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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Soap Box ~ Vietnam Vets Museum ~ NFL Lip Reading ~ PatC's Taco Party


Good 29º morning. YEAH! Maggie's water isn't frozen!

Ok boys and girls, today I'm getting on my....



(from Jim Forbus, former LASD, ret Washoe Co SD)
It was so cold this morning..... I actually saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets!

.....and then I found this:

Ahhhh well...... we're screwed for the next 4 years.


Here is a big beef with me as far as those "OH MY GOD" emails that go around and around. The Muslim stamp is going around again. Please please if you get an email that has been forwarded and forwarded and has questionable information (which most do) check with www.truthorfiction.com or www.snopes.com for what is true and what isn't. AND if you are going to forward emails, PLEASE DELETE THE EMAIL ADDRESSES that are on the header!



 



The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago Ill.
 
When visitors first enter the museum, they will hear a sound like wind chimes coming from above them and their attention will be drawn upward 24 feet to the ceiling of the two-story high atrium.

Dog tags of the more than 58,000 service men and women who died in the Vietnam War hang from the ceiling of the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago on Veterans Day, November 11, 2010. The 10-by-40-foot sculpture, entitled Above & Beyond, was designed by Ned Broderick and Richard Steinbock. The tens of thousands of metal dog tags are suspended 24 feet in the air, 1 inch apart, from fine lines that allow them to move and chime with shifting air currents. Museum employees using a kiosk and laser pointer help visitors locate the exact dog tag with the imprinted name of their lost


Historically this date....
1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.

1945Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

1979 – The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.

1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).

2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.


And births this date include...
1935A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
.... he was always my favorite!

 
1985Joe Flacco, American football player
He's the Raven's QB and will be throwing against my Tommy in Sunday's playoff game.



Speaking of football... this clip is hilarious! Laura (Vincent) Virant, former Temple City neighbor sent this to me. Thanks Laura, too funny!!!



Yesterday late afternoon the RR Gang met at the Double R in town for Taco Tuesday and to celebrate PatC's birthday (that was on the 10th). Hard tacos, soft tacos .. beef, chicken, fish. All good and cheap! They do pour a real decent glass of wine for $4 too.

 
 
                     Tim Debbie Tom Dave me PJ PatC
 

Patty and Cliff were late!



 

All I know. Happy Hump Day. Nuff said. Ciao
xo Sue Mom Bobo
January 16th
National Nothing Day
 
 
When: Always January 16th. This is simply a day for nothing.

This date is an "un-event". The expectation is that we do not create or otherwise promote this day. In other words, we do nothing. And to say anything more would contradict the purpose of this day.

Celebrate this day by doing ... nothing. Of course, that assumes that doing nothing is ok with your boss.
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Origin of this day.... it was created in 1973 by newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin. Other than that, we found nothing about this day.