[MoJo2001]

 

 

OPERATION SEASON'S GREETINGS BEGINS

In order to bring a "little piece of home" to our Troops overseas, we have joined our resources with ProudPatriots.com to kickoff our campaign.

Below we will explain to you everything you will need to know in order to help us bring some joy and happiness to our Troops.

Thank you to everyone that has already enthusiastically signed up to help. We greatly appreciate everything!

How can I help?

First, anything that you send is greatly appreciated.

Here are some of the items that have been requested:

- Phone cards (International)

- Music CD's, any genre including Christian to Rap music

- Books (Paperback or hardcover)
**Please steer clear of political books**

- DVD's (any genre of movies, but no pornography)

- Electronic handheld games (can be found at Walmart, Target, or Kmart)
**Make sure to send batteries as well**

- Socks (any size, they will fit someone)

- T-shirts (brown for work)
**We thought it would be cool if our Troops received a t-shirt from various States to show that the support is nationwide. Or you can make them at home and send them along!

- Portable MP3 or CD players
(Maybe several folks can go in together to do this.)
- Portable DVD or regular DVD players
**Also a project that a group of people could put together**
 

- Any XBox, GameCube, PS2 (Playstation 2) PSOne, DreamCast, Nintendo64, or Gameboy games. (Instead of buying new, you can find many used games locally at game stores. Make sure they aren't scratched, but they are just as good as a new one and cheaper.)

-Crossword puzzlebooks or any kind of brain teaser games.

- Footballs, Nerf footballs, soccer balls, basketballs, or baseball gloves, baseballs, or frisbees

- Christmas decorations

- Hanukkah decorations

***FOOD***

The weather is cooling down and therefore, CHOCOLATE is in order.

Any homemade cookies, candies, fudge, or brownies are greatly appreciated. We would ask that you package it in a tin with no rattling.

Any type of NATURAL Jerky is greatly appreciated as well. NO PORK.

Any type of candy bar, hard candy, or the like is also greatly appreciated.

***IMPORTANT***
Please pack everything in baggies.
 

As we get more requests from overseas, we will add to the list.

 

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW!!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Most people don't realize just how important a little something from home is to our men and women. Especially during the holiday season. It can be the difference between having another lonely day or having a wonderful holiday.

Items will be collected until November 15th, 2004.

If you would like to make a donation, you can do so at The Proud Patriots (please scroll down to the bottom).

If you would like to send a gift card, you may do so either online to proudpatriots@proudpatriots.com or you can send it to the address below. Thank you!

All items can be shipped to the following address:


Proud Patriots
26 Towne Centre Way
# 741
Hampton, VA 23666

After the items are received, they will be delivered to NCTAMS LANT DET HRDS where they will be packaged and sent to our various contacts in the region. Most of these items will go to specific units or to one of our designated Chaplains.

The contact people at NCTAMS LANT DET HRDS are IT1 John Young and ITCS Steven Reeves.

What is Proud Patriots?

Proud Patriots.com was started to help bring outside organizations in to provide care packages for our Troops. We began ProudPatriots.com almost 6 months ago. It has been a labor of love and we are finally getting everything in order to help our Troops in any way we can.

You would probably recognize the members of ProudPatriots.com  because they are from our own Canteen. Anyone that is interested in joining our cause, please email us at proudpatriots@proudpatriots.com .

If you would like to print out copies of the letters for your work, business, Church, clubs, or schools, you can do so by clicking on the above logo. Thank you!

If you have any further questions, please FReepmail Kathy In Alaska, Brad's Gramma, HiJinx, or MoJo2001.

[tomkow6]

 

Today's FEEBLE

YOKE :

Ms Feather & TomKow were invited to join friends at a quaint inn over an hour's drive away. Then Ms Feather remembered that the last time she'd eaten there, her entree was tasteless, unevenly heated, and not well presented. It was far
from being a great dining experience.

When she explained why she didn't want to go, TomKow was supportive.

"You're right Ms Feather, if we want a lousy meal, we don't have to drive so far," he said.

"We can just stay here and you can cook."

