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Two years ago, my wife and I spent some time visiting the sacred grounds of real sacrifice for a real cause. On the Normandy beaches of D-Day, we stood where Americans, Brits, and Canadians mounted the largest, most ambitious and bloodiest amphibious invasion in history. I stood on a deserted, quiet, and peaceful Omaha Beach with the haunting memory that on June 6, 1944, the sand under my feet was red with the blood of Americans from my father’s generation who, if they survived the constant machine gun fire from Nazi gun nests, huddled against a seawall and eventually climbed those hills to liberate France and eventually the world.

As we participated in the flag lowering ceremony at the end of the day in the American Battlefield Memorial Ceremony at Omaha Beach, the carefully lined crosses represented the thousands for whom sacrifice was more than a percentage of their income—it was 100% of their own hopes, dreams, and lives — buried in France on land Americans proudly and respectfully oversee to preserve the dignity of the deaths. Stuart Robertson, a local historian who spent the day with us, took us to St. Mere Eglise, where American private John Steele parachuted as part of the airborne operation, and whose parachute got caught on the steeple of the church in the center of the town, a scene immortalized in the classic film “The Longest Day.”

What they came to fight was made clearer as we made our way to Poland, and visited the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. To stand in the very room where more than a million and half fellow human beings were murdered in an attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population was sobering.

This anniversary of D-Day please remember the men who fought and died for us on June 6th, 1944 and what they were fighting for.

With the deepest gratitude,

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by James on March 10, 2014 · permalink · translate

Perfect, does exactly what I expect. I cannot for the life of me fathom why this feature was removed from Firefox, and with more than 21K people bothering to look for and install this plugin, clearly I’m not the only one who missed it.

Look I know for those who like tabs, it is absolutely impossible to fathom why someone would prefer to use their browser another way but please try to remember that everyone has their own preference and don’t take away choices.

Personally I’ve tried to like tabs but I just don’t. I often have multiple browser windows open and alt-tab between them. I’ve already got a perfectly usable task bar in my OS and the browser tabs are a redundant second task bar specific to the browser.
Natural preference for people who don’t use tabs Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by alwaysbroke on March 9, 2014 · permalink · translate

Great plugin. Don’t understand why they removed this preference if they still offer opening in window instead of tab. If you open in a new window, then you don’t want the damn tab bar in your way.
Yes, we need it, thanks for bringing it back!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Roberto on January 11, 2014 · permalink · translate

Can’t say much about a thing that does what’s supposed to do other than ‘Excellent!’. Thanks, Chris!
Dear Mozilla, removing this feature from Firefox – for whatever reason – was wrong since it works against the idea of a neat and uncluttered browsing experience.

ETC.

‘I can’t look after my son any more, but at least I can look after his dog’
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In his own words . . .

 
 
Jef Raskin, Organist
Who knew?

One of Raskin’s instruments was the organ. At his home he played an “army field organ”, a portable reed organ designed for military chaplains, and he once bought a pipe organ from a convent in Belmont for the lobby at Apple. . .
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A video excerpt from Margaret Thatcher’s last speech in Parliament as Britain’s prime minister.

COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. And they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.

CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it’s worked for over 200 years, and we’re not using it anymore.

TEN COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse?
You cannot post “Thou Shalt Not Steal,” “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery” and “Thou Shall Not Lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians! It creates a hostile work environment!

MARTHA STEWART
Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she’s behind bars. O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around, Osama Bin Laden too. But they take the one woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and haul her butt off to jail.

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– DVDs –

This “Huellogy” comes in the form of two Odes (sung to familiar tunes):

(To the tune of “Davy Crockett”) –
RAY’sd with an AKsent out of TEN-a-SEE
NICE green STATE but not SO
a-may-ZEEN
GOT him a JOB where he WORK’d on tee-VEE
be-CAME our FAY’vrit
HOST on kay-cee-ee-TEE
HU-ELL, HU-ELL HOWSER
KING of CAL-i-FOR’nyas
GOLD

(To the tune of “The Marine Corps Anthem”) –
from the CLIFFS
a-LONG the NORthern COAST
to the FLATS at SAUL-ton SEA
he has BROUGHT us
CAL-ih-FOR’nyas GOLD
in its RICH dye-VER-si-TEE
WITH a SENSE of
WON-der-MENT and AWE
ALL-ways CHEER-full, KIND and CLEAN
we’ll ree-MEM-er
that HUELL HOWSER saw
“OH MY GOSH!” in EV’ry-THING

– Mike Coppi,
1/18/2013, mjcoppi@att.net