president of France, a unit of French UN peacekeepers was taken hostage by the Serbs, tied to trees and chained to Serbian artillery pieces.Chirac, who had been wounded after he volunteered to serve in the French Army in Algeria, was outraged. “I will [...]