Protest Erupt In Pakistan Over Prophet Cartoons

.... Angry protests erupted in four Pakistani cities over published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, and at least two people were killed. Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said the government would take action against the protesters...
Read more on topic at latimes.com......
Protests Erupt in 4 Pakistani Cities Over Prophet Cartoons

A Valentine for Osama Bin Laden

I have no idea who the author of this is but it’s making the rounds in the e-mails today... So I thought I’d share it with you if you haven’t seen it yet...
Happy Valentines Day everyone... especially to all of you overseas and away from your family and loved ones...
AubreyJ.........

A Valentine for Osama Bin Laden
Little Thelma comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. And, "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint and we're Jewish," she asked, "will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?"

Thelma's father thinks a bit... and then says "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to???”

"Osama Bin Laden," she says.

"Why Osama Bin Laden," her father asks in shock...

"Well," she says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and then they sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot. And then he'd start going all over the place tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore..."

Her father's heart swells and he looks at his daughter with newfound pride. "Thelma, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard.”

"I know," Thelma says, "and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines could blow the crap out of him!!!"

Republican Party 2006 Campaign and the Internet

... Republican Party sources say the 2006 congressional election campaign strategy essentially shuns the mainstream media, which has been largely deemed as oriented to the Democrats. (Just look at the MSM feeding frenzy on the VP’s shooting accident...) Instead, Mr. Rove has directed the GOP leadership to work with Internet sites, particularly bloggers, to help shape public opinion and set an agenda for political activists...
Read more on topic at insightmag.com......
Internet media gets the nod in Rove's 2006 game plan

Photo for the Day- February 14, 2006

U.S. Air Force airmen drive out of red smoke respond to a simulated ambush during training at Fort Dix, N.J., on Feb. 13, 2006. The course, taught by the Air Mobility Warfare Center's 421st Combat Training Squadron, is designed to prepare airmen for upcoming deployments.
(Courtesy of DoD)
DoD photo by......
Tech. Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol, U.S. Air Force

Army MIA Soldiers from Vietnam War Identified

No. 136-06 February 14, 2006
Army MIA Soldiers from Vietnam War Identified

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of four U.S. servicemen, missing in action since the Vietnam War, have been identified. They will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors.

They are:
Maj. Jack L. Barker of Waycross, Ga.
Capt. John F. Dugan of Roselle, N.J.
Sgt. William E. Dillender of Naples, Fla.
Pfc. John J. Chubb of Gardena, Calif.

All were from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. Chubb will be buried in Inglewood, Calif., on Feb. 18. Barker, Dugan and Dillender will be buried on April 12 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington. D.C.

On March 20, 1971, Barker and Dugan were piloting a UH-1H Huey helicopter with Dillender and Chubb on board. The aircraft was participating in a troop extraction mission in the Savannakhet Province of Laos. As the helicopter approached the landing zone, it was hit by heavy enemy ground fire. It exploded in the air and there were no survivors. Continued enemy activity in the area prevented any recovery attempts.

A refugee in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, showed an identification tag of Pfc. Chubb and a medallion to a U.S. interviewer in 1986. The medallion was reportedly recovered near the same general location from an F-105 crash site. However, the location and the aircraft type did not correlate with the missing aircraft and soldiers.

Between 1988 and 2001, joint U.S.-Lao People’s Democratic Republic teams, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), conducted four investigations and three excavations for these soldiers without positive results. An investigation team surveyed three crash sites in 2002 after interviewing local villagers from the province. The team recovered a fragment of human tooth and some crew-related artifacts from one of the crash sites.

In October and November 2004, another joint investigation team excavated the crash site and recovered additional human remains and crew-related evidence. The wreckage was of a UH-1H helicopter, and contained insignia worn by members of the 101st Airborne Division.

The remains included nine fragments of teeth that the forensic anthropologists at JPAC were able to match with detailed information from medical and dental records.

From the Vietnam War, 1,807 Americans are still unaccounted-for with 364 of those from Laos. Another 839 have been accounted-for in Southeast Asia with 208 of those from losses in Laos.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.

DoD Identifies Navy Casualty

No. 133-06 February 14, 2006
DoD Identifies Navy Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Nicholas Wilson, 25, of Newark Valley, N.Y., died Feb. 12 as a result of an improvised explosive device in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Three, based in San Diego, Calif.
For further information related to this release, contact Navy Public Affairs at (703) 697-5342.

Two Dem leaders do major reversal and endorse domestic spying

... In what can only be called a major reversal, two Democratic leaders, Rep. Jane Harman and former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, admitted the controversial NSA surveillance program was necessary for fighting terrorism....
A great read today by David Limbaugh at towmhall.com...
Click it out.........
Democrats endorse domestic spying

Scott McClellan gets drilled over VP shooting accident

White House spokesman Scott McClellan got drilled with questions Monday by an over rude... out of control... feeding frenzy Press.

It was so strange to me to listen to them going on and on and on and on and on... about why it took nearly 24 hours before any word of the incident was disclosed. (Like it was some kind of great big Watergate Cover-up conspiracy or something.)

Scott McClellan said over and over and rightly so I might add... that the first priority was to make sure the shooting victim, 78-year-old attorney Harry Whittington, was getting the medical care he needed...

Ok... Maybe the White House should have “shot out” a short Press Release on the accident a little sooner than they did... but the news got out there soon enough.

Anyway... not once did I hear anyone in the press ask how Mr. Whittington was doing. Not once!!! They seemed to care less about that kind of info and instead kept trying to drum up some kind of conspiracy theory. Maybe I’m missing something here but I don’t think so...
AubreyJ.........