Getting what you wish for

My e-mail friend Priscilla | Unkown

[3AngelaD]

Does anyone know if Roosevelt was indeed closed?

[edcoil]

"U.S. Navy, get out of Puerto Rico."

Most of us wish we were as successful with the "USA out of the UN" issue.

[3AngelaD]

Couldn't agree more. Move it to Caracas.

[EagleUSA]

The stupidity and uselessness of the liberals never ceases to amaze me -- and somehow they survive...

[coon2000]

Paybacks are hell.

[everyvotecounts]

ping for later - excellent email

[Doogle]

it's true..a skeleton crew of about 200 remains until it's handed over.


bon veorgy


Doogle

[Fatuncle]

"Does anyone know if Roosevelt was indeed closed?"

The station was closed on March 31, 2004.

[zimdog]

Also, here are some statistics and conclusions about a different subject. If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.

Our troops in Iraq are heavily armed and live in military bases. DC residents do not.

[thubb]

close the bases where we're not needed nor wanted. they can all get stuffed anyway. i grew up in singapore for the first third of my life and wondered why the u.s. didn't have a base there like the poms and the aussies - afterall, we were sandwiched between 2 nutter muzzie countries - malaysia and indonesia. thankfully, singapore and the u.s. got smart and opened up a small base there.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Our troops in Iraq are heavily armed and live in military bases. DC residents do not.

Yet!

[Obadiah]

and somehow they survive...

Mind boggling, isn't it?

[Prime Choice]

The story you posted was slightly embellished, but is largely true.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/vieques.asp

[MdPoke]

Where did you get the firearm death statistic's?

[3AngelaD]

I did not write this, so I did not "get" the firearm death rate. It is probably fairly easy to find on the internet.

[Hegemony Cricket]

They said, "Don't come back here, Yankee!"

But if I ever do, I'll bring more money, cuz all she wants to do is dance (and make romance)

[Fatuncle]

... and somehow they survive...

A common misconception. They are no longer alive. They merely vote.

[lakeman]

Vieques. Yes I remember that little island well as a young Sgt. of Marines in the early eighties. I was doing DF work on a hilltop and was bit in the neck by a tarantula while laying on my poncho liner catching a little shut eye. I felt something on my neck, reached up and got a handful of hairy spider. When I grabbed him he nailed me. I screamed like a little girl, LOL, radioed for a chopper, jeep, mule or gaucho to haul me to a medic and the LT. calmly told me "Suck it up Marine they aren't deadly just painful". I still laugh about it to this day LOL. Took some ribbing for the call until they saw the fang marks on my neck.

[GreenAccord]

Also, here are some statistics and conclusions about a different subject. If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The email isn't specifically dated, but the 22 month mark in Iraq would have happened in January, 2005. This isn't one of those round the world emails, is it? I thought the Puerto Rico story was about that old anyway.

Ah, the laws of unintended consequences. Gets the libs every time.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

If the Lord was looking for a place to give the Earth an enema, Vieques would be a top candidate.