A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....08-12 thru 08-14-05....T.G.I.F. at the Finest

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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~ Billie, Mama_Bear, Dutchess, Aquamarine, Dolly Cali ~

Welcome to TGIF at the Finest!   We hope you've been having as much fun as we have with our essays and/or spotlight on various FReepers. From the beginning, we've been kicking back on Saturdays and Sundays and simply reviewing the features of the week; our weekend threads now start on Friday and continue through Sunday. If you missed seeing any of this week's threads and want to say hello there now, just click on the link for that particular day. If you'd like to drop in and out of this thread today through Sunday, please feel free to do that also. One of us will try to be around to see the welcome mat is still out, put the coffee pot on, and maybe even bring fresh flowers for the table. : )

~ Billie, Mama_Bear, Dutchess, Aquamarine, Dolly Cali ~



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"Getting to Know You"

THIS WEEK'S THREADS


08-08-05 ~ Military Monday
By Billie
Presented by The Mayor

08-09-05 ~ Money is No Object
By Billie

08-10-05 ~ Money is No Object continued
By Billie

07-28-05 ~ Democrats enjoy Near-Life experience
By JohnHuang2
Presented by Aquamarine

Have a wonderful weekend!

06-28-05 ~ Hall of Fame #12

Click on the photo to view the album. To submit your photo, please contact dansangel or .45Man at danbh59@yahoo.com and include Freeper Photo Album in subject line.

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

"Wear Red" Friday

You will soon see a lot of people wearing Red on Fridays. Here's why..... The Americans, who support our troops, are the silent majority. We are not "organized" to reflect who we are, or to reflect what our opinions are. Many Americans, like yourself, and all their friends, simply want to recognize that Americans support our troops. Our idea of showing our solidarity and support for our troops is starting Friday and continuing on each and every Friday, until this is over, that every red-blooded American who supports our young men and women, WEAR SOMETHING RED.

Word of mouth, press, TV -- let's see if we can make the United States, on any given Friday, a sea of red much like a home football game at a University. If every one of our memberships share this with other acquaintances, fellow workers, friends, and neighbors, I guarantee that it will not be long before the USA will be covered in RED - and make our troops know there are many people thinking of their well-being. You will feel better all day Friday when you wear Red! So let's get the word out and lead by example; wear RED on Fridays.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE. FOR US, THEIR BLOOD RUNS RED!! GOD BLESS AMERICA.

I received this in my email June 10th, the author is unknown.
I am wearing red today and every Friday ~ Billie

[Billie]

[Billie]

Morning - Afternoon for some. Sorry to be so late. :( Power went off, messed up my browser. :(

[Pippin]

Howdy, Billie!

[Pippin]

wear red Friday?

UH! OH!

I'm wearing green.

That's my favorite color and the libs aint taking it!

[Texagirl4W]

I'm wearing hot pink, closest to red I can get. Have a good one.

[Pippin]

watch how you say "hot" around here

it's 99 degrees here in Baltimore! UGH!

Have a great day!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

There you are! Hi Billie! You enjoy your weekend also!

[Temple Owl]

Hi Billie: Stay cool. It's in the 90s here and it's expected to be a muggy weekend. But fall will soon be here.

[JustAmy]

Good morning, Finest Friends!!

Awwww .... the weekend.
Thanks for today's thread, Billie.

Hope everyone finds some shade. Stay cool.

[JustAmy]

My "Things I'll never do" list keeps growing.

Happy Friday, Y'all.
Have a great weekend.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Hi Amy! Have a great week end! (...doing nothing!)

[JustAmy]

*grin*

Thanks, PAL.

I'm plannng to do as little as possible.

[LadyX]

Inundated/overwhelmed with biased liberals and liberal news sources telling the world
what Bad Guys we are, "interfering with Iraq" and ought to pull out "right away?"

["it's a quagmire - pull back - futile - our kids are dying, man!" - -
as if in Nam they didn't by the hundreds a week??!]

