Americans being evacuated from Iraqi air base as militants advance

Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 10 months ago to News
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The development signals the worsening security environment in the northern part of the country. One senior official told Fox News that the focus for evacuation at this point is on people outside of Baghdad.


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  • Posted by katrinam41 11 years, 10 months ago
    Please accept my sincerest apologies. I normally check things like these quotes out thoroughly, but this time I really flubbed it. Here is the correction:
    Did Obama Really Say This on "Meet the Press"?
    NO, ACCORDING TO SNOPES http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/sta...

    he did not say the following--and he did not appear on Meet the Press on this particular day as described below. Political columnist John Semmens of The Arizona Conservative supposedly wrote Obama's quotation as satire.

    Again, I apologize and will thoroughly vet any further posts before I send them to the Gulch or to anyone else!
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am just guessing that you don't realize the actual shipping weight of a cast iron pan...however treasured.

    It would actually be cheaper to find a discount plane ticket to bid on my collection, and rent a van to get back home!

    Shrug has no problems, since my estate will pay for the delivery.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Both Shrug, and I, LOVE to cook on the real deal...cast iron.

    I have a decent collection, that LS has rightly claimed upon my final disposition...and that I have added to my handwritten will.

    My biggest issue is that my bride has never understood that you don't 'clean' a cast iron pan as you do Paula Deen's !

    LS gets it...and my pans!
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He's leaving me his cast iron set....some day. cuz I'll appreciate it. :) Plus, they double as weapons. Night night Gramps.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I found a weird way to 'fix' the last one that Laura deep sixed:

    You use the 'oven cleaning' feature of your post Jimmy Carter stove, and it comes out conditioned.

    The downside is that your electric bill is twice the cost of a new skillet....
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  • Posted by scojohnson 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not really, it hurts our economy tremendously, but virtually all of our military forces are shielded from it. Even back in the 80's & 90's, all military CC&C equipment was heavily shielded against multi-megaton EMP blasts. The Russians dreamed that up decades ago as well.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And Ricky here is older than I am and he's top commenter today. Rocky you got some catching up to do.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    She has an agenda as to me....

    Something to do with 'cast' in 'iron'?

    She will know what that means...!
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wow!

    I had typed out a great (in my opinion) reply...but lost it while looking up a word!

    Summery: Numbers count (like size), and just a few well planned pre-emptive strikes will put us back into December 6th, 1941.

    The EMP reality is the game changer...and I suspect that China is on top of this.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was a 'ghost'.

    The main subject 'line' got too 'creepy' for an old-timer like myself...I am fixed in my impressions as to what makes us what we ultimately are.

    My deficiencies probably...but too entrenched to try to overcome.

    'Thanks' for realizing that I am here!
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  • Posted by scojohnson 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Its equally ridiculous how you can't even watch a normal prime-time show on pretty much any channel these days without an LBGT scene of some kind, like its normal in everyone's daily life.
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