It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: charlesoakwood on December 31, 2011, 10:39:37 AM
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Happy New Year to everyone, may your new year be blessed and safe.
www.Bing.com has, at this time an outstanding New Year's image of
Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong.
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Happy New Year to you, Charles, and to all my IAL friends!
And thanks for the Bing.
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Happy New Years Guys/Dolls!
Let's help make 2012 a better year for conservatism!!
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Happy New Year everyone!
::newyear::
::beertoast::
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
To all my new friends.
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May everyone at IAL have a safe and blessed New Year. ::praying::
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Blessings and prosperity to all in 2012. Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year, everyone! Prayers for peace and prosperity in the new year!
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Happy new year to all the great people here. I hope you all have a blessed year.
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Happy New Year and all that stuff.
2011 was a mixed bag for my business. For me it was better than last year but only marginally. 2009 and 2010 were the absolute worst years in my business's history...Thanks, Obama!
As each month passes I see more businesses closing and more people leaving the community. I feel as if I am in a life or death marathon sometimes.
I can only say that my hope and faith for my business and my family lies with the Lord. I trust that God will pull me through this extremely difficult time.
May God bless each and every one of you and may 2012 prove to be a surprisingly good year.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I wish you all peace and strength.
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2102 2012. Been waitin for it.
Have a blessed New Year. We have much work to do . . .
Too much bubbly???
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HNY!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Happy new year!!Once more into the breach!
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::beertoast:: ::newyear::Happy New Year ::newyear:: ::beertoast::
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I spent my New Year's day driving a ten hour round trip from our small town to the big city and back. My son has been home on leave for the last three weeks and today he goes back and I put him on a plane this morning. Should be touching down pretty soon. In another two weeks he deploys to Afghanistan for a year.
I am very proud of him and all that he has accomplished in the year and a half that he has been in the Army.
In case I haven't bragged specifically about him already...he is a technician for a combat aviation brigade and he works on CH47 Chinook helicopters. He might be up for early promotion to specialist sometime in the next month so I'm hoping that that goes well, too.
But, of course, I am a bit concerned (just a bit, not overly) about him being deployed to the world's armpit. He isn't supposed to be in an area where he can expect to be shot at but as we all know the muzzies get lucky every now and then at breaching security. I told him to keep his head down and to aggressively practice situational awareness. And to never, ever turn his back on a muslim.
(http://www.enemyforces.net/helicopters/ch47_chinook.jpg)
He will be twenty years old in the first quarter of 2012.
Godspeed, son.
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Praying that God Bless him and keep him safe.
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You're not to only one proud of him,were all in this together and what worries you worries all of us. God keep watch over him and bring him home to all of us safe and sound and I know he'll be a better man than he left as a kid. God bless all of you .
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You said a mouthful John. Hey Trap, since I have all daughters, I'll have to be proud of your son as well. Him and every other young man and woman who took up the reigns of liberty and lays down their life so that we the people can live in a civil society free from oppression.
We Americans, of which there seems to be less and less, have a vital job to do next year. We must make sure socialism is REMOVED from American politics forever.
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Thanks for sharing Trap. Good that you told him never to turn his back on a 'slim. That's a bit of advice I'm not sure today's officers are allowed by the bureaucrats to impart without PC filters.
I can only imagine your combination of beaming pride and trepidation. Heartfelt prayers will ask our Lord Jesus Christ to command an angel to watch over your young man, and another to comfort you and Mrs. Trapeze while you wait for his safe return. He will be safe.
ETA: ...and if you communicate with him electronically, thank him for his service from Minnesota for me, would ya?
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Know what is weird about having a son/daughter serve in a war zone? You know they are over there, and certainly in harm's way. But they have access to computers and sat phones so you can communicate with them in real time. It must be like serving in urban Detroit.
When my son was deployed, the time really crept by slowly for me. I hated watching the news because of MSM anti-Bush slant. Every casualty was a major deal then. Now, not so much.
I was very proud of his service and honored to get to know some of his pals.
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Yeah, the communications medium has improved drastically from my day, that is a definite plus for those serving and the loved ones at home. But being deployed is still being deployed, and there is the nonstop work and seemingly endless routine and same scenery and chow and all that to cope with. Trap is right to emphasize awareness, it's usually when you are bored and tired that your guard drops and even in a seemingly secure base or on a ship accidents or worse can and do happen and keeping your eyes open and head turning may be the difference maker.
May all of our troopers be blessed, watched over and returned safely home.
::praying::
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Yeah, the communications medium has improved drastically from my day, that is a definite plus for those serving and the loved ones at home. But being deployed is still being deployed, and there is the nonstop work and seemingly endless routine and same scenery and chow and all that to cope with. Trap is right to emphasize awareness, it's usually when you are bored and tired that your guard drops and even in a seemingly secure base or on a ship accidents or worse can and do happen and keeping your eyes open and head turning may be the difference maker.
May all of our troopers be blessed, watched over and returned safely home.
::praying::
Yeah, gotta watch out for that workplace violence ....
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I read one thing in a Limbaugh Letter recently, said troopers are also told when serving in Muslim countries that loud breaking of wind is a big cultural no-no. Well, yeah, I try not to fire one off when in polite company, but in the service out-stink-bombing your buddies was common. One got bonus points for length and strength. I guess if I wanted to keep Muzzies off my six I'd just let it rip and etiquette be damned!
I cannot imagine getting that order from a superior...
What? No loud farting? Do you know what you idiots feed us?
::facepalm::