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THIS news, however, is straight from a Department of Defense compilation,
and details some of the SUCCESSES the"media" CHOOSES TO IGNORE......

Isn't it odd it will not be broadcast, and/or reach most Americans??

I hand you ammo to give detractors:

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Iraqis Help Soldiers Find Bombs; Stolen Child Recovered
DoD ^ | Aug. 12, 2005 | American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2005 – Iraqi citizens tipped off U.S. soldiers patrolling the northwest part of Baghdad about the whereabouts of two roadside bombs Aug. 10. The Iraqis told a Task Force Baghdad patrol at 9:15 a.m. the bombs were placed near a major highway in the area.

The Americans found two landmines and two mortar rounds wrapped in detonation cord. The soldiers secured the site and called in an explosive ordnance disposal team to safely detonate the munitions.

A suicide car bomber attacked another American unit patrolling west Baghdad four hours later. The bomb detonated prematurely, 10 feet from the soldiers' vehicles. The car's driver was killed in the attack, but no one else was killed or injured.

The soldiers also stopped a suspicious vehicle following directly behind the car bomb. When they searched the vehicle and the two occupants inside they found a loaded AK-47 assault rifle. One occupant also had a cellular phone that could have been used to communicate with the suicide bomber or videotape the attack. Both men where taken into custody for questioning.

At 4:45 p.m., a third task force unit found two 100-pound bombs hidden under some grass laid on a major highway in northwest Baghdad. The soldiers secured the site and called in an EOD team.

The U.S. soldiers then noticed some people gathered around a car about 100 yards away from the bomb. The soldiers questioned the group to determine the car's owner. After the owner was identified, the soldiers searched the vehicle's trunk and found the same kind of grass used to cover the bombs. Explosive materials were also found in the car. The vehicle's owner and three other men were taken into custody for questioning.

Later in the day task force soldiers found and safely disabled three more roadside bombs in northwest, central and south Baghdad before they could be used against Iraqi citizens or coalition forces.

And Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers teamed up Aug. 9 to capture two kidnappers and return a 2-year-old child to his parents in the Bayaa district of south Baghdad.

The combined patrol was patrolling the neighborhood around 2 p.m. that day when a white van drove by. One van occupant fired six shots from an AK-47 at the patrol.

When the assailant's vehicle sped around a corner to flee, an Iraqi police undercover unit met it. The police fired four shots into the rear tires of the van and stopped it.

The combined patrol investigated and found a 2-year-old child who had been kidnapped from his home just minutes before.

The Iraqi police arrested the driver and the passenger, impounded the van, and returned the child to his parents.

(Compiled from Task Force Baghdad news releases.)

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**Message** for those who advovcate "Peace" without any effort - -
peace never will "evolve" as a natural thing, if we leave evil alone and allow it to spread!!

It has a price, and God often SENT MEN TO WAR for the sake of certain groups!! Against terrible odds, God equipped them to SUCCEED.

If we as a nation can act as the Founding Fathers of America did, as one "under God,"
our efforts using principles He gave us are just -- and very necessary!

May He guide and protect our military sons and daughters,
and may this nation return to and follow Him.....

~ LadyX

[GailA]

Afternoon Billie, and ALL.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Awwww, come on, ain't cha noooo red dress ta wear for red Friday?...

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Watch out for that BIG dog!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Amen, sistah! Thank you for sharing. Got a link?

[tuliptree76]

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you all have a good weekend. Here are the holidays.

Aug. 12
Thank You Day
Aloha Day

Aug. 13
Left-Handers Day

Aug. 14
Creamsicle Day
Marshmallow Toasting Day
Japan surrendered, ending World War II, 1945
Independence Day (Pakistan)

[humblegunner]

peace never will "evolve" as a natural thing, if we leave evil alone and allow it to spread!!

Amen! I'll bump that!

[JustAmy]

Good afternoon, Tulip!

Thank you for posting the holidays.

Have a Happy Thank You Day!!