The FReeper Foxhole Honors our Veterans

After a long Weekend it's time for a Mondasy Bump for the Freeper Foxhole.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

Good morning, alfa!! LOL!

You can be that grumpy can you?? LOL

Good Morning Ms feather

I am not much of a coffe drinker. I figured that there would be a few folks here that would get a laugh out of the cartoon.

I just glad this weekend is over.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

Back to work to rest then?? LOL

It's a great cartoon thanks. I am a bear until the java takes a hold of things. :-)

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on November 14:
1765 Robert Fulton built 1st commercial steamboat (or 0819)
1776 Henri Dutrochet discovered & named process of osmosis
1797 Sir Charles Lyell Scotland, geologist (Principles of Geology)
1840 Claude Monet France, impressionist (Water Lilies)
1842 Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959)
1861 Frederick Jackson Turner Wisconsin, historian/educator (Harvard U)
1863 Leo Baekeland Belgian chemist (Bakelite)
1889 Jawaharlal Nehru 1st Indian PM (1947-64)
1892 James Meredith 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1912)
1896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower 1st lady
1900 Aaron Copland Brooklyn, composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
1904 Dick Powell Ark, actor (42nd Street, Christmas in July)
1904 Marya Mannes writer (The Reporter)
1906 Louise Brooks silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box)
1908 Harrison E Salisbury journalist/writer (50th Anniv of Soviet Union)
1912 Barbara Hutton heiress (Woolworth)
1914 Ken Carson Coalgate OK, singer (Garry Moore Show)
1919 Veronica Lake actress (Duffy's Tavern, I Married a Witch)
1920 Johnny Desmond Detroit MI, singer (Your Hit Parade, Face the Music, Glenn Miller Time)
1921 Brian Keith Bayonne NJ, actor (Bill-Family Affair, Loneliest Runner)
1924 Leonid Kogan Dnepropetrovsk Russia, violinist (Lenin Prize-1952)
1924 Phyllis Avery NYC, actress (Alice-George Gobel Show, Ruth-Mr Novak)
1928 Kathleen Hughes Hollywood CA, actress (It Came From Outer Space)
1929 McLean Stevenson Normal IL, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry)
1930 Edward H White II San Antonio Texas, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4)
1933 Fred W Haise Jr Biloxi Miss, astronaut (Apollo 13 STS T-1, T-3, T-5)
1935 Don Stewart actor (Guiding Light)
1935 Hussein ibn Talal I king of Jordan (1953-1999)
1940 Freddie Garrity rocker (Freddie & the Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now)
1948 Prince Charles, Britain, Prince of Wales
1947 P. J. O'Rourke writer
1949 Terry Lee Johnson Alabama, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1955 Jack Sikma NBA center (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1956 Alec John Such rocker (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
1956 Kenneth D Bowersox Portsmouth VA, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS-50)
1967 Letitia Dean actress (Sharon Watts-EastEnders)
1969 Butch Walker Rome GA, heavy metal guitarist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1974 David Moscow actor (Big)

Deaths which occurred on November 14:
0565 Justinian Roman emperor, dies at 82
0976 T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies
1263 Alexander Nevski, Russian ruler (1252-63), dies at 43
1832 Charles Carroll, large landowner/signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 95
1915 Booker T Washington educator/organizer, dies at 59 in Tuskegee AL
1929 Joseph McGinnity baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58
1955 Robert E Sherwood dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59

1990 Malcolm Muggeridge WW II spy for Britain, journalist, commentator, apologist dies at 87

1991 Tony Richardson British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63
1995 Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers, Time and Again), dies of pneumonia at 84
1996 Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the senior Roman Catholic prelate in the United States and leader of Chicago's 2.3 million Catholics, died at his home at age 68.
1997 Eddie Arcaro, jockey (won 2 Triple Crowns), dies at 81
2000 Robert Trout pioneering CBS Radio newsman died age 91.

Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
14-Nov-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Irving Medina Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

14-Nov-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal George J. Payton Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Dale A. Burger Jr. Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Andres H. Perez Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Nicholas L. Ziolkowski Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire

Afghanistan
11/14/03 Blessing, Jay A. Sergeant 23 Army H&H Co., 2nd Bat., 75th Ranger Regiment Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack Asadabad (near), Kunar Prov.

http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
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Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

