Photo for the Day - February 09, 2010

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Screen Grab - New York Daily News

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Heck yeah we miss you!
But that page in history has turned.
After a year of the Dems being in complete charge...
Everything has gone to total hell on us!
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Seriously looking for another Reagan...
AubreyJ.........

Photo for the Day - February 09, 2010

* Photo for the Day * . - A Blast to the Past -
About Image: NASA Astronaut John Young salutes the American flag next to the lunar module Orion during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
Photo credit: NASA
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Thanks to our fine leader -- President Obama... who just canceled the moon/mars missions... we will never SEE ANYTHING like this again in our lifetime. Well... you can at least bet that you will not see an American/American Flag in the Image.
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America has truly lost its way following this leader in an empty suit
AubreyJ.........

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) Died Today

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) Died Today
He was 77 years Old
Monday, February 08, 2010
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Official Congressional Portrait
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A Vietnam Veteran who so served his country to the end... died today at Virginia Hospital Center following complications from a gallbladder surgery he had last month.
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The following is from a press release posted on murtha.house.gov website
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Congressman John Murtha Passes Away at Age 77
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman John P. Murtha (PA-12) passed away peacefully this afternoon at 1:18 p.m. at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA. At his bedside was his family.
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Murtha, 77, was Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.
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First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in February of 1974, Murtha dedicated his life to serving his country both in the military and in the halls of Congress. A former Marine, he became the first Vietnam War combat Veteran elected to the U.S. Congress.
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This past Saturday, February 6, 2010, Murtha became Pennsylvania’s longest serving Member of Congress.
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> A complete biography is available HERE
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Thank you for your many years of service to this great country of ours.
In memory of...
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AubreyJ.........

Iran: On Ground Updates - February 08, 2010

Iran: On Ground Updates
Iran Informs UN Nuclear Agency It Needs Uranium Enriched To 20 Percent For Medical Research Reactor
Monday, February 08, 2010
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* VOANews.com brings us the following troubling new and their report starts off like this... Iran says it has informed the U.N. nuclear agency it plans to further enrich its uranium in defiance of international demands that it stop. Iran's processing program would likely need reconfiguring first, prompting speculation the announcement may have more to do with nuclear negotiations with the West than imminent enrichment... Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency says he gave the U.N. watchdog notice of Tehran's plans Monday, in an apparent formal rejection of a U.N. plan to have the uranium enriched abroad...
Read the rest at link below...
Iran Orders Boost in Uranium Enrichment
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* LATimes.com has a good report today and it starts off like this... Reporting from Beirut — Iranian officials trumpeted new nuclear and military ambitions Monday in the face of domestic political discord and stepped-up international talk of tightening economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic... Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, announced that Tehran had informed the United Nations' nuclear watchdog that it intended to launch construction of 10 new nuclear-fuel plants in the Persian calendar year starting March 2010 and begin producing 20%-enriched uranium to provide fuel for a Tehran medical reactor...
Read this report in full at link below...
Iran says it will build 10 nuclear plants, beef up military
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* Telegraph.co.uk reports the news out of Iran today this way... World leaders finally ran out of patience when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered a massive expansion in processing... The US and France led calls for fresh action by the international community and labeled Tehran's latest move "blackmail"...
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Iran faces new sanctions within weeks over uranium programme
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* JPOST.com has this report... Only option left is Security Council sanctions, French officials say... The US and the EU are united in the conviction that more sanctions are needed against Iran, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said Monday after talks with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, various news agencies reported...
Read the full report at link below...
'US, EU united on Iran nuclear issue'

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"Serious concern" over Iran's nuclear programme


About this News Video: The Foreign Office says it has "serious concerns" over the escalation of Iran's nuclear programme.
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* VOANews.com reports it this way... Plain and sweet...
Gates Hopes Iran Sanctions Will Avoid Military Action
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* Google News has this AFP report and it starts off like this... Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution... "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel...
Read the full report at link below...
Iran anniversary 'punch' will stun West: Khamenei
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There is going to be only one of two things fixing to go down over the next so many months. Iran is going to HAVE Nuclear Weapons... or... Israel is going to light Iran up... Then Nuclear Weapons Iran will have not.
I’d bet on the latter myself!
AubreyJ.........

Photo for the Day - February 08, 2010

Photo for the Day

Image Credit: NASA TV

Watch Video of Launch at our friend’s American Power website HERE
Thanks Donald!

