Dragon Laffs

Good Morning Campers, 

And just like that … today is a national holiday.  Juneteenth.  Late yesterday afternoon (Thursday) we were told that we would have today (Friday) as a day off.  And I guess this will be a national holiday now forever.  Sometime last evening, I got this “letter” from my leadership on my official email which explains a little of the history of this holiday.  Here is part of that letter:

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army arrived on the island of Galveston in Texas to take command of over 2,000 federal troops on the island. On that day, he and his troops marched through the streets reading General Order Number 3, proclaiming the emancipation of enslaved people.

Since that time, Juneteenth, also known as Jubilee Day or Emancipation Day, has served as a day to celebrate these events across the country. This week, the federal government recognized Juneteenth National Independence Day as a federal holiday.

So, that’s what Juneteenth is all about.  I had no enslaved people in my family, but Mrs. Dragon did have some Irish slaves in her family history …

But, I did want to share that with you guys.  Never let a good holiday go to waste.

You know, the older I get the weirder my emails get.  I just got an email from a relator offering me first bid on a warehouse that used to be a FedEx building.  Lots of storage, great condition, and still able to be connected to shipping lines.  Wants me to set up an appointment to come take a look. 

The next one was for a guy selling a concoction of special herbs and vitamins to help keep me young and fit.

Then I got one offering me cow, sheep, and llama feed.

What-the-ever-living-fuck?

Now, if the warehouse was near a grassy field, I could put my cows, sheep, and llamas in the field, and use the warehouse to store all their feed.  I’ll need the mix of special herbs and vitamins to keep me young and fit to move all this stuff around and take care of my new farm that somebody thinks I have!

Whatever happened to the good old emails about buying male enhancement drugs or second hand firearms or African Princes giving away a million dollars?  Seems like I don’t many of those anymore.  Now I get the crazy crap.  I mean, come on!  Where’s a good sex scandal when you need one!

Anyway … I’ve meandered down this lane far enough this morning … on Juneteenth. 

I did find out some bad news last night.  Kind of broke my heart a little.  Even though I did kind of expect it.  You guys remember Diaman.  She was like a second mom to me.  I last heard from her last July 4th and then she stopped writing to me.  She was quite elderly.  Mrs. Dragon does a lot with genealogy … she’s quite good, actually.  She needs to start her own company.  Anyway, I knew that Diaman had moved back east to stay with relatives because her sister had died.  They were taking care of each other out in California.  Then she had computer issues which is why we lost touch after the 4th of July.  Anyway, I’m rambling…Mrs. Dragon found out that Diaman passed away last month … May of 2021.  She was 90 years old I believe.  Another dear friend. 

So, here’s to Daiman … I know you’re looking down, having a great time, laughing your ass off with Lethal and Ginny.  Love you mom.

Now, let’s the rest of us do some laughing.

A truck loaded with Vicks Vapor Rub overturned on the highway.

Amazingly, there was no congestion for eight hours.

What’s the difference between black eyed peas and chickpeas?

Black eyed peas can sing us a song and chickpeas can only hummus one.

I once had a dog named Fred, who loved the rain and scratched the door until I took him out in it.

I took an umbrella, but it did not cover Fred as he liked to walk ahead.

One day when we came back, my mother was in the house and said, “The dog’s all wet.”

I said, “Yes, raindrops keep falling on my Fred.”

Gosh, I love science jokes…

Because this is just plain cool.

There was a Roman Emperor who never aged after he turned 13.

His name was Constant Teen.

You guys do know who sent in all these really awful puns, right?

I tried to warn my friend about the dangers of playing Russian Roulette – but it went in one ear and out the other.

Seriously, it should be easy to figure out …

The adjective for metal is metallic, but not so for iron, which is ironic.

Stephanie … it’s Stephanie…of course.

And Sally got ready to get a good, relaxing, recharging night’s sleep.

I need that kind of coffee that’s so strong when I take a sip, my ancestors wake up.

The only thing separating you from certain death at 65 mph is a painted white line and a mutual agreement to not play bumper cars.

THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS RECEIVED BY “THOMAS COOK VACATIONS” FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS: 

1. “They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax.”

2. “On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food.”

3. “We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish.”

4. “We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price.”

5. “The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room.”

6. “We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow.”

7. “It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallartato close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time — this should be banned.”

8. “No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared.”

9. “Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the drawers.”

10. “I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts.”

11. “The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more fun.”

12. “It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair.”

13. “I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends’ three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller.”

14. “The brochure stated: ‘No hairdressers at the resort.’ We’re trainee hairdressers and we think they knew and made us wait longer for service.”

15. “When we were in Spain, there were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners.”

16. “We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning.”

17. “It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel.”

18. “I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes.”

19. “My fiancée and I requested twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”

Source: Peter Dickinson

Oh     My     Gawd!!!!!

If you hadn’t told me they were real, I’d have figured each and every one of those were made up, because people couldn’t possibly be that stupid and self-centered … but then … someone in the crowd yells, “Challenge Accepted!” and the race is on.

I’m not sure I could walk on either one of those floors!!

Every time I see a mattress on top of a car I think – Damn prostitutes are doing door dash now.

And here’s three more weird floors:

My neighbor asked if he could use my lawn mower.  I said sure.  Just don’t take it out of the yard.

And let’s just finish up with the rest of them that I have …

That is some awesome artistry.  Oddly, sometimes only seen perfectly from the correct angle. 

The Library of Congress contains approximately 838 miles of bookshelves—long enough to stretch from Houston to Chicago.

This is what a tree farm looks like.

I’m so sick and tired of my friends who can’t handle their alcohol.  Last night they dropped me three times while carrying me to the car.