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on November 02:
1470 King Edward V of England (1483); deposed, murdered? by Richard III
1734 Daniel Boone frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915)
1755 Marie-Antoinette Queen of France, let them eat cake
1795 James Knox Polk NC, 11th President (D) (1845-1849)
1815 George Boole mathematician (Boolean algebra)
1810 Andrew Atkinson Humphreys Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1812 Abraham I van Lier theater director (Gran Th‚ƒtre-van Lier)
1815 George Boole mathematician (Boolean algebra)
1822 James Byron Gordon Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1826 Robert Hopkins Hatton Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1826 William Haines Lytle Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1828 Byron Grimes Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1847 George Sorel French Socialist thinker, writer (violent revolutions)
1865 Warren Gamaliel Harding (R), 29th President (1921-23)
1885 Harlow Shapley US, astronomer (studied the galaxies)
1901 Paul Ford Baltimore MD, actor (Phil Silvers Show)
1906 Luchino Visconti Milan Italy, director (Damned, Death in Venice)
1911 Odysseus Elytis Greece, poet (Nobel 1979)
1913 Burt Lancaster NYC, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry)
1914 Ray Walston New Orleans LA, actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees)
1917 Durward Knowles England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968-Bahamas)
1921 Willaim D Schaefer Maryland, (Gov-D-MD)
1934 Ken Rosewall Sydney Australia, tennis star (US 1956)
1936 Rose Bird California Supreme Court Judge
1938 Patrick Buchanan conservative political columnist
1942 Shere Hite St Joseph Missouri, sex therapist (Hite Report)
1942 Stefanie Powers Hollywood Ca, actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart)
1944 Jeffrey A Hoffman Brooklyn NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-D, 35, sk:46)
1952 Kate Linder actress (Esther-Young & Restless)
1953 Alfre Woodard Tulsa OK, actress (St Elsewhere)
1958 Bobby Dall rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
1958 Willie McGee St Louis Card (1985 NL MVP)
1961 k.d. lang country singer (& the Reclines-Absolute Torch & Twang)
1963 Ines Diers German DR, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1967 Darla Michele Pruett Canton Georgia, Miss Georgia-America (1991)
1975 Danny Cooksey Moore OK, actor (Sam-Diff'rent Strokes)
1990 Natasha Smirnoff daughter of Yakov Smirnov

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Deaths which occurred on November 02:
1171 Dionysius bar Salibi author (Diarbekir), dies
1870 William F Brantly Confederate (brig-general), murdered at about 40
1887 Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano, dies at 67
1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
1961 James Thurber humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66
1966 Mississippi John Hurt Bluesman, dies at 73
1980 Edith Bunker dies on "All in the Family"
1980 Willie Sutton US bank robber, dies at 79
1984 Margie V Barfield, US murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years
1991 Irwin Allen, US director (Poseidon Adventure), dies
1992 Hal Roach, producer, dies of pneumonia at 100 He was credited with discovering the legendary comedy team of Laurel and Hardy and went on to produce the "Our Gang" and Keystone Kops comedies.

