USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Sunday Chapel, Prayers for the Military ~ April 06 2003

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SUPPORT THE PRINCIPLED PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH. YES!

Amazing, isn’t it, how quickly dumb students can wise up when the whiplash hangs from the principal’s hands? Let the kids run the school, and they’ll do it. Stake out a take-charge principal, and the kids’ll line up.

So it is this Sunday with two boids — North Korea and the United Nations. One Iraqi conflict teaches a quickie lesson to two boids.

Wednesday the UN decided that N Korea had better shape up on its nukes pile-up. Imagine, it was actually the UN Security Council finding its dentures. One never knows what a day’ll hatch. Just a few weeks ago, Council was nothing but gumming it.

You see, Security Council had actually discussed last week the critical situation in N Korea regarding its nuclear agenda. In other words, Security Council bit down — hard.

N Korea shot back via a foreign ministry spokesman, according to BBC correspondent Caroline Gluck. He said the Security Council’s bite-down was nothing more than the first chapter in the next gobble up. Ooops. Not good. Take warning.

So official Korean Central News Agency let out with a wail. Stop!, UN, you’re using us for munchies. Stop in the name of nuclear weaponry build-up. Stop. If you don’t you’ll be responsible for upping the ante on bullets a-flying-plus. In other words, matters on Korean peninsula will not be vacation pleasant.

Stop ‘meddling’!, N Korea protests.

N Korea then gave exit to UN nuclear inspectors, pulling out of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty as well. So there! Plus: N Korea made clear that it no longer adheres to Security Council authority. Well, that makes for N Korea, Britain and US finally agreeing on something. Small blessings, but blessings nonetheless.

Since Security Council is starting to waken up from a long winter’s nap by way of a N Korea slap-around, the latter threatens to increase its defense line-ups. Officials there state that a “strong military deterrence” is the major means of forestalling a war similar to what has taken place in Iraq.

See what happens when the kids no longer run the school but principal starts taking a strong hand to things? See what happens when the US-led coalition cares not a twit about the rest of the world loving us, but primarily cares about the rest of the world respecting freedom and what is right?

Boidie N Korea proclaims that the country has learned a lesson from the Iraqi war, that is, that permitting inspectors does not cancel out conflict but instead instigates it.

Good thing the coalition didn’t back down on the Iraqi Freedom or the world would be in one big dip with N Korea’s prowess strutting itself across our global stage.

Good thing United States President George W. Bush did not cower to the Democrats, Pope and other disillusioned fogs but instead kept right on keeping on. Very intriguing how principle over polls can win out.

N Korea along with Iraq and Iran have been set forth as the axis of evil. Guess what? One down, two to go, according to the President’s Saturday radio address. You heard it from the man who won’t quiver.

GOOD MORNING ALL. I recieved this in my email this week and had to share it with my FRiends.

Subject: THE FINAL INSPECTION

> The soldier stood and faced God
> Which must always come to pass
> He hoped his shoes were shining
> Just as brightly as his brass.

> > "Step forward now, you soldier,
> How shall I deal with you?
> Have you always turned the other cheek?
> To My Church have you been true?"

> > The soldier squared his shoulders and
> said, "No, Lord, I guess I ain't
> Because those of us who carry guns
> Can't always be a saint.

> > I've had to work most Sundays
> And at times my talk was tough,
> And sometimes I've been violent,
> Because the world is awfully rough.

> > But, I never took a penny
> That wasn't mine to keep...
> Though I worked a lot of overtime
> When the bills got just too steep,

> > And I never passed a cry for help,
> Though at times I shook with fear,
> And sometimes, God forgive me,
> I've wept unmanly tears.

> > I know I don't deserve a place
> Among the people here,
> They never wanted me around
> Except to calm their fears.

> > If you've a place for me here, Lord,
> It needn't be so grand,
> I never expected or had too much,
> But if you don't, I'll understand."

> > There was a silence all around the throne
> Where the saints had often trod
> As the soldier waited quietly,
> For the judgment of his God,

> > "Step forward now, you soldier,
> You've borne your burdens well,
> Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
> You've done your time in Hell."

