<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ed9dc463-59ca-4015-a24f-c7eeda4b3029/8EC996DF-F2BE-4CE8-A3D5-31894532F26F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/08-11" href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/08-11" style="font-size: 11px;">www.commondreams.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/08-11"><H1 class="title">US Girl Scouts Prepare for War, Pestilence</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/08-11"><P>WASHINGTON - The United States wants to enlist its 3.4 million Girl Scouts in the effort to combat hurricanes, pandemics, terror attacks and other disasters.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/08-11"><P><DIV class="caption"><IMG width="275" height="164" align="bottom" alt="[Alexandria Ramseier, a Brownie with the Girl Scouts of Guantanamo Bay Troop, helps a Joint Task Force Guantanamo Trooper pick out cookies at the Seaside Galley, July 2. Ramseier and other Girl Scouts spent two days handing out donated cookies. (JTF Guantanamo photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Richard M. Wolff, 2 July 2009) ]" class="imagefield imagefield-field_image" title="GIsbuygirlscoutcookies_Guantanamo.jpg" src="http://www.commondreams.org/files/article_images/GIsbuygirlscoutcookies_Guantanamo.jpg" />Alexandria Ramseier, a Brownie with the Girl Scouts of Guantanamo Bay Troop, helps a Joint Task Force Guantanamo Trooper pick out cookies at the Seaside Galley, July 2. Ramseier and other Girl Scouts spent two days handing out donated cookies. (JTF Guantanamo photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Richard M. Wolff, 2 July 2009) </DIV>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a campaign Tuesday to entice the blue, brown and green-clad multitudes to be even more prepared, with the promise of a new patch if they pitch in.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/08-11"><P>The young scouts will be able to emblazon their sashes or vests with the patch if they undergo the training which readies them for an emergency.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/08-11"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.commondreams.org/img/60952E1C-FE33-4F81-9B7A-2D0C687D541D" alt="[Alexandria Ramseier, a Brownie with the Girl Scouts of Guantanamo Bay Troop, helps a Joint Task Force Guantanamo Trooper pick out cookies at the Seaside Galley, July 2. Ramseier and other Girl Scouts spent two days handing out donated cookies. (JTF Guantanamo photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Richard M. Wolff, 2 July 2009) ]" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8EC996DF-F2BE-4CE8-A3D5-31894532F26F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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