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September 25 FW: LOL - I just may do it._______________________________ From: Andwew Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:23 AM To: David Price Subject: LOL - I just may do it. I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE. HERE IS MY PLATFORM: (1) 'Press 1 for English' is immediately banned. English is the official language; speak it or wait at the border until you can. (2) We will immediately go into a two year isolationist posture to straighten out the country's attitude. NO imports, no exports. We will use the 'Wal-Mart's policy, 'If we ain't got it, you don't need it.' (3) When imports are allowed, there will be a 1 00% import tax on it. (4) All retired military personnel will be required to man one of our many observation towers on the southern border. (six month tour) They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens. (5) Social security will immediately return to its original state. If you didn't put nuttin in, you ain't gettin nuttin out. The president nor any other politician will not be able to touch it. (6) Welfare - Checks will be handed out on Fridays at the end of the 40 hour school week and the successful completion of urinalysis and a passing grade. (7) Professional Athletes --Steroids - The FIRST time you check positive you're banned for life. (8) Crime - We will adopt the Turkish method, the first time you ; steal, you lose your right hand. There is no more life sentences. If convicted, you will be put to death by the same method you chose for your victim; gun, knife, strangulation, etc. (9) One export will be allowed; Wheat, The world needs to eat. A bushel of wheat will be the exact price of a barrel of oil. (10) All foreign aid using American taxpayer money will immediately cease, and the saved money will pay off the national debt and ultimately lower taxes. When disasters occur around the world, we'll ask the American people if they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can make the decision whether it's a worthy cause. (11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day at school and every day in Congress. (12) The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc. Sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes but a vote for me will get you better than what you have, and better than what you're gonna get. Thanks for listening, and remember to write in my name on the ballot in November. God Bless America !!!!!!!!!!! Bill Cosby!!!!!!!! August 22 If thee official Microsoft Word Spell-Check default dictionary does knot bee leave inn ewe, then ewe ain't SQUAT, JACK... (RE: FW: 2 moons on Aug. 27th)Snopes is one big bummer and he/it/they can kiss my big (whelp, butt knot sew BIG now that eye yam two bee gonna dwindle like Grindel) bones broken into pieces, big raw, red, rosy rotten, smelly, decrepit, necrotic, enflamed, roid-ridden, pimplified ass of an arse... They/he/it/are won big degenerate fun stealing, buzz-kill, bun burning, biscuit burping, rotten, nasty, defiant, Nazi-like, mold in the crack, slime on the back, two evil two smoke crack, repulsive gradually deteriorating with STD, genitalia decomposing with death virus smelling, putrefied, vilified disease ridden, call the CDC before the Zombies get hear or get near with brain eating gear, eyeballs four appetizers no fear, pused-up (pus = yellowish liquid produced by infection: the yellowish or greenish fluid that forms at sites of infection, consisting of dead white blood cells, dead tissue, bacteria, and blood serum) pimple squishing slime bile down the biohazard us, cantankerous, never thank us, please spank us, hey don't yank us, scabies itching, unwashed twitching, bed-bug infested, lice digested, parasitic head lice suggested, pubic cootie-crab nested, awl that is bad with evil congested, pedophile pimps awl big hairy chested.... and worse than the worst, from prison detested! (Wash, Rinse, Repeat) This wheel sum watt awl lude to what a big bummer Snopes is... No fun at all, antithetical to fun, phun or phfun and knot at awl fun, funny, whimsical, light-hearted... Spell-checker can't even spell Snopes or at least doesn't even believe inn Snopes and of course, and ewe Canne take this two thee bank and debacle, ewe Know, period... (or dot as they say these days). If thee official Microsoft Word Spell-Check default dictionary does knot bee leave inn ewe, then ewe ain't SQUAT, JACK... ________________________________ From: Cameron Thorne [mailto:cameronthorne@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 3:01 PM To: Andrew CCM Cc: Price, David L. (Prof II&RS); Kevin Jairaj; Kevin Curtis Subject: Re: FW: 2 moons on Aug. 27th Urban Legend http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Andrew CCM <andrew@crystalclearmedia.com> wrote: Potentially an interesting photo op. Andrew Subject: 2 moons on Aug. 27th Two moons on 27 August 2008* *27th Aug this year is the Whole World is waiting for..........* Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 w hen Mars comes within 34.65M miles off earth.. Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am . It will look like the earth has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again. ------ End of Forwarded Message August 21 RE: Websense Issue & What's Up 12 Pro Upgrade"...completed shortly? " Who you callin' SHORTY? You bettor watch it Bub oar eye weal* go Napoleon own ewe butt an knot Dynamite either, dewed** ... Eye mien*** Bone Apart! a.k.a. Bonaparte!**** Appendix * (weal = reddened area on skin from blow: a raised or reddened area on the skin, caused by being hit with something <OR> itchy swelling on skin: a short-lived raised area on the skin, often red and itchy, caused by something such as a nettle or insect sting or by exposure to an allergen <OR> state of wellbeing: a general state of wellbeing, prosperity, and happiness) ** (dewed = Dew {Military}, a distant early warning: being in the state of having been given a distant early warning) *** (mien = somebody's general air: somebody's facial expression or general appearance, bearing, or posture, taken as an indication of his or her mood or character, ewe know) **** (Bone Apart a.k.a. Bonaparte = Napoleon Bonaparte: ass inn Eye Moan Tear Ewe Bones Apart, dewed!) ________________________________ From: Dieb, Andrew (TR MIS) Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:49 PM To: All Infrastructure Group Cc: Schlumbohm, Mike (TR MIS) Subject: Websense Issue & What's Up 12 Pro Upgrade Just wanted to make you guys aware of a couple of things. 1st - Websense EIM manager has been giving application errors and upon contacting Tech Support, the site shows that our license is expired. This is incorrect. The application still shows the correct date of May 17, 2009 for expiry. I have a call into them for help. 2nd - We received our license key for IPSWITCH What's up Gold Ver 12. I am in the process of doing the upgrade from V11 right now. I have the app upgraded but am working on the SQL database Schema reconfig right now. Hope to have it completed shortly. Thanks! