Six Years Later

From the Newshole… The special six-year anniversary of 9/11 edition of Countdown…


Six Years Later

Some of what we’re working on for tonight…

Tonight Keith broadcasts live from ground zero, in the footprints of where the World Trade Center stood until this date 6 years ago. We have some special guests lined up for the evening, including Tom Brokaw on the political decay that has taken place over the six years since the attacks. 

Keith will also speak to a guy you’ve never heard of before.  A guy named Frank Silecchia…one of the brave workers who spent months at ground zero, sifting through wreckage and debris…only to suffer dire consequences for his heroic effort. His story is written up in the Bergen Record…here’s an excerpt:

Frank Silecchia says he has good news on this sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack.

He’s not dead.

The bad news is that Silecchia, a construction worker who virtually traded his Little Ferry apartment to labor for months at Ground Zero, can barely walk a block without wheezing. Like hundreds of other Ground Zero workers, Silecchia breathed too much toxic dust and is now paying for it.

“I’m dying a slow death,” he said on Monday from his new home — a trailer parked on a patch of a friend’s yard not far from Coney Island in Brooklyn.

Also, from Stephen Hadley to Condi Rice to Osama Bin Laden and more, Keith will have a special “6 Years Later: Where Are They Now” update.

Plus, we’ll have all the news on the Petraeus/Crocker testimony before the senate, including more on the exchange between Crocker and Joe Biden recounted in the NY Times.  An excerpt can be found after the jump.

Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose Democratic chairman and ranking Republican were openly skeptical of progress in Iraq, that although many challenges lie ahead, the situation is “slowly improving.”

“In non-diplomatic speak, what does that mean?” asked Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the chairman of the panel, in a session that invoked memories of Vietnam and the 9/11 attacks.

“Neither of us believe we can see beyond next summer,” Mr. Crocker replied, alluding to Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, who was sitting next to him.

Pressed by Mr. Biden, who is running for president and who said he is doubtful about success in Iraq after talking to rank-and-file troops in several visits there, the ambassador said he thought it would be “well beyond the end of next summer” before a stable, self-sufficient Iraq would be a reality.

From Stephen Hadley to Condi Rice to Osama Bin Laden, Keith will have a special “6 Years Later: Where Are They Now” report as he comes to you live from ground zero tonight.  Also…Tom Brokaw joins KO to

 


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Broadcasters Oppose Wireless Net Service

Similar things are already being done… KET is broadcasting computer services for the Kentucky Cabinet for Human and Family Services, Kentucky Division of Emergency Management, and local health and law enforcement agencies. Sure, KET’s broadcast is limited, broadcasts over their allotted broadcast frequencies, and does not allow Internet access, but the concept is the same. All that is required for a person to have is an antenna, an HDTV tuner in their PC, and the available software package.
This technology will work, and will not cause detrimental interference with television or cable broadcast (once refined–of course). The networks just need to grow up, and stop complaining. – Jeremiah


Broadcasters Oppose Wireless Net Service
kaufmanmoore writes “The AP reports that the National Association of Broadcasters is launching ads to target lawmakers over a push by a consortium of technology companies including Google, Intel, HP, and MSFT who want to use unused and unlicensed TV spectrum (the so-called ‘white space’) for wireless broadband. Broadcasters are airing concerns about the devices creating interference with broadcast television. In a statement, NAB chairman Alan Frank takes a swipe at technology companies: ‘While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not.'”

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Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives

interesting…


Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
i_like_spam writes “Scientists from NYU and UCLA report in Nature Neuroscience that the brains of Democrats and Republicans process information differently. This new study finds that the differences are apparent even when the brain processes common information, not just political topics. From the study, liberals were more likely to be accurate and showed more brain activity in the region associated with analyzing conflicts. A researcher not affiliated with the study stated, liberals ‘could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas.’ Moreover, ‘the results could explain why President Bush demonstrated a single-minded commitment to the Iraq war and why some people perceived Sen. John F. Kerry… as a flip-flopper.'”

