INTERESTING: The Last Doughboy

Monday, May 26, 2008

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302433.html

The Last Doughboy
World War I veteran Frank Buckles, 107, in March.
By George F. Will
Sunday, May 25, 2008; Page B07

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CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during America’s involvement in the First World War and that 4,734,990 are gone. He is feeling fine, thank you for asking.

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Amazing at 107!

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RANT: If Bob Barr is a ‘libertarian’

Monday, May 26, 2008

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021174.html

May 25, 2008
6th Ballot: Libertarian Party Nominates Bob Barr
Posted by Eric A. Garris at May 25, 2008 04:32 PM

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The final total:

Bob Barr: 324
Mary Ruwart: 276
NOTA: 26

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If Bob Barr is a ‘libertarian’, then I don’t know what a ‘libertarian’ is!

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FUN: TWO WAYS TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING

Monday, May 26, 2008

FROM MY LUDDITE FRIEND

Disclaimer: He is a vacuum cleaner of all sorts of inet forwards. He seems to get every kind of junk mail from friends and relatives which he shares some with me that he feels are “interesting’? Luckily, I don’t have many friends or relatives. At least the kind that send this stuff along. (Although I do have one wacky one who is into “inspirational” chain mails. Have to watch her carefully, lest she fly off on angel’s wings to Nigeria!) But every once and while, Luddite comes up with one that is worth sharing. Here’s one. With no attribution or identification. For your reading pleasure, a bit of humor from Luddite!

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TWO WAYS TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING

My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.

My wife asks, ‘Do you know her?’ ‘Yes,’ I sighed, ‘She’s my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn’t been sober since.’

‘My God!’ says my wife, ‘Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?’

So you see, there really are 2 ways to look at everything

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LOL!

Wives do have a unique ability to return husbands to reality. Usually with a thump. This just highlights that eternal truth.

Not every psychological ‘eureka’ has to be a stuffy principle. Sometimes they can come disguised as a joke.

Submitted for what it is worth to you.

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LIBERTY: Take a moment on the Memorial Day Monday

Monday, May 26, 2008

I hope we all take a moment on the Memorial Day Monday.

Not because some politician tells us we should at 3pm for their agenda. But, because we allowed undeclared wars to happen in our name and good people acted on what we said we needed.

I plan to take that moment to:

* Pray for all the boys and girls who gave their lives for what they believed in.

* Recognize the ongoing sacrifices being made.

* Value the ‘breakage’ in the wounded; insist that ‘we’ do right by them.

* Grieve with all the families that are picking up afterwards.

* And, finally, hope that we all begin to hold the politicians accountable for their words and actions that put ‘our people’ in harm’s way in our name.

You know if I could I’d bring them all home on Tuesday – Wednesday latest.

I will pray they all come home in one piece.

And that ‘we’ get back to a Department of Defense and return to the Constitutional America of Liberty. We seem to have lost our way.

What will you do – or what did you do – on Monday? Picnic and party? Listen to more political rhetoric? Forget it all and vacation? Tube out?

Sadly,
An tired old fool

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