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Andrew P. Dieb Manager, Information Security (IT Risk Management) Thomson Reuters Office: 817.252.4480 andrew.dieb@thomsonreuters.com www.thomsonreuters.com RE: Invoice printingWhy when their from New York dew "they" think "they" have two halve such fun knee, whoops oar hoops, know knot funny, fun knee hah, hah; butt fun knee, funny weird, weird last names? Ewe no, know? _____ From: Patterson, Daniel (Prof II&RS) Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:40 PM To: Price, David L. (TOC TGTI) Subject: FW: Invoice printing Here ya go David. Thanks! _____ From: Gesualdi, Richard (TTA R&G) Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:42 PM To: Patterson, Daniel (Prof II&RS) Subject: Invoice printing Daniel: I ran the Invoice extract again for 0 to 60 days but it hung after about 45 to 60 minutes. I tried it again using the dates of 8/19 to 10/18 but it gave me the error below. The job continued and ended but only pulled 3 including the header and trailer page. I'll try it again. Rich April 13 EeerrrtttyyyEeerrrtttyyy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ««««ººº Sent by BlackBerry® ººº»»»» April 08 Buenos Noches, El Mundo de la Informática/del Teatro - Que Coloquial Sensacional - Ala Los MuertosBuenos Noches, El Mundo de la Informática/del Teatro - Que Coloquial Sensacional - Ala Los Muertos: US preacher finds demon-possessed PCs The Register - Forget about viruses and malicious hackers; the real threat these days is far more insidious. Your home computer may be host to a demon, and you and your family may well come under its malevolent control, the Weekly World News reports.
"While the Computer Age has ushered in many advances, it has also opened yet another door through which Lucifer and his minions can enter and corrupt men's souls," the paper quotes the Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine, as saying.
Demons are able to possess anything with a brain, from a chicken to a human being. And today's thinking machines have enough space on their hard drives to accommodate Satan or his pals, the paper reports.
Disk capacity is an issue, however. Only a PC built after 1985 has the storage capacity to house an evil spirit, the minister explained.
The Georgia clergyman says he became aware of the problem from counseling churchgoers. "I learned that many members of my congregation became in touch with a dark force whenever they used their computers," he said. "Decent, happily married family men were drawn irresistibly to pornographic Web sites and forced to witness unspeakable abominations.
"Housewives who had never expressed an impure thought were entering Internet chat rooms and found themselves spewing foul, debasing language they would never use normally," he declared.
"One woman wept as she confessed to me, 'I feel when I'm on the computer as if someone else or something else just takes over.'"
The minister said he probed one such case, actually logging onto the parishioner's computer himself. To his horror, an artificial-intelligence program started spontaneously.
"The program began talking directly to me, openly mocked me," he recalls. "It typed out, 'Preacher, you are a weakling and your God is a damn liar.'"
Then the device went haywire and started printing out what looked like gobbledygook.
"I later had an expert in dead languages examine the text," the minister said. "It turned out to be a stream of obscenities written in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!"
The minister estimates that one in ten computers in America now hosts some type of evil spirit.
The Reverend advises anyone suspecting that their computer is possessed to consult a clergyman, or, if the computer is still under warranty, to take it in for servicing.
"Technicians can replace the hard drive and reinstall the software, getting rid of the wicked spirit permanently," he says.
Copyright © 2000, The Register
March 11 A young man learns what is importantA young man learns what is most important in life from the guy next door... It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was working on his future, and nothing could stop him. Over the phone, his mother told him, "Mr. Barber died last night. The funeral is Wednesday." Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days. "Jack, did you hear me?" "Oh, sorry, Mom. Yes, I heard you. It has been so long since I thought of him. I'm sorry, but I honestly thought he died years ago," Jack said. "Well, he didn't forget you. Every time I saw him, he would ask how you were doing. He would reminisce about the many days you spent over 'his side of the fence' as he put it," Mom told him. "I loved that old house he lived in," Jack said. "You know, Jack, after your father died, Mr. Barber stepped in to make sure you had a man's influence in your life," she said "He's the one who taught me carpentry," he said. "I wouldn't be in this business if it weren't for him. He spent a lot of time teaching me things he thought were important...Mom, I'll be there for the funeral," Jack said. As busy as he was, he kept his word. Jack caught the next flight to his hometown. Mr. Barber's funeral was small and uneventful. He had no children of his own, and most of his relatives had passed away. The night before he had to return home, Jack and his Mom stopped by to see the old house next door one more time. Standing in the doorway, Jack paused for a moment. It was like crossing over into another dimension, a leap through space and time. The house was exactly as he remembered. Every step held memories. Every picture, every piece of furniture... Jack stopped suddenly. "What's wrong, Jack?" his Mom asked. "The box is gone," he said. "What box?" Mom asked. "There was a small gold box that he kept locked on top of his desk. I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside. All he would ever tell me was 'the thing I value most,'" Jack said. It was gone. Everything about the house was exactly how Jack remembered it, except for the box. He figured someone from the Barber family had taken it. "Now I'll never know what was so valuable to him," Jack said. "I better get some sleep. I have an early flight home, Mom." It had been about two weeks since Mr. Barber died. Returning home from work one day, Jack discovered a note in his mailbox. "Signature required on a package. No one at home. Please stop by the main post office within the next three days," the note read. Early the next day Jack retrieved the package. The small box was old and looked like it had been mailed a hundred years ago. The handwriting was difficult to read, but the return address caught his attention. "Mr. Harold Barber" it read. Jack took the box out to his car and ripped open the package. There inside was the gold box and an envelope. Jack's hands shook as he read the note inside. "Upon my death, please forward this box and its contents to Jack Bennett. It's the thing I valued most in my life." A small key was taped to the letter. His heart racing, as tears filling his eyes, Jack carefully unlocked the box. There inside he found a beautiful gold pocket watch. Running his fingers slowly over the finely etched casing, he unlatched the cover. Inside he found these words engraved... "Jack - thanks for your time! -Harold Barber" "The thing he valued most was...my time!" Jack held the watch for a few minutes, then called his office and cleared his appointments for the next two days. "Why?" Janet, his assistant asked. "I need some time to spend with my son," he said. "Oh, by the way, Janet - thanks for your time!" "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away," Think about this. You may not realize it, but it is 100% true: * At least 2 people in this world love you so much they would die for you. