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Wait….no….not unworthy me?
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Czar, you have two movies choices, The Duke, Sands of Iwo Jima, or Mel wondering around in the I Drong Valley……My PSG was with 1st Cav in the Valley,…. Did meet CSM Poosy at Benning, a man’s man’s, a soldiers soldiers. God Rest Him……
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I’ve got ‘We were soldiers’ on dvd as well as most of Wayne’s films. When my ex-FIL was dying I asked if there was anything I could do for him and he wanted a copy of ‘She Wore a Yellow Ribbon’ so we found him one and overnighted it – he was THE Wayne fan.
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BTW, my military idol was Roy Benavidez. He came up to Ft Meade just to talk to the troops mobilizing for Desert Shield, spent a head-banging night with him at the NCO club. Man was the most unassuming MoH winner, when you read about what he did and the scars carried … there was a hero and no one ever msde a movie about him.
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Just read the citation, wish I was there, would have brought the rounds until I dropped. Those are the special moments, memories, we have had in our profession.
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Read his book, that gives a better account of what the man did, it stuns you. Over 40 years in the military, and 18 years as a dependent before that, and I only met three soldiers who’d ever been bayoneted, he was bayoneted more than the others combined. He lived through some 37 wounds that day, more than a few that should have been fatal but it took sone 13 years for him to receive the MoH.
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Good but I still like the book, puts it in perspective as it goes into depth. The unit Roy wacwith was also part of the SOG program. BTW, we had a rededication of the Vietnam Memorial at the Dome and brought in as many MoH recipients as we could as honored guests. We had the largest assembly of MoH recipients outside of their MoH meetings and the time we got to spend with them was memorable.
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OMG I just watched a Twilight Zone called The Hunt. If you like dogs you will love this one. 🙂
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My favorite Zone was Terror at 20,000 feet. Every night mission I would fly, I swear that little ape was one my wing pod…….
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Cruzer Nightmare!!!!
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That’s perfect Ms. Wee! Mornin’ stellars…….
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Is that the one where a guard tells a fellow that dogs aren’t allowed in heaven?
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Yes.
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That is a great one 🙂
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Going straight to the drive-bys:
The Betrayal of the USS Cole [Daniel Greenfield]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-betrayal-of-uss-cole.html
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One of the commenters wonder why; some retired Special Operations boys haven’t made a hit on these a$oles. It’s a one way trip, if you got close too snap one.
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Got to be at the shipyard in Pascagoula when the brought the Cole in and got to see her sail out when she’d been repaired. One of the bennies being attached to a Navy unit. Can’t figure out why, except for possibly Clinton’s concerns about pissing off the Arab oil sheiks while he was working on ‘donations’, we didn’t just wipe out selected targets as a warning. The Cole wasn’t the first attack on a US ship, AQ tried to bomb the Sullivans earlier that year but that failed and then we had that whole Bojinka plot a few years earlier, but for some strange reason Bill decided to let it slide. Some say he didn’t want to whack the son of a valued ling-time friend of the Saudi Royal Treasury…errr, Family, but nothing substantive was done.
Boggles the mind to think what would have happened were Gore to have been Presidentnon 911.
but
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I do believe that nothong’s been done as the statute of limitations on Moslem murdering Americans has expired. I believe it ended on January 20, 2009.
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Drive-by #2–coming to a neighborhood near you (literally):
Obama’s last act is to force suburbs to be less white and less wealthy
http://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-suburbs-to-be-less-white-and-less-wealthy/
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Go ahead, Sue Me, Castro and then Obola under oath in a courtroom, hope Hilllabeast picks him for VP.
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You heard it here first. That little pizzant Castro, is very likely to be the Hida-beest’s VP pick. He should have an ending like the last HUD Sec who was a former San Antonio mayor. POS. 👿
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Mornin’ sportsfans!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ B!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed, yes “We are in deep do-do! Many enablers are out of the wood work, in the open.
Trump is going too have his hands full, fighting the RINOs, Convention, then Hilllabeast hunting…….
Couldn’t sleep last night, watched “Hollywood Canteen”
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Morning all! I hope everyone has a great day!
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Good morning Sandandsea 🙂
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😊
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Morning, everyone!
Another couple of Republican primaries today. If anyone reading here is in West Virginia or Nebraska, be sure to get out and vote!
Had rain over night, and it is coolish this morning; I’m thinking about closing the windows. It’s 53 degrees with a light wind, and overcast.
Our friend, Jack Cashill, has a piece in America Thinker this morning:
Okay, #NeverTrump, Enough Already
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/okay_nevertrump_enough_already.html
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Mornin’ stella!
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Missing your great spread.
Hope you feel better soon. 😉
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Nye, get to the hospital, have Doctors run full body scan, check for platinum poison…..
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Yeah, feel better and serve them virtual breakfasts so I can take my virtual statins.
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Mornin’ nyet!
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Man, the trolls are rampant on AT – and they used to be rigorously policed…..
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Morning Stella, same here, rained most of the night, this morning, taking a coffee break. Yesterday, transit of Mercury across the Sun was great! Seen 1st and 2 nd contacts then about an hour observing, then the clouds moved in.