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FW: WKYT – September 11, 2007

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> Ralph Baze Continues To Fight Execution
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> Ralph Baze knows the chances are good that he will be executed on
> Sept. 25. But, he says, he won’t go quietly.
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> Wesley Mullins’ Accused Killer Appears In Court Tuesday
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> Lewis A. Ballard, the man charged with murder of a 6-year-old
> Wesley Mullins will make his first appearance in court Tuesday.
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> Officials, Families To Meet About Moving Graves
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> Throughout the day, those who have family members buried in a
> Central Kentucky cemetery will meet with state officials about the
> planned move of 30 graves.
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> Jane Wyman Remembered As ‘Amazing Pro’
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> The woman who starred in the long-running TV series “Falcon Crest”,
> and who was Ronald Reagan’s first wife, is being remembered for an
> acting career that lasted for decades.
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> Senator Craig Files Papers To Withdraw Guilty Plea
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> Idaho Senator Larry Craig has filed papers seeking to withdraw his
> guilty plea in an airport sex sting.
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> Scattered showers and the occasional rumble of thunder have been
> ongoing this afternoon and should continue into the overnight
> hours. The cool front that has been bringing the rain has now
> stalled out across the southern half of the state. It will slowly
> slide off to the east overnight and showers should begin to
> diminish across Central Kentucky. While a lingering early morning
> shower cannot be ruled out, expect the clouds to hold tough through
> the first half of Tuesday. Another “dry” front should move through
> the area late Tuesday and this should help to usher in drier air
> and hopefully bring humidity levels way down for Wednesday. The
> middle of the work week looks wonderful with highs in the middle
> 70’s and lots of sunshine.
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Updates to the blog…

Well, I’ve had fun, over the past two days… I’ve been copying over entries that I had written at MySpace over to this blog… I really don’t know why… Maybe I just see the need to have all of my thoughts in one place, besides, I’ve vowed to blog here and only here (at least until I can find a publishing tool that will allow me to post to several sites at once).
All of these former MySpace posts have been designated with a MySpace icon, and have the date that they were published… Sorry, I didn’t feel like keeping the time accurate…
I will be going back through all of these entries, and trying to tag them. For that matter, I will be trying to go back through ALL of my LJ entries and tagging/re-tagging them. I really didn’t care for the system that I was trying to create with the tags, so I am just going to choose keywords rather than categorizing… should be a bit simpler for me to accomplish, plus it will seem to follow the model that everyone else out there uses…
So, if you haven’t read the old MySpace blog entries, then please, feel free to hit the archives…

Countdown Monday: The Petraeus Report

oh, just some comical national news… interesting reads….


Countdown Monday: The Petraeus Report

A Report Report Card:  Not since April 28, 1967… when General William Westmoreland addressed Congress on America’s expanding military role in Vietnam… has so much attention been focused on a briefing by a military commander. But… in our fifth story on the Countdown… when General David Petraeus tried to begin his prepared remarks on Capitol Hill this afternoon… not even the microphones wanted to hear it.
Surge Gets Four StarsKicking the can down the road…Buying the President more time…Or, in starker terms, giving him more leeway to get more Americans killed in Iraq. Frank Rich of “The Greatest Story Ever Sold”…
History RepeatsIt must be true.. if you live long enough, news begins to have a deja vu quality..Hearings interrupted by protest.. Generals called on the carpet to explain an unpopular war… books cooked and young people dying unnecessarily… the public with little or no faith in government or its leaders.  That was then, during Vietnam.  It’s also now. Our third story tonight, the slow and disastrous breakdown of our government — and the link between that time and now.
Stalls of Justice:  For 27 years, he’s been creating the laws of the land in Congress. Yet in our second story on the Countdown, Senator Larry Craig now expects a judge to believe that a veteran lawmaker such as himself didn’t understand what pleading guilty really means.                                 

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Brit Hume, former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, and a group containing  former Bush Under-Secretary of Defense Jed Babbin, and John Gibson and Greg Gutfeld vie for tonight’s top honors
Less is MoreStep aside Lindsay Lohan. Take a pass, Paris Hilton. And don’t even think about it, Nicole Ritchie. In our number one story on the Countdown… Britney Spears once again rules… as the train wreck du jour. Last night she turned in a super-hyped “comeback performance” that was met with the universal cry of… “Go back!”