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they do not like you. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep. You mean the world to someone. If not for you, someone may not be living. You are special and unique. When you think you have no chance of getting what you want, you probably will not get it. However, if you trust God to do what is best, and wait on His time , sooner or later, you will get it or something better. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good can still come from it. When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look: you most likely turned your back on the world. Someone that you do not even know exists loves you. Always, remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks. Always tell someone how you feel about them; you will feel much better when they know and you will both be happy. If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they are great. Send this letter to all the people you care about, if you do so, you will certainly brighten someone's day and might change their perspective on life...for the better! To everyone I send this to: "Thank you for your time!" July 30 BRAIN CRAMPSBRAIN CRAMPS (On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever," --Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest. `````````````````````````````````` "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." --Mariah Carey ```````````` "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," --Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign . ````````````````````````````````````````````````` "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," --Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward. ````````````````````````````````````````````` "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country," --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC. ````````````````````````````` "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president." --Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````` "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," --A congressional candidate in Texas. ```````````````````````````` "Half this game is ninety percent mental." --Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark `````````````````````````````````` "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." --Al Gore, Vice President ``````````````````` "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.." --Dan Quayle `````````` "We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" --Lee Iacocca ``````````` "The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." --Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst. ```````````````````````````````````````````` "We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people." --Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instrutor ````````````````````````````````` "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --Bill Clinton, President `````````````````` "We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." --Al Gore, VP ```````````````` "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." --Keppel Enderbery ```````````````` "Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." --Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina ```````````````````````````````````````````` "If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, <http://www.incredimail.com/index.asp?id=102287> December 12 Does anyone happen to have the video cable ... ?From: Wharf Rat Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 5:31 PM To: Everyone Subject: Does anyone happen to have the video cable ... ? "It was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now...it was that accursed white whale that razed . . . . me and I'll chase him around Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up." --Captain Ahab in Herman Melville, Moby Dick ________________________________ Arrgh Matey!!! Ahab beacons... ________________________________ "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean everyone's not out to get you." --Henry Kissinger ________________________________ Stop. Ten four. Roger Wilco. Over and out. That is all. Over. ________________________________ - This e-mail message is real but has no physical object - it is composed of a curious assembly of digitized electrons swirling in a vacuum in inner space, or something like that. If you are not the intended recipient of this electronically transmitted communication the sender denies any responsibility for personal loss including but not limited to spontaneous human combustion, corporeal implosion, full or partial loss of sanity or emotional stability, temporal disturbances, financial losses, out of body experiences and any other reactions, chain reactions or consequences. In the case of monetary or financial gain associated or disassociated with the receipt of this message then the sender reserves the right to claim that income and any and all other assets as their own legal personal property and you will be awarded a one percent finders fee which will only cover half of the two percent processing fee for which can be waived upon the immediate and timely dispersal of funds to the sender and which of course will be at the senders sole discretion and judgment. - (Copyright (c) 2006 David L. Price) Warning... the universe will once again be thrown into disorderly confusion next upcoming Monday. Whewwww! Thanks! The natural alliance of the universe has returned to normal and order has been restored to the Galaxy. You scared me. Don't ever do that again... I have returned! Hey, get back hewe you wascally wabbit... May 26 Right on, Andy Rooney!Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door. Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game. I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason. That is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE? I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion. I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off. When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling; it is the Law of Probability. I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English! My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours. I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines. I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business. We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations. I don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor. I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them. I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building. It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!" I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries! I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else! And if you don't like my point of view, tough... I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL! I was asked to send this on if I agree or delete if I don't. It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a problem in having "In God We Trust" on our money and having "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Why don't we just tell the 14% to Shut Up and BE QUIET!!! If you agree, pass this on, if not delete. May 18 Behold the Awesome Power of Chuck Norris!
