Thanksgiving Greeting

2 Samuel 22

50 - Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.

Will the Annapolis Summit bring peace to Middle East?

Jewish World Review Nov. 20, 2007 /10 Kislev 5768

How can Washington and Jerusalem be so irresponsible?
By Caroline B. Glick

www.JewishWorldReview.com

According to foreign reports, Israel destroyed a nuclear weapons installation in Syria in September. Never has a larger story been pushed under the rug by so many so quickly. What are we to make of this?

Over the weekend former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, released a report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. His report was based on a private study of captured Iraqi documents. These were the unread Arabic language documents that US forces seized, but had not managed to translate after overthrowing Saddam Hussein in 2003.

After a prolonged battle between Congress and then director of US National Intelligence John Negroponte, President George W. Bush ordered those documents posted on a public access Web site last year. They were taken down after it was discovered that among the Iraqi documents were precise descriptions of how to build nuclear weapons.

As Loftus summarized, "The gist of the new evidence is this: Roughly one-quarter of Saddam's WMD was destroyed under UN pressure during the early to mid 1990s. Saddam sold approximately another quarter of his weapons stockpile to his Arab neighbors during the mid-to-late-1990's. The Russians insisted on removing another quarter in the last few months before the war.

The last remaining WMD, the contents of Saddam's nuclear weapons labs, were still inside Iraq on the day when the coalition forces arrived in 2003. His nuclear weapons equipment was hidden in enormous underwater warehouses beneath the Euphrates River. Saddam's entire nuclear inventory was later stolen from these warehouses right out from under the Americans' noses."

Loftus then cites Israeli sources who claim that the Iraqi nuclear program was transferred to the Deir az Zour province in Syria.

See complete article at the above website or www.watch.org.

Update and Commentary
2007: Nine Major FEMA Disasters and Two Major Crises Coincide with U.S. Involvement in the Israel "Peace" Process - Bill Koenig
www.watch.org

I primarily focus on billion dollar-plus U.S. events that coincide with White House involvement with Israel’s land. However, after research, I discovered there were nine major FEMA disasters and/or clusters of events in 2007 and two other major crises that coincided either with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Jerusalem or U.S. President George W. Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Secretary Rice’s Quartet meetings.

After four of Rice’s eight trips to Israel this year, President Bush declared major FEMA disasters for events that coincided with her trips to Israel.
Four disaster events and/or clusters of events were weather-related. A fifth disaster occurred when a major bridge collapsed in the Congressional district of Congress’ only Muslim Congressman — on the day he stated he was going back to Israel to work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the same time, Rice was in Jerusalem meeting with Olmert, Shimon Peres, Tzipi Livni, and Ehud Barak.

The bridge collapsed in the area known as the ‘West Bank’ — the west bank of the Mississippi River at the campus of the University of Minnesota. (There is a West Bank campus and an East Bank campus.)

During Rice’s November trip to Israel there was a major political crisis for the Bush Administration in Pakistan, a sixth major non-FEMA weather event, record oil-prices and the euro hit a new high against the US dollar.

There were five additional major FEMA disaster events and/or clusters of events that occurred in the United States in 2007 that coincided with President Bush and Rice preparing for a meeting with Olmert, meeting with Olmert in Washington, and during Rice’s Quartet meetings.

See the complete articile @ www.watch.org

San Francisco approves ID cards that exclude gender
By Emily Bazar

USA TODAY

Next year, San Francisco will issue municipal identification cards showing the usual name, birthdate and photo.

What the card won't include: gender.

When other cities considered issuing ID cards without regard to legal status, the debate was over illegal immigrants. In San Francisco, where the Board of Supervisors approved such an ID on Tuesday, transgender activists added gender to the discussion.

"Transgender" is a broad term for people who do not identify with their birth sex. Those who refer to themselves as transgender include cross-dressers and transsexuals.

"The card really makes gender a non-issue," says Kristina Wertz, legal director of the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco.

Wertz says legally changing a name and gender designation can be time-consuming and cost hundreds of dollars. IDs that don't match appearance could "out" people and make them vulnerable to discrimination or abuse, she says.

Martin Rawlings, 30, is a female-to-male transsexual. When he legally changed his name in 1999, he had trouble getting his employer to change it on his paycheck. His bank, though, had changed his name.

As a result, he had trouble depositing his checks. A municipal ID would have helped, he says. "It's often a barrier to finding work, not having an identification that matches your presentation," he says.

Measure to Ban In-Office Romance Fails in San Francisco
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - www.foxnews.com

San Francisco supervisors voted down a measure that would have prohibited city managers from "engaging in romantic or sexual relationships" with employees, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.

The measure, which failed Tuesday in an overwhelming 10-1 vote, was seen as a thinly veiled swipe at Mayor Gavin Newsom's admitted affair with a secretary, who at the time was the wife of his campaign manager, it was reported.

The legislation's sponsor, Supervisor Chris Daly, was the only official who voted in favor of it.

"It is common practice in the corporate work setting where managers ... are held accountable and these types of relationships are not tolerated," Daly was quoted in the report.

The vote by city managers sent a message that they didn't see it that way.

The measure would have prohibited city managers from "engaging in romantic or sexual relationships" with employees.

Earlier this year, Newsom acknowledged having an affair with his commission appointments secretary, who at the time was the wife of his campaign manager.

The mayor's spokesman Nathan Ballad said, "Chris Daly has no business poking around in anybody's personal life."

"We're pleased that the Board of Supervisors had the wisdom to kill Chris Daly's intrusive legislation," he said.

Our modern society is seeking to redefine the meaning of male and female, marriage, and morality, while faced with what could be unbelievable results.

I am thankful that our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, is going to return and Rapture the church out of this world. Praise His Holy Name!