Good Evening Children,
I am not even going to post this evening about the plot
thwarted
by the British today.....simply because there are too many
online right now
and I am sure I won't choose the correct one.......so instead
let me
simply say Go Britain......absolutely smashing!! We owe you
guys a pint of Guinness!!
Wash DC was a little busy and a little tense
today..........your first impression is that
there is nothing to worry about......the war is far from here
and there is nothing to fear......unless you are attempting to fly
somewhere........the lines at BWI airport were
3/4 of a mile long at one point today and large trash cans
were set out for passengers
to discard their liquids before checking in and boarding
their planes.........
Upon arriving home this evening I ran across this t5hough and
all that talk of a safe
city went right out the window.........
Two Missing Egyptian Students Arrested In Dundalk
WASHINGTON -- Six of the 11 Egyptian exchange students who failed to show up for their college program are now in custody after three additional students were arrested Thursday, the FBI said.El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed Ibrahim, 20, and Alaa Abd El Fattah Ali El Bahnasawi, 20, were arrested at a residence in Dundalk, Md., outside Baltimore, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Chicago police detained Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou El Ela, 22, at OHare International Airport as he was attempting to book a flight to Montana, the FBI said. Immigration agents later took El Ela into custody.
All are being held on administrative immigration violations because they did not report on time to their monthlong program at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont.
None of the students is considered a terrorism risk and FBI officials stressed that there are no ties between the Egyptians and the alleged terror plot broken up by British authorities.
Three students were arrested Wednesday. The other five Egyptians still are being sought.
That's right........right here in Dundalk............if these guys were a terrorist cell that is a little frightening to me as I have little ones to look out for and it is true that you can't trust your neighbors any longer............I will reserve judgement until more facts surface.........
Then as if to rub salt into the wounds this little back page story floated to the surface......as if we are not supposed to be paying attention..............
Israel approves deeper offensive
Up to 10,000 Israeli soldiers are already fighting in LebanonThe Israeli cabinet has approved an army plan to push deeper into Lebanon, to try to take control of areas used by Hezbollah to launch rockets on Israel.
Up to 30,000 troops could take part, aiming to reach the Litani River, up to 30km (18 miles) inside Lebanon.
After nightfall, armoured columns begun moving into southern Lebanon under cover of intense artillery fire.
An Israeli military spokesman said the armed forces were operating according to the earlier political decisions.
Amid continuing attacks by Israel and Hezbollah, ceasefire moves were in jeopardy as US and France rowed over changes to a draft UN resolution.
Hezbollah's leader also attacked the current draft as "unjust".
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, in a television broadcast, said: "At the very least this resolution can be described as unfair and unjust. It gives Israel more than it wanted and more than it was seeking."
Latest Mid-East crisis map
Press sceptical on diplomacy
Excerpts: Council speeches
Attempts to reword the resolution, to take in Lebanese and Arab League demands for an immediate Israeli withdrawal, have so far proved impossible.
The BBC's Bridget Kendall says the mood at the UN is downcast, amid possible signs that both the French and Americans are beginning to worry the fragile diplomacy could collapse.
After Israel's decision to approve the new offensive, an Israeli spokesman told the BBC that Israel was waiting to see what progress, if any, was being made at the UN towards a ceasefire.
But our correspondent says the cabinet decision further darkened the mood at the UN.
The likely timetable for a vote - first mooted for Tuesday - appears to be slipping, possibly into next week. The White House said it had no idea when the Security Council would vote, AFP news agency said.
More than 1,000 people, most of them civilians, have now been killed in the conflict, the Lebanese government has said. More than 100 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also been killed.
Every time I read an article on this conflict I am presented with new death toll numbers.....
and although the numbers are growing every day it is hard to disseminate the truth.....
these are days of rampant propaganda and double-speak rhetoric.......of a million ideas and
a million blogs.......here in the present issues are cloudy and complex........and those who
speak out are sometimes silenced......
