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The ***OFFICIAL*** Weekend Singles' Thread -- New Year's Weekend (December 29th-31st)
December 29, 2006
| ilovew, darkangel82
Posted on 12/29/2006 4:06:55 PM PST by ilovew
On Tuesday, former president Gerald R. Ford, Jr. died at the age of 93. He led a full life beginning on July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska.
The future president was a star athlete and the captain of the Grand Rapids South High School football team. He was offered contracts with the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers but declined so that he could attend Yale Law School. Shortly after his graduation, an outside event changed his plans. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Gerald Ford enlisted in the Navy.
Shortly after returning from the war, Ford decided to run for a seat in the House of Representatives. His 24-year tenure included his rise to the House Minority Leader. After Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned, President Nixon chose Ford to beceome the new vice president. When Nixon himself later resigned, Gerald Ford became the first (and only) person to ever rise to the presidency without ever being elected as president or vice president.
His presidency was notable for not only his pardon of Nixon but, according to many, his restoration of trust in the presidency. President Ford worked hard to ensure that his tenure in the office was open and honest. Later in life, Gerald and Betty Ford moved to their Rancho Mirage home in California. It was there that President Bush visited the couple in April of this year.
On December 26, 2006, Gerald Ford died at his home in Rancho Mirage. Ford will have services in Washington, DC and will be buried at his Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: dating; geraldford; newyear; singles
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To: rzeznikj at stout
Corky (b. 1989) on my lap as I play Playstation
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posted on
12/30/2006 8:50:14 PM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(Pansy: 1987 - 2006, I miss you, Princess. RIP. Say "Hi" to Greystone for me)
To: rzeznikj at stout
If you looked like that, I *would* run away. Yikes!
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posted on
12/30/2006 8:50:50 PM PST
by
ilovew
("Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." --J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: WFTR
"I can't dance at all, but I can guard the radio to make sure no one changes the station."
Hey! That's my line (LOL) 8^)
To: rzeznikj at stout
I have long hair....but I don't look like THAT. lol
To: ilovew
You are welcome to the official title...I just know what I did about 10 posts back---me: posting. And everybody else? pretty much not there...
...it hurts to be ignored...:(
To: ilovew; MikefromOhio
do you know who that is?
(alright you techies in the back, hands down...)
Whoops...that would be RobertA Flack...
my fingernails are tooooooo long--they are giving me grief as I try to type...
To: darkangel82
nothin' wrong with long hair, man...
To: krunkygirl
**it hurts to be ignored...:(**
I definitely understand that! People ignore me all the time...
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posted on
12/30/2006 8:53:27 PM PST
by
ilovew
("Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." --J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: rzeznikj at stout
170
posted on
12/30/2006 8:53:58 PM PST
by
ilovew
("Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." --J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: Nowhere Man
Corky, you are quite adorable but you are going to have to scoot!
Nowhere Man and I are dancing~~~
To: ilovew
that's Richard Stallman, the guy our, er, friend loves to accuse us linux doodz here on FR of worshipping...
his latest version of the GNU General Public License, under which the lion's share of open source software (which i use) is said to contain a very highly politicized agenda that drifts away from the principle of free software (free as in libre or freedom, and not necessarily gratis or "free as in beer."
To: ilovew
I definitely understand that! People ignore me all the time... Ummm, ... did you say something?
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posted on
12/30/2006 8:58:13 PM PST
by
WFTR
(Liberty isn't for cowards)
To: WFTR
Bill, we're learning more about you...snakes!...rats...frozen rats in your refrigerator...
SCARY! ....(watch ouuuut, Broooooke...)
To: WFTR
But you do have a good sense of humor ;)
To: ilovew
176
posted on
12/30/2006 8:59:36 PM PST
by
GulfWar1Vet
(Ding Dong, Saddam is dead!!)
To: rzeznikj at stout
To: rzeznikj at stout
Okie doke. I'm not sure I understood half of that but...okie doke. :P
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:00:48 PM PST
by
ilovew
("Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." --J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: WFTR
Hmph. Not to you.
*goes off to cry*
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:01:47 PM PST
by
ilovew
("Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." --J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: GulfWar1Vet
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:02:23 PM PST
by
ilovew
("Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." --J. R. R. Tolkien)
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