I WOULD WALK 500 MILES-PROCLAIMERS
I WOULD WALK 500 MILES-PROCLAIMERS
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New to the Canteen? Need some tips on how to figure things out around here? 1. If you support our Troops, Veterans, and their families, WELCOME HOME!! This is the place to be at FRee Republic. (We would point out that many of the other daily threads also honor our Troops, Veterans, and their families.) If you need help with the following, please check these folks out: Graphics --> If you want to learn how to post graphics, please ask anyone in the Canteen. Just FReepmail or post your request on the thread. Someone will help you. Music --> If you want to learn how to post music, please ask any of the Canteen Deejays for help. (Kathy In Alaskak, uncleshag, Diva Betsy Ross, StarCMC, AZAmericonnie, beachn4fun, Bethbg79, laurenmarlowe, acad1228, tomkow6, or MoJo2001.) Canteen CEO: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Don't bother him unless you have complaints, grievances, in need of money, or you're tremendously bored.) Birthday Diva: Got a birthday or anniversary? Please contact AZAmericonnie via FReepmail. Daily Canteen Threads Monday --> StarCMC Tuesday --> LaDivaLoca (Diva Betsy Ross has been doing a fabulous job filling in!) Wednesday --> Spotsy Thursday ---> bentfeather Friday ---> tomkow6 Saturday --> Canteen Deejays Sunday --> Military Guest Chaplain If you have any thread ideas or suggestions, please FReepmail MoJo2001 with any ideas. Canteen Lingo Divas --> Any female that comes into the Canteen is referred to as a "Diva". We've taken the word back from those Hollywood snobs. Burka Man or Burka Boy --> this refers to tomkow6. He will usually try to sell you a Burka. Do us all a favor and refuse! Thank you. Canteen Galz --> Well, this is the term for all the Galz in the Canteen. Canteen Guyz --> This is the term for all the Guyz in the Canteen. Ma --> this is a reference to Kathy In Alaska. We all call her "Ma". Fret not, she likes it. Most of the time. Hehe! We'll add more later! Quirky Canteen Traditions & Other Stuff 1. The threads are posted every night around 11PM EST. After they are posted, someone usually tries to rush in to get the #1 post after the thread poster. No! You don't win a prize or a vacation. We're sorry if that's the impression you got. However, you get the satisfaction of being NUMERO UNO for that day's thread. 2. Hitting the numbers. Some Canteeners (actually most) like to see who lands on the "numbers". These numbers are 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, and so on. You will then get a WooHoo for landing on the numbers. If you hit 3 in a row, you'll get a hat trick. 3. If you hit 666, you must post upside! (You don't have to, but it's tradition!) 4. bentfeather is referred to as "Queenie". She was so coronated in the Canteen. She's also the Canteen Poet and you can visit her daily Poetry Thread at the Dragon Flies Lair here at FR. 5. HiJinx's granddaughter is known as the "Canteen Princess" or "Cupcake Commando". Her name is Piper. If you see references to that, you'll now know who we are talking about. 6. beachn4fun is known as the Canteen Flirt. Watch out!! Hehe! 7. If misery loves company, then obnoxious behavior does as well. If you want to be extremely bad and obnoxious, please avoid tomkow6! 8. Whatever you do, please do not post anything negative about our military, Veterans, or their families. If you have issues or complaints with government policies in this country, take to it the regular FR forum. That drama isn't for here. 9. Please help us keep the Canteen politically free. Our Troops don't need to hear the latest political drama. They've got enough to worry about. 10. Please do not flame anyone in the Canteen. We're all here to entertain and amuse our Troops. This isn't about us. It's about them! 11. For the most part, you won't offend many of the regular Canteeners. We're a happy, dysfunctional group of friends. Be yourself, relax, and have fun. That's all we ask. Just don't forget who our audience is out there: Our Troops!! 12. If you aren't sure about something, ask!! We've all been new to the Canteen (except Ma and Mr.Tonkin...we just found them under the Canteen rock) and it can be overwhelming sometimes. Don't hesitate to ask any of us. We want you to all feel at home in the Canteen.
We'll add more later!! Thank you!!
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Thank you, DBR.
Favorite quote: "Welcome to McDonalds. May I take your order?"
:) Hehe!
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY WRITER 33!Happy birthday, Writer33!
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"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."
~ Sir Winston Churchill ~
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
Ronald Reagan
"Don't be afraid to see what you see."
Ronald Reagan
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. "
Will Rogers
WOOO-HOOOOO!! Speech!! Speech!!
FReegards...MUD
h!!Thanks, DBR, for today's great quote thread
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
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The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. --Washington's Farewell Address
She (America) well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.... --John Quincy Adams
MCAS Futenma, Okinawa
