A SOLDIERS SILENT NIGHT

A Soldier's Silent Night

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, HE LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE.
I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.
I LOOKED ALL ABOUT, A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,
NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS, NOT EVEN A TREE.
NO STOCKING BY MANTLE, JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.
WITH MEDALS AND BADGES, AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT CAME THROUGH MY MIND.
FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT, IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER, ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.
THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING, SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.
THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE, THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.
WAS THIS THE HERO OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO, THE FLOOR FOR A BED?
I REALIZED THE FAMILIES THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.
SOON ROUND THE WORLD, THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.
THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS, LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.
I COULDN'T HELP WONDER HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.
THE VERY THOUGHT BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES AND STARTED TO CRY;
THE SOLDIER AWAKENED AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
"SANTA DON'T CRY, THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;
I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD, MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS."
THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT, I CONTINUED TO WEEP.
I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS, SO SILENT AND STILL
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR SO WILLING TO FIGHT.
THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER, WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,
WHISPERED, "CARRY ON SANTA, IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE."
ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH, AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT."

When you wake up X-mas morning, and you have presents to get, and presents to give, and a good meal at grandma's to eat......

Please pray for our brave men and women in the armed forces doing what they do, so we can do what we do.

Have a good X-mas everybody.

d c

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U. S. S. A

Welcome to the UNITED SOCIALISTS STATES of AMERICA

Well folks I have been pretty quiet to this point, I wanted to see how far this country had been brainwashed.

Let me just say...wow.

Sometimes I think the age this age of technology we have reached is not so good. If we didn't have access to news 24/7 from everything from our phones to satelite radio in the car, maybe so many people wouldn't have been brainwashed by the media about Barrack Huessein Obama.

I actually heard a lady on Sean Hannity yesterday say, (and I quote) "I thought this day would never come, I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car or my house payment ever again."

Uh......okay.

See what I mean?

Brainwashed, by another Slick Willie and the media. Pie in the sky false hopes and promises.

That's how the extreme left in this country wins.

You'd think this wolf in sheeps clothing was the second coming for goodness sake.

Do you realize he is GOING TO TAKE MONEY FROM PEOPLE who educated themselves, worked hard and reached the american dream . He wants to take THEIR money and give it to other people who don't make as much money.

Of course wether or not he can get it done is another matter, but just the simple fact he WANTS to, and thinks that is the best way to cure the ills of this country by giving people a handout is just wrong.

This is pure and simple socialism.

Can somebody name me one socialist country that is still thriving today?

There is a reason for that.

Sure, he is going to go after people that are making 250,000 a year and above.

For now.

What happens when he comes after YOUR paycheck?

Don't think it can't happen because this is exactly how it starts. A little from the rich, then when that wasn't so bad, it didn't really hurt them, we'll drop it down to people making 100,000 then 50,000....where would it end?

It wouldn't.

This a very dangerous man, folks.

So if you voted for him, when he comes after YOUR paycheck, you heard it here first.

And by the way, don't think the radical Islamists aren't absolutely licking their chops right now.

(but that's a discussion for another time)

Anyway, I'm off to Hawaii on Tuesday for a week!! Yay me!! lol.

SUPPORT THE TROOPS!!!!

(something that will be in short supply from our Socialist in Chief)

d c

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OUR SISTER SARAH PALIN'S ANTI-ELITIST CHARM‏

I found the following very intereting, I am liking Sarah Palin more and more.

This is an article from Ralph Peters of the New York Post:

