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Jul 25, 2011, 9:50 pm
With all of this talk and hoopla about raising the debt ceiling and defaulting on our debt; is it really our debt though? Have we the people been spending more than we had on testing the nicotine content of toenails, planned parenthood, national public radio, keeping 2 post offices on the same block... Comment - Like
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Apr 11, 2011, 12:16 pm
People are all p.o.ed and perturbed over National Public Radio, to cut funding or keep it. Then you have another stupid leftist quote to add to their ever growing bank of them, by none other than Harry Reid. Yes I myself enjoy cowboy poetry, but I can assure you Mr. Reid that we are in the minority ... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2010, 8:46 am
Defense Secretary Robert Gates addressed this question and the growing divide between the civilian and military communities. Never was it more obvious than at Tuesday evening's final editing session for the campus newspaper.
I was working on my column, a compilation of news stories. Lately, I... Comment - Like
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Aug 7, 2010, 8:04 pm
Money is a rather touchy subject overall, rather it be how to save, invest, or spend it. Just look at taxes and health care reform. So, when you pay for something and you dish out a substantial amount of money for it, you hope that you get your money's worth out of it. For example, you purchase ... Comment - Like
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Jul 31, 2010, 7:26 am
Due to technical difficulties, the Blogathon has been postponed until next weekend. Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 8:00 pm
Jay Chou is an Americanized Chinese singer. He starred in the Americanized film "Curse of the Golden Flower," which just so happens to feature one of my favorite actresses, Gong Li (I think she's absolutely gorgeous). Gong Li also starred in "Memoirs of a Geisha," but she doesn't speak English, so s... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 7:52 pm
Gen. George S. Patton once said "No good decision was ever made from the seat of a swivel chair." Being that I work for the federal government, I have a phrase that I repeat quite frequently, this is not because of the alignment of the planets or the fact that when I sweat profusely my under britche... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 7:30 pm
There are so many African-Americans and Latinos on base that I started anxiously searching for Caucasians. Insane, since I'm Asian. Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 6:30 pm
Earlier this week, The Sergeant needed to stop by the classroom before his lunch break ended, and when we entered the room, two other soldiers were already inside. Later, The Sergeant informed me that one of them, Sergeant Ostrich (not his real name . . . obviously) had invited us to dinner at a ne... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 6:00 pm
We are currently over 20% to the goal of $250. If you've not already donated, support a wounded warrior and ensure that this generation's wounded warriors is the most successful and well-transitioned by donating at WWP Proud Supporter. Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 5:30 pm
About six years ago, my Pastor's wife invited the young teen girls from our church on a girls' night out. We spent the night in a nearby hotel, fellowshipping and bonding. One of the events of the night was to create a list of ten qualities we wanted in our future husbands. We dubbed the lists "Ten ... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 5:00 pm
A bucket list is a list of things you'd like to accomplish before, well, kicking the bucket. This is mine.
celebrate independence day in washington, d.c.
be kissed under fireworks.
visit washington, d.c. during the cherry blossom festival (with a significant other).
dance in the piazza san marco on... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 4:30 pm
The other day, I was doing work in the cafeteria. It was around lunch time, and a middle-aged woman sat down in front of the television nearest to me. She changed the channel to a soap opera, which I endured for an hour, before her lunch was over and she went back to work. A few moments later, a man... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 2:27 pm
While I was waiting for The Sergeant, a Korean hairdresser walked out into the waiting room (presumably to see how many people were waiting to be serviced). She glanced at me, did a double take, nonchalantly meandered to the seat in front of me, picked up the newspaper, and asked, "Are you Korean?" ... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 12:52 pm
The Sergeant is getting a haircut. I wish I could have my hair cut for less than $10. Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 12:27 pm
The Sergeant is on lunch break until 2:30pm. At Panera some random, middle-aged man asked The Sergeant his age and if he could kill his daughter. Southerners. Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 12:00 pm
U.S. Army Ranks Eun: I was reading in the caf when 20 or 30 soldiers came in, and even though the rest of the caf was empty, they just had to sit where I was sitting and be loud. They filled up all of the tables along the wall and then sat down on the couch on either side of me. One of them was us... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 11:30 am
According to Honor the Fallen at Military Times, these are the following men who gave their lives for our freedoms this month:
Army Pfc. Ryan J. Grady, 25
Marine Cpl. Larry D. Harris, Jr., 24
Army Sgt. Jordan E. Tuttle, 22
Army Pfc. David A. Jefferson, 23
Air Force Capt. David A. Wisniewski, 31
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Jul 30, 2010, 11:00 am
A few evenings ago, I whacked my head off of the corner of the bedside table. Impossible, you say? Remember, this is the same woman who, in the darkness, in her own home, walked straight into the wall instead of the doorway. I ended up with an absolutely ginormous and incredibly painful lump righ... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 10:30 am
Have you donated to the Wounded Warrior Project yet? Honor and support a wounded warrior at WWP Proud Supporter.
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Jul 30, 2010, 9:30 am
Another unusual (to me) aspect of military life is the high population of Asians, namely, Koreans. Apparently, soldiers stationed overseas marry Korean women, return to the States, and find themselves divorced after their Korean wives join the Korean clique and never bother to learn American custom... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 9:00 am
It seems fitting that Blogathon 2010, in honor of the Wounded Warrior Project, would begin at a military installation. In the span of a week, it has become nothing out of the ordinary for me to see men and women in uniform. Granted, that should be an obvious one, given my location, but having grow... Comment - Like
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Jul 17, 2010, 10:07 am
I understand that the spill may have finally been stopped, but that doesn't change the fact that it went unstopped for three months. That doesn't change the fact that the livelihoods of those living along the Gulf Coast have been forever changed.
