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Wetwired Time Friday, October 28th, 2005 at 10:12 am by pylorns

Superman? Did you know that they were currently shooting this? Its slated to release in June of 2006.

Where are you located at - blogger map via goodle called Frappr! Add yourself to the wetwired map if j00 want.

Barber Shop for whites only? You be the judge.

Rest in Peace, Mike Hunt, Phil McCracken… etc. (via fark)

Woman fired from job after taking leave of absense to see her man off to war. What gives??

CALEDONIA, Mich. (AP) - A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war has been fired after failing to show up for her part-time receptionist job the day following his departure.

“It was a shock,” said Suzette Boler, a 40-year-old mother of three and grandmother of three. “I was hurt. I felt abandoned by people I thought cared for me. I sat down on the floor and cried for probably two hours.”

Officials at her former workplace, Benefit Management Administrators Inc., confirmed that Boler was dismissed when she didn’t report to work the day after she said goodbye to her husband of 22 years.

“We gave her sufficient time to get back to work,” Clark Galloway, vice president of operations for Benefit Management, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story published Wednesday.

He added that other factors were involved in the decision but he declined to elaborate.

On Oct. 16, Boler went with her husband, Army Spc. Jerry Boler, 45, to an Indianapolis-area airfield, where he and others in his National Guard unit gathered to be transported to Fort Dix, N.J. The unit soon will be deployed to Iraq, where he will help guard convoys from insurgent attacks.

Suzette Boler had received permission to take off work the week leading up to her husband’s departure. As a part-time employee at Benefit Management, she did not receive vacation pay and was not compensated for her time off.

When Boler returned home from Indiana on the night of Oct. 16, a few hours after leaving her husband at the airfield, she said she felt drained by the emotional ordeal.

She said she had told her bosses that she would try to return on Oct. 17 but if she could not, she would definitely be back Oct. 18, she said.

But on the afternoon of Oct. 17, she received a call from work telling her to come in the following day and get her things because she was being fired. Her pink slip said the reason was she failed to show up for work Oct. 17, a Monday, she said.

“If I had even an inkling that I would be fired for not coming in Monday, I would have been there,” she said.

Astros loose… joke for the day:

If Morgan Ensberg and his wife Christi ever have a daughter, I’d be worried for her when she’d start dating. Especially in October.

Just take a moment to imagine it:, he’s standing on the porch with a shotgun, yelling “Get your hands off of my daughter!”

But he knows there’s now way he’d ever hit anything with men in scoring position during the playoffs.




2000 Killed in War

Wetwired Time Thursday, October 27th, 2005 at 8:24 am by pylorns

Just as the Iraq Constitution’s first draft has passed the US reached 2000 Casualties. But as others in the miliary have stated this number is so that people like Cindy Sheheen, and the rest of the complete nut cases can use it for their own purposes. She cares little for those 2000 people that have died, she only cares about the limelight.

Lt. Col. Steven Boylan, chief spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq, blasted media coverage for focusing on the 2,000 figure, saying that “the true milestones of this war are rarely covered or discussed.”

“The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone,” he said. “It is an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific agendas and ulterior motives.”

Its a shame that people are touting this around like a badge of honor, a “milestone”. It actually makes me sick.





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