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With all this craziness, I can't get through to any of my friends in the city. Please, please, please if you see this try to call me tonight or have someone call/email me to let me know you're ok!! Eric, call your mother!!!

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Thanks, PJammer for bringing this piece of shit to my attention. The sheer fucking callous ignorance of this just floors me. SHAME ON YOU!

millarca sez:
There was once a big bully that thought it was OK to pick on people, and third world countries. One day the bully's enemies got together and decided there were force in numbers.

The people got together and rallied for social and political change. When their cries went unheard they took measures into their own hands, and started fighting back.

Now the bully is crying, and calling them terrorist.

I call them freedom fighters!

Firefighter's Prayer

This may seem corny, but I love this poem. It's been a comfort to me in the past when I've lost firefighting friends, the same way that hearing "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes at every cop's funeral I've ever been to somehow calms me.

Firefighter's Prayer
(anonymous)

When I am called to duty, God
Whenever flames may rage,
Give me the strength to save some life
Whatever be its age,

Help me embrace a little child
Before it is too late
Or save an older person from
The horror of that fate

Enable me to be alert and
Hear the weakest shout
And quickly and efficiently
To put the fire out

I want to fill my calling and
To give the best in me,
To guard my every neighbor and
Protect his property

And if according to my fate
I am to lose my life,
Please bless with your
protecting hand
My children and my wife.