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My old laptop died and I had to buy a new one. Unfortunately it had Windows 8. It had no word processor and I had to buy the Office Suite and an external CD drive. Total cost? Near $1000! Now the problem. Word has no spell check, no dictionary. Any one know how I can get them? The internet was no help.

I'm looking for a digital camera with no delay between shutter click and capture. Most have a 1-2 second delay. My grand daughter is into acrobatics and my daughter wants to take good pictures. Any help is welcome.

Source Phony Medals of Honor IncreaseThe organization reports that there are 113 living recipients of the nation's highest military award, but an FBI agent who tracks the fakes said impostors outnumber the true heroes. "There are more and more of these impostors, and they are literally stealing the valor and acts of valor of the real guys," said Agent Tom Cottone, who also works on an FBI violent crime squad in West Paterson, N.J. Some fakers merely brag about receiving the award - and that's not illegal - but some impostors wear military uniforms and bogus medals. The FBI has...

A round up of sorts is taking place in Hampton. 10 photographs and hundreds of names of wanted people were published in Wednesday's Daily Press. According to police, they're all wanted felons. All day, 90 officers from the Hampton Police Division, the U.S. Marshal Service and the Joint HPD/NNPD Violent Fugitive Apprehension Unit will be rounding up those listed in the full page ad. In two hours, police arrested 16 people. Others have surrendered or called to say they'd be turning themselves in. The goal of each team of officers is to identify, apprehend and arrest person(s) wanted in the...

I have been watching the Local News at Noon. The feature story was how today is when hordes of people hit the stores to return unwanted Christmas gifts. Is this common? Am I just extremely fortunate to have a decent class of friends? I have never in my life returned a gift to the store. Every piece of clothing I have ever received fit well and was of a better quality and style that I would have bought for myself. Every piece of jewelry, every tool, every gadget I have received was useful and appreciated.

Because of the attacks on convoys during 2003, Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) required military escorts of one “green” military truck to three “white” commercial trucks. Earning $75,000, three KBR drivers would not drive in Iraq unless a Soldier making less than $20,000 a year escorted him. Originally, convoys required two MP HMMVs as escort. Any HMMV with a SAW was considered an escort vehicle. The 181st Battalion’s Skunk Werks originated the armoring of HMMVs. The 181st Transportation Battalion had pioneered what they called the “Tiger Team” concept. Two HMMV gun trucks ran ahead of the convoy searching for IEDs...

Governor Mark Warner signed legislation Tuesday reducing the sales tax on groceries by one-and-a-half cents on the dollar. The Department of Taxation says the reduction will save a typical family of four with a household income of 60,000 dollars about 83 dollars a year. Beginning July first, the tax on groceries will go from four percent to two-and-a-half percent. Two percent goes to localities and a half-percent to the state's highway fund. The tax was scheduled to be slashed in half-percent increments over three years, but a thriving economy enabled the legislature to speed up the reduction.

Four years ago today the most wonderful woman I ever had the pleasure of knowing died. Sheryl It wasn’t “love at first sight”. Her sister tried to set us up by having us met at a bar. Introductions were made and Sheryl stated emphatically “I don’t need no fat redneck Biker to buy my beer.” I immediately decided to leave her alone and walked away. A few days later we met again, shot a game of pool - and I allowed her to buy my beer. A few months later she moved in with me and we married. Sheryl didn’t...

Death Notice Hoax - Be Aware! Military police are investigating a cruel hoax in which a man wearing an Army dress uniform falsely told the wife of a soldier that her husband had been killed in Iraq. When the 3rd Infantry first deployed to Iraq for the 2003 invasion, some Fort Stewart families reported receiving phone calls from pranksters saying their soldiers had been killed. Be aware of how death notices work in the Army: Two soldiers, including a chaplain, in dress uniform always arrive to tell the family in person. The Army never makes notifications over the telephone....

As often as the democrats drag up John F. Kennedy’s image, they have completely forgotten his policies. Kennedy cut taxes to stimulate the economy. He wasn’t afraid to use military force to defend our country. They completely ignore his inaugural address given on 20 January 1961: And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.…We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let...

