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Eight More Forwards From Mary Below
You Will Find 8 Email Forwards From A
Lovely Lady By The Name Of Mary
Ann Kindler If you like what you see on this
page, you can use the email link
above to ask Mary to be put on her mailing list. If you do
this please tell Mary where you go her email address. 1.
09/27/11 - RC Round Up/VERY FUNNY! RC
Round Up! Very Funny! There Is Sound;
Song: "Rawhide"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA-ST8nXl4U&feature=player_embedded
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10/02/11 - Obama's Minions Shutdown Private Company Obama's
Minions Shutdown Private Compan
All of the illegals and the crime they (well,
some of them, got to be PC) and the government is going after Gibson
over “wood”?????? Doesn’t seem to be any limit
on the audacity of this government…. Who or what will be
next????
Grassfire Nation Update
Grassfire Nation has learned that Gibson Guitars, a Nashville,
TN based company has been raided twice by federal marshals
over the last number of weeks over the type of wood used in
their guitars.
Despite the fact that no charges have been filed, the
government did confiscate product and shutdown Gibson
production, putting hundreds of real jobs in jeopardy!
A review of the law
in question also makes illegal the purchase, ownership and
resale of Gibson guitars. This gross abuse of power is already
being confronted as
a number of Tea Party organizations, are planning a rally for
Gibson on October 8, in Nashville, TN. Grassfire Nation
officials will be on the ground to hand-deliver
at least 25,000 “I Stand with Gibson” petitions during
that rally!
Take a moment today
to sign this petition giving us permission to represent you at
this upcoming rally supporting Gibson guitars.
Click here to add
your name:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=50722&RID=32632617
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3. 09/15/11 - iPads Now Helping Marines Unleash Hell
iPads
Now Helping Marines Unleash Hell
Tablets are not new on the military scene...
When Marines are in a firefight in Afghanistan and need back
up, they call in helicopters to blast the enemy from the sky. Sounds simple
enough, but it’s not — according to current standard operating procedures
for close-air strikes, ground troops radio coordinates to a pilot who then has
to rifle through 60 to 80 pounds of maps to find the building he’s supposed to
hit. Radio signals cut out, coordinates get jumbled and, even with half a grown
man’s weight in maps in the cockpit, sometimes the pilot doesn’t have a
detailed image of the target area. But this may all change soon.
The Marines recently took a baby step towards a more
efficient future when the 3rd Aircraft Wing bought 32 iPads. The total purchase
— not quite $20,000 worth of tablets and accessories, according to Defense
News — was merely “a hiccup in the grand scheme of defense spending,” a
former deputy G-3 for operations pointed out. But it could be a crucial advance
in aerial warfare.
Capt. Jim Carlson, a Cobra pilot in a Marine Light Attack
Helicopter Squadron (HMLA), is responsible for piquing the interest of his
higher-ups. He was annoyed with the current communication system so he decided
to mess around with his personal iPad, which he discovered could be digitally
linked to troops on the ground. All 80 cartographical pounds could be easily
uploaded to the device and manipulated like any other map app — broad area
maps hyper linked to detailed sections.
The brass was wary when they first heard what Carlson and his
fellow pilots were up to at Camp Bastion in Helmand province. They weren’t
sure if a commercial product was secure enough to handle in-combat transmissions
(though only non-classified maps were being stored on the devices). But about a
year later, the brass appears to be on-board — at least on a trial-basis —
and the commanding officer of HMLA-267 told Defense News that iPads have sped up
communications by about 15 minutes during close-air missions. Now ground and air
can simply confirm they are fingering the same building on their tablet and
fire.
Tablets are not new on the military scene — air controllers
have been using them for several years now. But these devices are the dinosaurs
of the evolutionary timeline of tablets. Military officials have been pushing
for the incorporation of updated smart devices in combat situations, but no real
progress has been made as of yet. Maybe the Marines’ $20,000-gamble will be a
first victory.
If iPads are as effective in aerial strikes as hoped, it’s
easy to imagine that helicopters will soon be fitted with tablets or, more
likely, a similar system will be mounted on their control panels.
The innovation curve would likely be pretty steep in the
military tablet realm just as it is in the consumer market. Software developers
have already come up with a variety of apps geared toward military efficacy,
including a few that can differentiate friendlies from insurgents, and Darpa is
hard at work on a way to keep smart devices powered-up during lengthy missions.