Liftoff of Space Shuttle Endeavour
After a one-day delay due to clouds, Space Shuttle Endeavour launched at 4:14 a.m. EST Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a new module and an attached cupola for the International Space Station that should increase human understanding of our home planet. It was the last scheduled night launch in shuttle program history.

Commander George Zamka, Pilot Terry Virts and Mission Specialists Kay Hire, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken began their 13-day mission with an eight-and-a-half-minute dash to orbit to begin the pursuit of the orbital outpost, lighting up the central Florida coast as Endeavour arced to the northeast en route to space.

When Endeavour lifted off, the station was traveling at almost five miles a second about 212 miles over western Romania. Endeavour is scheduled to dock with the station at 12:09 a.m. Wednesday over the northern coast of Spain.
Info from the NASA,gov website

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AubreyJ.........

Watch Launch and Mission Live Of Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130

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Watch Launch and Mission Live
Of Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130
On NASA TELEVISION
Original Post Date: Saturday, February 06, 2010

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Monday, February 08, 2010
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Sunday’s Early Morning Launch
Looks like a GO!
* Launch Time: 4:39am EST *
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About Photo: File photo of Mission Specialist Nicholas Patrick, Pilot Terry Virts, Mission Specialists Robert Behnken and Kathryn Hire, Commander George Zamka and Mission Specialist Stephen Robinson
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Latest Space Shuttle News Straight From NASA
Saturday, February 06, 2010
9:55am EST
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Endeavour Set to Launch Early Sunday Morning
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Preparations for Space Shuttle Endeavour's launch remain on schedule. The rotating service structure was rolled away from Endeavour this morning, completing the move at 8:39am EST.
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Weather remains forecast 80 percent "go" for Sunday's 4:39am EST launch.
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Countdown coverage on NASA TV and NASA's Launch Blog begins at 11:30pm EST tonight.
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> Meet the STS-130 Crew
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Here’s a little about...
Endeavour's STS-130 Mission
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Commander George Zamka will lead the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. Terry Virts will serve as the pilot. Mission Specialists are Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire. Virts will be making his first trip to space.
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Shuttle Endeavour and its crew will deliver to the space station a third connecting module, the Italian-built Tranquility node and the seven-windowed cupola, which will be used as a control room for robotics. The mission will feature three spacewalks.
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Liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is scheduled for February 7, 2010, at 4:39am EST .
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Post updated:
Sat, 06 Feb 2010 - 10:25pm EST
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Astronauts Suit-Up for Launch
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The six crew members of space shuttle Endeavour are donning their orange flight suits as they get ready to head out of the crew quarters at Kennedy's Operations and Checkout Building to Launch Pad 39A where space shuttle Endeavour awaits their arrival.
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Forecasters have changed the chances of acceptable conditions to 60 percent favorable for launch after determining there is a risk of low clouds blowing in near launch time. Weather will continue to be monitored with reconnaissance flights and weather balloons.
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There are no technical issues being reported and the countdown continues toward a 4:39am EST liftoff.
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Post Update:
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The countdown to launch continues toward a 4:39am EST liftoff, but a cloud ceiling has moved over Kennedy Space Center and the launch forecast is "red," or "no-go," at this time.
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Weather reconnaissance flights continue to monitor the cloud banks and a possible break in the cloud ceiling is possible at launch time.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour's countdown has resumed at T-20 minutes and counting. There will be a planned hold at T-9 minutes that will extend about 45 minutes.
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Post updated:
Sat, 06 Feb 2010 4:05am EST
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* Endeavour Launch Scrubbed *
Due to heavy cloud cover
Next attempt early Monday morning
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POST UPDATE:
Sun, 07 Feb 2010- 05:46 EST
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Endeavour Launch Rescheduled
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Managers officially have scheduled Space Shuttle Endeavour's next launch attempt for [early morning] Monday, Feb. 8th at 4:14am EST.
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The Mission Management Team will meet at 6:15 p.m. Sunday to give the "go" to fill Endeavour's external fuel tank with propellants. Tank loading would begin at 6:45 p.m.
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Post Update:
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Tanking Continues, Weather Currently "Red"
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Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters briefed Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach and Final Inspection Team Director Tom Ford on weather conditions for launch. We currently are "red" or “no go” for launch due to the low cloud ceiling. The weather team is seeing more breaks in the clouds as they make landfall. The temperature at Launch Pad 39A currently sits at 50 degrees and is expected to drop another degree or two before launch. Earlier tonight, mission managers gave the “go” for filling space shuttle Endeavour's external fuel tank, which began at 6:50 p.m. EST. The process should take approximately three hours.
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While we wait thru tonight... and EARLY Monday morning... to see if this sucker goes up... how about a FUN READ to kill the time...
Click it out at link below...
Endeavour to Deliver a Room With a View
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Only 5 Remaining Shuttle Missions
Including tonight’s...
Now › STS-130
› STS-131
› STS-132
› STS-134
› STS-133 <>
› Fact Sheet: Remaining Shuttle Missions (1.3 MB PDF)
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Arrival at the Pad
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The crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-130 mission is at the launch pad and took a quick elevator ride to the 195-foot level where NASA's Closeout Crew waits for them in the White Room.
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Last-minute adjustments will be made to the astronauts' flight suits and an orange glow stick tucked into the pocket of each suit for safety by the Closeout Crew before they climb into the shuttle.
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UPDATE 4:10amEST

