Category Archives: General Messages

Wet T-Shirt Contest Winner

Posted on March 24, 2012 by asknod

Get serious. This is a Grandpa and Grandma oriented site. This has happened to me so I felt it was appropriate to post.

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Friday’s Last Thought

Posted on March 23, 2012 by asknod

Waiting for remuneration from the vA makes Veterans a pauper twice–once while waiting interminably for service connection and then a second time when they discover the horrible financial truth of what they are going to be forced to live on for the … Continue reading →

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Army IG Is On It (PTSD)

Posted on March 22, 2012 by asknod

Boy, this didn’t take long. When Patty barks, everyone lines up and wags their tales down at the Five-sided Puzzle Palace. Sure enough Johnny Judge is on the warpath and looking in every hospital and clinic in search of baaaaad Shrinks. At … Continue reading →

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Teleprevir vs. Boceprevir

Posted on March 22, 2012 by asknod

What to do? Two new drugs on the market (or virtually there) and much said of each.What hard facts do we know at this point and what is conjecture? School of thought number one holds that Teleprevir (marketed as Incivik) … Continue reading →

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A Picture For Veterans

Posted on March 21, 2012 by asknod

This one will give you goose bumps – beautiful! Picture taken at the National Cemetery in Minneapolis, MN on a June morning – as it appeared in the Minneapolis Star/Tribune. Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words! It says everything . … Continue reading →

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Old Growth Spinach and the AMC

Posted on March 21, 2012 by asknod

Old growth spinach. You know you have old growth spinach if you have to use climbing spikes, a belt and a small chainsaw to cut it. I planted this stuff in November and all it did was fester. Now its … Continue reading →

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VN Vets A Dying Breed?

Posted on March 21, 2012 by asknod

I found this on Tricia’s page too. It was written in 2009 and is food for thought. http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas/2009/10/03/vietnam-veterans-fast-a-dying-breed/

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New Drugs to Inhibit HCV?

Posted on March 20, 2012 by asknod

I just found this on my Facebook page from Founder Patricia. This is pure gold if it pans out. Hopefully it will be available to me before I reach bingo. Considering I just hit Stage 4 last Monday, it couldn’t … Continue reading →

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vARO–Waiting For Mr. Goodbar

Posted on March 19, 2012 by asknod

Diane privately emailed me to inform my site has been invaded by a merry prankster/hacker. All my capital Vs have been reduced to lower case whenever vA is used. Relax Diane. I did it. If vA insists on treating us … Continue reading →

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Praetorian Guard?

Posted on March 19, 2012 by asknod

When Julius Caesar ascended to power. all military forces in his presence were disarmed except for his personal bodyguard-the Praetorian Guard. When Hitler came to power, all military men in his presence were required to remove or turn in their … Continue reading →

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