From the 2996 website ~"996 and 23 daysBloged in Progress by D.Challener Roe Saturday August 19, 2006
That’s what’s left.
A few minutes ago Jess of It’s my life laugh if you must signed up and became the 2,000 the participant in 2,996. Her welcome email told her she was #2,021 but we’ve had some entrants deleted due to bad sign-up info.
The first 1,000 took 57 days. We made the jump from 1,000 to 2,000 in 25 days.
Now we’ve got 23 days to get the last 996.
I think we can do it.
To all of you that have been writing posts, convincing others to sign up…KEEP IT UP. You are all doing an amazing job–which can be confirmed by my webhost who late last night told me I’d used up my bandwidth for the month. "Please sign up for this! Please pass it on to your friends! The people who died need not have died in vain. The least we can do is remember.
Ok, I think I finally have the story straight. I thought the FOX News guys were captured to get this other guy released. THAT is NOT true!
Ok, so here's what really happened. The Israeli soldiers who were kidnapped at the beginning of this war between Israel & Hezbollah were taken so that this man - Samir Kuntar - and about 1000 others, could be free. (I was going to post a picture, but I don't think he should be given the privilege) Israel has a habit of not leaving ANYONE behind - living or dead. They have exchanged prisoners before for the body of one of their own.
Now about Kuntar. Samir Kuntar has been in prison a long time, but not long enough. Here is the story of what he did & why he is in prison -
The True StoryThis is an old story, being posted in the Washington Post on May 18, 2003. But the act itself happened on April 22, 1979. This man should not be allowed out!! Why is it when Israelis or Americans do something, the whole world is in an uproar, and yet when Hezbollah commits these acts of terror and just plain cruelty, the stories get forgotten or hidden.
You can also read this article (click
here) on the subject.
The fact that Kuntar committed this act before Hezbollah was formed is of no consequence in my mind. Hezbollah routinely uses people to further their goals. They hide their weapons in schools, hospitals and area where a lot of people live. They do this on purpose, not because they haven't anywhere else to stockpile stuff.
I hope Kuntar stays in jail a long time. Israel should take advice from the movie "Galaxy Quest" - "never give up, NEVER SURRENDER!!!"
Palastinian gunmen have kidnapped FOX News people - Steve Centanni (American/reporter), and Olaf Wiig (New Zealander/cameraman). No one is sure why.
Please pray for the FOX news guys and their familes.
The fifth anniversary of 9-11 is just under a month away. Jef found this place on the web that is trying to get people to post tributes. The idea is simple, for each person killed, a different blogger will post a tribute on 9-11. They probably explain it better than I do, so here's what the website says:
The 2,996 Project
The idea is simple, but powerful: have a special tribute for each victim of 9/11, with each tribute being created by a different blogger. We started 2,996 Project to coordinate the creation of the tributes, and that's what this site is all about. Here you can sign up to make a tribute yourself, on your blog (we'll randomly assign a victim to you). You can also browse or search through either the victims that have already been assigned, or those that have not -- and you can get pointers to more information on all of them.
A message from the guy who started it all...
For each of us something different about 9/11 brought the tragedy into focus. For me it was the sympathy and grief that poured in from overseas.
I remember a story on CNN that showed a Volkswagen Plant in Germany, where each employee brought a candle and placed it in the factory's entryway. I was staggered at the scenes of foreigners openly weeping. The closing visual of thousands of candles burning on the marble floor left me speechless.
The first tears I shed for 9/11 were as I watched the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace later that evening. That night the Queen had the Royal Guard play the Star Spangled Banner instead of England's Anthem -- a huge crowd of expatriates and British wept outside the gates. That tribute -- a national leader, even if for just a moment, diminishing their own national identity as a show of sympathy -- was one of the bravest and most touching political acts I have witnessed. And I remember wondering, if the situation were reversed, if we would have the courage to do the same.
So, if you are a blogger, or know someone who is, please sign up! If you are not a blogger and still want to pay tribute, you can get a blog for free right here at blogger.com. You could get one and just have it for the tribute. They still need over 1,000 bloggers. Here's the link -
http://www.dcroe.com/2996/
Daniel's fish cake
We had Daniel's birthday party yesterday. It was a "Splashy Blast Party"! We had water balloons and squirt guns and everyone (well, all the kids) got very wet!
I made two cakes. One was a chocolate peanut butter four layer cake (it collapsed under its own weight, though, :( and part of it broke off) - the cake was chocolate with peanut butter mixed in, and the filling was peanut butter frosting (vanilla frosting mixed with peanut butter). The whole cake was frosted with chocolate frosting.
The second cake was the fish cake (above). It was a yellow cake in a 13x9" pan. You can see the recipe
here . I changed the colors because we couldn't find regular colored M&Ms, they were all "Jack's Gems" from "Pirates of the Caribbean" (which Jef & I actually got to see in the theatre!!! We went on Aug. 6 for our anniversary). :)
All in all it was a fun day!
8/12/06