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 KLINE ROBERT E.---INDIANA PA.
1967 KNAPP FREDRIC W.---HUNTINGTON NY.
1967 MORROW RICHARD DAVID---SAN FRANCISCO CA.
[08/23/78 REMAINS RETURNED]
1967 WRIGHT JAMES J.---MERCED CA.
[08/23/78 REMAINS RETURNED]
1969 CHIRICHIGNO LUIS G.
[03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG, ALIVE IN 98]
1969 CARROLL PATRICK H.---ALLEN PARK MI.
1969 NOWICKI JAMES E.---WINTER PARK FL.
[03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG, ALIVE IN 98]
1969 PETERSON MICHAEL TERRY---REDMOND WA.
[12/10/69 SOME LISTS SAY REMAINS RECOVERED,RETURNEE ALIVE 1998]
1969 SHEPARD VERNON C.---TALMADGE OH
[12/10/69 RELEASED]
1969 WHITFORD LAWRENCE W. JR.---CEDAR FALLS IA.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0676 Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1355 English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais
1570 A tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people are killed.
1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia( the Ukraine)
1721 Peter the Great Becomes Emperor of Russia
1772 The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams
1783 Gen Washington bids farewell to his army
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen William Henry Harrison routes Indians
1824 Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J.Q. Adams
1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
1841 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
1880 James A Garfield (R) elected President
1889 North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes the 40th state
1898 Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1892 Lawmen surround outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf near Tahlequah, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). It will take dynamite and a cannon to dislodge the two from their cabin.
1904 British newspaper, "The Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1915 1st US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1916 Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France
1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on the air as 1st commercial radio station
1920 Warren G Harding elected President
1930 Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
1934 Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan
1936 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
1938 Babe Ruth applies for the job of St Louis Browns' manager
1942 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (Ger) in battle of Alamein (WW II)
1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
1947 Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time
1948 President Harry S Truman beats Republican challenger Thomas E Dewey for the U.S. Presidency, confounding pollsters and newspapers (the Chicago Daily Tribune wrongly publishes the famous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline)
1954 Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan's 1st black congressman
1954 JS Thurmond 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1955 Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus
1955 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli govt
1956 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 Israel captures Gaza and Sheham
1957 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
1959 Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21," was fixed
1960 Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
1962 JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
1969 NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Philadelphia 141-87)
1972 Construction begins on the Kingdome, Seattle
1976 Former Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter (D) defeats incumbent Gerald R Ford (R) in race for Presidency
1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
1983 Archbishop Hickey conducts papal investigation of Archbishop Hunthausen, Seattle
1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day
1987 Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
1988 Computer virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 Mexican radio station erroneously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988 Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of the year (3rd straight for Oakland A's)
1993 Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
1993 A new series of wildfires swept along the Southern California coast, destroying more than 300 homes in the exclusive community of Malibu.
1996 Britain announced a plan to ban ownership of large caliber handguns.
2001 Eleven firefighters are arrested, and five police officers injured, in a clash at the site of the World Trade Center when hundreds of firefighters and workers protest a reduction in the number of cleanup workers (the reduction is soon modified to permit more cleanup workers on the site than originally proposed

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Israel : Balfour Declaration Day (1917)
Mexico/Portugal : Dia de Muertos/Day of the Dead
North & South Dakota : Admission Day (1889)
Venezuela : Memorial Day
US : Fig Week (Day 2)
US : Broadcast Journalists Day.
US : Double Talk Week Begins
Peanut Butter Lover's Month

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Religious Observances
Ang, RC : All Souls' Day-Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
Christian : Commemoration of St Marcian

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Religious History
1164 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, 45, began a six_year self_imposed exile in France. Once a close friend of England's Henry II, Thomas had more recently become an outspoken opponent of the king's royal policies.
1600 Staunch Anglican theologian Richard Hooker died at 46. His last words were: 'God hath my daily petitions, for I am at peace with all men, and He is at peace with me... and this witness makes the thoughts of death joyful.'
1789 During the chaos of the French Revolution, the property of the Church in France was taken over by the state.
1830 A general convention of Methodist reformers opposed to the episcopal (i.e., bishop_led) form of church government met in Baltimore, MD, to establish the Protestant Methodist Church.
1917 British foreign secretary Arthur J. Balfour, 69, issued the Balfour Declaration, calling for "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." The document's recognition of a Jewish nationalism planted the seed which in 1948 led to an establishment of the modern state of Israel.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"On election day the promising season ends, and the excuse making season begins"

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Childrens Impression of Love...
WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?

"It's never okay to kiss a boy. They always slobber all over you...That's why I stopped doing it." (Jean, 10)

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Children's stories that never made it...
Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way

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Handy Latin Phrases...
Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

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Redefining the English language
Circumvent (n.)
The opening in the front of boxer shorts

[tomkow6]

 

Chicagoland Weather

November 02, 2004
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[tomkow6]

 

 

TomKow6 for Prez!

A VOTE for our TROOPS!

 

 

 

Vote for me & after I'm

ELECTED

I WILL REPEAL the dreaded

BEER TAX!

A vote for TomKow is a vote for.....

I'm TomKow6, and I approve this ad!

 

[Valin]

If I Were President, I Would?

Not a darn thing. In fact you wouldn't even know I was there.
I'm only in it for the money.

[Pippin]

ltes see.....!

If I were president I'd tell Michael Moore and others of his ilk to "Shove it!" LOL!

But seriously I would bann the income tax and do away with unlimited terms for US senaters and change voting day to Fridays and make it a Federal holiday. and increase term limits for presidents (especially the 43rd)

[NRA1995]

If I were President.....Fallujah would be reduced to sand and rubble

[I got the rope]

IF I WERE PRESIDENT I WOULD MOVE THE CAPITAL TO TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

SONORA, TEXAS!!!!

[GummyIII]

If I were President, I'd fire all the bureaucrats in D.C. (and elsewhere) including the DOE and IRS.

