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September 11th: A Day We Will Always Remember

9/11/2013

By Wildside Clyde

Today is 9/11, and our prayers go to to all those people who were lost; our blessing go to the families who lost loved ones and friends.

I remember I was having my car detailed and on the TV in the lobby, a news flash came on, saying that a small airplane stuck one of the Towers in Manhattan. As I watched, a passanger jet struck the other tower. I got in my car and went home. As I called my wife, the news stated a jet struck the Pentagon. I said to my wife, "Honey come home we are being attacked!" I remember my heart beating through my chest and the skies being so quiet as all the air travel was shut down.

God Bless all those lost and God Bless America

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Send 'Em Over!

9/10/2013

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By Pal

Who is the bigger idiot? One of the most ruthless dictators on the planet who befriends a drug-addict psychopath, or a fruity former basketball star, who will do anything to make a headline; including defending one of the world's biggest nemeses?

Yesterday, Dennis Rodman announced to the world in an aura of defiance that he was going to take former NBAers over to North Korea to play basketball. Although I think most Americans with anything between their ears realizes Rodman
shouldn't negotiate between ketchup and mustard, I think this is best idea yet.

In fact why stop at NBA stars? How about a few murderous football stars? Or even the Biogenisis gang? I would even send Urban Meyer and Lance Armstrong along. Hell, take our whole bag of scum. Have a blast! Play!

The fewer self-entitled, under-educated, manipulative superstars we have in this country, the better. Hell, maybe Casey Anthony could head the cheerleading squad!

USA Today reports: the squad could include former pros such as Karl Malone and Scottie Pippen. The paper adds:

'"I'm not a joke,' Rodman said at a press conference, while sitting in front of a bust of his own head and next to the owner of an Irish bookmaking site. 'Take me
seriously.'

'Rodman's handlers boasted that he was the first foreigner to hold Kim Jong-un's new baby, who he says is named Ju-ae. Rodman has described Kim as 'a good dad [who] has a beautiful family.'

'The basketball Hall of Famer told reporters at the Monday morning news conference that he also plans to interview Kim, who was recently accused by a South Korean newspaper of sending his ex-girlfriend to her execution. It would be Kim's first televised interview, Rodman said.'

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The Last Fire Drill: A Brief Memoir

9/10/2013

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By George Gonner (The Haunted Cabaret)

Meacham Regional Elementary School sits at the bottom of Meacham Hill, until next week whenit is scheduled to be demolished. I attended Grades K through 6 in the original building at 17 River Drive, and Grades 7 and 8 in the newer building across the street. Thirty-five years after graduation, hearing about the proposed demolition, a touch of nostalgia brought me back for a last visit. I pulled up and parked beside the locked gate, and looked through a chain-link construction fence into the deserted playground.

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The Bumper Sticker Generation

9/3/2013

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By Casey Melucci

I'd finished my daily grind and had begun my drive the twenty-two miles from North Smithfield to Cranston. As I drive down I-295, I hit the same stagnation I always do, stuck, with no place to go, the mind always seems to wander to more interesting pastures. While contemplating ideas we all have, ideas the most cunning of linguists would have issues articulating, my eyes fell upon the car in front of me. How strongly must this person feel? How righteous they must find their causes to display them to the world in such a manner?

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