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Here are the matchups for today Sunday 9/16/07
BUF @ PIT 1:00 ET
HOU @ CAR 1:00 ET
NO @ TB 1:00 ET
ATL @ JAC 1:00 ET
CIN @ CLE 1:00 ET
SF @ STL 1:00 ET
GB @ NYG 1:00 ET
IND @ TEN 1:00 ET
DAL @ MIA 4:05 ET
MIN @ DET 4:05 ET
SEA @ ARI 4:05 ET
KC @ CHI 4:15 ET
NYJ @ BAL 4:15 ET
OAK @ DEN 4:15 ET
SD @ NE 8:15 ET
Monday night game
WAS @ PHI 8:30 ET

These are the teams I think everyone is for. I will add to this as you tell me your favorite teams.
(Some names are those deployed in Iraq)
Lynn – Broncos, Bears, Browns
Tom – Cowboys
Darth – New York Giants, Tampa Bay Bucs, (ABP – ‘anybody’ but Philly )
Mark – Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Bears
Bob – Buffalo Bills
Billy – Jets, NY Giants, Bears
Nick – Cowboys, Rams and Raiders
Karsten – Tampa Bay Bucs, NY Giants
navycopjoe – Chicago Bears
Chrissie – Bears, Broncos and Cowboys
Deployed:
Andy ( USMC) – Colts
Mike ( USARMY) – Seattle Seahawks
Sand Man ( (USMC) – Bronco’s
Dawn (USARMY) – ( Bronco’s)
Finale Scores
HOU 34 AT CAR 21
CIN 45 AT CLE 51
IND 22 at TEN 20
NO 14 at TB 31
SF 17 at STL 16
BUF 3 at PIT 26
GB 35 at NYG 13
ATL 7 at JAC 13
SEA 20 at ARI 23
DAL 37 at MIA 20
MIN 17 at DET 20
OAK 20 at DEN 23
KC 10 at CHI 20
NYJ 13 at BAL 20
SD 14 at NE 38

Tech. Sgt. Kirby Pyka and Senior Master Sgt. Elma Taylor raise the Air Force flag during a ceremony as part of the service’s 60th Anniversary celebration Sept. 14 at Camp Eggers in Kabul.

CAMP EGGERS, Afghanistan (AFPN) — Coalition servicemembers and Airmen assigned to the Combine Security Transition Command-Afghanistan gathered to pay tribute to six decades of air and space power by celebrating the Air Force’s 60th anniversary Sept. 14 here.
The celebration, titled “Heritage to Horizons: Commemorating 60 years of Global and Space Power,” began with the raising of the Air Force flag. The event included a moment of silence in observance of POW/MIA Day, a cake-cutting ceremony and a video presentation highlighting the service’s history, contributions and sacrifices made by the men and women of the Air Force, past and present.
Army Maj. Gen. Robert W. Cone, CSTC-A commanding general, who served as guest speaker for opening ceremonies of the celebration, said the Air Force’s commitment to core values — integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do — “is inspiring.”

“Together with the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard forces, the United States Air Force is the best in the world,” General Cone said. “Although the Air Force is the youngest of the four services, it’s achieved so much in such a short time due to its ability to travel and cross boundaries at the speed of sound and, in my opinion, was naturally postured to captured the new technologies of the ‘new age’ which increased its lethality, capabilities and relevancy.”

“Thank you for your service to the armed forces of the United States, your service to Operation Enduring Freedom, and your commitment to carry your full share of responsibility for the United States.”

Chuck Norris visits deployed Airmen
Chuck Norris poses with security forces Airmen from the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia. The “Walker, Texas Ranger” star, who served as an Air Force security forces Airman before becoming an actor, is visiting deployed servicemembers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tia Schroeder)

Wild Thing’s comment……..
God bless our US Air Force and a big thank you to everyone of you for all you do.

