Trick-or-Treat

We had a big night here for trick-or-treaters--we got a grand total of 11!! For us, that is a good night. Because we live at the bottom of the hill on a dead end street, not many kids venture down our way. Besides, it is one of the darkest streets in town--don't know why they can't add another street light!While we didn't have snow tonight, it looks as if we might be getting some tomorrow. However, we probably won't get any here in the city--the lake protects us so much by keeping us just that much warmer than the surrounding areas. Right...

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Randomness

--This week The Nephew is not with us. He came into town on Monday to talk to his teachers and to let us know he will be at home all week. The reason? His mother's brother was killed as a result of an ATV accident. How awful for The Nephew--first his dad's accident and now this!--We just had the second of a number of repairs made to the Jimmy....

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The Detroit Red Wings played the Edmonton Oilers and won in the last minute of the third period.Pavel Datsyuk assisted to Filppula for the winning goal and Lidstrom made the assist to Zetterberg for the first goal in a win of 2-1.Datsyuk playing as usual with magnificent steals and amazing puck handling.Players of the game to me were?Cleary, Osgood, Datsyuk, Zetterburg, Lidstrom.To name a few...As a whole the team did very well.Link to Pavel Dats...

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Where have I been? Red Wings do not elude me, I justput off working.Anyways, here is a couple of videos to watch...53 sec4 minutes 24 ...

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The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to military sourc...

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Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention The army major has said that in the rare circumstances in which it was decided that the detainees were no longer enemy combatants, senior commanders ordered another panel to reverse the decisi...

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Bush Fundraiser Linked To CIA Drug Plane The links between recent owners of the two drug planes, discovered during an examination of FAA registration records, suggest a continuing criminal conspiracy to engage in massive drug trafficking, involving Republican fund-raisers Adams and Senator Mel Martinez, Saudi arms dealer Khashoggi, prominent oligarchs in the Russian Mob, dirty San Diego defense contractor Titan Corp., as well as elements of American military and civilian intelligence.American academics like Dr. Alfred McCoy have led the way in...

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The Christian Broadcast Network's Halloween Tips: There are many message-driven alternatives to offer, other than a bowl full of candy. For instance, there are Gospel tracts designed for trick-or-treaters that can be purchased online or at your Christian bookstore.To counter the evil influence of Halloween, we need to join together and celebrate the reality of the heroic efforts of Christian saints over the evil in their day. Many leaders in the past -- and present -- have fulfilled the mandate of destroying the works of the devil through their...

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Dusty Galaxies Yield Up Hundreds Of Black Holes

A long-lost population of active supermassive black holes, or quasars, has been uncovered by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes. This image, taken with Spitzer's infrared vision, shows a fraction of these black holes, which are located deep in the bellies of distant, massive galaxies (circled in blue). This image was taken by Spitzer's multiband...

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Larry King--Senile Or Just Plain Stupid?

I'm not a fan of Larry King and can probably count on two hands how many times I actually have watched his show. But, last weekend I was channel surfing and I came across his interview with Eric Clapton and had to stop and watch it. This is where the question comes: Is Larry King senile or is he just plain stupid!A little background, first. Eric Clapton, as too many other rock stars, was a drug (heroin, cocaine) addict. He beat that addiction, but let alcohol take the place of the other drugs and wound up addicted to IT. After going through...

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My Boy Did It--FINALLY

So, so much happening with the Red Wings today, but I will start with the most exciting news: Filppula got his first goal of the season at 1:23 of the first period against the Sharks. And, before the period was over, he had gotten an assist! Hopefully this will help him relax enough to start scoring on a regular basis.Detroit absolutely skated rings around San Jose tonight--it was as if they were playing a kids' team! San Jose couldn't get it together and the amount of penalties didn't help them, either. Osgood was in the net tonight and got...