It’s nice to know the military is learning to navigate with
devices and apps like the ones my friends and I use to zero in on, say, a coffee
shop we’ve never been to. Now we just have to make sure the Department of
Defense restricts access to Angry Birds and Pocket Frogs during missions.
Mark Riffee WIRED Magazine
Photo: Cpl Rashaun X. James USMC
4.
09/26/11 - The William Kamkwamba Story WINDMILLS:
The William Kamkwamba Story
Please watch as this boy genius from a poor country
makes things better for his people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=232k0_i6ZEc
5.
10/01/11 - This Is Funny - Medical Cost Here's
One Reason Why Our
Medical Costs Are So High!
Bubba had shingles.
Those of us who spend much time in a doctor's office
should appreciate this! Doesn't it seem more and more that physicians are
running their practices like an assembly line?
Here's what happened to Bubba:
Bubba walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist
asked him what he had. Bubba said: 'Shingles.' So she wrote down his name,
address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.
Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked
Bubba what he had..
Bubba said, 'Shingles.' So she wrote down his height, weight,
a complete medical history and told Bubba to wait in the examining room.
A half hour later a nurse came in and asked Bubba what he
had. Bubba said, 'Shingles..' So the nurse gave Bubba a blood test, a blood
pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told Bubba to take off all his
clothes and wait for the doctor.
An hour later the doctor came in and found Bubba sitting
patiently in the nude and asked Bubba what he had.
Bubba said, 'Shingles.' The doctor asked, 'Where?'
Bubba said, 'Outside on the truck. Where do you want me to
unload 'em??'
HOPE THIS MAKES YOU LAUGH.... THAT'S WHY I HAD TO SEND
THIS TO YOU....THESE DAYS WE NEED ALL THE LAUGHS WE CAN GET
6.
09/21/11 - The World's
Largest Army - America's Hunters! The
World's Largest Army - America's Hunters! I
had never thought about this.... A
blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and
arrived at a striking conclusion:
There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .
Allow me to restate that number.
Over the last several months, Wisconsin 's hunters became the eighth
largest army in the world.
More men under arms than in Iran .
More than in France and Germany combined.
These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt with
firearms, and no one was killed.
That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of
Pennsylvania and Michigan's 700,000 hunters, all of whom have now returned home.
Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes
the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the
largest army in the world. The point?
America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home
grown firepower.
Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer.It's a matter of
national security.
That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.
Food for thought when next we consider gun control.
7. 09/21/11 - Post Turtle
Post Turtle
This has been around before,
but I thought it was still relevant.
YOU'VE
GOT TO LOVE THIS RANCHER'S OUTLOOK
& COMMON SENSE APPROACH TO LIFE.
While
suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand was caught
in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a
conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama
and his role as our president.
The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'Post Turtle''.
Not
being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him, what a 'post turtle' was.
The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you
come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued
to explain.
You
know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there,
he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he's elevated beyond
his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him
up there to begin with'.
8.
09/27/11 - The Military Man The Military
Man
The average age of
the military man is 19 years.
He is a short-haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances,
is considered by society as half-man, half-boy yet dry behind the ears, not old
enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country.
He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car
than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either.
He's a recent high school graduate; he was probably an average student,
pursued some form of sport activites, drives a ten-year-old jalopy, and has a
steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be
waiting when he returns from half a world away.
He listens to rock and roll, or hip-hop, or rap, or jazz, or swing and
155mm Howitzers.
He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is
working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk.
He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can
field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark.
He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher
and use either one effectively if he must.
He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional.
He can march until he is told to stop or stop until he is told to march. He
obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or
individual dignity. He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues: he
washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry. He
sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle. He can cook
his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts.
If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his
food. He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you
run low.
He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were
his hands. He can save your life - or take it, because that is his job.
He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay and still
find ironic humor in it all.
He has seen more suffering and death then he should have in his short
lifetime. He has stood atop mountains of dead bodies, and helped to create them.
He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat, and
is unashamed.
He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while
at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to 'square-away' those
around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop
talking. In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their
right to be disrespectful.
Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying
the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the American
Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200 years. He has asked
nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding.
Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with
his blood.
When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our
ground troops, sailors, our airmen, and for those preparing for war with Iraq.
Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Marine or Airman, prayer
is the very best one.
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for
us in our time of need. Amen."
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