RedRider
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posted on 3/14/2007 at 10:56 PM |
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I've never been to upstate New York, but I've known lots of people from up there. I've always thought it was funny that they were quick to let you know they were from UPSTATE New York. I worked with a guy in Texas that we nicknamed "Upstate" for that very reason. I would like to visit someday.
LOL Allen! Because people assume NYC if not stated otherwise and there is a world of difference.... 
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DerekFromCincinnati
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posted on 3/15/2007 at 07:12 AM |
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Because people assume NYC if not stated otherwise and there is a world of difference....
I agree, Redrider. My sister lived in Saugerties for a long time, and it is night and day different from NYC. Vineyards, excellent and plentiful finger lakes, Hunter Mountain, etc. You won't be mining a lot of Herkimer Diamonds in Manhatten. ____________________
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SantaCruzBluz
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posted on 3/15/2007 at 08:40 AM |
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I've never been to upstate New York, but I've known lots of people from up there. I've always thought it was funny that they were quick to let you know they were from UPSTATE New York. I worked with a guy in Texas that we nicknamed "Upstate" for that very reason. I would like to visit someday.
LOL Allen! Because people assume NYC if not stated otherwise and there is a world of difference....
Exactly. They want to make sure you know they are NOT from NYC. ____________________
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Chain
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posted on 3/15/2007 at 09:29 AM |
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I've never been to upstate New York, but I've known lots of people from up there. I've always thought it was funny that they were quick to let you know they were from UPSTATE New York. I worked with a guy in Texas that we nicknamed "Upstate" for that very reason. I would like to visit someday.
Yes, we're very quick to explain exactly what "upstate" New York means to Nyer's. Most people think anywhere above New York city is "upstate." When in fact there's "central" New York, "western" New York, Catskills region, etc...Upstate is pretty much anything above Syracuse, NY....Fort Drum is about 30 minutes from the Canadian border. Anyway, you really should visit. New York State as a whole is quite diverse and a very beautiful place to live....if you can stand the cold, snowy winters.. 
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bigann
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posted on 3/15/2007 at 11:40 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 40
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,203
Weekly Wounded Report
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 751
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,051
Mission Accomplished day 1,429
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bigann
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posted on 3/16/2007 at 10:54 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 47
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,210
Weekly Wounded Report
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 795
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,095
Mission Accomplished day 1,430
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bigann
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posted on 3/17/2007 at 10:35 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 47
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,210
Weekly Wounded Report
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 800
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,100
Mission Accomplished day 1,431 ____________________
Sometimes we can't choose the music life gives us - but we damn sure can choose how we dance!
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ruthelane
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posted on 3/17/2007 at 03:45 PM |
I come by this thread everyday and read the posts and try to absorb so many dead.
It makes me sad and to think of mothers who lost children in this war.
But there is also chatting about other topics which can be very interesting.
Re: Upstate New York
One summer, 18 or 19 years ago we sent our daughter to summer camp in Upstate NY. It was about an hour from Lake Placid. The camp was six weeks and they had Parents Day for the middle of summer camp. My husband and I stayed in Lake Placid but took day trips We had such a great time and the pace of life is not NYC.Everybody was very friendly. I would love to go back for another vacation. It was very cool and lots of little streams and picnic tables. It would be a wonderful respite from the Florida's summer oven. There is no real point to this story, just to say we love Upstate NY. And I am a Southern gal.
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bigann
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posted on 3/18/2007 at 10:49 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 55
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,218
Weekly Wounded Report
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 823
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,123
Mission Accomplished day 1,432 ____________________
Sometimes we can't choose the music life gives us - but we damn sure can choose how we dance!
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gina
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 posted on 3/18/2007 at 02:16 PM |
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged)
In America'sWar On Iraq 3,211
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq - At
Least 655,000 + +
The War in Iraq Costs
$409,052,121,231
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
A Nation in Ruins
2,000,000 Iraqis now live outside Iraq, according to UNHCR
12,000 doctors have fled Iraq since the war began. Another 2,000 are said to have been killed, and at least 250 kidnapped
50% Average inflation in 2006, according to the World Bank
6.3 hours of electricity daily in Baghdad in December 2006. In May 2003 there were 16-24 hours
32 percentage of people in Iraq with drinkable water
3,700,000 Iraqis now receive food aid from the UN World Food Programme
16% Proportion of Iraqis who said in January that their income meets their basic needs
And for this we need to send:
an additional 21,500 combat troops to be sent to Iraq. But the figure has since crept up to nearly 30,000, with 2,200 military police being added. To have 160,000 troops there.
Do all the native Iraqis have to leave and join the other 2,000,000 that have left? Is that when we can declare victory? ____________________
"Mankind is a single nation" "Allah did not make you a single people so he could try you in what he gave you, to him you will all return, he will inform you where you differed". Quran Chapter 2 Sura 213
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ruthelane
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posted on 3/19/2007 at 01:54 AM |
Gina, This is good information. It is so horrific to think about.
