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Just too many jokes here. Ex: "Food stamps can help..."???

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Hard to believe she's 9. I hardly remember the 6 year coma I must have been in.

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Why voting may not be for you.

For the last few weeks candidates have been extolling people to "get out & vote." Political pundits & activists have joined their chorus. In the last few days, & particularly this morning, every semi-civic minded individual is urging you to go vote & to take a neighbor! This is poor rationale & an inappropriate abuse of one of our most important rights as Americans.

First, realize that the politicians, pundits, & activists want you to get out & vote, for their side! So, their suggestive virtue is self serving. It's not necessarily shallow or insincere, but understand their motivation.

Secondly, for every argument to 'go vote' there is none that trumps my objection as to why some shouldn't participate in the voting process. If you are uninformed as to who you are voting for, what they are running for, & why you are voting for them, you shouldn't vote. You are committing gross negligence in something greater than a mere right. Being able to vote on local, regional, & national elections is perhaps the most singular thing that makes America the greatest nation on Earth. If exercising that right isn't worth your time to spend a negligible amount of time informing yourself with regards to the issues & candidates at hand, are you really honoring that right as it was envisioned in 1776?

Another argument often prays on sympathy of, 'considering that 23 year old soldier' who was killed or maimed protecting your right to vote. Well, yeah, & you honor that fallen soldier by voting ignorantly? By not caring enough about what he/she fought for to make a conscious decision on who you feel will serve your community & country best?

Go vote. If you have an opinion & want to uphold not only your right but your civic duty. But if you're uninformed, DON'T GO VOTE. An ignorant vote is a bad vote regardless of the candidate you choose with the flip of a coin.

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He's not much of a windshield cleaner, but he works cheap!

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Been posting this for the last few years.... #WhereWereYou

Wrote this in 2008 on the 7th anniversary of the terrorists attacks. I re-post it every year. Few days in my life (can) stand out as vividly as that day. There are two things I would like to remind everyone of however; First there was a plane that hit the Pentagon AND there was a plane that went down in a field in Pennsylvania because there were some people on board that accepted their fate, but instead of pitying themselves, they thought of their fellow man. People they had never met and would never know that were in the targeted building that that plane was suppose to hit. They took what precious moments they had left and made the most of them, saving no telling how many lives. I would wish that everyone could die peacefully in their sleep of old age. But I can't help but admire those that have died tragically for noble reasons.

Secondly, despite our incompetent national media, despite any actual shortcomings, despite any political differences you may have with him, despite any criticism any critic can even attempt to lay on him... George W. Bush was as good a President of the United States, on September 11, 2001 as we have ever had on a single day in this nations history. Watching footage that day, in the afternoon they showed footage of the President that morning at an elementary school in Florida. They showed an administration official whisper into the President's ear about the plane hitting the World Trade Center. The President was watching some play or something at the school, so jumping up and running for Air Force One wasn't actually an option less pandemonium was desired. But he sat calmly with a considerable change in demeanor until a few moments later when he was flown to various secure locations that day while getting briefed and making the type of decisions a Commander in Chief is responsible for making. Within a few hours every airport in the country was shut down. And a nation, and most of the world sat in disbelief. However, in the days and months after 9-11, I don't know that anyone could have addressed and responded to the tragedy as well as President Bush did. Whatever political rhetoric has been espoused or asserted over the wars or his supposed hand in our current economic situation is largely overstated, exaggerated, or incorrect, and regardless pales in comparison to the demonstrable leadership and fortitude with which he LEAD, in every sense of the word, the United States in the days following 9-11

Anyway, here's where I was... Watching the second plane fly into the Trade Center will be the most surreal thing I think I'll ever witness...

I was coaching basketball at the University of Southern Mississippi. We practiced at 6:00A.M. every morning. We had just finished the day's practice and I was leaving the coliseum to head to my apartment to get cleaned up in order to go to an athletic department meeting.

I got in my car, and turned on the Steve and DC morning show out of St. Louis. They were just getting reports of it, trying to confirm the reports, etc.

I got to my apartment, turned on CNN and was watching the coverage. At that time no one was sure that it was a terrorist attack. Some were speculating, but it was pure speculation.

Then, a reporter on top of an adjacent building with the Twin Towers in the background was reporting the known facts at the time. He broke the news as it was coming into his ear piece that another plane had indeed been hijacked. About the time he got the words out of his mouth you could see behind him the plane flying into the other tower. Then he turned around and realized what happened.

I quickly showered and returned to the basketball offices. No one there had heard anything about it yet, so we turned on all the TVs and radios available, and like much of the world watched the rest of the day in complete and utter non-belief.

One of my colleagues who coached women's basketball had a sister that worked at the Pentagon. Thankfully she was safe.

That's where I was. Please feel free to comment about where you were and what you were doing that day.

Where were you?

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Once upon a time...

Once upon a time I met a guy in the Seattle airport. His name was Rick and he was traveling from Tahiti back to his home in Miami. He had sailed a boat to Tahiti from Miami for a client who had bought the sailboat. He said he did 3-4 jobs like that a year. He delivered sail boats to various spots around the globe.

In our discussion he ever so casually proclaimed: "It's a great lifestyle!" And then sheepishly asserted: "If you like that sort of thing."

I'm wondering why I didn't get his number, email address, or something.

If everyone would forward this to all your friends named Rick, & friends who know any guys named Rick, I would appreciate it.

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