May 04 Issues with MadnessDon't you worry - the madness will never stop. It will rest, refresh, regroup, and return in the guise of another completely different form and with another unknown face. It diabolically moves from system to system, site to site and person to person with intentions of great malice, loss of productivity and hopeless futility. It is ever present, just beneath the surface, maliciously waiting and lurking in quiet repose for the appropriate time to once again rear its ever changing and always ugly little face in a new and unknowing host and in a new and unique situation where it can most effectively ambush with great stealth and devious surprise, attempting to remain unseen and undetected for as long as it possibly can while it sows new seeds of confusion, alarm and retribution until its roots are firmly established and its hooks are firmly set. Beware the madness - madness like Ahab, beckons. ________________________________ January 20 Who did what to who?History - Have a history teacher explain this ---- If they can:
January 16 PROJECT 1947 AIRCRAFT UFO ENCOUNTERS SUMMARIES FROM PROJECT 1947 RESEARCHPROJECT 1947 AIRCRAFT UFO ENCOUNTERS SUMMARIESFROM PROJECT 1947 RESEARCH By Jan Aldrich ACUFOE UPDATES (as of 9 October 1999), Version 2 (Use with Dominique Weinstein's November 1997 Catalogue or later.) N=New Case not in November 1997 ACUFOE Catalogue D=New details for cases already in the ACUFOE Catalogue #=New reference for a case in ACUFOE Catalogue NLT=No Later Than *=Version 2, additional cases or cases with new information after Dominique Weinstein's 1999 catalogue. Manner of presentation: These summaries were prepared for Dominique Weinstein who has many of the primary documents, therefore the summaries are very short. Generally each item has the date, time, location, what type of aircraft and witnesses were involved, if known, then a brief description and finally the sources. This list is meant to be used with one of Weinstein's published catalogues. Some entries on this list only update Weinstein with news references that he did not previously have. ACUFOE Prior to 1942 N - 1916.01.31, 2025 hours, England, Near Romford, Essex. RAF fighter patrolling for Zepplins saw a light to the north. He tried to close for 20 minutes but his engine was malfunctioning and would not do more than 50 mph. Light was lost in the clouds. (UFO Brigantia #25, Mar-Apr 87 (PRO Air 1/611/16/15/288) (First UFO seen from the air)) N -1936.10.10, about 0415 local, near Cape Talamonore. Italian military Idro S.62 Bis, pilot in a four plane formation flying at 3,500 meters, sighted a light at a higher level that at first was mistaken for another plane in the formation. Tried to pursue. The object appeared to shot short flames from the center. Could not make out shape as object's light was blinding. Appeared to be twice the diameter of the moon and flew north. (Flying Saucer Review Vol 1, #3, page 5, taken from reports to CIRNOS, Fiumetto, Italy) ACUFOE in World War II N - 1943 Changed entry from N - 1945: (An interview with Dr. Haines clarifies that this incident had to take place in 1943), Night, Atlantic, between USA and England, US Navy PB-2Y5, pilot and 8 crewmen, Single lighted red orange object flew formation off the wing of the aircraft. Pilot repositioned the aircraft several time. Each time the object matched the maneuver. UFO took off ahead of the aircraft and vanished from sight in 30 seconds. (Report to Paul Cerny and interview with Dr. Richard Haines) N - 1943.03-04 - night, Tunisia, Hurricane, 73d RAF Squadron (Night Fighter) pilot encounter unusual light as did other squadron members. (Letter to RNZAF in Air Department File 39/3/3.NS Vol. 1, Reports: Flying Saucers (Nov 1952-Dec 1955), at Defense House, Wellington, New Zealand.) N - 1943.05-07 - night, Tunisia, Hurricane, 73rd RAF Squadron (Night Fighter) pilot encounter bright light nickname "The Light" or "The Thing" other pilots also encounter the object many times.(Letter and Report Form, Andy Roberts' Collection) N - 1943.06.25 - Elbe Estuary, Germany. 1st Air Division, "12 flat objects, six feet square, fell like leaves." No explosions noted. (Data on Unusual Objects & Missiles Encountered on Missions, 8th Air Force files, Feb-May 1945.) *N - 1943 Late - Bremen, Germany Many reports of "silver and red discs above the formations". (115 RAF Squadron newsletter, issue no. 1, dated Dec 31, 1943). See report below which may be related. N - 1943.11.26 - Bremen, Germany "Rings of flame 2 or 3 feet in diameter, green, corkscrewed thru formation, as (if) floating." (Data on Unusual Objects & Missiles Encountered on Missions, 8th Air Force files, Feb-May 1945.) *N - 1943.12.11 - Emlen (Emden?) Germany American formations saw a fast moving unidentified object as large as a Thunderbolt flying under the formation leaving a long lasting vapor trail. (115 RAF Squadron newsletter, issue no. 1, dated Dec 31, 1943, Andy Robert's research at PRO.) N - 1943.12.14, night. Italy On night patrol to Naples, Beaufighter 255th RAF Squadron (Night Fighter), "dogfights" with "The Light" a bright light which out climbed aircraft. (Letter, Report Form, Logbook extract, Andy Roberts' Collection) N - 1944 - Night, South Atlantic Military transport, 4 pilots, 2 bight lights came toward the plane, separated and went around the plane, then they turned and flew along side the aircraft for four or five minutes. (Alexandria, LA, TOWN TALK 20 April 1980.) N - 1944.04.30, between 2100-2200 hours, Night, Italy, near Anzio Beaufighter, RAF 600 Squadron, pilot and radar officer saw a orange red glow following the aircraft. No radar contact. All evasive maneuvers, even going into a clouds did not stop the object from pursuing them. Finally, a dive into a cloud bank lost the object.