Jack Wood Laid to Rest in Margraten
Sat May 07, 2005 at 02:40:26 PM PDT
Answer to
Sybil in diary - GWB visits Margraten in Limburg, the Netherlands!
Secret Service wanted to shut down about 50% of the Limburg province. Was unacceptable, in the end agreed to let GWB stay the night in beautiful small village of Valkenburg, near the Allied cemetery Margraten. I wrote about this in my recent diary: TODAY - Liberation Day - May 5th
I will provide some more INFO about the cemetery, created just inside the border with Germany near Aachen. During the 1944-45 battles as the Allied forces moved east toward Berlin, the Allied rule is that the soldiers cannot be laid to rest in enemy territory.
More to follow about the American Military Cemetery in Margraten --
Netherlands ¶ City Centre of The Hague ¶ US Embassy Moves!
Thu May 05, 2005 at 12:26:25 AM PDT
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Mayor Wim Deetman expressed great joy that an agreement has been reached between the Foreign Office and the US State Department, to move the US Embassy from its present location at Lange Voorhout near the
Dutch Parliament Buildings, Offices of the
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Pieter Balkenende and
Mauritshuis museum.
Photo shows from left: Mauritshuis, Tower office
of PM and to the right the buildings of Parliament
There's more ...
The Bird ... an Ivory-billed Woodpecker ¶ with VIDEO link ¶ Natural Reserves
Sun May 01, 2005 at 10:46:35 PM PDT
"The bird captured on this video can be
nothing other than an
ivory-billed woodpecker."
John W. Fitzpatrick
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
(Campephilus principalis)
"Despite numerous unconfirmed sightings and much searching, including an extensive search in the bottomlands of Louisiana in 2002, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is thought to be extinct. Once inhabiting the bottomland hardwoods and montane pine forests of southeastern US and Cuba, this large black and white woodpecker disappeared as its habitat was increasingly cleared for agriculture and lumber."
Audubon Society Watchlist
Thought to be extinct, the last confirmed sighting was 60 years ago in the Big Woods.
VIDEO link to follow » »
Budding Democracy in Muslim Middle-East ¶ Bush's Model States
Sun Apr 24, 2005 at 05:58:32 AM PDT
Afghanistan
and
Saudi Arabia TODAY!
Muslim adulterer stoned to death
Reuters - April 24, 2005
Faizabad, Afghanistan -- An Afghan woman has been stoned to death for adultery, police said today, the first such incident in Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power.
Amina, a 29 year-old married woman, was publicly stoned to death on the basis of a district court's decision on Thursday in Argo district to the west of Faizabad, the provincial capital of Badakhshan, they said. "She has been stoned to death," provincial police chief, General Shah Jahan Noori, adding a team has been sent to the area to investigate the incident further.
Adultery is forbidden in the Muslim country and under Islamic sharia law the penalty can range from flogging to stoning to death.
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Astonishment below the fold ...
Ratzinger Innuendo - Not Based on Facts!
Sat Apr 23, 2005 at 03:24:43 AM PDT
How False News Statements Linger On - Influencing How Catholics Voted in Election 2004
As usual, the MSM is doing a lousy job of reporting facts in the matter of Joseph Ratzinger and the US bishops at their USCCB Meeting in Denver, CO - June 2004.
[US Conference of Catholic Bishops - USCCB ]
Using small bits of facts, stretching it into a story that can be readily consumed by the agnost, and the reporter at AFP is satisfied to get enough readers who agree and lash out at the person of Joseph Ratzinger and the Catholic Church.
AFP headlines earlier this week:
New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign
Just spending some minutes to search for the facts on Internet, leads to a complete opposite view of what happened in Denver ...
POPE John Paul II - a Memorial
Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 12:26:11 AM PDT
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Celebration of today's Mass in Sign of Hope
Outpouring of love for the deceased JPII has been overwhelming, the pelgrimage to the city of Rome has been unique.
People are camping out so they
can be close to the ceremony
As little as faith expressed by Catholics worldwide are part of news headlines, a pontifical reign of twenty-six years has left a powerful message.
A man of Peace who reached out to other religions --
