A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....10-23-02

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[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest.....
......Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!

And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.

TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete
MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1

TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet

MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga

BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc

TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette

MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid

BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf

TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP

MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian

BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma

TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68

MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797
BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack

                     

Maureen Dowd -- All The Drool that's fit to...

JohnHuang2

Dowdy's latest rant, The Soufflé Doctrine, reminds me of that age-old axiom, 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'

Poor gal. You almost feel pity for the miserable wretch.

For Dowdy, life just isn't the same anymore, not after sweetheart Michael Douglas traded the weather-beaten battle-ax for shiny heartthrob Catherine Zeta-Jones. Michael, adding insult to injury, calls the swap a bargain.

And what a b-o-r-i-n-g life. Even George Burns (1896-1996) has a better sex life.

Her evenings are about as monotonous as Al Gore speeches.

Her typical night? Going-a-begging, scouring for crumbs of comfort. It's either bar-hopping with the Hampton set, or hanging out with Annette Bening, Ron Silver, Richard Dreyfuss and Bianca Jagger. Dowdy calls it 'staying in touch' with the common man, something Warren Beatty taught her.

Once home, after tripping and stumbling around in a fruitless zigzag search for the computer, the sozzled hag droops over onto her couch, drunker than Teddy Kennedy on St. Patrick's Day.

Through the Bourbon mist, the pie-eyed shrew notices the Power Mac on the coffee table right in front of her, keyboard still sticky after spilling a bottle of viagra-laced Jack Daniels the last time around. In a burst of maniacal delirium, the mad-as-a-hatter scribbler imagined the keyboard had morphed into Michael's puckered lips.

She puts down the bottle this time, though, and starts banging and whacking the keys away in a frenzy, shrieking and moaning at the top of her croaky voice as she goes.

Neighbors say that's how you know Dowdy's penning yet another hate-Bush bleat, especially when she squawks, "Michael! Michael! Why, you son-of-a-(rhymes with itch)! I'll teach you yet!"

But I think I understand what's eating Dowdy, frazzled that Bush's popularity still rates higher than her I.Q. The problem is 7-fold:

• 1) Bush ain't no felon.
• 2) Bush ain't no perjurer.
• 3) Bush ain't no traitor.
• 4) Bush ain't no coward.
• 5) Bush ain't no crook.
• 6) Bush ain't no liar.
• 7) Bush ain't no rapist.

In other words, George W., as Dowdy sees it, has some serious character flaws, not the least of which is that he loves his family -- including (gasp!) his wife!

'What?! No dress-staining, bimbo-chaser defiling the People's House? That's defining morality up. No way, can't have that,' says Dowdy.

Speaking of which, Dowdy-Democrats love to wallow in "moral" crusades, untethered to any substance. To give meaning to her life, Dowdy now fancies herself the keyboard warrioress, doing her part, battling bravely the world's most odious regime -- Bush's.

She's an "army", all right -- an army of none.

Dowdy -- petty, childish, irrelevant -- has become a caricature of ... Dowdy.

Small wonder.

For the weather, you see the weather pages.

For sports, you open the sport pages.

For fashion, you find the fashion pages.

But for no-fact pap, Dowdy's column is the place to go.

Her stuff has all the substance of Diet Coke. Indeed, between Dowdy and "Barbra", the only difference is a spell-check.

'She ain't playing with a full deck,' some say.

I say, what deck?

Her columns are living proof you don't need pea brains to string drivel together into sentences. Dowdy's the little engine -- that couldn't.

The unfettered hate which flows from her Bush-bashing harangues illustrate another point: You don't need to scour caves in Tora-Bora for remnants of al-Qaeda: Pravda West swarms with Taliban-wannabes.

I thought of using Dowdy's column as bird-cage liner.

My bird felt insulted. 'Get that no-talent out of here!'

Dowdy, O Dowdy, hate to burst your bubble, but outside the Beltway, no-one gives a lick what you think. Smear and innuendo from smarmy partisan hacks like you weigh nothing in the balance.

And only shows your pitifully thin grasp of reality. As you try to fill the hate-Bush niche, your tiresome, predictable one-track pony-ism is wearing numbingly dull.

In closing, here's 4 sincere words of advice: Get a life, already.

Gotta hand it to the New York Times, All The Drool That's Fit To Spit.

Anyway, that's...

My two cents...

THIS WEEK'S THREADs

10-21-02 International Profile Pages
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[Billie]

[Billie]

Good morning and welcome to the Finest! Our Finest Writer is here today instead of Thursday for this week only. Come read John's latest - you'll love it!