So, I’ve been corrected.  Or at least fact checked.  Thanks to Bob for sending this along.  Remember the lady who had the rant about Social Security … well … turns out that it ain’t so!

www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-greediest-generation

Now, it may be that the people we were told didn’t say it or wrote it or whatever, but the sentiments are certainly true enough, so … we’ll let it stand.

But thanks Bob for sending it in.

Nah!  I know the secret.  Make her laugh and smile every day.

Fellas, you can’t call her a gold digger if you don’t have any gold … she’s just a coin collector.

And that’s it for today’s issue.  No updates for today on our Security Forces Lady.  Please don’t forget about her.  We have until the 4th of July to collect money for her and then I have to convert it to a Visa Gift Card.

Until we meet again, may you all be filled with love and happiness.

Cheers!

Impish Dragon

Good Morning Campers,

Kind of a melancholy time of year.  On Monday, it would have been Lethal Leprechaun’s eleventh anniversary of Leprechaun Laffs.  I miss my brother from another mother so much.

But, yesterday was the fifteenth anniversary of Dragon Laffs, so that’s a happy occasion, right?  Wow, fifteen years of doing this … and I’m not a millionaire yet.  I thought the whole dot com thing would have taken off by now.  But, my whole math brain kicks in and 1906 issues over 15 years is about 127 issues a year or about 11 issues a month or about 3 issues a week … which is pretty much what I’m averaging right now.  So … I’m hitting par.

Man, I need to get out of my head sometimes.

Anyway, happy anniversary to us!  Fifteen wonderful years with you guys.  Here’s to the next fifteen!

Wow, okay, that gif on the left is a bit friggin’ annoying.  Let’s move on, shall we?

Got some important stuff to go over with you guys today.  Mrs. Dragon sent me some really good stuff as well as a lot of other people, too.  So, without too much more ado …

I did not know this … what a cool story!  Thanks to  Lynn for sending this one in!

If you ever feel dumb, just know that when my friend was 14 she went to a psychiatrist because she “had a voice in her head.”  It was her brain.  Like literally just her thoughts.  She thought she was the only person who the ability to think.  For 14 years.

Mrs. Dragon just informed me that that would turn a lot of women on, because they are more audio oriented than men are.

Okay, first update of the day … As of Monday night …

We now have a bunch more people to say thank you to… for contributions to our Security Forces lady (think Military Cop) who got hurt and who we are taking donations for.  If you haven’t tuned in for a few days, here’s the quick recap.  On Memorial Day, one of our Security Forces troops suffered a freak accident and may now be paralyzed.  She has very young children and there is a BUNCH of expenses, childcare expenses, medical expenses, stupid stuff like getting someone down to Kentucky (where they live) to build wheel chair ramps so they can get her in and out of her own home!!!  That’s the kind of stuff that we’re trying to raise money for.  And now I have to wipe my eyes and keep typing.

Anyway, here’s our list up to this point:

Steven H. (You were the first!)
Dan T.
Leah H.

Hopefully before this issue is finished, I’ll have even more names to add to the list.  Remember, every little bit helps.  All you have to do is click on the regular donation button at the top of the web page.  Even a buck or two will help.  I’ll convert it to cash or a visa card or something.  We have set the date of the 4th of July for our Dragon Laffs Campers.  Okay, end of update, let’s go!

“We do not check the refrigerator multiple times to find new food; we check to see if our standards have dropped enough to eat what was available.”

The movie industry considers you to be an adult when you’re 17 to see an R-rated movie, but they conveniently lower that age to 13 when they are deciding who pays adult ticket prices.

I love these little guys!!!

When you watch a movie, you’re actually just watching an edited recorded of a bunch of people doing their jobs at work.

Oh my friggin’ GAWD!!!!!  I’m in AWE!!!!!  First of all, thank you so much to Ted for sending me this Nuclear Powered Mom.  She is ON FIRE!!!  You guys have simply GOT to click on the video at the end and watch her live!!

A New York parent brought the heat to members of the Carmel Central School District board for ’emotionally abusing’ children by ‘indoctrinating them with communist values.’

In comments at a school board business meeting in Putnam County, NY on Thursday, parent Tatiyana Ibrahim – whose child is a student, slammed the educators for promoting Critical Race Theory (CRT), Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ and anti-police ideologies both on and off campus.

“Stop indoctrinating our children. Stop teaching our children to hate the police. Stop teaching our children that if they don’t agree with the LGBT community that they’re homophobic. You have no idea each child’s life,” she said, adding “You don’t know what their family lifestyle consists of, you don’t know the makeup of their life.”

Ibrahim shut down school board members’ objections several times – in between calling out two teachers for posting their political beliefs online. When board members told her she wasn’t allowed to reference people by name, Ibrahim claimed those teachers called “for the death of a former president,” and that students who don’t support Black Lives Matter should be “canceled out.”

“Why are we not allowed to say names? Why am I not allowed when they purposefully expose themselves on social media, talking about calling for the death of a former president, or saying that any child who doesn’t believe in Black Lives Matter should be canceled out. Is this what my tax dollars are paying for?” she asked.

“You’re emotionally abusing our children and mentally abusing them,” Ibrahim continued. “You’re demoralizing them by teaching them communist values, this is still America, ma’am.”

Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zxu3wdiXRF0

Okay, was that not incredible?!?!

She’s my hero!!!

And we have another update!!!  Not only do we have two more people to thank:

Carlos W.
Ray S.

Thank you both so very, very much!!!

But I also have another update on our young lady!  She was able to lift her legs slightly and has some feeling in her legs!  The doctors are amazed at her progress.  Not that they think she will ever fully recover, but they now think that she may not be fully paralyzed either.  So, keep the prayers going.

And this issue is just FULL of GREAT STUFF!!!!  Here’s something that Mrs. Dragon found that just found ME another hero!  And this 100% falls under the category of ..

