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Old Ironsides
The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) as a combat vessel carried 48,600 gallons of fresh (remember that figure) water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators (fresh water distillers). However, let it be noted that according to her log, "On July 27, 1798, the U.S.S. Constitution sailed from Boston with a full complement of 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7,400 cannon shot, 11,600 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum." Her mission: "To destroy and harass English shipping." var AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=1696154&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on, … Read entire article »
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Free Cell Phone & Calling Plan
I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number. I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number and he told me yes this was his “Obama phone.” I asked him what an “Obama phone” was and he went on to say that welfare recipients are now eligible to receive (1) a FREE new … Read entire article »
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Subject: The daughter of the new CIA director
CIA Director’s Daughter I wonder if any of this will come up during her father’s confirmation hearings. Linda Panetta the daughter of Leon Panetta, who was recently named to be the new CIA director. Linda is a supporter of all the anti-American regimes in this Hemisphere. Here she is with Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega, two sworn enemies of the United States. She is a radical anti-American activist who wants to close the School of the Americas, considers that American soldiers are criminals and is against any aid to the government of Colombia, our main ally in the region. See some of her websites: http://www.soawne.org/ http://www.soaw.org/presente/index.php Brandy Pappas Posted via email from Urban Legends Online … Read entire article »
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‘Chicken Gun’ Proves Essential to Revival of Space Shuttle Program
NASA scientists have commandeered a chicken gun – a device normally used in aircraft safety testing to fire chicken carcasses into airplane windshields at flight speed, approximating the damage caused by bird strikes – to simulate the impact of loose tank foam hitting vulnerable parts of the space shuttle. Urban legend has it that a group of foreign aerospace engineers once tried to use the American-made chicken gun in their own safety tests, with disastrous results — unaccountably, the poultrified projectile shattered every windshield sample it was fired at, no matter how thick. U.S. experts brought in to solve the problem did so by passing along four simple words of advice: "Thaw the chicken first." Will from Worcester, MA Posted via email from … Read entire article »
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Starbucks Denies Coffee to Marines!
Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffee and to request that they send some of it to the troops there. Starbucks replied, telling the Marines thank you for their support of their business, but that Starbucks does not support the war, nor anyone in it, and that they would not send the troops their brand of coffee. So as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not support them by buying any of their products! As a war vet writing to fellow patriots, I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this war might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn’t mean we don’t support the boys on the … Read entire article »
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