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July 4th fireworks scrapped
at a number of bases
Associated Press ^
| 6/30/13
| Jennifer C. Kerr
Posted on 06/30/2013 5:27:06 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON- The Fourth of July won´t have a patriotic boom in the sky over some military bases because budget cuts and furloughed workers also mean furloughed fireworks. Independence Day celebrations have been canceled at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base and at the Army´s Fort Bragg, both in North Carolina. The annual July Fourth celebration also has been scrapped at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Ga. The reason is money - namely the lack of it. The failure in Washington to follow up a 2011 budget pact with additional spending cuts meant $85 billion across-the-board cuts
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bases; fireworks; scrapped
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What kind of CiC would run to Africa on the 150 year anniversary of Gettysburg, run up a tab of a $100 million for the trip, propose $7b in African aid, and then tell the men who let him sleep soundly in his bed at night to piss off?
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:27:06 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:27:41 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Nachum
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:29:06 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Nachum
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:29:22 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Nachum
What kind of CiC would run to Africa on the 150 year anniversary of Gettysburg, run up a tab of a $100 million for the trip, propose $7b in African aid, and then tell the men who let him sleep soundly in his bed at night to piss off? The one we gots?
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:31:48 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: Nachum
I guess we just can’t afford the “red glare.”
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:33:11 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Universal Background Check -> Registration -> Confiscation -> Oppression -> Extermination)
To: Nachum
Wow. Obama is really sticking it to the military.
Oh well.
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:33:52 PM PDT
by
RginTN
To: Nachum
But Obumbler told Africa today he would give them 7 billion for clean energy.
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:35:52 PM PDT
by
ncfool
(Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)
To: Nachum
Kenyan Despot 0bama sez ...
$100 million vacation for me an mine,
Budget cuts for thee and thine.
Must be nice.
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:37:18 PM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
To: BenLurkin
you’ve been official reported to the NSA. Duck for incoming drones.
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:37:32 PM PDT
by
ncfool
(Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)
To: Nachum
The country as a whole asked for this, and continues to allow this. No sympathy. Buy more ammo.
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:37:53 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
(Buy more ammo.)
To: Nachum
A traitor and illegal immigrant, thats who.
To: Nachum
Outside the back gate of Camp Lejeune a business has on their sign:
'No fireworks due to sequestration but obama has a $100 million vacation'
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:39:07 PM PDT
by
Repeat Offender
(What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
To: Nachum
I wish the would have canceled the 4th on the mall in DC. That would have riled up America. But the dictator was too smart to do that, instead take it out on the military again.
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:42:09 PM PDT
by
ncfool
(Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)
To: Nachum
Why an America hating, military despising, freedom loathing, history revising douche bag! Or in other words Barry O.
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:43:42 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Nachum
But Gay Pride Month was fully funded. Priorities.
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:45:14 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
To: Nachum
Obama is on his 100 million dollar vacation and has offered Africa 7 billion dollars. We’re broke? pshaw...
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:55:11 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We supplied all the condoms. .
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posted on
06/30/2013 5:58:02 PM PDT
by
ncfool
(Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)
To: Nachum
“What kind of CiC would run to Africa on the 150 year anniversary of Gettysburg,”
________________________________________
A Marxist illegal immigrant.
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posted on
06/30/2013 6:07:37 PM PDT
by
AlexW
To: Nachum
Yes, that slightly smaller increase in the budget, which was the Won’s idea in the first place, is a real bloodletting. How about we go back to Bill Clinton spending levels for a start, adjusted for inflation, and start cutting from there?
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posted on
06/30/2013 6:11:22 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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