I KNOW Sarah Palin, and so does my wife.
Neither of us ever actually met the governor of Alaska , but we grew up with her - in the small-town America despised by the leftwing elite.
One gal-pal classmate of my wife's has even traveled from New York 's Finger Lakes to Alaska to hunt moose with her husband. (Got one, too.) And no, Ms. Streisand, she isn't a redneck missing half her teeth - she's a lawyer.
The sneering elites and their mediacrat fellow travelers just don't get it: How on earth could anyone vote for someone who didn't attend an Ivy League school? And having more than 1.7 children marks any woman as a rube. (If Palin had any taste, her teenage daughter would've had a quiet abortion in a discreet facility.)
And what kind of retro-Barbie would stay happily married to her high-school sweetheart? Ugh. She even kills animals and eats them. (The meat and fish served in the upscale bistros patronized by Obama supporters appears by magic - it didn't really come from living things.)
Palin has that hick accent, too. And that busy-mom beehive 'do. Double ugh! Bet she hasn't even read Ian McEwan's latest novel and can't explain Frank Gehry's vision for a new architecture. She and her blue-collar (triple ugh!) husband don't even own a McMansion, let alone an inherited family compound on the Cape .
And she wants to be vice president?
The opinion-maker elites see Sarah Palin clearly every time they look up from another sneering article in The New Yorker: She's a country-bumpkin chumpette from a hick state with low latte availability. She's not one of them and never will be. That's the real disqualifier in this race.
Now let me tell you what those postmodern bigots with their multiple vacation homes and their disappointing trust-fund kids don't see:
Sarah Palin's one of us. She actually represents the American people. When The New York Times, CNN, the NBC basket of basket cases and all the barking blog dogs insult Palin, they're insulting us.
When they smear her, they're smearing every American who actually works for a living, who doesn't expect a handout, who doesn't have a full-time accountant to parse the family taxes, who believes in the Pledge of Allegiance and who thinks a church is more than just a tedious stop on daughter Emily's 100K wedding day.
Go ahead, faux feminists and Hollywood deep thinkers: Snicker at Sarah America's degree from the University of Idaho, but remember that most Americans didn't attend Harvard or Princeton as a legacy after daddy donated enough to buy his kid's way in.
Go ahead, campaign strategists: Mock Americans who go to church and actually pray. But you might want to run the Census numbers first.
And go right ahead: Dismiss all of us who remember how, on the first day of deer season, our high school classrooms were half empty (not a problem at Andover or Exeter ).
That rube accent of Palin's? It's a howler. But she sounds a lot more like the rest of us than a Harvard man or a Smithie ever will. Why does Sarah Palin energize all of us who don't belong to the gilded leftwing circle? Because she's us. We sat beside her in class. We hung out after school (might've even shared a backseat combat zone on prom night). And now she lives next door, raising her kids. For the first time since Ronald Reagan, our last great president, we, the people, see a chance that one of us might have a voice in governing our country.
Speaking of Reagan ( Eureka College , Illinois ), every chief executive we've had since the Gipper snapped his final salute as president has had the imprimatur of an Ivy League university. And we've gone from bad to worse:
* George Herbert Walker Bush: Yale.
* William Jefferson Clinton: Georgetown , Oxford , Yale Law.
* George W. Bush: Yale and Harvard Business School .
The first lacked the sense to finish the job in Desert Storm; the second lacked the guts to go after al Qaeda when it was just a startup - and the third, well, let's just say he disappointed our low expectations.
Now we have the Ivy League elite's "he's not only like us but he's a minority and we're so wonderful to support him" candidate, Sen. Barack Obama ( Columbia and Harvard Law).
Our country can't afford another one of these clowns. Harvard isn't the answer - Harvard's the problem.
So here's the message Palin is sending on behalf of the rest of us (the down-market masses Dems love at election time and ignore once the voting's done): The rule of the snobs is over. It's time to give one of us a chance to lead.
Sen. John McCain's one of us, too. He raised hell at Annapolis (quadruple ugh: military!), and he'll raise the right kind of hell in Washington .
McCain's so dumb he really loves his country.
Sarah Palin's dumb that way, too. How terribly unfashionable.

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Have a good weekend everybody..support the troops!!

d c

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JUKEBOX FROM HELL

In my humble ex DJ opinion, this song has quite possibly one of the greatest gutair rifts to ever start a song. And this video from 1978, is a hoot!!!

JUKEBOX FROM HELL FRIDAY 1O/7

(hint: have you seen that girl in the corner)

JUKE BOX FROM HELL FRIDAY!

JUKE BOX FROM HELL FRIDAY 9/26

(hint: joey scarbury)

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Hiker taking steps in fight with cancer

This is a really good story folks.

You can apply this to anything in life. It doesn't have to be cancer, or life threatening.

The experts tell us we only use about 10% of our brain, simply because we haven't figured out how to use the other 90%.

I can give you some examples, and I know this has happened to every single one of you who is reading this right now.

Lets say you are driving down the road, and you start thinking of a certain song, and bam.....the next song that comes on is the very song you were thinking of...a coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. If it's a top 40 song that they play all the time.....okay I'd give you that one......but how many times has it been a song you haven't heard in forever.

Or how about this one, you will be thinking about somebody, just for no reason whatsoever, the phone rings, and it's the person you were thinking about, I know that has happened to you.

Again, coicidence?

Maybe.

But how many times has it happened in your lifetime?

I can think of several times where I have picked the phone up to call somebody, and the person I was calling has already called me and is on the line, but I picked it up right before it rang.

I'm a firm believer that's the power of the "untapped" mind.

I know, you're probably thinkin'

"D C you have completley lost it."

Well, maybe.

(we'll see what you think next time it happens)

The power of positive thinking can be a powerful thing.

Most of you that have known me my adult life, know I have Crohns. And I have had bouts with it several times over the years. And I have had this since about the 9th grade. I was pretty sick with it in high school, but I wasn't about to let it get me down. (although I did have to quit football pretty much because of it)

Anyway, I still was able to play basketball and golf.

But it was the power of positive thinking that really helped me.

Was I dealt a "crappy" hand (pun intended, lol) sure.....but there are people who had things a whole lot worse than I did.

Like the guy in this story.

Anyway, the lord won't give you anything you can't handle....stay positive....he will help you if you help yourself.....which to me means:

POSITIVE THINKING AND ATTITUDE!!!

STORY LINK

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d c

Have a good weekend everybody!

Support the troops!

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NEW JUKEBOX FROM HELL FRIDAY

JUKEBOX FROM HELL

(hint C W McCall)

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d c

JUKEBOX FROM HELL FRIDAY!

Jukebox from hell friday

(Hint: Commander Cody and his lost planet airmen)

ENJOY!

d c

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"I'll take it from here"

I can think of no better way to honor our heroes, and innocent men, women, and especially children that were murdered on 9/11.

This picture pretty much says it all.

PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN

(Lee Greenwood)

If you are reading this, thank a soldier.

That is all.

D C

JUKE BOX FROM HELL FRIDAY!

(hint: Lynn Anderson)

have a good weekend

go hawks!

d c

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Massive Crack Discovered in Glacier at Top of Greenland

Massive Crack Discovered in Glacier at Top of Greenland:

Okay guys, the enviro whacko's are surely going to blame this on global warming. (which is a myth)

here's something to think about, why do you think they call it "Greenland" they call it that because once upon a time, it wasn't an ice and snow covered tundra, it actually had thriving, living vegatation. So as I have said time and time again, the planet was a whole heck of a lot warmer way back when, and we didn't burn up, the ozone layer didn't go away...etc etc.

So, despite what they tell you, IT IS NOT GLOBAL WARMING.

STORY LINK

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Oklahoma Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Pregnant Woman:

How long do you think this waste of protoplasm is going to last in jail, about 5 seconds? This life without parole stuff has got to end, he killed two people, fry his ass.

STORY LINK

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Cop: Sex With Hooker Wasn't Fun, It Was Work:

I don't know about you but I am certainly glad we have such brave men out there protecting us from violent criminals. Can anyone tell me where I get an application for this job? Lordie!!

STORY LINK

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Christian Theology Students Forced off Campus by Mob of Islamic Hard-liners:

Okay folks you see? This is one of the reasons we're in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Allowed to go unchecked, this will happen all over the world and is happening all over the world. If you haven't figured it out yet, the radical Islamists want everyone who doesn't believe as they do dead, that would mean us folks.

I know I talk about this a lot on here, but you need to know. It's the same thing as Hitler and the attempt to wipe out the Jewish state. Only this time it's EVERYBODY who doesn't believe as they do....not just jews, blacks, chinese, whites, purple people, or pink with yellow polka dots people.

At least this time we see it coming, I just hope when the time comes, whomever is in office has the guts to do what must be done. It's comin' people, make no mistake.

STORY LINK

We're just a week away from college football, or more importantly, Hawkeye football! lol. My Hawkeyes are in a state of "flux" right now in my opinion. They have a pretty easy, or what should be easy pre Big Ten schedule with Maine, Iowa St, Florida Int, and Pitt. Of course for some reason we are unable or unwilling to beat the cyclones under Capt. Kirk Ferentz's tenure. I guess we have gotten them a couple times, but it's not like it used to be under Hayden Fry. Don't get me wrong, I like Ferentz and we had one hell of a run there for about 5 years starting with the Alamo Bowl vs. Texas Tech a few years back. But since then we have fallen on some less than average years.....stay tuned.

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And one final note, congrats to my softball team who has qualified for worlds in Orlando!

Although I will be unable to join them in Orlando. (due to going to Hawaii in November) It'll be tough, but I think I will live. lol.

Anyway, congrats gentlemen and good luck!!

(I'll go next year)

; )

d c

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JUKE BOX FROM HELL

(how many of you remember this one?)

LOL!!

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d c

JUKE BOX FROM HELL FRIDAY

Okay, I am going to start a new little deal here called,

"JUKE BOX FROM HELL FRIDAY'S"

Actually, I am stealing that name from the student radio station at the U of Iowa. They do a thing, or at least used to called, Juke box from hell Fridays and they played all cheesy songs from 70's and 80's mostly.

So to start it off, what else but the first video ever played on MTV:

SONG LINK

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d c

Andrew Giuliani sues Duke University, over golf team dismissal

Uh...wow.

Hey there Anthony, sounds like the team doesn't care for you a whole lot there bud.

And how noble of you to ask your dad to stay out of it, way to be a stand up guy!

Maybe....maybe you got the boot because your attitude sucks, and maybe you do too. I looked but couldn't find an average score for you listed anywhere......hmmm......wonder why that is.

Hey I know, I think I'll sue my parents because I'm not 7'0 ft tall, otherwise I'd be in the NBA.

Listen, you spoiled, little rich brat ass, punk, go cry in your golf bag somewhere. Im' sure your big daddy warbucks can get you in any school, and maybe you can go somewhere and actually MAKE a golf team.

Now, just go away please.

STORY LINK

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Africa: Activists Hail Senate Approval of Major Aids Bill:

Okay, this right here is a pile of crap.

Dubbya and I are not seeing eye to eye on this one, at all.

Crippiling floods in the midwest, (including my hometown) and we have 48 billion to send to some country that can't control themseleves?

All they do is run around and have sex with each others couisns, wives, etc etc.

And they can't figure out why every three people over there has been exposed to the HIV virus?

I don't understand this one at all.

Explain this one to me, where were we when all the innocent people were being slaughtered in the genocide that was happening over there?

Rawanda, Sudan, The Congo, millions of innocent people were just summarily slaughtered.

But hey I know, lets go ahead and send 48 billion over there to the powers that be...and how much of that will actually reach the people it's intended to help?

You know the tribal warlords will take it, and by weapons with it, plain and simple.

Sorry dubbya, you blew this one.

STORY LINK

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Okay...just a short one this time around...hope everyone is doing well.

Thanks again for stopping by.......support the troops!

