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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....02-18-03....Political Pictionary...Redux
Billie

Posted on 02/18/2003 5:48:59 AM PST by 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.

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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.



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



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.



TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68.
MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797
BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack



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 1A: TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1
GROUP 2A: TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc
GROUP 3A: TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf
GROUP 4A: TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma
      

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.




                     








Political Pictionary...
Redux



"Vini, Vici, Vidi"
(I came, I saw, I conquered)
~ William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar


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"Blessed is he who has learned
to laugh at himself, for he shall
never cease to be entertained."
~ John Powell


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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right,
for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be
damned if you do and damned if you don't."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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"Pleasure in the job puts
perfection in the work."
~ Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)


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"Better to have loved a short man
than never to have loved a tall."
~ David Chambless


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"Parents are the bones upon which
children sharpen their teeth."
~ Peter Ustinov


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"Ugliness is in a way superior
to beauty, because it lasts."
~ Serge Gainsbourg


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"If I seem to give a damn, please
tell me. I would hate to
give the wrong impression."
~ Haythum R. Khalid


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"Laws were made to be broken."
~ Christopher North


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Many of you may have seen these before, because I posted a thread called Political Pictionary on August 8, 2001, after posting one called Clinton Captionary on August 6th.  Sometimes we have a "short week" scheduled, which means that filler threads are necessary.  So if you've been there,  done that,  just think of these days as TV Reruns, and know that "this, too, shall pass", and new,  fun,  interesting stuff will be back - usually the next day!
Let me close with the official seal of the National Democratic Party, along with one last picture and a most fitting caption:


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"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty
sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
~ Ludwig wittgenstein (1889-1951)







THIS WEEK'S THREADS

02-17-03 President's Day

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping'
The guy's good, folks!
Thanks, Mixer!

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To: FreeTheHostages
As to whether I'm kicking dansangel, there's no proof of any sort! :)
For all we know, I'm a one-legged bear. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

LOL!!!

61 posted on 02/18/2003 8:28:11 AM PST by ST.LOUIE1
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To: BeforeISleep
Good morning, BIS! : )
62 posted on 02/18/2003 8:31:38 AM PST by ST.LOUIE1
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To: humblegunner
LOL!! Thank you! :^)
63 posted on 02/18/2003 8:37:42 AM PST by Pippin (Pippin: Warrior Hobbit!)
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To: jwfiv
Hi, JW!

That's a cozy picture!

64 posted on 02/18/2003 8:39:53 AM PST by Pippin (Pippin: Warrior Hobbit!)
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To: Inspectorette; All
hope everyone back East is not shoveling too hard - watch those backs and those hearts!!!

Morning, Inspectorette - I echo your words! Please be careful, all of you who have to get out in the snow and ice!

65 posted on 02/18/2003 8:47:45 AM PST by Billie (Proud of our President! Proud of our Armed Forces! Proud of our Country!)
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To: Billie; LadyX; Scuttlebutt; Fred Mertz; beowolf; razorback-bert; humblegunner; WVNan; Aquamarine; ..
Re: My tag line:

I've told this story before:

At a workshop with fellow psychotherapists years ago in Santa Fe Sid Ceasar and his daughter were featured speakers one evening.

Sid showed old film clips of his early live CBS TV show and said the pratfalls were actually real, that he was literally falling down drunk most nights. He acknowledged he was a total butthole in those days. The mutterings and acting lost that so pleased the audience were also real. He said he often forgot the script and some nights he would pass out on stage, causing the staff to drag him off and improvise from there. He was such a star and CBS trying so hard to make it in television in those days they would do anything he asked. He would demand a different brand of scotch at the last minute and some poor soul would have to run get it. Or, he would demand someone be fired and it would be done with no questions.

He showed a fairly recent clip of an interview with his early days co-star Imogene Coco. She cut no slack, saying he was the sorriest SOB she had ever met and she hated him, that he was the most obnoxious drunk she had ever met.

Sid told us about how he got in AA and found sobriety.

Sid’s daughter said he was never physically abusive but her entire childhood was miserable due to his verbal abuse and drunken behaviors. She spoke at length about what it was like being the child of a big star and how she had tried to change him and herself. She brought silence and then standing applause from the audience when she said,

“I finally became at peace with myself when I gave up all hope of a better yesterday.”

66 posted on 02/18/2003 8:49:49 AM PST by ofMagog (I finally became at peace with myself when I gave up all hope of a better yesterday.)
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To: ST.LOUIE1
Good morning, wolfie, thank you! You're pretty fun yourself - is this the cowboy wolf, the wolf wolf, or the saint today? :) (Doesn't matter - they're all fun!)

Glad you like the bear babes - just a'singin' and a'dancin' today - any requests? :)

67 posted on 02/18/2003 8:53:51 AM PST by Billie (Proud of our President! Proud of our Armed Forces! Proud of our Country!)
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To: jwfiv
Good morning, jw, thank you! Gosh, that is a cozy-looking room - perfect for a cold winter day! And that table of goodies is making me very hungry!
68 posted on 02/18/2003 8:57:01 AM PST by Billie (Proud of our President! Proud of our Armed Forces! Proud of our Country!)
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To: Billie
Good morning, wolfie, thank you! You're pretty fun yourself - is this the cowboy wolf, the wolf wolf, or the saint today? :)
(Doesn't matter - they're all fun!)

