Stormy

No Idea, I got that on there by mistake, I got this in an email

Exactly, there is, I believe, more to that story than we'll ever know.

On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was struck by a Japanese torpedo. She sank in less than 15 minutes. Of the 1146 sailors on board, an estimated 800 made it off the ship. She sank so quickly that her distress call never made it out. It was four days before the US Navy even realized she was missing. Almost 500 of those who made it off the ship died of dehydration, drowning, or shark attack. Ever since I first learned of the USS Indianapolis several years ago, I've been fascinated by the story. So many things went wrong. The torpedo hitting exactly where it did. The speed of the sinking The days lost at sea, without the Navy even looking. Capt. Charles McVay was the only Navy Captain to be court-martialed for losing a ship in WWII, despite the testimony of the survivors that he did everything he was supposed to do. (He was officially exonerated in 2001 -- 35 years after he committed suicide.) The wreckage of the USS Indianapolis was lost... until this week Why did it take 72 years to find the wreckage? The Navy had no record of receiving a distress call, so they had no final coordinates to start from. The ship's logs went down with the ship. The radio operators who survived couldn't recall the coordinates they sent. It wasn't until a historian found a record of another ship who recorded the position of the USS Indianapolis hours before she was sunk. This position was west of where searchers had been looking. The search shifted (though it still covered 600 square miles.) She was finally found in 18,000 feet of water. I bring this up because it gives me hope for finding things we think are lost. Search teams need a starting point. Since they didn't have the distress call, the ship's logs, or the memory of the radio operators, they did the best they could, but as it turns out they were looking in the wrong place. It wasn't until someone found a reference that gave another starting point that they started looking in the right place. The search still wasn't easy -- hundreds of square miles and thousands of feet below the surface of the Philippine Sea is a lot to cover. But how many of our research problems are there because we simply aren't looking in the right place? How many times have we given up when we don't have the equivalent of the distress call, the ship's logs, or the radio operator? Keep looking for any clue you can and be willing to follow up on the faintest of them. It may not always be easy, but it is worth it. Until next time, Amy

That's the best way to go as far as I'm concerned, especially if you're suffering as Don was. And he will be missed here as well.

From me too

All the Attorneys are blonde.

ROFL

I thought so.

And he only listed 'some' of our deterrence forces.

