lizard_brain
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C'mon! These jokers had these shirts out and selling in no time, and cashed in in no time! You've been talking for months!
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base price: $98,000
I'm out.
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Where do you get them maintained around here? What's that cost?
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Two guys who selflessly gave of themselves so that 500 could protest in Olympia. There are men, and then there are men among men, and I humble myself in their memory:
Iraq Medal of Honor Recipients
*DUNHAM, JASON L.
Rank and Organization: Corporal, United States Marine Corps
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as Rifle Squad Leader, 4th Platoon, Company K, Third Battalion, Seventh Marines (Reinforced), Regimental Combat Team 7, First Marine Division (Reinforced), on 14 April 2004. Corporal Dunham's squad was conducting a reconnaissance mission in the town of Karabilah, Iraq, when they heard rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire erupt approximately two kilometers to the west. Corporal Dunham led his Combined Anti-Armor Team towards the engagement to provide fire support to their Battalion Commander's convoy, which had been ambushed as it was traveling to Camp Husaybah. As Corporal Dunham and his Marines advanced, they quickly began to receive enemy fire. Corporal Dunham ordered his squad to dismount their vehicles and led one of his fire teams on foot several blocks south of the ambushed convoy. Discovering seven Iraqi vehicles in a column attempting to depart, Corporal Dunham and his team stopped the vehicles to search them for weapons. As they approached the vehicles, an insurgent leaped out and attacked Corporal Dunham. Corporal Dunham wrestled the insurgent to the ground and in the ensuing struggle saw the insurgent release a grenade. Corporal Dunham immediately alerted his fellow Marines to the threat. Aware of the imminent danger and without hesitation, Corporal Dunham covered the grenade with his helmet and body, bearing the brunt of the explosion and shielding his Marines from the blast. In an ultimate and selfless act of bravery in which he was mortally wounded, he saved the lives of at least two fellow Marines. By his undaunted courage, intrepid fighting spirit, and unwavering devotion to duty, Corporal Dunham gallantly gave his life for his country, thereby reflecting great credit upon himself and upholding the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
*SMITH, PAUL R.
Rank and Organization: Sergeant First Class, United States Army
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with an armed enemy near Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq on 4 April 2003. On that day, Sergeant First Class Smith was engaged in the construction of a prisoner of war holding area when his Task Force was violently attacked by a company-sized enemy force. Realizing the vulnerability of over 100 fellow soldiers, Sergeant First Class Smith quickly organized a hasty defense consisting of two platoons of soldiers, one Bradley Fighting Vehicle and three armored personnel carriers. As the fight developed, Sergeant First Class Smith braved hostile enemy fire to personally engage the enemy with hand grenades and anti-tank weapons, and organized the evacuation of three wounded soldiers from an armored personnel carrier struck by a rocket propelled grenade and a 60mm mortar round. Fearing the enemy would overrun their defenses, Sergeant First Class Smith moved under withering enemy fire to man a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on a damaged armored personnel carrier. In total disregard for his own life, he maintained his exposed position in order to engage the attacking enemy force. During this action, he was mortally wounded. His courageous actions helped defeat the enemy attack, and resulted in as many as 50 enemy soldiers killed, while allowing the safe withdrawal of numerous wounded soldiers. Sergeant First Class Smith’s extraordinary heroism and uncommon valor are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the Third Infantry Division “Rock of the Marne,” and the United States Army.
From today's PI:
Conspiracy, bribery and money laundering, the federal charges levied Friday against an Army captain from Tacoma, sound more like a mob crackdown than a complaint against an Iraq war veteran.
Cedar Lanmon, an officer who has completed two tours of duty in Iraq and who faces multiple charges in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from contractors in Iraq to steer Army contracts to them.
The contracts included heavy construction at military installations in Iraq.
Lanmon, 30, also is charged with illegally bringing a piece of ancient pottery back to the United States from Iraq.
The artifact appears to be from an archaeological dig in the city of Ur at a site believed to be the home of the biblical figure Abraham.
Lanmon was based at Fort Lewis from December 2002 to August 2007, base spokesman Joe Hitt said.
He is now part of a student detachment at Fort Jackson, S.C.
Hitt said the military is unlikely to take action against Lanmon until the federal case is resolved.
Lanmon made his initial appearance Friday in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Kelley Arnold and was released pending a preliminary hearing next month.
According to the criminal complaint, Lanmon accepted bribes from two Iraqi citizens and an Albanian contractor in exchange for awarding them government contracts. He allegedly took $25,000 from the Albanian contractor in exchange for a $250,000 contract to build berms at a military base in Ballad, Iraq, and accepted $5,000 from an Iraqi man in exchange for getting him on the base and introducing him to a contracting officer.
Lanmon also is accused of accepted $1,000 from an Iraqi in exchange for the contract to build a tin roof on a military facility.
According to court documents, the case came to the Army's attention in September when Lanmon's estranged wife came forward with accusations that he had accepted about $40,000 in bribes during his two Iraq deployments.
The documents indicate that Lanmon told his estranged wife that he'd married another woman while in Iraq and "wanted them all to engage in a polygamous marriage."
He later recanted and said he had not actually married the woman but that she was pregnant by him.
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Ever been beat up by a cop?
Actually, I have.
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I find that term slanderous and defamatory.
You'll get over it.
:kisss:
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I only get jealous when they are bigger than mine.
pic?
That's my line!
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The riot vest becomes a bit useless when I can aim for the gut
That fat is way thicker than the Kevlar.
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A few days earlier the pro war people said that they would smash my camera if I took pictures of them because the media always tries to make them look stupid. Stupidity is a choice.
They mean the media captures them looking stupid.
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And you think renters don't pay property tax?
I've been paying my landlord's mortgage and property taxes for years.
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As unimpressed with the protesters as I am, I'd like to think that at least some of them would actually take up arms (or otherwise support the government) against a real threat to our country, if it existed (and no sorry, Islamofascistan does not count). But I could just be projecting.
Here, here.
(-Mildly impressed with the protesters myself, just still can't figure out why they're blocking them from coming back.)
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Does that mean I can't fly at christmas this season?
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A couple of badasses for sure.
Yeah, sounds like the kind of men we'd be better off hanging on to.
Yeah, so it's a good thing they went off to die in Iraq, otherwise these people in Oly wouldn't have the right to protest?
HHmmmm...
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Two guys who selflessly gave of themselves so that 500 could protest in Olympia. There are men, and then there are men among men, and I humble myself in their memory:
And what if Bush and his cronies hadn't sent them there to die in the first place?
Just askin'.
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Is it possible to search for a person who has started specific thread? Not just the topic. For example I would like to find all threads started by Pink. Is that possible?
Why in the name of God would anyone want to...
Oh, never mind.
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Who you gonna have make them?
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After you make them.
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That is to say... I mean... That is... What I'm trying to say...
Oh, screw it.
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People in the community are making it out to be a pretty violent protest, but my only negative experiences came from the pro war people, who threatened to smash my camera, and tried to get me to fight when I hadn't even said anything to them.
Amazing. This is what they behaved like at the larger protest last month. Taunting protesters with a crowd of police around them.
CC.com T-shirts
in Climber's Board
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Good answer.