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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-19-02
Billie, JohnHuang2 and daisyscarlett | JohnHuang2

Posted on 12/18/2002 11:06:46 PM PST by daisyscarlett




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



We now have eleven groups of veterans/active military; we will post each group of three or four twice a week, with thumbnail/links of the remaining seven or eight groups on each thread. Click on any of the thumbnails below to see the group full-size.

         

GROUP 5A: TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68. MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797. BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack.
GROUP 6A: TOP:  g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett. MIDDLE:  fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick, Leroy S Mort, Mark17. BOTTOM:  Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau.
GROUP 7A: TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam, dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony.BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang.
GROUP 8A: TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx. MIDDLE:  The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law. BOTTOM:  deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.
      

GROUP 9A: TOP: Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog. MIDDLE:  Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son. BOTTOM:  JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.
GROUP 10A: TOP: dakine's wife, MeeknMing's dad, Auntbee's nephew, MilitiaMan7, AlasBabylon. BOTTOM:  Joe Brower, Temple Owl, Temple Owl's wife, dutchess' dad, Aomagrat.
GROUP 11A: TOP: ladtx #2 son; DiverDave's twin Don; petuniasevan and husband poorman; Mustard; ladtx #1 son. BOTTOM: AlamoGirl's brother Floyd; AG's dad; AG's brother Jim (inset); WVNan's husband; ladtx' Aunt Eva.




                     








Gore's calls it quits: Bad news for the White House?

by JohnHuang2

Well, I guess you can say that it was just too good -- way too good -- to be true. A rematch with Sore-Loserman, that is. Now I'm really worried -- very, very worried -- on the prospects of holding the White House in '04.
The former Veep, whom the media maintains was the real winner in 2000 because every recount of Florida ballots showed that Bush got more votes than Gore which doesn't really count because we know it was all part of some right-wing plot to steal the election, made it official Sunday: I'm out.

In a taped 8-minute interview on the CBS news show 60 Minutes, Gore, the father of the internet, said he was still gung-ho on "ending" the evil Bush administration, which he accused of using war in Iraq which isn't a war to take the focus off the recession which isn't a recession.

"I personally have the energy and the drive and the ambition to make another campaign," Gore assured a sad and dejected looking Lesley Stahl.
Okay, so what's the problem then?
Gore put it this way: "While I have the energy and drive to go out there and do it again, I think that there are a lot of people within the Democratic Party who felt exhausted by that."
Well, there you have it, folks. His party won't let him, you see. Poor Al. It's bad enough when the country rejects ya, and that FOXNEWS and Rush Limbaugh and the Washington Times and Rubert Murdock are 'out to get' ya, but now even your own people are dissing ya! Sheesh.
So, now it's a Vast, Right-Left-wing Conspiracy keeping Al out of the White House. Well, at least he can say he's united the country on one thing: We don't want Al!
Polls had Gore well ahead of the pack for the nomination, but Party money-men were telling Al to stay out. Wow, some "Democratic" Party, eh?
Gore said he didn't want the contest to be about the past. Odd statement, given that's all his party seems be doing these days: Dwelling on Trent Lott and the past.
"Gore's decision was not good news for the White House," reports David Broder in the Washington Post. Of course, had Gore decided to run, the Goebbels-wannabe would still say, 'Gore's decision to run was not good news for the White House.'
Broder's brilliant logic goes something like this: Gore is too much of a light-weight to have a snowball's chance in a rematch with Bush, but light-weight Gore would mop the floor with powerful heavy-weight challengers for the nomination. Comprende now?
Okay, it may sound contradictory, but Methinks Broder's on to something this time.
Gore's decision potentially could spell big trouble for Bush.
How? Well, have you seen the field of ultra-heavy weights Bush'll be up against?

