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Posted on 10/22/2004 8:00:30 PM PDT by MoJo2001
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what a nice looking son .If you have a rotten kid you spoiled him
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Read: 2 Kings 13:14-19
Epaphras . . . greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers . . . . I bear him witness that he has a great zeal for you. —Colossians 4:12-13
Bible In One Year: Jeremiah 1-2; 1 Timothy 3
We know little about Epaphras except that he was so concerned about the spiritual welfare of the people in Colosse that he is described as "laboring fervently . . . in prayers" for them (Colossians 4:12). When I was a pastor, I saw this kind of enthusiasm in the way new converts prayed and witnessed. But all too often, many of them gradually lost their zeal.
I believe it was King Joash's lack of enthusiasm that made Elisha so angry (2 Kings 13). The monarch had obeyed the dying prophet's command to shoot an arrow toward the east. He had heard Elisha's promise that God would bring his nation complete deliverance from Syria. Joash had obeyed the command to strike the ground with a bundle of arrows, which he did three times. So why did the prophet angrily tell him he should have struck the ground five or six times?
I believe it was because he felt Joash was following his instructions in a half-hearted manner. The king should have been far more enthusiastic in his response to God's wonderful message of victory over Israel's enemies.
The king's nonchalance cost him dearly. He won an incomplete victory. I wonder how many spiritual victories we forfeit because of our lack of zeal. —Herb Vander Lugt
That's the bad boy, tomkow? Does he post here? Tomkow, he looks like a mature, intelligent young man. After seeing your photo and now his, my bet's on you, that you're the real bad boy in the family.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2004/n10222004_2004102203.html
Online Write-In Absentee Ballot Offered for Overseas Voters
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2004 — Deployed or stationed overseas and still waiting for your state absentee ballot to arrive in the mail? There's no need to sweat it out any more.
The online federal write-in absentee ballot gives U.S. citizens overseas who haven't yet received the absentee ballots they applied for the chance to vote in the upcoming elections, according to Polly Brunelli, director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program.
The Federal Voting Assistance Program announced the online ballot procedures Oct. 21.
Brunelli said the federal write-in absentee ballot has been used for the past decade. Demand is particularly high this year, she said, thanks for education efforts by the Federal Voting Assistance Program.
The program staff has pre-positioned the ballot forms at many overseas sites "so it would be readily available" to those who need it, Brunelli said. Forms also can be downloaded from the Federal Voting Assistance Program's Web site.
Brunelli emphasized that not everyone overseas can use the ballot. To do so, she said, they must meet three very specific conditions:
* be outside the United States, including APO/FPO addresses;
* have applied for a regular ballot early enough so that the request was received by the appropriate local election official at least 30 days before the election; and
* not have received the regular absentee ballot they requested from their state.
The federal write-in absentee ballot is used to vote for candidates for federal offices, including the president and vice president, U.S. senators and representatives, and delegates or resident commissioners to the Congress, in general elections.
Some states now allow servicemembers and other U.S. citizens overseas to use the ballot in elections other than general elections or for offices other than federal offices. Chapter 3 of the 2004-05 Voting Assistance Guide details specific state or territorial requirements.
When using the federal write-in absentee ballot, voters may electronically fill in the form before it is printed or print it and manually fill in the form. In either case, officials said, the voter must manually sign and date the ballot. Specific instructions for submitting the ballot are outlined on the Federal Voting Assistance Program Web site.
Forms can be mailed at no cost to the voter from APO and FPO addresses, as well as other addresses within the U.S. postal system, using postage-paid indicia printed onto the mailing envelope from the Federal Voting Assistance Program Web site.
Voters who receive their state ballot after submitting either version of the federal write-in absentee ballot should vote and submit their state ballot any time up to and including Election Day, Nov. 2, officials said. Officials advise them to note on the state ballot envelope that they also submitted a federal write-in absentee ballot.
For more information, contact the DoD Voting Information Center, which can be reached toll-free from 64 countries using the numbers listed on the Federal Voting Assistance Program site. The Voting Information Center provides recorded messages from candidates, as well as other information concerning elections, 24 hours a day.
Servicemembers can also get help from unit voting assistance officers.
