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FReeper Canteen - Scuttlebutt - 17 Feb 2011
A respite place for our troops, vets, military families & supporters! | The Canteen Crew

Posted on 02/16/2011 6:03:32 PM PST by AZamericonnie

 



 



At the FReeper Canteen!

C'mon and take a break ! Walk on over to the water cooler and lets chat. Post your thoughts, opinions, news of the day, rantings, ravings, pontificates, hypothesis, hyperboles, your soap box cause, your mantra, your baggage, your garbage, your blogging, your secrets, whatever you feel would make talk around the water cooler real interesting!

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.  

 

 




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.

 

 




 




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To: LUV W

Has that ‘crowd’ been well feed prior to the unveiling?

I do hope so....

I’ve yet to come up for air so trusting you on the moon glow. *hugs*


121 posted on 02/16/2011 8:20:48 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie

So far so good. It feels that way right now *hugs*


122 posted on 02/16/2011 8:22:18 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: TASMANIANRED
And a very good evening to you Tazilla...a good shift this evening? *hugs*

A cute vid to check out

123 posted on 02/16/2011 8:24:52 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

ROFL!! Sounds like a plan to me! :)

Got any of those oreos left in the corner of the package?


124 posted on 02/16/2011 8:25:26 PM PST by luvie (No Compromise!)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN
Evenin' MS.B! *hugs*

How's things?

125 posted on 02/16/2011 8:26:57 PM PST by oldteen
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To: Kathy in Alaska

So far.


126 posted on 02/16/2011 8:27:18 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: PROCON
Night PRO! *hugs*

Rest well!

Have a great tomorrow!

127 posted on 02/16/2011 8:29:30 PM PST by oldteen
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To: MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W; mylife; TASMANIANRED; Kathy in Alaska
"The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started and have never finished."

Sounds like an enlighted path to nirvana to me! ROFLCOPTER!

128 posted on 02/16/2011 8:30:18 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie

LOL...poor little thing!


129 posted on 02/16/2011 8:31:21 PM PST by oldteen
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To: SandRat

That’s great news Sandy...how is the family eating without you there????? :)


130 posted on 02/16/2011 8:32:29 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie

I would donate EXTRA birdseed for that baptism. :)


131 posted on 02/16/2011 8:35:00 PM PST by luvie (No Compromise!)
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To: oldteen
Teenie this is an old one but just in case you haven't seen it....never fails to entertain!:)

Don't touch my bone!

132 posted on 02/16/2011 8:36:35 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie

I don’t know, probably a lot of eating out.


133 posted on 02/16/2011 8:37:42 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: AZamericonnie; MS.BEHAVIN; TASMANIANRED; LUV W; SandRat

Good evening to you! My Dad’s meds just may be starting to have some effect. I’ve seen a smile the last 2 days, and no blank stares. My Mom said he’s finding things to do without direction. The weekend will be a big test.


134 posted on 02/16/2011 8:40:11 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: LUV W

No Oreos left..
I’ll share my Valentine candy, though!


135 posted on 02/16/2011 8:40:18 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Praise the Lord! What good news this is! Baby steps...but
definitely in the right direction. You and your mom are saints! :)


136 posted on 02/16/2011 8:42:15 PM PST by luvie (No Compromise!)
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To: AZamericonnie

LOL...can you imagine the hours of entertainment that dog would bring?


137 posted on 02/16/2011 8:42:18 PM PST by oldteen
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

Mmmmm...sounds like a plan! :D


138 posted on 02/16/2011 8:43:50 PM PST by luvie (No Compromise!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Crossing my fingers


139 posted on 02/16/2011 8:45:19 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

Hmmmm....that’s a lot of unfinished projects. LOL!


140 posted on 02/16/2011 8:45:45 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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