I loved the military!
I'm proud to have served.
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What do you call a lesbian with more than one girlfriend?
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What do you call a lesbian with more than one girlfriend?
A bush hog.
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Susie Scarr
added a new photo.
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"My heart finally broke for the Iraqi people. I wanted to just sit down and cry while saying I'm so, so sorry for what we had done. I had the acute sense that we had failed these people. It was at this time, and after an entire year of being deployed and well into the next deployment that I realized something. We burst into homes, frighten the hell out of families, and destroy their homes looking for an elusive enemy. We do this out of fear of the unseen and attempt to compensate for our inability to capture insurgents by swatting mosquitoes with a sledgehammer in glass houses."
Iraq through a soldier's death
By Kyle Spector
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007
Four days before his death, Army Staff Sgt. Darrell Ray Griffin Jr., an infantry squad leader in Baghdad, sent an E-mail to his wife, Diana. "Spartan women of Greece used to tell their husbands, before they went into battle, to come back with their shields or laying on them, dying honorably in battle. But if they did not return with their shield, this showed that they ran away from the battle. Cowardice was not a Spartan virtue ... Tell me that you love me the same by me coming back with my shield or on it."
A few days later, Diana replied. "Are you ok??? I haven't heard from you since Sunday and it is now Wednesday ... I know you said you were going on a dangerous mission ... I get so nervous when I don't hear from you ... phone call or e-mail ... I just hope and pray your ok honey ... "
It was an E-mail Griffin would never read.
E-Mails Reveal a Fallen Soldier's Story
By Alex Kingsbury
Posted 5/13/07
The Best Show
of
Support for our Soldiers
HAVING THEM THERE FOR THE RIGHT REASONS
Showing Respect for Commander in Chief of the Military
The PRESIDENT
Showing Respect for Congress Doing It's Job
DEBATING the ISSUES
Accepting Responsibility for the Consequences of our Governments Actions
GOOD CITIZEN
(past, present, and future}
Not
Confusing Stubborn Pride
with
PATRIOTISM
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Susie Scarr!
A
Darrel Ray Griffin, Jr.
you are not!***
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Mary Hinkel from Mason Mill
Susie: Two or three years ago, Jim Ed was fined $2,000 for having a large sign nailed to the trees, and at the time I believe he was evaluated by DeKalb County mental health services. Please refer the matter to zoning and the police and then report to us what you find out. I'm working under the impression that his signs are not an issue as long as they're on his property, but I could very well be mistaken. Your neighborhood would appreciate your leadership on this matter. Thanks.
You thanked Mary
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21-13(A) the cumulative aggregate signage exceeds 24 square feet prohibited. 48 square feet plus 12 soft totalling 60 square feet.
Phelps vs. Snyder:
SCOTUS 8-1 Ruling in Favor of Phelps Clan
ONLY THING STOPPING
BAD GUY WITH A GUN
IS
GOOD GUY WITH A GUN.
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WHEN YOU HAVE TWO OF THE SAME THING,
YOU ONLY NEED BUT ONE.
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THANK GOD FOR DEAD SOLDIERS!
"As father thought his son died protecting our first amendment rights to freedom of speech/freedom of expression while don't ask don't tell was still in effect; how do we even know that dead soldier wasn't a FAGGOT AS WELL!"
http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2016/06/yet-for-all-this-his-anger-is-not_19.html
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Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
I want to, first, thank Diane Benjamin for being the one introducing me to this phrase "Épater la bourgeoisie" :
[Épater la bourgeoisie or épater le (or les) bourgeois is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century including Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. It means to shock the bourgeoisie.
The Decadents, fascinated as they were with hashish, opium and absinthe, found, in Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel À rebours (1884), a sexually perverse hero who secludes himself in his house, basking in life-weariness or ennui, far from the bourgeois society that he despises.
The Aesthetes in England, such as Oscar Wilde, shared these same fascinations. This celebration of "unhealthy" and "unnatural" devotion to life, art and excess has been a continuing cultural theme.]
The above is everything Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, has to say about this fitting phrase, so fitting, it must have been made for me to be in it; Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) May he rest in peace.
[In Marxist philosophy the bourgeoisie is the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital, to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society. Joseph Schumpeter saw the creation of new bourgeoisie as the driving force behind the capitalist engine, particularly entrepreneurs who took risks to bring innovation to industries and the economy through the process of creative destruction.]
Wikipedia had a lot more say about the bourgeoisie, but I stopped here; it was fittingly perfect enough!
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
Second, assuming Diane's words speaks for all as I've yet to have been invited to tea anywhere, you might as well go ahead and kill the children yourself. Certainly would save someone else their own generations the trouble of being vilified having done it for you instead.
http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2016/05/nextdoorcom-mary-hinkel-closed.html
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PETITION UPDATE
Sentencing and Terms of Probation
FEB 8, 2017 — Good Evening Petition Supporters,
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"A mother's memory that I want to honor comes from an incident that took place on 5 March 2007. Our company was conducting a raid in a city near Karbala in order to kill or capture a suspected intelligence officer associated with Ansar al-Sunna. We entered the home corresponding to the grid location given to us by our S2 [intelligence]. His name was similar to the one we were looking for, but our interpreter informed us that we did not have the tribal name that corresponds to all last names of all Arabic people in general. We waited for two hours while his name was traced by our battalion S2, and to calm things down I spoke to the elderly man through our interpreter "Thunder." I asked him questions about himself, such as where he worked, what he thought about Moqtada al-Sadr, and other questions pertinent to all Iraqis.
I noticed that one of his wives had been holding an infant that began to cry profusely. I asked if I could help in any way and the father indicated that the baby was hungry. I noticed the mother attempting to breastfeed
her little baby and yet the baby continued to cry. Thunder, who is a certified and well-educated doctor of internal medicine educated in Iraq, told me that the mother, because she was very frightened by our presence, was not able to breastfeed her baby because the glands in the breast close up due to sympathetic response to fear and stressful situations. I then tried to reassure the mother by allowing her to leave the
room and attain some privacy so that she could relax and feed the child.
I felt something that had been brooding under the attained callousness of my heart for some time. My heart finally broke for the Iraqi people. I wanted to just sit down and cry while saying I'm so, so sorry for what we had done. I had the acute sense that we had failed these people. It was at this time, and after an entire year of being deployed and well into the next deployment that I realized something. We burst into homes, frighten the hell out of families, and destroy their homes looking for an elusive enemy. We do this out of fear of the unseen and attempt to compensate for our inability to capture insurgents by swatting mosquitoes with a sledgehammer in glass houses. The old man sitting down in front of me could very easily have been lying to us for whatever reason, we would never know. I would much rather keep a liar as a friend than have a liar pushed to the side of the insurgency. The mosquito represents the small, quantifiably inferior force that we are chasing; the sledgehammer represents the full weight of our military and the glass house represents
the country of Iraq. May that woman's child have the life that he deserves, lived to the fullest."
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Update: The DeKalb County Solicitor General's office has notified us that the code violation trial for the property owner at 1840 Mason Mill Road has been set for Thursday, January 26, at 9 a.m. The trial will be in the main courthouse in downtown Decatur (556 N. McDonough Street) in courtroom C on the first floor.
Over these past months, the property has been monitored by the County and has cited close to 30 code violations tickets to the property owner. I personally will be glad to drive past this house without "getting the finger" or viewing obscenities.
Over these past months, the property has been monitored by the County and has cited close to 30 code violations tickets to the property owner. I personally will be glad to drive past this house without "getting the finger" or viewing obscenities.
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"Once you can picture our universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something,
wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
~(Albert Einstein)~
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