Eric

Any time, Bill. Someone has to make sure there are still "real Jeeps" in
the world... ;-)

- Eric
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> Amen. And a special thanks to you, willing to lay your life on the
> line.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Eric wrote:
>>
>> A special thanks goes out to those that have lost their lives to allow us
>> to
>> be here today. And another to those who can't be with their families
>> today
>> because they are in a distant land.
>>
>> ERIC J. BAILEY, 2d Lt, USAF

Coasty

Here in MD the legislature is pushing through a bill to make English the
official language, I thought it was. Sort of an oxymoron don't you think.
It has a real good chance of passing the poles show 78% of marylanders
concur.

--
Coasty

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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Rich,
> It is incredibly disappointing for me thinking election of Arnie
> would signal sanity to return to Kalifornia, but this last Tuesday the
> bleeding hart liberals of the state of San Francisco, voted to ban guns:
> http://www.thetriangle.org/media/pap...hetriangle.org
> That was hitler's fascist party first step.
> I got this in the mail today, of which you were a part of: If you
> consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq
> theater operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112
> deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
> The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000. That
> means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our
> Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in
> the nation, than you are in Iraq. Conclusion: We should immediately pull
> out of Washington D.C.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Rich wrote:
>>
>> If this country keeps going in the direction the liberal left wants to go
>> we'll be reading it in Arabic one day.

Coasty

Here in MD the legislature is pushing through a bill to make English the
official language, I thought it was. Sort of an oxymoron don't you think.
It has a real good chance of passing the poles show 78% of marylanders
concur.

--
Coasty

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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:43754D5F.2605820D@***.net...
> Hi Rich,
> It is incredibly disappointing for me thinking election of Arnie
> would signal sanity to return to Kalifornia, but this last Tuesday the
> bleeding hart liberals of the state of San Francisco, voted to ban guns:
> http://www.thetriangle.org/media/pap...hetriangle.org
> That was hitler's fascist party first step.
> I got this in the mail today, of which you were a part of: If you
> consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq
> theater operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112
> deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
> The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000. That
> means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our
> Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in
> the nation, than you are in Iraq. Conclusion: We should immediately pull
> out of Washington D.C.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Rich wrote:
>>
>> If this country keeps going in the direction the liberal left wants to go
>> we'll be reading it in Arabic one day.

Coasty

Here in MD the legislature is pushing through a bill to make English the
official language, I thought it was. Sort of an oxymoron don't you think.
It has a real good chance of passing the poles show 78% of marylanders
concur.

--
Coasty

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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:43754D5F.2605820D@***.net...
> Hi Rich,
> It is incredibly disappointing for me thinking election of Arnie
> would signal sanity to return to Kalifornia, but this last Tuesday the
> bleeding hart liberals of the state of San Francisco, voted to ban guns:
> http://www.thetriangle.org/media/pap...hetriangle.org
> That was hitler's fascist party first step.
> I got this in the mail today, of which you were a part of: If you
> consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq
> theater operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112
> deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
> The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000. That
> means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our
> Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in
> the nation, than you are in Iraq. Conclusion: We should immediately pull
> out of Washington D.C.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Rich wrote:
>>
>> If this country keeps going in the direction the liberal left wants to go
>> we'll be reading it in Arabic one day.

Tom Greening

"Coasty" <uscg_retSPOOGE@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:r9udncaWztg4SejenZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> Here in MD the legislature is pushing through a bill to make English the
> official language, I thought it was. Sort of an oxymoron don't you think.
> It has a real good chance of passing the poles show 78% of marylanders
> concur.
>
> --


Thank god sanity seems to reign at least somewhere. Why is it that when I
go to an ATM in Podunk, Ohio I have to CHOOSE a language? Specifically
Spanish. Why the hell is that? Why do I have to watch (well, actually "I"
don't) TV shows that seem hell bent on teaching kids Spanish? Excuse me but
shouldn't that be the other way around? Shouldn't the shows be striving to
teach ENGLISH to those who can't (or won't?) speak it? It wouldn't bother
me if I had to choose from a list of languages i.e. English, Spanish,
German, French, Japanese, etc. That at least I could understand as trying
to be a convenience to international travelers. When the only choices are
English or Spanish, now we are trying to cater to a specific ethnic group
that for all intents and purposes is not just a bunch of "visitors", and I
think that is plain old wrong.