First up, John F. KKerry, whom polls show to be the odds-on-favorite for the nomination now that Gore is out. Why, just that name alone is enough to keep White House political strategists lying awake at night.
They're worried and I'm worried and for good reason: History. We all remember what happened last time a Bush ran against a juggernaut from Massachusetts, don't we? H.W. Bush got stomped. Oops, I mean Michael Dukakis got stomped -- by a landslide 54%-46% and 426 electoral votes. Not since Martin Van Buren succeeded Andrew Jackson in 1836 had a sitting Veep won the Big One.
Okay, so the White House probably relishes the prospects of Kerry as Dukakis II, but what about Bush up against super-dooper heavy-weight Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, hmmmm?
Don't laugh. Check out how skillfully Edwards answers critics who charge he's too inexperienced in foreign policy: "I've been to Iowa, New Hampshire and other countries like that many times. Next week I'm off to California -- a country of 30 million people! Heck, I'm so good at this foreign policy-ing stuff I think I can hammer out a Texas-Oklahoma peace deal in my first six months in the White House."
Asked his position on Kyoto, he wondered, 'is that that Chinese restaurant on the corner of Washington Avenue?'
See what I mean? Be afraid, be very afraid.
Gov. Howard Dean of Jumpin' Jeffords Vermont?
Another heavy-weight to keep an eye on. If he decides to run, I guarantee you he'll give Bush a run for his money, believe me.
What? He's already thrown his hat in the ring? Well, I didn't know that.
Okay, okay, so Gov. Dean isn't exactly a power-house. But just wait till people south of the Mason-Dixon get to know him -- especially his support for civil union for same-sex couples. That'll make him wildly popular in states like Georgia. I can just see it now, people across Tennessee, Kentucky and Louisiana chanting, 'We want Howard! We love Howard!' You'll see.
Tom Daschle is said to be mulling a run, too. Tom Daschle! Now there's a winner, folks. Daschle, who couldn't even hold the Senate in '02 says he's a good bet to win the White House in '04.
See if you can follow this: From media accounts, Daschle is considering challenging Bush because Bush is so popular in South Dakota that he fears being swept from his Senate seat in a Bush '04 re-election tide. Gee, so Tommy fears Bush coattails in South Dakota, but won't have any problem unseating Bush in the rest of the country, right? One thing worries me, though: Daschle is said to be getting campaign advice from George 'I-Couldn't-Even-Win-My-Home-State-Of-South-Dakota-In-'72' McGovern.

Oh, well, what about Joe Lieberman?
Joe who?
Anyway, that's...
My two cents..











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To: lodwick
Well, Sean doesn't ARCHIEVE all his shows either.
61 posted on 12/19/2002 8:41:40 AM PST by lodwick
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To: lodwick
Today America supports a racialist value system for minorities while demanding a democratic expansion of the white imagination. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus can embrace "blackness" and demand government preferences exclusively for their race. Remove the double standard and Trent Lott looks perfectly innocent by comparison.

But in the end a man cannot be redeemed by a moral equivalence. That those who ask Sen. Lott to imagine beyond his race do not do so themselves is no consolation.
Shelby Steele's article "Of Race and Imagination." I pinged you to it. If we want to have a more lengthy debate on this -- and I'm game if you are -- that's probably a thread more on-topic than Freeper's Finest. The question isn't whether we have the best solutions -- we do. The question is how to persuade others to join us.
62 posted on 12/19/2002 8:53:00 AM PST by FreeTheHostages
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To: lodwick
Conservatives have to to take off the gloves and call out the 'ratbastards on each and every one of their lies - enough's enough.

We've done that -- but what African Americans want to know and will listen to is why we're better. Not just why the Democrats are playing race cards and race-baiting. But what is it about *us* that makes us better.

As a trial lawyer, just in terms of persuading people, I was always taught that you don't make your case on cross-examination. You make it on direct. You defend it on cross-examination. We have to show why we're Right, not just why they're wrong. Again, I hold up Jeb Bush as a successful role model for this.
63 posted on 12/19/2002 8:58:29 AM PST by FreeTheHostages
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To: lodwick; JohnHuang2; All
LOL! Welcome to the 2004 Campaign Election Strategy thread! John, this is kinda on-topic, isn't it?
64 posted on 12/19/2002 8:59:17 AM PST by FreeTheHostages
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To: daisyscarlett; ST.LOUIE1; Mama_Bear; Billie
Hello!!!!! Well, the last of the boxes got mailed off today. All the Christmas cards are mailed and the Tree is up. Whew! All that's left to do is shop for the grandkids.

