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A (quasi-official) Weekend Singles thread
Teh Intarweb; Free Republic | 20 April 2007 | Singles Thread Denizens 8^)

Posted on 04/20/2007 8:13:38 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout

This week's (unofficial) topic: Open-Line Weekend. Anything that is FR-safe (for News and Chat) is fair game.

Only thing is: let's not get at each other--this is (well, I hope it is), a place to put politics, issues, etc. aside...

That said, let the games begin...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: freefall; rzeznikjsfault; singles
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To: WFTR

This must have been a sad week for you.

My older son is at college and when I heard about the shootings I had to call him just to hear his voice.

As soon as he answered I started crying and could barely talk.


21 posted on 04/20/2007 8:50:09 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: WFTR
I am so saddened to hear about what happened at VT.

My eight-year-old was in a school that went into lockdown for most of the day as some idiot held his former girlfriend hostage/at gunpoint, etc. and he was finally a suicide by cop, so that was just last Friday and this whole week has been like the twilight zone.

Don't mean to jump in and maybe twist a thread by mistake, but remember when I co-hosted the Halloween one and talked about my spooky life???

Rather than having to scramble for "sensitive government info" about me, the Lord had me do another "parlor trick" for the military due to the extremely quick "need to know" on the left coast.

On the bright side, I finally get to do the briefing while getting debriefed.

So it isn't a secret any more that I do for the WH what the real Allison DuBois does for the Maricopa County Prosecutor's Office. In fact, I am just fortunate that there are enough that don't mind the media attention as a medium and I can just do my job.

22 posted on 04/20/2007 8:51:46 PM PDT by Kate of Spice Island (WINO (Westwinger In Name Only))
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To: rzeznikj at stout

I have absolutely no idea what that means.

Hopefully, it is good.

;-)


23 posted on 04/20/2007 8:53:29 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Same (stuff), different day...


24 posted on 04/20/2007 8:54:50 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: Kate of Spice Island

Nope, not at all...

It IS a free-for-all thread...


25 posted on 04/20/2007 8:56:20 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: pax_et_bonum

It’s been a sad week for everyone, but this one has impacted me more than I would have thought it would. I haven’t stayed close to the university, so I wouldn’t have thought that it should hit me more than others. I had been in the Murrah Building a few weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing. With that one, there were plenty of thoughts of “If I had been there at the time, could I have seen something and been able to do something to prevent it?” Obviously, I was 25 years too early on this one, but the same thoughts have crossed my mind. “Is this a guy that I would have noticed? If I saw him chaining the doors, would I have done something? Would I have the guts to rush him when he changed magazines?”


26 posted on 04/20/2007 8:58:07 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Oh.

Well, at least things aren’t worse!


27 posted on 04/20/2007 8:58:42 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Boldly going Nowhere...


28 posted on 04/20/2007 9:02:32 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: WFTR

If you’re thinking thoughts like that now, I think you would have the courage to rush him.

I don’t think people of lesser courage would even wonder about those things.


29 posted on 04/20/2007 9:02:41 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

I just read your homepage. Looks like you’ve got a good head on your shoulders.

I wouldn’t want to disagree with you, but.... if you’re in college you’re going somewhere.


30 posted on 04/20/2007 9:06:25 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: Kate of Spice Island
I can't imagine being in lockdown. That's not something that I had to experience as a kid, and I hate it that today's kids experience it. I think one reason that I like being on the fire crew at work is that I get to see what's happening when we have an incident. I find holding a fire hose to be less stressful than sitting in the shelter wondering what's happening.

I remember your talking about seeing and knowing things. That's a fascinating skill. I'd love to know more about it. We joke at work about the claims that the remote viewers never saw anything past 2012 so the world must be ending then. Sometimes we say that there's no point in having a 20 year design life when the world is ending in 2012.

Bill

31 posted on 04/20/2007 9:07:06 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: pax_et_bonum

...heh, but the posts here say otherwise

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1820833/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1761463/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1620250/posts

Not to mention the lack of sociability, the lack of ever having a true girlfriend, spending a lot of my spare time on the computer drinking and writing Unix shell scripts, etc. ad nauseam...


32 posted on 04/20/2007 9:10:15 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Two threads?

Fun!


33 posted on 04/20/2007 9:10:25 PM PDT by RockinRight (Support FREDeralism. Fred Thompson in 2008!)
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To: RockinRight

Yep...


34 posted on 04/20/2007 9:11:17 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: WFTR

You’re a VT alum?

That has to be hard.


35 posted on 04/20/2007 9:11:37 PM PDT by RockinRight (Support FREDeralism. Fred Thompson in 2008!)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

I can identify with all that, and I feel like a bigger loser than you, so...you’re not alone.


36 posted on 04/20/2007 9:13:04 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: darkangel82

Well, that is certainly a comforting thought...

check out the first link...


37 posted on 04/20/2007 9:13:47 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: WFTR
We all have lots of those "what if"s and some have more than others.

I can tell you that God needs you here now and we are here to comfort you.

It becomes more and more apparent that people need to volunteer to be trained in CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management) or there will be lots and lots more people on pills because we are all big walking germs and spreading mental illness. We also have to be the cure for the same illness.

Currently, the left coast (California) will be voting (legislative???) to make client cnetered peer recovery as part of all behavioral health treatment plans.

I wish I could try to teach all of the recovery strategies and pathways that I learned as quickly as blinking an eye so that all that are so negatively affected emotionally can start the recovery process.

To put fear in students and teachers is emotionally scarring our entire society to one degree or another.

Jesus was the Greatest Teacher of them all.

Now it is time for all of us to try to return the favor to help all of our little (and big) disciples.

{{{{{WFTR}}}}}

{{{{All who are hurting over the VT tragedy and the copycat fallout}}}}

38 posted on 04/20/2007 9:13:50 PM PDT by Kate of Spice Island (WINO (Westwinger In Name Only))
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Who cares what the posts say?

It’s what you think about yourself that counts!

When a person values and likes himself or herself, others sense it and are attracted to that person.


39 posted on 04/20/2007 9:18:53 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

You ever meet this guy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzMRmmXxnJI


40 posted on 04/20/2007 9:19:23 PM PDT by GoLightly
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