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``reboot your life`
When I was 17, a clip from Frank Sinatra's life. Sometimes a song says it all, if your 15 or 55 someone has written a song about your life. It seems real easy to set back and double guess what happens in someone else's life when we have no vested...
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When to choose retirement
WHEN TO CHOOSE RETIREMENT. Is this the right time to retire,you have to ask yourself over and over again. Will your job retirement be enough to live on. As most people we meet in life their job retirement programs have been cut off or changed to a...
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Small Town election but big time trouble
from the White to the poor House Is this the way our ancestors meant it all to be about. Gilbertson family picture old Norweagins Politics without the towns people involved is only management and not a shared belief Grandad and Camden It's been a...
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When we get to the end of the road
When we get to the end of the road. Just because we get a little sick someone thinks we are all done, not. It’s been a long time belief of mine that even the lowest man on the totem pole has a place in the sun. I have witnessed many people...
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Turning the page on one' life
Turning the page on one’ life I know that every one of us have wondered about the state of the economy and where we go from here. It really doesn’t make a big difference any more, does it? It’s so funny to hear the stories from the...
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Healing through Kindness
Healing Through Kindness I really don’t think there is a person alive to date that has not been cured or given Pease by a friend or loved one’s act of kindness. The above statement should have said it all, but for those who have never...
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Let's talk to my Ancestors
Let’s ask my Ancestors During those brief moments in our life when we get small flashes of light that represents our beginnings and our earliest thoughts, were they real or someone else’s history of us. Sometimes we have a tendency to think...
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A Cops Story of Random Kindness
Random acts of kindness In the past three years I have been the recipient of several random acts of kindness from people I don’t know. The latest was a kind old lady in the cafeteria in Piedmont Hospital. In uniform carrying a try of food I’m...
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The art of self healing
The Art of Self Healing Have you ever noticed that when you don’t feel up to par nothing ever goes right? The simplest of chores become difficult and hard to perform. As a young man I never saw it coming, illness and old age mixed together...
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The Merry GoRound of Healing
The merry go round of healing Let me start by thanking hundreds of people that helped, pushed and sometimes called me a dumb ass. I don’t wish Kidney failure on anyone, however if you must have a disease or cancer of some type I sure hope you...
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A peaceful country in turmoil
Yet Another Peaceful Country falls to the blade of terrorism First of all I'm saddened by the lose of so many lives young and old alike. We in America expect to see, hear and witness those who would harm and pillage. The cops here in America are...
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Why I care so much
Why I care so much Before we get started this morning, I would like you to look around you and try to find a hard working happy person. Most of us over 50 years old have been under the illusion that if you work hard and support your family and...
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A Fine North Georgia Town
A town on the cusp Any given small town in America has its town leaders and town drunks. We all know the drunks, where they live and they really present no threat to anyone as long as they stay out of the truck. Town leaders are another story;...
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Prophecy or Greed
Prophecy or Greed An explosion was heard around the world yesterday from Washington D.C. America. An angry President Obama was caught leaving an extremely important meeting discussing the fate of all American’s and the continuing support of...
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Life in a Nut-Shell
Life in a nut-shell Throughout all of lives ups and downs, in whom do you place your trust? A question for the ages with no clear cut answer in site, I guess we have to look within for the answers. Yes, if you live long enough all the answers...
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How we learn from the past to set our life in motion.
HOW we Learn from the past. The heat is pounding on the old red bricks that keep this ole court house together. Here I’m over forty years from the time I rode around in the 1964 ford cop car and the new job I called home. Starting a carrier at...
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Our life seen from the future.
Our life as seen from the future. As any other young boy today, I too wondered about my past. From the Norwegian way of life in Minnesota to being a cracker in the Deep South, I learned to malty task my life to survive. Most kids learn from...
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Food and Water
Food and Water, the salvation of mankind. Every generation finds themselves in a debacle, where the balance of life is somewhat uneven. The haves and the have not’s are in the same boat when it comes food. I’m not going to talk about...
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Have A good day
Having a good day breeds happieness Do you really know what it means to have a good day? If you load up all your troubles and put them in a box under your bed, will they go away? Are you about to lose your family house, car and everything you own?...