ALMOST TIME FOR HAWKEYE FOOTBALL!!

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d c

BATTER UP DAD!!

(Todays blog comes to us from.........my dad!

Of course he got it from, "Chicken Soup for the Soul!")

My father was an avid baseball fan.

I grew up in New York City and was able to see the greats play at the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field and Yankee Stadium. Many a Saturday was spent with my dad cheering on our favorite team. As much as I loved the game of baseball, alas, I was born female at a time when girls watched more than they played. Whenever he could, Dad took me out to the park where the neighborhood Little League played and pitched balls for me to hit. We played together for hours, and baseball became a big part of my life.One day at the park, a woman pushing a young boy in a wheelchair stopped to watch us play. My dad was over to them in a flash to ask if the child could join our game. The woman explained that the boy was her son and that he had polio and wouldn’t be able to get out of the chair. That didn’t stop my dad. He placed the bat in the youngster’s hand, pushed him out to home plate and assisted him in holding the bat. Then he yelled out to me on the mound, “Anne, pitch one in to us.” I was nervous that I might hit the child but could see the delight in the boy’s eyes, so I aimed at the bat and let the ball fly. The ball made contact with the bat with an assist from my dad and the child screamed with joy. The ball flew over my head and headed for right field. I ran to catch up with it and, as I turned, I heard my dad singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” while he pushed the wheelchair around the bases. The mother clapped and the boy begged to be allowed to continue the game. An hour later we all left the field, very tired but very happy. The boy’s mother had tears in her eyes when she thanked my father for making it such a special day for her son. Dad smiled that wonderful grin that I loved so much and told the mother to bring the boy back next Saturday and we would play another game. Dad and I were at the field the next Saturday but the mother and son never came. I felt sad and wondered what had happened to change their mind about joining us. Dad and I played many more games of baseball but never saw the two again.Twenty years passed and my beloved father died at the tender age of fifty-nine. With my dad gone, things changed so much that the family decided to move to Long Island. I had very mixed emotions about leaving the neighborhood where I had grown up.I decided to take one last walk around the park where Dad and I had spent so many happy moments. I stopped at the baseball field where we played our Saturday games. Two Little League teams were on the field just about to start a game. I sat down to watch for awhile. I felt the sting of tears in my eyes as I watched the children play the game that I loved. I missed my dad so much.“Jeff, protect your base,” one coach yelled. I cheered the runner on when the ball was hit far into the outfield. One coach turned and smiled and said, “The kids sure love a rooting section, Miss.” He continued, “I never thought I’d ever be a coach playing on this field. You see, I had polio as a child and was confined to a wheelchair. One day my mother pushed me to the park and a man was playing baseball with his daughter. He stopped when he saw us watching and asked my mother if I could join them in their game. He helped me to hold the bat and his daughter pitched to me. I was able to hit the ball with the man’s assistance and he ran me around the bases in my wheelchair singing the song ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game.’ I went home happier that night than I had been in years. I believe that experience gave me the desire to walk again. We moved to New Jersey the next day—that’s why my mother had taken me to the park, so I could say good-bye to my friends. I never forgot that man and his daughter or that day. I dreamed about running around the bases on my own two feet and the dream, with a lot of hard work, came true. I moved back here last year, and I’ve been coaching Little League since then. I guess I hope that some day I’ll look up in the stands and see that man and his daughter again. Who knows, I might find him on one of the fields pitching to one of his grandkids—a lot of years have come and gone. I sure would like to thank him.”As the tears ran down my face I knew that my dad had just been thanked and even more I knew every time I heard “Batter up!” my dad would be right beside me, no matter where life took me and the family. That simple act of kindness that spring day had changed a life forever, and now twenty years later the memory of that day had changed my life forever. “Batter up, Dad,” I said as I left the field, “I know you’re still playing the game we love—baseball!”

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D C

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Court rejects death penalty for raping children

Oh, am I gonna have fun with this!!

You may want to go the link first, then read my response.

STORY LINK

First of all, the liberal judges arguement doesn't hold water.

The worst part about it is, BESIDES THE FACT A LITTLE KID WAS FRIGGIN' RAPED is that they have WAY over stepped their power as supreme court justices, trampling on states rights.

While it's true there is a provision in the constitution banning cruel and unusual punishment, it does not apply here.

How can it?

Did the kid have cruel and unusual punishment while being raped?

I'd have to say so.

The ever brilliant "Justice Kennedy" came up with this little gem in his majority opinion:

"The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child,"

Really, Justice Kennedy?

Really?

Are you sure?

But the U. S. will go ahead and invoke the death penalty for espionage or treason.

(which I do agree with)

But how is raping a little kid at least not as bad as that?

Let us move on to "Justice Kennedy's" next brilliant statement:

"The absence of any executions for rape and the small number of states that allow it demonstrate there is a national consensus against capital punishment for the crime of child rape."

Um.....no it doesn't dumb ass.

It demonstrates a bunch of liberal lawmakers making laws for the rest of us.

A few people with the most money lobby against it, and that's the way it goes.

"Justice Kennedy" ask anybody who lives in the real world what they would do if they knew someone who actually raped a little kid.

Let alone their own kid.

See folks this is the liberals trying to tell you they know what's best for you.