I DON’T THINK PISSED REALLY COVERS IT ! ! !

Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared “Social Security ” to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here’s a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana … I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!

“Hey Alan, let’s get a few things straight!!!

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).  Same as me!

3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and “your ilk” pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your “shill commission” are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now “you morons” propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because “you idiots” mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you “incompetent bastards” spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.  And you never even asked us if we wanted to incur that debt!

To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling “bullshit” to your incompetence.

Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU:

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the “greedy” ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.

And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.

That’s right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch.

P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits “entitlements”. WHAT AN INSULT!!!!

I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years “It’s my money”-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks .

Montana citizen, Patty Myers

Patty Myers, you are my HERO!!!!!!  Oh, and by the way, I’ll take all of MY SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY THAT I’VE PAID IN IN ONE LUMP SUM!!!! 

You are overwhelmingly distracted by my flowers so that I may stab you with my sword.

For those that don’t know him, Major General Peter Cosgrove is an Australian.

General Cosgrove was interviewed on the radio recently. Read his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children.

Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you have to love this!
This is one of the best comeback lines of all time.

This is a portion of an ABC radio interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military Headquarters.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL COSGROVE:
We’re going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Shooting! That’s a bit irresponsible, isn’t it?

GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don’t see why, they’ll be properly supervised on the rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Don’t you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don’t see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
But you’re equipping them to become violent killers.

GENERAL COSGROVE:
Well, Ma’am, you’re equipped to be a prostitute, but you’re not one, are you?

The broadcast went silent for 46 seconds and when it returned, the interview was over.

I would pay money to have seen her face…

I bet it would have made lemon juice look like honey.

And there it is again … something this dragon wishes HE had said.

Once more with the strange signs …

Stephanie sent that to me … and Stephanie … Dear … I have so many questions.

And I’ll be having some nightmares, as well.

I came from a generation where “Keep

Talking” meant you better shut up!

Okay … let’s do this!!!

Not much in the way of Political Memes today, but with all the other political stuff I’ve thrown in today, I think I’ve made up for it … but there’s one more article I think I need to share with you …

Did you guys see this one?

US bishops to discuss Communion ban for Biden, left-wing politicians with ‘antithetical’ views

Basically the article discusses the fact that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is discussing banning politicians, including Biden (only the second Catholic President) and Pelosi from the sacraments of the Catholic church and perhaps even labeling them Apostates for their political stances on things like abortion, which the Catholic Church is very much against.  Wouldn’t that be something for the “Leader of the Free World” to be kicked out of his church?  Absolutely perfect.  We already know he’s a liar and a thief, now we can throw in Apostate as well.  If you want to read the article yourself, here’s the link: https://www.foxnews.com/us/bishops-communion-ban-biden-politicians

This is a volcano in Ethiopia that burns bright blue.

The Los Angeles Coroner’s Office has its own quirky gift shop called Skeletons in the Closet.

Some call it multi-tasking, I call it doing something else while I try to remember what I was doing in the first place.

Age 12:  Fell off of bike at high velocity onto gravel road, biked 5 miles home.

Age 40:  Used wrong pillow, back was nonfunctional for two days.

Pet Dragon?  PET Dragon?!  There are no PET Dragons!  No self-respecting dragon would ever become a PET!  Unless there were snacks and scratches involved …

Onion Rings are Vegetable Donuts

That’s just WRONG!  And you may have just ruined donuts for me…

And that’s it my friends … no more updates for this issue, but I have high hopes for the next one.  We have until the 4th of July…Independence Day … to help with some Independence with this Veteran and her family.

Thanks for all you guys do and thanks for hanging with me for this issue.  I’m hoping for one for Saturday, but we’ve got doctor appointments after work on Thursday and Friday and the grandkids are coming over on Saturday for Father’s Day on Sunday … so we’ll see.

May your days be filled with Love and Happiness.

Cheers,

Impish Dragon

Good Morning Campers,

I just finished watching a pretty good movie called Last Knights.  And it got me thinking about the over arching theme behind the movie which, if you haven’t seen it, is about duty, integrity, and honor … even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.  It is a stark comparison to what’s going on in our country right now. 

What is integrity?  Well, in the strictest definition, it is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.  But, you could say that it is doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reason.  A quality that is sorely lacking … everywhere right now. 

Well, maybe not everywhere …

I was in the hardware store yesterday, buying weed killer, and the young man ahead of me had just checked out.  He was late teens or early twenties.  He was walking away and the older lady who was ringing me up had already started on my stuff, with Izzy Dragon standing beside me when the young man came back up and said, “Hey.  You gave me too much change back.  I think two of these five’s were stuck together.”  He then shoved a five dollar bill toward the lady cashier and turned around and walked away.  We both looked at each other in shock and didn’t say a word.

Now, yeah, rude as hell.  Just interrupted us, no manners…but lots of integrity.  He could very easily just have walked out with the extra change.  And I paraphrased what he did say, so we’d need to work on his grammar a bit, too, but still … integrity.  There’s something there to work with.  If we could just move some of this toward Washington, D.C. … …

C. S. Lewis says that integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching, but maybe integrity is doing the right thing especially when no one is watching.  You people who are in charge – even a little bit – need to pay attention. 

But now, we need to pay attention to laughter, because we know that they aren’t going to pay attention to what one little dragon has to say.  But, if we all say it together … That’s what we’re trying to do here folks.  The power of many of us speaking with one voice.

But for now, let’s all laugh together.

Blazing Saddles has just been edited for television.  It will air tonight from 8:00 to 8:07.

That actually makes sense …

I before E

Except when your foreign neighbor Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters.

Weird.

Huge Fight at Seafood Restaurant

Battered Fish Everywhere

And this shit happens to me ALL.  THE.  TIME.  It’s absolutely amazing to me that I can be reading a book and moving through paragraphs and pages where I can pause anytime and then as soon as I get to an exciting part, everybody and their brother wants my attention! 

