Name that Place

Go on vacation and time just gets completely away from you. I thought I had set this up to auto post last week and never checked on it…should have! Oops!

Well, mkfolks2 got that the last Name this Place was Horlick Field…Home of the Racine Raiders…and if you’d like a little more info on it go here.

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Name that Country

I thought that this one might be real easy since the country has had so many great gymnasts that most of you would have known that the county was Romania.

This week’s is still pretty easy 3 out of 10.

PLEASE DO NOT POST THE ANSWER...supply info or a hint that proves you know it...there are others playing!!!

THANK YOU – gopfolk

Name that Place

I knew that this one would take a little searching and when CU asked me to verify some information I decided that it was a great one!

In the end CU did come up with the right answer the place was the Burlington Conservation Club

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Happy Flag Day!

Flag Day commemorates the resolution during the Second Continental Congress adopting of the flag of the United States.

www.NationalFlagDay.com

www.usflag.org

Flag rules and Regulations

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

Allegedly naked...

This story caught me off guard because of the first sentence:

"A South Lake Tahoe man is being held in lieu of $5,000 cash bail for allegedly being naked near high school property."

Allegedly being naked? How can you be allegedly naked!! If you read further it explains that when the police arrived he was dressed.

"asked if Mark was naked at the school, Mark denied he was on school property."

LOL!!! :^D

Friday Funnies

Name that Country

I’m starting to wonder if I should try to make this harder.  J  trainhead and Anna830 both knew that last week’s country was Belize.

This week is 4 out of 10.

PLEASE DO NOT POST THE ANSWER...supply info or a hint that proves you know it...there are others playing!!!

 THANK YOU – gopfolk

Yesterday’s Headline

Feingold likely to back judge

 

You think?!?!

Lefties and guns

This is not the way I want to start a morning.  I open my Google Reader to see the following story: Conceal and Carry on Two Wheels 

Now you are all reading this and saying to your computer – “What did you expect? It is posted on folkbum’s blog!!”  And I really should know better but I usually can handle the lefty crap that is out there but every now and again there are things that just drive me nuts.

“Bet you that if we had conceal and carry in Wisconsin, the bicyclist would have gotten a permit, so what we had here was a case of C and C de facto.”

The worst part about it is this guy probably believes that!  

This is not a case for or against CC in Wisconsin.  This was obviously a disturbed individual that took out his aggression on two police officers.  Trying to tie this to CC just makes the writer look like a kook.  

CC is permitted in 48 states.  If there were cases, such as this, that involved a person with a CC permit I would guarantee these anti-personal protection people would be all over it and pounding the story until CC was removed from these states.

“But the cost benefit of having so many guns flooding our society has not worked out in terms of situations like this one, or kids finding guns, suicides, settling arguments, etc.”

Cost benefit?!?  What the hell is he talking about?  Again we are not talking about a law abiding citizen.  If you want to talk about guns in the hands of criminals like this guy then lets talk about that but when you lump people like that in with the rest of us you cross a line that is not realistic.  

If you really think that we should remove the right of all citizens to have guns because criminals use guns then you must believe that we need to ban computers because pedophiles use computers.

Name that Place

I see that no one was brave enough to post on this one last week…it was the “new” Racine Metro Transit Center.

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Environmentalists are seething!

Did you happen to catch these headlines?

AFP: Think twice about 'green' transport, say scientists

Motoring.co.za: ALL NOT AS IT SEEMS FROM TAIL PIPES OF THE WORLD

And here is the paper that started all the fuss: Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains

They are already trying to say that the study is flawed…claiming that roads are not taken into consideration for cars (which they are) and that airports have issues with the number of lights used.

Can you say “sour grapes”?!?!

Happy Anniversary!

Do you remember this?

How could you forget!!??!!  There have been many knock-offs over the years but there is only on Tetris and today we celebrate 25 years of play!

 Tetris marks 25 years of haunting gamers' dreams

 

 

 

Normandy Invasion

Today is the 65^th anniversary of the D-Day operations.

“June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.”  www.army.mil/d-day

General Eisenhower’s Message

“Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory!

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!

Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”

-- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Friday Funnies

Name that Country

Okay I everyone that reads this blog has said the same thing to me “I didn’t see a hint…you said there was a hint!”  The hint was in the outline of the country itself.  I included the southern boarder of Malaysia with the outline of Singapore.

Both trainhead and Anna830 knew it but would they have gotten it if I only had the island itself?  (I’m quite sure they would have!!)

This week is 4 out of 10.

PLEASE DO NOT POST THE ANSWER...supply info or a hint that proves you know it...there are others playing!!!

 THANK YOU – gopfolk

National Running Day

Yep today is National Running Day.

Purpose is to promote a healthy and easy form of exercise!

Non-runners take heart…it is as simple as walking…try to run at a pace that allows you to have a conversation at the same time…Just be sure that there is someone there to talk too!

Now get out there and RUN!!!

Name that Place

I know that last week’s place seemed hard with all of those trees but Caledonia Unplugged and my wife both got it!  The place was Sanders Park.

This one is just too easy…

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