Project Valour IT Fundraiser
Project Valour – IT *Adaptive laptops for the wounded*
Welcome to the 2009 Soldiers’ Angels Valour-IT fundraiser, running October 26 to November 11! This friendly, spirited competition raises money for technology that reconnects wounded warriors and supports their recovery.
A project through Soldier’s Angels (of which I am a proud member). Please donate if at all possible! The amount isn’t an issue, but we can let them know we care!
Many, many thanks to Chaotic Synaptic Activity for the heads up on this!
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
A great cause. Count me in!
Thanks m
Hey m!
I’m a little strapped for cash right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBayqJMhhaM
But I am a bit in cahoots with the local conservative talk folks Quinn and Rose.
Rose mostly handles this sort of thing, but I’m not quite sure which link you would like me to pass along to them.
They broadcast nationally on satellite.
http://www.warroom.com/
I’d be more than happy to pitch it to them to see if they’ll linkee.
Donated from the Marine Corp page, hope it got credited to the Marines. Added my blog too but I can’t add the widget till I get home, it’s blocked at work. Good thing to or I’d blog all day instead of working.
re: #2 by Bumr50
That is a great idea Bumr50! I’d point them to the main Project Valour-IT page.
Soldier’s Angels are awesome.
And the Marines sure are off to a good start!
~:D
This is an awesome cause M.
And thanks for the idea Bumr! I’m going to send it to our local conservative talkers too!
re: #7 by m
Support is crucial!
re: #7 by m
Ya. We sometimes disagree but we need to stay connected now more than ever.
I’m a lil skeered. I admit.
Historically you will see the big push happen on 2 Nov. Thats the day Mil Ret checks hit the bank.
Just donated $20 via PayPal to Team Army. HOOAH!
re: #10 by MikalM
Mine had to hit up the Marines for my cuz’s :}
SEMPER FI!
I hope Project Valour raises more money for wounded vets than 0bama did for tax-dodge-Dodd
Strange! I, too, am a soldier’s angel and I was just looking through the SA Store website! Also have a box ready to go to the PO today. My new guy is a Marine in A’stan.
M – Are we donating money, or laptops themselves, through this project?
Either way, I’d go through the Marines. I have a nephew who graduated from Parris Island last November, has already made Corporal, and is about to finalise his training to be part of the Marine Honour Guard for the President. We don’t like the President we currently have, but guarding the office is an honour all the same.
Freedom of Speech, does not include Sarah Palin fans.
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/10/freedom-of-speech-does-not-include.html
good link, thanks. i’ve a little set aside and i’m sure the army and the marines can use a little of it for their angels
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-originators-of-obama-speak-public-allies-and-the-abcd-institute/
Holy crap! It’s like adult Sesame Street!
re: #17 by Bumr50
Sorry for replying to self, but Cash Rules Everything Around Me is already taken Obama. Back off.
Signed, Prince.
HOFFMAN LEADS!
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/10/hoffman-leads.html
re: #19 by timbok
Awesome.
I love this place .
Just wanted to stop in and say hi.
I am a long time member of Soldiers Angels and they are a wonderful group!!
Am leaving to go to the attorney…again all who are inclined…wish me luck!
First time in a week that I have HOPE!!!
I love you Chase, don’t worry because Grammy is coming!!!!!!!!!
re: #19 by timbok
I hope he wins big. That would send a message to both parties…
Tony La Russa is returning to the St. Louis Cardinals as manager on a one-year contract, but there will be one change to his coaching staff.
Mark McGwire, the former Cardinals slugger, will replace Hal McRae, who was fired as hitting coach, La Russa said Monday.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4593412
What’s he gonna teach them, how to take steriods?
Hey M, I just joined the Navy Team! Go Navy! At NavyWife here.
re: #14 by tqcincinnatus
This one is for cashola. They supply:
Write them and ask if they’d like a laptop donation as well though!
The u-turning left wing long haired thin skinned hippie is on another Rush rant again. And Rush was elected to what again?
