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CHEERS to my oldest and best friend. My brother Jim turns 60 today. The only thing he’s ever know is driving trucks – the big 18 wheelers across nearly all of North America. A major illness, a loss of both incomes, and now he and my sister-in-law are becoming another statistic in the Bush administration’s betrayal of the middle class. Bankruptcy and foreclosure loom much too close on the horizon. Through it all, his greatest joy comes from his 5 grandchildren – that’s Chase, the first born, with his Poppo.
CHEERS to teacherken for his insightful, thought provoking diary this morning about diversity and the interconnections we all have. Definitely a good read.
CHEERS to my growing pile of cool ties and sand scarves for the troops. If you have someone over there you’d like me to include, please don’t hesitate to ask. My addy is in my profile. These cool ties do a great job and I’m going to make as many as I can.
CHEERS to the Mojo Friday Gang, without whom I wouldn’t be able to do most of what I do for our troops.
CHEERS to our troops because they deserve everything we can give them.
CHEERS to the military families, friends, and loved ones waiting for their soldier’s to return. May they all return safe and sound, and soon.
CHEERS to Bill & Michael & Molly & Vegas. It’s good to be a family.
CHEERS to all the pool kiddies who make early mornings so pleasant.
CHEERS to all kossacks ‘cuz we iz cool!
CHEERS to political pooties. Henry loved Obama’s speech: . . Peace, love, and fresh breath to all!
Old soldiers do die. Elizabeth Gavin Cunningham 06 Nov 24 - 06 Aug 08
by Ninepatch on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:54:36 AM PDT
except she has the embarrassment of a shaved tummy, and the equal horror of having me fascinated with it. Poke, pet the tummy, giggle at it... Sorry, sweetie -- it is just funny! Just wish that the ill pootie would use the litterbox. I can't even find out if she is evacuating regularly somewhere else. She might not be but counter to that is she is still enjoying her food (as in, she is still demanding it).
by annetteboardman on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:58:50 AM PDT
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And I hope, as troops come home, that some will personally thank you for the gifts that you have bestowed. If I were President (and that ain't gonna happen) I would give you some sort of medal from the entire country.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Great Gatsby
by riverlover on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:04:23 AM PDT
They just don't mean as much as they used to since shrub started handing them out.
[-6.25, -5.59] "The love you take is equal to the love you make." - J. Lennon, P. McCartney
by Phil N DeBlanc on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:07:42 AM PDT
Shrub has managed to cheapen everything he's touched.
Book excerpts: nonlynnear; other writings: mofembot.
by mofembot on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:18:16 AM PDT
What he can't destroy, he cheapens.
by Phil N DeBlanc on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:38:03 AM PDT
McCain: "I think that clearly my fortunes have a lot to do with what's happening in Iraq" ... Buh-bye!
by RevJoe on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:06:20 AM PDT
Yeah...we got your legacy right here...
Conscious evolution, it's what turns me on. There's got to be a difference between right and wrong.-DTB
by alicia on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:38:18 AM PDT
from Portland. Typical Portland March: sun, heavy shower, sun, etc. Today is oldest Mcdaughter's birthday. I got her some pretties, as she wears mostly jeans and Ts. I am making her favorite Parkerhouse rolls for supper (a double batch, so she will enjoy them after we have departed). Saturday is my Bday, and we are going to the Chinese Gardens. She has been before, but Old timer and I have not seen them, and it will get me inspired to get going on the growing. I will check in tomorrow afternoon, and see what is up.
I think, therefore I am. I think. Yup. Back to original signature. Thanks a lot, JRE.
by mcmom on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:43:27 PM PDT
in my cheers and jeers
This morning I passed a uniformed soldier in the hall at my hotel. He said "Good morning", as he passed, and I responded in kind. Then I said "Thank you!" He said "It's my honor." That kind of stunned me. I have such negative thoughts about the war, and feel so strongly that we shouldn't be there, and he's "honored". Then I realized he had stopped and turned around. When I turned back, he said "Thank YOU!"
I nearly cried. After all this Administration has done to our military, and all the evils they must face, he is still honored, and he thanked ME. It's a wonderful world, despite it all.
Ego is the sedative that deadens the pain of stupidity. Unknown
by dazed in pa on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:13:42 AM PDT
And thanks for sharing, although I'm not sure you're right about it's being a wonderful world. We'll talk after the elctions.
by UkieOli on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:22:50 AM PDT
America's finest, the lifeblood of the future.