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'Attack on Iran is attack on Russia'The barely reported highlight of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran for the Caspian Sea summit last week was a key face-to-face meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.A high-level diplomatic source in Tehran tells Asia Times Online that essentially Putin and the Supreme Leader have agreed on a plan to nullify the George W Bush administration's relentless drive towards launching a preemptive attack, perhaps a tactical nuclear strike, against Iran. An American attack on Iran will be...

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These photos should go over well with the Republican base. Also, has anyone else noticed that Laura Bush has only one facial expressi...

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'U.S. to strike Iran' if diplomacy failsA senior Palestinian intelligence official said that based on meetings with American diplomats he "understood" the U.S. plans to target Iran's suspected nuclear installations in two to three months if negotiations with Tehran don't generate a major breakthrou...

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Former Bush General Touts Privatization of National Disaster Response"Country Club Fees" Would Guarantee ProtectionA retired general now working for a controversial private security company told an audience last night about the services the company plans to provide.The government does not have the tax base to provide services to everyone in the event of a major catastrophe, retired Brigadier General Richard W. Mills told an audience in Pellston last nig...

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On Flying and Reading

Surprisingly, with all of my phobias, I am not a white-knuckle flyer. Granted, I get a bit of the heebie-jeebies on take-off and landing, but all in all, I do quite well. When we went to Vegas, for the first part of the trip, we flew completely in the clouds--it was just like being in an episode of The Twilight Zone! Still, I was calm. The only time flying is a problem for me is when there is turbulence--I get a bit nauseous.The worst part about flying is the cramped feeling you get--they pack you in like sardines in a can! From Chicago, we...

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Detroit 3-Vancouver 2

The game was good tonight--and, yes, it is because the Wings won, but it also was because they played quite well. Zetterberg now has the most points in the league at 18, but Sundin is right behind him at 17. Z is doing great things--just hope he doesn't have an injury like last year. So far, with Draper, Holmstrom, Cleary, etc, it seems as if more...

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Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a Republican presidential candidate whose fierce opposition to illegal immigration is the center of his campaign, contacted the immigration service yesterday demanding that agents raid a senator’s news conferen...

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Bush offers to bomb KurdsThe Bush Administration is considering air strikes, including cruise missiles, against the Kurdish rebel group PKK in northern Iraq.Because the Kurds aren't trying to kill us y...

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Random Vegas Observations

--We found out pretty quickly: as far as casinos go, seen one, seen them all. Other than the layout and decorating, all of the casinos are the same--the same games, the same people, the same, the same, the same. Now when we go back, we will know that there is no reason to 'casino hop.'--A LOT of people bring their very young children to Vegas. We saw so many infant to toddler age children that it was unbelievable! I don't have a clue as to what these people DID with their children, because there really is not much that kids would enjoy.--The...

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Dennis Kucinich: Where do his true loyalties lie? Perhaps with the space aliens? Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has claimed to have seen a UFO, according to Shirley MacLaine in her new book, "Sage-Ing While Age-Ing."Kucinich "had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there," the actress, a close Kucinich friend, wrote. "Dennis found his encounter extremely moving. The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him."It...

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CIA Unveils New "Terrorist Buster" Logo This is not a joke. Well, actually it is. But it's for real. Thanks to Wonke...

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Cheney's LawMidway through the Frontline documentary Cheney's Law, which aired last Tuesday on PBS, a reporter summarizes a judgment the vice president conveyed to listeners in hiding in the hours after the bombings of September 11. "We will probably," he said, "have to be a country ruled by men rather than laws, in this period." The period, he implied, would last a long time; so the conclusion had all the Cheney markings: cool, complete, defying contradiction. What is astounding is how quickly he arrived at ...

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A decision in Morley v. CIA is expected before the end of the year.Lawyers for the Central Intelligence Agency faced pointed questions in a federal court hearing Monday morning about the agency's efforts to block disclosure of long-secret records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.Three appellate judges probed for explanations of the agency's rationale for withholding records concerning a deceased undercover CIA officer named George Joannides whose role in the events of 1963 remains unexplain...

