FreeRepublic Fundraiser -- Important -- FreeRepublic NEEDS Your Help! (Thread 43)

8/31 -- 9/5/2001 | Topaz & Ron C.

[1John]

One funkle, two funkle, three funkle, four funkle, FIVE!

Tah dah!! There it is! A FAIR FUNKLE! And on a major thread! No responses in nearly a whole hour!! Wow! I did it!

Of course, it just may be bad breath or something.........

[1John]

Or not.........

[RottiBiz]

Seeing your beautiful dog again reminded me that I was going to post my favorite dog story for you. Here goes:

A burglar broke into a house one night. He shone his flashlight around looking for valuables. When he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying, "Jesus is watching you."

He jumped out of his skin, clicked his flashlight off and froze. When he heard nothing more after a bit, he shook his head, promised himself a vacation after the next big score, then clicked the light back on and began searching for more valuables.

Just as he pulled the stereo out so he could disconnect the wires, clear as a bell he heard, "Jesus is watching you." Totally rattled, he shone his light around frantically, looking for the source of the voice. Finally, in a corner of the room, his flashlight beam came to rest on a parrot.

"Did you say that?" he hissed at the parrot.

"Yes," the parrot confessed, then squawked, "I'm just trying to warn you."

The burglar relaxed. "Warn me, huh? Who do you think you are, anyway?"

"Moses," replied the bird.

"Moses," the burglar laughed. "What kind of stupid people would name a parrot 'Moses'?"

The bird promptly answered: "The same kind of people that would name a Rottweiler 'Jesus'!"

[1John]

A new thread for a new day! Sounds great!

[lodwick]

Beautiful Texas Hill Country! Thank you for all your great shots, JL

[firewalk]

lol! I thought we lost you for a minute there. New thread coming up, be patient with me...I'm still sleeping. :-)

[Coop]

Great photo! Sweetie looks like an awesome dog.

[firewalk]

NEW THREAD

[Bryan]

THREAD 44

It's easy to forget little details like that in light of the big news story that is breaking now.

From the Associated Press:
Grand total 266 dead on the aircraft.

–American Airlines Flight 11: A Boeing 767 en route from Boston to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 81 passengers, nine flight attendants and two pilots. The location of the crash has not been determined.

–American Airlines Flight 77: A Boeing 757 en route from Dulles Airport near Washington to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots. The location of the crash has not been determined.

–United Airlines Flight 93: A Boeing 757, crashed southeast of Pittsburgh while en route from Newark, N.J. to San Francisco. The plane was carrying 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants.

–United Airlines Flight 175: A Boeing 767. The flight was bound from Boston to Los Angeles. It was carrying 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants. The airline would not say where the plane crashed.

I expect that every American airport will now look and operate like an Israeli airport. Bear in mind that about 50,000 people work in the World Trade Center and this happened in the middle of an ordinary day of business. Fortunately there was about a one-hour delay between the impacts and the collapse of the towers. A lot of the people in the towers probably got out alive.

At least 266 people died on the aircraft. A total of two United aircraft and two American Airlines aircraft have crashed, and all Freepers are encouraged to pray for the families of those killed and injured. Relief efforts, particularly donations of blood, deserve our immediate support.

It is possible that the losses at Pearl Harbor will pale in comparison to this unbelievably dastardly attack. Total killed at Pearl Harbor, as I recall, were about 2,000. Over 12 times that many were working in the WTC at the time of the attack.

One of the government spokesmen pointed out that all four flights were from the East Coast to California, and that "the bastards knew they would be loaded with fuel." NBC's Tim Russert is reporting from Washington that there is "unprecedented anger" in response to this attack, but they "don't know where or how to channel it." I anticipate that we will know very soon, and that our response will be devastating.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

Well, NOW SOMEONE TELLS ME WHAT GOOD KIDS ARE FOR. I guess I better get me one. Any ideas where? And don't tell me anything about hubby, I can't find one. At least not a decent one.