All are here today. Pick one. : )

Glad you like the bear babes - just a'singin' and a'dancin' today - any requests? :)

Well, my cowboy wolfie would like for them to sing....El-Paso. LOL

69 posted on 02/18/2003 9:01:56 AM PST by ST.LOUIE1
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To: Billie
Good afternoon Billie (-:
70 posted on 02/18/2003 9:09:04 AM PST by firewalk
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To: ST.LOUIE1
Good afternoon Mr. Wolf (-:
71 posted on 02/18/2003 9:09:45 AM PST by firewalk
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To: ofMagog
“I finally became at peace with myself when I gave up all hope of a better yesterday.”

Thanks for posting this, Cap. Interesting and poignant.

I like to watch the 'oldies' and have seen some of their old shows. Imogene Coco has to be one of the funniest comediennes ever.

72 posted on 02/18/2003 9:21:46 AM PST by ST.LOUIE1
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To: Billie
Morning, Meekie. Thanks for the hot drinks every morning. And thank God for Tony Blair and his strong support for our President!

And no more French Fries - I hear they're called Freedom Fries now!

Yes ! FREEDOM Fries ! I loved that. Oh, btw...here is yet ANOTHER gem by Mark Steyn today:

Mark Steyn: The curtain will come down on the peaceniks

Excerpt:

Hitler's problem was that he was over-invested in ideology. He'd invented a universal theory -- the wickedness of the international Jewish conspiracy -- and he persisted in fitting every square peg of cold hard reality into that theory's round hole. Thus, Churchill must be a "puppet of Jewry." As a general rule, when it's reality versus delusion, bet on reality. That held true in the Cold War. Moral equivalists like Harold Pinter insisted that America and the Soviet Union were both equally bad. But the traffic across the Berlin Wall was all one way. East German guards were not unduly overworked trying to keep people from getting in. The Eastern bloc collapsed because it was a lie, and the alternative wasn't.

Well, the Soviet Union's gone now so Pinter no longer has to observe the pox-on-both-their-houses niceties. Addressing the demonstrators on Saturday, he declared that the U.S. is "a country run by a bunch of criminals ... with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug."

Got that? It's not Saddam who's the thug, it's Tony. It's not the Baathist killers from Tikrit who are the bunch of criminals, it's the Republican Party. It's not the million-man murderer of Baghdad who's the new Hitler, it's George W. Bush. It's not the Iraqi one-party state with its government-controlled media that "crushes dissent," it's the White House. It's not the Wahhabis who are the fundamentalists, it's Bush, Blair and the other Christians. It's not Osama bin Laden who's the terrorist, it's American foreign policy. Supporting the continued enslavement of the Iraqi people is "pacifist," but it's "racist" for America to disagree with the UN, even though it's Colin Powell and Condi Rice doing the disagreeing and the fellows they're disagreeing with are a bunch of white guys from Europe.


73 posted on 02/18/2003 9:25:01 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye SADdam. You're soon to meet your buddy Stalin in Hades.)
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To: Billie
Mornin' Billie.

Redux, eh? Okay!

Spring has Sprung

Fall is Fell

The Grass is Rized

I Wonder Where the Birdies Iz


74 posted on 02/18/2003 9:25:48 AM PST by Diver Dave
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To: Billie; daisyscarlett; dansangel; Mama_Bear; dutchess; SpookBrat; LadyX; Pippin; lodwick
ROFL ! From FReeper TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday! to me today...


75 posted on 02/18/2003 9:28:18 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye SADdam. You're soon to meet your buddy Stalin in Hades.)
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To: MeeknMing
That is a GREAT picture of President Bush and PM Blair...thanks so much for posting it! WOW! What a GREAT picture of a GREAT team!
76 posted on 02/18/2003 9:33:44 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: FreeTheHostages
as a "half-sistah" I have only one leg, as it should be!! Take a look!!

Pffffftttt!

You absolutely *slay* me {{{{{{{{{FTH}}}}}}}}}}}!

:-)

77 posted on 02/18/2003 9:34:23 AM PST by dansangel (America - love it, support it, or LEAVE IT!)
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To: Billie; daisyscarlett; dutchess; Mama_Bear
Of course you got the purple! And daisy always gets the red!

Thank-you for always thinking of us! {{{{{{BILLIE}}}}}}

Good afternoon to my other sistahs and fuzzy brothah! Hoping all is well with GrammyBear. Will be anxious to be updated, as well.

{{{{{{{dutchess}}}}}}}}}}

{{{{{{{Daisyscarlett}}}}}}}}}

{{{{{{{Mama_Bear}}}}}}}}}, {{{{{{{{{GrammyBear}}}}}}}} and {{{{{{{{JKPhoto}}}}}}}}}}}

((((((((Louie_Wolfie_Man)))))))))))

78 posted on 02/18/2003 9:41:32 AM PST by dansangel (America - love it, support it, or LEAVE IT!)
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To: Billie; FreeTheHostages
Your other leg is hidden behind dansy, silly bear! It's the one you're kicking her with I guess!

Yep, firmly planted where the sun don't shine. :-(

And I thought you *liked* me, FTH!

79 posted on 02/18/2003 9:43:14 AM PST by dansangel (America - love it, support it, or LEAVE IT!)
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To: Billie
(Hey, dansy, you, and daisy were readymade - I only added Lori and Dutchess and me.) :)

And a fine job you did, too! Ever consider a trip to Hot-lanta to show me how to use this dad-blamed PaintShopPro program????

80 posted on 02/18/2003 9:45:19 AM PST by dansangel (America - love it, support it, or LEAVE IT!)
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