Okay, and this next one is from Stephanie, which probably doesn’t surprise any of us because she’s pretty good at finding strange stuff on the internet.  Here’s a guy who designed a roller coaster that is designed to gently and in a fun way … um … help you kill yourself.

https://www.ranker.com/list/euthanasia-coaster-facts/jodi-smith

Man, this next joke made me laugh SO HARD.  Thanks Steph!

One of our female members, who shall remain nameless, took a vacation to France some years ago with one of her girlfriends.

Her husband drove her to the airport and wished her a good trip.  The wife asked, “Would you like me to bring something back for your?”

The husband laughed and says, “How about a French girl!”

Our lady kept quiet, didn’t respond, and went into the terminal.

Two weeks later her husband picked her up at the airport and asked, “So, honey, how was the trip?”

“Really great, I loved Paris.”

“And, what happened to my present?”

“Which present?”

“What I asked for … the French girl?”

“Oh, that?  Well, I did what I could, now we’ll have to wait nine months to see if it’s a girl!!!”

Absolutely perfect.

Hi honey, I’m home …

If bedbugs are found on beds, who ever came up with the name cockroach?

I found that growing up in the SIXTIES was a lot more fun than being in my SIXTIES

I FUCKING KNEW IT!  I knew I should’ve responded to that damn email!  I knew it, I knew it, I fucking knew it!!!! Damn it!

At the Ballet you always see girls dancing on tiptoes … why don’t they just get taller girls?

Speaking of ballet …

I’m really good at selling home security systems.  If the people aren’t home, I just leave a brochure on their kitchen table.

Do not eat Aluminum or you’ll Sheet Metal

I have questions … well … maybe just one …

This is what a sunset looks like from above the clouds.

The Empire State building has its own zip code.

And our newest daily category…

Special thanks to Ted for this thoughtful one …

Snow, Traffic Jams, and Electric Cars.

Has anyone thought about it?

If all cars were electric … and were caught up in a three hour traffic jam…  dead batteries! Then what?

Not to mention, that there is virtually no heating in an electric vehicle.

And if you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating !!!

You can try calling 911 to bring women and children to safety!

But they can not even come to help you since all roads are blocked !!!

And when the roads become unblocked no one can move!

How do you charge the thousands of cars from the traffic jam?

Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams.

This will make cars run out of “fuel” and cause never ending traffic jams.

But that, nobody talks about, of course!

Just saying!

You drop something when you were younger, you just pick it up.

When you’re older and you drop something, you stare at it for a bit, contemplating if you actually will ever need it again.

Everything happens for a reason.

Sometimes the reason is you’re stupid and make bad decisions.

“Why are you so nice, even to people who are rude to you?”

“Because I, too, have been rude to nice people, and I know that rudeness comes from a place of a roaring pain and only kindness soothes it.” ~ By The Word

“And because I am a kind person and why should I change myself because of them.” ~ Mrs. Dragon

The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.

And that’s it for today my friends.  No updates for the donations for the Security Forces Lady.  I’m still hoping we can raise a little bit of money for her.  Just remember, all you have to do is hit the donation button on the top right, just like you do when I ask you to once a year to help me pay the bills for the website.  I’ll just take everything you guys donate and turn it over to the family to help them with expenses.  Every little bit helps.  A buck or two here and there when we add it all up together, would make a hell of a difference.  Supposedly we have 500 plus readers, if everyone gave $2, that’s a thousand dollars.  Now we all know that’s not going to happen, but you see what a little bit from everyone can do.

So … prove me wrong.  Make it happen….

Love and happiness to you all.

Cheers,

Impish Dragon

Good Morning Campers,

Well … I’m a little surprised.  I didn’t get a single comment on my last issue … edition.  I know I have a lot of issues.  Not that kind of issue, ezine issue … edition. Sigh.  You know what I mean.  But no one said a word.  At least up to this point.  Maybe it was because it was so long between editions that you guys forgot about me already?  You guys have already moved on?  I’m already an afterthought?

All it took was a week!!!!!!

Holy crap guys!!!!

That means that I have to make this issue … edition … even more special, even more obnoxious, even more IMPISH!

Only …

I’m not sure how I’m supposed to do that since I normally do a p-r-e-t-t-y
g-o-o-d job. 

But I’m certainly going to try.

But, come on.  Nothing?  From anyone.

And no one said anything about the Security Forces lady who was hurt, but I do have an update.  I didn’t tell you that she is paralyzed, because I didn’t want to throw everything at you guys at once, but from what I understand, she did move her fingers a little tiny bit.  I don’t know if it was on purpose or not.  I assume it was since everyone was really happy about it and said it was really good news.  I’m getting most of my information like third hand, but we’ll take any good news we can get at this point.

And with that … on to the issue … or … um … edition.

And that should tell you an awful lot …

INEPTOCRACY – (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

This really belongs in the political section, but it is special enough that I want to highlight it by itself.  Thanks very much to Lynn for sending this to me.

And this DEFINITELY falls under the category of …

In early January 2020, Bob Lonsberry, a Rochester talk radio personality on WHAM 1180 AM, said this in response to Biden’s Income inequality speech:

 

Two Americas

 

The Democrats are right, there are two Americas.

 

The America that works, and the America that doesn’t.

 

The America that contributes, and the America that doesn’t.

 

It’s not the haves and the have nots, it’s the dos and the don’ts.

 

Some people do their duty as Americans, obey the law, support themselves, contribute to society, and others don’t. That’s the divide in America.

 

It’s not about income inequality, it’s about civic irresponsibility.

 

It’s about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective office.

 

It’s about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country. That’s not invective, that’s truth, and it’s about time someone said it.