Everyone go to some party I don’t know about?
44 sffilk
Mon, Oct 26, 2009 10:33:07am replyquote 0downupreport
I said it before, and I’ll say it again:
Rush Limbaugh, YOU ARE IRRELEVANT!
re: #28 by RIX
They obsesse over an irrelevant person an whole lot don’t they?
re: #29 by Nevergiveup
LOL, Rush isn’t even there today, guest host.
re: #26 by Nevergiveup
You have to understand. Rush is more important than Nancy Pelosie. hell, if she doesn’t pull public-option health care out of her ass pretty soon, that will be correct. It is interesting, though, which side the aging hippie thinks is important to correct.
Now if he could just get Rush to understand how important he is! He has the ears of a few dozen hard-core Leftist-Rightwingers! Hell, they’ll be anything he tells them to be. doezens of them. Well, four or five really committed ones…
Dey gotta crush on Rush…
Something for people to think about: why the rush to enact Obamacare? Why the rush to grab control of as much of the rest of the economy as possible?
Because in a few months it will be…Tax Season. And the first bill for this nonsense will come due.
The objective is to lock in as much as possible before the populace realizes just how big the government hand in its wallet actually is, yelps accordingly—and possibly starts thinking about getting rid of Obama’s Congressional majorities.
Stall the current crap until April 15, and there may be some big changes next November.
re: #27 by Nevergiveup
“Everyone go to some party I don’t know about?”
We’re at the Angels’ wake and YOU weren’t invited.
We have an open bar and a deluxe buffet. Little bitty hotdogs, Swedish meatballs, big ol’ shrimp. The works.
re: #33 by buzzsawmonkey
Gotta do it NOW!!! They are hoping the ADD media will help us forget about it before 2010 elections.
re: #34 by wolfie
WINGS? Do we have any wings?
re: #33 by buzzsawmonkey
I’ve always thought we should have to pay our taxes every month like a mortgage. There could even be in over-pay to steal a little interest. What is important is that the taxpayers should first have the money in hand, and then they should have to write the check to Uncle Sugar.
I don’t think it would last six months. They’d be hanging congressmen. Effigy? Why use an effigy when a real congressman will hang so well? People woul d go apeshit, but they’ll let the government take it out of their paycheck before it gets in their hot little hands and not say a peep.
It’s that frog boiling thing, again. Charles will no doubt shit bricks. Poor, poor little French. Nobody cares about them…
re: #37 by Iron Fist
The “tax refund” scam—not unlike the “rebate” scam on purchases—is the way the government gets away with it.
If a company can sell—is selling—an item for $X less than the list price of $Y, it should sell it for $Y-X. Instead, it sells the item as costing “only $Y-X with rebate.” What that means is that it actually sells the item for $Y, and if you want to get the $X reduction in price you have to take an action, which the company gambles you won’t take, and even if you do take it, the company still has the use of your money for the period between the purchase and the actual return of the rebate.
The government does the same thing. If a percentage of your money is due the government, it should be a simple matter to calculate that percentage on an ongoing basis—and it would be, if there were not an ever-changing Byzantine thicket of deductions and regulations to hack through. If you do not have expert and up to date assistance, or if you forget to mention/claim something, the government gets to keep money it is not entitled to under its own regulations—and even if it does have to disgorge money that it recognizes as yours, it still has the use of it for a period of time.
In the meantime, people are grateful for their refunds.
re: #37 by Iron Fist
What we need to do is repeal the 16th and 17th amendments, and assess the State Legislatures for federal taxes. Then we only have to fight with our state overlords.
re: #26 by Nevergiveup
“The u-turning left wing long haired thin skinned hippie is on another Rush rant again. And Rush was elected to what again?”
Yeah I go to bed every night fearful of a Rush Limbaugh suicide bombing on my bus every day. Assholes!!!
re: #23 by Nevergiveup
“Mark McGwire, the former Cardinals slugger, will replace Hal McRae, who was fired as hitting coach, La Russa said Monday.”
