Archive for September, 2008

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Far Too True

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

How many times is the shofar—or ram’s horn—sounded in synagogues on the two days of Rosh Hashanah?

100 times. The only exception is on the Sabbath, when the shofar is never blown.

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

This Made Me Laugh!!!

If work was a good thing the rich would have it all and not let you do it. Elmore Leonard (1925-)

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Rosh Hashanah

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

This Made Me Laugh!!!

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

This Made Me Laugh!!!

There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn’t get worse every year.

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Lest We Forget

Minot AFB Airmen To Be Deployed Kevin Gribble 9/28/2008 Hundreds of airmen from the Minot Air Force Base are being deployed this week. About 300 airmen and several B-52 bombers will begin leaving this week for a five-month deployment to Andersen Air Base in Guam. The base already has about 3-hundred people in Iraq, Afghanistan, […]

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

One of my Airplanes!

Boeing to upgrade B-52 targeting capability WICHITA, Kan., 29 Sept. 2008. Boeing won a $15 million contract award from the U.S. Air Force to develop advanced targeting capabilities for the B-52 The software upgrades will include improvements for transmitting video and targeting information from the targeting pod to friendly forces, and reduce flight crew workload. […]

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Stealth fighters ghosted through Aleutian campaign

“Castner’s Cutthroats’ spied on the Japanese in WWII By JAMES HALPIN jhalpin@adn.com Published: September 28th, 2008 11:45 PM Last Modified: September 28th, 2008 12:03 PM In the early days of World War II, while most of the world’s attention was focused on Europe and the South Pacific, a small band of scouts began patrolling the […]

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Sorry about the Silence

Berta and I were called out unexpectedly to a funeral.

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