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He tried various business ventures on shore but never succeeded at any of them. The one thing my dad did, and did well, was be a sailor. This, however, put a lot of distance between us, his family, and him. This distance was not only physical, but emotional as well. I'm sure he tried to be there for us, but he just didn't know how to do that. He supported us financially and, although we always had to watch our expenditures, we never went hungry. We always had a roof over ours heads, clothes on our backs, and food in our stomachs. He was a hard man, and he made it hard to like him. I believe he was like this, because he had a very hard life, even from childhood. I wish it could have been different for him, but it wasn't. My dad was, who he was.
Last night, my father passed away. I loved my father. I am thinking of him, as in the past, as being away from us, because he has gone back to sea. He is standing on the deck of a ship, looking across the ocean at a beautiful sunrise and he is where he's always wanted to be, he is a sailor on board his ship.
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strick construction rules, each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity (and are much better than "Your computer
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Our freedoms are being taken from us by a bunch of elected sociopaths who care about nothing except power.
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Congressman Brad Sherman of California's 27th congressional district told the House in a speech on Thurs evening that several fellow Congressional representatives have said they were threatened with the prospect 'Martial Law' should they vote in opposition to the $700 billion bailout. According to numerous Congressional testimonies, the stark panic atmosphere which has gripped both Congress and the US media was intentionally created in order to 'fast-track' a financial bailout bill. Several members of Congress were told before Monday's vote that martial law might be instigated in America if the legislation failed.
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In his most serious lapse, McCain was "clowning" around in a Skyraider over southern Spain about December 1961 and flew into electrical wires After McCain was sent to Vietnam, his plane was destroyed in an explosion on the deck of an aircraft carrier in 1967.
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In House debate on the banker “rescue” bill, Rep. Brad Sherman told his fellow Congress critters the government will declare martial law and the stock market will drop 3,000 points if the bill is not passed. “The panic-mongers were to the point of telling people the market would drop 3,000 points and there would be martial law,” said Sherman. Sherman’s comment was not in the same context as a comment issued by Rep. Michael Burgess earlier in the week. Burgess, who appeared on the Alex Jones Show, said Pelosi threatened to invoke House rule XIII(6)(a), described as “martial law,” intended to suspend normal procedures and safeguards and thus allowing the House leadership to operate in a more authoritarian fashion. The bailout plan is not only “economic fascism,” as Richard Viguerie has correctly noted, designed to loot the U.S. Treasury and reorganize and further consolidate elite control over the economy, but it is also a brazen effort to impose a martial law and dictatorship
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Older veterans remember well how John McCain and John Kerry shut down all further investigation into remaining MIA/POW in order to open up trade with Vietnam over the protests of family members. They remember full well how these families were treated and talked to by McCain. They also remember how John McCain's father-in-law immediately opened up a beer industry in Vietnam as soon as trade resumed Union Veterans, has this to say about John McCain Not only has McCain voted the wrong way on veterans' issues - such as opposing increased funding for veterans' health care the last four years in a row - but he also doesn't support middle class people's issues He wants to tax people's health care benefits, and supports unfair trade deals, including NAFTA." www.unionveterans.org
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