> > > To all that serve or have served

Just getting ready to leave for work.
Glad I could "see" you here before I leave.
Thank You for your continual prayers and thoughts and deeds for the military and their families.

See you All tonight after work.
Thank You for stopping in the USO Canteen.
God Bless You

Beautiful post!
Thank You!

AUNTIE MARTHA HATES BUSH

Sharp, eh? Right on. Truth? Yes. Fact? Unfortunately positive; I mean negative. Well, whatever, whichever way you take it.

Back to Martha Burk. Remember? The golf thing—“Augusta National” and “The Masters”. In other words, MEN—yuck! Men. They muck it.

But abortion. Nice. Go for it. Women’s privilege. Freedom to the womb, not for the baby, of course, but the human carriage holding the baby. Choice choice choice, except for the unborn. Burk is abortion pro to the max.

Ms B, 61, and holed up in a tiny office the size of a large closet, is still kickin’, though she claims she only came to real fame via the golf thingy. Before that, no one from the major news agencies knew her number; but now — whoopee.

She just flew back to her nest from Estonia’s World of Women for World Peace gab-about. She, of course, was one of the gabbers. This-n-that about women’s things, you know.

But when it came to women giving conception to real live human beings, not a word. Natch. When it came to protecting the child in the womb, nix. Not a word, tragic. Not a word, disaster. But not a word, nonetheless. Mum, not as in “mother,” but as in closed mouth on killing babies daily.

Breakfast with the gals? Sure thing. Ms B was right there tilting her coffee cup. After all, she was chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations. She was one special flare. Couldn’tyatell?

So with that, Ms B rose to her protesting stature to slam-dunk the United States President George W. Bush — right in the political kisser, as only a Ms B can slam it. She ranted against the social agendas of the Bush and Team. She yapped and yelped against the war, that is, against freeing the Iraqi Hussein the Horrible 20-years-plus captives. She, with her doctorate in experimental psych, stomped and spat against all things Oval Office.

But when it came to babies being sliced up in mother’s wombs, scalded out of existence, thrown into dumpsters: Mum. Nary a peep.

Sad, isn’t it, that formal education (doctorate in experimental psych: experimental what? “Experimental” as related to avant garde abortion techniques? “Experimental” what?) doesn’t always mean a darn thing — especially in the compassion-wisdom department?

Such is our spiritually damaged world. Time for prayer, wouldn’t you say?

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on April 06:
1483 Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio], Neth, painter (Sistine Madonna)
1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau French poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
1773 James Mill Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
1810 Philip Gosse intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
1823 Joseph Medill St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
1830 James Augustine Healy Macon Ga, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop
1866 Butch Cassidy outlaw
1866 Joseph Lincoln Steffens muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
1874 Harry Houdini famous magician/escape artist
1884 Walter Huston actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre)
1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker Holland, aircraft pioneer
1892 Donald Wills Douglas US, aircraft pioneer
1892 Lowell Thomas Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure)
19-- Judith McConnell actress (Sophia-Santa Barbara)
1903 Harold Edgerton foremost high-speed photographer
1903 Mickey Cochrane baseball hall of fame catcher (.320 avg)
1904 Kurt Kiesinger diplomat (Wherever They May Be)
1906 John Betjeman English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion)
1914 George Reeves Ashland Ky, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)
1928 James Watson codiscovered structure of DNA
1928 Joi Lansing Salt Lake City Utah, actress (Bob Cummings Show)
1929 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster
1929 Andr‚ Previn Berlin Germany, conductor/composer/pianist
1931 Ivan Dixon NYC, actor (Car Wash, Hogan's Heroes)
1934 Antonius Geesink Holland, judo (Olympic-gold-1964)
1937 Billy Dee Williams Harlem NYC, actor (Chiefs, Double Dare)
1937 Merle Haggard Bakersfield Calif, country singer (Death Valley Days)
1938 Billy Dee Williams actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Empire Strikes Back)
1938 Roy Thinnes Chicago Ill, actor (Invaders, Falcon Crest)
1942 Phil Austin comedian (Firesign Theater)
1943 Susan Tolsky Houston, actress (Madame's Place, Here Comes the Brides)
1944 John Stax rocker (Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down)
1944 Michele Phillips Long Beach Calif, singer/actress (Mama & Papas)
1947 John Ratzenberger actor (Cliff-Cheers)
1947 Tony Cooner drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1949 Jane Actman NYC, actress (Barbara-Paul Lynde Show)
1951 Ralph Cooper drummer (Air Supply-All Out of Love)
1952 Marilu Henner Chicago, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women)
1952 Udo Dirkshneider heavy metal rocker (Accept-Balls to the Wall, Udo)
1953 Janet Lynn ice skater (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1954 Judi Bowker Shawford England, actress (Clash of the Titans)
1959 Dianne Brill Tampa, fashion designer/party girl (Queen of the Night)
1962 Stan Cullimore bassist (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1964 Johnny Dee heavy metal drummer (Britny Fox-Boys in Heat, King Kobra)
1965 Rica Reinisch German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1980)
1966 Kymberly Paige Newport Beach Ca, playmate (May, 1987)
1967 John Ratzenberger Bridgeport Ct, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers)
1969 Ari Meyers San Juan PR, actress (Emma McArdle-Kate & Allie)
1972 Jason Hervey actor (Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years)
1975 Damon Pampolina drummer (The Party)
1975 Dannon Phillip Pampolina rapper (The Party)
1976 Candace H Cameron actress (DJ Tanner-Full House)
1976 Soleil Moon Frye Glendora Calif, actress (Punky Brewster)