Banned, Blocked Tibetan Writer Vows to Speak Out in China
2006.08.01
WASHINGTON—A well-known Tibetan writer whose blogs have now been closed by the Chinese authorities vowed Tuesday to keep speaking out and raising awareness in China of Tibetan culture.
“Though my blogs are shut down, they cannot stop my speech and my writing,” Woeser said during an 80-minute call-in program on RFA’s Tibetan service. She joined the program by phone from her home in Beijing.
“I will be writing and speaking. Since I am writer in Chinese, I want to make more people know reality of Tibetan culture, history, and traditions. I especially want the Chinese people to learn the truth about Tibetan history, culture, religion, and traditions.”
Woeser, 40, who writes primarily in Chinese and is married to the Chinese writer Wang Lixiong, said she believed that Chinese authorities had closed her blogs because she had recently published a photo of Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, on one of them.
Woeser is a well-known writer of Tibetan origin. She is the author of 10 volumes, including one book of collected poems, a prose volume titled Tibet Journal, and two books on the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. Most of her work is banned inside China. ............(full story)
We often think of tyranny to only exist in far away lands......
Elizabeth Ritter found out that is not the case........here is proof
that
oppression exists even here in our docile little part of the world.......and
how those who speak out and stand up for their beliefs are persecuted
and
ignored
By ARASH GHADISHAH
MIAMI, Aug. 10, 2006 — Call it unusual optimism, but Elizabeth Ritter counted herself lucky by day's end on Nov. 20, 2003.
On that day, the South Florida lawyer says, she was shot with rubber bullets at least four times by Miami-area law enforcement officers who were out in force to control protesters demonstrating against a free trade summit.
One bullet struck Ritter in the face.
"I felt there had been angels sitting on my shoulders because I had not been blinded by that shot," she said to ABC News.
She was demonstrating against law enforcement's handling of the protests.
A newly surfaced videotape that shows Broward Sheriff's Office officials laughing over footage of Ritter being shot by rubber bullets and calling protesters "cockroaches" has sparked outrage and prompted an apology from law enforcement.
"The Dade County Courthouse had been essentially closed by the police and essentially downtown Miami had been turned into what I perceived to be a police state," she said.
Apparently No Warning
Still dressed for work in a red blazer, Ritter took to the streets with a homemade sign that read "Fear Totalitarianism."
Before long, she was caught in a barrage of rubber-bullet fire.
Ritter said police offered no warning before firing on protesters.
"There was absolutely no indication either orally or by gesture that they wanted anyone to disperse or leave," she said. "Had the police given such an order, I would have obeyed it immediately."
Videotaped footage of the protests shows Ritter standing next to a police officer using a bullhorn to announce that the protests would be permitted to continue as long as they remained peaceful.
Ritter is later seen on the tape walking away from a line of officers when she is apparently shot in the leg with a rubber bullet.
She then turns toward the officers and asks, "Did you shoot me? A lady in a suit? Who has been walking peaceably in front of you for half an hour and you shot me when my back was turned?"
(full story)
Squirrel Attacks People in Fla. Park.......And then just when you thought it was safe to go into
the park..
Angry squirrel attacks several people in Florida park before being capturedWINTER PARK, Fla., Aug. 10, 2006
(AP) Several people attacked by a squirrel at Central Park said they had one word for the animal: nuts. On Wednesday some expressed frustration that the animal was not caught sooner, the Orlando Sentinel reported.Alisa Cox's son Carson, 3, was bitten by a squirrel several times and had a 2-inch wound on his leg after the incident, Cox said.James Klute said his 3-year-old son was also bitten on the calf while they were kicking a soccer ball at the park. Jim Hindman, meanwhile, said a squirrel bit and scratched both arms while he was sitting on a park bench.Longwood resident Dylan Osborne, 19, said that after the squirrel attacked the leg and shoe of a friend he trapped it under a bucket but released it two hours later when county animal-services workers didn't arrive.An official with animal-services said he was not aware of that incident but would check the records.City employees captured the animal with a litter grabber Tuesday. It died and is being tested for rabies. Officers had previously tried to subdue the animal with pepper spray.
I think Foamy just had a bad day.......... 
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