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Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T

Um, I don’t think I want an iPhone anymore…


Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T
Tech.Luver writes “Jay Levy says he has been stung by Apple’s iPhone pact with AT&T after he took an iPhone on a Mediterranean cruise. They didn’t use their phones, but when they got back they had a 54-page monthly bill of nearly $4,800 from AT&T Wireless. The problem was that their three iPhones were racking up a bill for data charges using foreign phone charges. The iPhone regularly updates e-mail, even while it’s off, so that all the messages will be available when the user turns it on. “”

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Method of Reading Discovered

this article isn’t as much fun as the text and links provided as comments… go check it out…


Method of Reading Discovered
Scientists have discovered that the method our eyes use to process letters on a page is different than previously believed. Instead of assimilating one letter at a time our eyes actually lock on to two different letters simultaneously about half the time. “The team’s results demonstrated that both eyes lock on to the same letter 53%% of the time; for 39%% of the time they see different letters with uncrossed eyes; and for 8%% of the time the eyes are crossing to focus on different letters. A follow-up experiment with the eye-tracking equipment showed that we only see one clear image when reading because our brain fuses the different images from our eyes together.”

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FW: WKYT – September 10, 2007

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> Barn Destroyed In Fire
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> by Andy Cunningham
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> A large barn fire could be seen for miles Sunday on the Bourbon-
> Scott county line.
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> Rain Brings Relief, But Not An End To The Drought
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> by Dave Spencer
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> Since the beginning of the summer most of Kentucky has been under a
> moderate to severe drought.
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> Kentucky State Police Academy Enrolls The largest Female Class In
> It’s History
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> On Sunday 92 new cadets reported for state police training in
> Frankfort. Twelve of them being women. Making this the largest
> group of women to enter the academy in it’s history.
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> Ky. opens tourism office in Japan
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> May open office in China
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> Police charge woman in baseball bat weilding robbery
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> Woman may have been involved in other similar robberies
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> We are finally recieving some much needed rain across the Bluegrass
> State this afternoon as a cold front slowly sweeps across the area.
> This frontal boundary should stall out across the Eastern-half of
> the area this evening, which will carry rain chances into Monday.
> Isolated showers may even linger into the day on Tuesday before
> high pressure builds in for the middle of the week. Wednesday and
> Thursday look to be a drying out period between weather systems.
> Our next weather-maker will move across the Ohio Valley Friday into
> Saturday and not only will this bring our next shot for rain, it is
> also going to bring much cooler temperatures. You may need to pull
> out a light coat for next Saturday and Sunday evenings if the
> models verify and we see lows in the lower 50’s. Have a great work
> week!
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FW: WKYT – September 9, 2007

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> Wish Granted For Terminally Ill Fleming County Girl
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> A community pulls together to make one memorable night for a young
> Fleming County girl and her family.
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> Lexington Soccer Field Dedicated To Comair Crash Victim
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> An emotional night on the soccer fields at Lexington Christian
> Academy Saturday night. The new renovated field was dedicated to a
> victim of the crash of Comair Flight 5191.
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> Breast Feeding Supporters Rally In Front Of Lexington Applebee’s
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> LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – Dozens of people rallied in front of an
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> Applebee’s restaurant in Lexington today to support a woman who
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> said she was told to cover up while breast-feeding her son.
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> Governor Releases Safety Recommendations For Kentucky Colleges
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> by Denny Trease
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> The governor’s task force on campus safety has released it’s long
> awaited list of recommendations aimed at enhancing safety and
> security at all Kentucky colleges and universities.
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> Lexington motorcyclist dies in crash with minivan
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> Police told car had green light when motorcycle crashed into
> vehicle.
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> Temperatures have been able to warm into the upper 80’s this
> afternoon because clouds were slower to move in throughout the day.
> The cold front that has been bringing drenching rains to Western
> Kentucky shows little eastward progression this afternoon. Because
> of its slower than expected arrival to the area, the majority of us
> have stayed dry this afternoon. However, scattered showers should
> begin to fill in as the night wears on. In fact, I do expect this
> front to be even slower in exiting the Bluegrass State. Therefore,
> keeping chances for scattered showers and thunderstorms in the
> forecast through the first part of the work week. A noticeable
> temperatures change will be felt by the end of the work week as a
> new airmass comes into the area. Day 6 and 7 look to work in
> another cold front that could possibly be stronger in both precip
> as well as ushering in cooler temperatures. Nevertheless, nearly
> all places should see some rain before the weekend is out.
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