Affordable Plumber Act Too bad this wasn't explained this way to Congress when they voted on it! Weeks after leaving office on January 20, 2017, former President Barack Obama discovered a leak under his sink, so he called Joe the Plumber to come out and fix it.. Joe drove to President Obama's new house, which is located in a very exclusive, gated community near Washington DC, where all the residents have a net income of way more than $250,000 per year. Joe arrived and took his tools into the house. He was led to the guest bathroom that contained the leaky pipe under the sink. Joe assessed the problem and told Obama that it was an easy repair & that will take less than10 minutes. Obama asked Joe how much it will cost. Joe checked his rate chart and said, "$9,500." "What?! $9,500?!" Obama asked, stunned, "But you said it's an easy repair." Joe said, "Yes, but what I do is charge those who make more than $250,000 per year a much higher amount so I can fix the plumbing of poorer people for free. This has always been my philosophy. As a matter of fact, I lobbied the Democrat Congress, who passed this philosophy into law. Now all plumbers must do business this way. It's known as the 'Affordable Plumbing Act of 2014'. I'm surprised you haven't heard of it." In spite of that, Obama told Joe there's no way he's paying that much for a small plumbing repair, so Joe left. Obama spent the next hour flipping through the phone book calling for another plumber, but he found that all other plumbing businesses in the area have gone out of business. Not wanting to pay Joe's price, Obama does nothing and the leak goes un-repaired for several more days. A week later the leak is so bad President Obama has had to put a bucket under the sink. Michelle is not happy as she had Oprah and guests arriving the next morning. The bucket filled up quickly and had to be emptied every hour, and there was a risk the room will flood, so Obama called Joe and pleaded with him to return. Joe went back to Obama's house, looked at the leaky pipe, checked his new rate chart and said, "Let's see, this will now cost you $21,000." Obama quickly fired back, "What? A few days ago you told me it would cost $9,500!" Joe explained, "Well, because of the 'Affordable Plumbing Act,' a lot of wealthier people are learning how to maintain and take care of their own plumbing, so there are fewer payers in the plumbing exchanges. As a result, the price I have to charge wealthy people like you keeps rising. Not only that, but for some reason the demand for plumbing work by those who get it for free has skyrocketed! There's a long waiting list of those who need repairs, but the amount we get doesn't cover our costs, especially paperwork and record-keeping. This unfortunately has put a lot of my fellow plumbers out of business, they're not being replaced, and nobody is going into the plumbing business because they know they can't make any money at it. I'm hurting too, all thanks to greedy rich people like you who won't pay their 'fair share,' On the other hand, why didn't you buy plumbing insurance last December? If you had bought plumbing insurance available under the 'Affordable Plumbing Act,' all this would have been covered by your policy." "You mean I wouldn't have to pay anything to have you fix my plumbing problem?" asks Obama. "Well, not exactly," replied Joe. "You would have had to buy the insurance before the deadline, which has passed now. And, because you're rich, you would have had to pay $34,000 in premiums, which would have given you a 'silver' plan, and then, since this would have been your first repair, you would have to pay up to the $21,000 deductible, and anything over that would have a $7,500 co-pay, and then there's the mandatory maintenance program, which is covered up to 17.5%, so there are some costs involved. Nothing is for free." "WHAT?!" exclaimed Obama. "Why so much for a puny sink leak?!" With a bland look, Joe replied, "Well, paperwork, mostly, like I said. And the internal cost of the program itself. You don't think a program of this complexity and scope can run itself, do you? Besides, there are millions of folks with lower incomes than you, even many in the 'middle class', who qualify for subsidies that people like you must support. That's why they call it the 'Affordable Plumbing Act'! Only people who don't make much money can afford it. If you want affordable plumbing, you'll have to give away most of what you have accumulated and cut your and Michelle's income by about 90%. Then you can qualify to GET your 'Fair Share' instead of GIVING it." "But who would pass a crazy act like the 'Affordable Plumbing Act'?!" exclaimed the exasperated Obama. After a sigh, Joe replied, "Congress ... because they didn't read it." This will help you understand ObamaCare. And here you have it, the 'Affordable Plumbing Act of 2014'.

Well, I guess as long as she doesn't leave hashmarks, it's all good.

sniff sniff

LOL, "You touch me, I rip your face off, human"

All politicians are crooks, I fail to understand why anyone would expect them to be anything else.

All three of them

One day a traveling salesman was driving down a back country road at about 30 mph when he noticed that there was a three-legged chicken running alongside his car. He stepped on the gas but at 50 miles per hour the chicken was still keeping up. After about a mile of running the chicken ran up a farm lane and into a barn behind an old farm house. The salesman had some time to kill so he turned around and drove up the farm lane. He knocked at the door and when the farmer answered he told him what he had just seen. The farmer said that he was a geneticist and had developed this breed of chicken because he, his wife and his son each like a drumstick when they have chicken and this way they only have to kill one chicken. "That"s the most fantastic thing I've ever heard, How do they taste?" remarked the salesman. "Don't know, We've never caught one." said the farmer.

LOL

It's a bit late to wish a happy fourth, so I'll just say I hope you all had one. And Thanks Dawn.

“What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure,” Jefferson wrote this in a letter to William S. Smith, a diplomatic official in London, on November 13, 1787. Jefferson was commenting on Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising in Massachusetts that had been put down earlier that year by organized state militia forces. “God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion,” Jefferson remarked. “Let them take arms.” Reference page is below. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/thomas-jefferson-and-the_b_273800.html

LOL "Okay John, there's what I want you to do"

Even the trivia bots do not play well with bold and color text.

Well done, LOL

That plate looks good Dawn

You gotta count the one that started all the evil blondeness.