GET ready...

This sucker is fixing to go off NOW!!

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4:15am EST

WE HAVE LIFT OFF!

And a picture perfect one it was...

LOVE These night launches -- But sadly this is the last Night launch EVER for the

Space Shuttle Missions....

4:18am EST

All is going well as Endeavour gets ready for Tank Seperation

4:24am EST

We have a good tank seperation and Endeavour speeds into space on

what will be a fun Mission to watch over the next so many days...

Keep up with latest at links below...

Night all....

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Read Latest News and Updates
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Watch Launch and Mission LIVE
At NASA TV

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ENJOY!!!
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STS-130: Interactive Mission Timeline

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NOTE: I’ll be updating the mission and spacewalks over the next few days in a new post above this one... so check back!!!
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GOD SPEED to the Crew of STS-130 Endeavour...
AubreyJ.........

All above info/photos/images taken from NASA.gov website

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DoD Identifies Army Casualty

No. 100-10 February 06, 2010
DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt. Dillon B. Foxx, 22, of Traverse City, Mich., died February 5th in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.
For more information the media may contact the 82nd Airborne Division public affairs office at 910-432-0661.

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U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)

Taking a Moment to Honor our Fallen Heroes

Today... I would like to

Take a Moment to Honor our Fallen HeroesSince that tragic day on 9-11-2001… many of our bravest have given their all while fighting for this great country of ours. Please take a moment to thank them, in your own way, for all they have done and were willing to do for you -- me and this great country of ours. May God bless each and every one of these fallen Heroes, all of those who have been wounded, all of their families, friends, loved ones and their comrades in arms who were at their side.
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Never forget those that protect us -- Each and every day...

Here at home and overseas.
AubreyJ.........

DoD Identifies Marine/Army Casualties

No. 093-10 February 03, 2010
DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device February 2nd in Zabul province, Afghanistan. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.

Killed were:
Capt. Daniel Whitten, 28, of Grimes, Iowa
Pfc. Zachary G. Lovejoy, 20, of Albuquerque, N.M.

For more information the media may contact the 82nd Airborne Division public affairs office at 910 432-0661 or 910-384-4550.


No. 092-10 February 03, 2010
DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Staff Sgt. Rusty H. Christian, 24, of Greenville, Tenn., died January 28th in Oruzgan province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
For more information media may contact the U.S. Army Special Operations Command public affairs office at 910-432-6005; after hours 910-689-6187, or visit http://news.soc.mil/


No. 098-10 February 05, 2010
DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died February 3rd in Timagara, Pakistan, from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device.

Killed were:
Sgt. 1st Class David J. Hartman, 27, of Okinawa, Japan. He was assigned to the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.
Sgt. 1st Class Matthew S. Sluss-Tiller, 35, of Callettsburg, Ky. He was assigned to the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.
Staff Sgt. Mark A. Stets, 39, of El Cajon, Calif. He was assigned to the 8th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne), 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.

For more information media may contact the U.S. Army Special Operations Command public affairs office at 910-432-6005, or visit http://news.soc.mil .


No. 089-10 February 02, 2010
DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Lance Cpl. Michael L. Freeman Jr., 21, of Fayetteville, Pa., died February 1st while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
For additional background information on this Marine, news media representatives may contact the II Marine Expeditionary Force public affairs office at 910-451-7200.