Deaths which occurred on April 06:
1199 Richard I the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41
1348 Petrarch's Laura dies of plague
1520 Raphael artist dies on his 37th birthday
1528 Albrecht Drer artist, dies in Nrnberg Germany
1854 William Strickland US architect, dies
1975 Chiang Kai-Shek Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87
1990 Lady Nancy Hawkes (1946 best dress woman) dies at 73
1992 Isaac Asimov science fiction writer (I Robot), dies at 72
1992 Molly Picon yiddish actress (Milk & Honey) dies of Alzheimers at 94

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )

1966 COOK DENNIS P. SANTA BARBARA CA.
1966 GATES JAMES W. MER ROUGE LA.
ON GROUND RADIO CONTACT LOST
1966 LAFAYETTE JOHN W. WATERBURY VT.
ON GROUND RADIO CONTACT LOST
1967 HEGDAHL DOUGLAS B. CLARK SD.
08/05/69 RELEASED ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 KUSTIGAN MICHAEL T. WORCHESTER MA.
40 MI OFF COAST // LISTED AS UA IN 1973 REFNO 2054 1968
PEPPER ANTHONY JOHN RICHMOND VA.
1968 TRIMBLE JAMES M. EUREKA CA.
1970 ARPIN CLAUDE FRANCE NOT ON OFFICIAL LISTS
1970 BRASSFIELD ANDREW T. SYLVANIA OH.
1970 FLYNN SEAN L. DEAD BRITISH TV CREW FOUND REMAINS 05/91
1970 KLINGNER MICHAEL LEE MC COOK NE.
1970 STONE DANA DEAD
BRITISH TV CREW FOUND REMAINS 05/91
1970 TAKAGI YUJIRO JAPAN NOT ON OFFICIAL LISTS 1972 ALLEY JAMES H. PLANTATION FL.
"CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS IDENTIFIED 25 SEPT 1997 1972 AVERY ALLEN J. AUBURN MA.
"CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97
1972 CALL JOHN H. III POTOMAC MD.
"CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97
1972 CHAPMAN PETER H. II CENTERBURG OH.
"CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97
1972 DUNLOP THOMAS E. NEPTUNE BEACH FL.
1972 PEARSON WILLIAM R. WARNER NH.
"CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97
1972 PRATER ROY DEWITT TIFFIN OH.
"CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
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On this day...
610 Lailat-ul Qadar, the night the koran descended to Earth
648 -BC- Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
1327 Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1663 King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
1712 Slave revolt in New York
1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC
1830 Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY
1841 Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri
1848 Jews of Prussia granted equality
1853 Asteroid 25, Phocaea discovered
1853 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #25 Phocaea
1855 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #34 Circe
1859 US recognizes Liberal government in M‚xico's War of the Reform
1862 Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
1865 Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
1866 G.A.R. established
1868 Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
1878 Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #186 Celuta
1883 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Speckled Band" (BG)
1886 City of Vancouver, BC incorporated
1886 Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
1891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #309 Fraternitas
1893 Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
1893 Longest bout in boxing history ends after 7 hrs in St Louis
1893 Mormon temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1896 1st modern Olympic games begin in Athens (3/25 OS)
American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1900 Jim Jeffries KO's Jack Finnegan in 55 seconds
1905 P Gotz discovers asteroid #563 Suleika
1906 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #755 Quintilla
1909 1st credit union established in US
1909 Matthew Henson, explorer, leads a party of 6 to North Pole
1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1916 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #857 Glasenappia
1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1922 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #977 Philippa
1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1926 Montreal Maroons beat Victoria Cougars 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1930 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
1931 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1935 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
1936 Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1939 US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific)
1941 Italian-held Addis Ababa capitulates to British & Ethiopian forces