How about this "Justice Kennedy" lets have a national vote, since your so keen on trampling states rights anyway.....

Here's the ballot:

SHOULD THE DEATH PENALTY BE ALLOWED FOR THE CRIME OF RAPE OF MINORS

Word it anyway you want, I don't care.

I predict at least an 80 to 20 percent victory.

Maybe more.

This is ridiculous, and irresponsible.

We need to start protecting the children in this country.

I can GUARANTEE you if we passed this law, and started hanging these monsters this shit would stop.

"Justice Kennedy" anytime you would care to debate the matter, please give me a ringy dingy.

You can have the whole U S justice systems library's, or whatever you need for your sources.

I'll just need one.

The mother of a child who was raped.

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D C

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9/11 letters claim inside job

This is a picture of my hometown's

dam and lake....to the right is the spillway. Water is pushing 724 ft above sea level.

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9/11 letters claim inside job:

Yep....they figured it out, 9/11 was an inside job. I'm glad somebody did, finally.

whew!

I love this quote,

"the United States military has built enormous underground cities for the political elite.”

Uh...riiiight douche bag.

Thousands of military personel are able to keep that secret, not possible.

Just like it's not possible for 9/11 to be a whole big conspiracy...for that same exact reason.

And yes, I've seen and heard all the crap about how the buildings fell, and how Rosie O'donnell thinks that is the first time fire has ever melted steel.

First of all, the trade center could absolutley have fallen like it did, because the intense heat from the fire WEAKENED the steel there Rosie, it didn't "melt it" you stupid idiot.

STORY LINK

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School Newspaper Disbanded Over Flag-Burning Photo:

Um....you know what... good I say!!

Friggin' California liberal commie idiots.

The way I see it, just because it's technically not against the law, doesn't mean you should be doing it.

My hat is off to the principal for dropping the school newspaper.

I'd love to see these guys burn a flag in China, see what happens then. You won't be heard from again.....ever.

And I don't want to hear about the first amendment either.

It's just flat out WRONG to burn the flag, you know it, I know it, and most everybody with any common sense knows it.

I'll say this, don't try and burn a flag in front of me, you will get dropped like a 3 ft putt.

That is all.

STORY LINK

SUPPORT THE TROOPS AND THE FLAG!!!!

D C

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DA LAKE OF DA OZARKS!

If you want to be where I am this weekend, here it is!

Everybody have a good one, stay safe!

SUPPORT THE TROOPS!!

D C

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Why we are at war with Iraq/Poker champion!

Check it out folks, yes that is my brother. He won the Riverside Casino Texas Hold 'Em Tourney last weekend. Several hundred people started the tourney, and he won the whole thing!!!

Got a nice big trophy, and an even nicer check.....walked away with approx $18,000.00!!!

(I think he needs to sponsor a softball team in Kansas City.)

lol.

On an interesting side note, his older brother (that'd be me) won a brand new car almost 20 years ago at a Beach Boys concert in Iowa City.

If you need either one of us to buy a lottery ticket for you, we will charge a nominal processing fee.

Apparently we are both good luck.

(although mine was really pure dumb luck, he had to know what he was doing. lol.)

Anyway, way to go Bobby!!!! Congrats!!

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(The story below is supplied by my good freind Robertab)

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The other day, my nine-year-old boy wanted to know why we were at war. My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend our Country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good explanation. My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in our front living room window. He said 'Son, stand there and tell me what you see? 'I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses,' he replied. 'OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United States of America and you are President Bush.' Our son giggled and said 'OK.' 'Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house and yard on this block is a different country' my husband said. 'OK Dad, I'm pretending.' 'Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend you> see Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the hair and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he throws her on the ground, and then he starts to kick her to death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are screaming and crying, they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and they are afraid of their father. You see all of this, son..... what do you do?' 'Dad?' 'What do you do son?' 'I'd call the police, Dad.' 'OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations. They take your call. They listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do you do then son?' 'Dad. But the police are supposed to help!' My son starts to whine. 'They don't want to, son, because they say that it is not their place or your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it,' my> husband says. 'But Dad...he killed her!!' my son exclaims. 'I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor, who you're pretending is Saddam, turn around and do the same thing to his children' 'Daddy...he kills them?' 'Yes, son, he does. What do you do?' 'Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door neighbor to help me stop him,' our son says. 'Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him,' my husband says. 'But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!' 'WHAT DO YOU DO SON?' Our son starts to cry. OK, no one wants to help you. The man across the street saw you ask for help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next, son?' 'What Daddy?' 'He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire and then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in the window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?' 'Daddy....' 'WHAT DO YOU DO?' Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, 'I'd close the blinds, Daddy.' My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him. 'Why?' 'Because, Daddy, the police are supposed to help people who need them...and they won't help. You always say that neighbors are supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either ... they won't help me stop him... I'm afraid. I can't do it by myself, Daddy.... I can't look out my window and just watch him do all these terrible things and...and.....do nothing... so.... I'm just going to close the blinds.... so I can't see what he's doing... and I'm going to pretend that it is not happening.' I start to cry. My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window, looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husband's questions and he says...'Son' 'Yes, Daddy.' 'Open the blinds because that man.... He's at your front door...'WHAT DO YOU DO?' My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without hesitation he says: ' I DEFEND MY FAMILY, DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!!!!' I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to his chest and hugs him tight, and says... 'It's too late to fight him, he's too strong and he's already at YOUR front door son .....you should have stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children and the old lady across the way. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before its too late,' my husband whispers. THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq . When good men stand by and let evil happen, son, THAT is the greatest atrocity in the world. 'YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE!' BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!! SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS...'

