Sir Woody,putting on his sad
I didn’t mean it face..
After opening the pantry and chewing open
not 1 but 2 bags of treats..
At least he shared.. sigh….
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Sir Woody and His Treats
It’s Wordy Alright….
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This last week has been full of bits and pieces to make any bloggers fingers itch for the keyboard.
But sigh … I have been taking care of TheMasterOfTheUniverse,
who is recovering from massive oral surgery.
Thank you for asking, he is doing well…..
We have been following some of what’s going on…bits and pieces
About all we can stomach.
President Obama’s brilliant idea
Maybe Not so brilliant.
Making the veterans self pay through their insurance.
Had TheMasterOfTheUniverse frothing at the mouth
at this frickin incredibly stupid thinking
idea.
It’s a new method to entice people to serve in the military, to
volunteer to serve and defend.
Then.
Go get your ass blown off in Iraq or Afghanistan, and for that privilege, you can foot your own medical bills..
Yeah, that went over like a fart in Sunday school…heh.
Or, how about we recruit people to go door to door to push Obama’s ideas down someone’s throat.
Notice how NONE of the major newspapers are carrying news about the tea parties?
That’s as in the American people are tea’d off about the mess that’s going on in Washington.
Glenn Reynolds’s from InstaPundit and Michelle Malkin are covering them, and doing a damn fine job…
Obama’s speech said a lot about well whatever..
JOHN F. HARRIS & JONATHAN MARTIN summed it up pretty well.
“Obama presented his plan as one that will create “secure and lasting prosperity,” and provide an antidote to an era of “reckless speculation, inflated home prices, and maxed-out credit cards” that created an “illusion of prosperity.”
It is an obvious question to ask why the answer to a society that spent and borrowed too much is a massive spending program financed with borrowed money. Which is why Obama found himself dealing with so many deficit questions.”
Which he did NOT answer…
Now ousted Czech Republic Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek called the US recovery plan “a way to hell,” Ya think?
As TheMasterOfTheUniverse is prone to say.. they just keep shitting in their flat hats.
Wednesday Hero~Chief Master Sergeant Paul W.Airey
This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Elena
“Chief Airey was an Airman’s Airman and one of the true pioneers for our service,” said Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff. “He was a warrior, an innovator… and a leader with vision well ahead of his time. His legacy lives today in the truly professional enlisted force we have serving our nation… and for that we owe him a debt of gratitude.”
Chief Airey was born in Quincy, Mass., on December 13, 1923. At age eighteen, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December, 7, 1941, Airey quit high school to enlist in the Army Air Forces on November 16, 1942. He later earned his high school equivalency certificate through off-duty study. During World War II he flew as a B-24 radio operator and additional duty aerial gunner. On his 28th mission, then-Technical Sergeant Airey and his fellow crewmen were shot down over Vienna, Austria, captured, and held prisoner by the German air force from July 1944 to May 1945. During his time as a prisoner of war he worked tirelessly to meet the basic needs of fellow prisoners, even through a 90-day forced march.
Chief Airey held the top enlisted from April 3, 1967 to July 31, 1969. During his tenure he worked to change loan establishments charging exorbitant rates outside the air base gates and to improve low retention during the Vietnam Conflict. Chief Airey also led a team that laid the foundation for the Weighted Airman Promotion System, a system that has stood the test of time and which is still in use today. He also advocated for an Air Force-level Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy. His vision became reality when the academy opened in 1973, becoming the capstone in the development of Air Force Senior NCOs. Chief Airey retired August 1, 1970. He continued advocating for Airmen’s rights by serving on the boards of numerous Air Force and enlisted professional military organizations throughout the years. He was a member of the Board of Trustees for the Airmen Memorial Museum, a member of the Air Force Memorial Foundation and the Air University Foundation.
On the north wall of the Air Force Memorial in Washington D.C., Chief Airey’s thoughts on Airmen are immortalized, “When I think of the enlisted force, I see dedication, determination, loyalty and valor.” The Air Force Association honored Airey with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Chief Airey passed away on March 11, 2009 at his home in Panama City, Florida
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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Thinking About Pain
The original author is unknown, but I would love to know who wrote this.
The Price of Pain:
The cost of prescriptions, medical treatments and devices, surgeries,
worker’s comp insurance, disability payments, physical therapy,
psychological therapy and such. Yes, you can add all those things up
and get a total cost, but that is not the price of pain. The price of
pain is more…
The price of pain is the loss of self-respect when you can no longer
complete personal grooming, cook meals or take care of your family the way you want to…
The price of pain is the loss of rewarding employment when you cannot
perform the tasks to do the job you love…
The price of pain is the loss of quality of life when you can’t go
hiking with your children or dancing with your spouse…
The price of pain is the loss of relationships with friends and family
when the pain and medication makes it impossible to even have a
conversation or attend important events…
The price of pain is no longer being independent when you cannot drive or shop for groceries alone…
The price of pain is the depression and mental anguish the pain brings
with it…
The price of pain is the loss of sleep and the resulting problems sleep
deprivation causes…
The price of pain is the side effects of the medications taken in an
attempt to survive the day…
The price of pain is when you lose who you are in the pain. These
things and more are the price of pain. It is the living every minute
of every day around what your pain level is or when you can take the
next dose of medication, praying it will bring more pain relief than
the last dose. When happiness is 3-4 hours of pain-free sleep or a day with only 75% of the usual pain…
The price of pain is paid by the person in pain as well as those who
love them…
The price of pain is watching someone you love suffer day after day,
night after night and you are helpless to ease their pain…
The price of pain is when your child asks “Can you play with me, if
you are feeling Ok?”
The price of pain is beyond money, the price of pain is beyond words,
the price of pain is all encompassing. The price of pain seems endless…
The price of pain is there until the day that person is free of their
damaged body…
The price of pain is all these things and more. But the pain is not me
and I am not the pain…
The pain is part of my life, but the pain will Not be my life. I will
fight, fight, fight. And though the pain fills my life, it will Not take
my life. Each day I live, I fight and show the pain who I am. Even
though the pain may take much of my life it will Not consume me.
I will Not allow the price to be that high…
The price of pain is all this, but I am more…!!!