A award... well it's about time

A young lady has given me an award
I haven't totally absorbed what this may mean
But, I am certainly going to try to milk it for all it is worth
I am not going to go "all Suldog" on the presenter
I will need some time, though, to put together my response
Maybe a week...
...or so
We'll see how this works out

Ya coulda heard a pin drop

At a time when our Current President and other politicians tend to apologize for our country's prior actions, here's a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments about our country.

These stories are good reminders of how proud and thankful we should always be as Americans:

1.
JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaule decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaule said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.

Rusk responded, "Does that include those who are buried here?"

DeGaule did not respond.




You could have heard a pin drop.



2.
When in England, at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush.

He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."


You could have heard a pin drop.



3.
There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?"

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?"


You could have heard a pin drop.



4.
A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French Navys. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?"

Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the Brit's, Canadians, Aussie's and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German."



You could have heard a pin drop.



AND
THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...


Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.

"You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.

"Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."

The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."

"Impossible. Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !"

The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to."



You could have heard a pin drop.

One good thing about SF

I was sorely tempted to post something about freckles, along the lines of what's found at Suldog's, Surly Writer, or Skip's... Anyone remember this?
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Not that I'd ever do anything like that

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Suldog... yeah that same one who quit blogging... has gone gimicky. Some time ago he was a Blog of Note, which gained him a bunch of new followers... a whole bunch. Now he appears to be actually attempting to attract others. I mean why would he otherwise post this and this? It's no accident that certain words and phrases attract more hits from search engines. Otherwise why would a certain post on this blog have almost three times as many page views as the next nearest post. I won't tell you the search term, but it rhymes with Clown Hoser.





It's

They're found

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The missing blog posts that went AWOL last week are back. One of them I was able to recreate, so I have deleted the one they found. The other one is right here, where it's is supposed to be. There is a brief note I have added.

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'nother break

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The folks doing the A to Z thingy get Sundays off. Well you just can't shut down a great mind... even if you want to.

I have just been informed my mind is far from great.
Hence, my response, "Read the title of this blog aloud!"

A woman was unhappy with the way her laundry
was done at the local Chinese Laundry, so she
wrote a note and put it in the bag with the next
collection of soiled clothes:
'USE MORE SOAP ON PANTIES!'

She got the clean laundry back, and was still
dissatisfied with the results, so, the following
week she enclosed another note:
'USE MORE SOAP ON PANTIES!'

The Chinese laundry man became very annoyed,
and when her clean Laundry was delivered, it
contained a note from him:
'I USE PLENTY SOAP ON PANTIES!
USE MORE PAPER ON ASS!

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