I made it to the debate last night, although I couldn’t stay for the entire affair. I was surprised to see the turnout. It was standing room only. Another surprise was the number of young people. I was not surprised by the large number of Scott campaign workers. He’s been in power for a long time. Scott opened with a typical mindless democratic party script. He’s for better health care, decries the debt, blah, blah. He even came with charts – one of which showed what our National debt would be in 2040 if spending remains as is! He projected...

I received an Email notification of a new message from the founder and moderator of the veterans’ web site “Veterans for Justice” (http://www.vetsforjustice.com/) this morning. It was a rant against President Bush and in support of that lying, backstabbing seditious traitor Hanoi John. I sent this in reply. I tried to post to the site but kept getting an error message. It has been some time since I have posted here. I noticed that this forum had started to become a “Bash Bush” site. It then became an “Anybody But Bush” site. It seems that Billy Ray Kidwell is firmly...

Would it be possible to declare one day (very soon) as “No Pictures of the Lying Backstabbing Seditious Traitor” day? I am starting to become very nauseated every time I see a picture of Hanoi John. I’d like to have just one day when I could read the comments and not see that terrible visage.

The 4th of July is Independence Day. Independence Day is more than just a another holiday. It marks a very significant event in history, not just in US history but world history. It marks a point in time when men - some wealthy, some not - put everything they had on the line so that the United States of America could come into existence. It was a radical move. Before these men met there had not been another Republic in the western world for over 1800 years. The Roman Republic fell in 27 BC, when the Roman Senate gave...

Army Scientists, Engineers develop Liquid Body Armor By Tonya Johnson Army News Service April 21, 2004 ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Liquid armor for Kevlar vests is one of the newest technologies being developed at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to save Soldiers' lives. This type of body armor is light and flexible, which allows soldiers to be more mobile and won't hinder an individual from running or aiming his or her weapon. The key component of liquid armor is a shear thickening fluid. STF is composed of hard particles suspended in a liquid. The liquid, polyethylene glycol, is...

Joe Galloway: Weinberger, Powell War Doctrines Now History December 3, 2003 By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - Going to war ought to be a hard thing for our political leaders to do. In fact, going to war ought to be the hardest thing they ever do. In the wake of this country's ill-fated adventure in Viet Nam - which killed 58,235 Americans, wounded an additional 350,000 and took the lives of a million Vietnamese - some far-sighted military and political leaders said, "Never again." Never again would America wade so easily into a quagmire, said the...

Starting Jan. 1, many residents will have to prove their citizenship or legal right to be in Virginia before they are granted any DMV documents. The changes will affect anyone applying for an ID card or license for the first time and those who are renewing expired, suspended or revoked licenses. Residents who renew their licenses before the expiration date won't be affected. And anyone who has received a photo ID card and already has established their permanent right to be here won't have to meet the guidelines for future applications. The law is the state's response to a startling...

Pictures from The Gathering The Gathering” reunion of Vietnam transportation veterans will be at Fort Eustis Wednesday-June 15. The Transportation Museum will provide a hospitality room for the veterans to visit and display their memorabilia. “The Gathering” provides the Vietnam veterans an opportunity to return to the home of the Transportation Corps and a chance for current transporters to learn from people who helped write an important chapter in Transportation Corps history. For more information, call 878-2856/1115. The public is invited, and it runs through Sunday, 15 June. If you are in the Hampton Roads area this weekend, and...

American Flag Dips to Vietnam, China? Source: World Net Daily Published: August 23, 2000 Author: Metcalf, Geoff Posted on 08/23/2000 04:13:32 President Clinton reportedly plans to visit China and Vietnam before the end of his term, and, according to high-ranking Navy officers, the commander in chief will alter long-standing naval regulations to allow the American flag to fly below that of Vietnam when he sails into the communist nation's territorial waters on a U.S. Navy ship. Highly placed Navy sources who spoke on condition of anonymity believe this action on the president's part would further devastate already tenuous Navy ...

Dear Sir or Madam, I have noticed that the last couple of times that American Military remains have been returned to the United States, the coffins were draped, not with the American flag, but with the United Nations banner. These men fought and died under the Stars and Stripes, not the blue UN banner. The swore allegiance to the United States, not the UN. The were paid by the People of the United States by the United States Treasury, not the UN. They were sworn into the forces of the United States, not the UN. By custom and tradition, ...