(Letter [data from logbook]. Andy Roberts' collection) N - 1944.06. - 1100 hours, Adriatic Sea, just northeast of Bari 3 P-38s of the 1st Fighter Group at 33,000 feet saw a round silver disc above them at about 50,000 feet. It dropped to about 40,000 feet and stayed with the formation for 3 minutes, then sped north out of sight. (Report form, Center for UFO Studies, (CUFOS)) N - 1944.06. (2nd, 5th, or 8th unsure of exact date), About 0000 hours, Italy, southwest Florence over the Florence/Rome road, Beaufighter Mk X saw a bright red light that followed them for about 5-10 minutes. Evasive action did not work. (Letters and report forms, Andy Roberts, Collection) D - 1944.08.10 The Records of the 792d Bombardment Squadron's history confirms that Lt.Reidas was indeed on the mission described by him on this date. There are no details about the mission or bombing results. (792d Bomb Sq History) *N - 1944.08.10 - Night, Japan B-29, 40th Bombardment Group, two aircraft crews reported seeing a green flare followed by an amber-orange flash horizontally across the nose of the aircraft. (There were no fighters, or searchlights on this mission and flak was meager. 40th Bomb Sq History) N - 1944.10.18 - Day, Alfonsine "Also on 18 October, a shower of silver objects about the size of silver dolllars was reported in the vincinty of Alfonsine. These objects were seen floating at 10,500 feet and descending slowly." HQ, 42d Bomb Wing, A-2 (Sep-Oct 1944 Special Flak Report) ("Windows?") N - 1944.10.30 - 2125 hours, Germany. Leaving Cologne, Halifax III, 640 RAF Squadron, flight engineer and gunner, saw a ball of fire following the aircraft that was on a heading of 107 degrees. It appeared to be closing. Aircraft took evasive action and the light was lost. A few seconds later an aircraft on port caught fire. (Letter, Andy Roberts' collection) N - 1944.10.30 - 0145 hours, Munich, Germany, 419th Bomb Squadron, B-17 on a "Lone Wolf" mission. A light blue ball of fire paced aircraft for a time. (The Raven, 301st Bomb Group veteran's publication, August 1994.) N - NLT1944.11.10 - daylight, Coast of Formosa just west of Okayama at 25,000 feet B-29(?), black dot seen to hang in the air without movement or explosion. It was smaller than a flak burst, and looked like an object rather than a cloud of smoke. (Weekly Intelligence Summary #11, 10 Nov 44, HQ, Eastern Air Command, South East Asia) N - 1944.11.22 - 1900-2200 hours, Germany, Coblenz. 422d Night Fighter Squadron (NFS), 4-6 "jets" reported, 3 on line abreast.(9th Tactical Air Command (TAC) Operation Summary (Opsum) #167) N - 1944.11.22 - About 2200 hours, Norway, WSW of Trondheim. RAF IX Squadron. Returning from mission Flight officer, engineer and rear gunner saw a clearly defined "pyrotechnic pink" spherical object following plane. Object made violent acceleration and deceleration and swift jerky movements side to side. (Letter, Report Form, Andy Roberts' collection) N - 1944.11.27-28 - between 2330-0330 hours, Germany, Cologne-Bonn area. 422d NFS, 3 "Jets" seen by patrols. (9th TAC, Opsum #173) N - 1945.------ ------ Formosa. Radio operator on a B-24 saw a vertical chain of luminous globes, one following the other in a spiral climb towards the aircraft. They continued to climb out of view. (Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post.....Blue, page 8.) N - 1945,------ Near the end of the War, Day, Germany, Fighter Pilot, preparing to land, pilot saw a rectangular light, short base parallel to the ground hanging in the sky. Pilot changed his position to make sure it wasn't some kind of reflection and informed Sq Cdr., who told him to ignore it. (Possibly: Runaway balloon?) (Letter to Project Blue Book ("Life magazine file")) N - 1945.02.22 - Night, Near Chichi Jima B-24 #501, 98th Bomb Group, "2 exhausts" seen, indication on SCR 717C radar. Followed for 20 miles and disappeared. (Letter to Project Blue Book (Life magazine file, from diary entry.) N - 1945.03.--- After Midnight, Northeast Italy west of Trieste RAF Boston Bomber, 55 Squadron, 232 Wing, Pilot and 2 other crew members, 6 Spheres 3 time the apparent size of the moon that were like red-hot metal followed the bomber to the southeast over the Adriatic. When they appeared to move toward the aircraft, pilot took evasive action. (Letter and report Form, Andy Robert's collection) N - 1945.03.26 - About 1100 hours, Germany, over "Happy Valley" in the Ruhr. RAF Spitfire XI, # PL 966, 541 Squadron, pilot, Pink sphere about 3 feet in diameter first seen ahead, then slow passed object on the starboard side. Aircraft speed was 360mph. Object appeared to be doing 340 mph. (Letter, Logbook extract, Andy Roberts Collection.) N - 1945.03.26 - Night, Near Iwo Jima. P-61-B, 549th Night Fighter Squadron (NFS), Gunner saw lights on an airborne object that followed them through turns. P-61 gave chase, with a slight radar contact. Object pulled out of sight. (549th NFS Unit History for March 1945) N - 1945.03.27 - Night, Near Iwo Jima. P-61-B, 549th NFS, night patrol saw lighted object similar to the one encountered on the previous night. (549th NFS Unit History for March 1945) N - 1945.04.03 - Night, Japan B-29 formation, two orange balls of fire. One near IP and the other over the target appeared to come from the ground and then move even wtiht he B-29s along the flight paths. No explosions. (Report of Operation 3-4 April 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) N - 1945.04.03, - 1813Z, Tokyo Bay area flying across the peninsula at land's end B-29, heading 115 degs., 8000 feet, light observed following and closing on B-29 while gaining altitude. Ball of fire followed aircraft despite evasive maneuvers. Picked up on radar. Followed aircraft to about 25 to 30 miles beyond the coast over the ocean. (Report of Operation 3-4 April 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) N - 1945.04.03, 1814Z - Tokyo Bay area. B-29 heading 120 degs., 7000 feet ball of fire observed at 4 o'clock position following aircraft. Evasive action through clouds 3 time could not loose the object which had a phosphorescent glow. Stayed with B-29 for 5 minutes across Tokyo Bay after that it disappeared. (Report of Operation 3-4 April 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) N - 1945.04.03, 1817Z - Near land's end Tokyo Bay. B-29, 9000 feet, saw a ball of fire about the size of a basket ball. Evasive action not effective after following the aircraft for 6 minutes it turned back toward the coast. (One crew member thought he saw a navigation light on a wing.) (Report of Operation 3-4 April 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command, 500th Bombardment Group History) N - 1945.04.18 - about 0300 hours, 20 miles north of Iwo Jima. P-61-B, 549th NFS, GCI (Ground Control Intercept) radar tracked a target at 18 to 8 miles almost immediately. P-61 gunner saw a yellowish light (like a star) approaching and losing altitude. AI contact was lost. Gunner saw another light, but no AI contact.