And, the ba**ards in the White House could care less.
Peace.
by Ninepatch on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:30:51 AM PDT
in this country men and women who are so willing to sacrifice so much, for others.
That this administration has treated them with such distain is so abysmally shameful.
"We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering!" - The Shoveler
by Pandoras Box on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:41:50 AM PDT
Every once in a while something in this life happens, however small, that makes it truly wonderful.
by Phil N DeBlanc on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:44:40 AM PDT
and I see a lot of them, since I live near a military base and the service guys do love them some Wawa coffee.
I know Vietnam vets who still confuse the antiwar movement with an anti-troop movement. They still think that they were hated personally for doing what they were drafted, against their will, to do. It reached its peak in irony in 2004, when one of them begged a friend not to vote for the repeatedly Purple-Hearted veteran Kerry because he had "sold out his brothers", but to vote instead for that smirking, service-dodging frat boy who sat out the war in Alabama campaigning for his father's friends.
I don't want any of today's service people or veterans to think for a second that because I oppose the war, I don't support them as individuals. I do. It is amazing how it melts the biggest, toughest, buffest guys at the milk and sugar counter to be thanked.
by Fungible Chattel on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:55:09 AM PDT
Damn, now you've got me nearly welling up, too.
The wingnuts can say what they like but I've never gotten anything but a feeling of real support and respect for "the troops" from dKos.
tragically un-hip ..- .... --..-- / --- -.- .-.-.-
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by Debby on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:43:01 AM PDT
Ninepatch. I'm sure the troops appreciate it and I am going to try to find a suitable way to participate after I get back home.
by mofembot on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:17:42 AM PDT
Positive contributions such as yours, Ninepatch, are worth more than all the hardware in the world to our military. Thank you so much for your efforts.
305 days is a helluva long time for this administration to make more trouble.
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." - H. L. Mencken
by SueDe on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:42:23 AM PDT
and is on the best part of my refrigerator, the part with all the menus and magnets and stuff from Undisclosed Location, NJ.
It's wunnerful, and so are you, Ninepatch!
"Republicans are poor losers and worse winners." - My grandmother, sometime in the early 1960s
by escapee on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:06:23 AM PDT
a single cat picture or graphic. Not pandering to the pootie vote.
sure, you want to buy some refugee crafts.
by katier on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:27:57 AM PDT
I was going to post a pic of a cat with an Obama t-shirt, but my connection to photoshop is being goofy. Guess the firewalls at work won't allow it. =sigh=
There may be tyrants and murderers and...they may seem invincible, but in the end they always fail. Think of it: always.
by Dania Audax on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:36:56 AM PDT
by Pandoras Box on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:39:48 AM PDT
Cheers: the poll question..before I saw the answers..I was laughing.
Cheers: to our thermometer in Central PA breaking 40 this morning.
Cheers: to Daylight Savings Time. It just seems like the promise of Spring is around the corner.
Cheers: to my husband turning in his change of voter affiliation registration so he can vote for Obama in the closed PA Democratic Party. ( it was Obama's speech where he stood in the doorway for an hour without moving, mesmerized and inspired).
Cheers: that other than a few local elections with friends or neighbors running as Republicans, he has not voted for a Republican in 20 years. But it was emotional for him to switch parties because his family's legacy of being Republicans goes back to Abraham Lincoln. A member of his family worked in the Teddy Roosevelt administration! I reassured him that his ancestors would understand as how could they ever foresee their party turning into the Mess with the likes of Bush/Cheney/Delay/Newt.
The one thing we know about the McCain campaign...is that they're very good at negative campaigns, they're not so good at governing- Barack Obama
by wishingwell on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:02:40 AM PDT
finally seeing the light.
by Phil N DeBlanc on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:46:54 AM PDT
He voted for Gore and Kerry and he volunteered for Kerry.
It was just getting him to be the first person in 8 generations of his family to register as a Democrat, even for a primary election ..we have closed primary here in PA.
by wishingwell on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:08:44 AM PDT
about his family legacy is that when Lincoln ran as a Republican, they were nothing like the modern day republican'ts. Their platform was more like the modern Dems is.
by Phil N DeBlanc on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:11:24 AM PDT
loathes Bush and Cheney and he is furious what the Neo Con wingers have done to his party.
by wishingwell on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 12:39:32 PM PDT
wide narrow
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