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Forty of the most powerful photographs ever taken:
Unsurprisingly, the subject matter is a combination of unspeakable sadness and bravery.

Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeks before he was due to return home.

Others show the triumph of the human spirit.

One we’ve all seen and one I marvel at every time I do.

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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Pole!

  2. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    English!

  3. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Peruvian!

  4. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Thought you wuz a Commanche

  5. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Sausage Breath

  6. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Oh yeah.
    ‘Murrican!

  7. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The Sooners sucked this year because of Hurricane Isaac?

  8. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Scots-Irish!

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    M42 about your “fashion” link last night:
    The models all looked to be starved, malnutritioned, walking AIDS factories. As to the fashions portrayed, suffice to say that most fashion showed leave me bored :>)

  10. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning Al
    Kneemail please. Sister just got rolled into surgery for her hiatal hernia. Should be out about noon.
    BTW Scotch-Irish

  11. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    5th generation HOUSTONIAN!

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I think HAL ate my post.

  13. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #9 – You got it!
    *Texan!*

  14. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #9 OTL: Kneemail up.

  15. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    HAL does not like dailymail links for some reason.

  16. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Nice kitty…

  17. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #16 – YIKES

  18. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Man behind ‘Deport Piers Morgan’ petition has meltdown on Morgan’s show
    You call that a meltdown? Clearly, they’ve never met Alex Jones before.

  19. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #18 – I’m not an Alex Jones fan – it WAS pretty funny watching him slam ole ‘Long-walk-off-a-short-Piers’ though…………….

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A friend loaned me “Table Talk,” which is a compilation of notes various students of Luther’s made from the conversations around his dinner table at Wittenberg. It’s a fascinating look into a man in his unguarded moments. They reveal him to be incredibly well informed, consistent, and often profane. He deals with politics, theology, and ordinary life. These quotes also reveal how little we have changed in 500 years.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Does the city of Orlando have nothing better to do than go after these front yard gardeners?
    I notice it’s the city, not the HOA. If these people had a barking dog in their yard, the city probably wouldn’t do anything about it. But no, grow some tomatoes and squash (where I’m sure half of it disappears before making it to their own table), and the city wants to take ’em down.
    I say, they bought the property, they’re not hurting anyone, they should be left alone. It’s no more unsightly than some of the other crap I’ve seen, it’s certainly more beneficial, and as they’re probably feeding the hungry, willingly or unwillingly, they are providing a community service.
    When the economy gets better and mayhaps growing their own food isn’t so urgent, this problem may go away by itself.

  22. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #18 hamous
    Give him a break. He was still shook up over getting exposed to foot fungus at the TSA checkpoint.

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Nothing Is in the bucket, so I’ll try this posting this one again…
    Someone screwed up letting RGIII back into the game the other night, but here’s some interesting background:

    If you want to understand why Redskins coach Mike Shanahan allowed his quarterback to play for most of a 24-14 NFL wild-card loss to the Seattle Seahawks at FedEx Field, despite an obvious knee injury — and why Griffin demanded as much — it helps to start with a story. Once upon a time, there was a player at Eastern Illinois, a Division II school as far from the bright lights and big money of professional football as, well, the surface of Mars. One spring day during a practice scrimmage, the player was speared in the ribs, so hard he could barely breathe. He stayed in the game. Went home. Urinated blood. Began throwing up. He went to the emergency room, where doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong — because his ruptured kidney had been jammed behind his spine. The player passed out from the pain. His heart stopped. He was revived with a defibrillator. A priest administered last rites. Following kidney removal surgery, his football coach told him he would never play again. He was lucky to be alive.
    He responded by petitioning the school to be allowed to suit up.
    The player’s name? Mike Shanahan.

  24. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    He also made a CNN producer cry.

  25. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #23 – Interesting to be sure – and a glaring illustration of a dedicated player

  26. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #24 – linky no worky

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Works for me, FYI

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #24: Link works for me.

  29. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #27 – Yep it worked for me on about the 4th attempt

  30. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Sister out of surgery. All OK. Her stomach had completely flipped and was stuck to her lung. Dr. Fixed every thing and had to put an air bleed off in her lung until tomorrow. Amazging what they can do with those litty-bitty tools.

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #30 OTL: Great news! Praise YAH!

  32. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Good news, Congress! You’re more popular than telemarketers, the deadly ebola virus, gonorrhea, the Kardashians, Lindsay Lohan, communism, disgraced Democratic former Sen. John Edwards, playground bullies and meth labs.

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/congress-more-popular-kardashians-lohan-gonorrhea-173457190–politics.html
    Whoa! I thought lots of dopes like the Kardashians. If not, why they get so much news coverage??

  33. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #30 OTL
    Yes, good news about your sister. I want them to hone their surgical skills on you and your sister, so they’ll be ready to keep me tuned up in a couple a years.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Congress is more popular than gonorrhea?
    Well I’ll be.

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Congress is more popular than gonorrhea?

    Don’t she have sisters, Syphylis and Clamydia?