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Rain not due here until Friday, been nice and dry fir a change, actully hsd to water the garden. A wee bitbof rain would be nice but weatherguessers have been all over the map (so what else is new) about how much – amounts vary from a light mist to telling us we should put life preservers on the ducks.
Daytime we’re in the mid-80s, nights in the mid-60s – gearing up for that ‘summer in the south’. Sure sign were there will be when the local channels start with the endless series of hurrican season panic specials.
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Good morning Stella 🙂
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Brigandry – had to go look that one up. My new word for the day. From the word brigand, meaning – “A robber or bandit, especially one of an outlaw band.” I would say that fits the Hilda-beest rather spot on. 😉
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I think we should mine the border until the wall’s up.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/05/10/vicente-fox-giving-donald-trump-finger-huffington-post/
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I like your style, Mrs WeeWeed!
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Wee for SecDef.
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Or should it be Interior? Ah heck, Wee can be the whole cabinet.
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I wanna be whatever offs the EPA. 👿
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Good guys win one finally.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/10/wyoming-welder-facing-16m-in-fines-beats-epa-in-battle-over-stock-pond.html
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Meanwhile;
May a thousand curses be upon his head.
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I think you’re understating it – already far more than a thousand curses upon his head from me alone…
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And that’s just today…
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To becreally fair here, and you know that doing so really pains me, the WH has been giving free passage to Islamic terrs for decades. In the early 80s the FBI was monitoring Old Line Islamic terr groups here who had positioned folks that were gathering funds to finance their abti-Israeli, among other, activities. We mass-imported them throughout the 80s, after Desert Storm, and from the Balkins. The press and government just didn’t make such a big deal about it until well after 911.
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And, may the fleas of a thousand camels be in his jockey short. 👿
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There are so many good lines in this one, you have to read it yourself!
Who Promoted Private Ryan?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/10/who_promoted_private_ryan_130521.html
Just a couple teasers:
In millennial teen-talk, Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I’m just not ready to do that at this point. I’m not there right now.” ….
Ryan is a congressman from Wisconsin. He has never won a statewide election. As number two on Mitt Romney’s ticket, he got waxed by Joe Biden. He was compromise choice as speaker, only after John Boehner went into in his Brer Rabbit “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah” routine.
Who made Ryan the conscience of conservatism?
Who made Ryan keeper of the keys of true Republicanism? ….
The hubris here astonishes. A Republican establishment that has been beaten as badly as Carthage in the Third Punic War is now making demands on Scipio Africanus and the victorious Romans.
This is difficult to absorb.
Someone should instruct Paul Ryan that losers do not make demands. They make requests. They make pleas.
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Let’s see what it looks like in a month or two. Right now I’m really tired of the loser’s team trying to excuse why they lost and the winners ocerstating their wins, we’re caught in the props wash of the promaries.
The MSM is making hay off of the turbulence from the primaries ending, the conventions coming up and the general elections just over the horizon; summer coming on along with the campaigns guarantees an abundant supply of hot air.
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ARRRRGGGHHHHHH….seems that preceeds my discussing medical issues nowadays.
Somevyears bavk the Feds were proposing total transparency for medical records, easy digital access from any platform anywhere for the patient’s safety and convenience. Like anything the Feds have ever created to make life easier…
Over a year ago I decided to change primary care physicians to centralize my care in a facility more in line with the 20th century. October 2025 I apply for permission to kneel at the desk of the new PCF and get an appointment for the end of March 2016. In December I call to see if they’ve received all of my records from my various other physicians – nope, still not there. I get paper transfer forms, fill out one forceach facility or physician, hand-deliver them and wait….
March comes, I go to my new PCF and…..he looks into his computer and sees that some data have been received but it appears there’s been some sort of error scanning the paper copies in and none of it can be accessed. Not only is the appointment I waited 6 months for useless but I’m not sure what he hasn’t received and can’t find out until my next appointment in late June.
I talk to their records folks and I’m told that no, their systems are far from compatible, even though they can call up my previous hospital records system on line they can’t connect with it, can’t even send or receive data between the two systems. Any data transfers are done only by mailing paper.
The Feds were paying for the bulk of the costs associated with this conversion and the companies making the systems were supposed to make them compatible but…
It amazes me (OK, not really) that the doctors and hospitals can’t transfer patient information seamlessly but hackers have managed to steal some 90-million patient records over the last few years. Instead of jailing hackers maybe we should give them the contracts, they have the capability and have many of the records already.
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2015, not 2025, but you probably got that. One of my many failings is an inability to see/ edit straight when really PO’d…’scuse me, gotta go get them kids off my lawn…
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My dad was in the Navy for 23 years. He and my mother traveled around the country after they retired. They had copies of all their medical files that they carried in the car with them all the time in case they needed medical care. Looks like you need to do that. Of course, the powers that be probably wouldn’t accept copies that you had, they would still say they needed to be transferred over the Internet………….even though they can’t be. Sound about right?
