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Monday, April 02, 2007

Ruthabell's Store In Munson Florida

The family store is still thriving in the back-country. Here at Ruthabells, you'll find people who enjoy their work and their lives. Go ahead - pass right by that little country store. You might just miss the highlight of your day. Bobby McCranie runs the store with his wife, Dianne, from Virginia, whom he found on the internet. Mike, the chef for the deli came from the internet too (Colorado). Delphine, the older sister helps out from her motorized wheel chair and adds a new level to the art of conversation. Technology and 'down home' ... all in one place. Take THAT, Starbucks!! Stock suggestions from Uncle Vic - based on this episode: Pepsi (PBG) and MasterCard(MA). and Yahoo (YHOO). More Pictures.
NOW - about a year later .. look at the investment chart. Top to bottom are MA, PBG, YHOO.
If you had invested in all 3 THEN - it woud have been a bumpy ride for all but MA but regardless the average gain by FEB 2008 holding the same amount of each - you woud be up about 45 percent!!

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Philosphy of The Homeless Genius

Don Albert is homeless by choice. It is his lifesyle. Last known location - Israel. Several of his observations are posted here and on You Tube and BLIP TV. Don's opinions and beliefs are his own and not necessarily those of Me3TV. He is is featured in a blog - www.homelessgenius.blogspot.com. Based on this episode and at this point in time, my stock suggestion is: Diageo - DEO.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Funny With Steve Irwin RIP Steve

Alas, we have lost Steve Irwin. But this video will remain to give a lot laughs for all time.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Matt Reports from Middle East

Hello again from the wonderful (cough, cough, sorry another sand storm) State of Kuwait. I am a little late getting this update out to you all. It has been a busy week and looking back I can not think of anything special that happed. We are all just trudging forward toward the date we all come home. At times it seems so far away and then as the days tick by, the time only gets nearer. Everyday we put in the history books is one day closer to our goal.

CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS LINK JUST UNDER THIS POST. PHOTOS at FLICKR.com ...

Sunday, February 18, 2007

The Times They are a Changing

You will be glad you clicked on this to get a feel for the changing world. It's a shocker! You will have some things to think about after you view this.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Iraq - body armor - newton, nj marine

Dragon Skin and SoldierTech

These links found on the web - seems to confirm the belief of many that the dragon skin armor makes a difference. The note below recieved in local email listserv ... vic www.me3tv.org postin
to blog my www.emailstuff.blogspot.com
.............note.......
I have a son going to Iraq this summer. I was able to afford to buy State of the Art Body Armor for his protection. Unfortunately there are many parents that are not able to afford this Body Armor.

My son's outfit has 24 Marines. Two parents, including myself, have purchased this Armor. Five others have been sponsored. The families of all the Marines in the unit have banded together to raise the additional money for the other 17 Marines.

The military has body armor available, but it's heavy and not state of the art. There is a company Pinnacle Armor out of California that sells State of The Art Body Armor called Dragon Skin. This is what we have chosen for our sons. We need to raise $102,000 to outfit these 17 Marines. It's approximately $6000 per Marine.

Any and all donations are welcome.
For more information please call: Jesse Roe 973-579-1982 PO Box 84 Newton, NJ 07860
ALSO THIS LOCAL NOTE: SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

Settle's Mid East Report

MORE PICS HERE: Hello again from another weekly Kuwait update. Another week has been placed in the history book for this adventure and it HAS been an adventure. This week has been almost a carbon copy of last week. Most weeks are unless a persons looks for the unique everyday. I for one, try to keep my humorous side churning with new ideas. Out at the port, I have been waving hello to all the workers as the watch section drives by on the way to watch. I have actually gotten them to start waving at me first. I actually stopped the other day and played some cricket with a bunch of the TCNs on the pier. OK, so now I have to explain TCNs to a few of you. J TCNs or third country nationals are the workers in Kuwait. You see the Kuwaitis do not do much if any of the hard labor. They bring in TCNs for the surrounding countries to do the labor and the Kuwaitis manage and/or supervise them. Anyway, I had fun playing cricket and I think they enjoyed the other TCNs (US Military) playing along. CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS SECTION JUST UNDER THIS POST .<<...>> <<...>> <<...>>

Thursday, January 25, 2007

MODERNIZATION OF THE CHINESE NAVY

http://www.jeffhead.com/redseadragon/planbuildup.htm

Looks like China is well on its way to super-power status. I should think they are well positioned against Russia (Siberia) and any other Pacific competitor except for now the US. I think, however that Wal-Mart might save us. After all ... why would they pick a fight with their biggest customer? Well, supposing we remain each other's customers and everybody prospers - the stock suggestion from this news posting is CHINA LIFE - LFC. (look at that 5 year return!)