(549th NFS Mission Reprot #4-27) N - 1945.04.18 - between 0022 and 0415 hours (at end of patrol), near Iwo Jima. P-61-B, 549th NFS, GCI radar made contact with target. Gunner reported reddish round light. Contact on radar showed two blips with evasive action and out distanced P-61. (549th NFS, Mission Report #4-28) N - 1945.04.19 - About 0100 hours, Norway, off Kristansund. RAF Halifax III, P5-K 297 Squadron, Gunner, starlight light over took aircraft from starboard side then appeared stationary on starboard beam. Disappeared to a pinpoint. (Report Form, Andy Robert's collection.) N - 1945.05.15 - Night, Nogoya, Japan. B-29, 444th Bomb Group, "The first sighting of a ball of fire' was made on this mission. (444th Bombardment Gourp history) N - 1945.05.23 - Night, Tokyo, Japan. B-29, 444th Bomb Group, "Three balls of fire' reported. (444th Bombardment Group history.) N - 1945.05.27 - 1438Z to 1532Z. B-29s, 40th Bomb Group, about 20 "balls of fire" sighted by the Group. (40th Bombardment Squadron history.) N - 1945.07.12/13 - Night, Kawaski, Japan. B-29, 315th Wing, Mission 267, large orange light phenomenon observed by one plane. (Report on Attack of 4 Cities, 12/12 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) N - 1945.07.12/13 - Night Japan. B-29, Orange light paralleling the path of enemy aircraft. Unable to determine if it was part of aircraft. (Report on Attack of 4 Cities, 12/13 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) N - 1945.07.16/17 - Night near Numazu, Japan. B-29, 58th Wing, Mission #271, ball of fire at 10,000 feet followed aircraft. Disappeared into smoke to the right of the B-29.(Mission 271-274 16/17 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) N - 1945.07.16/17 - Night, near Numazu, Japan. B-29, 58th Wing, 58th Wings, Mission #271 one light seen at 10,800 feet about 500 feet above B-29 and gaining. When within 500 feet of the B-29, the light turned right, went off and disappeared. (Intel Officer: sharp maneuvers do not support Baka theory.) (Mission 271-274 16/17 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) N - 1945.07.16/17 - Night, Numazu, Japan. B-29, 58th Wings, Mission #271, a red light at the 6 o'clock position. The light passed to the right of aircraft making sharp turns. B-29 crew received flak from the ground at this time. (Mission 271-274 16/17 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) N - 1945.07.16/17 - Night, Oita, Japan. B-29, 73rd Wing, Mission #272, a pulsating circular, red glow was reprot at 10,000 fet of the target at the 2 o'clock position. The light continued on a parallel course to the aircraft for 5 minutes it disappeared into a cloud. B-29.(Mission 271-274 16/17 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) ACUFOE in 1946 N - 1946.09 -- USA, day, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Private Pilot, encountered "flying mayonnaise jar" shaped UFOs. (Project Grudge: Bumble Bee Missiles Launched by John Hopkins University) (FBI files, Project Blue Book report summary, newspaper accounts) N - 1946.10 -- USA, day, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Private Pilot, encountered "flying mayonnaise jar" shaped UFOs (Project Grudge: Bumble Bee Missiles Launched by John Hopkins University) (FBI files, Project Blue Book report summary, newspaper accounts) ACUFOE in 1947 N -1947 ---- Night, USA, Hanford, Washington B-17 USAF pilot, pulsating cavorting lights maneuvered around aircraft for 20 minutes then flew off. (PJ47 Report, p125 (UFO Report 1977, p. 39) N - 1947 --- Night, USA, Ardmore, Oklahoma. AT-6 Trainer, USAF pilot, flashing red light caught up with aircraft, circled aircraft, and matched speed with plane for 20 minutes then flew away to S.(PJ47 122, (Ideal UFO Magazine #1, March 1978)) N - 07.04 - 1030 hours, east of Moscow, Idaho Flying from Couer d'Alene to Lewiston, pilot and passenger both CAA officials. an object flying in a northerly direction on a regular course, but without a wavering, fluttery or bouncing movement. The object was slightly above the CAA officials' plane's 4000 feet altitude and was flying about 300 mph. (Astoria, OR, ASTORIAN BUDGET, 5 July 1947.) N - 07.04 - Afternoon, USA, Nevada, between Tonopah and Austin. Private Plane - 150 Voyager - pilot and passenger, 5 circular object brilliantly reflecting sunlight, aircraft at 10,000, UFOs below. Pilot could not catch UFOs. (PJ47, p 75, Elko, NV DAILY FREE PRESS 7 July.) N - 07.06 - 1500 hours, USA, Colorado-Kansas border flying toward Bartleseville, OK Private plane, 2 Phillips Petroleum pilots, at 10,000 feet saw UFOs come flying directly at them one after another for about 15 minutes. Nine in total. They appeared metallic and were revolving. (PJ47, p 84, Bartlesville, OK, DAILY ========= BlackBerry January 15 444th BG WWII "Foo Fighter" (UFO) sightings from official records444th BG WWII "Foo Fighter" (UFO) sightings from official records This is provided only for it’s historical information, not as an opinion or explanation of these events. 