That is an effing joke right?
re: #38 by buzzsawmonkey
Exactly. It makes me mad enough to spit. Yet I still feel the swellings of gratituted when my pittance is returned to me in the spring. Kinda like getting paid bar tab for your daughter’s droit de seigneur, really, and it should piss me off. I am a creature of my culture…
re: #39 by snork
Works for me. Make the States pay, maybe according to GDP, maybe something else (Isn’t doing it on GDP Progressive. Sometimes I hate myself). Leave it up to them how to get the money. Senator’s wives as prostitutes would never work, though. Can you think of a single Democrat Senator who’s wife you would want to fuck? Even if they were paying you? Damn, man, it makes me ill. There are a couple of Republicans who might could put their wife up on the block, but even there, I’ve seen better cheaper and legal in Nevada.
Finally, a little playtime:
OMG!!!11TY!!
PONIES!!11TY!!
A little of the Old LGF with the New…
re: #40 by Speranza
Damn it!!! Shit!!!
Dingos ate my post, and it was a fucking good one. All the fucking bullshit foul-mouthed shit is because the fucking dingos ate my post. Fuck ‘em!
Anyway, I ain’t going to touch the baseball shit. I had something amusing I said about it, but that’s gone (have I been drinking? Wicked me, if I have!)…Anyway, so I ain’t going to touch the baseball.
Did you see the ponies? There’s something of interest, or did I already mention senator’s wives as whores?
Yes, in truth Rush Limbaugh hasn’t blown up any busses, or even fucked little girls (how old was Aisha, again?). Yeah, Limbaugh is the big bad fucking wolf. Better watch out, Little Red Riding Hood…
(Damn, but will this get through, or will the dingos get it again? How many times have they gotten it before now? Only the shadow knows (though the spelling corrections seem to take each time through…)
Dammm someone turned the lights out in here.
Anyhow I’m in as soon as I get Paypal straightened out. (marines of course)
“Thump thump thump”…… Is this thing on? Hello? Great cause for some great people IMHO. Does anyone know how Oblahblah was received down in Jacksonville?
re: #23 by Nevergiveup
Mark McGwire, the former Cardinals slugger, will replace Hal McRae, who was fired as hitting coach, La Russa said Monday.
“See son, the key to being an effective hitter is being able to hide the needle marks….”
Replacing Hal McRae? Tactically, a stupid idea, but as a Royals fan, I can’t understand why McRae was prostituting himself out to the Cards anywise.
Looks like King Chuckles is continuing to defend the attack on an autistic blogger! Featuring your favorite LGFer, Ray in TX
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/10/charles-johnson-continues-to-defend.html
this was posted earlier but fits so well on this
thread, fist, this should be your theme sond even though you are not a soldier
THE WARRIOR SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTs6a0ORdQU
crank it up!!!!!!!!!!!1
I’ve just made a modest donation although I’m Canadian. I live in Quebec City, where the army unit taking most of the Canadian casualties in Afghanistan is based, and I’ve talked to guys who were preparing to leave for that terrible conflict—so I have some appreciation of what soldiers and their families across the border are going through. Bless ‘em all, as the song goes.
re: #49 by Moe Katz
Hey, Moe!
I was in Tadoussac this summer. Les Baleines!
I was in Quebec City overnight and in Vieux Quebec for a few hours early on a Sunday morning.
It was all so much fun!
re: #50 by Josephine
Did you do a whale cruise at Tadoussac?
Yup, a bunch of us went out on the whale watching boat. The cruise was my least favourite. Run to one o’clock! Oh, now at three o’clock!
We also saw whales while sitting on the rocks on the beach in Tadoussac and while at various interpretation centres. We saw minkes, belugas (including a baby), dolphins or porpoises and seals.
A minke gave us a spectacular send-off while we were on the ferry leaving Tadoussac on our last day: he must have been hunting.
We did a lot of hiking on trails known by the locals and saw lots of sights in nearby towns. We climbed up and down the sand cliffs: that was brutal!