070908-N-8148P-385 SAN DIEGO (Sept. 8, 2007) – Chief Machinist’s Mate Ervin Mateer, 85, of Riverside, Calif., passes through the sideboys during his retirement ceremony on board Navy Operational Support Center San Diego. Mateer entered the Navy on April 17, 1942, in Los Angeles and served his country for 65 years. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Margaret A. Peng (RELEASED)

Chief Machinist’s Mate Ervin Mateer, 85, of Riverside, Calif., escorts his twin brother through the sideboys during his retirement ceremony on board Navy Operational Support Center San Diego. Mateer entered the Navy on April 17, 1942, in Los Angeles and served his country for 65 years. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Margaret A. Peng (RELEASED)

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Way to go CMM Ervin Mateer! Woo Hoo! I would love to know more of his story, but this is all I could find.

Ashley, Katie, and Kristin, cheerleaders with the Kansas City Chiefs, listen as Sgt. Supriya Vidic, of the 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, briefs them on the Joint Network Node and its capabilities. (Photo by Spc. Anthony Blagg)

Football team’s cheerleaders visit with soldiers on the fort
The Herald
FORT HUACHUCA
The 11th Signal Brigade got a taste of football fever last Friday when four of the Kansas City Chiefs cheerleaders visited them.
Prior to coming to the brigade area, the cheerleaders went out to the 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion field exercise-training site.
While out there, the unit showed the cheerleaders their signal capabilities and what soldiers do on a daily basis. The cheerleaders also had the opportunity to try on some of the soldiers tactical gear.

“I could not believe how heavy the gear is!” said Ashley, who is in her second year with the Kansas City squad. “I feel I am in really good shape, but don’t think I could wear that around all the time.”

Soldiers were able to have their pictures taken with the cheerleaders and receive autographed pictures.
After they were finished in the field, the cheerleaders went to brigade area of operations, and more than 20 soldiers greeted them.
Soldiers filed in the Cpl. Victor Langarica Conference Room so they could have a chance to have their pictures taken with the women and receive an autographed picture.
The cheerleaders expressed their gratitude for the soldiers.

“We want you to know how proud of you we are,” said Katie, who is currently in her first year with the Chiefs.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
I love to see people going to see our troops, and thanking them. It can never happen enough and it should happen more often.

Sometime during the evening hours of September 8th, 2007, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. was defaced with a petroleum based acid liquid. There needs to be better security for the memory of these 58,249 killed during the Democrat war in Vietnam.

Washing this off with a pressure washer is a futile task. Oil seeps into tiny pores and crevasses in the stone and even though it appears clean after pressure washing the oil in these pores will in time wick back up to the surface and it will look the same as before.

Lisa Gough, Director of Communications for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, who stated in her press release of Sept. 11, 2007: “The United States Park Police has begun an investigation into the matter, and that investigation is ongoing. Until this investigation is completed, it is premature to speculate whether any intentional act was committed.”
NPS put out a statement also yesterday:
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070911/METRO/109110043/1004
….claiming they still didn’t know and were still investigating.
Also, NPS is misrepresenting the amount of damage. From that link, they state, “50 to 60 feet mostly on the paving stones”.

Also this……along the East Wall Panel 15E that it had multiple deep, long, vertical scratches/gouges.
Then there is this one in Andover…………………
Vietnam Veterans Memorial defaced
Andover Townsman
Many veterans in town were disappointed to learn last week that someone had vandalized the town’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, requiring the 15-month-old memorial to be sandblasted Wednesday.

“We know that in no way does this reflect how the community feels about our veterans,” said Michael Burke, director of veteran services.

The lyrics of a 1970s protest song and a reference to Iraq were scrawled on the monument in the Park. “War, what is it good for, absolutely nothin’,” was written in red marker along with a peace sign.

The lyrics are from “War,” a song that Motown soul singer Edwin Starr popularized in 1970.

Near the base of the memorial where the phrase “our cause is just” is etched, a vandal wrote “just like in Iraq.”

