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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-30
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2014-05-30 http://t.co/GNQaRNq82T 22:02:30, 2014-05-30
- Deep stack tournament… (@ Chumash Casino Resort) http://t.co/ShxTDEdoJ2 18:49:45, 2014-05-30
- Finished dinner at Andersen's and now time for poker at Chumash (@ Solvang Park) http://t.co/2sSQEXksll 18:24:07, 2014-05-30
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2014-05-29 http://t.co/bftiDOpRcb 04:02:09, 2014-05-30
- Let's try that again!
Good Morning!
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-Maya Angelou 03:26:18, 2014-05-30
- Good". If you can't change it, change your attitude."
— Maya Angelou 03:25:01, 2014-05-30
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-29 http://t.co/1x0L86K4ia #tcot 03:01:04, 2014-05-30
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-29
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2014-05-29 http://t.co/pyPfRA7buK 22:15:03, 2014-05-29
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2014-05-28 http://t.co/wiXwYw8Iyo 04:02:05, 2014-05-29
- You bet – He's Done! RT @politico: .@MittRomney: Shinseki "needs to be removed" http://t.co/fCnLO9BalD 03:35:08, 2014-05-29
- Good Morning!
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
— Walt Disney 03:30:23, 2014-05-29
- RT @BillGertz: Congress approves $70.7 million for Army hypersonic missile after China tests high speed strike vehicle. http://t.co/amjZ0GO… 03:26:24, 2014-05-29
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-28 http://t.co/dpvOaOP6eo #tcot 03:00:07, 2014-05-29
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-28
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2014-05-28 http://t.co/OWa6KozKCf 22:26:17, 2014-05-28
- RT @kausmickey: .@EricCantor reendorses DREAM-style immig. amnesty ("for the kids") in this Cavuto interview today http://t.co/AEpLUPBDz4 #… 20:43:55, 2014-05-28
- RT @nypost: Check out Google's new self-driving car! There's no steering wheel … or brakes http://t.co/4T5P2QGlWR http://t.co/1OIwoOcqpA 15:00:26, 2014-05-28
- RT @KBruning: #StarWarsHalf Marathon Storms Disneyland http://t.co/NQZXOe7wGw Plus #RebelChallenge too! #runDisney @runDisney http://t.co/t… 14:28:15, 2014-05-28
- RT @ScienceDaily: Light coaxes stem cells to repair teeth: Noninvasive laser therapy could radically shift dental tx http://t.co/cvM2OT3AHQ 14:24:05, 2014-05-28
- RT @jaketapper: Sen @JohnWalsh, D-MT, the Senate's only Iraq War veteran: "It is time for President Obama to remove Secretary Shinseki from… 14:21:25, 2014-05-28
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2014-05-27 http://t.co/Fx5ZLvUBiN 04:00:33, 2014-05-28
- Good Morning!
"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
–Oliver Wendell Holmes 03:42:49, 2014-05-28
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-27 http://t.co/ZC8FIC4Lr4 #tcot 03:00:56, 2014-05-28
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-27
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2014-05-27 http://t.co/nyMrdP97Wd 22:14:05, 2014-05-27
- RT @daybydaycartoon: 05/28/2014: Pulse of the Nation. http://t.co/NbE6OFREJL 20:30:26, 2014-05-27
- RT @Disneyland: #StarWarsHalf Marathon Weekend coming to Disneyland Resort Jan. 15-18, 2015! #StarWars @runDisney http://t.co/ZcvLlcttCr 19:51:17, 2014-05-27
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2014-05-26 http://t.co/hqMXxensLS 04:01:43, 2014-05-27
- Good Morning!
Today's Quote:
"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
— Winston Churchill 03:27:12, 2014-05-27
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-26 http://t.co/apEd0iOINi #tcot 03:00:58, 2014-05-27
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Day By Day May 27, 2014
Yet, Chris, the LEFT continues to attack the Koch Brothers and others in business who want to protect capitalism and liberty…..
Interesting how the Corporations want to open up America’s Southern border for cheap labor and the Obama-led Democrats want to do the same but for cheap voters.
Both come with a cost – as we see now in Southern Texas and in California.
