A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....10-07,08,09-05....T.G.I.F. at the Finest

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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Welcome to TGIF at the Finest!   We hope you've been having as much fun as we have with our essays and/or spotlight on various FReepers. From the beginning, we've been kicking back on Saturdays and Sundays and simply reviewing the features of the week; our weekend threads now start on Friday and continue through Sunday. If you missed seeing any of this week's threads and want to say hello there now, just click on the link for that particular day. If you'd like to drop in and out of this thread today through Sunday, please feel free to do that also. One of us will try to be around to see the welcome mat is still out, put the coffee pot on, and maybe even bring fresh flowers for the table. : )

~ Billie, Dutchess, Dolly Cali, Mama_Bear ~



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"Getting to Know You"

THIS WEEK'S THREADS


10-03-05 ~ Military Monday
By Billie
Presented by The Mayor

10-04-05 ~ Welcome ~ and Another Fascinating Question!
By Billie

10-05-05 ~ MOVING Stories from FReepers
ByDollyCali

10-06-05 ~ Experts hopelessly stuck in Harriet Quag-Miers
By JohnHuang2
Presented byDutchess

Have a wonderful weekend!

09-27-05 ~ Hall of Fame #13

Click on the photo to view the album. To submit your photo, please contact dansangel or .45Man at danbh59@yahoo.com and include Freeper Photo Album in subject line.

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

"Wear Red" Friday

You will soon see a lot of people wearing Red on Fridays. Here's why..... The Americans, who support our troops, are the silent majority. We are not "organized" to reflect who we are, or to reflect what our opinions are. Many Americans, like yourself, and all their friends, simply want to recognize that Americans support our troops. Our idea of showing our solidarity and support for our troops is starting Friday and continuing on each and every Friday, until this is over, that every red-blooded American who supports our young men and women, WEAR SOMETHING RED.

Word of mouth, press, TV -- let's see if we can make the United States, on any given Friday, a sea of red much like a home football game at a University. If every one of our memberships share this with other acquaintances, fellow workers, friends, and neighbors, I guarantee that it will not be long before the USA will be covered in RED - and make our troops know there are many people thinking of their well-being. You will feel better all day Friday when you wear Red! So let's get the word out and lead by example; wear RED on Fridays.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE. FOR US, THEIR BLOOD RUNS RED!! GOD BLESS AMERICA.

received this in my email June 10th, the author is unknown.
I am wearing red today and every Friday ~ Billie

[GodBlessUSA]

Great table Mrs. N!! :)

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning Billie,
That is so Beautiful! :)

[OESY]

Wearing red and wearing thin, and just plain wearing (center):



"Sittin' heah, ah know ah'm doin' all ah can to help y'all, but ah must do moh.
If y'all could jus follow Alan Colmes's advice and get rid of the twenty-second
amendment, ah would reach out, and ah'd grab da problem, and ah'd shake it and
ah'd twist it -- like this -- until it yelled 'Uncle Fuddly, stop it!' Yup, dat's what ah'd do."

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Thanks.:)

[tuliptree76]

Here are the holidays for the weekend.

Oct 7:
Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend (October 7-9, 2005)
Firefighters Day (National, US)
World Egg Day
Send A Smile Day
Bathtub Day
Frappe Day

Oct 8:
Tube Top Day [It's too cold for that here!]
Pumpkin Festival (Oklahoma)

Oct 9:
Children's Day
Leif Erikson Day
Clergy Appreciation Day
Afghanistan has it's first ever free, democratic elections, October 9, 2004

[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498199/posts
Good Morning to the Finest!
Code Words: Daniel Pearl-- President Bush's Speech ILLUSTRATED
White House ^ | 10/6/05 | Cinnamon Girl


Posted on 10/07/2005 12:28:07 AM CDT by Cinnamon Girl


This is a "don't miss"!

[The Mayor]

October 7, 2005

Right Spirit

Read:
Luke 12:4-7

Fear Him who . . . has power to cast into hell. . . . Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. —Luke 12:5,7

Bible In One Year: Zechariah 11-14

I once read some theology on the bumper of a car in front of me. It said, "If you go to hell, don't blame Jesus!" The slogan apparently was an attempt by the driver to do some evangelism. I gave him credit for trying, but I wondered if those who saw that warning felt it was put there in love.

Reverend Newman Smith had a doctrinal dispute with Baptist preacher Robert Hall. So Smith wrote a stinging pamphlet denouncing Hall. Unable to select an appropriate title, he sent the pamphlet to a friend and asked him for a suggestion.

Smith had previously written a tract called "Come To Jesus." After his friend read his bitter tirade against Hall, he sent it back with a brief note. "The title I suggest for your pamphlet is this: 'Go to Hell' by the author of 'Come To Jesus.'"

One of the most disturbing assertions in the Bible is that men and women who reject Jesus will spend eternity separated from God. Even more unsettling, virtually everything we know about hell comes from the lips of Jesus. Yet when Jesus spoke of hell, He did so with accents of love.

When we witness to our neighbors, we should ask ourselves these questions: "Is this what God wants me to say?" and "Is this how He wants me to say it?" —Haddon Robinson

Give me a spirit of love today
In everything that I do and say;
I would be loving and kind and true,
Asking myself what Jesus would do. —Hess

Difficult truth should be wrapped in the language of love.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
When Anger Burns

[LadyX]

..:)

OESY duz it - - agin -
LOL

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Thank you for the link MEG.

Great read.

[GodBlessUSA]

Thank you so much MEG33.
Book marked for a more detailed read later.

I can't stand those pictures of those in the east celebrating. I'd love to punch that lady.

[MEG33]

I thought it was great, too!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

:)

[MEG33]

Indeed!

[tuliptree76]

Thank you for the link.

[tuliptree76]

Good morning, Mayor. Thank you for the Our Daily Bread Post. I hope you are having a good Friday.

[OESY]

I am the egg man

September 14, 2005

THE world record for balancing the most number of eggs on their end at one time has been cracked in Melbourne.

American Brian Spotts, who travelled from Colorado for the Guinness Book of Records attempt, began his feat at 6pm and finished 15 hours later after standing 439 eggs on end.

He succeeded in breaking the former record of 420 and also claimed the record for "fastest time to balance a dozen eggs" in four minutes, two seconds.

Mr Spotts said he started balancing eggs in fifth grade when his brother told him it was an easy thing to do on the Equinox – the first day of spring or autumn.

"The day is equal to the night and supposedly the gravity is vertical that day, but it really doesn't make any difference, it doesn't have any effect on the egg," he said.

But it was something that caught the boy's fancy and he still balances eggs now he's a father to newborn Tyler, and works a day job, hanging window coverings.

"It was mostly just something fun to do," Mr Spotts says of his foray into egg balancing.

"When you did it everyone usually gave you that amazed look, like wooh, what'd you do with that egg. Everyone knows what eggs are but they don't think about balancing them."

Happy World Egg Day!

[JustAmy]

Good morning, Meg.

Thanks for the link; it was a great speech and was very well presented.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

[MEG33]

Thank you, Amy!

[citizensgratitude]

luv our troops !!

Pray for them today folks...got my red on !

[JustAmy]

Is it time for breakfast?
Happy World Egg Day!

I'll have mine scrambled with toast and sausage.