No. 088-10 February 02, 2010
DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died January 29th in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained while supporting combat operations.

Killed were:
Capt. David J. Thompson, 39, of Hooker, Okla., who was assigned to the 3rd Battalion 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Spc. Marc P. Decoteau, 19, of Waterville Valley, N.H., who was assigned to the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne), 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.

For more information media may contact the U.S. Army Special Operations Command public affairs office at 910-432-6005, or visit http://news.soc.mil

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U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)

Afghanistan/Pakistan: On Ground Updates - February 04, 2010

Afghanistan/Pakistan:
On Ground Updates
U.S. Counterterrorism Officials Believe Taliban Commander Hakimullah Mehsud Is Dead/Potential Successors Reportedly Killed Too
Thursday, February 04, 2010

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* FoxNews.com brings us the following report from yesterday and it starts of like this... U.S. counterterrorism officials believe Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead following a missile attack last month, a senior intelligence official said Wednesday in the strongest signal that Washington has offered about the militant’s fate...
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Intel Official: U.S. Believes Mehsud Is Dead
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* The Times of India had the following report posted up on their website yesterday and it starts off like this... Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud’s close aide Qari Hussain, the top trainer of suicide bombers and one of his potential successors, was killed in the same US drone attack that fatally injured him, sources said...
Read this report in full at link below...
Hakimullah’s likely successor also killed’
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* The Wall Street Journal has a different take on all this today and their report goes in part like this ... "We won't know for certain until the Taliban wants us to know," said Rustam Shah Mohmand, a former Pakistani official who spent much of his career in the tribal areas where Mr. Mehsud operated and may have perished... The tribal areas of Pakistan—the home base for much of the Taliban's and al Qaeda's senior leadership—remain in some ways an intelligence black hole...
Read today’s report in full at link below...
U.S., Pakistan Puzzle Over Militant's Fate

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Again I say...
I SOOOO hope they killed him... deader than dead!
Time well tell...
AubreyJ........

Photo for the Day - February 03, 2010

* Photo for the Day *- Searching for Weapons -
A U.S. Army Soldier from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, warms his hands by a fire made by local nationals in Zanbar Province, Afghanistan during Operation Wawraa Tufaan, January 31st.
Photo by Sgt. Jeffrey Alexander - Joint Combat Camera Afghanistan

Music Videos: Mad World

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Now don’t get me wrong gang... I have not become one of those tree huggers or nothing like that. I’m not a believer in all this Global Warming crap either. But I am a true believer in the fact that this beautiful world we live in today is in a LOT of hurt and over the next many years ahead of us there is a lot of GOOD that can be done.

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I can’t really tell you why... but I really do like this Music video and I hope you enjoy it too....
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Music Videos: Mad World

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About this Video: Gary Jules, from the album Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets [2001]. Also featured on the Donnie Darko soundtrack movie [2003]. Originally by Tears for Fears, The Hurting [1983]
Written by Roland Orzabal
This video posted on YouTube by fridaysabtu
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More thoughts on this video:
Updated Tuesday, January 02, 2010
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Though I do not believe in Manmade Global Warming there is, as I said above... a whole LOT of hurt going on in the world. And so much of that hurt is caused by regular Mother Nature and Mother Earth, compounded by man’s complete ignorance to both.
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Developing stronger housing and building codes would save many 100,000 of lives EVERY Year from tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and such. And in the long run I for one would think it would save our country and the world many billions of dollars every year in rescue and rebuilding cost.
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I also do NOT understand why we allow rebuilding in KNOW major flood areas or areas with known mudslide/avalanche potential. It is such a waste of life and property!
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As I said before... there is a lot we can do over the next so many years to improve life on this planet. The things I mentioned above are just a few of them...
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AubreyJ.........
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In memory of all the lives lost this year due to poor building codes and location.
May god bless each and every one of them...

