Posted on 09/19/2003 3:21:10 AM PDT by tomkow6
For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. |
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...got any pet peeves?....um, don't know!....I got a pet rock.......
pet peeve (plural pet peeves) Got any PET PEEVES??? I got a few!! People who let you embarrass yourself and don't tell you.
Like, when your zipper is undone, or you've got unsightly food on your teeth, or you're trailing a wad of toilet paper on your shoe...and people think they're being polite by not saying anything. People who push all the buttons on the elevator Will it make the thing come any faster? No..... Grocery Cart Wheels It seems like every time I get a cart, it goes screwy on me. Maybe I should invent some neologisms to describe all the ways the wheels can get out of whack. Like that bizarrely violent shimmying the front left wheel sometimes adopts, where, if it were a living, breathing creature, you'd most likely rush it to the hospital? Or what about the wheel that decides it hit a speck of dirt and so can go no further. Easier to drag a spooked horse into a trailer than to get that sucker around the aisle. Then there are the ones that simply decide they are not wheels after all but compasses, and refuse henceforth to go any direction except north? And nothing short of crashing into the wall will dissuade them from their path.... When the Express Lane doesn't mean Express Your at the "Express" cash (10 items or less) and the twit in front has a year's worth of groceries and the dodo cashier doesn't say anything. Bad HAIR day? People's comments when you're at someone else's desk "Oh Gee Sally - nice moustache." Old-boaters 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. Need I go on? Ok - you've seen them all over the place. They come from Florida and drive an old car that gets near-zero gas mileage, has jelly-suspension, and fins. The driver is typically octagenarian and tends to weave a lot. Except that from behind you can't even see if there's a driver. They should have a bumper sticker on the back that's just a steering wheel with a pair of knuckles and a hat. Welcome to Camp RUN-A-MUK!
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Hi Blackie, thanks for liking my pirate hat. haha
Good to see you!
Wild Thing
Well, properly warned ye be, sez I, so shake the reefs out, lads an' lasses all, for ye're summoned midships to stand to for:
Say ye've not heard me hail, nor seen me tops'l's afore this day? Then peel an eye to these, the entires of the logs, an' make of yerself a sea-fairn' genius...Ever clapped eyes on me good shipmate, that master mariner, Charlie-boy Heston?
Or, p'raps, ne'er ye sighted sail o' that most dashing of corsairs, Errol O'Flynn?
Or, none other than that gentleman o' mysterious past and thirst-for-blood legend, The Dread Pirate Roberts!
Har, cheery messmates all, to raise high a flagon o' ale, devil a' doubt, to whet the appetite fer blood an' treasure, aye, it's the pirate's life, m'lads!
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Viki Apineru and Georgian Lieutenant Tengo Orjonkidze look over trainees doing pushups during a physical fitness test on Sept. 9, 2003 at Krtsanisi Training Camp, Republic of Georgia. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dallas D. Edwards
U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Chad Roark, an instructor for the Georgia Train and Equip Program, marches with a company of Georgian trainees on Sept. 9th, 2003, at Krtsanisi Training Camp, Republic of Georgia. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dallas D. Edwards
A Proclamation
by the President of the United States of America
The sacrifice and service of America's veterans, including those who became prisoners of war or who went missing in action, have preserved freedom for America and brought freedom to millions around the world. On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, we honor the extraordinary courage of the Americans who have been prisoners of war, and we pray for those who are still missing in action and unaccounted for. This Nation also remembers the challenges and heartache endured by the families of prisoners of war and missing in action. We seek answers for the families of those who are still missing, and we will not rest until we have a full accounting.
Glass ceiling: A worker spray-paints the supporting beams of a glass roof in Beijing.
Horn o' plenty: Doc Holliday, a steer from the Pipe Ranch in San Antonio, N.M., rests in the beef barn at the State Fair's Longhorn Show in Albuquerque. No doubt he was tired from carrying those horns, which measure 6 feet from tip to tip.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Monti Zimmerman (left), Coalition Joint Civil Military Operations Task Force, Danish Golum Ail, an interpreter, and Maj. Nigel Gattsche, a New Zealand Army engineer officer, ride through Bamian's bazaar to show a U.S. and coalition presence. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Stephanie Hall
Bamian Civil Affairs Team Not Horsing Around
By U.S. Army Sgt. Stephanie Hall
4th Public Affairs Detachment
BAMIAN, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2003 Shouts of joy from the townsfolk rise as the four mounted cowboys ride through the small, desert town they help keep safe from a gang of ruthless renegades.
No, this isnt a scene from an old western movie; its as real as it gets. The cowboys are the U.S. and coalition forces in the Bamian Province, the renegades are the Taliban, and the townsfolk are the people of Bamian City.
At least once a week, the Bamian Provincial Reconstruction Team Civil Affairs Team rides horse back through the bazaar, the central point of the city, to show the people that they are and will remain safe from the Taliban.
The purpose of the rides is to show (U.S. and coalition) presence to the people of Afghanistan that we have come (and) that were not like the Taliban, said Lt. Col. Monti G. Zimmerman, Coalition Joint Civil Military Operations Task Force.
The sense of security is emphasized because there was an edict written and prepared by the Taliban that said it was against the law to ride a horse in and through a bazaar, and therefore we demonstrate that you can safely ride a horse in and through a bazaar, said Zimmerman.
Ever since the Taliban were driven out of town by the U.S. and coalition forces, the townsfolk do feel a sense of security, said Zimmerman. The fact that businesses, school attendance and the overall towns activities have increased shows that the people do feel safe, he said.
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