 

The politics of envy was on proud display a couple weeks ago when President Biden pledged the rest of his term to fighting “income inequality.” He noted that some people make more than other people, that some people have higher incomes than others, and he says that’s not just.

 

That is the rationale of thievery. The other guy has it, you want it, Biden will take it for you. Vote Democrat.

 

That is the philosophy that produced Detroit. It is the electoral philosophy that is destroying America .

 

It conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense because it ends up not benefiting the people who support it, but a betrayal.

 

The Democrats have not empowered their followers; they have enslaved them in a culture of dependence and entitlement, of victim-hood and anger instead of ability and hope.

 

The president’s premise – that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful – seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices, and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices. Because, by and large, income variations in society are a result of different choices leading to different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibly have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure. Success and failure usually manifest themselves in personal and family income.

 

You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college – and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education and/or employment.

 

You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course; you have them within a marriage and life is apt to take another course.

 

Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take.

 

My doctor, for example, makes far more than I do. There is significant income inequality between us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome, but, our lives also have had an inequality of effort. While my doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I chose another avenue.

 

He made a choice, I made a choice, and our choices led us to different outcomes. His outcome pays a lot better than mine. Does that mean he cheated and Joe Biden needs to take away his wealth? No, it means we are both free men in a free society where free choices lead to different outcomes.

 

It is not inequality Joe Biden intends to take away, it is freedom. The freedom to succeed and the freedom to fail. There is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure. The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy. Even if the other guy sat on his arse and did nothing. Even if the other guy made a lifetime’s worth of asinine and shortsighted decisions.

 

President Biden and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort. The simple Law of the Harvest – as ye sow, so shall ye reap – is sometimes applied as, “The harder you work, the more you get.” Biden would turn that upside down. Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society.

 

Entitlement will replace effort as the key to upward mobility in American society if President Biden Barack gets his way. He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive to foster equality through mediocrity. He and his party speak of two Americas, and their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other. America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts. It is a false philosophy to say one man’s success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man’s victimization.

 

What Biden offered was not a solution, but a separatism. He fomented division and strife, pitted one set of Americans against another for his own political benefit. That’s what socialists offer. Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow.

 

Two Americas, coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln’s maxim that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

Haven’t we been saying the same thing for months?  Why can’t these restaurants and fast food places get any employees?  Why are states having to shut off the unemployment benefits that the federal government is forcing on us?  Because people are making more money sitting on their asses at home then if they actually had to go out and work for a living.  Incentive money for anyone making $75,000 a year or less?  Jeez, if you are a single person and you can’t afford to support yourself on $75k a year … WTF!!!  This guy is dead on the money!  And it was written a year and a half ago!  And see how it has all come true!

“Why, yes!  I’d LOVE to buy some Girl Scout Cookies!!!!!”

Unlimited energy, or perpetual stupidity … you be the judge.

“Hello.  My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed my father.  Prepare to die.”

Okay….update …

First donation has come in … and the winner is…

Steven H.  And yes, I’m sure it will help that family.  Bless you brother!

For the rest of you guys, don’t be shy.  Anything will help.  A buck or two, when we all add it together will really make a difference.  Let’s see what we can do by July.  Let me look it up…. Since the 4th is on a Sunday, they pushed the July UTA back to the weekend of the 10th.  So, that means that all donations have to be collected and cashed and everything by then.  So, with time for me to convert to cash and get it to them and all that stuff, let’s say that Dragon Laffs will run this thing until … well, let’s run it till Independence Day.  And let’s see if what we can do to make this family a little more financially independent, even a tiny bit more independent for the future.

For those of you who are just tuning in, this young Security Forces (think military cop) was at home with her family on Memorial Day and had a freak accident, got injured, and now may be paralyzed.  She has little kids at home and is looking at, at least, long term care, child care, and … well, you can imagine.  The base has reached out, and I’m reaching out to you, my family.  The latest we heard was that she moved her fingers a tiny bit.  Don’t know if it was voluntary or involuntary muscle movement, but … prayers and high hopes.  Keep this young lady in your prayers, campers.

Okay, onward…

Dammit cousin Billy, I warned you!!!

Whoever she is … she’s a keeper!!!

In Utah the term “Speed Limit” translates to: “If we all go 80 mph, the can’t pull us all over” and I think that’s beautiful.

I’m not sure if that’s true or not … I haven’t driven in Utah in about 44 years, but if my recollection is still correct, yeah, that’s about right.

A man went to the Great Lakes Military Cemetery.  He took some pictures while reflecting on what’s going on in our country today.  Then he wrote this simple poem:

I don’t see any color here,
The headstones look the same.
No black, no brown, now white skin tone,
There’s no one here to blame.

These soldiers fought and died for you.
Their color you can’t see.
Your rights are still protected,
Here’s the place to take a knee.

Whoever you are sir, I salute you.

The trick to being smart, is knowing when to play dumb.

It is as good an explanation as I’ve ever heard.

Bozo criminal for today comes from Honolulu, Hawaii where bozo Robert Graham walked away from a work furlough program to marry his girlfriend. At the time our bozo was only 5 months shy of finishing an 8 year sentence. Our bozo never got to go on his honeymoon, however. The office manager at the marriage license bureau got suspicious and called the cops when our bozo tried to use his prison ID to apply for his marriage license.

Holy crap!  I just found his brother …

Holy CRAP!  I’m rich!  I’m rich, I’m rich, I’m rich!  Check out this email I just got:

Dear Friend,  See, he calls me his friend!

I Am Mr. Tom Hassan. From West Africa i have a business deal to share with you in the sum of10.2M USD dollars that is been held in our here in

(B.O.A) bank of Africa the fund mentioned rightful belong to one of our late client who deposited the money in our bank here ever since he Died nobody have been able to apply to claim the fund so i wish that you will come and Assume as his foreign business partner also note this business is risk Free not to be sacred or doubt is real please my dearest one also noted.  He speaks such fluid English and it’s 10.2 million dollars!!!!

