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Rukia:
Keep tuned if you want to know what I'm spouting off about now!

Rukia

Rukia:
Okay, so this is the issue...Our building's parking lot is being sealcoated.  There has been a note up on both bulletin boards, in both elevators, and in other strategic places.  Still, people leave their cars in the parking lot on the day that the sealcoating is taking place!  It's not like there wasn't enough warning!  The property management company told the sealcoaters to go around them.  There are three spots in the parking lot that aren't sealcoated, so it looks weird!  I just wish that people would work with us instead of against us.  It'll make things a lot easier on everyone!
 
Rukia

Rukia:
Been there!
 
Rukia

Rukia:
Happy July 4th, or Independence Day, or whatever you call it.
 
I feel I need to say something.  Did you ever really study the words of  Frances Scott Key's Star Spangled Banner?  What do they mean to you?  Think about it.
For your consideration, here are the lyrics in their entirety!
God Bless our Nation and it's leaders.
Rukia
 
 
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
 What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
 Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
 O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
 And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
 Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
 Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

 On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
 Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
 What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
 As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
 Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
 In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

 And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
 That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
 A home and a country should leave us no more!
 Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
 No refuge could save the hireling and slave
 From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
 And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

 Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
 Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
 Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
 Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
 Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
 And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
 And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

GSGregg:
WOW! No wonder Hayley Mills never covered this thing!

(Food for thought, though. Thanks, Rukia)

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