Friday, January 19, 2007

New Rules For 2007

George Carlin's New Rules For 2007

New Rule: Stop giving me that pop-up ad for classmates.com <http://classmates.com/> ! There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days: mowing my lawn.

New Rule: Don't eat anything that's served to you out a window unless you're a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Hey, it cost less than a dollar. What did you expect it to contain? Trout?

New Rule: Stop saying that teenage boys who have sex with their hot, blonde teachers are permanently damaged. I have a better description for these kids: lucky bastards.

New Rule: If you need to shave and you still collect baseball cards, you're a retard. When you're a kid, the cards are keepsakes of your idols. When you're a grown man, they're pictures of men.

New Rule: Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men care about your eyebrows: do you have two of them? Okay, we're done.

New Rule: There's no such thing as flavored water. There's a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket, water, but without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some scotch over ice and let it melt. That's your flavored water.

New Rule: Stop f***ing with old people. Target is introducing a redesigned pill bottle that's square, with a bigger label. And the top is now the bottom. And by the time grandpa figures out how to open it, his ass will be in the morgue. Congratulations, Target, you just solved the Social Security crisis.

New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet," Oooh, you're a huge asshole.


New Rule: I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, selecting 'Debit,' entering my PIN, pressing 'Enter,' verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don't want cash back, and pressing 'Enter' again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Almond Joy.

New Rule: Girls, just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass. And it translates to "beef with broccoli." The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

New Rule: Competitive eating isn't a sport. It's one of the seven deadly sins. ESPN recently televised the US Open of Competitive Eating, because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too damned exciting. What's next, competitive farting? Oh wait. They're already doing that. It's called "The Howard Stern Show."

New Rule: I don't need a bigger mega M&M. If I'm extra hungry for M&Ms, I'll go nuts and eat two.

New Rule: If you're going to insist on making movies based on crappy, old television shows, then you have to give everyone in the Cineplex a remote so we can see what's playing on the other screens. Let's remember the reason something was a television show in the first place is that the idea wasn't good enough to be a movie.

New Rule: No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people version of looting.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Peace in our time.....

Hitler, Chamberlin, Baker and Ahmadinejad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w77sLtz754

Weekly Kuwait Update 1-08-07

FROM MATT SETTLE - USN - IN KUWAIT
Well, another week in the books. This week has been about the same as the others. I did have a chance to go out for another Angel Flight. Guess what? It was cancelled just like the last one I tried to be a part of. To refresh your memory, thee flights are where the fallen service members get transferred from a flight from Iraq to a flight back home to their loved ones. I actually made two trips to the airport to pay my respects and to conduct the honors. The first time the group got the times wrong. One would think that with the military time working in our favor, that sort of thing would not happen. But we still have to battle the local time with that of the so called "ZULU" time. The second time I went to the airport, the flight was early and we missed it by twenty minutes. Unfortunately, there will come another day that I will be able to go up and pay my respects.

Well, I am finishing this story up late on Monday afternoon. It seems that doing all the mid-watches (mid-night to 08:00) has messed with my sleep schedule. I tried to go to sleep late night and couldn't. So I stayed awake all night long reading and then trying to go to sleep. I gave up around 05:00 at which point I took a shower and got ready for the day. Two nights ago I came off a mid-watch and stayed awake to go do the angel flight. I stayed up for 13 hours. With no sleep since 14:00 yesterday and it is now 17:00, I have been up for 17 hours. For some reason my body does not want to go to sleep when it is dark. It is one of the weird things that we all have to deal with when the watch schedule changes around the clock. Don't worry; I will make up for it. The last time this happened, I slept for 18 hours. Yes, it can be done if a person is tired enough.

