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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 11, 2016 13:22:34 GMT -5
Clicking here will allow you to see a honest-to-goodness supernova blowing up in another galaxy. Holy exploding massive star, Batman!!! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 11, 2016 13:31:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2016 4:23:27 GMT -5
Last year, Yelp voted my local sandwich shop the 4th best place to eat in the nation. This year it was voted 5th place.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 12, 2016 10:51:48 GMT -5
My wife was sworn in as a US citizen today. Congratulations! I hope she uses her newfound voting power wisely (ie. anybody but Trump). But Cruz and Rubio scare me, too. |
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Post by The Captain on Feb 13, 2016 9:25:29 GMT -5
Got a sign yesterday that my wife and I are possibly doing something right with raising our girls.
We got home after swim practice and dinner out last night, and as it had snowed, I stayed outside to shovel. When I got back into the house, there was a mug, a packet of hot chocolate, and a bag of mini marshmallows on the counter, along with a note from my older daughter that read:
"Thanks for shoveling the driveway. Hope you feel warmer. Love you!
P.S. Make yourself some hot chocolate. You deserve it."
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 21, 2016 18:37:23 GMT -5
Jeb Bush is out ! I don't know, that made me happy  |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 21, 2016 22:26:37 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 22, 2016 6:14:48 GMT -5
Jeb Bush is out ! I don't know, that made me happy Me too, because after the fiasco of his brother's presidency I really don't want to see another Bush in the White House... And yet, even so, Bush was among the less extremist among the republican candidates. In what kind of a world does a Bush sound more reasonable than his opponents? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 22, 2016 11:20:06 GMT -5
For what Jeb Bush put Terry Schiavo's family through I'm glad he will never be President. And I find myself wishing there were a Hell so he could find a nice warm spot there. My contempt for him is utter and absolute.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 22, 2016 11:53:37 GMT -5
He also stopped a certain recount...
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 22, 2016 14:17:33 GMT -5
He also stopped a certain recount... Which a certain recently departed approved of... |
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 7, 2016 19:56:01 GMT -5
Johnny Duckworth doesn't have a full-time job, a working car, or a home of his own.
But when the 50-year-old busboy found an envelope stuffed with $3,000 in cash in the Colorado diner where he works, Duckworth promptly handed it to his boss, Randy Emmons,who returned it to its owner.
To reward his honest employee, Emmons started an online fund-raiser, hoping to raise $3,000 to pay some of Duckworth's bills.
So far, people have donated more than $28,000. "It's going to change my life," said a grateful Duckworth.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 20:42:56 GMT -5
Johnny Duckworth doesn't have a full-time job, a working car, or a home of his own. But when the 50-year-old busboy found an envelope stuffed with $3,000 in cash in the Colorado diner where he works, Duckworth promptly handed it to his boss, Randy Emmons,who returned it to its owner. To reward his honest employee, Emmons started an online fund-raiser, hoping to raise $3,000 to pay some of Duckworth's bills. So far, people have donated more than $28,000. "It's going to change my life," said a grateful Duckworth. This is fantastic! |
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Post by hondobrode on May 4, 2016 13:07:01 GMT -5
Honoring a soldier's legacy
In 2009, Reno, Nev., police Detective Robert Smith was given a battered suitcase from an auctioned-off storage unit. Inside he found hundreds of love letters from Maj. Lamont Haas to his wife, Betty Lou—from the moment Haas enlisted, in 1941, to the month he died in a midair collision over France, in 1944. Though Haas never made it home, Smith spent four years making sure his letters did. Betty Lou died in 1987, but last week Smith returned the suitcase to Haas’s daughter, who was 4 months old when her father was killed. Haas’s legacy was worth saving, Smith said. “I think he’s a genuine American hero.”
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Post by Farrar on May 4, 2016 16:50:21 GMT -5
Reading about Duckworth, Emmons and Smith not only reminds me of how fortunate I am, but also that there are truly good people in the world. Thanks very much for posting these, hondo.
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