1944.11.10 - daylight, Coast of Formosa just west of Okayama at 25,000 feet B-29(?), black dot seen to hang in the air without movement or explosion. It was smaller than a flak burst, and looked like an object rather than a cloud of smoke. (Weekly Intelligence Summary #11, 10 Nov 44, HQ, Eastern Air Command, South East Asia) 1945.04.03 - Night, Japan B-29 formation, two orange balls of fire. One near IP and the other over the target appeared to come from the ground and then move even wtiht he B-29s along the flight paths. No explosions. (Report of Operation 3-4 April 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) 1945.04.03, - 1813Z, Tokyo Bay area flying across the peninsula at land's end B-29, heading 115 degs., 8000 feet, light observed following and closing on B-29 while gaining altitude. Ball of fire followed aircraft despite evasive maneuvers. Picked up on radar. Followed aircraft to about 25 to 30 miles beyond the coast over the ocean. (Report of Operation 3-4 April 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) 1945.04.03, 1814Z - Tokyo Bay area. B-29 heading 120 degs., 7000 feet ball of fire observed at 4 o'clock position following aircraft. Evasive action through clouds 3 time could not loose the object which had a phosphorescent glow. Stayed with B-29 for 5 minutes across Tokyo Bay after that it disappeared. (Report of Operation 3-4 April 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) 1945.05.15 - Night, Nogoya, Japan. B-29, 444th Bomb Group, "The first sighting of a ball of fire' was made on this mission. (444th Bombardment Gourp history) 1945.05.23 - Night, Tokyo, Japan. B-29, 444th Bomb Group, "Three balls of fire' reported. (444th Bombardment Group history.) 1945.07.12/13 - Night Japan. B-29, Orange light paralleling the path of enemy aircraft. Unable to determine if it was part of aircraft. (Report on Attack of 4 Cities, 12/13 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) 1945.07.16/17 - Night near Numazu, Japan. B-29, 58th Wing, Mission #271, ball of fire at 10,000 feet followed aircraft. Disappeared into smoke to the right of the B-29.(Mission 271-274 16/17 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) 1945.07.16/17 - Night, near Numazu, Japan. B-29, 58th Wing, 58th Wings, Mission #271 one light seen at 10,800 feet about 500 feet above B-29 and gaining. When within 500 feet of the B-29, the light turned right, went off and disappeared. (Intel Officer: sharp maneuvers do not support Baka theory.) (Mission 271-274 16/17 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command 1945.07.16/17 - Night, Numazu, Japan. B-29, 58th Wings, Mission #271, a red light at the 6 o'clock position. The light passed to the right of aircraft making sharp turns. B-29 crew received flak from the ground at this time. (Mission 271-274 16/17 July 1945, HQ 21st Bomber Command) The above information was taken from "Project 1947". If you would like to see the complete report, please visit http://www.project1947.com/acupdt.htm . All images, photographs, documents, logos, graphics, and all other parts of this website are the sole property of The Official 444th BG Association (unless otherwise noted or specified) - (c)2005 444thBG, All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication, distribution, transmition, printing, publishing, or recording (in/or on any media known or unknown) of the contents of this site is a violation of applicable laws. Any and all use for non-profit means is hereby fully granted by the site owner. Commercial undertakings of ANY nature using ANY material from this site are expressly forbidden without the advance written permission of the site owner, and/or the owner of said material(s). ; | (c)2005 444th BG Association | ========= BlackBerry January 02 Iran Soon to Have Nuclear WeaponIran Soon to Have Nuclear Weapon *********************** *** Mossad: Iran Soon to Have Nuclear Weapon *** Iran will achieve "nuclear technology independence" within several months, the chief of Israel's Mossad spy agency has warned legislators. Appearing before the Knesset's defense and foreign affairs committee to deliver his annual intelligence report, Meir Dagan also declared that Iran "will not stop with one nuclear bomb." He said "technology independence" doesn't mean Tehran will actually have a nuclear device. But "it does mean they'll be able to enrich uranium with centrifuges," columnist Uri Dan writes in the New York Post. "Building a bomb would only be a matter of time." Said Dagan: "Iran will not be satisfied with producing fissionable material for one bomb but will continue to produce large quantities of such material for more bombs." Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset committee, said: "Iran is capable of getting a bomb in a year or two. And if it does, there will be a new Middle East - black, dangerous and threatening the world over." Dagan called for an intensification of international diplomatic pressure on Iran. But Aharon Zeevi, Israel's chief of military intelligence, said the current lack of pressure can be blamed on the Europeans. "I had meetings with senior officials in Europe," he told Uri Dan. "And their position is, why should we fear Iran's nuclear weapons? After all, we lived under the nuclear threat after World War II. "And besides, either you or the Americans will solve the problem." Zeevi has said that a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would be "difficult but not impossible." But he told the Yediot Aharonot daily: "It is not the time nor place to talk about military action as the diplomatic route is still the order of the day." ************************ *** Steve Forbes: Action Against Iran Crucial *** Former presidential candidate Steve Forbes has issued a dire warning: Iran's soon-to-be-successful push for nuclear weapons poses an "increasingly mortal threat to our safety." Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, writes in his Fact and Comment column that Iran's looming nuclear capability is especially frightening because its new president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "lethally delusional." He is obsessed with the Mahdi, the expected Messiah of Muslim tradition, who is to return just before Judgment Day. Ahmadinejad believes he must prepare the way for his reappearance, according to Forbes. The Iranian leader has also insisted that the Holocaust never occurred and that Israel should be wiped off the map. Russia is attempting to convince Tehran not to go nuclear. But at the same time, Moscow recently agreed to sell Iran an advanced weapons system that can destroy incoming missiles and laser-guided bombs. A nuclear Iran would be an "immense setback" in the war against Islamic fanaticism and could lead to an Iranian-encouraged overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, Forbes warns. "Is military action the only alternative?" he writes. "Yes, unless somehow internal Iranian pressures (the mullahs are despised by most Iranians), as well as international pressures, force either a fundamental change in this fascist theocracy or its actual overthrow ... "But time is running short." Forbes laments that the Bush administration has done next to nothing to persuade the American public about the possible need for stern measures. But he concludes: "Thankfully President Ahmadinejad's consistent public statements on the 'myth' of the Holocaust will make clear to not only us but also the European masses and elites that this regime poses an increasingly mortal threat to our safety, that European-style diplomacy (a mechanism for doing nothing) is no longer viable." ========= BlackBerry December 12 The Birth of the Dead