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Old AGE ADD and ADHA
Old age ADD and ADHA For those of us born in the 40’s and 50’s ADDA wasn't It is so easy to set back and judge the past actions of an individual verses looking into the future to design a race of kids that only do what they are told. This is...
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My summer of 42
My first hitch hiking adventure. In my time, hitch hiking was a simple form of travel. In the early 1960’s, before Ted Bundy a notorious serial killer who haunted the Northwest area of the United States for years picking up young collage girls...
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Talking to God the final statement
Do the domed talk to God? If you’re lucky enough to live until yesterday’s old age, that would put you about 65 years old. People these days are just starting to get their second wind and living life. If you live long enough than you will...
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Growing up not knowing
Most stories have a beginning,somewhere in the north around Chicago or Detroit maybe. This story happens in the south, to be more precise around Florida ave and broad st in Tampa,Florida. I can remember it as if it were yesterday.We lived in many...
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A WISH BEFORE I DIE
IF I ONLY HAD ONE WISH BEFORE I DIE. This is not trickery on my part; however I’m not sure I could do it in only one wish. How can you place so much importance on only one thing to do if you had only a short time to live? In the movies this is...
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the last smell after the rose has passed
How we keep from worrying so much. Good morning all, again another day is passing. Its morning in our sleepy little north Georgia town, the court house is pretty much empty. I’m playing on the computer and occasionally processing some of...
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A small town treasure
the boys Sheriff's office Sometimes I meet the nicest people at the metal detector. I work in the court house in a small town in Georgia. I ‘am baffled by the large amounts of people that come in to do their business from large towns in and out of...
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Surviving life after all the steam is gone
Is there anything more importaint mickey As we get older and the luxury of life dims lower we find ourselves making a living after retirement. To a lot of unsuspected retirees, retirement only means that you have traded one job for a lower paying...
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Full circle from diapers to diapers
Boy Gilbertson born 1949 Ma There is no better place to start than at the beginning. In Duluth Minnesota in April 1949 A lot babies were born, I just happened to be one of those cute little bundles of joy. I really don't remember much about about...
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A very Special Kid
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What a country, America
These are my family ancestors Gilbertson family picture old Norweagins My Mother Mickey Gilbertson My Father, served with purple heart Mickey Gilbertson My service top right Mickey Gilbertson Good morning to all this another free day in...
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How To Slow Time
Seems like just yesterday thats me on top Nancy Sharp Hanson Slowing Down Time During the current life span we now live in time has plunged forward at an alarming speed. When we have time to reflect on our own life it seems like it’s...
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When the rush is over do the fish always die ?
my two grandsons mickey My daughtor and grandson mickey Granddad and Camden at weeding Mickey the boyes fishing mickey Mickey and Jane, it hasen't always been fun but its always been honest Mickey When the rush is over do the fish always die? I...
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Is the cure worth the end result
The beginning of my new life Mickey Gilbertson Is the cure worth the end result? In the course of receiving Kidney Donation Five months ago I was blessed with a new life. However no one told me I had to be retrained . It was bad enough getting...
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Chase Raffle
New in the box, from 400 pawn Dawsonville.Ga DPMS Mossberg 20" Turkey Gun new in Box 400 Pawn Dawsonville,Ga Mossberg Silent Auction 44 cal with all accessories Donated by Alex Belafi Detention F.LLIPIETTA Italy Dep Chase Johns and Risso K-9...
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A small town with only one family
Pass your life and heritage on Gilbertson family picture old Norweagins A small town with only one family How could I have possibly known 25 years ago when I had a small related injury that retired me from a life of law enforcement that...
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Loosing Faith
If we lose our faith we may never see what life has planed for us mickey Losing Faith This message is for the many that seem to have lost their personal faith in humanity. Faith is a very much subjected word, used a lot in churches and by...
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Fund Raiser Dep Chase Johns
2011 Fund Raiser for family and children. Dep Chase Johns Dawson Co Sheriff, Ga. Chase Johns We Care Fund Raiser February 12, 2011 at 3:00 pm at Thunder Road, Dawsonville, Georgia Hwy 53 just before town We would like to...
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The finer things in life
such innocence look at us then. Mickey in the first grade The finer things in life We as Americans have always been a resourceful bunch of folks. If it snows too much and you can’t get to work we clean house, when it rains the car gets all the...
