[Spotsy]

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning Spotsy!

Thanks for the pancakes!

[tomkow6]

 

SALUTE!

 

[tomkow6]

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning, Spotsy!!

Good morning, Canteen Crew !

Good morning, EVERYBODY!

 

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!

 

 

[tomkow6]

 

Today's FEEBLE

YOKE :

A man and his wife, who was 8 months pregnant, were shopping in crowded mall. They had been trading humorous insults for
most of the evening and the man decided that he was going to really get her. He announced in a loud voice that,

"If you don't stop insulting me I'm not going to marry you!"

He was disappointed that only a few people around them reacted but his wife managed to bring down the house when she responded,

"That's ok, I won't tell you who the father is!"
 

[tomkow6]

 

Chicagoland Weather

June 08, 2005
Chicago, IL
Sunrise	5:14 AM (CDT)
Sunset	8:26 PM (CDT)
Hrs. of Daylight	15 Hrs., 12 Mins.

Currently
71°

Partly Cloudy

	Hi: 89

	Lo: 68

5 Day Forecast

THU

FRI

SAT

SUN

MON

PM Thunderstorms

High:	87
Low:	67

Scattered Thunderstorms

High:	83
Low:	66

Scattered Thunderstorms

High:	85
Low:	65

Scattered Thunderstorms

High:	86
Low:	64

Scattered Thunderstorms

High:	84
Low:	64

[tomkow6]

CUBS 4

Blue Jays 6

 

 

TODAY

June 8 @ 1:20 PM CST
 Radio: WGN 720

  VS 

CUBS 4

Blue Jays 6

 

 

TODAY

June 8 @ 1:20 PM CST
 Radio: WGN 720

  VS 

[Rander7]

Good morning everybody!! Hope you all have a wonderful, safe and blessed day today! Our 17 year old son ( he's the one I asked all of you to pray for, as he was diagnosed with HSP Nephritis last fall...title of post was "Pray for Our Son") drove to school today for the first time, since passing his road test on Monday...even though we have two older kids who are married and have families, I was shaking in my boots...but haven't heard anything as of yet, so he must've made it there ok!

[NRA1995]

Good morning Canteeners, Cubies & Newbies! Another very warm day in the Baltimore/DC metro area is coming.....sure beats snow!! Let us not forget our military boys and what they are asked to do. Thirty years ago I was going through naval combat training at Gitmo, before the press and Rob Reiner decided it was nothing but a torture chamber. Have a fine one, everyone!!

[darkwing104]

Good Morning Canteen FReepers! Just in time for pancakes!

[beachn4fun]

Good morning Everyone. Good morning to our

Military, our Allies and their families.

Thank you, Spotsy for fixing pancakes for the Canteen. Today also appears to have been a very busy day in history.

Ok, we're having another hot one here today. I really, really need to be at the beach today. I've even got my spot picked out.

Spotsy, I heard you've been having a very eventful week. Is Murphy's Law happening in your life right now? Here's a little something to help out on one of your problems.

And do you need one of these to help out the "hair" situation?

To all of our newcomers and lurkers...........

TO THE

I've got to dash right now so I can get in a few howdy's before work overtakes me, again.

But, you stay right where you are. Don't touch that dial. Don't change that channel. Put down that remote. Don't leave the room. Keep your eyes on your monitor. Cause...............I'll be bock!

Now remember, the Canteen is

So, come on in and sit for a while. There's alway plenty of coffee, pancakes, conversation, silliness, and plain old BS

[Just Kimberly]

Hi Guys! Just stopping by on a friends 'puter...wanted to say 'hi' as I introduce him to this site and bookmark it for him. His Dad was WWII Veteran, and I have told him how wonderful this place is! Hoping to have us a new friend on very soon!

Looks like evereyone is doing well, miss you all terribly. Hopefully life will return to 'normal' soon and I can begin to sweep you away with my beautiful graphics and poems soon! HaHa (this is me laughing big belly laughs******!!!)

Love you guys

And, Troops...thingking of you every day - watching Band of Brothers right now and worrying about you all. My love is with you.

JK

[Old Sarge]

Reporting LIVE from a Web cafe at Walt Disney World, it's Day Three of Operation Family Reunion!!!

Just a drive-by note to let y'all know we're having a wonderful time!

Sarge will report later!

