BigMack
Posted on 01/11/2005 6:18:33 PM PST by malakhi
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Speaking of Kerry - This on NewsMax today.
Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005 12:25 a.m. EST
Kerry Pledges Military Record Release
Three months after he lost his presidential bid, Sen. John Kerry has finally agreed to a full release of his military records, after being cornered on the issue Sunday by "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert.
Appearing on the same show last April, Kerry insisted that all his military records were already in the public domain, telling Russert, "I've shown them - they're available to you to come and look at."
But in August the Washington Post reported:
"Although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published Kerry's full military records on their Web site (with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year), they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records.
"A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages."
On Sunday Kerry attempted to explain the discrepancy, telling Russert, "We put all the records out that I had been sent by the military."
"Then at the last moment, they sent some more stuff, which had some things that weren’t even relevant to the record. So when we get - I’m going to sit down with them and make sure that they are clear and I am clear as to what is in the record and what isn’t in the record and we’ll put it out. I have no problem with that."
When Russert pressed Kerry, "Would you sign Form 180?" authorizing the Pentagon to release of his full file, Kerry at first tried to dodge the question.
But after he was asked about Form 180 for the third time, the top Democrat finally relented, telling the "Meet the Press" host, "Yes, I will."
Kerry then added a bizarre demand of his own, saying that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group of Vietnam veterans who led the questioning of his military record, should also sign Form 180:
"I'd call on those who have challenged me, let's see their records," he said. "I want to see the records of each of those people who have put up a challenge, because some of them have some serious questions in them, and it hasn't been appropriate."
Let's see if Kerry follows through.
Okay, that makes sense. ;o)
I'm not going to hold my breath.
According to John L. Hoh, Jr., of Milwaukee, "pasties were a meat-potatoes-carrot-rhutabaga concoction brought over from Wales by Welsh miners coming to mine copper in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and in the mines of Southwest Wisconsin. This Yooper delight is now available in Appleton."
Main Entry: past·ies
Pronunciation: 'pAs-tEz
Function: noun plural
Etymology: [2]paste
Date: circa 1954
: small round coverings for a woman's nipples worn especially by a stripteaser
That's the way I remember it though it was long before 1954. :-)
Must be a Yooper thing. ;o)
Heard about those. Sounds like a portable lunch, like a pot-pie-on-the-go. In the same spirit of the one-time truck driver who said "just put the fries and cole slaw on the sandwich and wrap it all up."
Calamari and shrimp are unkosher, so I wouldn't be eating them anyway.
No Calamari either? I forgot about that. Wasn't there some mad scientist out there trying to make kosher pork by genetically creating pigs to chew their cud or something like that? How about we doctor up some squid to grow scales, then they would be kosher.
Did you catch the blurb in the paper last week about people near Tel Aviv going to visit a British soldier's gravestone just cause his name was Cpl. Harry Potter?
SD
Hmmm... an omen about the fate of Harry in the last book?
I'm not going to hold my breath.
Think he might do a 180 on the 180?
SD
Watson, who just moved into a two-bedroom apartment in the North Side's Manchester neighborhood, received her first bill from Equitable Gas on Tuesday. It was a two-month bill for $993....
Watson admitted that she kept her thermostat set to a "comfortable" 75 degrees....
Watson's upstairs neighbor told her that to keep her bills manageable, she keeps her thermostat at 60 degrees.
"And I'm like, 60 degrees? That's not even on."
wouldn't that be a 360?
Why do you think they keep perpetuating it? Money? Is there somehow money being made off of this scam? Isn't it in the best interests of these ministers to tell their congregations the truth? Why encourage people to believe in this lie?
Is it the Glock 9mm?
BigMack
In all my 18 years of marriage I've only heard my wife
fart once. And that was an accident. :-)
Our doctor said to let them pretty much dictate when they are ready. He said by trying to push them too soon, you could actually make the problem worse. As long as they are potty trained before entering pre-school, don't worry. The schools dont want to deal with it and they shouldn't have to. Sarah isn't all that old is she?
They apparently now have microwave pork rinds.
I think they have been around for several years. I can't recall what I thought of them, taste wise, just know that I bought them once, tried one of them, and never did microwave the other one. I do remember that I didn't care for the smell of them when they were cooking. But, isn't unusual for me. I can't stand the smell of microwave kettle corn, or butter flavor and dislike the smell of watermelon gum (which my son likes!)
Well, it is nice of her to heat her upstairs neighbor's apartment.
Any excuse, eh? ;o)
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