On this day...
1380 King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12
1501 Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon
1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1732 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia
1792 Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
1832 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12c rode on 4th Avenue between Prince & 14th Sts
1834 William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years 4 months
1851 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published
1863 Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
1863 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1881 Charles J Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination
1888 St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes
1888 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days. She succeeded, by finishing trip the following January in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.
1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1906 Theodore Roosevelt becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country (Panama)
1910 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va
1918 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as President
1920 American Pro Football League's Chicago Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
1922 BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House
1935 Nazis strip German Jews of their citizenship
1935 FDR proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas Venezuela
1940 German planes destroyed most of Coventry, England
1943 Chicago Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)
1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
1960 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)

1964 The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops.
Xray Day 1, 14 Nov 1965
http://www.lzxray.com/day1.htm

1969 Apollo 12 launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
1970 Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
1972 Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)
1973 Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt Mark Phillips
1975 Spain abandoned the Spanish Sahara
1981 2nd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 2-returns to Earth
1981 Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again
1984 Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
1984 NASA launches NATO-3D
1986 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
1990 Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of the party
1991 Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premiers on FOX TV
1997 Sara Lister, an assistant secretary of the Army, resigned after apologizing for having spoken of the U.S. Marine Corps as "extremists."
2000 Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush's fragile 300-vote lead over Al Gore, hours after a judge refused to lift a 5 p.m. deadline; however, the judge gave Harris the authority to accept or reject follow-up manual recount totals.
2002 Nancy Pelosi becomes the 1st woman to lead a party in the US Congress after Democrats voted 177-29 to make her House Democratic Leader

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

Cayman Islands : Remembrance Day
English commonwealth : Prince Charles' Birthday (1948)
Jordan : King's Birthday (1935)
West Germany : Repentance Day (Wednesday)
US : Great White Whale Day
US : Children's Book Week Begins
National Pre-Tuesday day
National Diabetes Month

Religious Observances
Buddhist-Bhutan : Buddha's Descension
RC : Commemoration of Nicholas Tavelic & Companions, martyrs
old RC : Comm of St Josaphat, archbishop of Polotsk, martyr
Ang, RC : Feast of Consecration of Samuel Seabury, 1st US bishop

Religious History
1558 Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'We ought not to dread death so. It is but to cease from sin and to enter into a better life.'
1739 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts.'
1741 In Wales, English revivalist George Whitefield, 27, married widow Elizabeth Burnell, 36. (Whitefield apparently did not allow marriage to interrupt his evangelistic activities, since he was not home when their first child was born.)
1784 Samuel Seabury, 55, was consecrated Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode Island, the first bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church, and the first Anglican bishop in America.
1941 Inter_Varsity Christian Fellowship was incorporated in Chicago. An interdenominational organization with chapters at both colleges and schools of nursing, IVCF provides Christian fellowship, nurture and discipleship among Christian college_age students.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Pa. May Let Hunters Use Prehistoric Weapon

Nov 13, 7:15 PM (ET)

By MARK SCOLFORO

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - An ancient weapon that struck fear in the hearts of Spanish conquistadors, and that some think was used to slay wooly mammoths in Florida, may soon be added to the arsenal of Pennsylvania's hunters.
The state Game Commission is currently drafting proposed regulations to allow hunters to use the atlatl, a small wooden device used to propel a six-foot dart as fast as 80 mph. The commission could vote to legalize its use as early as January.

It's unclear which animals atlatlists may be allowed to hunt, but the proposal is being pushed by people who want to kill deer with a handmade weapon of Stone Age design. The name, usually pronounced AT-lad-ul, is derived from an Aztec word for "throwing board."
"For me, it would be a thrill to have a deer get up close enough and to throw my dart and hit the deer, bag it like my ancestors did," said Jack Rowe, 45, a veteran hunter and atlatl enthusiast from Sayre.

In Alabama, one of a handful of states that currently allow the use of atlatls for hunting or fishing, few hunters use them during deer season, said Allan Andress, the chief fish and game enforcement officer for the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Even spear hunters - Alabama game law also allows spears - outnumber those using atlatls.
"As you might imagine, it's not something that most people have the skill or the patience for," Andress said.

Pennsylvania Atlatl Association president Gary L. Fogelman, who got the atlatl bug about 20 years ago, said he doubts that large numbers of deer will ever be killed with the weapon.
"You've got to know what you're doing, you've got to be good with all the outdoor skills in order to be able to score with this thing," said Fogelman, of Turbotville, publisher of Indian Artifact Magazine.
To use an atlatl, throwers hook arrowlike hunting darts into the end of the atlatl, which is generally a wooden piece about 2 feet long. The leverage of the atlatl allows them to throw the 5- to 8-foot darts much farther than they could throw a spear.

