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I can’t vote in Florida primary since I registered ind. in Maine I voted for Ron Paul in those stupid caucuses.
I hope for most concervative. I will vote for any R against any D.
I urge my FRiends to do the same. Stay home and stay screwed.

My SIL is a timber framer in Maine. I sent him this link.thanks,
Larry

Watching cross fit woman’s competition onESPN I think any of those gals could do any marine course. And they are all lovely to look at.

Me too,last night.I didnt notice the missing Christ child. Sorry

Me two,last night.didnt notice the missing Christ child. Sorry

I spent the war years in this area of Balmore(39-45).
Pre school years were a lot different then. Maybe these efforts described will have more effect than night basketball.

I Havn’t lived in N Philly for many years but when I drove my wife by maybe 20 years ago the area near Temple looked bombed our. I have read over the years that the neighborhood was jut plain dangerous for student to live and walk in. It sounds like Temple has the money to raze the slum housing and make it safe. That blacks will not be allowed is nonsense.

Wilt chamberlain went here in the 50s. My prep school payed them in basketball scrimage

SALUTE
from Calif on a visit
Larry

Thanks for that info. I am VietNam weatherman. I remember Pat in LA. I wanted to be a TV weatherman in LA but learned I had to start in ND to WY so when I retired from the AF I went to work in LA as an engineer in space launch.

Olive Garden has no. VEAL. therefor is not Italian. I ate yesterday in SFO at Venito. Choice of THREE veal dishes.

Larry

Well my Father Grandfather and Greatgrandfather(who came from Sweden) all worked at GE,Schenectady,NY from about 1900. What my Swedish Grandma, Olga called “yee ee” now goes to Sweden.

My dem wife didn’t know Crist was running. We just moved to FL and already met Scott in the local cafe. Dem wife is a low information voter and will always vote dem. Married 54 years.
Larry

Well,I am 76 and I think should not carry. I have left my passport in a German airport restroom. I left my cellphone in a Scottish restroom. So no gun for me. I did last year take a pistol shooting class. I was the oldest and the worst shot. I gave my pistol to my grandson.

It is the first time since 1971 a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has visited Vietnam.
I last visited there in 1971

The man positively identified one of the boys, a 15-year-old from Atlantic Beach, as the one who had struck him. At headquarters, the boy initially denied involvement, then confessed. Police tried to call the boy’s mother but could not reach her. He was taken to the county jail and booked on battery charges.

It was also discovered that another one of the boys, also a 15-year-old from Atlantic Beach, had been reported missing. He was suspected by Atlantic Beach police of stealing multiple bicycles within the city. He was also arrested and taken to jail.

The above from the Florida paper.
I live in Atlantic Bch and walk”alone” on both Atlantic and Neptune beaches. There are always many people on the beach.
I am now in Maine and got this story on FR.
These are mixed racial towns.

Larry

LePage, who ran away from home at age 11 following abuse from his father, has made domestic violence awareness and prevention a priority during his administration.

Linda Chavez is chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a non-profit public policy research organization in Sterling, Va. Linda Chavez also writes a weekly syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country, is a political analyst for FOX News Channel, and hosts a syndicated, daily radio show on Liberty Broadcasting. Chavez authored “Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation” (Basic Books, 1991), which the Denver Post described as a book that “should explode the stereotypes about Hispanics that have clouded the minds of patronizing liberals and xenophobic conservatives alike.” National Review describes Linda Chavez’s newest work, “An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal” (Basic Books 2002), as a “brilliant, provocative, and moving book.” In 2000, Linda Chavez was honored by the Library of Congress as a “Living Legend” for her contributions to America’s cultural and historical legacy. In January 2001, Linda Chavez was President George W. Bush’s nominee for Secretary of Labor until Linda Chavez withdrew her name from

consideration.

Linda Chavez has held a number of appointed positions, among them Chairman, National Commission on Migrant Education (1988-1992); White House Director of Public Liaison (1985); Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1983-1985); and Linda Chavez was a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (1984-1986). Linda Chavez was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Maryland in 1986. In 1992, Linda Chavez was elected by the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission to serve a four-year term as U.S. Expert to the U.N. Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

Linda Chavez was also editor of the prize-winning quarterly journal American Educator (1977-1983), published by the American Federation of Teachers, where Linda Chavez also served as assistant to AFT president Al Shanker (1982-1983) and assistant director of legislation (1975-1977).

Linda Chavez serves on the Board of Directors of ABM Industries Linda Chavez is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was Co-Chair of the Council’s Committee on Diversity (1998-2000).

Linda Chavez was born in Albuquerque, N.M., on June 17, 1947, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1970. Linda Chavez is married and is the mother of three sons. Linda Chavez currently lives in Reston, Va.

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My wife and I were big fans and my wife looked like Mary in those younger days. I am 77 so this story HURTS.

I was lost and now am found. So at the border turn them around.

