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Wed, Nov 18, 2009:
Oh Dear! It's Venison!

Category: Good Stuff Maynard
Posted by: Herb
I often brag about the high-quality/high-class/highly-intelligent people who come to visit this site.  You guys are the greatest.  I consider most of you to be my friends or at the very least, acquaintances.  As I told you a while back ago, though, there are other friends I have who really don't care about computers and being online or anything else.  They are nor e-tards

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Sat, Nov 14, 2009:
A Brief Pause

Category: General
Posted by: Herb

Just a little hometown pride for you all.  Shawano Wisconsin is really pretty special (sometimes Ed, Carter, but still...)

If you can't get a chance to get to Colorado...

From the Shawano Leader

Came this article

Then try http://www.shawanocountry.com/

Here's the video from the story.

 Full clip series of the whole "Discover Wisconsin" show starts with this overview:

 video

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Although this is a sample of Colorado Springs...http://www.krdo.com/global/Story.asp?s=11260855&image=0

Mon, Nov 09, 2009:
Remember The Vets

Category: Patriotic
Posted by: Herb

I had intended to post my review of the book I just read, but I think I should wait on that.  Today (actually it was Saturday, 11/08/09) we had our Veteran's Day parade.  I am proud that out of all the parades that go on in our city, this seems to be the one with the best of everything.  Many bands, marching soldiers, C-130 airplanes flying low over the crowd, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, WWII re-enactors, drill and ceremony, manual-of-arms by the Air Force cadets, you name it, we had it.  Probably one of the most touching was an old guy in a car for The American Ex-Prisoners of War waving his stump out the window.  The local paper wrote about the parade here.

Of course, Colorado Springs is home to five military bases, so

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