President Obama’s MOON WAR Begins

President Obama’s MOON WAR Begins
Monday, February 2010
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* The Washington Post brings us the following report this afternoon and it starts off like this... The battle over space has begun. And it's likely to be brutal... The Obama administration is attempting to kill NASA's ambitious back-to-the moon program, an effort that carried the imprimatur of George W. Bush. The Constellation program had already run through about $9 billion to develop a new crew capsule, Orion, and a new rocket, the Ares 1. Both are vaporized by Obama's new NASA strategy... Instead of going back to the moon, the administration wants to invest $6 billion over five years in a commercial taxi to orbit. The idea is to let the private sector take over the routine flights into space... But change does not come easily or quickly in the complex, costly and highly political enterprise that is space travel. Key lawmakers are furious at the prospect of losing jobs and NASA dollars. Also in an uproar are companies that will see billions in expected contracts fail to materialize...
Read the full report at link below...
Obama's proposed budget for NASA starts moon war on earth
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* SFGate.com reports it this way... President Barack Obama is redirecting America's space program, killing NASA's $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket technology research...
Read the rest at link below...
NASA: Good night moon, hello new rocket technology
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I was going to show this real COOL NASA Constellation Program, Back to the Moon and Back, video but NASA has already taken it down off their YouTube website. Didn’t take them long to BAIL...
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When I first heard the bad news that the Moon missions were fixing to be scrubbed... it just made me SICK!
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My friends... It’s time to start raising all kinds of cane over this...
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This is a very... VERY bad thing for future Space Exploration and the Space War that’s going on right now that everyone seems to overlook.
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The private sector will not be able to do all the things we would wish them to do in space and we cannot afford to get behind any country.
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Our future security and defense depends on always being on the cutting edge of space travel. ALWAYS!
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Hitching rides into space with Russia, China and India doesn’t seem to be all that good of an idea to me either. And that seems to be where President Obama is heading us...
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I don't know about you but I for one cannot WAIT to get that man out of office.
He’s KILLING US!!!
AubreyJ.........

Afghanistan Pakistan: On Ground Updates - February 01, 2010

Afghanistan/Pakistan:
On Ground Updates
Pakistani Official Says American Man Pick Up Near Country's Famed Khyber Pass Leading to Afghanistan
Monday, February 01, 2010
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* The Washington Post brings us the following short report this Monday morning and it starts off like this... A local Pakistani official says authorities have detained an American man near the country's famed Khyber Pass leading to Afghanistan because he did not have government permission to travel there...
Read this report in full at link below...
Pakistan detains American man near Afghan border
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* Meanwhile... News24.com has the following AFP update on the fate of Pakistan Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud and their report goes in part like this ... The New York Times [Link HERE] said Pakistani and US officials were increasingly convinced that Mehsud died from wounds suffered in a drone strike, although they could not offer proof...
Read the full report at link below...
Taliban leader's death a mystery

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More to come on both of these stories, I’m sure, before the week is out...
AubreyJ.........

DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

No. 085-10 February 01, 2010
DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt. David J. Smith, 25, of Frederick, Md., died January 26th from wounds received January 23rd while supporting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, based out of Camp Pendleton, Calif.
For additional background information on this Marine, news media representatives may contact the Marine Forces Reserve public affairs office at 504-678-6539.

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U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)

Afghanistan Pakistan: On Ground Updates - January 31, 2010

Afghanistan/Pakistan:
On Ground Updates
Reportedly... Taliban Commander in Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud Reported Wounded in Drone Attack this Month, and Has Died
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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* CNN.com brings us the following... and possible GREAT NEWS... and their report starts off like this... The Pakistani military on Sunday was looking into a local report that the region's Taliban leader had died, officials said... State broadcaster PTV reported that Hakimullah Mehsud, the Taliban commander in Pakistan, was wounded in a drone attack this month, and that he died and was buried last week. PTV cited local sources and its correspondent in North Waziristan...
Read the full report at link below...
Report: Pakistani Taliban leader killed
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* FoxNews.com has this take on the news out of Pakistan today... The head of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in a U.S. drone attack, Pakistan state television reported Sunday... The report stated Mehsud had been injured in a drone attack in the Shaktoi area January 14 and died three days later. He reportedly was buried in the village of Mamuzai in the North Waziristan region... But a Taliban spokesman denied the report on Sunday, calling it a "total lie" in an interview with Reuters... The Pakistani army said it is investigating the reports...
Read the rest of this lengthy report at link below...
Pakistan Taliban Chief Reportedly Killed in U.S. Drone Strike
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* Aljazeera.net has this report...
Profile: Hakimullah Mehsud
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* SKY News has a Great read and News Video posted up on their website HERE

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We will know the truth, one way or another... on this matter soon enough. In my opinion... this attack was a response for the killing of our CIA Agents in the Afghanistan suicide bombing a few months ago... and I for one SOOOO hope they killed him... deader than dead.
AubreyJ.........