1982

You beat me to it. Also former USAF weather officer, I learned this basic jet stream truth in 1959 basic meteorology text.

Larry

Do not compromise. This from my first commander of an AF weather station. He was referring to making a forecast. If two meteorologists have different opinions, compromise will make them both wrong.think about it.

Larry

Big Insurance is being set up to take all the blame for whatever befalls obamacare

African American fathers left their families behind? Who knew?

Laurence N. Johnson
I signed this way back when

SALUTE to all who served and to those here in the canteen and FR who support us.
NORMANDY BEACHES
I was there last week where I have wanted to go forever. I had a cousin who survived and a family friend who was KIA a couple months later in France.
Larry

I don’t see the problem.
I have white 501 button fly Levi jeans. Just washing them is simple. I got them in Maine on sale when I knew I was moving to Florida.

HERE I AM IN FLORIDA.

Larry

Capt Stratton lives here at Fleet Landing. I arrived in Dec and have not met him yet. Nice to know he has been writing about his POW years.

I agree with his assessment of obamacare. But where are the exit polling numbers which tie this FL election to obamacare?

Both:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KNRB.html

It’s been a while, but I seem to remember the requirement even to exit your car and stand and salute.

Larry

I will never forget this movie, seen when I was 6.
“Hey,wait for me!”
The Sullivan’s has been here at Mayport NS

I have ordered custom frames to go with my new Florida U.S Air Force license plates. The owners of the site are both former U S air combat pilots,father and son. You will enjoy visiting:

www.usaircombat.com

I created a GI Joe long before, when ii was about 10, say1947.i played with plastic toy soldiers for years . One day I found a doll of a man in a blue suit, tie and all. Prob 12 in with movable arms and legs. I quickly painted his suit olive from my model airplane supplies. I fashioned a helmet from medical adhesive tape and painted that olive. Not sure how long I had him but at some point buried him and never dug him up. Larry

With another old military retired couple we spent too much of Christmas Day talking about Tricare,Medicare,the VA,Mayo Clinic and our aches and pains.We are well covered unlike many.

Where did Jay go to high school? His name is the same as a boy I remember in Philadelphia

That is Cape Canaveral AFS. Why is Air Force left off these civilian pages?

Up late again with empty wine glass. I love Florida military bases. My first visit to FL was in a C -47 to MacDill AFB as an ROTC freshman . Next year to Homestead AFB.
I think in the 60s thru 90s I went TDY to Patrick AFB/Cape Canaveral AFS 300 times for launch preps.
NOW...NOW I am finally gonna move there!!!

This time near a Navy Station, Mayport . in Dec I will change. my FR home state from Downeast Maiine to Atlantic Beach FLORIDA.

Larry

I discovered that this is available to NON subscribers. Thank you for adding me to ping. I still understand most of what Joe says,after almost 50 years since my degree. Joe is a Denier which is prob one reason he left accuweather and start weatherbell.
My son is in Arcata. We lived in Manhattan Bch for 30 years before following our daughter to Maine. We move to Florida in December.
I miss Calif but no way would I pay your taxes or Maines anymore.

500 MILES
Hedy West © Atzal Music, Inc. - BMI

If you miss the train I’m on, you will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles,
a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles,
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

Lord I’m one, Lord I’m two, Lord I’m three, Lord I’m four,
Lord I’m 500 miles from my home.
500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles
Lord I’m five hundred miles from my home.

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name
Lord I can’t go a-home this a-way
This a-away, this a-way, this a-way, this a-way,
Lord I can’t go a-home this a-way.

If you miss the train I’m on you will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

Peter,Paul and Mary did a song with “a thousand miles from my home” in it some where. “ when you hear the train I’m on,You’ll know that I am gone...”
I’m usually in bed for the start of the Canteen, but here I am.

Grandma Johnson used to feed Grandpa Johnson while he drove with both his hands on the wheel. This was in the 40s and earlier. I was told this by my Mother who was always at odds with her MIL.
Larry

SALUTE

USAF Special Orders

THANK YOU,SALUTE

Kathy and FRiends, a day late for my anniversary. I was recruited by the canteen.
larryjohnson
Since Sep 25,1998

FReepersonaltrainer
I retired from the USAF, serving 22 years, as a meteorologist for 10 and aerospace engineer for 12. I worked in early military weather satellite operations. I switched to launch ops of other military and civil space missions. My civilian career was 15 years consulting to the USAF in the same areas. Always a Republican,I became more conservative after my VietNam tour.

The Air Force turned me into a gym rat. I have been certified by the American Council on Exercise(ACE) and I am a member of the Senior Fitness Association. Here in Maine I train new gym members in trade for my membership. Larry

I was a gov contractor in N Va in 95. I recall our whole office was essential. Early in 96, I took early retirement ‘cause I felt I was no longer making a difference.

I read your bio. SALUTE

She is she, LTC, Ret.