This once we succeed in transferring this fund to your wish provided Account in your country it will share among us in agreement of 60% 40 I believe that after this Deal joy and happiness will be on or face’s and family’s please reply to me with your details so we can move on with this great plan ok.  OK!  But … do I get the 60% or the 40 … so is that 6.12 million or 4.08 million…

Your Full Name…….  Impish Dragon

Your Age&Sex……..  Not really sure … um … let’s say 225 (our years are so different from yours) and as often as possible

Your Marital Status……  Very married

Your Country Name…….  The United States of America…um … well … that’s the human side … the mythological side is kind of unpronounceable … so let’s go with that.

Your Phone Number……  Unreachable by phone

Your Occupation…..  Dragon

Your Bank Name……  Impish’s Horde of Gold (it’s a very small branch)

Your Account Number……  1

Thanks Yours Brotherly  He ain’t heavy … he’s my brotherly …

Mr. Tom Hassan.

You know, the thing that bothers me the most about this … is that they wouldn’t be sending this stupid shit out it it wasn’t working with someone.  People please!  No one in South Africa, or anywhere else in the world is going to give you a plug nickel … much less a million dollars.  You know, I say that as I ask you guys to give me money for someone you’ve never met and to send me donations every year, so it that hypocritical of me?  Maybe there is really is some rich African Prince somewhere who’s been trying for years and years to get rid of this 10 million dollars and can’t believe that no matter how hard he tries, he just can’t get anyone to take it off his hands …

But I friggin’ doubt it.

This is what the Seattle skyline looks like.

Oregon’s Crater Lake is deep enough to cover six Statues of Liberty stacked on top of each other

I want to thank my parents for not letting me pick my gender while I was still eating Crayons, Glue, Boogers, and Dog Food.

Take a really good look at the statue and see what parts are polished clean …

AMEN!!!  Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen!  Do NOT blame the Police because YOU are a shitty parent!

We have said it SO MANY times … why are the vocal minority getting so much attention?  Could it be because they all vote democrat?

So true it makes me want to cry.

No kidding!  You never ONCE asked me if I wanted to incur your fucking debt!!!

A chicken walks into a library and goes up to the desk.

“Buk,” says the chicken.  So the librarian gives him a book.  The chicken leaves with the book and returns five minutes later.

“Buk,” he says.  So the librarian gives him another book. 

This goes on about eight more times, until finally the librarian leaves the library and goes outside on break in back where there’s a pond.  The chicken is standing on the edge of the pond tossing the books to a frog on a lily pad.  The chicken says “Buk, Buk” and the frog says, “reddit, reddit”.

I’ll show myself out.

It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered that my Universal Remote Control did NOT, in fact, control the Universe.

Not even remotely.

Damn … I’m pretty sure I know her … if not, I’m 100% I know the type.

I was wondering why music was coming from my printer?

Apparently the paper was jamming.

If you don’t do a lot of stupid things when you’re young, you won’t have funny things to talk about when you’re old.

Subtle, that one is.

If I was Snow White you’d never be able to kill me with an apple … You’d have to poison an éclair or something.

And with that little bit of stoner humor, we’ll end today’s issue … edition (okay, don’t start that shit again) here.  No more updates today, just the one.  Thanks so much for all that you do for and with me.  Thanks for all the kind thoughts this week while I’ve been missing in action.  No, Mrs. Dragon is fine, I’m fine, just an exercise out at the base and lots and lots of extended 12 and 14 hour shifts. 

But for now, all is well with the world, so until we meet again, dear campers.

Love and happiness to you all.

Cheers!

Impish Dragon

Good Morning Campers,

I was very disappointed on Memorial Day.  Mrs. Dragon and I got stuck at the grocery store at 3 pm, but didn’t let that stop us from pulling our cart over to the side of the aisle and bowing our heads for 60 seconds in memory and respect for the men and women who gave their lives for us.  But, it annoyed me that the store didn’t say anything, didn’t even cut out their normal announcements or their crappy music.  Very disappointing.

But, what did I expect.  There is no respect any more.  No thankfulness for the things we have.  I’m incredibly disappointed.  Yes, it was poor planning on our part, but at the same time, I’m kinda glad we were out in public at 3 pm.  Had we been on the road, I’d have pulled off to the side of the road and waited respectfully for that 60 seconds…and I bet we’d have been alone.

I don’t know what I expected.

So, let’s move on and let’s laugh.

Lawyer:  My client is trapped inside a penny

Judge:  What?

Lawyer:  He’s in a cent.

Judge:  You’re going to jail with him

BEAUTY PARLOR

 

A place where women curl up and dye.

CHICKENS

The only animal you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

COMMITTEE

A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST

Mud with the juice squeezed out.

EGOTIST

Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

HANDKERCHIEF

Cold Storage.

INFLATION

Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

MOSQUITO

An insect that makes you like flies better.

RAISIN

A grape with a sunburn.

SECRET

A story you tell to one person at a time.

SKELETON

A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE

The pain that drives you to extraction.

TOMORROW

One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

YAWN

An honest opinion openly expressed.

WRINKLES

Something other people have….similar to my character lines.

OLD

I very quietly confided to my friend that I was having an affair.

She turned to me and asked, “Are you having it catered?”

And that, my friend, is the definition of OLD! 

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

New Dragon 2.0.  The latest in dragon technology.

From Pete ….