The markings were made with some kind of felt marker, which soaked into the stone, Burke said yesterday. Methuen Monument is helping the town repair the memorial, which was dedicated May 29, 2006.

While there was no structural damage, “the stone does need to be sandblasted,” Burke said. He was not sure how much the work would cost, if anything, but said the town was grateful to the Methuen business for stepping in to help.

Police Lt. Harry Collins said the vandalism was under investigation.
Burke said this week he has talked to several veterans and longtime residents, and that no one could remember something like this happening in Andover.

“This is a disappointing event,” he said. “This is an anomaly. If someone does have opposition, there are other ways to vocalize that.”

In Haverhill earlier this summer, vandals ruined parts of a Korean War Memorial and spray-painted a World War II monument.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
All of this is very upsetting, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall needs to be protected much better then it is. Times have changed and no longer are Memorials of any kind safe. There should be more camera’s and better lighting at night. This is just horrible what people are capable of doing to the Vietnam Memorials. I can’t even write this without crying just from the anger I feel.

….Thank you Tom for the link to information about this.

09/10/2007 – Strong Man – Sgt. Lester Peterson with 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, Task Force Military Police, reaches deep down inside for everything he has to hold two ATVs during the Hercules Hold event of the Al Asad (Iraq) Strongman Competition, Aug. 12, 2007. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Anthony Guas

Persian Gulf – USS Enterprise turns downwind after launching Carrier Air Wing 1 aircraft in support of the global war on terrorism in the Persian Gulf, Sept. 9, 2007. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Cassidy Norman

JOINT OPERATION – U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, and Iraqi army soldiers conduct an operation in Iraq, Sept. 7, 2007. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr.

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Terrorists have been arrested on the border, security chief says
The Monitor
DALLAS
Texas’ top homeland security official said Wednesday that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida have been arrested crossing the Texas border with Mexico in recent years.

“Has there ever been anyone linked to terrorism arrested?” Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw said in a speech to the North Texas Crime Commission. “Yes, there was.”

His remarks appear to be among the most specific on the topic of terrorism arrests along the Texas-Mexico border. Local and elected officials have alluded to this happening but have been short on details.
Leticia Zamarripa, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, said Wednesday she was unaware of any border arrests of people with terrorist ties. An ICE spokeswoman in San Antonio did not return phone messages left by The Associated Press. U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Lloyd M. Easterling was unable to comment.
However, McCraw’s remarks are similar to those made recently by National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, who last month told the El Paso Times that a small number of people with known links to terrorist organizations have been caught crossing the border.
McCraw identified the most notable figure captured as Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed, who was arrested in July 2004 at the McAllen airport. She carried $7,300 in various currencies and a South African passport with pages missing. Federal officials later learned she waded across the Rio Grande.
After her arrest, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a release saying she was wanted for questioning about the bombing of a U.S. Consulate office, jibing with similar statements from a U.S. congressman.
But the department quickly retracted the terrorism connection, calling it “inaccurate on several levels.” Michael Shelby, then the U.S. attorney in Houston, said in January 2005 that any suggestion Ahmed was involved in terrorism “is in error.”
According to federal court records, Ahmed pleaded guilty to improper entry by an alien, making a false statement and false use of a passport. She was sentenced to time served and deported to South Africa. Other details of the case were sealed.
But on Wednesday, McCraw described Ahmed as having ties to an insurgent group in Pakistan and whose specialty was smuggling Afghanis and other foreign nationals across the border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Michael Friel could not confirm details about Ahmed on Wednesday.
McCraw also said that since March 2006, 347 people from what he called “terrorism-related countries” have been arrested crossing the border in Texas. The number of Iraqis captured at the border has tripled since last year, he said.

“A porous border without question is a national security threat,” he said.

“Terrorism isn’t the only concern for homeland security officials in Texas, McCraw said. The state’s size, population and geography make it susceptible to all sorts of disasters, both natural and man-made. Emergency responders must also be prepared for natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and wildfires,” he said.

