And you are all more than welcome to begin the countdown to the beginning of baseball season! Throwing this up here whilst I wake up and smack myself. I still can't believe it happened.

That's right, Tri trashed the blog. So I'll go clean it up and will be back.

Oh, this happened too:
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76 comments (Latest Comment: 02/07/2012 04:31:08 by Raine)

Good morning. I've got a couple of disjointed stories this morning, not really enough to write a full blog on any one of them. Nevertheless, you should probably hear about them, so away we go. As always, the usual apologies to Bob Ryan, from whom I shamelessly steal this idea from time to time.
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7 comments (Latest Comment: 02/04/2012 17:37:27 by Raine)

I'm sure by now, you aware that the The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation -- officially known as Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, has decided to pull its grant money for Planned Parenthood. This money was given to the organization to help defray the costs of breast cancer screening for women with little or no money. As reported Tuesday afternoon by the AP, via WaPo this was the reasoning: The money the Susan G. Koman foundation gave to Planned Parenthood was to help fund breast cancer screening for women with little to no access to health insurance. It was a partnership that began in 2005. The following is an interview of Representative Stearns with Pat Robertson. They are discussing the issue of money possibly being improperly spent by Planned Parenthood.


Please note that the date is October 2011. Listen carefully. Listen for the mention of Lila Rose. (More after the fold.)
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69 comments (Latest Comment: 02/03/2012 18:18:49 by Raine)

Good Morning.

Today is our 3,768th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,889
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 991

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 297, 572, 700, 000 .00

Since today is Primary day in the fine state of Florida, we'll start with some election news. Like all citizens, soldiers are entitled to vote in any and all elections held in the US. But it's a little more difficult logistically. You'd think that they'd be able to register and vote on the base, and you'd be correct for those soldiers that have a permanent address in the United States, whether on-base or off.
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41 comments (Latest Comment: 02/01/2012 04:35:38 by Raine)

That's Trump, Donald J, where I think the 'J' may stand for "just kidding". Yes, the Donald may grace America by saving us from ourselves. "The country is going to hell in a handbasket" he recently said two minutes ago. (Yes, I know, I overslept again and now I'm writing whilst watching the Sunday morning news shows).
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5 comments (Latest Comment: 01/29/2012 19:54:41 by livingonli)