Category: HERO BEAR AWARDEES

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4 star General Anne Dunwoody

General Anne E. DunwoodyCongratulations to General Dunwoody!

I  wrote about her nomination  to become the first four star general in the United States military.

Here is a  nice article  on General Anne Dunwoody.

General Dunwoody had a couple of things that made me smile:

“This nomination only reaffirms what I have known to be true about the military throughout my career—that the doors continue to open for men and women in uniform.”

and

“There is no one more surprised than I—except, of course, my husband. You know what they say, `Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.’ ” 

So, Congratulations and make us all proud.

Roger Freberg

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Remembering Veteran’s Day with Humor

Veteran's Day

I always like to remember special occasions with humor. I received today an email ( as did hundreds of thousands of others) from our good friend Dilbert offering some real life butchered quotes from inDUHviduals… here are a few:

“I wish life was in 3-D.”

“You shut your mouth when you’re talking to me!”

“I have to go drop a kidney.”

“I’ve already forgotten more than I’ll ever know!”

“I’d rather be safe than sore.”

“He smokes like a fish!”

“He’s not the sharpest hole in the wall.”

“My sister gave me a cream-colored couch, and honest-to-god I hate it as much as life itself.”

“I’m running around with a head like a chicken.”

“It’s going to be bad around here when the cows come home to roost.”

Thank you, veterans and our men and women serving around the world… I hope if & when you see this… it makes you smile.

Roger Freberg

here’s the latest from DILBERT

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An American Carol : an inconvenient truth

an American Carol is an Inconvenient Truth

I had the opportunity to see “An American Carol” and laughed my a** off! Congratulations to the brave men and women of “an American Carol” who may never work in Hollywood again.

In any movie there are those wonderful back stories about how no one would syndicate this movie until someone from France stepped in! France, I do understand this, after all, didn’t they have those ‘immigrant riots’? Anyway, a lot of the movie was ‘reductum ad absurdum’ (to reduce to absurdity)… to make their point by showing truly funny examples of what hasn’t happened. They traveled back in time to show Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito all singing ‘kumbaya’ together to the very naive British Prime Minister, a couple of suicide bomber nuns and a skit of college professors indoctrinating students.

If you were taken to see a Michael Moore flick… take them to see this… but see it anyway and don’t feel bad about laughing out loud.

Roger Freberg

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Happy 36th Anniversary

my Laura in San Luis Obispo

Happy 36th Wedding Anniversary! I am not so impressed that we are still married as I am that 36 years have transpired. It can’t be because I’ve gotten older when you still look the same?

We had the most unlikely of weddings. The wedding at Los Angles Superior Court in front of Judge Xenophon P. Lang ( yes, I remember) along with many other young people married during his lunch hour. We had a single ring ceremony… as I admit… left my ring at my folks house being only 20 and a bit excited.

Dad cooking something... what else?

Thank you for everything.

Love,

Roger

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Got Beer? No? Brew Your Own!

this here brew has earned the Captn Roger seal of approval!Well, I always wanted to know how one of my favorite sets of grains were treated when I wasn’t using them in bread and elsewhere? I have always had some fondness for beer and if the truth be known… I have enjoyed them everywhere … from the Hofbrauhaus to turning my ‘glass upside down’ in a Sidney bar.

All great fun. I have to confess to wondering what it would be like to brew my own.
Laura’s cousin Pam and her husband seemingly enjoy the effort required in home brewery and with a little prompting consented to provide a step by step look into the home brewery process!

Here’s how they do it!

Hopefully the hurricane will miss them in Houston or the storm is a bit merciful.

All I can say from the galley of Captn Rog, “Drink up me hardies!”

Roger Freberg