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I remember when we were this intense back when billyblythe was running for president. Who really believed that his witch of a wife really would make it this far?

o7jimmy in the tool shed sharing a personal moment. :) I uploaded this first video and then changed if to something I didn't like so this is the original first video uncut. Thanks for putting up with me.

Sharing a personal moment in my tool shed after I give a answer to what I was accused of promoting myself. So I reworked this video with a message at the beginning. :)

Me, o7jimmy, sharing a personal moment in my tool shed.

BEDFORD - A man in golf gear stood near a nondescript SUV at the Omni Bedford Springs Resort golf course Thursday. Holstered to his khakis was an automatic handgun; in his ear was a radio receiver. He was a Secret Service agent sent to guard George W. Bush as the former president took in a round of golf at the Bedford County resort. The country's 43rd president took a private jet Thursday morning from Texas to the Bedford County Airport, where agents escorted him for an afternoon golf foursome. "It's a beautiful part of the state," Bush said to a...

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HADITHA DAM, Iraq (Jan. 10, 2006) -- When Staff Sgt. Barrett A. Kahl was a recruiter in South Boston, Va., he talked with prospective enlistees about the Marine Corps being the smallest, yet most respected organization in the U.S. military. Little did he know that one day those words would apply in his own life when he got the chance to reminisce with one of his recruits while deployed to Iraq. “I saw him here one day standing in the chow line,” said Kahl, a Jarrettsville, Md., native. “It was weird how we were stationed at the same base in...

MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO, Calif. (August 19, 2005) -- Harley Davidson motorcycles roared through the hallways of Pendleton Hall and bellowed down the streets of the depot while Marine veterans cruised down memory lane Aug. 12. Seventeen former Marines from the Leatherneck Motorcycle Club, California Chapter, came from all over the state to witness recruit graduation and walk around the base where many of them trained decades before. To be a part of the Leatherneck Motorcycle Club, one must first be an active duty, reserve, or honorably discharged U.S. Marine or Navy corpsman who has served with a...

                                Each year, we look forward to the New Year with expectations of good fortune, good health and a renewed faith in God. It is also a time to reflect on all of the events of the year that is about to pass. Here are just a few of the highlights, good and bad, of the year 2004, courtesy of NewsMax (*with the exception of the Boston Red Sox article which is courtesy of http://www.boston.com/sports). Just click on any of the links to review the news article.      January 2004: All 148 Aboard Killed in Egypt Jet Crash...

Remember when… …milk cost 25 cents a quart, hamburger was 25 cents a pound, and a loaf of bread was 25 cents? A kid could go to the store with a dollar and buy everything his mom told him, and still have change. …the neighbors all knew whose kid you were, and they watched you as if you were their own while you all played outside at dusk? …a dollar's worth of gasoline would take you a hundred miles? …mothers wore aprons in the kitchen? …dads worked at jobs that required ties and belts and "dress-down Fridays were unheard of?...