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Not just another Charity.
Dawson County Sheriff It’s not charity it’s giving back to our community. For those of us that are old enough to be called pop or old man, it’s been a long ride and sometimes we have been put up wet. I only know I was the center of attention...
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wisdom of age
Just a neighbor computer A salute to all my older friends This year in all your travels you wonder across an old guy just rocking on his front porch Just wave at him. This country is by far the most forgiving and friendliest country in...
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the mess after Christmas
to a new start for my friend facebook My new start with Donor Mike Mickey Gilbertson My two boy's mickey and son in laws family now Mike,Leah,Camden and Gage My little girl with her family Yes this is finely the day we all looked for when we were 6...
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Unrestricted Friendship
Life friends are rare facebook Isn't it just great to be among friends? Christmas in my home town is one of those special moments in time when only a handful of humans ever see. And very few people north of the Appalachia trail never see. You have...
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My very first Christmas
Ma Floris Gilbertson, my dad Little brother Kirby my two older brothers Sister Janet,Larry and Ma This is A true story about an average boy, born in a time when our country was rebuilding with the help of many returning vet's from a world...
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My Christmas wish for 2010
my first grandson grandparents My little girl with her family My work family Sheriff's office My Christmas wish for this year 2010 As most of my friends know this has been one hell of a year for my family. We find ourselves being so thankful for...
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the final days of Pompeii/America
our history corner stone's Gilbertson family picture old Norweagins The final days of Pompeii/America The future of American people depends on the past and the learned experience of the fathers of wisdom. We have always been told to...
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season for all
while on a trip to Florida Grandad and Camden Cleveland Elementary School Tampa,Fl 1955 Mickey in the first grade Gilbertson family picture old Norweagins Fresh back from WW2 Floris Gilbertson, my dad Died August 2010,pre Kidney Transplant Ma Once...
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letter to the editor
Day after Kidney transplant, patient and donor Mickey Gilbertson 1956 Chevrolet 1st prise at fund raiser mickey Gilbertson To the editor Dawsonville News and Advertiser November 19, 2010 Let me start first by thanking the Paper and...
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Blessed with a new birthday
The day after, Mike is moving better than me Well here we are two years later and a new Kidney. I can't say it's been fun, but it sure has opened my eyes to whats important in the living of life. Two years ago in October my good friend Bob...
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My search for a kidney
MY SEARCH FOR A KIDNEY Kidney disease is one of those diseases that you can't quite put your finger on in many cases. In my case, the doctor said there was nothing I could have done to prevent it. A disease attacks both kidneys at the same time...
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Final Words for my Mother
Ma, she will rest in peace My Mother, say hello to every one for me Let's start by saying, I'm sorry I just can't be there to see her off. So many times in the past I was not home to help her either. Ma has had a very mixed life filled with...
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Living within your proper stage of life
My Dad was so angry after WW2, until he found his place in life some 20 years later. FINDING OUR PEOPER STAGE OF LIFE Most of you that have read any of my blogs realize that I've taken you through a portal into my life. As we grow mentally and...
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The Final Days of Babylon
You to can climb this mountain THE FINAL DAYS OF BABYLON This is a bible story for the ages,it really has no beginning or end, as long as there are humans left to participate. One's plight begins at birth, the first cognisant moment that you...
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Life,Country,Work and Home
If you don't see God here your in prison. Another frustrated day at work. My heart is heavy today with just plan confusion . It seems as through the harder I try to just get along with folks, the more obstacles get in my way. My patience is...
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A short romance novel
The love of my life, my friend A romance novel usually has sex,rocknrolla, driving fast,intrigue,lust and finally a mystery In every mystery every written to capture the interest of its readers has so many adventurous scenes of sex,lust,intrigue...
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The Price of Freedom
Caption out of the front page news, A SLAP IN THE EYE OR ANOTHER ELABORATE PLANE TO MELT AMERICA'S RELIGION If you read the news everyday I don't need to say anything further. What's import the placement of this Mosque. Is it in poor taste or...