I guess nobody's home in Wash. D.C.
It is just overwhelming and I keep thinking "how did we let this happen?"
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bigann
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posted on 3/19/2007 at 11:29 AM |
Put on your party hats everyone and blow up the balloons. Today is the 4th anniversary of this war. And as the people begin to question the wisdom of the whole thing, the statistics of those injured and dead are being lowered daily.....well, that is excpet for the Iraqis....they're still dying on a regular basis.
Soldier Deaths
March - 54
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,217
Weekly Wounded Report
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 864
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,164
Mission Accomplished day 1,433 ____________________
Sometimes we can't choose the music life gives us - but we damn sure can choose how we dance!
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bigann
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posted on 3/20/2007 at 01:31 PM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 58
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,221
Weekly Wounded Report
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 925
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,225
Mission Accomplished day 1,434 ____________________
Sometimes we can't choose the music life gives us - but we damn sure can choose how we dance!
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bigann
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posted on 3/21/2007 at 11:38 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 60
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,223
Weekly Wounded Report
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 1018
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,318
Mission Accomplished day 1,435 ____________________
Sometimes we can't choose the music life gives us - but we damn sure can choose how we dance!
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bigann
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posted on 3/22/2007 at 11:05 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 63
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,228
Weekly Wounded Report
3/15 - 3/21 - 145
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 1042
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,342
Mission Accomplished day 1,439
[Edited on 3/23/2007 by bigann] ____________________
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bigann
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posted on 3/23/2007 at 10:46 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 68
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,233
Weekly Wounded Report
3/15 - 3/21 - 145
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 1042
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,342
Mission Accomplished day 1,440
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bigann
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posted on 3/24/2007 at 11:03 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 71
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,236
Weekly Wounded Report
3/15 - 3/21 - 145
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Total wounded 2007 - 1,473
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 1,134
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,434
Mission Accomplished day 1,441
[Edited on 3/24/2007 by bigann] ____________________
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bigann
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posted on 3/25/2007 at 06:13 PM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 76
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,247
Weekly Wounded Report
3/15 - 3/21 - 145
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Total wounded 2007 - 1,473
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 1,211
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,511
Mission Accomplished day 1,442
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PhotoRon286
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posted on 3/25/2007 at 06:26 PM |
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My son was stationed at Ft. Drum before he got out of the Army. He served in Kosovo, and I thank God he got out before our Idiot-in-Chief started this war. And I have a world of sympathy for anyone who has a loved one in Iraq.
My daughter Amy just called to tell me her unit is being deployed April 5.
To Baghdad. ____________________
Hittin' The Web::Hugh Duty Memorial Giveaway has begun!
RIP Hugh Duty
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bigann
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posted on 3/25/2007 at 06:56 PM |
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bigann
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posted on 3/27/2007 at 11:03 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 77
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,248
Weekly Wounded Report
3/15 - 3/21 - 145
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Total wounded 2007 - 1,473
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 1,291
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,591
Mission Accomplished day 1,443
Bush in office - 665 left
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bigann
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posted on 3/28/2007 at 10:24 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 78
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,243
Weekly Wounded Report
3/15 - 3/21 - 145
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Total wounded 2007 - 1,473
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 1,396
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,696
Mission Accomplished day 1,444
Bush in office - 664 left
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bigann
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posted on 3/29/2007 at 09:38 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 80
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,245
Weekly Wounded Report
3/22 - 3/28 - 127
3/15 - 3/21 - 145
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Total wounded 2007 - 1,600
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 1,396
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,696
Mission Accomplished day 1,445
Bush in office - 663 left ____________________
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bigann
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posted on 3/30/2007 at 10:50 AM |
Soldier Deaths
March - 80
February - 84
January - 86
Total dead - 3,245
Weekly Wounded Report
3/22 - 3/28 - 127
3/15 - 3/21 - 145
3/9 - 3/14 - 118
3/1 - 3/8 - 139
2/22 - 2/28 - 108
2/15 - 2/21 - 147
2/8 - 2/14 - 113
2/1 - 2/7 - 138
1/25 - 1/31 - 165
1/18 - 1/24 - 163
1/11 - 1/17 - 117
12/28/06 - 1/10/07 - 120
Total wounded 2007 - 1,600
Iraqi Civilian Deaths
March - 1,673
February - 1,531
January -1,802
Total deaths in past 14 months - 23,973
Mission Accomplished day 1,446
Bush in office - 662 left
[Edited on 3/31/2007 by bigann] ____________________
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ruthelane
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posted on 3/30/2007 at 11:26 PM |
Hey Ann, I think the number of days since MA for 3/30/07 is a typo.
I stop by here sometimes and look at the horrific numbers.
I'm glad you are still here beating your drum.
Your conviction is inspiring.
Ruthie
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