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-26
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2014-05-26 http://t.co/X2ApJLrevP 22:34:13, 2014-05-26
- RT @MarkSteynOnline: Kippers and Curtains http://t.co/HNz37FGGHk #UKIP @Nigel_Farage 20:03:24, 2014-05-26
- RT @ByronYork: New: With new troubles, questions mount about Obama's competence. http://t.co/XMhNfAiIAG 19:03:34, 2014-05-26
- RT @jaketapper: Pfc. Theodore Glende, 23, Rochester, NY, saved 5 soldiers before he was killed 7/27/2012 in Afghanistan #MemorialDay http:/… 17:31:29, 2014-05-26
- RT @DodgerInsider: Today's Dodgers pregame notebook is bursting at the seams, with Josh Beckett and more: http://t.co/4NXmJIOXCi http://t.c… 17:21:59, 2014-05-26
- RT @politico: .@KarlRove says @HillaryClinton's biggest challenge is the perception she is ‘old and stale’ http://t.co/1103z76g3h 17:20:37, 2014-05-26
- RT @kausmickey: You can counter @EricCantor's absurd fake pre-election anti-amnesty posturing by giving $ to his opponent here http://t.co/… 17:03:31, 2014-05-26
- Happy Memorial Day – 2014 http://t.co/OQYBmx4fNg 17:03:01, 2014-05-26
- RT @kausmickey: Cantor mailer plays off staged Obama phone stunt. Of course he's not 4 Senate amnesty. He's 4 Boehner-style amnesty. http:/… 16:54:03, 2014-05-26
- RT @kausmickey: Cantor pre-election mailer desperately portrays him as foe of Senate amnesty bill. You think voters care about issue? http:… 16:52:19, 2014-05-26
- RT @mikeallen: Addition to Obama sked tomorrow: 4:45PM THE PRESIDENT meets with Secretary of Defense Hagel
Oval Office Closed Press 16:07:24, 2014-05-26 - RT @jaketapper: 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich, 27, of Walpole, MA, killed by IED in Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq, May 13, 2007. #MemorialDay http:/… 16:04:25, 2014-05-26
- Happy Memorial Day – 2014 http://t.co/L6OqfJrqBf 15:51:40, 2014-05-26
- RT @Think_BlueLA: Vin Scully will miss today & tomorrow’s games due to a cold. Steiner, Hershiser and Garciaparra will fill in. #PrayForVin 15:45:04, 2014-05-26
- Memorial Day 2014: They Did God’s Work http://t.co/TaWmGrzn7g #tcot 13:20:24, 2014-05-26
- RT @PRyan: Memorial Day is a time for our country to reflect on the service and sacrifice of countless Americans. We thank you! http://t.co… 12:54:57, 2014-05-26
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2014-05-25 http://t.co/SFZfozmGBI 04:01:19, 2014-05-26
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-25 http://t.co/PxTU74ujQo #tcot 03:02:03, 2014-05-26
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-25 http://t.co/liZmQsRhiX 03:02:03, 2014-05-26
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Memorial Day 2014: They Did God’s Work
The American Spectator: They Did God’s WorkBy Ben Stein
Remarks delivered on Saturday evening in Arlington, Virginia, at the Memorial Day weekend seminar and grief camp of TAPS — the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors.
THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME be a part of your family. This is the most important family on the planet right now. There is a First Family on Pennsylvania Avenue, but this is the real first family. The family of those who have paid the ultimate price to keep us free and dignified and alive.
A bad day for me is when I get stuck in traffic or have a toothache or notice that I have gained weight or my teenage son is surly.
A bad day for you is realizing that the only man or woman you have ever loved is one for this lifetime.
A difficult day for me with my wife is when she’s out at her bridge lesson and comes home late so my dinner is late.
A difficult day for you is when you wake up from a dream that your husband or wife or son or daughter or mother or father was alive and laughing with you and realize you’ll never see that loveable person again for the rest of your natural lives.
A bad day for an ordinary American is seeing the stock market go down or watching his son sneak a beer.
A bad day for you is a sort of loneliness, a hopeless, cruel loneliness that cuts right to the bone like the cut of a knife, that tells you that there is no one there to hug you, no one to kiss you, no one to fix the kids’ bikes, no one to wipe away the tears that just come uncontrollably when you least expect them.
A bad day for me is getting stuck in an airport security line. A bad day for you is being on the plane alone.
Yet your loneliness has meaning. Your loneliness, your pain, is the mortar and concrete that anchors the nation. The sacrifice your loved ones made, the sacrifice you made, that your kids made, is what makes the whole American world safe from terror.
Your loved one’s lives had what we all want: meaning. The knowledge you were doing something big for others. That is EVERYTHING in life.
Wall Street does not have it. Hollywood does not have it. They’re just in it for the fame and the money.
Your loved ones were in it for unselfishness, for kindness, for love of one’s fellow man. There is no higher meaning on this earth.
The media try to rob your husband’s and wive’s and kid’s lives of meaning saying this war is not about anything.
They’re wrong and they say what they say because they don’t see the truth. They print a story on the front page about Marines killing civilians in a town in Iraq and if they did, it was wrong. But the big media never report a MARINE throwing himself on a bomb to protect an Iraqi child, or a Marine giving his life to rid a town of murderers or a Marine or an Army man or woman or a Navy Seal or a Coast Guardsman offering up his life so that Iraqi human beings can have the same freedoms and rights we take for granted here in America.