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Jul 15, 2010, 5:24 pm
I will again be participating in the Blogathon; however, the official organizers cancelled the event for some unknown reason. So, I am going to continue on my own -- I've set the event for 9am EST 30 JUL - 9am EST 31 JUL. Throughout the blogathon, I will post a blog every 30 min. for the entire ... Comment - Like
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Jul 15, 2010, 9:15 am
Have you at any point in time done something that you weren't required to do, because its an other's job, but if you didn't do this vital task would never be completed? This happens to me on a regular basis, maybe its just my good nature or the fact that until somebody gets a booboo, I&#... Comment - Like
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Jul 14, 2010, 8:22 pm
Text WWP to 90999 to donate $5 to support a wounded warrior!
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Jul 13, 2010, 4:39 pm
NAACP Poised to Vote on Resolution Calling Tea Party "Racist"
Seriously? Considering the fact that I consider myself a member of the Tea Party, I would hardly consider it racist. And about pushing "'the country back to the pre-civil rights era?'" Try being yellow and figuring out whether ... Comment - Like
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Jun 30, 2010, 7:22 am
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, at the last resort, to protect themselves from tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Jun 24, 2010, 1:01 pm
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Oh, wait a minute. Huh? Really?.......... Well my lovely secretary just handed me a note and it seems that I am either almost 2 months late, or 10 months early, depending on how you look at it. So, am I really supposed to care? Well it seems that an unspecified number of people ... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2010, 9:31 am
There has been a lot of clamoring lately about why on earth there hasn't been another Contract With America. Well being the good sort of fellow that I am, I decided to take the initiative and write my own. After it all passes, there would be a great deal of weeping, and wailing, people tearing o... Comment - Like
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Jun 20, 2010, 5:18 pm
The 19th century seems to abound with maligned and rather disturbing infantile theories that have now become revered ideologies into the 20th and 21st centuries despite the fact that they have been proven to be wrong. Darwin's theory of evolutionary thought that lead to eugenics and Hitler's... Comment - Like
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Jun 16, 2010, 9:21 pm
I just received this email and thought I should share, verbatim:
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand them.
This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. We have a lot of work to do.
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Jun 13, 2010, 12:48 pm
Call him POTUS. Yes, strange as it seems, one of my coworkers has this etched onto his car as his license plate. It is an acronym for President of the United States. I think of this as a little presumptuous on his part, but that is his goal in life. Inevitably we got talking politics, and of the fir... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2010, 7:14 pm
Stereotypically America has fallen under a cloud of I want it now-itis. I myself am just as guilty of this as everyone else, but I have seen the error in my ways and ever so slowly have been working to improve myself. But when you think about it, why is it that we need it now? People spend sleepless... Comment - Like
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May 24, 2010, 4:18 pm
Today I was afforded an opportunity that I have not had in a long time, that being listening to El Rushbo! and Sean Hannity, before Rush there was another program that I was not aware of. The little bit I caught before I switched it to 97.9 "The Bear" they were discussing Venus or now more appropria... Comment - Like
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May 18, 2010, 11:17 am
Somethings seem to be passed down through genetics and through how you were raised. In one of those processes I seem to inherited a hankering to write from my grandfther, be it poems, short stories, whatever. (That might explain what I'm doing now) In one of my grandfathers writings that I read ... Comment - Like
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Apr 30, 2010, 11:06 am
This is a list of books I have read of the years and highly recommend to you. I don't get paid for this I just do it, but I am willing to accept compensation for the advertising.This list will be continually updated as I expand my mind. I myself, might not agree with all that is said in them but... Comment - Like
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Apr 30, 2010, 9:18 am
"I think at a certain point you've made enough money." Who done it? Who said that? Huh? Huh? Don't know? Come on! What are you thinking there are only a couple of people that would say such a thing. Give up? The "messiah", that is exactly who said in it, in an off the cuff remark. I've s... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2010, 8:51 am
I am quite certain that all of us have wanted something for Christmas, birthday or whatever in the worst way; just when you got were let down or disappointed by its cheap construction or the hype that blew it out of proportion. It seems that Americans have once again had it happen to them. This time... Comment - Like
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Mar 30, 2010, 9:35 am
For those of you who are fans of Ranger Up apparel, Ranger Up is hosting a video contest (deadline: 15 Apr). Make a pro-RU video. Two first prizes: $250/$250 credit at RU. Two second prizes: $100/$100 credit at RU. Click the image above to be directed to the RU site. Comment - Like
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Mar 30, 2010, 9:13 am
Bodies of 21 babies have been discovered in plastic bags in a river in eastern China and authorites suspect they were dumped there by local hospitals, state media reported Tuesday.
An initial investigation showed that eight of the 21 babies wore identification tags on their feet tracing them back t... Comment - Like
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Mar 22, 2010, 6:52 pm
While I am deeply upset with the passage of the healthcare bill and disappointed in our congressmen for so blatantly ignoring the wishes of their constituents, I am encouraged by the fact that God is in control. He has a plan for this country.
Rep. Randy Neaugebauer, R-Texas, released a statement t... Comment - Like
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Mar 11, 2010, 9:48 pm
Imagine with me if you will a day when you don't make decisions for yourself, but a much higher authority does. This includes what you can do, how much exercise you are required based on health records, you have become a mere pawn in the largest game of chess ever played. This is not 1984 or som... Comment - Like
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