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Have we become obsolete
If I'm obsolet maybe I should just go fishing. IF I'M SO OBSOLET MAYBE I SHOULD JUST GO FISHING. Have you noticed at work people starting to look at you as if you didn't belong. I don't know exactly why this is but I don't like it. The world...
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My first Web Page
Very nice Vintage Marble Goss, long gone from production Front sight kit for target shooters Lyman vintage # 21 sight for the Winchester Rifle Eaven a sight for BB guns Modern rail sight for AR 15 rifles, basic target Williams sights still in...
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Why are so many people afraid to run for office.
Shoot for the top by giving your locals the best AFRAID TO RUN, YOUR NEIGHBORS TELL YOU UNLESS YOUR FROM HERE YOU DON'T STAND A CHANCE. Does this sound familiar, is this the preamble to hold office in your town ? Why do the American people...
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We are our Parents the Good Bad and Evil
My two young grandsons, future empire to the throne We are our Parents the Good Bad and Evil A truer statement has never been said. I'm not sure where to start this story because I have so many thoughts running through my head right now. If we...
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Vacation Plans ruined
My favorite southern spot to fish, Apalachicola,Fl bay Vacation plans foiled by the every menacing oil spill. This would have been the first vacation for me since that pesky Kidney failure. My daughter got herself married last year and then...
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How to be a Politial Activest
This the house that George built HOW TO GET STARTED and Improve Writing Skills I write this because a believe a lot of people would have something useful to say. Its all in the mind of the beholder and sometimes people read your work but most...
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The more powerfull the Government the dumber the people get
The Government always has time for lunch THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT SMARTER THE THE SUM OF IT'S CITIZENS. I can't tell you how many times I have heard in my carrier as a cop " you can't get there from here." People in government usually have an...
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My perfect job
Everything in my involves cooking or cops Everything in my life has always involved either Cooking or Cops. Boy what a statement, if I didn't know better I'd be confused. Lets face it the older you get the more crap you let go of. In my case I...
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BP vs Constutitional rights
This could be on the Planet Mars and it would not be any closer. I'm setting at my desk at work its a slow day and I have nothing better to do. As I ponder over the Yahoo news and respond to several headlines I find my surrounded my mindless libs...
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Our wounder wildlife
you decide,preserves, natural death World Cup scares off hunters in South Africa In response to the headlines and a little lite for me but newsworthy. There's no difference in hunting in America or Africa.The libs don't support it...
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Privacy for Freedom
Gardening to law enforcement Privacy for Freedom As I look around at the many friends and neighbors I’m surrounded with, I sometimes feel very much alone. Once you have had a smell of death on your pallet your senses become...
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The rise and fall of socializim 2010
They will be what we teach them What an appropriate name and fitting title giving the state of our economy and mode of the people. I'm saddened when I read in a the local papers and hear on the national news that our world is in such dismal...
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Personality vs medical doctors
One of the reasons I do things My doctor has no personality, boy have I heard that one a hundred times. I sometimes wonder why a person would spend 8 years going to school to become doctor and not have any walking around sense. Did you ever look...
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I think I'd rather be poor
Without peace of mind and knowing your family and your health is in check the world is not that that important. Now that sounds pretty grim, but to millions of people who get up every day who are in various stages of Cancer,Kidney Disease,and a...
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Fight or Flight politices
As a small kid in the projects I learned a valuable lesson about people. As I remember I was about 9 or 10 years old and bullet proof, only because I had not been tested yet. I remember picking on some old man just setting on his porch minding his...
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My personal health care
Jane and Leah Me Jane ans Camden Now that Health Care is the law of the land,My Kidney is feeling much better. Did you people ever see Soil Green with our famous Charlton Heston, get in line for the body parts. As it is the predicament I find...
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A tribute to an older brother
Mark and Scott Larry's sons 1968 Larry with Craig and Nancy Sharp Sister Janet Larry and Ma Larry and Fred my two older brothers My story and account of my brothers search. Learning that your brother has drowned in an accident somewhere up...
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Proud public service
Remember the day I have been law enforcement sense I was 20 years old in a small county in central Florida. One thing that struck me about the times was that police and deputies word meant something. On the other side of the coin I watched the...