The state has made significant strides in emergency planning since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Hurricane Rita, McCraw said. Plans include cooperating with large private companies, including grocery stores, Wal-Mart and the oil industry, to help the state respond during disasters.

“This is not a shot at FEMA, but we can’t depend on FEMA to protect Texas,” McCraw said. “The governor’s mandate has made it clear: If those buses don’t come, we better have our own buses. If that food doesn’t come,we better have our own food. If that water doesn’t come, we better have our own water to take care of Texas.”

Good grief………….
FBI’s Mueller: Hezbollah Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operation
newsmax

FBI Director Robert Mueller said this week that his agency busted a smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist attacks inside the U.S.
“This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States,” Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee during a Tuesday hearing on the FBI’s budget.
In a stunning revelation, Mueller admitted that Hezbollah had succeeded in smuggling some of its operatives across the border, telling the House committee: “That was an organization that we dismantled and identified those persons who had been smuggled in. And they have been addressed as well.”
Hezbollah was responsible for the single most deadly terrorist attack against the U.S. before 9/11 – the Oct. 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 243 U.S. troops.
In November, an al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI’s terrorist watch list was captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, according to Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas.
“A confirmed al-Qaida terrorist, an Iraqi national, was held in the Brewster County jail,” Rep. Culberson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. “He was captured in Mexico. This was within the last six weeks. He was turned over to the FBI.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
What do they expect? Why should terrorists try to come in legally when they can just walk across the border and no one’s the wiser?
This is what we’ve been saying all along but would they believe those of us who live on the border? Nooooooooooooo!

These comments were made before Gen. Petraeus testified, as required by Congress:
“We cannot take any of this administration’s assertions about Iraq at face value anymore. The fact remains, gentlemen, that the administration has sent you here today to convince the members of these two committees and the Congress that victory is at hand. With all due respect to you, I must say: I don’t buy it.” —Rep. Tom Lantos
“Gen. Petraeus has made a number of statements over the years that have not proved to be factual.” —Harry Reid
“The stay-the-course strategy by General Petraeus and the president to leave all troops in Iraq has been rejected by the American people..[who are tired of this kick-the-can approach and are demanding a new direction in Iraq.” —Nancy Pelosi
“If in fact the circumstances on the ground are exactly what they are today in March of next year, will you recommend the continuation of somewhere between 130 to 160-thousand troops being shot at, killed and maimed everyday?” —Hillary Clinton
“I was against the war, I continue to be against the war, and I’m going to do everything I possibly can to bring American troops home at the earliest possible time.” —Ted Kennedy
“None of us should be fooled—not the American people, not you in the media, not us in Congress. We should not be fooled into this tactical success debate… There is no military solution.” —John Kerry
“I think the American military certainly made a difference there, but they were working in conjunction with the Sunni tribal leadership who made a determination that they needed to do something to stop al-Qa’ida, that al-Qa’ida was a bigger threat than the American presence, and so they began to cooperate with us.” —John Edwards
“The fact of the matter is that American lives remain in jeopardy and… if every single jihadi in the world was killed tomorrow, we’d still have a major, major war on our hands.” —Joe Biden
“If every jihadi were dead, who would we be fighting? “I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation of Iraq.” —Dennis al-Kucinich on Syrian TV

And this during the questioning of Petraeus and Crocker:

Hillary opened her questioning of Petraeus and Crocker with the standard “I honor you for your service.” And then she let the two of them have it.
“You have been made the de facto spokesmen for what many of us believe to be a failed policy” in Iraq, Clinton said. “Despite what I view is your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require a willing suspension of disbelief.”
Clinton added that “any fair reading of the advantages and disadvantages accruing post-surge, in my view, end up on the downside.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
I love what Rush said:
“It’s getting close to the point where Osama bin Laden could deliver the keynote speech at the Democrat National Convention.” —Rush Limbaugh

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