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on June 08:
1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered 4 satellites of Saturn
1813 David D Porter US Admiral (Civil War)
1829 Sir John Everett Millais England, painter (Order of Release)
1847 Ida Sazton McKinley 1st lady
1867 Frank Lloyd Wright Richland Center, Wisc, master builder
1914 Joseph de Pietro US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948)
1916 Francis Crick codiscovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962)
1917 Byron R (Whizzer) White Ft Collins CO, NFLer/Supreme Court Justice
1918 Robert Preston Newton MA, actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter)
1925 Barbara Pierce Bush Rye NY, 1st lady (1989- )
1925 Eddie Gaedel 3'7" St Louis Browns pinch-hitter (he walked)
1929 Jerry Stiller Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Stiller & Meara, Hairspray)
1933 Joan Rivers Brooklyn, comedian (The Late Show, Hollywood Squares)
1937 Bruce McCandless II Boston, Cap USN/astronaut (STS 41B, STS-31)
1939 Herb Adderley Phila, NFL hall of famer (Packers, Cowboys)
1940 Nancy Sinatra Jersey City, singer, her boots were made for walkin'
1944 William Royce "Boz" Scaggs Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1950 Alex Van Halen drummer (Van Halen-Jump, 1984)
1958 Keenen Ivory Wayans comedian (In Living Color)

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Deaths which occurred on June 08:
0632 Mohammed prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition)
1376 Edward "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46

1809 Thomas Paine writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72

1845 Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn.
1874 Apache Chief Cochise dies
1951 Paul Bobel, Werner Braune, Erich Naumann, Otto Ohlendorf, Oswald Pohl, W. Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt -- last Nazi war criminals hanged by Americans -- at Landsberg Fortress
1969 Robert Taylor actor (Death Valley Days), dies at 57
1979 Herb Polesie producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79
1982 [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jeff MacNally died in Baltimore, Md., at age 52.

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GWOT Casualties

Iraq
08-Jun-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Michael E. Dooley Al Asad Hostile - hostile fire

06-Jun-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Melvin Y. Mora Lopez Taji (Camp Cooke) Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
US Private 1st Class Melissa J. Hobart Baghdad Non-hostile - illness


Afghanistan
A Good Day

http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White

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On this day...
0452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
0536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0570 Relgion of Islam founded in Mecca
1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold (NY)
1815 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 6 Napoleons" (BG)
1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1923 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #995 Sternberga
1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily
1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1948 "The Milton Berle Show" premiers on NBC TV
1948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
1953 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court

1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam

1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
1966 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen
1968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning
1968 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured
1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired
1972 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3230
1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1979 The Source, 1st computer public information service, goes online
1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1983 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
1990 Phil Bradley hits the 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history

1991 A victory parade was held in Washington, D.C., to honor the veterans of the Persian Gulf War.

1995 U.S. Marines rescued Captain Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Swaziland, Botswana : Commonwealth Day
Massachusett : Children's Day (Sunday)
Shelby, Mich : National Asparagus Festival (Thursday)
Great Britain : Queen's official birthday (National Day)(Saturday)
National Fishing Week (Day 3)
National Humor Week (Day 4)
National Fragrance Week (Day 4)
National Bathroom Reading Week (Day 3)
Cancer in the Sun Month

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Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of St Chlodulph
RC : Feast of St. Medard, bishop/confessor

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Religious History
1536 Ten Articles of Religion were published by the English clergy, in support of Henry VIII's Declaration of Supremacy. The Anglican Church had begun defining its doctrinal distinctions, after breaking with Roman Catholicism.
1810 Birth of German composer Robert A. Schumann, who composed the sacred tune CANONBURY, to which is commonly sung the hymn, 'Lord Speak to Me That I May Speak.'
1942 Unevangelized Fields Mission (UFM) was incorporated in Philadelphia. Today this interdenominational mission agency works in a dozen countries in Latin America, Europe and Africa.
1973 The American Society of Missiology was founded in St. Louis. The ecumenical organization seeks to stimulate an academic interest in Christian missions, and publishes the journal 'Missiology: An International Review.'
1978 Through the voice of its president Spencer W. Kimball, the Mormon Church reversed a 148-year- long policy of spiritual discrimination against African-American leadership within the denomination.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Deputies: Sheriff's patrol car stolen by ride-along guest

COMPTON, Calif. A man who had just finished a ride-along with a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy stole the patrol car early today while it was briefly unattended and led deputies on a chase through three cities.

Twenty-year-old Steven Funderburk told Deputy Alexander Miller he was an Explorer Scout with the Long Beach Police Department and developed a good rapport with the deputy during the ride-along.

When the deputy's shift ended after one a-m, Funderburk asked to retrieve his bag from the car in the parking lot. When Miller returned to check on Funderburk, the patrol car was gone.

Miller was able to talk to Funderburk on the patrol car's radio and convince him to surrender without incident after a chase that went through Compton, Long Beach and Westminster.

The Long Beach Police Department has no record of Funderburk being an Explorer Scout there.

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Thought for the day :
"Would that government spent our money like it was their own."