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from an email. I’m not fact checking. I think it’s a good read. Lengthy, but worthwhile. And since I’m wrapped up in HTML right now, you can read someone else’s writing.

Because it’s so long, it’s below the fold. Expect the format to be wonky as I cannot take time to go through and fix it.
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Surely there must be some mistake. The Obamessiah could not have possibly snubbed our brave soldiers on his trip to Iraq. Could he? I don’t think the Almighty could make such an obvious error. Surely such a slight would have been reported by the completely unbiased main stream media. Right? Naturally, I’ll go stick my head back into the sand and believe the media rather than a soldier who was there.

H/T Tammi

(it was sarcasm. I thought I’d better proclaim that because it doesn’t always convey in writing.)

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We went to a park I have never been to before and did not know existed, even though it’s just a couple miles from my house: the B52 Bomber park located right outside the airport. We visited a second park on the way home that is just across the lake from our neighborhood. I cannot believe I have lived here twelve years and never knew the B52 park existed.

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We had debated about whether or not we should go somewhere to see the fireworks last night. We considered Lake Eola and Sea World, but in the end, we decided to stay home and see how much the people across the street spent.

Kids, I imagine the show we saw in our cul-du-sac was at least as good as, if not better than, whatever Lake Eola, Sea World, Universal, or Disney put on last night. Good grief, I can only imagine the thousands of dollars they spent on illegal explosives. The show was all the better because you have the drunken moron factor. No less than four mortars blew up in the street instead of launching into the air. We were a safe distance away, comfy in our home theater chairs (**cough**lawn chairs**cough**) in our driveway, with our pathetic $35 pile of non-airborne explosives. Really, how do they afford so many impressive explosives?

Like morons, they started launching before it was dark out. But even with wasting many mortars in daylight, they still had almost three hours of fireworks that you see put on by professionals for big cities. Three hours of super-impressive, sometimes scary fireworks. It was spectacular.

Funny to watch various people from their party realize their vehicles, parked in the cul-du-sac, were in the danger zone and move them to other locations. They really had a lot of people over, so maybe everyone brought their thousands of dollars stashes over and that’s how they had such an impressive show.

Did you go out to see fireworks?

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And thank you to those who have fought and continue to fight for my freedom.

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I believe I saw this sticker in the window at Aeropostale. It’s not a store I normally shop at, and only visited today because it was farookin hot out and I craved air conditioning. But I saw this sticker, which means it’s a store I will start to support.

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Boudicca posted this, and I do not want you to miss it, so I am also posting it.

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Canada is deporting an American traitor. I say we welcome this schmuck home with open noose arms.

National Guard Sgt. Corey Glass, 25, says he fled to Toronto in 2006 after serving in Iraq because he did not want to fight in a war he did not support.

Boo hoo. You enlisted voluntarily, dumbass.

Glass, who’s still on active duty and is considered absent without leave, applied for refugee status at the Canadian border in August 2006 on the grounds of objection to military service.

But Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board denied his application for refugee status Wednesday, prompting the Canadian Border Services Agency to issue a June 12 deportation order.

YAY! Send the bastard home so he can be tried as the traitor he is.

The agency says it evaluates each case on its own merits to determine whether the applicant faces a “well-founded fear” of persecution or cruel and unusual punishment if he returns to his home country.

“All refugee claimants have a right to due process,” said Danielle Norris, a spokeswoman for Customs and Immigrations Canada. “When they have exhausted all legal avenues, we expect them to respect our laws and leave the country.”

Right. He doesn’t respect the laws of his own country, what makes you think he’ll respect your laws?

Let’s see… the ripe old age of 25 and a traitor to his country. He’s part of the you-owe-it-to-me generation that will be the down fall of our great nation.

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I’m with Harvey: I cannot stand Nickelback. Ever. And have a special dislike of this particular song. But Mike the Marine vastly improved their Rockstar song.
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I broke my speakers at work yesterday. Lukie sent me this link. What’s the gist of the video?

A member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, Terry recently returned from his third tour duty in the Middle East. He is a genuine patriot and has proudly flown his unit’s American flag over the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan.

When he’s not defending our country overseas, Terry Skiest works as a technician for Verizon Business. For three years, Terry displayed his American flag outside his cubicle. But when Terry left his flag hanging outside his cubicle during his last tour in Afghanistan, Verizon Business removed it.

A co-worker of Skiest’s reported that a local manager said that the American flag “could be considered to be propaganda” and “might be offensive to some workers.”

Terry isn’t trying to organize workers against VZB - he just wants to put the flag back up on his wall. Tell Verizon Business to put up Terry’s flag.

Look into Verizon’s policy yourself and decide if you think Terry should be allowed to display the American flag in his cubicle.

Do you think they’d allow a flag to be displayed if it were less patriotic and more controversial?

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We saw two movies this weekend, at two different theaters (Regal and Cinemark). We were pleasantly surprised to see the music video for Three Doors Down’s Citizen Soldier before both movies. Now, I could post a YouTube video of the song here, but I think you will enjoy it more in the larger format available at the National Guard’s site.

Go watch it.

Clearly they’re a band I need to start buying cd’s from. I try to support those who support our troops.

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Tammi is absolutely right, you need to read this story. When you’re done, go to my previous entry and seriously consider making a donation to Soldier’s Angels so that we can help fund the great work they’re doing to support our troops.

Have you noticed a lack of reports on the news about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan recently? That’s because we’re winning and the MSM doesn’t want you to know it. If they can’t report doom and gloom, they choose to report nothing.

God bless our troops.

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Thank you to all our veterans and their families.

We were at the Magic Kingdom yesterday. We arrived right as the 3p parade was winding down. There was a marine in uniform watching the parade. I saw him when we entered the park, as we bee-lined toward the restrooms. The parade ended as we exited the restrooms and we walked past the marine. I overheard another man thank the marine for his service. And then I cried when a mother asked the marine if he would pose for a picture with her two small children. I should have taken a picture from the back as this marine posed with the children. It moved me. How wonderful to be at the rat’s home and see a parent want her children’s picture with a hero. I choked back my tears for the next ten minutes. No exaggeration.

I love our flag and take lots of pictures of her.

Happy Veteran’s Day.

I can never say “thank you” enough.

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A good friend of mine emailed me the other night and asked me to post this link to a thread on a discussion board that talked about the war in Iraq (it is a Christian speculative fiction writer’s forum). Specifically, my friend asked me to point out what user Christian Soldier, currently stationed in Iraq, had to say about why we are there. An excerpt:

Does the news report any of that? No. Do they report the thousands of schools we’ve built and paid for? Nope. The roads we’ve built? Never. How about the orphanages we support? Oh..surely they’ve mentioned the hospitals…surely that. No? See the problem here? They only report the negative, only the sensational.
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Give us two more years, and we can pull out safely. Give us five, and we’ll give you a permanent strong hold in the middle east. Give us ten, and this country will be our stead fast allies throughout the years to come, and we will need them. Trust me.

Kids, if nothing else, go read Christian Soldier’s thoughts. But, really, it won’t hurt for you to read the entire thread.

Thank you to K for bringing this to my attention. I’m sorry it took me so long to post.

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