At BPS Engineering in Manhattan, Mont., a leading manufacturer of atlatls, sales have averaged about 450 in recent years, said owner Bob Perkins. Customers pay $140 for his company's 2-foot maple production-line model, the Warrior, along with a set of five 5 1/2-foot aluminum darts.
Perkins has killed two deer with atlatls and, a couple weeks ago, got his first buffalo.
"Atlatls were the first true weapon system developed by the human race," he said. "They were used longer than any other weapon. Comparatively speaking, the bow and arrow was a recent development in projectile technology."

There is evidence that the weapons were used more than 8,000 years ago in Pennsylvania, said Kurt Carr, an archaeologist with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Prehistoric atlatls have a distinctive counterweight feature called a winged banner stone that has helped confirm their existence at digs in Huntingdon and Bucks counties, among other places, said Carr. Atlatl use goes back far as 12,000 years elsewhere in North America and far longer in Europe.
"It takes some practice, but it's like the bow and arrow. I can't shoot a bow and arrow for beans, but I can use an atlatl more effectively," he said.

The World Atlatl Association, which has 380 members, has held an annual accuracy contest since the mid-1990s, and this year more than 2,000 people participated.
"People that are interested in archaeology and ancient history are the ones that seem to be drawn to it," said association president Richard B. Lyons, a retired firefighter from Jeffersonville, Ind.

Game Commissioner Roxane Palone, who generally supports legalization of atlatl hunting, said there are other game commissioners who probably will join her to vote for it.
"It's a good way to expand hunting opportunities," she said. "I don't think it's any more unusual than people who use long bows to hunt."

If the commission gives preliminary approval in January, a final vote in April could clear the way for atlatl hunting in Pennsylvania late next year, Palone said.

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On the Net:

World Atlatl Association: http://www.worldatlatl.org

Thought for the day :
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
P. J. O'Rourke

Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Gram.

November 14, 2005

A Past Long Gone

Read:
Acts 13:36-41

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. —Romans 8:1

Bible In One Year: Acts 13-14

cover According to the English novelist Aldous Huxley, "There are no back moves on the chessboard of life." Yet we remain aware of things we have done and things we have left undone. Our sins worry us. They motivate us to wish fervently that somehow we could undo the past.

That's why those who put their faith in Jesus can be thankful for God's message in both the Old and New Testaments. When Paul preached in Antioch, he said, "By [Jesus], everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses" (Acts 13:39). The law condemned us (Romans 7:10-11), but Jesus offers deliverance and new life (8:1).

Are you worried about what you've done in the past? Rejoice! God has "cast all our sins into the depths of the sea" (Micah 7:19). Are you still concerned about your sins? Rejoice! "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more" (Hebrews 10:17). And "I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions" (Isaiah 44:22).

If you have put your faith in Jesus and asked Him to forgive you, the past is truly forgotten. "As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us" (Psalm 103:12). Trust and rejoice! —Vernon Grounds

My sin—O, the bliss of this glorious thought—
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul. —Spafford

God's forgiveness frees us from the chains of regret.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
The Forgiveness Of God

I watched Mr. Walesa closely during and for some months after the Gdansk shipyard strike. His operations were brilliant, just brilliant. I still get a chuckle out of the Soviets being so completely outmaneuvered.

I think Marshal Pilsudski thought the affair very well done also. I think he laughed out loud.

Morning Glory Folks~

Decaf!
Proof that there IS a devil!

1842 Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959)

Wait a minute here. I thought he's a conservative economics professor at George Mason University.

1969 Apollo 12 launched for 2nd manned Moon landing

Official insignia of Apollo 12, the second scheduled lunar landing mission. The clipper ship signifies that the crew is all Navy and symbolically relates the era of the clipper ship to the era of spaceflight. The portion of the moon shown is representative of the Ocean of Storms area in which Apollo 12 will land.

The huge, 363-foot tall Apollo 12 (Spacecraft 108/Lunar Module 6/Saturn 507) space vehicles is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 11:22 a.m., November 14, 1969 (58883); View of the launch from across the water. Note the flocks of birds flying across the water as the Apollo spacecraft lifts off (58884).

The photograph captured a view of a lightning bolt during the launch of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center. The silhouetted structure is the mobile launch tower. This electrical discharge between clouds and the ground took place at about 36.5 seconds after liftoff when the Apollo 12 space vehicle was about 6,000 feet atltutde.

Pull!

snicker

I'll hope for some action in the new place! Do any woodpeckers ever show up to your shelled peanut feeder?

Got the tattoo!

LOL. Can we see that tattoo?

LOL.

Pull!

ROTFLOL.

A Past Long Gone

Read:Acts 13:36-41

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. —Romans 8:1

Bible In One Year: Acts 13-14

Read:
Acts 13:36-41