I see the Ex-Creep president is in the news bad mouthing the Republicans. Clinton "IS" the first black president, he should know about race issues, right?

65 posted on 12/19/2002 9:27:46 AM PST by Teacup
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To: Teacup
He's still a CREEP!
66 posted on 12/19/2002 9:31:05 AM PST by Pippin
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To: FreeTheHostages; Mudboy Slim; no one in particular
Why conservatism is better than lying dim/lib/'ratism:

1. We rely on the truth, not lies.
2. We value freedom for all.
3. We understand that government exists through force.
4. We believe in the G*d of Abraham and His Son Jesus Christ, not Allah, not Buddha, and not mother nature.
5. We believe in the scanctity of the home,our families, our property, and our country.
6. We will kick your ass if you mess with #5.
7. We believe that you may choose to succeed or fail in this life.
8. We believe that you alone are responsible for the choices you make.
9. We believe in helping those physically or mentally unable to help themselves.
10. We know that there is good and that there is evil, and that we choose to be good instead of evil.

There's my top ten list.
67 posted on 12/19/2002 9:31:37 AM PST by lodwick
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To: lodwick
No need to improve on that list! :^)
68 posted on 12/19/2002 9:33:00 AM PST by Pippin
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To: lodwick
I'd vote for it. :)
69 posted on 12/19/2002 9:43:06 AM PST by FreeTheHostages
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To: FreeTheHostages; Pippin
Thanks guys - now off to deal with the laundry and other household challenges. bbl

Continue having a ball with it.


Tomorrow's Friday, Pips!
70 posted on 12/19/2002 9:53:05 AM PST by lodwick
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To: lodwick
TGIF tomorrow! :^)
71 posted on 12/19/2002 9:58:01 AM PST by Pippin
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To: JohnHuang2
Interesting article today. It's good to see you back.
72 posted on 12/19/2002 10:14:42 AM PST by Aquamarine
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To: daisyscarlett; Salvation; All
Thank you for the ping daisyscarlett (-:

Happy anniversary Salvation (-:

Hope everyone's having a nice day (-:

73 posted on 12/19/2002 10:19:38 AM PST by firewalk
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To: lodwick; FreeTheHostages; daisyscarlett; Mudboy Slim; JohnHuang2; All
O Little Town Of Bethlehem

Click on the pic

74 posted on 12/19/2002 10:44:14 AM PST by Aquamarine
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To: Aquamarine
Thank you. Beautiful.
75 posted on 12/19/2002 10:54:47 AM PST by FreeTheHostages
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To: Aquamarine
One of my favorites - thank you.
76 posted on 12/19/2002 10:54:55 AM PST by lodwick
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To: BeforeISleep; everyone

The sun, nearing winter solstice, travels low across the sky, from sunrise, at left, to sunset, in this multiple-exposure made at the Marshall Point Light, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2002, in St. George, Maine. The sun's position is recorded at 50-minute intervals during the short nine-hour day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)


77 posted on 12/19/2002 11:25:09 AM PST by lodwick
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To: lodwick
"Conservatives have to to take off the gloves and call out the 'ratbastards on each and every one of their lies - enough's enough."

IMHO, yer exactly Right...you wanna call me a Racist?! Say it to my face...MUD

78 posted on 12/19/2002 12:10:29 PM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: lodwick
Good top 10, my FRiend...and although we needn't debate the issue on this thread, I think #4 can be reworked slightly and still remain true, becuz I see no difference why a Muslim or a Buddhist or a Vegetarian cannot be Conservative regardless to whose words they accept as gospel.

FReegards...MUD

79 posted on 12/19/2002 12:13:34 PM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: Aquamarine
Thank you, my FRiend...MUD
80 posted on 12/19/2002 12:15:04 PM PST by Mudboy Slim
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