[Quix]

1) CALL TOGETHER THE 100 MOST SPIRITUALLY TUNED-IN CHRISTIANS IN THE NATION TO PRAISE GOD FOR HIS MERCY AND ASK FOR HIS WISDOM AND BLESSINGS over the Republic and in my administration.

2) I would ask them to establish a 24/7 WORSHIP/PRAISE TEAM IN A SAFE, CONVENIENT LOCATION.

3) --to insure that 8-12 of such people would be vetted with appropriate security clearnances and have dialogue with them for prayer in suitable crises.

4) --to prayerfully insure that the Secret Service was cleansed of any puppet master sleepers.

5) --to mobilize all people of faith against the tide of evil flooding our culture.

6) --to strengthen the military in key ways.

7) --to hinder and block efforts by national enemies around the world to destroy us at the puppet masters' directions.

8) --to strengthen home schooling and to block the destructiveness of the NEA.

9) --to expose and prosecute Billdo, Shrillery and all other high level traitors.

10) --to get a constitutional ammendment passed preventing all legislatures from containing more than 70% PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION of the percentage of lawyers in the relevant population. That is, if the legislature contained a 100 legislators; and if the proportion of the population of in that State was 10% of the State were lawyers; then there could be only 7 lawyer legislators.

11) --to get a constitutional ammendment passed preventing Supreme Court, all Federal and all State Supreme Court judges from being lawyers at all--0.00% lawyers in judge positions in such courts. They must be common people of local community proven IQ, WISDOM, HUMILITY AND FAIRNESS ACCORDING TO FAIRLY DERRIVED ACTUARIAL CRITERIA.

12) --to get a constitutional ammendment passed changing the tax laws at Federal levels and at State levels such that a national sales tax or other such tax would replace the IRS. I would include provision for retraining all the tax accountants and tax lawyers.

13) --to establish citizen ran review boards to provide seed money and venture capital for promising new technologies.

14) --to release all the zero-point energy data to allow for every home and vehicle to have virtually free energy.

15) --encourage every State and community to have a 24/7 prayer/worship team functioning in purity and potency around the clock 365 days a year.

16) --move to expose the complicity of the MSM in the destructiveness of our Republic and culture.

17) --move to distribute 25% of the Smithsonian's most priceless treasures to more secure locations around the nation.

18) --move to boost military pay when practical and until then to establish cooperative housing, child care with other individuals and groups of like minded military personnel to maximize mutual supportiveness and minimize hardship and suffering from low income.

19) --probably some things regarding China which I won't post given that I hope to be back in Taipei within the year.

20) --bolster our support of Israel every way possible.

[PjhCPA]

I would, by Executive Order, remove California and New York from the Union.

[RockinRight]

I would:

Repeal the income tax. Make it unconstitutional again. Replace with a FairTax type system.

Completely privatize Social Security

Obliterate terrorism, none of this "religion of peace" sh*t (love ya, W but let's get real)

Really tighten immigration

Get the US out of the UN, and UN out of the US

Many more but have to get to work!

[fritzz]

If I were President I would pay special tribute to the people of Free Republic.

I was going to start to name names, but honest to heck, I'd just get in trouble. I personally want to thank everyone for making each day a new day. The effort and time given to this site is appreciated. Since I just hover around and poke my head in once in a while, I thought this would be good time to say, thank you. A ((hug)) for all.

[MoJo2001]

Good morning everyone!
GO VOTE if you haven't already!

[MayflowerMadam]

If I were president I'd instruct the Federal Election Commission to get off their duffs and take every step possible to ensure a fair election in 2008. Learn the ways cheating is done, and close those gaps.

[Paperdoll]

If I were president I would
1. Get God back into the schools
2. Allow manger scenes at malls
3. Ban abortion
4. Close the borders for the duration
5. Get the US out of the UN
6. Repeal NAFTA & GAT
7. Then appoint GWB to take over the job

[StarCMC]

If I were president I'd declare tomorrow National Chocolate Day and make sure that calories/carbs/fat were three words banned from the English language for a minimum of 24 hours. How's that, Diva?????

[darkwing104]

Good evening Canteen FReepers! I voted today!

[Cooltouch]

If I were president, I would nuke Mecca and tell the purveyors of the "religion of peace" that Medina is next.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of the new thread