Posted by Richard on September 29, 2015
September 29 is National Coffee Day. In celebration, a number of doughnut shops and other restaurants are offering free coffee today. Krispy Kreme is even throwing in a free doughnut. If you’re a cheapskate and have lots of time on your hands, you could drive from place to place filling up for free on the world’s healthiest beverage.
I should point out that for some of us, every day is Coffee Day. 🙂
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Posted by Richard on September 19, 2015
September 19 is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. What are you going to do to celebrate? If you click that link, you can sing along with “Drunken Sailor.” Granted, it’s more fun after several helpings of grog, and the sun is barely over the yardarm. But since it’s Saturday (which, as the site points out, makes this Talk Like A Pirate Weekend) …
Q: Who is the most popular cartoonist among pirates?
A: Gary Laarrrson (The Faarrr Side)
Q: What board game do pirates like to play?
A: Paarrrcheesi
Drink up, folks, I’ll be here all night. <tap><tap><tap> Is this thing on?
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Posted by Richard on September 11, 2015
Fourteen years ago this morning, we watched in horror as people jumped a thousand feet to their deaths because it was better than the alternative. Later that day, we learned that the heroic passengers of United Flight 93, knowing the fate that awaited them, had fought and died to prevent their plane from crashing into the White House or Capitol. In the ensuing days, we learned the details of that brave struggle, and “Let’s roll!” became a phrase that brought goosebumps to me whenever I heard it.
We must not forget the events of September 11, 2001. We must keep the images fresh in our memories. It’s necessary, I believe, if we’re to retain the resolve we need to understand, oppose, and defeat the ongoing Islamofascist effort to destroy our way of life, of which the attacks of 9/11 were a part.
We must not forget that there is a large, powerful, well-financed international movement dedicated to destroying Western Civilization.
On September 11, 2001, barbarians with box cutters — primitive 7th-century savages who could never build a World Trade Center or a 747, but whose insane ideology is dedicated to making the building of such things impossible — murdered 2,996 innocent people and changed Lower Manhattan from this:
to this:
Some people have forgotten now
It was many years ago
And peaceful here at home since then
So just let the memory go
But I close my eyes and see it still
Like it was yesterday — Oh no!
People jumping from a hundred-story building!
I can still see those Americans
Jumping from a hundred-story building …
© 2009 Richard G. Combs. All rights reserved.
Never forget.
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