FReeper Canteen - Scuttlebutt - 17 Feb 2011

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[AZamericonnie]

 

 

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Thre Cruise Diary

DEAR DIARY - DAY 1

All packed for the cruise ship -- all my nicest dresses, swimsuits, short sets. Really, really exciting. Our local Red Hat chapter - The Late Bloomers decided on this "all-girls" trip. It will be my first one, - and I can't wait!

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DEAR DIARY - DAY 2

Entire day at sea, beautiful. Saw whales and dolphins. Met the Captain today -- seems like a very nice man.

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DEAR DIARY - DAY 3

At the pool today. Did some shuffleboard, hit golf balls off the deck.. Captain invited me to join him at his table for dinner. Felt honored and had a wonderful time. He is very attractive and attentive.

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DEAR DIARY - DAY 4

Won $800.00 in the ship's casino. Captain asked me to have dinner with him in his own cabin. Had a scrumptious meal complete with caviar and champagne. He asked me to stay the night, but I declined. Told him I could not be unfaithful to my husband. --------------------------------------------------------------

DEAR DIARY - DAY 5

Pool again today. Got sunburned, and I went inside to drink at piano-bar, stayed there for rest of day. Captain saw me, bought me several large drinks. Really is quite charming. Again asked me to visit his cabin for the night. Again I declined. He told me, if I did not let him have his way with me, he would sink the ship.... I was shocked.

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DEAR DIARY - DAY 6

Today I saved 2600 lives. Twice.

 

HBO Documentary - The Battle for Marjah Thursday Feb 17th

In February 2010, US Marines launched Afghanistan: Operation Moshtarak, the biggest operation since the start of the Afghanistan war, whose main target was the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, a town in Helmand province. Journalist Ben Anderson, who spent two months with the American forces, offers an extraordinarily intimate look at the brutal realities of modern-day warfare in the harrowing documentary The Battle for Marjah, debuting Thursday, Feb. 17 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, marking the first anniversary of this historic battle.

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*Trailer*

 

On This Day....

454 At a grand feast, Philip the Good of Burgundy takes the "vow of the pheasant," by which he swears to fight the Turks.

1598 Boris Godunov, the boyar of Tarar origin, is elected czar in succession to his brother-in-law Fydor.

1720 Spain signs the Treaty of the Hague with the Quadruple Alliance ending a war that was begun in 1718.

1801 The House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie and chooses Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr.

1864 The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

1865 The South Carolina capital city, Columbia, is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through.

1909 Apache chief Geronimo dies of pneumonia at age 80, while still in captivity at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

1919 Germany signs an armistice giving up territory in Poland.

1925 The first issue of Harold Ross' magazine, The New Yorker, hits the stands, selling for 15 cents a copy.

1933 The League of Nations censures Japan in a worldwide broadcast.

1935 Thirty-one prisoners escape an Oklahoma prison after murdering a guard. .

1938 The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theatre in London.

1944 U.S forces land on Eniwetok atoll in the South Pacific.

1945 Gen. MacArthur's troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines.

1951 Packard introduces its "250" Chassis Convertible.

1955 Britain announces its ability to make hydrogen bombs.

1959 The United States launches its first weather station in space, Vanguard II.

1960 Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott.

1963 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall.

1969 Russia and Peru sign their first trade accord.

1973 President Richard Nixon names Patrick Gray director of the FBI.

1975 Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gough, valued at $5 million, is stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan.

1979 China begins a "pedagogical" war against Vietnam. It will last until March.

1985 Murray Haydon becomes the third person to receive an artificial heart.

 

 

 

[HopeandGlory]

Good morning Troops, Veterans and Canteeners.

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Our Flag Flying Proudly One Nation Under God

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Lord, Please Bless Our Troops, They're fighting for our Freedom.

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God Bless Our Republic

Prayers going up

[PROCON]

Yo!

[AZamericonnie]

Supporting our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
at more than 1,000 places across the U. S. and around the world.

~Tribute to Our Troops~

[oldteen]

Evenin’ Connie! *hugs*

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening Hope & thank you for our pledge! *hugs*

Hand over heart & prayers up!

a 1

[AZamericonnie]

Yo-Yo Pro!:)

Good evening Pro...*hugs*

a 2

[AZamericonnie]

And a very good evening to you Teenie girl & hope you had a lovely day! *hugs*

a 3

[Bean Counter]

Could be trouble brewing...just got this via e-mail from Military.com....

http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2011/02/2012-military-pay-raise-or-pay-freeze/?ESRC=navy-a.nl

2012 Military Pay Raise or Pay Freeze?

February 15, 2011 • Terry Howell

The president’s 2012 bud­get request includes a pro­posal for a 1.6% mil­i­tary pay raise for 2012. While larger than last year’s mil­i­tary pay increase, the 2012 pro­posed mil­i­tary pay increase is the sec­ond small­est since 1962 and given the cur­rent bud­get envi­ron­ment many sus­pect that con­gress is con­sid­er­ing a freeze.

As reported here, a recent Con­gres­sional Bud­get Office report says that mil­i­tary pay is higher than most fed­eral employ­ees, and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has sig­naled a desire to freeze mil­i­tary salaries at the 2011 rate.

Check out the 2012 pro­posed mil­i­tary pay charts (at the link) to see what a 1.6% raise would mean to your mil­i­tary pay­check.

[PROCON]

Hi Connie and thanks for the Scuttlebutt.

I didn't get the cruise joke right away....LOL!

[AZamericonnie]

I have got to go get dinner started....back in a bitsie!

[oldteen]

Hiya FRiend! *hugs*

Yo!

That's it?

No bells, whistle, or graphics tonight?

Are you feelin' OK? :)

[oldteen]

We should still be here when you return! :)

[oldteen]

I didn't get the cruise joke right away

That's as funny as the joke! LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[PROCON]

Hiya Teenie!!

Just Yo, I didn't have time to be creative tonight..:=)

You getting the rain we're getting? Maybe even a little snow before winter's over here!

What's up on your end?!

[oldteen]

It's ugly here as well!

Rainy, windy and cold!

We too may get some snow...ugh!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, AZ, for today's Scuttlebutt.

[ConorMacNessa]

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[oldteen]

Good evening, Bean Counter!

Not a good thing there!