Sep. 3, 2010 at 7:41am with 1 note
Reblogged from absurdlakefront
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At many stages in the advance of humanity, this conflict between the men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess is the central condition of progress. In our day it appears as the struggle of freemen to gain and hold the right of self-government as against the special interests, who twist the methods of free government into machinery for defeating the popular will. At every stage, and under all circumstances, the essence of the struggle is to equalize opportunity, destroy privilege, and give to the life and citizenship of every individual the highest possible value both to himself and to the commonwealth. That is nothing new.
7:21am with 5 notes
Reblogged from section9
They’ve got the right stuff, baby…
Training at lejeune. Obviously before Earl.
Marines rush a casualty to a Huss in January, 1968. 1/9 Marines. Heroes. Mine has a proud heritage to live up to. (he can do it.)
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Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the blast was reported by a commercial helicopter company about 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats are en route to the site, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast.
cheers to the Marine, who’ll be doing this all day (and all day for a lot of days). i was given an exceptionally detailed explanation of how this works last night, which ended with a “did you really want to know?” and an explanation that, like he’s not exactly fascinated by my dance routines, he’s interested in me - and so them by association. although, i must admit: mortar is pretty freaking cool.
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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) — Hurricane Earl strengthened today, bearing down on North Carolina with winds of 145 miles (230 kilometers) per hour, prompting school closures, coastal evacuations and emergency declarations. Dare and Hyde Counties in North Carolina said their schools will close today and tomorrow. Evacuations were ordered for Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands in the Outer Banks yesterday. North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell have both declared a state of emergency. Earl was 410 miles south of Cape Hatteras moving north- northwest at 18 mph, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 5 a.m. Miami time. The storm’s winds, already the strongest of the Atlantic season, accelerated from 140 mph three hours earlier. Hurricane-force winds are forecast to hit North Carolina tonight as Earl passes near the Outer Banks before scraping Cape Cod and hitting Nova Scotia at the weekend. “On the track that we’re forecasting, there will be a significant impact to the Outer Banks,” Todd Kimberlain, a hurricane specialist at the center, said today in a telephone interview. “They have less than 24 hours before the arrival of hurricane conditions. There isn’t a whole lot more time, and conditions are going to deteriorate throughout the day.
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Witnesses from a building across the street told Fox News that authorities rushed four stretchers into the building. Children at a day care center located inside the Discovery Building were reportedly safely evacuated to a nearby McDonald’s restaurant. Some babies were wheeled out of the building while still in their cribs.
“If I Die Before You Wake” sung by Dustin Evans (via dgbrainard)
Half a world away, you’ll still be the only thing to me.
IAVA / Ad Council - Alone (via IAVAVids) and i crrrrryyy like a baby.
1:36pm with 7 notes
Reblogged from mybiggestregretever
Not Using My G.I. Bill College Fund
My biggest regret ever is not using my G.I. bill college fund that I served 3 combat tours for. The 10 year limit was not enough time to get over being comfortable in public again.
[Male, 38]
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving the first tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic seaboard over Labor Day weekend.
Visitors were taking ferries off Ocracoke Island and told to leave neighboring Cape Hatteras in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, and federal authorities have warned people all along the Eastern seaboard to be prepared to evacuate. Emergency officials as far north as Maine were checking their equipment and urging people to have disaster plans and supplies ready.
Earl was still more than 700 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, with top sustained winds of 125 mph. It was on track to near the North Carolina shore late Thursday or early Friday and then blow north off the coast, with forecasters cautioning that it was still too early to tell how close the storm may come to land.
Hurricane watches were out from Surf City, N.C., to Virginia’s Parramore Island. Not since Hurricane Bob in 1991 has such a powerful storm had such a large swath of the East Coast in its sights, said Dennis Feltgen, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center.
“A slight shift of that track to the west is going to impact a great deal of real estate with potential hurricane-force winds,” Feltgen said.
Visitors were taking ferries off Ocracoke Island and told to leave neighboring Cape Hatteras in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, and federal authorities have warned people all along the Eastern seaboard to be prepared to evacuate. Emergency officials as far north as Maine were checking their equipment and urging people to have disaster plans and supplies ready.
Earl was still more than 700 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, with top sustained winds of 125 mph. It was on track to near the North Carolina shore late Thursday or early Friday and then blow north off the coast, with forecasters cautioning that it was still too early to tell how close the storm may come to land.
Hurricane watches were out from Surf City, N.C., to Virginia’s Parramore Island. Not since Hurricane Bob in 1991 has such a powerful storm had such a large swath of the East Coast in its sights, said Dennis Feltgen, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center.
“A slight shift of that track to the west is going to impact a great deal of real estate with potential hurricane-force winds,” Feltgen said.
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Three aid workers with British humanitarian group Oxfam have been killed by a roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan, the charity said on Tuesday. It said in a statement two Afghan staff members and a community volunteer were killed in the remote mountainous region of Badakhshan. “They died in a roadside bomb attack,” an Oxfam spokeswoman said. Violence in Afghanistan is at its worst since Afghan armed groups helped by US-led forces overthrew the Taliban in 2001. Earlier in August, gunmen killed 10 medical workers, including eight foreigners, in Afghanistan’s remote northeast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack. Afghan officials were not available for comment on the latest attack. Oxfam, which has been involved in direct humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan since 1991, said it was reviewing its operations in the country. “We have temporarily suspended operations in Badakhshan and are reviewing all security measures and protocols,” Oxfam said, adding that a staff member and a community volunteer had also been wounded in the attack. “At present, Oxfam has no plans to discontinue its work in Afghanistan.