[Billie]

Happy Anniversary!

[Mudboy Slim]

Howdy...MUD

[lodwick]

Islamorada FL sunrise

[Mudboy Slim]

"For Dowdy, life just isn't the same anymore, not after sweetheart Michael Douglas traded the weather-beaten battle-ax for shiny heartthrob Catherine Zeta-Jones. Michael, adding insult to injury, calls the swap a bargain."

BWAHAHAHAHA...yep, sorta like tradin' in Molly Ivins fer Ann Coulter...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

And a fine good mornin' to you, my FRiend...MUD

[ladtx]

In memory of my fellow Vietnam helicopter pilots who were killed in that war the following were lost on todays date. God bless them all.

1965 MAJ Norman A. Leikam -- B/2/20 ARA 1 CAV, Age 33, Hays, Kansas
1965 CW2 Vann D. Sherrill -- 118 AHC, Age 31, Thomasville, North Carolina
1969 WO1 Andrew J. Abramson -- A/4/77 ARA 101 ABN, Age 22, Lake Oswego, Oregon
1969 WO1 Gerald L. Young -- A/4/77 ARA 101 ABN, Age 31, Ft Worth, Texas

WO1 Abramson and WO1 Young were killed when the engine in their AH-1G Cobra failed, rotor RPM decayed to such a point as to make a successful autorotational landing impossible. Both were killed on impact.

In memory of WO1's Abramson and Young and A/4/77 ARA 101 ABN "Dragons"

A/4/77 (and the 4/77 Bn.) was formed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in May 1968. The initial pilots (most of whom came right out of flight school) went through two additional weeks of training learning aerial rocketry at Ft. Rucker, Alabama on the old UH-1A's & B's before they were sent to Ft. Sill. The newly-formed "A" Battery was then issued UH-1C helicopters which had the improved "540" main rotor system. In November, 1968, the unit ferried their Hueys to Stockton, CA where the aircraft (and a few cadre) were placed aboard the "Jeep Carrier", U.S.S. Kula Gulf. A month later the Kula Gulf docked at Da Nang where the aircraft were flown to their new home with the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) at Camp Eagle. Soon after arrival in Vietnam, however, the unit was given new Bell AH-1G Huey Cobra helicopters. This upgrade occured in late February, 1969. In March (or April) of 1970, the unit was relocated to nearby Phu Bai. In January 1972, A/4/77 (along with the entire 101st Abn. Div.) "Stood Down" and returned to Ft. Campbell, KY.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLADE

SCOUTS OUT!

[Temple Owl]

Good morning Billie. Ladies. Have a good one.

[EternalVigilance]

An 'I-can-only-take-two-minutes-from-campaigning-against-socialist-DemocRATS' BUMP!!

;-)

Have a great day, my friend---we all need to pray for deliverence on the 5th...

...pray like it depends on God (cause ultimately it does), but work like it depends on us (cause that's what He expects us to do).

EV

[mhking]

Good morning all - I'm stuck at home nursing a head cold.

[lodwick]

Good morning everyone - two weeks till decision day for America.

[Mixer]

I can not believe I have been here one full year. I hope there will be plenty more years to come. Thanks for noticing my Anniversary Billie {HUGS}

Wow that is really mixed-up. I guess that is what it would be like to look at my signature from the back :-) Have a great day everyone!

[lodwick]

Rib-sticking breakfast today.

[Mixer]

Breakfast in Ireland...Thanks Lodwick

[Billie]

Good morning, Mr. Slim. Coffee or tea or hot chocolate (thanks Meekie) for all!:)

[Billie]

Hi, Sunshinerise Man! Ok, Sunshine, too! You make our thread sunny every day!

[Billie]

Thanks are hardly enough for what you do every day, but thank you. We appreciate you so much, and your memorials are even more meaningful now that you've added the extra details. God Bless their families, and God Bless you for remembering them.

[daisyscarlett]

You nailed Mo pretty good. Rush did a number on her on Monday, too. He says she uses bourbon for mouthwash....And that picture of her has got to be a glamour shot....She turned 50 this year, no way she looks that good. Meoww......

Love you being here every week, Your Majesty. Hope your computer woes are soon over...I miss you in the wee hours....

[Mudboy Slim]

"...two weeks till decision day for America."

Heck, two weeks from today, I'll be nursin' a hangover from celebratin' the GOP's retaking the Senate from the RATS, as well as picking up 15-25 seats in the House!!

FReegards...MUD