Holiday Mail for Heroes is back!

In this season of hope and giving the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes, Inc. have joined forces to invite Americans to “send a touch of home” to United States service members and veterans across the country and abroad. In its third year, the Holiday Mail for Heroes program is an opportunity to share joy and thanks with our service members throughout the holiday season by way of a greeting card.

Today over 1.4 million men and women serve in the U.S. armed forces and over 24 million veterans have served in the past. The holiday season is the perfect time to honor and extend a warm holiday greeting to those who’ve served and continue to do so.

Take a look at what people are saying about the program:
How Holiday Mail works

We have established an extensive process to ensure all cards sent to our service members are safe and arrive in time for the holidays. Holiday cards will be collected through a unique P.O. Box address from Monday, November 2 through Monday, December 7*.

First, cards from across the nation must be sent to this address:
Holiday Mail for Heroes P.O. Box 5456 Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456

Every card received will be screened for hazardous materials by Pitney Bowes and distributed to participating Red Cross chapters nationwide. Once the cards arrive at the Red Cross chapters, they are sorted and reviewed by volunteers who then distribute them to service members, their families and veterans in communities across the country.

"The program has already generated a tremendous response in our community and this is our first year participating. Everyone who hears about Holiday Mail wants to be involved because it gives us all the chance to seek out service men and women and veterans and tell them just how special they are and how much we appreciate their service and sacrifice."

Please don’t forget to follow these guidelines while preparing your holiday greetings!

Do...
Sign all cards
Entitle cards “Dear Service Member, Family or Veteran”
Limit cards to 15 per person or 50 for school class or business group.
Bundle groups of cards in single, large envelopes .

Don’t...
Send letters.
Include personal information such as home or email addresses.
Use glitter – excessive amounts can aggravate health issues of wounded recipients.
Include inserts of any kind as they must be removed in the screening process.

Welcome to this year’s Holiday Mail for Heroes celebrity spokesperson - pop singer and songwriter Amy Grant!

“I am honored and thrilled to be part of this program. The service that our military men and women provide this country year-round is invaluable and I feel it especially important to give thanks for their sacrifices during the holiday season.”
- Amy Grant

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Here's why we carry guns in Alaska!

THIS IS AMAZING

I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED.

This man lives just outside of Soldotna Alaska.
I'd have been totally frozen if I saw this guy coming at me!

This story ought to be in Readers Digest or a hunting magazine,
or in your residential newsletter!

Friends,

Have I got a story for you guys!

King season is over, and since I had a day off before silvers start, I Thought I would go for a walk! This occurred at 11:16 am this morning (Sunday), just 2/10 of a mile from my house, ON OUR ROAD while walking My dogs.(trying to get in shape for hunting season, ironically!) For the Record, this is in a residential area-not back in the woods, no Bow hunting, no stealth occurring...

I heard a twig snap, and looked back...full on charge - a huge brownie, Ears back, head low and motorin' full speed ahead! Came with zero warning; no Woof, no popping of teeth, no standing up, nothing like what you think or see on TV! It charged from less than 20 yards and was on me in about one-second! Totally surreal - I just started shooting in the general Direction, and praise God that my second shot (or was it my third?)

Rolled him at 5 feet and he skidded to a stop 10 feet BEYOND where I was Shooting from - I actually sidestepped him and fell over backwards on the Last shot, and his momentum carried him to a stop past where I fired my First shot!


It was a prehistoric old boar - no teeth, no fat - weighed between 900-1000 Lbs and took five men to DRAG it onto a tilt-bed trailer! Big bear-its head to Paw measured out at about a 9 1/2 footer!


Never-ever-thought "it" would happen to me!It's always some other smuck, Right? Well, no bull - I am still high on adrenaline, with my gut in a knot. Feels like I did 10000 crunches without stopping! Almost puked for an hour after, had the burps and couldn't even stand up as the troopers conducted their investigation!

Totally wiped me out - cant even put that feeling into words, by far the most emotion I have ever felt at once!


No doubt that God was with me, as I brought my Ruger .454 Casull (and Some "hot" 350 grain solids) ust for the heck of it, and managed to draw and snap shoot (pointed, never even aimed!) from the hip! Total Luck shot!

All I can say is Praise God for my safety and for choosing to leave the Wife and kids at home on this walk! Got a charter tomorrow, so gonna TRY To get some sleep now!

Obama In The British Media

*Here is an interesting editorial from someone outside our country as to what is going on in the United Political ring*

Barak Obama and the CIA: Why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?

I can't acknowledge him as a president, just a tenant some others put in our White House.... with bad tenants we evict them; let's do something about this tenant.

If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself.

Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter. Obama's problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution.

Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.That is why he opened Pandora's Box by publishing the Justice Department's legal opinions on water boarding and other hardline interrogation techniques.

He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley , Virginia to try to reassure a demoralized CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda. "Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks," he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding?

Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencie sand can train its operatives to withstand them - or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed. So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradiated by a dirty bomb.

Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criteria on: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers. President Pantywaist's recent world tour, cozying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America's enemies. Here, they realized, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners.

His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: "Why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?

DOD Locked Out Of Petigon Again

The Onion Radio News has been the most highly regarded broadcast news source in the world since visionary Onion publisher T.Herman Zweibel made the bold move in 1922 to shut down the popular Onion Telegraph News and focus on the then embryonic medium of radio. From day one Zweibel intended to employ this new technology for the public good, and for the first two years he devoted much of his airtime to denouncing silent film actress Louise Brooks.

Overnight, Zweibel's vitriolic attacks gained sufficient listenership to attract wealthy sponsors like Campbell's Liquid Beef and Spotto potato detergent. The financial success of the Onion Radio News led Zweibel to hire professional "pronouncers," as they were called then, who were charged with the important task of reading items from the printed version of The Onion to fill time between Zweibel's marathon anti-flapper rants.

In 1947, a polyp the size of a Concord grape on Zweibel's vocal cords forced him to stop his nightly rants, allowing the Onion Radio News to finally become one of the first 24-hour news outlets.

Today the Onion Radio News, anchored by Doyle Redland, continues to inspire and inform millions of listeners around the world and has become the living embodiment of the power of the spoken news word.

WHY??

Filiapino Inmates Perform 'THILLER"

Applacant For Depuity Sherriff position

A man seeking to join a Jasper county Mo. sheriffs dept.
is being interviewed.

The Sergeant doing the interview says, "Your qualifications
all look good, but there is an attitude suitability test that
you must take before you can be accepted."

Then, sliding a service pistol across the desk, he says,
"Take this pistol and go out and shoot six illegal aliens, six
meth dealers, six Muslim extremists, six liberal democrats
and a rabbit."

"Why the rabbit?" the applicant asks.

"That's the attitude we want," says the Sergeant.
When can you start?"

Filipino Prisoners Perform Queen Medley (VIDEO)

Dancing Filipino Inmates. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/filipino-prisoners-perfor_n_346675.html?alacarte=1&cp



The dancing inmates are back, this time with a tribute to Queen. Yes, the Filipino prisoners who are taught dance routines in order to improve their health and general well-being did several MJ tributes this year, but have now moved on. Granted, there's a little Styx in the mix, but besides that they did an excellent job of shuffling together the best of Queen and pulling off a dance interpretation worthy of rock royalty.

Swine Flu in Cats, Bigfoot Sightings, T. Rex Ancestor

Interspecies swine flu, the buzz on Bigfoot, and a really, really old fossil. All these stories and more for your Buzz Week in Review.
Please don't sneeze on your petIt's enough that you have to worry about you and your kids catching swine flu this season. But now you also have to be concerned for … your cat. That's right. Your furry friend can catch it, from you. At least that's the case for a 13-year-old feline in Iowa diagnosed with H1N1 after its two owners both came down with the flu. The cat was treated at a veterinary hospital after appearing lethargic, losing its appetite and having trouble breathing. All three have recovered. Although this is the first documented case, consider it a cautionary tale. While searches on "swine flu symptoms" were up this week almost 400%, lookups on "swine flu in cats" also increased. (Read up on how to protect pets from the swine flu.)

Bigfoot gets big buzzBigfoot: It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery, or something like that. But is it an enigma because it doesn't exist (say it isn't so!) or because we haven't had the technology to properly document the evidence? Members of Sasquatch Watch are definitely in the latter camp. And a group of intrepid Bigfoot hunters were on the move in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia, armed with all the gee-whiz gadgets needed to prove, for sure, without ambiguity, definitely, that Bigfoot exists. Maybe. Although some suspicious footprints were preserved with plaster of Paris in areas where there have been previous so-called sightings of the beast, un-fun skeptics are unsure if this is the real deal. But enthusiasts of the furry biped have already helped launch big buzz on the Web. Searches on "latest bigfoot sightings" shot up over 100%. Amateur sleuths also sought out "real bigfoot pictures," "bigfoot evidence," and "bigfoot research organization."

Tyrannosaurus Rex has ancestorsWe knew T. rex was old and big, but that he had family? This comes as a surprise. Here's the story: Thanks to CT scans, a newly identified dinosaur Proceratosaurus has been named as the oldest known T. rex. That dates the tyrannosauroid group back to 170 million years, older than any other known fossil, according to Scientific American. But here's the thing: While the bigger, badder T. rex lived 65 to 99 million years ago, the Jursassic-Era cousin was still a meat eater, but way smaller, measuring just 10 feet. But it was just as ferocious, with four knife-like teeth and a pointy horn jutting from its nose. Of course, all these gigunda-saurs were the earliest ancestors of birds, like the ones we eat. Take that, dinos.