I wouldn't expect to move to Japan and have them provide everything to me in
English. It would sure be nice, but I wouldn't EXPECT it as some sort of
god-given right. I wouldn't expect to put my kid in a Japanese public
school and demand that they make accommodations to teach my kid in English.
The best I would hope for would be English assistance while they went about
teaching my kid JAPANESE.

This country was founded by English speaking Europeans which is good enough
for me. Later there was a HUGE influx of immigrants from nations all over
the world, whose sole interest was to come here to be an AMERICAN, not a
"fill in the blank"-American. Not Italian Americans, Irish Americans,
Polish Americans etc, but just plain old Americans. These people promptly
got about the business of pursuing their dreams AND learning the language of
the host country which just happened to be ENGLISH.

This country truly was a melting pot as back then the immigrants wanted to
FIT IN and be Americans, nothing more. Therein is the issue at the root of
a huge portion of today's racial problems in this country. People coming
here don't want to fit in any more. They want to come from whatever little
hell hole they were born it to someplace nice, and then try to convert it to
a carbon copy of the hell hole they just left. Why are people today so hell
bent on applying labels to themselves? African-American, Mexican-American,
XYZ-American and whatnot.

Isn't it enough to be an American anymore?

Tom Greening

"Coasty" <uscg_retSPOOGE@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:r9udncaWztg4SejenZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> Here in MD the legislature is pushing through a bill to make English the
> official language, I thought it was. Sort of an oxymoron don't you think.
> It has a real good chance of passing the poles show 78% of marylanders
> concur.
>
> --


Thank god sanity seems to reign at least somewhere. Why is it that when I
go to an ATM in Podunk, Ohio I have to CHOOSE a language? Specifically
Spanish. Why the hell is that? Why do I have to watch (well, actually "I"
don't) TV shows that seem hell bent on teaching kids Spanish? Excuse me but
shouldn't that be the other way around? Shouldn't the shows be striving to
teach ENGLISH to those who can't (or won't?) speak it? It wouldn't bother
me if I had to choose from a list of languages i.e. English, Spanish,
German, French, Japanese, etc. That at least I could understand as trying
to be a convenience to international travelers. When the only choices are
English or Spanish, now we are trying to cater to a specific ethnic group
that for all intents and purposes is not just a bunch of "visitors", and I
think that is plain old wrong.

I wouldn't expect to move to Japan and have them provide everything to me in
English. It would sure be nice, but I wouldn't EXPECT it as some sort of
god-given right. I wouldn't expect to put my kid in a Japanese public
school and demand that they make accommodations to teach my kid in English.
The best I would hope for would be English assistance while they went about
teaching my kid JAPANESE.

This country was founded by English speaking Europeans which is good enough
for me. Later there was a HUGE influx of immigrants from nations all over
the world, whose sole interest was to come here to be an AMERICAN, not a
"fill in the blank"-American. Not Italian Americans, Irish Americans,
Polish Americans etc, but just plain old Americans. These people promptly
got about the business of pursuing their dreams AND learning the language of
the host country which just happened to be ENGLISH.

This country truly was a melting pot as back then the immigrants wanted to
FIT IN and be Americans, nothing more. Therein is the issue at the root of
a huge portion of today's racial problems in this country. People coming
here don't want to fit in any more. They want to come from whatever little
hell hole they were born it to someplace nice, and then try to convert it to
a carbon copy of the hell hole they just left. Why are people today so hell
bent on applying labels to themselves? African-American, Mexican-American,
XYZ-American and whatnot.

