[Molly Pitcher]

See everyone in the a.m.

[Molly Pitcher]

Here you go...

[MetalHeadConservative35]

early kickoff???

sorry im never around guys im not an AM person lol

[gulfcoast6]

Is this the start of the new day? Wow, I am impressed. ONE EACH MEMBER OF THE DAWN PATROL CHECKING IN!! Good morning all, things to do, folks to see, grass to cut with my old 53 Ford tractor, garden to till, oh my oh my, no rest for a 'farmer'.

[The Raven]

Look at a couple of potential Popes in the running:

"...Cardinal Hummes is outspokenly anti-American and supports confiscation and redistribution of property belonging to the rich.

Likewise, Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga supports Third World debt relief and the "equalizing" redistribution of global wealth."

[The Raven]

One more...

Japan-China Talks Fail to Ease Tensions Reminds me of the libs during the Republican convention in NYC

[kassie]

Good morning.

Thanks for the start Molly.

Been a busy weekend here. Hope ya'll are doing ok this Monday morning.

[devolve]

                 
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[The Raven]

Will the Wall Street jitters continue??

Asian Stocks Tank

[The Raven]

We need a mission statement or something [getting frustrated]

[Peach]

Good morning.

Bolton's newest critic is a liberal from "Mothers Against Bush".

http://www.nysun.com/article/12353

[The Raven]

Tomorrow, is Patriots Day. Remember to fly your flag. It commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord (the Shot Heard Round the World). And for those who forgot their American History and Civics, the cause was the Massachusetts governor's attempt to disarm the citizens of Boston.



Quotes of the day:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." --Thomas Jefferson

"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." --John F. Kennedy

"You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing is worth dying for, when did this begin...? Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain!" --Ronald Reagan

[Redleg Duke]

Hi All! I wasn't able to check in this morning due to work requirements. Those were due to Da Kid's accident yesterday. After we got back from the Spring Camporee, he was invited over to a neighbor's to play. Another kid showed up and Jack came home with a broken arm! It seems that Jack was on the ground and the other two were up a tree, doing stupid things when the other visitor slipped and fell. He went head first, but his foot caught in a crotch of the the tree limb and it left him about 8 feet off the ground, ready to be a lawn dart. The neighbor kid wouldn't or couldn't do anything, so our Boy Scout immediately climbed up and pulled the kid from the his prediciment. The kid then jumped to the ground, but in the process pushed Jack. The limb Jack was on broke and he fell about 8 feet to the ground, slightly fracturing his left arm just above the wrist and getting his bell rung too.

The kid that Jack helped proceeded to laugh at him as he sat stuned on the ground...and then stepped on his right hand, "by accident". The neighbor kid took Jack into the kichen, gave him a couple of ice cubes, and never told his folks. I happened to call just then and asked the kid to send Jack home. He did...he made Jack walk about 200 yards, stunned and with a cracked arm! Man am I pissed!

I took him into the ER and met the Duchess there. She infused him, they x-rayed his arm and he was really suffering. He is still hurting.

[The Raven]

And some news items for mid-afternoon:

COCA-COLA SETTLED SEC charges that it shipped excess beverage concentrate to bottlers in Japan from 1997 to 1999, inflating its financial results to meet ambitious earnings targets.

Adobe agreed to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion in stock, in a deal that would create a software company with broad ability to distribute media to PCs and hand-held devices.

Blue chips edged higher after sinking to levels not seen since the presidential election. A spate of mergers and upbeat earnings from Bank of America and Lilly helped the broader market. 3M fell 6% after missing sales forecasts.

The Supreme Court declined to consider the constitutionality of state laws that regulate speech and activities within a buffer zone around abortion clinics.

Martha Stewart will get her own 24-hour satellite-radio channel on Sirius. The channel will feature cooking, gardening and entertainment programming.

Intel introduced its first communications chip that uses WiMAX, a wireless technology some hope will accelerate the spread of high-speed Internet access.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi will resign and form a new government to strengthen his struggling conservative coalition, the foreign minister said Mon