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DEBKAfile: Olmert sounds alarm: Iran has crossed red line for developing a nuclear weapon. It’s too late for sanctionsThis is the message prime minister Ehud Olmert is carrying urgently to French President Nicolas Sarkozy Monday and British premier Gordon Brown Tuesday, according to DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources.Last week, Olmert placed the Israeli intelligence warning of an Iranian nuclear breakthrough before Russian president Vladimir Putin, while Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak presented the updated intelligence on the advances...

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Former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh will testify before a subcomittee of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday about why he feels the prosecution of former Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht is politically motivated.Dr. Wecht is, of course, a leading critic of the "official story" of the assassination of President John F. Kenne...

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Vegas Hangover

We got home late on Friday--later than we were supposed to--and I am definitely suffering a Vegas hangover. I am tired, my head hurts and feels fuzzy, my eyes are like two piss-holes in the snow, my body feels as if I have been beaten with whips and chains (ohhhhh, KINKY!!), and I am having trouble figuring out what the hell day it is. By the way,...

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Mysterious Death of 9/11 Researcher Dr.David GrahamGraham’s death corroborates other publicly available evidence that these same key 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Al-Hazmi, and Khalid Al-Mihdhar, enjoyed protection from entities inside the US military/intelligence network, while in the US before 9/11. It’s difficult to believe, but 9/11 may have been a kind of cattle prod to shock public opinion into supporting two wars of foreign aggressi...

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Reporter: Mr. President, following up on Vladimir Putin for a moment, he said recently that next year, when he has to step down according to the constitution, as the president, he may become prime minister; in effect keeping power and dashing any hopes for a genuine democratic transition there ...President Bush: I've been planning that myself. (laughter)See: Bush Press Confere...

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Bush warns of World War III if Iran goes nuclear "We've got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel," Bush said, responding to Russia's stated cautioning against military action targeting Tehran's suspected atomic program."So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," said Bush.Starting World War III is the one stupid thing Bush hasn't done--y...

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Crucible Of Marine Life Explored - New Species Found

This handout photo made available in Manila by the University of Alaska shows a deep sea jellyfish found by a US-Philippines underwater expedition in the Celebes Sea. Researchers said a swimming sea cucumber, a Nemo-like orange fish and a worm with tentacles sprouting from its head are among dozens of possible new species found during the survey of...

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Mexican experts say flesh was human Forensics experts said Monday that chunks of flesh found in the apartment of an aspiring horror novelist were human, and that DNA tests were planned to confirm whether it came from the body of his girlfriend.Dr. Rodolfo Rojo, chief medical examiner for Mexico City's prosecutor's office, said flesh found on the plate and frying pan in suspect Jose Luis Calva's apartment corresponded to parts missing from the corpse of his 32-year-old girlfriend, Alejandra Galeana."Police said that a search uncovered an unfinished...

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This fiery figure is being hailed as Pope John Paul II making an appearance beyond the gra...

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In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, the Amsterdam-based military historian Gabriel Kolko argues that 'Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control.' The American military is stretched to the limit. They are losing both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Everything is being sacrificed for these wars: money, equipment in Asia, American military power globally, etc. Where and how can they fight yet another? The Pentagon is short of money for procurement, and that is what so many people in the military bureaucracy live for. The situation...

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And We're Outta Here!

Just had to stop my preparations and do a short post. It certainly has been busy, busy, busy in the household with trying to get ready for our trip and all. My intent is to have all of the packing, etc, done before the game tonight--it starts at 10:00PM--and be able to fall asleep on the couch while watching it. I won't be able to see the whole game, because I will have to be up around 4AM to get ready to go to the airport. Excitement, excitement!!I will be back sometime this weekend with reports on our big adventure. Hope you all have a great...