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Okay....you libs out there get it?

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This should be printed in every newspaper and posted in every school in America. Of course that won't happen so we'll use the Internet. If your blinds are closed, do nothing with this email. If they are open I do not need to tell you what to do.

D C

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CINCO DE MAYO

For those of you who always wanted to know what Cinco De Mayo was all about, here it is as I understand it:

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The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be! And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be. Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico.
So, why Cinco de Mayo? And why should Americans savor this day as well? Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.
The French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez. The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left. The French, however, had different ideas.
Under Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay. They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire. His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota. Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion. The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War.
The French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did.
Under the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited. Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns. The Mexican Army was less stylish.
General Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks. In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them. The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes.
When the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away. The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen. This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War.
Union forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French. American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French. The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico, City.
It might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large in 1862. But who knows?
In gratitude, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Armed Forces. As recently as the Persian Gulf War, Mexicans flooded American consulates with phone calls, trying to join up and fight another war for America.
Mexicans, you see, never forget who their friends are, and neither do Americans. That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty. There are two ideals which Mexicans and Americans have fought shoulder to shoulder to protect, ever since the 5th of May, 1862.

VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!!

D C

PAUL DAVIS

In honor of singer/songwriter Paul Davis:

65 LOVE AFFAIR

I GO CRAZY

COOL NIGHT

SWEET LIFE

Thanks for some great slow dances during and after high school.

1948-2008

RIP PAUL

D C

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Health Insurance

Okay, let me start off by telling you all that (most of you know anyway) I have tummy problems.

When I was younger they diagnosed me with ulcerative colitis.

What is it UC?

What causes UC?

It has sinced "morphed" for lack of a better word, into Crohns disease, pretty much the same thing except I'm older now and that's just what they call it.

And I won't lie to you, when it's acting up it sucks. Intense pain, no control of bowel movements...etc etc.

I won't go into the nasty details, but I had to tell you that part of the story to move on with the next.

(Anyway, fear not faithful stuff about stuffers, everything is fine, I'm fine, it's all good.)

But the reason it's all good is due to this medicine I'm taking called Remicaid. I have to go to the docs office once every six weeks and they actually do an infusion of this medicine thru an I V.

It takes about 2 or 2.5 hours to do, which believe me if you've been thru this lovely little sickness, it's well worth it.

So, I've been doing this for over two years now and it has worked wonders. What it actually does is supress my immune system just enough so the anti-body's that fight disease in your body don't go crazy. My immune system is way over active, and that's what causes all these problems. It thinks something is attacking my stomach / colin when actually nothing is there.

Luckily for me I have really good health insurance at Sprint, I pay a co-pay of 40.00 every time and my health insurance picks up the rest. (Just an FYI these little trips to the docs office for this medicine run about $5,000 a shot.) But like I say I only have to pick up the 40.00 part of it.

Well, yesterday I get a bill from the docs office for......you got it....4560.00!!

As you can imagine I was a little less than happy. I go ahead and give the docs office a ringy dingy, to find what the frick is going on. I get this big cock and bull story about how my "great" insurance company wants all this information now about why I'm taking this medicine and if I really have Crohns disease and on and on and on. So they had to go ahead and bill me for it, until it gets straightened out. And I said, "Well, I'll just go ahead and give my insurance company a ringy dingy and we'll straighten it out right now."

Now, keep in mind that I have another treatment coming up next week, and I'm really not wanting to go in the hole 10,000 if they aren't going to cover it. But here is the kicker, they have ALREADY paid for my first two treatments this year.

So, while I'm talking to the dumb ass insurance cust. serice rep. all of this came out during the conversation.

She said, "Our investigators like to check up once in awhile to make sure everything is on the up and up."

And I went, "Oh really, because I have nothing better to do than to fake a sickness and go to a docs office and sit there for 2.5 hrs with a needle hanging out of my arm once every six weeks. Not to mention the fact this stuff isn't a narcotic or anything, or the fact it is 5,000 dollars a pop and I'm pretty sure my doc isn't just handing it out to everybody that says they have a little tummy cramp. Why don't you guys let the patient know you're "investigating" them and what is going on before you let them get a 5,000 bill and have a heart attack....then you'd really have something to pay for wouldn't you?"

Anyway, she looked up all the stuff and said it would be fine.

Now, wouldn't that have been easier just to do in the first place?

Anyway, have a good one everybody!

SUPPORT THE TROOPS!!!

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D C

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Austin

Austin

1987-2008

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For my freinds Bill and Denise:

HERO

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D C

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I know, I know....

I have been slacking in my blogger duties. Lets just say we've had some stuff happen, some of you know, some of you don't. I'm not going to air it all out here.

Anyway, without further delay....lets git r dunn:

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Texas Woman Sues American Airlines After Flight Turns X-Rated:

Uh....ew!!!