November 21 Fool Me TwiceFool Me Twice: Anti-Bush Bias From New Orleans To Baghdad "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." -- Old adage "Well, there you go again." -- Ronald Reagan There they go indeed. And shame on anyone for believing them anymore. I mean, of course, the elite liberal media, who will stop at nothing to topple the Bush presidency. Not even if it means manipulating the news about war and natural disasters. Remember all those New Orleans horror stories, the ones that could've given Attila the Hun goosebumps? An Editor & Publisher headline that screamed, "Mortuary Director Tells Local Paper 40,000 Could Be Lost in Hurricane"? CNN reporting shots being fired at rescue helicopters? CNN's Paula Zahn decrying "bands of rapists, going block to block?" Oprah Winfrey telling her wide-eyed audience that "gangs banded together and had more ammunition, at times, than the police?" Eager-beaver media scribes dutifully reporting Randall Robinson's lunatic claims of people "eating corpses to survive?" It turns out they were all just that: stories. Lies. Lies which could have been shown false had Shepherd Smith just bothered to walk into the Superdome. And when this hysteria was found to be just lies, that should have become the biggest story of all. But it didn't. So most Americans are left with the initial story -- the false one. The one which tanked George Bush's poll numbers. So it is with Iraq. From the day America moved to oust Saddam, the usual suspects -- from CBS to the New York Times -- eagerly predicted calamity and searched fervently for any signs of it. Yet virtually all their prognostications failed to materialize. Casualties? Minimal. Oil fields? Protected. Saddam attacking Israel? Never happened. Post-war refugee problems? Nope. Iraqis weren't leaving; they were returning in droves to their Saddam-free homeland. And since Saddam's removal, guess which part of Iraq has garnered virtually all of the Bush-bashing media's attention? Why, the Sunni Triangle, of course, Saddam's home turf. Never mind that nearly everywhere else, there is no "insurgency." Never mind that the "insurgency" is doomed so long as virtually everybody but a handful of Sunnis opposes it. Never mind that across Iraq, the progress is overwhelming, as Americans and Iraqis together build schools, enhance security, empower civil society, and ensure a brighter economic and political future. Never mind that most of the fighting -- and dying -- for the new, free Iraq is being done by patriotic Iraqis. And never mind that the endlessly-reported U.S. death toll is half the rate even of U.S. training deaths each year. Never mind that literally millions of Iraqis -- alone in the Arab world -- have twice stood up to terrorist bullies, voting first to elect new leaders and just recently to ratify their new constitution. And that includes 105,000 Iraqis in Fallujah, once the heart of the insurgency, who turned out last month to vote on the new constitution. Oh, and never mind that before each of these elections, al Qaeda proclaimed loudly that merely holding the election -- regardless of outcome -- would be a "crushing defeat" for their cause. To the left-leaning media moguls and those in their employ, none of this matters, because all of it vindicates President Bush. Which is partly why so little of it gets reported. How bad is the Bush-bashing bias? In a survey of 1,388 Iraq stories on the evening news programs of ABC, CBS, and NBC from January through September of this year, the Media Research Center found that 61% were negative or pessimistic, while only 15% were positive or optimistic, a four-to-one ratio. Fully two out of every five stories featured specific terrorist attacks. But it gets worse. There were 79 stories about alleged wrongdoing by our soldiers, while only eight stories highlighted their obvious heroism and only nine featured their unending acts of compassion and generosity. And even when the topic was Iraqi democracy -- which al Qaeda itself defines as victory for us and "crushing" for them -- negative stories outnumbered positive ones by a 124-92 margin. In other words, heads we win, tails you lose. And speaking of loss, there's no question that this grossly biased reporting has helped embolden the foreign terrorists and homegrown Saddamites, and caused needless loss of American and Iraqi lives. One need not be cynical to ask whether that wasn't the idea in the first place. Either way, one thing is crystal clear: When a media story concerns President Bush or his pro-American, pro-democracy policies, expect what you got in New Orleans: outright lies at every turn. Fool us once, shame on them. Fool us twice -- well, you know the rest. ----------- Rod D. Martin is Founder and Chairman of Vanguard PAC. A former policy director to Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Special Counsel to PayPal.com Founder Peter Thiel, he is a member of the Board of Governors of the Council for National Policy, Executive Vice President of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA), and editor and co-author of Thank You President Bush, the definitive handbook to the second term. --------------------
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