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Spherical Solar Cell Production Breakthrough

With a diameter of a mere 1 to 1.5mm, Sphelar can be connected either in parallel or in series. This enables diverse spherical products to be created, such as dome-shaped solar cells and "flexible" solar cells aligned on soft film substrates. It is also possible to create "power-generating window glass" while maintaining a certain level of transparency....

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The man who knew too much An essential article in the Guardian which describes how Rich Barlow, the CIA's expert on Pakistan's nuclear program, and a true American hero, was ruined professionally and personally for daring to tell the truth that Pakistan was developing the Bomb.Barlow came to the conclusion that a small group of senior officials was physically aiding the Pakistan programme. "They were issuing scores of approvals for the Pakistan embassy in Washington to export hi-tech equipment that was critical for their nuclear bomb programme...

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New York Times:Ever since 9/11, we have watched Republican lawmakers help Mr. Bush shred the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism. We have seen Democrats acquiesce or retreat in fear. It is time for that to st...

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Chicago 3, Detroit 2

Yes, they lost tonight. As Z said, they played very well for the first 15 minutes, then... What is that saying? You can't win them all? (I'm being just a little sarcastic here--after all, they lost to the BLACKHAWKS!!!!)It really would have been nice for the Wings to end this stretch with a win--they go to the west coast for next week and that is ALWAYS a bitch to do. However, I still think I may place a bet for them to win on Thursday against San Jose! Who knows, I just may win a couple of bucks. We will be at the concert during the game,...

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Ex-Commander Blasts Iraq 'Nightmare' Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq for the first year of the occupation, blamed “incompetence” by President George W. Bush’s national security team for creating a “nightmare” that could last far into the future.Sanchez, who led coalition forces from June 2003 to June 2004, used an Oct. 12 speech to a conference of Military Reporters and Editors in Arlington, Virginia, to castigate nearly everyone connected to the Iraq War, including the U.S. news media, Congress, the State...

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Unprecedented Muslim call for peace with Christians More than 130 Muslim scholars from around the globe called on Thursday for peace and understanding between Islam and Christianity, saying "the very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stak...

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Newsweek: Blackwater Plays By Its Own Rules In Iraq The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad's Green Zone. The colonel, who was involved in a follow-up investigation and spoke on the condition he not be named, said the Blackwater guards disarmed the U.S. Army soldiers and made them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle the SUV....

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Naomi Wolf:This morning in Denver I talked for almost an hour to a brave, much-decorated high-level military man who is not only on the watch list for his criticism of the administration -- his family is now on the list. His elderly mother is on the list. His teenage son is on the list. He has flown many dangerous combat missions over the course of his military career, but his voice cracks when he talks about the possibility that he is exposing his children to harassment.Jim Spencer, a former columnist for the Denver Post who has been critical...

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Today's Pet Peeve

There you are sitting in a restaurant--it could be TGI Friday's or a nice upscale steakhouse, doesn't matter--after finishing your meal, waiting for the waitperson to come and pick up your payment. More times than not, s/he picks up the 'money folder,' looks inside, does a quick calculation in her/his head and asks, "Do you need change?" Excuse me?????...

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A Good Game

What can I say? Any game the Wings win is good and they beat Calgary tonight by a score of 4-2 in a very low-penalty minute game. There were only 10 minutes of penalties called for the entire game. Mind boggling! Obviously, Drake DIDN'T get in another fight. :)I truly believe I wouldn't need to see an actual game if I could just watch Datsyuk...

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Bill Maher on Controlled Demolition 911 theories"Crazy people who still think the government brought down the Twin Towers in a controlled explosion," the comedian jabbed, "have to stop pretending that I'm the one who's being naive.""How big a lunatic do you have to be to watch two giant airliners packed with jet fuel slam into buildings on live TV, igniting a massive inferno that burned for two hours, and then think 'well, if you believe that was the cause," he continued, adding that people should "stop asking me to raise this ridiculous topic...