1942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2249 Yamamoto
1943 British & US army link up in Africa during WW II
1947 Jimmy Demaret wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
1952 Sam Snead wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
1954 Mont Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Det
1957 NYC ends trolley car service
1958 Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-the Masters
1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite
1966 Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
1967 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1804 Chebotarev
1968 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)
1968 HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas
1973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn
1973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1974 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam"
1974 Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
1975 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo
1975 Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
1976 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"
1977 Judge rules the Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
1977 The Kingdome in Seattle opens
1979 Rod Stewart & Alana Collins wed
1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1983 Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
1985 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
1986 Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
1987 Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped
to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
1988 NJ Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 (OT) in 1st round
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giant Stad) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
1992 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
1992 Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
1992 Duke beats Michigan 71-51 for NCCA basketball championship
1992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Ethiopia : Victory Day
South Africa : Van Riebeeck Day-founding of Capetown
Thailand : Chakri Day
Switzerland : Glarius Festival (1388) - - - - - ( Thursday )
Mass : Student Government Day - - - - - ( Friday )

Religious Observances
Unification Church : Parents Day
Luth : Commemoration of Albrecht Drer, artists
Luth : Commemoration of Michelangelo, artists
Christian : Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter

Religious History
6 BC This day is believed by some Biblical scholars to be the actual date of the historical birth of Jesus Christ.
1735 The first Moravians from Europe arrived in America. Invited by colonial governor James Oglethorpe, ten males of the "Unitas Fratrum" landed in Savannah, Georgia after sailing from England in February.
1830 James Augustine Healy, the first black Roman Catholic bishop in America, was born to an Irish planter and a slave on a plantation near Macon, Georgia.
1868 Mormon church leader Brigham Young, 67, married his 27th and last wife. (In all, Brigham Young's wives bore him 47 children.)
1952 American missionary and Auca Indian martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Faith makes life so even, gives one such confidence, that the words of men are as wind.'

Thought for the day :
" Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark. "

Sure enough. You're having a white Spring and we'll be getting our usual Spring Thundershowers.

Current Military News

A member of the engineer brigade of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry division takes a moment in prayer for a fallen comrade during a service near the Euphrates river outside Baghdad, April 5, 2003.

Father Devine, a Chaplain of the Seventh Marine regiment, blesses a U.S. Marine from 7 Battalion during a Catholic mass in the camp, in the desert some 150 km north of the town of Nassiriya, March 30, 2003.

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush join in an opening prayer before delivering remarks to a crowd of Marines and their families at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Thursday April 3, 2003. Bush will meet with families of Marines killed in action during a private visit at Chapel Annex.

David Marto, 2, holds his mother Debra Marto's hand as they pray at a pro-war rally in Albuquerque's Civic Plaza, Friday, March 28, 2003, in Albuquerque, N.M. Debra Marto has a cousin serving in the Air Force in the Middle East. Several hundred people turned out at the rally to show their support for the military and President Bush