Isn't it enough to be an American anymore?

Tom Greening

"Coasty" <uscg_retSPOOGE@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:r9udncaWztg4SejenZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> Here in MD the legislature is pushing through a bill to make English the
> official language, I thought it was. Sort of an oxymoron don't you think.
> It has a real good chance of passing the poles show 78% of marylanders
> concur.
>
> --


Thank god sanity seems to reign at least somewhere. Why is it that when I
go to an ATM in Podunk, Ohio I have to CHOOSE a language? Specifically
Spanish. Why the hell is that? Why do I have to watch (well, actually "I"
don't) TV shows that seem hell bent on teaching kids Spanish? Excuse me but
shouldn't that be the other way around? Shouldn't the shows be striving to
teach ENGLISH to those who can't (or won't?) speak it? It wouldn't bother
me if I had to choose from a list of languages i.e. English, Spanish,
German, French, Japanese, etc. That at least I could understand as trying
to be a convenience to international travelers. When the only choices are
English or Spanish, now we are trying to cater to a specific ethnic group
that for all intents and purposes is not just a bunch of "visitors", and I
think that is plain old wrong.

I wouldn't expect to move to Japan and have them provide everything to me in
English. It would sure be nice, but I wouldn't EXPECT it as some sort of
god-given right. I wouldn't expect to put my kid in a Japanese public
school and demand that they make accommodations to teach my kid in English.
The best I would hope for would be English assistance while they went about
teaching my kid JAPANESE.

This country was founded by English speaking Europeans which is good enough
for me. Later there was a HUGE influx of immigrants from nations all over
the world, whose sole interest was to come here to be an AMERICAN, not a
"fill in the blank"-American. Not Italian Americans, Irish Americans,
Polish Americans etc, but just plain old Americans. These people promptly
got about the business of pursuing their dreams AND learning the language of
the host country which just happened to be ENGLISH.

This country truly was a melting pot as back then the immigrants wanted to
FIT IN and be Americans, nothing more. Therein is the issue at the root of
a huge portion of today's racial problems in this country. People coming
here don't want to fit in any more. They want to come from whatever little
hell hole they were born it to someplace nice, and then try to convert it to
a carbon copy of the hell hole they just left. Why are people today so hell
bent on applying labels to themselves? African-American, Mexican-American,
XYZ-American and whatnot.

Isn't it enough to be an American anymore?

Matt Macchiarolo

Ditto and best wishes!

"Eric" <gymrat@baileyscorner.com> wrote in message
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>A special thanks goes out to those that have lost their lives to allow us
>to be here today. And another to those who can't be with their families
>today because they are in a distant land.
>
> ERIC J. BAILEY, 2d Lt, USAF
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:4374FECE.D948FCE2@***.net...
>> Thank you Veterans: http://www.----------.com/Veterans.htm
>> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>> mailto:--------------------
>
>

Matt Macchiarolo

Ditto and best wishes!

"Eric" <gymrat@baileyscorner.com> wrote in message
news:iGedf.6332$jN6.6030@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>A special thanks goes out to those that have lost their lives to allow us
>to be here today. And another to those who can't be with their families
>today because they are in a distant land.
>
> ERIC J. BAILEY, 2d Lt, USAF
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:4374FECE.D948FCE2@***.net...
>> Thank you Veterans: http://www.----------.com/Veterans.htm
>> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>> mailto:--------------------
>
>

Matt Macchiarolo

Ditto and best wishes!

"Eric" <gymrat@baileyscorner.com> wrote in message
news:iGedf.6332$jN6.6030@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>A special thanks goes out to those that have lost their lives to allow us
>to be here today. And another to those who can't be with their families
>today because they are in a distant land.
>
> ERIC J. BAILEY, 2d Lt, USAF
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:4374FECE.D948FCE2@***.net...
>> Thank you Veterans: http://www.----------.com/Veterans.htm
>> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>> mailto:--------------------
>
>