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Wednesday Hero

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Kevin Baker


Kevin George Baker, a disabled Navy veteran, had been riding his hand-propelled bicycle from his hometown through Washington, D.C. and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Marseilles, Illinois to support a new flag designed to honor fallen members of the military. His trip began at his home on Saturday, March 7 and sadly ended on March 13 when he passed away in his sleep. Baker, who is unable to use his legs due to a neurological impairment, was flying the Honor and Remember Flag from his bike and encouraged people along the way to sign a petition urging Congress to adopt the flag as a new national symbol by passing HR Bill 1034.

You can read the rest of Baker's story here

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Targeted By The Government

Read Master Of None's plight with the IRS.

Part 1
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It's The Honorable Thing To Do

Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley suggested that AIG executives should take a Japanese approach toward accepting responsibility for the collapse of the insurance giant by resigning or killing themselves.

I suggest, you know, obviously, maybe they ought to be removed," Grassley said. "But I would suggest the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them if they'd follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I'm sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.

Going by his standards, if AIG execs should resign or commit Seppuku because of the way their spending OUR tax dollars then so should most of Congress. Including Sen. Grassley himself.

So, Sir, here is your Tanto. Get to work.

Random Thoughts 26

You run and you run, to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking.
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death

Obama fancies himself the second coming of Lincoln? More like Carter

Jack Black is an idiot

Hey, FSC. There are more teams out there than Man Ure


Did you know that electronic companies purposely release inferior products so we have to replace them every couple of years?

Just because it's eatable doesn't mean is should be eaten

I, believe, in miracles
I believe in a better world for me and you


"Damn your red hide, woman"

Why do stores have 20 different checkout areas when only 2-3 actually have someone manning them?

World Cup 2010. USA, USA, USA to get past the first round this time

http://tinyurl.com/dgs467

I hate acronyms. In this internet age we've become so damn lazy that we can't even spell out words anymore? WTF?

Don't leave false illusions behind
Don't cry I ain't changing my mind
So find another fool like before
Cos I ain't gonna live anymore believing
Some of the lies while all of the sign are deceiving

Music in the 80's ruled while music in the 90's sucked. A bunch of whiny little bitches

I wish I were brave enough to shave or dye my hair

We all know the neo-Nazi RIAA has deemed downloading music from the internet a crime, but what about sending songs through snail mail?

MP3 Is Not A Crime

The trailer park is the White man's ghetto

Why doesn't Netflix automatically give you the bonus DVD with a movie you rent?

Turn off my robotic brain, all my thoughts are the same

The videos for Herbie Hancock's Rockit and Genesis's Land Of Confusion freaked me out as a kid. Matter of fact, they still kinda do. And I still can't watch Michael Jackson's Thriller video

Remember when 1.44mb disks were big enough to hold what you needed them to hold? Now we need at least a 2gb flash drive

Rob Halford may have the best voice in music

Corporations Leaving America For The Lower Tax Country Of Switzerland

Yet a wave of energy companies has in the last few months announced plans to move to Switzerland -- mainly for its appeal as a low-tax corporate domicile that looks relatively likely to stay out of reach of Barack Obama's tax-seeking administration

Gee, who would have seen this coming? These ungrateful corporate pigs. Don't they know that overtaxing them is good for state?

Obama Makes A Smart Move For Once

No wonder it's so cold outside today. Hell has frozen over. I actually agree with a move Obama is considering.

President Obama weighed in Wednesday on the escalating drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that he was looking at possibly deploying National Guard troops to contain the violence but ruled out any immediate military move.

If you've been following the few news stories the media has done on Mexico, or the great reporting Glenn Beck has done, then you know it's a war zone down there and the situation has gone much further than Pablo crossing over for a better job. The drug cartels essentially run that country and it's spilling over here. There are people along the Mexican side of the border who are armed just as well as our military. The border guards and Minute Men can't fight that.