How the hell did he get it in her hair?

Something about Mary, anyone?

STORY LINK

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Scambaiters Turn Tables on Nigerian E-Mail Scam Artists:

Good!! Luv it!!

I am so sick of getting these types of e-mail.

What comes around goes around boys!!

STORY LINK

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Agents Seize 411 Bottles of Rattlesnake-Infused Vodka in Texas Raid:

"Bob’s Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch"

Is it just me, or does this just sound uniqely Texas?

STORY LINK

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South Korean Police Arrest Man Wanted for Murder by FBI for More Than a Decade:

Well, I guess you can run for awhile, but eventually they will find a way to get you.

Let me just say this, I watch a lot of those forensic files shows, and cold case stuff.

They will catch you, I'm telling you it's almost impossible to get away with anything in todays world. (not that you should be trying lol)

And if they don't have a way to test some evidence, they will have in a couple years.

There is some smart sons o' bitches out there......of course the criminals are always one step ahead...well.....for awhile anyway.

STORY LINK

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Everybody have your NCAA brackets filled out?

Here's a couple of tips, if Drake can avoid the upset in round one....they will beat Uconn in round two.

Look for Butler to knock off Tennessee.

UCLA or Texas will win it all.

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Well, that's all I have for now.....first tourney this weekend...The Budweiser Grand Opener.

weehah!

Everybody be safe, and support the troops!

later,

D C

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Steven Collet

Father

Husband

Helper

Friend

Steve Collet is my brother in law, he has lost his battle with cancer,

He had several operations over the last ten years and is a testament to the human spirit.

Never once in the brief period that I knew him did he ever give up the fight.

If I could have half the courage he had during his battle with cancer when I meet my

maker, I will end up being one hell of a man.

Steve was career military and loved this country like no other.

Steve,

thank you for doing what you did so the rest of us can do what we do.

FOR STEVE

D C

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MY CAMPAIGN PLATFORM

Okay,

since we have no "viable" candidate running for office at the present time, I hearby declare I shall in fact run for president of these United States.

First let me run thru the fakes that are the front runners,

Obama:

Nothing but a yes man, in so far as I can tell. And no I wouldn't not vote for him because he is black.

Clinton:

Unfortunately I don't have infinite room on my blog to list the reasons not to vote for this piece of work....just a few......bigger gov't, higher taxes, socialized medicine (she won't call it that, but that's what it is)

I'd really like to see Laura Bush run.

McCain:

The war hero thing great, thank you very much sir.....but unfortunately you're just as liberal as all the rest of them.

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Now,

lets examine my platform:

1. Income tax abolished, I will add a .o1 cent tax to everything that we buy, that should be enough, by far to cover everything we need to do.

2. I will institute the death penalty for child molesters....when there is indisputable DNA evidence.

3. I will also allow you to put your money in some form of retirement annuity, 401K, whatever of YOUR choosing....the money the feds take out for social security out of your check will be for this. IF you decide to leave it in social security, that will be your option.

4. I will put the national guard on the borders, if you try and cross, and you're not supposed to be crossing, you will be subject to being shot on the spot, no questions asked.

5. We will still have welfare, VERY LIMITED. Sometimes people do need help, and being the Christian based people we are, we will help them. BUT, if you can be flippin' burgers at Mickey D's...then that's what you'd best be doing.

6. Abortion, I personally am against it.

BUT, we're a democracy, we will have a national, seperate vote on this one issue, and this one issue alone.

A year to the day I am elected, is when this will take place.

You either vote to keep/make it legal, or not.

That's it.

Period.

That's it folks...pretty simple......let me know what you think....

Oh, by the way my campaign slogan will be,

"LETS PUT D C IN D.C.!"

(pretty clever, huh?)

Have a good weekend!!

D C

House Leaders, White House Reach Deal on Economic Stimulus Package

YAY!!

Surely this will pass in the Senate as well. As this is good news and all, I have a better idea.

(of course heh heh)

How about this:

JUST LET US KEEP MORE OF OUR MONEY TO BEGIN WITH!!!

Say I make $1200.00 every two weeks.....let me keep $900.00 or $1,ooo of that instead of 750.00.

Doesn't that make more sense?

(let me know what you think in the comments section)

STORY LINK

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Angry Employee Deletes All of Company's Data:

Um...oops.

Sorry, I didn't mean it....can I have my job back?

As Carlos Mencia would say:

DEE-DUH-DEE!!!

STORY LINK

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It's No Dud: Bomb Squad Disposes of Live Rocket on Display in Veterans' Museum:

Oh, lovely.

Mommy, look at this!!

Honey don't tou-----KABOOM!!!

Uh yeah....this could have ended really bad methinks.

