A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....01-27,28,29-06....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. : )

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"Getting to Know You"

THIS WEEK'S THREADS


01-23-06 ~ Military Monday
By Billie
Presented by The Mayor

01-24-06 ~ A Birders' Eye View
ByGodBlessUSA

01-25,26-06 ~ Winter Poetry and Potpourri
By JustAmy

01-26-06 ~ Winter Poetry and Potpourri cont'd (Post #355)
Democrats' campaign to justify not spying on terrorists intensifies
By JohnHuang2
Presented by Aquamarine

Have a wonderful weekend!

12-28-05 ~ Hall of Fame #14

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

[luvie]

Hope it will be helpful to you! :o)

[snugs]

Indeed looking forward to spring, I walked to town this morning and our local park looked so bare no flowers and no leaves on the trees

[snugs]

Just had a look at the website pretty impressive

[snugs]

I was at work and we could not believe what we were hearing over the radio that they had on on the shop floor, cannot remember who told us but it was certainly a shock.

[snugs]

That must have awful to see the trail it must have made you feel sick to the pit of your stomach

[The Mayor]

Why Thanks Snugs, this is only the beginning and much more to come. Those are my hands and bathroom. I have been wanting to fix the rotten work since we moved here.

[luvie]

It did. I just felt so helpless as I watched it fading into the sky. Of course the tragedy had already happened when I saw it, but I knew what it was. *sigh*

[snugs]

In a way the fact it had already happened and you knew what the con trails were must have made it even worse.

[LadyX]

Luvvy, your table with remembrance of the Challenger Disaster is just beautiful.
However, there has been a bit of confusion generated, later replies
"reminiscing about the day it happened over Texas."

Knowing you were getting ready for work and posted in haste, the Challenger Disaster did happen 20 years ago today - in 1986 - but was not in Texas.

Because I lived in Brevard County before Cape Canaveral became the Space Center, from 1943 to 1952, and from 1957 to 1961, I saw and heard many of the early space flights, as well as the one to the moon in the 60's.

That included the first manned ones, and the one with the first man to go into orbit. My two sons were in grade school then, and they were taken outdoors from class to see launches.

The Columbia Disaster happened a mere 73 seconds after the lift off from Cape Canaveral, and the seven Astronauts aboard perished.
The most publicized was the first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe.

Actually, the anniversary of the Columbia Disaster is this coming week, on February 1st, and of course it was the one over Texas we remember so vividly.
The year was 2003, and thus this February 1st will be the Third Anniversary.

No doubt God has special resting places of honor for all those who dare/dared to explore the heavens above us, and now holds the perished in His hands - -

[LadyX]

Here's a gem, Your Honor, from a dear friend in Florida - -

Why Go To Church?

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.
"I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.
But I do know this ... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"

When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!

When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say,
"Jesus, could you get that for me?"

[Dubya]

Great Post.

[La Enchiladita]

I thought I had responded earlier (but not, I guess) to say:

That eskimo legend is a beautiful thought. Thanks for posting it.

[Texagirl4W]

How very lovely and inspiring, Lady. Thanks for the ping.

[Temple Owl]

I remember that day like it was yesterday. Good post. Thank you.

[The Mayor]

That was excellent! Thank you..

That pic of the clouds is awesome!

[MEG33]

We weren't confusing the two..#168
Nice thread here on the Challenger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1566877/posts
Remembering the Challenger 20 years later: Beautiful tribute by the Washington Post
The Washington Post ^ | January 28, 2006

[LadyX]

Terry worked for me in Ft. Pierce, Florida in 1972-73, and became my Little Sister, the friendship lasting after all these years. God arranges this, I believe, for His "Down The Road" reasons...:)

I was a Department Manager with Sears, and at the time it was my practice to browse in an Almanac, each day reading on break a section, and committing it to memory. Terry was interested, and began doing it, too, each day - and we would exchange our Little Facts in the Employee Break Room, thus doubling our Things Learned.

Before long, other employees would stop us and demand
The Interesting Fact of the Day. Great cultural exchanges!

Fast forward to 1979 when I went to Moses Cone Hospital, hired as a Department Secretary, helping the new Director create the newly independent Department.

One day, having finished my immediate work, I reached for my Almanac, and Woody flippantly said, "Give the Almanac to me, and we'll see how much you know!"

The very day before, I had been dabbling in chronological history back in the 300's and 400's B.C. - would you believe that is where he went to quiz me?!!

Boy, was he ever impressed when I rattled off a string of ancient events..:)

Knowledge can be fun, and even more so these days when you can "Ask Jeeves" and cruise through Google for graphics, like The Hands of God clouds!

[hildy123]

I am currently at Al Asad Air Base and I see these planes always on the go every day. I work near the air field.

[LadyX]

I sincerely apologize, Meggsie, seeing now you did refer to the Columbia in your reply!
(blaming it on VSL - very little sleep most nights -'kay?...:)

[LadyX]

God bless and protect you, Hildy123, wherever you are working.

Love your tagline - "(Bring back Patton)"

Patton was definitely "one of a kind,"
with no thought of having to be "Politically Correct."