USO Canteen FReeper Style....Themeless Thursday.... July 11,2002

SAMWolf

[Snow Bunny]

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Welcome to the USO Canteen FReeper Style

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Message from Snow Bunny to all those who visit the Canteen.

This is how I think of the USO Canteen Freeper Style.
It is like a cottage down a road,
a place where a weary veteran can spend the night.

Since it opened, it is magical how so many
Freepers who post here, feel it too.
It has been so dear how the Freepers
kept making it a cottage - a home-type of place
that had a huge living room
for them to visit in and a dance floor, a library, etc.

Many Veterans have written to me,
saying that the Canteen is like home
to them for the first time since they served.

This is your Canteen -
a respite from our busy
and sometimes troubling world.
Make yourself at home.

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Thank you SAMWolf for creating the Themeless Thursday.
Thank you Coteblanche for creating the intro with the Canteen Cottage.

"I'm in a Canteen state of mind"

[sleavelessinseattle]

No psychopathic, potential dictator would dare to cross us, as long as we are armed.

SB, I'd love to take you and your kids shooting someday...I have an AR-10 with a 16 inch barrel and muzzle brake to boot...Lets just say if You're worried that your kids are going to get hooked on heavy bass Rap Music...20 rounds of .308 will give them all the THUMP they'll ever need. Talk about FUN!!!..

My brother took me shooting from 8yrs old and up and it taught me responsibility and the connection between action and consequences...Short of parachuting, I know of no other more concrete example to engender the command "PAY ATTENTION or you could DIE...RIGHT NOW" with the proper authenticity...Today's youth seem to think they are protected from the laws of physics...its a Dangerous Delusion...I hope they survive to learn that pain hurts and poor decisions can have consequences that can outlive the actor...

[SassyMom]

Oh WOW! Great picture!

[sleavelessinseattle]

Greetings Cote!

Craftsmen buy tools
to capture beauty in things
Poets make their own.

[SassyMom]

ROFLMHO....!!!!!!! That is tooooo funny!

[tomkow6]

See! I'm just in FULL contact with my primal self!

[Ed_NYC]

John Basilone Stamp Drive Petition

John Basilone won the Medal of Honor on Guadalcanal. He went home as part of a war bond drive but pushed to get back into combat. He died on Iwo Jima and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross which is one down from the Medal of Honor. This petition is to have a stamp issued in his honor. Believe it or not - the sponsors are having a hard time with this effort and it has been going on for quite some time. Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley stamps take priority!

Please sign it on-line and pass the link.

USMC

SEMPER FI!

[ValerieUSA]

Hi Misty - the picture I posted last night wasn't from Oregon, but the other side of the country. I just got home from a trip to the eastern states and that is a photo of the Great Smoky Mountains from N. Carolina.
Here's a picture from the Mountain Farm Museum:

[JustAmy]

Thanks COB

I'm Proud to Be an American!!!

GOD Bless Our Military!!
GOD Bless America !!!

[JustAmy]

I hope the heat doesn't keep too many, of those expected, at home with the air conditioner.
Our military spends more than 2 or 3 days a year in adverse contitions. So what's a couple of hours?

[MeekOneGOP]

Mark Steyn: Bush pulls it off again
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/714410/posts

Excerpt:

For Bush, it’s a win–win situation. If the Palestinians elect the Hamas crowd, he can say, ‘Fine, I respect your choice. Call me back when you decide to put self-government before self-detonation.’ If they opt for plausible state and municipal legislators, Bush will have re-established an important principle: that when the Americans sign on to nation-building they do so only to bring into being functioning democratic, civilised states — as they did with postwar Germany and Japan. Who’s to say it couldn’t work in Palestine? Not being a colonial power, the Americans don’t have that win-a-few-lose-a-few attitude — here a Canada, there a Zimbabwe — that the British have. So the Bush plan is perfect: heads we win, tails you lose. That’s also how some of these other international questions are being framed: heads, the International Criminal Court will be modified to our satisfaction; tails, we won’t have to do any more lousy UN peacekeeping.

The question Matthew Parris might like to ask as he weeds his borders is why could no European leader make a speech like that? How did it come about that the entire EU reflexively stuck with an aging terrorist who cancelled the last scheduled elections? Which bear is really the one with the little brain? The one who in under three weeks has changed the dynamic of the Palestinian question? Or the one whose gags are as stale as his world view?

Europeans expend an awful lot of energy explaining why nothing can change: it’s ‘absurdly ignorant’ even to suggest getting rid of Arafat; it’s preposterous to pursue ‘crackpot’ (John Simpson) plans for missile defence because it would ‘humiliate’ the Russians. But Bush went ahead, and the Russians are fine about it, and Yasser’s packing, and, behind the scenes, the Aussies and Canucks and not a few others are relieved that the unilateralist cowboy has killed Kyoto. Bush tosses a pebble in the water and the ripples spread across the lake; the EU drops a huge rock of conventional wisdom and it sinks without trace. I’ve said before that, if America is Coke, the world could use a Pepsi. If the EU doesn’t have the will to fulfil that role militarily, it could at least try to do it intellectually, with a bit of fresh creative thinking about some of these issues. But instead it clings to 1970s terrorists, 1970s missile treaties and 1970s environmental doom-mongering. Poor old Europe: never mind walking the walk, it can’t even talk the talk.

[MeekOneGOP]

JOHN McCAIN WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION

etherzone | 11 jul 02 | Todd Brendan Fahey

Posted on 07/11/2002 11:13 AM Central by white trash redneck

Excerpt:

Sources close to Senator John McCain, speaking on condition of anonymity, have signaled over the weekend that he will not seek reelection as Arizona's senior elected official in the next election cycle, 2004. Various factors were cited, including health, dwindling popularity amongst the state's GOP voters, and lack of cash-on-hand in his reelection war chest. Mr. McCain suffers from recurrent melanoma, and has undergone several surgeries since his failed year-2000 Presidential candidacy, for treatment and removal of the virulent form of skin cancer.

It is not known when Mr. McCain plans to make a formal announcement.

[MeekOneGOP]

Oops! Bad link. Here's the link to that McCain story

Well, Oops, again. Look at this:

This thread was removed from view on 07/11/2002 3:46 AM Central by Admin Moderator, reason:
Todd Brendan Fahey

[MeekOneGOP]

And that story had over 60 replies too.......

[lodwick]

Grandmother Avenges Granddaughter's Rape

81 year old demonstrates remarkable pistol skills. ;-)