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A wonderful life
What a wonderfull life this will be What a wonderful life, that was the title to a very good Christmas movie with Jimmy Stewart. We all sometimes forget what it was that was so dam important to us at one time that we lost sight of our life. I'm...
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Hell no we won't quit
No better reason to keep fighting If you get tired of watching the news and wondering why no one does anything about the crime corruption in Washington and all the fighting all over the world. My friend I suggest you just turn off your TV...
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America belongs to its people
Me and Paula are the people I have wondered for days how I could write something that would appeal to the masses and make a difference in my life. These United States are Hugh and the people are as diverse as grains of sand. I look at what...
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Your last job
There comes a point in every living person's life when its time for the last rodeo. Metaphorically only, you have spent your whole life preparing you for the most important job of your life. We can look at this as a sick comment or just the way...
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First snow
as I go to work Oh great no shower today Looks nice but! Did you every wake up one morning after battling an illness of some kind, in need of a shower and no water to be found. Last week here in northern Georgia it snowed,rained and was just...
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This the week after Christmas
my family Here we are just a week after Christmas, all my bills are paid and food in the refrig. My credit cards are full from last years joy and the toys are all broken in a heap. This year has brought us a different kind of joy, with all the...
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Santa's last trip
my sheriff family There was a time when I heard the rattle on the roof top, not knowing what it was. My grandson, Camden is not quiet sure about Christmas, but he slept under the three trees my wife set up this year. Through the eyes of a 6...
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Seperation of rights by education
my home town how she's beautiful to me. As I set in front of my computer here at work and comment about current issues, I find myself extremely frustrated by the actions of the over educated left. Is the United States separated by the ability of...
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Christmas card
Christmas at Work "Is it Christmas yet", I kept asking my Mother, No now go to sleep. We lived in a community full of Christmas spirit, from running behind the mosquito truck to looking at all the lights in the homes adjacent to our two story...
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Army Boot Camp
I'm on the top right, what a bunch of guys Jan-Mar 1968 4-E-3-2 Memories, after you start getting old enough to appreciate life it seems like you always want to turn the clock back. As we all know the clock only goes one way. Maybe it's just...
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Hatred among the people of America
I sit in a chair every day checking people in a court house who don't want to be there. In my spare time I blog on the current news of the day. One of the things that alarms me the most is the lake of respect that people have while blogging on Yahoo...
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Integrity in the work place
do public servants have any rights Question, at what point does a man give up his pride and integrity to appease another or group? Why do we work just to be obedient to others , or feeling don't matter. When a problem causes a problem do we...
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The last Norwegian standing
Next two generations non speeking I'm the last male non speeking norwegen Duluth, home town its all down hill from here The old mill in Fergus Fall, Mn on my way to school every morning My dad served in WW11 aboard LST # 643 As a kid born in...
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running for President
I see a lie comming from a mile This has been a hard decision for me to make. All of my friends should know first because soon after my name is chosen my the RNC as there candidate for President my life will belong to the public. It's been a long...
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Living in the south
My wife and grandson My garden My past Duluth ,Mn My hero as a kid Living in the south has for a young man has been unique to say the least. Being born in the far north Duluth,Minnesota I had memories in the back of my mind. There are smells...
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Passing on life
As I set at my computer here in the Court House working my new regular job, I'm reminded by the faces I see every day just how diverse this country really is. Please help me to rediscover humanity, as we live it, and as it changes from what we...
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Let's just cook something
Before we start I have just one question to ask of you, do you live to eat? You know the rest of the story. We all have an obsession about eating, anything we can get our hands on usualy. Did you every stop to think about what your eating...
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Life before Kidney Transplant
Hello again, I have been writing about My Trip to Alaska, and My Trip to Alaska Next. I will stop here Even though I have three more episodes left in the series. This looks like a good jumping of place until I finish what I started last summer....
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My trip to Alaska Next
Mike, setting at the boat ramp, trying to call his wife The view going into Prince William Sound Tunnel The marina, you could stay lost here forever The Moose, they go any where they want More of the marina Its dark driving through the...
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My trip to Alaska
My trip started in Atlanta with my friend Mike, an avid fisherman also. I carried my S&W mod 29 44 mag also. After packing it away safely in the planes cargo hole. It was going along just fine until I tried to go through the medal detector. Whats...