cool! I got all of the packages and (after multiple downloads) all of the md5sums check out except for one.
mike@debian:/mnt/lfs/sources$ md5sum -c ../downloadfiles/md5sums|grep boot
lfs-bootscripts-20130821.tar.bz2: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 line is improperly formatted
md5sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
mike@debian:/mnt/lfs/sources$
I think this is telling me that 1 line is formated incorrectly and because of that the checksum does not match. I did a websearch for lfs-bootscripts-20130821 but none of the results yielded could improve anything. So what I am thinking I'll do is (because the only known reason) for the failure is the improper formatting I think I'll just do the build and hope it is correct until it doesn't install.