FReeper Canteen ~ Last Chance! Get Out The Military Vote! Voter Info!~ September 23 2004

FRiends of the Troops and the Canteen

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**** IMPORTANT VOTER INFORMATION ****   Click on the sample Postcard registration for our military servicemembers. You will need to open up the ballot with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't know how to open up .pdf files, don't worry. You can easily visit their site to get a free installation of Adobe's Acrobat reader. Click the above link to get Adobe Reader Help us ensure that all of our Troops have their voices heard. It is imperative that we sign up as many of our brave heroes as possible. ***END*** Oh! One More Thing: CLick to visit Burkaman.com

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

Well, we had to unplug the computer this morning. We had some storms in the area. The power went out for a few seconds. The local ABC Tv station on the east side of lawton took a lightning hit and had to reboot their computers before coming back on a few seconds later. And for all that not a drop of rain.

We downloaded an updated version of Livereg in addition to the regular weekly Norton yesterday. The download for Livereg was 1 MB and we had to reboot. The welcome sign stayed on for longer than usual but we did get everything squared away.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Darksheare]

Yes, he was.
And he did struggle to NOT use some terms he seemed desperately eager to use about the press and their dogged persistence in perpetrating the Sadrs and others of that ilk upon the Iraqi people.
And Kerry's idiotic statement later was maddening.
The press is enabling the terrorists, the terrorists slip into Iraq from Syria, Jordan, and Iran, and once in they seek out the other trouble makers already there.
And Allawi's statement doesn't contradict that.
Kerry is a grade A horse anus.
A Kerry presidency would be very disasterous to millions MORE people.
He already sold out millions in Vietnam, and the millions who died after the US pullout because of him.. I sincerely hope he never has a restful unhaunted night's sleep for the rest of his days.

[StarCMC]

Agreed.

[Fawnn]

StarCMC!!! #300!!!

[StarCMC]

Thank you Auntie!

[tomkow6]

FINAL

CUBS 6

Pirates 3 

 

TOMORROW

September 24 @ 6:10 p.m. CT
 Radio: WGN 720

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FINAL

CUBS 6

Pirates 3 

 

TOMORROW

September 24 @ 6:10 p.m. CT
 Radio: WGN 720

  VS  
 

[StarCMC]

Cards are beating Milwaukee 2-1 in the bottom of the 5th...

[StarCMC]

Mets are pond scum.

[StarCMC]

I'm gonna go ~ gotta go pick up a package at the PO and then this evening we have an Ice Cream social at Shorty's preschool. Don't come between a pregnant woman and her ice cream! LOL!!!!

[Radix]

Shari Carlton, right, a member of the World Master Chefs Society, instructs a Navy culinary specialist on preparing dough in the ship’s bakery aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln on Saturday.

Join the Navy and make some dough, has not thrilled test audiences as a new recruiting slogan!

 

The attack submarine Parche returns to port for the final time at the Marginal pier at Naval Base Kitsap, Wash. Parche, the last active Sturgeon-class submarine, is due to be decommissioned on Oct. 19, after serving the fleet since 1973.

The newer Swordfish-class submarine is likely also to be retired in the near future. 

Iraqi children cheer as a U.S. military Humvee drives past them along a street of Baghdad on Tuesday.

The Democrat presidential nominee insists that he will drive tanks differently when he is elected.

 

An Army Bradley fighting vehicle patrols Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City on Wednesday. Fifteen Iraqis were killed in clashes between Shiite militants and U.S. troops in the restive Baghdad neighborhood, an official from Moqtada al-Sadr’s radical Shiite movement said.

The mobile homes in Sadr City are full of diversely constructed dwellings.

 

 

Schoolchildren from Palmdale, Calif., wave American flags as the Boeing 707 that served as Air Force One during Ronald Reagan’s two terms as president is moved inside the pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Monday.

Libraries are a lot less quiet now than they used to be when I was a kid.

 

Members of the Florida National Guard hand out bottled water on Tuesday to residents of Pensacola, Fla., affected by Hurricane Ivan.

The curbside water delivery has proven to be a very popular aspect of the new Post Exchange in Pensacola.

 

South Korean troops arrive at a military camp in Arbil, Iraq, on Monday, after weeks of special training in Kuwait to adapt themselves to the desert environment. South Korea has almost completed the deployment of thousands of troops to Iraq.

Korean tankers get to piggyback on the lowboys a lot.

The Russian nuclear submarine Vepr heads into Brest harbor in western France on Tuesday, after a series of exercises in the Atlantic with French navy ships. The Vepr is part of Russia’s Northern Fleet and the first Russian nuclear-powered submarine ever to visit a foreign port. The nuclear weapons it usually carries were taken off for the visit.

Western France is soon to be a well recognized anachronism as the French  turn more and more eastward and into irrelevancy. Thanks for nothing Frenchies!

 

A U.S. military Humvee burns after a car bomb exploded in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses said U.S. soldiers were injured in the attack.

The driving through Plutonium test procedure was a disappointment.

 

 

Soldiers keep a careful eye on their surroundings after taking refuge in a building when their Bradley fighting vehicle was disabled by a roadside bomb in Sadr City on Wednesday.

The Sarge looked everywhere, but the cable remote control was simply nowhere to be found.

 

U.S. soldiers take cover in a building after their Bradley fighting vehicle was disabled by a roadside bomb in Sadr City on Wednesday.

Fire Marshals were not surprised that the smoke detectors were not working during this impromptu inspection.

 

U.S. soldiers bail out of their Bradley fighting vehicle after it was disabled by a roadside bomb during an incursion into the Sadr City section of Baghdad on Wednesday.

Gee, Sadr City, roadside bomb, who would have thunk it?

 

U.S. Army soldiers rest inside their Bradley fighting vehicle during a 24-hour major incursion into the Sadr City section of Baghdad on Wednesday.

ZZZZadr ZZity ZZZoldiers, catch a few ZZZZ's.

Two Naval aviators assigned to the “Diamond Cutters” of Sea Control Squadron Three Zero (VS-30) complete pre-flight checks of their S-3B Viking prior to launch aboard the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Lets get ready to rumble!

A soldier stands guard Wednesday at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in a busy shop area in western Baghdad. Six people were killed and another 54 wounded in the blast.

Numerous complaints from customers have a local swank restaurant reconsidering the continuation of their valet parking service.

Just another day at the office for our Troops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lady Jag]

Thank you! They're beautiful!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

You got it?

Huh. The question is....(will be by tomorrow I think...)Did You get it? :)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Dream on, tomkow. I am the new Write In Candidate!

POWER TO THE GRAMMIE!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm TomKow6, and I'm reporting for duty!!

I'm Brad's Gramma and I never LEFT duty!!!!!!

[tomkow6]

 

 

TomKow6 for Prez!

Friend of the working gal!

 

 

 

Burka Man listens to the plight of the American woman...
unequal pay.....
being treated as a "toy", rather than a person...
poor working conditions.......

Burka Man is THERE for you!

"I feel your pain"

(plus Burka Man LIKES "Hot Wings"!

A vote for TomKow is a vote for.....

I'm TomKow6, and I'm reporting for duty!!

 

[Brad’s Gramma]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You are ON!!!!!!

[Fawnn]

Psssssssssssttttttttt: You're gonna wanna hang around to see the upcoming message to tomkow. ;)

[Fawnn]

Mom wants me to let you know that she's ready for vacation whenever you are!