Ya know, living alone and being under a stay at home order, I go for several days without seeing or even talking to one other human being….but don’t get me wrong……there are downsides too……

Bozo criminal for today is our first ever bozo from the K-9 Division. From Waukesha, Wisconsin comes the story of Officer “Nutz”, a seven year old German Shepherd on the city drug enforcement team. It seems Officer Nutz escaped from his kennel and headed straight to a nearby grocery where he triggered the automatic door and walked right in. Our K-9 bozo then made a beeline for the meat department, snagged himself a package of prime rib and dashed for the exit. Unfortunately for Officer Nutz the crime was captured by the store’s security cameras. He’s been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the internal affairs department.

Yeah … just cause it’s a cool pic

Yeah, fuck you Elf on a shelf, time to meet Alien in the crawl space!

MINNESOTA QUARTERS ALERT (IMPORTANT)

Hang on to any of the new Minnesota Quarters you may

acquire.

They may be worth MUCH MORE than 25 cents!

The US Mint announced today that it is recalling all of the

Minnesota quarters that are part of its program featuring

quarters from each state.

This action is being taken after numerous reports that the

new quarters will not work in parking meters, toll booths,

vending machines, pay phones or any other coin-operated

devices.

The problem lies in the unique makeup of the Minnesota

quarter, which was designed by a couple of Norwegian

specialists, Sven and Ole. Apparently the duct tape holding

the two dimes and the nickel together keeps jamming up the

machines.

UFF Da!

YA SHURE – YOU BETCHA

I duck my head down while driving into underground parking garages to make my car fit, in case you wondered what kind of superior intellect I’ve passed down to my kids.

Then we have this stupid bitch…

And every veteran and family member of a vet wept

And then I found this PERFECT cartoon:   Thanks Aussie Pete!!!

And this Darwin Award worthy send from Sasquatch cracked me up!

Today I was driving in the city of Detroit where I saw a couple of guys pushing one truck with another with a rimless tire in between. The tire slipped out going around a corner resulting in minor crunching and the tire stuck up under the push truck. About 15 minutes later I was back on the road and saw them again. To make sure that the tire didn’t slip out again they had one guy sitting on the hood of the truck with his legs wrapped around the tire to keep it between the two trucks. I’m thinking I’ll probably be seeing him in a wheelchair at a freeway off ramp or party store looking for money soon.

And a couple of Darwin Award worthy photos:

This next one I just want to wait and watch for them to leave …

And in the category of “Why Can’t I Get a Job?” and “Where Do My Tax Dollars Go For Welfare Money?”

And most of you youngsters aren’t gonna get THAT one, either.

I’m pretending to be a hot girl on tinder do I can match with my roommate and tell him I’m coming over tonight so he’ll clean the apartment.

I’m not sure if this is from a guy or a girl, but either way … well played.

MY EYES!!!!!

The Immigrants Poem

  I cross river, poor and broke, take bus, see employment folk.
  Nice man treat me good in there, say I need go see Welfare.
  Welfare say, ‘you come no more, we send cash, right to your door.
Welfare checks, they make you wealthy, Medicaid, it keep you healthy!
  By and by, got plenty money, thanks to you, TAXPAYER dummy.
  Write to friends in motherland, tell them ‘come, fast as you can’
   They come in buses and Chevy trucks,
  I buy big house, with welfare bucks. They come here, we live together,
  More welfare checks, it gets better!
  Fourteen families, they moving in, but neighbor’s patience wearing thin.
  Finally, white guy moves away, I buy his house, and then I say,
  ‘Find more aliens, for house to rent. In my yard I put a tent.
  Send for family, they just trash, …. but they too, draw welfare cash!
  Everything is very good, soon we own whole neighborhood..
  We have hobby, it called breeding, Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wife need pills? We get free! We got no bills!
  TAXPAYER crazy! He pay all year, to keep Welfare running here.
  We think America, darn good place!   Too darn good, for white man race.

  If they no like us, they can go, got lots of room In Mexico.

Why do medications always have side effects like “anal leakage” and “suicidal thoughts”?  Why not “invisibility” or “spontaneous orgasms”?

Okay, to round out this issue… a story and then an very important Last Word.  This was sent to me by my Dad, Papa Dragon Most Senior, but originated with his wife.

“The American flag does not fly because the wind moves past it…the flag flies from the last breath of each military member who has died serving it.”

My lead flight attendant came to me and said, “We have an HR. on this flight.” (H.R. stands for Human Remains.)

“Are they military?” I asked

‘Yes’, she said.

‘Is there an escort?’ I asked.

‘Yes, I’ve already assigned him a seat’.

‘Would you please tell him to come to the Flight Deck. You can board him early,” I said…

A short while later a young army sergeant entered the flight deck. He was the image of the perfectly dressed soldier. He introduced himself and I asked him about his soldier.

The escorts of these fallen soldiers talk about them as if they are still alive and still with us. ‘My soldier is on his way from Iraq back to Virginia,’ he said. He proceeded to answer my questions, but offered no  other words.

I asked him if there was anything I could do for him and he said no. I told him that he had the toughest job in the military, and that I appreciated the work that he does for the families of our fallen soldiers. The first officer and I got up out of our seats to shake his hand. He left the Flight Deck to find his seat.

We completed our preflight checks, pushed back and performed an uneventful departure.

About 30 minutes into our flight, I received a call from the lead flight attendant in the cabin.

‘I just found out the family of the soldier we are carrying, is also on board’, she said. She then proceeded to tell me that the father, mother, wife and 2-year old daughter were escorting their son, husband, and father home. The family was upset because they were unable to see the container that the soldier was in before we left.

We were on our way to a major hub at which the family was going to wait four hours for the connecting flight home to Virginia. The father of the soldier told the flight attendant that knowing his son was below him in the cargo compartment and being unable to see him was too much for him and the family to bear. He had asked the flight attendant if there was anything that could be done to allow them to see him upon our arrival. The family wanted to be outside by the cargo door

I could hear the desperation in the flight attendants voice when she asked me if there was anything I could do. ‘I’m on it’, I said. I told her that I would get back to her.