  36. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    “Fiscal Cliff” in Plain English
    Lesson # 1:
    * U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
    * Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
    * New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
    * National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
    * Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
    Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:
    * Annual family income: $21,700
    * Money the family spent: $38,200
    * New debt on the credit card: $16,500
    * Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
    * Total budget cuts so far: $38.50
    Got It ??…….OK now,
    Lesson # 2:
    Here’s another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:
    Let’s say, You come home from work and find
    there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood….
    and your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.
    What do you think you should do ……
    Raise the ceilings, or remove the sh*t?

  37. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Its real hard to argue with the Texanadian logic on #36.

  38. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #30 – Good DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  39. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    OTL – glad to hear about your sister.

    Her stomach had completely flipped and was stuck to her lung.

    What is that ailment even called?
    Inverted pulmogastric adhesion?

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    36
    Lesson #2
    Buy a new house!!!

  41. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #36: Lesson #4 Hunt down and shoot the plumbers that caused the backup and prevent “those types” from ever plumbing again.

  42. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Sign of things to come?

    Flu is on the upswing in Illinois along with most of the rest of the nation.
    Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold says almost 150 people have been admitted to intensive care units with the flu this season and six have died.
    Eight Chicago-area hospitals were turning away ambulances Monday night as they dealt with a flood of patients with flu-like symptoms.
    Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/health/150-Illinois-Flu-Patients-Admitted-To-ICU-186045402.html#ixzz2HPtzoxvt

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Metro-beyotch teenybopper heart-throb, Justin Beiber has some strange followers on the Twitter-thingie.

  44. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good afternoon Hamsters. So far the heavy rains have missed us, some just barely, and only 0.10″ is in the plastic gauge. Lots is on the outside of it in the fog/mist, and there’s plenty of condensation on porch floors and just about everything else. Keeping watch on the radar to see what is lurking nearby in case the luck runs out. Crackling on the radio now and then is a pretty good indicator of when it’s time to consult the radar again.
    Good news for your sister, OTL. Best wishes for her speedy recovery. 🙂
    El Gordo, best wishes for your recovery and rehab from hip replacement surgery. Hamsters are thinking of you and keeping your seat on the couch warm. 🙂

  45. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    EG give us a click and tell us how you are doing.

  46. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Boeing Volt or Boeing Pinto?

  47. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #42
    Yes but does the flu have a name?

  48. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #47: Low info voter Bronko flu.

  49. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #46 Pyro: Dya think there is something more to the story than Boeing designed and built a poor aircraft? I still think is is union goon sabotage.

  50. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Andromeda

  51. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #50: great movie reference.

  52. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    BOULDER, Colo. – The elk was honored with a makeshift memorial of candles, songs and stories.
    Several hundred people attended a vigil Sunday in Boulder, Colo., for the elk that was killed by a police officer. It had wandered into a neighborhood, where it was fatally shot by an on-duty police officer.

    Oh the humanity. I remember Elkie when he was a mere calf frolicking in the meadow. I wrote a poem to honor him. Like ta hear it here it go:
    There once was a young Elk in Boulder
    Who will now never get any older
    A jack-booted ass
    Shot Elk, center mass
    He’s now in the fridge getting colder

  53. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #47: how about the butt-head flu?

  54. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    New Mexico illegally diverting water apportioned to Texas under 1938 Water Compact

    The State of Texas today filed a complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to command New Mexico to deliver water apportioned to Texas under the 1938 Rio Grande Compact between the states of Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado to divide the waters of the Rio Grande.

    I say we just take back the half of New Mexico belonging to Texas anyway. That should solve half of the problem.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texas Legislature in session.
    Hide your daughters and wallets.

  56. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #49 bone
    Normal shakedown problems for a new, very innovative, and complex manufactured item.
    For example, the 787 has a much more complex and substantial electrical system than earlier aircraft. It uses electricity instead of turbine bleed air to power many systems.

  57. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It looks like OOOOOgo will miss his swearing-in on Thursday, the Venezuelan constitution states clearly, according to the opposition, that the current term ends on 10Jan2013. This could cause a constitutional crisis, or Maduro will be sworn-in in his place. Will OOOOgo see valentines day?

  58. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    LInk for #57.

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #52 Hamous, Yup I love all of God’s Creatures. 😀

  60. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’ve been outta’ pocket of late, so OletimerLin, prayers to your sister, I hope it all works out ok. I don’t know about y’all but I’m burnt out on this cold ducky weather.

  61. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Sunday was daughter’s 27 birthday!? Crap! I’m getting old! So we went to a place in Fulshear that daughter liked. We got lucky and the boy and his bride went also. The place was Dekker’s Mesquite Grill, dang good food but a little pricey. The neatest thing was the huge fire-pit out front, as I was leaving I went by and added a couple of pieces of stove wood to the fire and stoked it a little, man the coals were great, we needed a pig on that fire. 😀

  62. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Texas Legislature in session.
    Hide your daughters and wallets.

    Damn every 2 years comes around quick. Just think the great State Senator wants it to happen every year.

  63. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Darn, kilt the blog.

  64. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Still awaiting the deluge forecast for tonight and into tomorrow. So far all we got was a quarter inch all day. It is nasty out even without rain since the mist has taken over everywhere.
    G’night all.

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