The media are like grave robbers, robbing you of the certain knowledge that your spouses gave their lives for something deeply worthwhile: human dignity.
Your loved one’s lives and deaths had as much meaning at the lives and deaths of every American who died for freedom from Valley Forge to the Battle of the Bulge to Cho-Sin Reservoir to the Cu Chi tunnels to the Balkans to Kabul, Afghanistan, to Falluja, Iraq.
And if the media doesn’t know it, every other American does. This is a very difficult fight, but the ordinary American knows what your loved ones have done and respects them.
Your families, your loved one, your children have more respect than Sean Penn and Barbra Streisand and the Dixie Chicks all put together times a million. And the media like to criticize because they know — in their hearts — that they will never have the guts that the man and woman in uniform have. I think media envy of your loved ones’ courage has a lot do with media mockery of the war.
To heck with them. Your husbands are the real stars. Your wives and kids are the real stars. They burn brightly forever as long as there are free men and women and the longing for human freedom burns bright in the human heart.
John F. Kennedy said that here on earth, God’s work is our work. That doesn’t mean Wall Street’s work. It doesn’t mean the Washington Post‘s work. It doesn’t mean Hollywood’s work. It means the work you guys do and the work of your husbands and wives and kids. Living and dying for your fellow man. That is God’s work in the deepest sense, and God bless you for what you do, and God keep you until you are with your loved ones again.
Remember…..they did God’s work.
Happy Memorial Day!
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-25
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2014-05-25 http://t.co/lSfxXhoAfW 22:18:25, 2014-05-25
- RT @jaketapper: CSM Martin Barreras, 49, of Tucson, Ariz., died May 13, 2014 after the enemy attacked his unit in Herat. #MemorialDay http:… 19:05:18, 2014-05-25
- RT @jaketapper: Army Pfc. Katie M. Soenksen, 19, of Davenport, Iowa, killed May 2, 2007 in Iraq by an IED. #MemorialDay http://t.co/ZjmQIGL… 18:53:17, 2014-05-25
- Incompetent RT @costareports: RT @adamgoldmanwp: White House inadvertently identifies CIA chief in Kabul http://t.co/wo53DWqvHI 18:19:20, 2014-05-25
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2014-05-24 http://t.co/hIWCRLrpRb 04:00:47, 2014-05-25
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-24 http://t.co/l7EHiZDjNy 03:05:55, 2014-05-25
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-24 http://t.co/TeajdX9ZVs #tcot 03:05:55, 2014-05-25
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-24
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2014-05-24 http://t.co/HysEGIqDYa 22:13:34, 2014-05-24
- RT @wmcohen: @jaketapper Airforce Lt. Roslyn Schulte KIA in Afghanistan May 20, 2009 by an IED. http://t.co/ZbMD1h75VB 21:08:30, 2014-05-24
- RT @jaketapper: SSG Joseph H. Fankhauser, 30, McAllen, TX, killed April 22, 2012, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan #MemorialDay http://t.co… 21:05:47, 2014-05-24
- RT @jaketapper: 1LT Nainoa Hoe, 27, of Kailua, Hawaii, killed January 22, 2005, by enemy forces in Mosul, Iraq. #MemorialDay http://t.co/YM… 19:45:56, 2014-05-24
- RT @jaketapper: SPC Qixing Lee, 20, of Minneapolis, killed August 27 2006 by an IED in Taji Iraq. #MemorialDay http://t.co/iBaWJxZJFT 16:03:14, 2014-05-24
- CPR BS recertification… (@ Lifesaver Team) http://t.co/pVQMdNeDd7 10:30:43, 2014-05-24
- RT @ByronYork: On Vox, @ezraklein estimates 'theft from slavery alone stretches into the quadrillions of dollars.' US GDP about $16 trillion 08:42:52, 2014-05-24
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2014-05-23 http://t.co/IR0odIeuqb 04:03:26, 2014-05-24
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-23 http://t.co/X8pkOMtOsT 03:01:28, 2014-05-24
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-23 http://t.co/gpncK3HZf4 #tcot 03:01:28, 2014-05-24
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-23
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2014-05-23 http://t.co/Lsd5yFFsXx 22:42:47, 2014-05-23
- Running scared are you? RT @politico: Three Democrats call for Shinseki's ouster http://t.co/w1elL6UsK1 13:57:05, 2014-05-23
- @marklevinshow Boehner should be relegated to the ash bin of history. #tcot in reply to marklevinshow 13:56:34, 2014-05-23
- Laughable http://t.co/fSArhRfCGQ #tcot 13:55:21, 2014-05-23
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2014-05-22 http://t.co/QIF9R4uL2G 04:02:21, 2014-05-23
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-22 http://t.co/ev8STE5bKF 03:01:47, 2014-05-23
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2014-05-22 http://t.co/CNqOdRBoFa #tcot 03:01:47, 2014-05-23