It's interesting to note, and ironic, that the big concession of Republicans on Marriage Equality is the big divorce with the Religious Right.

7 OCT 12: Day 1 on the payroll, working for the VA

31 JUL 12: Retirement Date

15 MAR 12: Begin Permissive TDY/Transition Leave

1 FEB 12: Retirement request APPROVED!

11 NOV: Returned to Germany.

29 OCT: R.I.P. Canadian Forces MCpl Byron Greff!!!!! It's not fair!!! I think about you and the family you left behind every day with a heavy heart.

I'm job hunting: Social Science, Logistics, Public Policy, Research/analyst, Management

13 MAY 11: I turned 37, but really and truly, I feel like I'm 29/30. Love it!

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*****I'm looking for a teammate. Someone to combine bucket lists with and complete them together.***** Where are you?

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RJ Man of the Day on 20 DEC 2010. Thank you to all of you who voted and the ton of email I received afterwards. I couldn't keep up.
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http://progressive-pelican.blogspot.com/ My liberal blog (kinda on hiatus)

The True Gentleman
The true gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill, and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or the any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company; a man with whom honor is sacred, and virtue safe."
~John Walter Wayland, Virginia 1899
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Freedom will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.

I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.

I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you.

~Langston Hughes 1943

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