Well, I’m signing off for the night. I hope all is well with the admins. It seems awfully quiet in here.
See ya later, Moe.
re: #53 by Josephine
I’m back and I see you’re gone. Goodnight, Josephine!
Where the heck IS everyone? *looking around*
I’m here
Wow!
The comments are rolling in tonight!
From Jihad Watch,
Europe set to outlaw objections to Islamic Practices:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/10/european-union-set-to-outlaw-objections-to-islamic-practices.html
I suppose that this means that female “circumcision” will become de facto law over there and if a person objects then it is jail time for you.
This also means an erosion of freedom of speech. They also forget the dictum of Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, “If you are not allowed to offend anybody then there is no freedom of speech”.
re: #58 by African Moondog
That is horrifying.
re: #59 by Moe Katz
It is horrifying, especially as it would appear that criticisms of Christianity and Judaism, (especially when linked to Israel) can continue apace. The dhimmification of Europe continues apace. The trouble is, the powers that be over there do not see it or for whatever purpose they do not care.
There is a backlash – this can be seen in an analysis of BNP election results. Where there is a large Hindu population in England the BNP tally is neglible and declines. Where there is a large Muslim population the BNP vote sky-rockets. The message from ordinary Britons is clear, they are not racists, but they don’t like being taken over by an intolerant philosophy.
If anybody is out there, (pauses to listen to the echo), could some one please give me a concise definition of “environmentally friendly”, especially in the context of power generation.
re: #61 by African Moondog
Impractical, inefficient and expensive.
re: #62 by BatGuano
Thank You, I love it.
re: #63 by African Moondog
Glad too oblige, Moondog.
re: #38 by buzzsawmonkey
And when the government does give you your pittance in return, they do so reluctantly and they take their time about about it.
The British astronomer, Patrick Moore, having undergone the frustrations of government services wrote a book entitled, “Bureaucrats – How to annoy them” somewhat outdated now, but still relaxing.
Good morning, Blogmocracy!
Good morning compatriots;
It seems the left is now recognizing some cognitive dissonance, but can assume only the best, must be that Obama is “too nice” to deal with serious issues facing our nation?
Rose: I don’t know what Barack Obama’s worldview is.
Brokaw: No, I don’t either.
Rose: And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?
Brokaw: You know that’s an interesting question. . . . I don’t know what books he’s read.
Rose: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
Brokaw: There’s a lot about him we don’t know.
is Barack too nice?
Journalists of the MSM say they don’t know a thing about Obama’s worldview, 11 months after the election. I wonder how much they get paid. Oh, to have a job such as theirs, with so little accountability?
re: #67 by daughter of patriots
Now, they get interested in what books he as read? Who his heroes are? Now?!
These people were interviewing Sarah Palin’s OB/GYN three days after McCain selected her.
This is the weirdest ON thread I have seen. Just when I thought that it was terminally dead I realized that the real one was the previous post where folks are still thanking but not praising CFnJ.
re: #69 by African Moondog
I just made the same discovery. Bleh.
“We have at least one Muslim family living here with children and it — it would be just awful to have them see something like that,” Epstein told Fox News.
But for Gadiel, it’s an important message that he insists be present on any tribute to his son.
“Muslims have to acknowledge that it was their co-religionists who committed this act in their name,” he said. “I am offended that unlike so many others, they refuse to acknowledge that it was their people who did this.”
Me talking;
If it’s a white mother fucker call it.
If it’s a black mother fucker call it.
If it’s a yellow mother fucker call it.
If it’s a red mother fucker call it.
IF IT’S A MUSLIM MOTHER FUCKER CALL IT.
Stop being afraid to call what it is.
Congressman Cao, a Moderate Republican…Conservatives love.
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/10/congressman-cao-conservatives-favorite.html
Air Force is falling behind! Come on AF people!
Uhm… it says in the post – “we’re going to leave this one up top for the duration of the fundraiser”…
I didn’t mean to confuse anyone!
Ok, undoing the sticky – shoot.
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