USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Adopt a Military Unit ~ November 20 2002

68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub and FRiends of the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on a flag to "Adopt a Military Unit"

Army	Navy	Marines	Air Force	Coast Guard

[Kathy in Alaska]

Bless This House hummed along with this morning, twice because I love this song for our USO Canteen, and Prayer of Protection said for all who enter the USO Canteen Freeper Style, including our troops, our veterans, their families and our allies. Welcome to all who come to honor our troops, for whom this USO Canteen was created.

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you

The love of God enfold you

The power of God protect you

The presence of God watch over you

Wherever you are, God is,

And all is well.

Amen.

Wherever you are, God is, And all is well.

[Soaring Feather]

Wherever you are, God is, And all is well.

[southerngrit]

Thanks for the good news about your Dad. I'm glad he is doing better. My husband had disk surgery on his neck a few years back and was stuck in a neck brace from just after Easter until the 4th of July. He was SO miserable, and, as 'they' say:

"When Daddy ain't happy, ain't nobody happy"

Hope your Dad continues to improve.

[Kathy in Alaska]

"He turns to the bartender and says, "Right Lou?"

Now, tom, that is funny. I like it.

[Soaring Feather]

Sun is shinning bright and beautifully here today, first time in three or four days it has come out!

Whooo Hoooo

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Meek, for my morning cup of hot chocolate.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, lodwick, for stopping in to honor our troops.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Aeronaut and Otto! Thanks for the daily flyover of protection.

[amom]

received via email...FWIW


A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert Quotes" contest.
They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real life

Dilbert-type managers. Here are the finalists:

1. "As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using
individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and
employees will receive their cards in two weeks."

2. "What I need is a list of specific unknown problems
we will encounter."

3. "E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or
data. It should be used only for company business."


4. "This project is so important, we can't let things
that are more important interfere with it."

5. "Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the
schedule."

6. "No one will believe you solved this problem in one
day! We've been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks
and I'll let you know when it's time to tell them."

7. "My Boss spent the entire weekend retyping a
25-page proposal that only needed corrections. She claims the disk I gave
her was damaged and she couldn't edit it. The disk I gave her was
write-protected."

8. Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people
doing what I say."
9. My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled
for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died on purpose so that I would
have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could
change her burial to Friday.
He said, "That would be better for me."

10. "We know that communication is a problem, but the
company is not going to discuss it with the employees."

11. We recently received a memo from senior management
saying: "This is to inform you that a memo will be issued today regarding
the memo mentioned above."

12. One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report
to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would
be soon enough. He said, "If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until
tomorrow to ask for it!"

13. As director of communications, I was asked to
prepare a memo reviewing our company's training programs and materials. In
the body of the memo in one of the sentences I mentioned the "pedagogical
approach" used by one of the training manuals. The day after I routed the
memo to the executive committee, I was called into the HR director's office,
and told that the executive vice president wanted me out of the building by
lunch. When I asked why, I was told that she wouldn't stand for perverts
(pedophiles?) working in her company. Finally, he showed me her copy of the
memo, with her demand that I be fired-and the word "pedagogical" circled in
red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once he
looked the word up in his dictionary and made a copy of the definition to
send back to her, he told me not to worry. He would take care of it. Two
days later, a memo to the entire staff came out directing us that no words,
which could not be found in Sunday newspaper could be used in company memos.
A month later, I resigned. In accordance with company policy, I created my
resignation memo by pasting words together from the Sunday paper.

[amom]

Gotta run. Y'all have a great day.

And you folks out there keeping us free. SALUTE!!

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Kathy. Good to see you.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, aomagrat, for today's history of bentfeather's Dad's ship, USS Fogg.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Morning, IG, thanks for stopping in to support our troops.

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning, Kathy. It's my pleasure.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Great pictures of our military "at work". Thanks, tom.

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

Well report off World Tribune is reporting that US giving tons of miltary techs to Israel to defend themselves against possible attack by Saddam

Also report off Hareetz wire IDF been busy while we were sleep here in Good ole USA report is that they busted known Hezollah bomb maker

Dude was going down bomb on Israeli temple near Wailing wall

BUSTED ITTTTT

[Kathy in Alaska]

Now this looks like fun, and everybody will be comfy and can speed and be safe.

[snippy_about_it]

For images (these must be on a web server, not your hard drive, if the image is on your hard drive, you are the only one that can see it. You can post photos from google or yahoo but eventually they will go away when taken off their server).

< img src="http://www.freerepublic.com/images/usocanteen.jpg" >

Following the above example will post an image but don't leave any spaces before or after the < > like I did. If you need to know how to capture the image, click on the image once then right click your mouse, select properties and then copy the address (URL).

To post the image type <img src="paste address here surrounded by qoute marks then close with > <p> To try it, copy and paste the url I have as an example but remove the spaces after and before the < > and you should get the canteen logo.<p> Hope that helps.

[snippy_about_it]

News update from around the world;

PRAGUE - U.S. President George W. Bush said he would call on NATO allies to help him disarm Saddam Hussein should the Iraqi leader refuse to give up the deadly arsenal Washington believes he has concealed. Speaking at a joint news conference with Czech President Vaclav Havel, Bush said NATO members would consider the consequences for Iraq of any failure to comply with a new U.N. disarmament resolution at a summit in Prague on Thursday.

LARNACA, Cyprus - Top U.N. arms inspectors arrived in Cyprus from Baghdad with an Iraqi pledge to co-operate fully in a renewed search for any weapons of mass destruction.

LONDON - The British government said it had received a request from Washington for troops to take part in a possible Iraqi military campaign. But Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon stressed that did not mean war against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was inevitable.

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LA CORUNA, Spain - A second big oil slick was forming around the wreck of the Prestige, threatening Spain's northwest coast with further environmental devastation a week after the tanker first got into difficulty. It took some 60,000 tonnes of viscous fuel oil to the bottom of the Atlantic when it finally broke up on Tuesday, priming an ecological time-bomb for the scenic shores of Galicia. Already blackened by a first spill over the past week, they face what may be one of the world's worst ever incidents of oil pollution.

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JERUSALEM - Dovish former general Amram Mitzna savoured victory in the race to lead Israel's Labour Party but faced a tough battle against right-wing opponents tipped to win a January election. Labour's choice of the Haifa mayor, who has vowed to begin dismantling Jewish settlements if he becomes prime minister, pulls the centre-left party further towards the peace camp and away from the hawkish policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

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SEOUL - South Korea said its navy fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat that had briefly crossed the Koreas' disputed maritime border in pursuit of Chinese fishing vessels.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia issued orders extending the detention of Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, suspected of involvement in church bombings in 2000 and a plot to kill President Megawati Sukarnoputri, until the end of the year.

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TEHRAN - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's reformist allies have said they could push for a rare referendum if two bills challenging the hardliners' grip on power were vetoed by conservatives.

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LOME - Ivory Coast's rebels dismissed the government's offer of a referendum on the constitution as far short of the total political change they demand to end their war and give up their guns. Making his biggest concession yet to rebel demands, President Laurent Gbagbo said on Tuesday that a referendum on revising the West African country's constitution would be held within about a year.

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HAMBURG, Germany - A witness in the trial of a Moroccan charged with helping the September 11 attacks was accused of misleading a German court after he retracted evidence that he saw co-plotters in Afghanistan.

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TOKYO - The United Nations' food aid agency said it urgently needed help from aid donors to feed millions of North Koreans, who face the coming winter with meagre food and fuel supplies.

Reuters 11/20/2002

[John Lenin]