tonight’s episode:
The Gardens of SondraKistan: the front perennial bed that perpetually needs weeding
SondraK, Lympian Slayer I’ll only eat the Heebs btw so shaddup, I know.
(with a marinated tri-tip on the grill for dessert!)
Vietnamese-Americans are very patriotic
“When a soldier was injured and could not get back to safety, his buddy went out to get him, against his officer’s orders. He returned mortally wounded, and his friend, whom he had carried back, was dead. The officer was angry. ‘I told you not to go,’ he said. ‘Now I’ve lost both of you. It was not worth it.’ The dying man repied, But it was, sir, because when I got to him, he said, ‘Jim, I knew you’d come.’”
A woman pushes a stroller past a heap of garbage in Naples, Italy on Monday, May 21. As dumps in the area fll up communities have been reluctant to create new ones, and garbage accumulates in the streets.
imagine if they weren’t reluctant.
On the 20th anniversary of Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom, current and former military personnel, family members and other spectators cheered riders on as the legion rumbled from the Pentagon to the National Mall here.
The ride is held every year by the non-profit group as a demonstration to raise awareness about prisoners of war, troops missing in action and veterans’ benefits. The event also offers vets the chance to reconnect with their brothers-in-arms.
“We were over there together in Vietnam, we’re real tight here. I don’t think any other generation of veterans ever had that,” said Artie Muller, founder and executive director of Rolling Thunder.
Muller and other Rolling Thunder leaders took their hogs on a detour to the White House today where President Bush invited them to share their views on issues concerning veterans of all U.S. wars.
“We have a very tight relationship with veterans from the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan because we have a brotherhood,” Muller told American Forces Press Service after his meeting with Bush.
Rolling Thunder’s designated route brought bikers whizzing past national landmarks including the Vietnam Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Capitol.
For rider Kenneth Pezewski, today marked the 15th year that he’s rallied riders from his home state of Wisconsin, to pound the pavement here.
“My brother died from Agent Orange in Vietnam,” Pezewski said. “I do this in a tribute to him.”
Pezewski said his participation is his way of paying homage to former and current servicemembers.
“I’ve got son-in-laws who are still in the service,” he said, “That’s the only way I can honor their rank and their respect, so that’s why I do it.”
Despite encountering light rain May 24, Pezewski called the nearly 800-mile journey from Milwaukee, “a beautiful ride.” Since 1992, Pezewski has designed and printed shirts for fellow riders – a task made more difficult by the 200 riders who joined him this year.
One such rider was retired Army Sgt. Tom Boisbert, known to fellow riders as “Top Hat.”
“I do this because I love my country,” Boisbert said.
“That’s why I fly the flags,” he said, pointing to the stars and stripes mounted on the back of his bike.
Retired Army Spc. George Rusiewicz rides to show support for his brother, who fought in Vietnam and was riding in Rolling Thunder today for the fourth straight year.
“You’ve gotta support the troops, and I think this is a great way to do it,” Rusiewicz said. “We need people to defend this nation, and like they say, ‘Freedom isn’t free.’”
Audie Murphy was killed on May 28th, 1971, along with six others, when the private plane he was a passenger in crashed in fog and rain into a mountain near Roanoke, Virginia. He was only forty six years old at the time of his death. Fittingly, he died on Memorial Day weekend.
If you care to, please share with us anyone that’s in your thoughts this Memorial Day observed.
Vanity ZIP codes could be a gold mine for the United States Postal Service.
Just days after upscale department store Sakes Fifth Avenue convinced the USPS to give it a vanity ZIP code for its shoe department, the always cash-strapped postal service said it was exploring the idea of using vanity ZIP codes as a way to generate additional income.
You can just imagine the legions of corporate marketing managers planning to adopt a ZIP+4 code for their businesses.
In a first for the USPS, the agency recently issued the vanity ZIP+4 code 10022-SHOE to Saks as a way for the retailer to brand its new women’s footwear salon opening this summer. If the test with Saks is successful, it could be rolled out as part of a nationwide program, a spokeswoman said.
Earlier this month, the USPS raised the price of a first-class stamp to 41 cents, the third time it has increased rates in five years.
If vanity ZIP codes are even half as popular as vanity license plates, the potential revenue impact for the USPS could be huge.
Nancy Pelosi 94578-CUNT
John Kerry 02151-PUTZ
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The Ugly American 
Happy she and happy he
They’re both as happy as can be
Celebrating merrily
their happy anniversary
the best 10 years of my life
---JR
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on an overseas trip to embrace an audience and a topic for which President Bush has shown scant affection: “Old Europe” and global warming.
Pelosi, D-Calif., and seven other House members left Saturday for meetings with scientists and politicians in Greenland, Germany and Belgium on ways to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee recently approved a bill to obligate the administration to send senior diplomats to international meetings on climate change “with instructions to secure binding commitments for reform,” according to a committee statement.The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is pushing a nonbinding resolution that would press the administration to work on several diplomatic fronts to combat global warming.
The new head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, is a strong advocate of battling climate change. She replaced Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who has called global warming a hoax........................
Lemme (try to) get this straight:
Thank -You-Nancy makes up some set up a new House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and appointed Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., as its chairman. The committee cannot write legislation, but was created to study and offer recommendations on how to deal with global warming that will obligate the administration to send senior diplomats to international meetings on climate change “with instructions to secure binding commitments for reform and Nacy’s going on another vacation- after firing someone who didn’t agree with her [*cough* Alberto Gonzales *cough*] - at our expense for what?????
everyone who sent me the Corgi pic and inspired me
Does Algore dig up his gravel driveway and RECYCLE/REUSE his driveway gravel after sifting it through a mesh thingy on a stand that JR made and then separating and composting all the fucking weeds and turf from it?
I THINK NOT.