Airborne communication with my company normally occurs in the form of e-mail like messages. I decided to bypass this system and contact my flight dispatcher directly on a secondary radio. There is a radio operator in the operations control center who connects you to the telephone of the dispatcher. I was in direct contact with the dispatcher. I explained the situation I had on board with the family and what it was the family wanted. He said he understood and that he would get back to me.

Two hours went by and I had not heard from the dispatcher. We were going to get busy soon and I needed to know what to tell the family. I sent a text message asking for an update I saved the return message from the dispatcher and the following is the text:

‘Captain, sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. There is policy on this now, and I had to check on a few things. Upon your arrival a dedicated escort team will meet the aircraft. The team will escort the family to the ramp and plane side. A van will be used to load the remains with a secondary van for the family.

The family will be taken to their departure area and escorted into the terminal, where the remains can be seen on the ramp. It is a private area for the family only. When the connecting aircraft arrives, the family will be escorted onto the ramp and plane side to watch the remains being loaded for the final leg home.

Captain, most of us here in flight control are veterans. Please pass our condolences on to the family. Thanks.

I sent a message back, telling flight control thanks for a good job. I printed out the message and gave it to the lead flight attendant to pass on to the father. The lead flight attendant was very thankful and told me, ‘You have no idea how much this will mean to them.’

Things started getting busy for the descent, approach and landing. After landing, we cleared the runway and taxied to the ramp area. The ramp is huge with 15 gates on either side of the alleyway. It is always a busy area with aircraft maneuvering every which way to enter and exit. When we entered the ramp and checked in with the ramp controller, we were told that all traffic was being held for us

‘There is a team in place to meet the aircraft’, we were told. It looked like it was all coming together, then I realized that once we turned the seat belt sign off, everyone would stand up at once and delay the family from getting off the airplane. As we approached our gate, I asked the copilot to tell the ramp controller, we were going to stop short of the gate to make an announcement to the passengers. He did that and the ramp controller said, ‘Take your time.’

I stopped the aircraft and set the parking brake. I pushed the public address button and said: ‘Ladies and gentleman, this is your Captain speaking: I have stopped short of our gate to make a special announcement. We have a passenger on board who deserves our honor and respect. His name is Private XXXXXX, a soldier who recently lost his life. Private XXXXXX is under your feet in the cargo hold. Escorting him today is Army Sergeant XXXXXX. Also, on board are his father, mother, wife, and daughter Your entire flight crew is asking for all passengers to remain in their seats to allow the family to exit the aircraft first. Thank you.’

We continued the turn to the gate, came to a stop and started our shutdown procedures. A couple of minutes later I opened the cockpit door. I found the two forward flight attendants crying, something you just do not see. I was told that after we came to a stop, every passenger on the aircraft stayed in their seats, waiting for the family to exit the aircraft.

When the family got up and gathered their things, a passenger slowly started to clap his hands. Moments later, more passengers joined in and soon the entire aircraft was clapping. Words of ‘God Bless You’, I’m sorry, thank you, be proud, and other kind words were uttered to the family as they made their way down the aisle and out of the airplane. They were escorted down to the ramp to finally be with their loved one.

Many of the passengers disembarking thanked me for the announcement I had made. They were just words, I told them, I could say them over and over again, but nothing I say will bring back that brave soldier.

I respectfully ask that all of you reflect on this event and the sacrifices that millions of our men and women have made to ensure our freedom and safety in these United States of AMERICA.

Foot note: I know everyone who reads this will have tears in their eyes, including me. Prayer chain for our Military. Don’t break it! Please send this on after a short prayer for our service men and women.

Don’t break it!

They die for me and mine and you and yours and deserve our honor and respect

Prayer Request: When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world. There is nothing attached. Just send this to people in your address book. Do not let it stop with you. Of all the gifts you could give a Marine, Soldier, Sailor, Coast Guardsman, Airman, and others deployed in harm’s way, prayer is the very best one. And do not forget to remember our law enforcement officers and firemen.

GOD BLESS YOU!

Yes, I know you’ve probably heard this story before, but it was worth repeating…now

I know I’ve asked you guys for stuff in the past, and maybe it’s to the point where I’ve worn out my welcome and please don’t feel like you HAVE to do anything, but I received a work email today that I just felt like I had to share with you guys.  Now, I have to edit it because I’m not sure I’m supposed to share it, but I’m going to anyway, because I know I can trust you guys and because, well … screw it, I just am.

A Security Forces Squadron Member was recently involved in a vehicle accident. The Member and her family have an immediate need for child expenses, necessities to meet basic day to day living needs and funds to prepare for long term care. The Member is located out of state and anything donated to the Member will need to be collected and mailed.

Any contributions or cash donations (including gift cards, prepaid VISAs, etc.) are purely voluntary and will be greatly appreciated. If you would like to donate or have questions, please contact ….

We will collect donations through Sunday of the July UTA. Thank you.

Okay, a little bit of the back story.  I can’t tell you her name, or much about the injury other than it’s pretty bad and the long term care thing might be significant.  Her and her husband have little kids at home and it’s really a sad situation and freak kind of accident.

The problem is there is no go fund me site or anything like that that I can direct you to (there might be that the family set up that they haven’t shared with us because we are not legally allowed to share that on base) so the only thing that I can do is donate cash to the people that I’ve edited out of the above email.  And the July UTA (Unit Training Assembly) is just a couple of weeks away.  So, the only thing I can think of, is for you guys to donate in the normal manner to Dragon Laffs, I convert it to cash and then make the cash donation to the officer who is taking donations in the name of Dragon Laffs.

What do you guys think?  Reply in the comments, let me know.  And God Bless You All.

Impish Dragon