Scouts from the 124th Cavalry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, man their MK-19 grenade launcher-mounted Humvees on Thursday as they prepare to move out on a night training mission at Fort Hood, Texas. The division is being mobilized to deploy in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Iraqi Counter Terrorism Force soldiers take part in a showcase operation Wednesday at an undisclosed location in Iraq.
Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, open fire on a car approaching their position in Ramadi, Iraq, on Friday. Other Marines had just come under enemy fire nearby, but there were no casualties.
Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, search for insurgents in Ramadi, Iraq, on Friday.
Marines with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, search for insurgents on Friday in Ramadi, Iraq.
Smoke rises after a mortar landed close to the tarmac as Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and his entourage readied for a helicopter trip in Mosul, Iraq, on Thursday. No injuries were reported in the attack, which occurred after Allawi met with Mosul officials.
An injured Salvadoran soldier is evacuated on an Army Black Hawk medevac flight from Babylon, Iraq, on Tuesday.
Staff Sgt. Tyrone Jordan, an Army medic, examines a sick U.S. soldier during a helicopter evacuation from the countryside near Iskandariyah, Iraq, on Wednesday. Members of the Army's 45th Medical Company, based in Babylon, Iraq, evacuate wounded soldiers 24 hours a day from areas south of Baghdad and fly them to the main U.S. hospital in Baghdad’s Green Zone for treatment.
Airmen from the 723rd Air Mobility Squadron and 38th Airlift Squadron load cargo onto a C-130 aircraft at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Friday. Three C-130s and approximately 90 airmen departed the base on Friday for Kigali, Rwanda, where they will begin an airlift mission to the Darfur region of Sudan. The aircraft will be used to transport Rwandan peacekeepers to the region over a two-week period.
Air Force members board a C-130 aircraft at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, early Friday. Three Ramstein C-130 aircraft and approximately 90 airmen departed Ramstein for Kigali, Rwanda, to begin an airlift mission to the Darfur region of Sudan. The airmen and two of the C-130s from the 38th Airlift Squadron will transport Rwandan peacekeepers to the Darfur region over a two-week period.
Seaman Danielle Hopper, of Independence, Calif., paints a rat guard used for mooring lines aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier George Washington (CVN 73) on Tuesday. The Norfolk, Va.-based carrier is conducting strike group sustainment training off the U.S east coast.
Airman 1st Class Jonathon Krohn, Master Sgt. Michael Bares, rear, and Senior Airman Donald Manasco maneuver a 1,700-pound engine into place on a refueling truck at a forward-deployed location in Southwest Asia. The airmen of the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron's vehicle maintenance flight repair nearly 180 vehicles each month.
A soldier from B Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, moves out to a command post after an air insertion onto the top of a mountain in Ganjgal, Afghanistan, on Oct. 15.
U.S. Army soldiers gesture towards Iraqi children during a patrol in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004.
Just another day at the office for our Troops
America's Top Gun......
Too cool wOOhOO!!
Good afternoon, E. ((HUGS)) It's cold outside. I'm getting my act together to take my cats to the vet.
Today in Anchorage, Alaska:
Sunrise 9:06am
Sunset 6:19pm
Hi 38° F
Lo 33° F
Icy mix
Actual yesterday in Anchorage:
Hi 38° F
Lo 23° F
State Hi 56° F Adak
State Lo -2° F Cantwell
Well I surf to Debka they reporting that in last 24 hours Arafat health has declined and there is report that they negoitaling allow Arafat leave Ramallah go to oversea hospital but sticky point Arafat won't be allow back into Ramallah area if he get well
Also Aussie Sunday Herald report that report that remember East Timor battle that aussie troops were helping out Indoensia out in late 1990s well report is that these same troops got anti maleria shot and some of them has come back to Austrila with serious side effect
Now report that Aussie govt cover up serious side effect
Some of troops soldiers are suing say that they weren't told consequences
OH OH
Also Aussie Sunday Telegraph reporting too that Aussie troops may have stay in Iraq much longer if Brit troops do withdrrawel because of oppostion in UK over War on Iraq
Queen Elizabeth want Brit troops out of Iraq by mid year 2005 She one tick off Queen over Blair okay on Brit troops help out US troops
So Aussies and Americans are screw
BTT!!!!!
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