Friday, January 29, 2010

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall


The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington DC honors the fallen of the Vietnam War. Relatives and friends leave letters, poems, and photographs there and on this web site named The Virtual Wall. We bring the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to your home.
http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Oops It may not be gone

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a new file recovery tool that will unerase files that you have mistakenly deleted from your computer.Recuva is fast, small and will even run from a USB drive.Like all other Piriform products, Recuva is free for both commercial and personal use.
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Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated


January 28th, 1986

The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated (pictured)
73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Gus, Ed, & Roger die on January 27, 1967


Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module (CM-012) was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on January 27, 1967 at Pad 34 (Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral, then known as Cape Kennedy) atop a Saturn IB rocket. The crew aboard were the astronauts selected for the first manned Apollo program mission: Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. All three died in the fire.

Although the ignition source of the fire was never conclusively identified, the astronauts' deaths were attributed to a wide range of lethal design hazards in the early Apollo command module. Among these were the use of a high-pressure 100 percent-oxygen atmosphere for the test, wiring and plumbing flaws, flammable materials in the cockpit (such as Velcro), an inward-opening hatch that would not open in this kind of an emergency, and the flight suits worn by the astronauts.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Friday, January 15, 2010

Salvation Army Haiti Relief

In my belief the Salvation Army is best to donate to .......... Jack

Salvation Army Mobilizing Personnel, Resources to Aid with Haiti Relief.
Army school, clinic damaged; staff on-site organizing emergency response.

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Donate Now to the Haiti Earthquake relief

Thursday, January 14, 2010

January 14th


Happy Birthday Betty

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Tylenol murders - 28 Yrs ago


The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders occurred when seven people died after taking pain-relief capsules that had been poisoned. The Tylenol poisonings, code-named TYMURS by the FBI, took place in the autumn of 1982 in the Chicago area of the United States. These poisonings involved Extra-Strength Tylenol medicine capsules which had been laced with potassium cyanide. The incident led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substances and to federal anti-tampering laws. As of January, 2010, the crime has not been solved and no suspects have been charged. A $100,000 reward, offered by Johnson & Johnson for the capture and conviction of the "Tylenol Killer," has never been claimed.

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

No Nursing Home for me - from my old Blog

There will be no nursing home in my future . . . When I get old and feeble,
I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship.
The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on
reservations at Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior
discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:
1. Gratuities which will be only be $10 per day.
2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the restaurant,
or I can have room service (which means I can have breakfast in bed every
day of the week).
3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free
washers and dryers and shows every night.
4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.
5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra $5
worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
6. You get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.
7. TV broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress
replaced? No problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your
inconvenience.
8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for
them.
9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip, you are on Medicare.
If you fall and break a hip on a Princess Ship, they will upgrade you to a
suite for the rest of your life.
Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama
Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go?
Princess will have a ship ready to go.
So don't look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to ship.
PS: If you die, they just dump you over the side, at no charge.

Author --- Unknown

Brace for Impact The Chesley B. Sullenberger Story


Captain Sullenberger re-traces the path of U.S. Airways, Flight 1549. He gives a chilling account of the near disaster when he landed the plane on the Hudson River and 155 people exited a sinking plane and entered history. Narrated by Harrison Ford

See it tonight (Sunday 1/10/10) at 9PM EST on TLC cable or satellite.

What do you know about Asteroids


Asteroids are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; ... Has one got our name on it ? Read much more

Friday, January 08, 2010

Elvis Presley - Happy Birthday - born January 8 1935


Elvis Presley, born into a modest working class family in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8 1935, would forever change American music popular culture. He's shown above in 1958.

Obama Weather

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Sunday, January 03, 2010

Invasion of Panama - Noriega still prisoner of war 1989


Manuel Antonio Noriega (born February 11, 1934)[1] is a former US backed general and the military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989.[2] He was never, contrary to popular belief, officially the president of Panama, but held the post of "chief executive officer" for a brief period in 1989. The 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States removed him from power; he was captured, detained as a prisoner of war, and flown to the U.S. Noriega was tried on eight counts of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering in April 1992. Noriega's US prison sentence ended in September 2007;[3] pending the outcome of extradition requests by both Panama and France, he remains in prison as of 2010.

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Saturday, January 02, 2010

Why I forward jokes


I very seldom send a joke to anyone via email, as I think if you want to read jokes you would just go to "joke of the day" and read them there. I do receive jokes from a few people tho, but never thought of it in this way. This is a nice story, not a joke. The author of this story is unknown to me .....Jack
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This explains why I forward jokes:
A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.
He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them.
After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.
When he was standing before it he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.
When he was close enough, he called out, 'Excuse me, where are we?'
'This is Heaven, sir,' the man answered.
'Wow! Would you happen to have some water?' the man asked.
Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right up.' The man gestured, and the gate began to open.
'Can my friend,' gesturing toward his dog, 'come in, too?' the traveler asked.
'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets.'
The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the way he had been going with his dog.
After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed. There was no fence.
As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book.
'Excuse me!' he called to the man. 'Do you have any water?'
'Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there, come on in.'
'How about my friend here?' the traveler gestured to the dog.
'There should be a bowl by the pump.'
They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it.
The traveler filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave some to the dog.
When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree.
'What do you call this place?' the traveler asked.
'This is Heaven,' he answered.
'Well, that's confusing,' the traveler said. 'The man down the road said that was Heaven, too.'
'Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That's hell.'
'Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your name like that?'
'No, we're just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave their best friends behind.'
Soooo...
Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us without writing a word. Maybe this will explain.
When you are very busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do? You forward jokes.
When you have nothing to say, but still want to keep contact, you forward jokes.
When you have something to say, but don't know what, and don't know how, you forward jokes.
Also to let you know that you are remembered, you are important, you are loved, you are cared for, guess what you get? A forwarded joke.
So, next time if you get a joke, don't think that you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you've been thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile.

Dump Baron Hill (important re-run)



Travis Hankins supports:

The absolute Right to Life, A strong Missile Defense, Energy Independence - DRILL, Term imits, Traditional Marriage, Abolishing the IRS, Balancing the Budget, Enforcing all Immigration Law, Limiting Spending to 2002 Levels, No New Federal Programs, Right to Bear Arms, Free Market Healthcare, Devolution of Dept. of Education, A completely Secured Border.
See his internet home page
http://travishankins.com/index.htm

Friday, January 01, 2010

January 1, 1890 in Pasadena, California


The Tournament of Roses Parade, better known as the Rose Parade, is the "America's New Year Celebration", a festival of flowers, music and equestrians and a college football game on New Year's Day, produced by the non-profit Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association. The annual parade was first held January 1, 1890 in Pasadena, California. Today, the Rose Parade is watched in person by hundreds of thousands of spectators on the parade route, and is broadcast on multiple television networks in the United States. It is seen by millions more on television worldwide in more than 200 international territories and countries. The Rose Bowl college football game was added in 1902 to help fund the cost of staging the parade.
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