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The Saudi Arabian government will temporarily release 55 prisoners recently transferred from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will give each of them about $2,600 to celebrate the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a newspaper reported Saturd...

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Conservative blogger John Cole of Balloon Juice criticizes Republicans--in rather strong terms--after they went after 12 year old Graeme Frost and his family.I used to mock Dave Neiwert when he called these guys proto-fascists. Hell, I used to link half these folks, have them on my blogroll.I was wrong. Dave was right. These people are authoritarian thugs.I simply can not believe this is what the Republican party has become. I just can’t. It just makes me sick to think all those years of supporting this party, and this is what it has become. Even...

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Conservative blogger links Fred Thompson to al Qaeda The most important thing I learned from yesterday's Republican Presidential Debate is that not only is Senator Fred Thompson completely dull, but he still employs former Senator Spencer Abraham--Hezbollah's, Al-Qaeda's, and the PLO's best friend in the U.S. Senate--at the top of his campai...

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42% Believe U.S. Tortures Prisoners, 27% Say It Should Only 27% of Americans are pro-torture. Only slightly lower than Bush's approval ratin...

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'Dirty War' priest gets life term A court in Argentina has convicted a former Roman Catholic police chaplain of collaborating in murders during the country's military rule. Christian Von Wernich, 69, was convicted for involvement in seven murders, 42 abductions and 31 cases of torture during the 1976-83 "Dirty War".Survivors say he passed confessions he obtained from prisoners to the poli...

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GREAT Commercial

Now I know a lot of my readers aren't hockey/sports fans, but this is one commercial that had me laughing till I cried! It only is SLIGHTLY funnier if you know the players in it! Hope you enj...

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Serious Sustainability - From “Biosphere” to Luna Gaia

Space living: The Luna Gaia design would reduce the need for costly supply missions to ferry food, air and water backwards and forwards from colonies on the Moon and Mars. Image Credit: NASASerious Sustainability - From “Biosphere” to Luna GaiaOne of the largest problems of living outside of this Oblate Spheroid is the sustainability of human life...

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Good One

With a late-game empty net goal, the Wings beat the Oilers 4-2. Chelios got a goal and played in his 1550th game, making him number 8 on the all-time games played list. He is 45 years old, the oldest player in the NHL, and has played for almost a quarter of a century--and shows no sign of stopping any time soon. Amazing! Lidstrom got an assist...

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I was a little heated two games ago but I could not help myself. I of course, a Wings fan for too long... So the last two games when Datsyuk played miraculously, I just cannot keep my mouth shut?Only two days ago the Wings played the Blackhawks but Datsyuk got robbed from a goal.Or so I thought?As Datsyuk scored, the ref blew the whistle. As if he knew Datsyuk may score.Where the problem lies, is why did the ref blow the whistle?So the Wings end up losing in a shoot out. (Pavel did hit the post on his try)Tonight?Pavel and his team the Red...

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Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Not like Hillary to be this stupid. What giv...

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New Revelations in Attack on USS LibertySteve Forslund worked as an intelligence analyst for the 544th Air Reconnaissance Technical Wing, then the highest-level strategic planning office in the Air Force."The ground control station stated that the target was American and for the aircraft to confirm it," Forslund recalled. "The aircraft did confirm the identity of the target as American, by the American flag."The ground control station ordered the aircraft to attack and sink the target and ensure they left no survivor...

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What's Happening

--We did an overnight road trip on Friday. With us going to Vegas and our friends going to Mexico the first week of November, we won't get to see each other till the end of next month, so we thought we needed to get together. It isn't bad doing the trips so close together, as the shopping is quite minimal when we go this often. VERY good for the...

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Blackwater Blimps The Blackwater Airships team completed design work at the end of 2006 and is now building the Polar 400 airship. This highly capable RPAV will provide a platform ready to accomodate a wide variety of state-of-the-art surveillance, communications and detection equipment that can record and store events and downlink them in real-time...

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