STORY LINK

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To end this weeks blog a little poem:

(thanks to Big John)

A drunk man in an Oldsmobile
They said
had run the light
That caused the six-car pileup
On 109 that
night.
When broken bodies lay about
"And blood was everywhere,"
"The sirens screamed out eulogies,"
For death was in the
air.
"A mother, trapped inside her car,"
Was heard above the
noise;
Her plaintive plea near split the air:
"Oh, God, please
spare my boys!"
She fought to loose her pinned hands;
"She
struggled to get free,"
But mangled metal held her fast
In grim
captivity.
Her frighte ned eyes then focused
"On where the back
seat once had been,"
But all s he saw was broken glass and
Two
children's seats crushed in.
Her twins were nowhere to be
seen;
"She did not hear them cry, "
"And then she prayed they'd
been thrown free, "
"Oh, God, don't let them die! "
Then firemen
came and cut her loose, "
"But when they searched the back,
"They found therein no little boys, "
But the seat belts were
intact.
They thought the woman had gone mad
"And was traveling
alone, "
"But when they turned to question her, "
They discovered
she was gone.
Policemen saw her running wild
And screaming above
the noise
"In beseeching supplication, "
Please help me find my
boys!
They're four years old and wear blue shirts;
"Their jeans
are blue to match.""
"One cop spoke up, ""They're in my car,
And they don't have a scratch.
They said their daddy put them
there
" And gave them each a cone, "
Then told them both to wait
for Mom
To come and take them home.
"I've searched the area high
and low, "
But I can't find their dad.
"He must have fled the
scene, "
"I guess, and that is very bad."
"The mother hugged the
twins and said, "
"While wiping at a tear, "
"He could not flee
the scene, you see, "
"For he's been dead a year."
"The cop just
looked confused and asked, "
"Now, how can that be true? "
"The
boys said, ""Mommy, Daddy came "
"And left a kiss for you."" "
He
told us not to worry
"And that you would be all right, "
And then
he put us in this car with
"The pretty, flashing light. "
"We
wanted him to stay with us, "
"Because we miss him so, "
"But
Mommy, he just hugged us tight "
And said he had to go.
He said
someday we'd understand
"And told us not to fuss, "
"And he said to
tell you, Mommy, "
"He's watching over us."
The mother knew
without a doubt
"That what they spoke was true, "
"For she
recalled their dad's last words, " " I will watch over you."
The
firemen's notes could not explain
"The twisted, mangled car,
And how the three of them escaped
Without a single
scar..
"But on the cop's report was scribed, "
"In print so very
fine, "
An angel walked the beat tonight on Highway 109.

Have a good weekend!

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Angels exist but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call
them FRIENDS.

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D C

U.S. Rains 40,000 Pounds of Bombs on Al Qaeda Targets in Northern Iraq

Good, keep up the great work over there!

Guess what Al Qaeda, YOU ARE LOSING.....period. It's almost to the point where there is nowhere for you to run. finito. El Done-o.

Anyone else care to test the resolve of the American people and our military?

Anyone? Hello?

Thought not.

STORY LINK

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Golf Channel Anchor Suspended for Tiger Woods 'Lynch' Comment:

Hey, I know....why don't we take all this energy and put it to something useful...like I don't know... feeding hungry kids!?!?!?!?!?

Good lord can we get off the PC crap. If we spent as much time and energy helping kids as we do worrying about some stupid ass comment some chick golf commentator made about some guy who chases a little white ball around for a living, the world would be a better place.

STORY LINK

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Polish Man Finds Wife Working in Brothel:

Okay.......I guess if I was her my first question to him would be,

"What are YOU doing here."

But that's just me.

STORY LINK

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Provocative Mayor Asked to Resign at Oregon Town Meeting:

With a Mayor that looks like this, I'd probably even go to a town meeting or two!!

STORY LINK

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Shrimper Accused of Throwing Kids Off Bridge Expected in Court:

I would venture to say Alabama has the death penalty, and you are going to FRY dude.

WTF is wrong with you? You throw your kids off a bridge?

If I could get to Alabama, I'd pick your Vietnamese ass up and throw your foriegn piece of shit ass off the same bridge.

Anybody who reads this and is NOT for the death penalty, needs to rethink that stance.

This piece of crap just threw four kids, HIS KIDS, off an 80 ft high bridge.

I don't want to pay for him to stay on the friggin' planet. No one should have to pay for him to stay on the friggin' planet.

Fry his ass and throw him to the 'gators down there.

That is all.

STORY LINK

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Everybody have a good weekend!!!!

D C

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I'M BACK!!!

WHEW!!

Hope everybody had a great holiday!!

We headed North (Rebecca and I and her son Dillon) to Iowa for X-mas.

We went to my Dad's for his X-mas, then X-mas Eve we did my Moms X-mas and went to my grandma's and saw all the couisins and everybody.

We got to go out Saturday night the 22nd for some some adult fun, and of course it ended up being blizzard conditions. The taxi ride home was a riot, Rebecca was none to pleased about it though. heh heh.

Okay well a lot has happened (or not happened) no bowl game to look forward to this year for our beloved black and gold, the basketball team is struggiling (to be expected) and just when we thought we were back on top of the wrestling world, Okie State comes in and whoops us.

Crap!!

And how about some crazy weather, today Jan. 7th here in K C we have TORNADO WATCHES out!

It's 65 degrees right now!!

Unreal.

We had the Iowa Caucuses or as El Rushbo likes to call them, "The hawkeye cauceye"

heh heh.

Okay, just wanted to let everyone know I'm back, I'll have a full blown blog this week at some point, with all the smart ass commentary you've come to love and enjoy.

D C

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