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You got that tight. I tried to get my files downloaded to a flash drive but that was a no-go. Even if they would, I was told, their format might well not be compatable with the ‘receiving’ facility’s. I could carry a paper copy but it would be many pages long, not include imaging, and cost about fitty cents a page. ‘Just have them call’, they say.
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President POtuS will be 1st sitting US President to visit Hiroshima. Appears his advisors have prevented him from apologizing for the perfidious actions of racist America in using the atomic bomb to prevent a people of color from reaching their full potential. He also planned on saying how much he enjoyed their chop suey and chow mein.
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Too bad Mom and son
were not born earlier
and been able to visit
there August 6, 1945. 😉
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Dat would be da bomb, yessuh.
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Yes, what a shame.
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Wow!!!!! Budweiser’s gonna be acomin’ out in patriotic-themed cans/bottles this summer, they will have ‘Merkuh’…whoops, them’s local cans, ‘America’ on the label in place of Budweiser on its 12 ounce cans and bottles. The company’s ‘AB’ logo will also be replaced by ‘US’. The new cans will be available from 23 May until the November election. Their removal of ‘America’ for the election makes me wonder if they think Hillary’s going to win…
Geez, nuthin’ makes me feel more patriotic than swiggin’ a can of near-beer made by a Belgian company. Yeeee Haw!
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Just a reminder.
California is a very, very
important Primary state.
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Here’s your reason to vote in the Primary.
Old news; but still current. Please, vote.
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Bobby Knight
the real deal on
the real deal. 😉
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Para el buen gobierno de empuje numero uno, Donald Trump!
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Excellent.
An Open Letter to Conservatives on Donald Trump
http://spectator.org/articles/66232/open-letter-conservatives-donald-trump
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The Citadel got one decision right…………for now.
‘South Carolina Military College Refuses Muslim Hijab as Part of Uniform
CAIR helping family consider “all legal options.”‘
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/south-carolina-military-college-refuses-muslim-hijab-part-uniform
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Hey CAIR! Consider this option: send her to the ISIS Mideast Military College. Oh, you say that under Sharia women cannot attend classes with males and under Islamic Fundamentalist tutelage wonen can only be silent, barefoot, pregnant and hijabed? Well take that hijab back to your homeland and pound sand.
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Perfect answer.
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Standards are Standards!
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And if it weren’t for none they’d have none
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End of a long day of preparing ground and planting squash. Went to my gas station sommelier, stopped at Popeye’s and now we’re enjoying Fried chicken and cheap wine. Dogs got a three-piecer Popeye’s, cats got stinky stuff, all’s well with this corner of the world.
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A bucket of chicken
and a box of wine &
no need for a P-38.
Life is good. 😉
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Non, non, ze wine eees in bottlez, we got ze top shelf, clas-say at the gas-sta.
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94 degrees here today according to my calibrated e-lektronik thermo-meter. Tain’t o-fishul ya unnerstan’, that temp’s much lower as they take it at the airport about 15 miles from here, but I ain’t livin’ nor plowin’ at the airport.
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When you gonna take a nap czar? You been writin’ for nearly 24 hours straight. Wound up like an 8-day clock? 😉
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Squash that idea. He’s wineing down.
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There were a few breaks there y’all, or maybe it don’ jes seem like dat?
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I only know what I do, but I usually only sleep for 3 or 4 hours at a time, but more than once in 24 hours. I read somewhere that it’s normal, but when we work, we don’t have the luxury to sleep when we need it. Think of the afternoon siesta in hot countries.
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Ted!!! That’s the Retirement Engery Bug!!!! It’s like the old days wearing the uniform. Czar a machine!!!
Good seeing Tex, hope all is well in your corner of the world…..
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ITS TEX iPad, TEX!!!!!
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Pride….energy….lotsa Diet Coke.
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Transgender Dog Unsure Which Tree To Pee On
https://www.ncscooper.com/transgender-dog-unsure-which-tree-to-pee-on/
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Those look like oaks in the background, maybe he should look for some fruit tree?
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That was quick…
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LOL The comments are funny, too.
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I’m sick of painting and trying to do it while working and farm chores and watering, cooking, cleaning and washing clothes means there isn’t enough hours in the day. My feet hurt, my back hurts, my hand cramped up so many times that it’s now sore(I think I gave myself carpal tunnel) and I’m too tired too sleep.
I will say though my house sure is starting to look pretty.
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Zat ees why we have zee sommelier at ze Maison de Chevron.
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Interesting sidebar on the murder of the Tulane grad syident I posted on. Police released a dhort portion of a grainy b&w security video a store from across the street from where the body was found, itshows the guy who found the body fibding it. The guy stands over him, seems to poke hom with his foot, then bends over to check the body. When the video was brand newcat noon the station on showed him doibg what looked like checking the body’s pockets, standing up and then doing what looks like putting somethong in his pocket – victim was found without his wallet and nothing was said about finding/not find a cell phone on him.
By the 5 PM news, and through the 10 PM news, the video is stopped either before the Good Sam reaches towards the victim’s waist or slightly after, none of the stations showed him standing up and reaching to his waist. Hmmmmmmm…..
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