OK, I have an update on the wreck that I sent a picture of last week. I was finally able to take a picture of the automobile from the other side of the road. Now, there has been some discussion on the actual point value so I am submitting the two photos for a final review.

If you notice the other vehicle is on the other side of the road where the black vehicle hit is as it crossed in front of it. I can not imagine how fast the black SUV would have to be going to flip and skid down the highway. We constantly see vehicles pass us doing well over 100 MPH. One
night we were driving down the six lane highway doing 80 MPH and two people on a 4-wheeler passed us on the shoulder doing a wheelie. No helmet and no shoes. These people are unbelievable drivers. If there is one thing I fear over here, it is driving down these highways with the Kuwaiti people behind the wheels. They actually have children sitting up on the dash, in the back windows and never in a car seat. I wished I could say that the accidents like this one are rare but they aren't. We usually see one of these a week.

Well, it is now time for me to recharge the batteries. I NEED SLEEP. By the way, the countdown timer has 3 months, 29 days, 12 hours and 54 minutes. We are now under the 4 month left milestone. J Thanks to all for the thoughts and prayers. It really helps. Until next week, Go Gators, neat the Buckeyes and maybe the Chiefs will win it all next year when I can be in the stand yelling them on.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Immigration_by_the_Numbers.mov

Roy Beck's celebrated demonstration of the population consequences of current U.S. immigration policies has entertained and shocked audiences across the country. This video is packed with the facts and analysis that make moral and practical sense of a complex and highly contentious issue.

NJ Facts

New Jersey is a peninsula.
Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern
seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as
metropolitan areas.
New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
MORE IN COMMENTS LINK BELOW THIS POST

Saturday, January 13, 2007

USS Franklin - Bob Blanchard

Bob Blanchard unknowingly became part of an iconic photograph of the war in the Pacific. This video tells the story of Medal of Honor recipients, Fr. Joseph O'Callahan and Lt. Gary. These kinds of videos from Buzz Creek will soon be compiled in a "veterans channel" on me3tv.org. More References on this event: USS Franklin (see links at bottom of article) - USS Gary and USS O'Callahan. Of note- In one of the photos shown in this video - two carriers are shown on fire. The other is USS Beleau Wood but the photo is from the prior year in October 1944 when both Belleau Wood and Franklin were hit by kamikazis.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Tony vs. Paul - time lapse

A superb time lapse production that will leave you wondering HOW DID THEY DO THAT? Click the YOUTUBE logo to learn more about how they did it.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Saturday Night Live: Nancy Pelosi

America The Beautiful - What a funny parody!
Nancy Grace SNL - Duke Lacrosse

Nancy Grace Parody. Awesome.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Solid Potato Salad [1944]

Just think, these girls are now over 80 years old and have great grand-kids! It is quite a talent show!

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Middle East Correspondent

Matt Settle provides another report from the Middle east.

Well another week and one less week to go. As I was thinking about what to write this week, I first thought that not much really was going on. On second thought, I went to a concert, found another Christmas gift idea, and had my leg amputated and guts hang out from an explosion (it was a drill). ;-)

The concert was at Camp Arifjan the other day and was quite nice. It consisted of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, Keni Thomas, Al Franken, Leeann Tweeden, The Washington Projects, Mark Wills, and Darryl Worley. All the singers were good. I am not sure I appreciated the Washington Project as much as the younger crowd but I also think the younger crowd didn’t appreciate the country music like I did. One thing is for sure we all RELLY like Leeann Tweeden and the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. J Actually, Leeann and Al Franken did some very funny skits and the cheerleaders came on stage in the Burka (long black robe) before the two removed it to show their outfit. It was a lot of fun just to get out and do something a little different for a change. By the way, BMO is short for Black Moving Object. Anyway, the four of us from the watch section had a great time but then paid the price the next morning after our mid-watch was over. Hey, I guess sleep is over rated. We can all sleep when we are dead. (THIS REPORT CONTINUES UNDER "COMMENT" LINK UNDER THIS POST)

Thursday, December 14, 2006