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Entire family murdered close to Colleyville. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/seven-shot-dead-in-fort-worth-christmas-morning/

Merry Christmas to you to randalln! Hope you're having a Texas Christmas! Merry Christmas to everyone - boy this eggnog is good with Christian Brothers !

Your welcome - too good an article to have to move it because it needed a link. Good post! Merry Christmas!

It will only be like this for a while - slow down and enjoy it Adding the special script for the snow is the culprit Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Thank you Adam for all your help on this adventure. May the Lord bless you and yours through this most wonderful season. To all the members and Mods: Merry Merry Christmas! from TexasGranny's little log cabin to your family and loved ones. It's the perfect time to tell your loved ones how much they mean to you.

Do Dogs Go To Heaven Heated theological debate: do all dogs go to heaven? Posted on December 23, 2011 at 2:23am by Becket Adams "Despite the fact that these photos are from February, and therefore dated, they’re new to me and I think they’re funny. So they’re going up. Oh, they’re also fake. According to The Cumberland Presbyterian Church website: I have received several e-mails showing church signs with inappropriate text. Most often the e-mails show a Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church at war with another faith, especially Catholic. These signs are a prank. But prank or not, the back and forth debate on these marquees is hilarious. “Do dogs go to heaven?” Oddly enough, I’ve actually heard grown adults debate this before (man, I really need to get out more often). Based on the fact that dogs hate me (or want to eat me), I think I can live with the idea of a dog-free heaven. But if there are dogs in heaven, well, that’s alright too. Cats, however, are a different story. Let me explain: I hate cats. There. I don’t know. I haven’t really put that much thought into this (and by “that much” I mean “any”). Enjoy." To see all the images please go to Do All Dogs Go To Heaven? Since I have 6 dogs and 3 cats, my personal opinion fits with image #3. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year everyone. May the good Lord bless and keep you safe from harm in 2012!

No problem - you certainly made the effort - I am going to close this topic now.

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Last U.S. troops leave Iraq By Moni Basu, CNN updated 11:39 PM EST, Sat December 17, 2011 (CNN) -- In a final tactical road march, the last U.S. troops in Iraq crossed the border into Kuwait on Sunday morning, ending almost nine years of a deadly and divisive war. About 500 Fort Hood, Texas-based soldiers and 110 military vehicles made the journey south from Camp Adder, near Nasiriya, to the Khabari border crossing, from where they will head to Camp Virginia in Kuwait before flying home. They were the last soldiers in what amounted to the largest U.S. troop drawdown since the war in Vietnam. Brigade Commander Col. Doug Crissman said his soldiers used the cover of night for security and timed the troop movements so as to avoid a traffic jam on the main north-south highway, which the Americans called Main Supply Route Tampa. Staff Sgt. Daniel Gaumer, 37, recalled his first tour of Iraq, in August 2003, when he drove in on this very same road. He had never been in a combat zone before. He was driving an unarmored Humvee -- something that is unimaginable now. He was frightened. There was not a lot of traffic at that time, he recalled. He remembered a lot of cheering by Iraqis, even though the situation was tense. Sunday morning, the air was decidedly different. "It's pretty historic," he said about the drive south, hoping he will not ever have to come back through this unforgiving desert again. "The biggest thing about going home is just that it's home," he said. "It's civilization as I know it -- the Western world, not sand and dust and the occasional rain here and there." A month ago, Adder, the last U.S. base before the five-hour drive to the Kuwaiti border, housed 12,000 people. By Thursday, the day the United States formally ended its mission in Iraq with a flag-casing ceremony in Baghdad, under 1,000 people remained there. The 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division officially transferred control of Camp Adder to the Iraqis on Friday, though it did not really change hands until the last American departed early Sunday morning. At its height, Adder housed thousands of troops and had a large PX, fast-food outlets, coffee shops and even an Italian restaurant. Now a ghost town, the United States gave 110,000 items left at Adder to the Iraqis, a loot worth $76 million, according to the military. In her last days working in a guard tower in Iraq, Sgt. Ashley Vorhees, 29, dreamed of seeing her three children and eating crispy chicken tacos at Rosa's Mexican restaurant in Killeen, Texas. She also looked forward to not having to carry her gun with her to the bathroom. Vorhees, a combat medic, spent her first tour of Iraq with her husband, also a soldier. "When Osama bin Laden was captured and killed, my mom was like 'Does that mean that everybody is coming home now?'" Vorhees said. "We actually had it a lot better than the people did who did the initial invasion," she said. "We're just thankful that we're not getting attacked every day." When the war was at its worst in 2006, America had 239,000 men and women in uniform stationed in more than 500 bases sprinkled throughout Iraq. Another 135,000 contractors were working in Iraq. The United States will still maintain a presence in Iraq: hundreds of nonmilitary personnel, including 1,700 diplomats, law enforcement officers, and economic, agricultural and other experts, according to the State Department. In addition, 5,000 security contractors will protect Americans and another 4,500 contractors will serve in other roles. The U.S. exit closes a war that was contentious from the start and cost the nation more than $800 billion. President Barack Obama, who had made a campaign promise to bring home American troops, reflected on a greater cost as Sunday's exit made good on his word. More than 4,500 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq; more than 30,000 wounded. In all, 1.5 million Americans served their nation at war. "All of them -- our troops, veterans, and their families -- will always have the thanks of a grateful nation," Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday. It's impossible to know with certainty the number of Iraqis who have died in Iraq since 2003. But the independent public database Iraq Body Count has compiled reports of more than 150,000 between the invasion and October 2010, with four out of five dead being civilians. And the question of how Iraq will fare in the months ahead, without U.S. troops, is also impossible to answer. Even before the last soldiers had left, political crisis was erupting in Baghdad. The powerful political bloc Iraqiya said it was suspending its participation in parliament, which would threaten Iraq's fragile power-sharing arrangement. Iraqiya accuses Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of amassing power. But for the last U.S. troops out, the message was clear. Crissman, their commander, spent the past few weeks speaking to the soldiers in each of his companies. He told them he was proud of his troops and they should be proud of what they had accomplished. And, he wanted his soldiers to take care of themselves back home as much as they did in Iraq. In the months before the brigade deployed in February, it lost 13 soldiers to accidents, some because of driving under the influence of alcohol. At least one death was a suicide. "Quite frankly we lost more soldiers in peacetime in the nine or 10 months before this brigade deployed due to accidents and risky behavior ... than we lost here in combat," Crissman said. "We want every soldier that survived this combat deployment to survive redeployment and reintegration." Capt. Mark Askew, 28, said he was worried about the well-being of his soldiers, many of whom have done multiple tours of Iraq and felt the stress and sting of war. Was the loss, the grief, worth it? For Askew, it will all depend on how Iraq's future unfolds -- whether democracy and human rights will take root, whether Iraq will be a steadfast U.S. ally. It will depend, he said, on how Iraq shapes its own destiny. CNN

This article mentions "dinar" ONE time. It is hardly an article discussing the RV of the dinar therefore it was moved to Off Topics.

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Just wanted to be sure everyone knows this had NOTHING to do with our investment. I am posting the article below so members don't jump to a wrong conclusion.

The posting is under Mod Review. If it is approved, it will be reposted.

Jodee - go to https://www.google.com/ in the upper right corner there is a button that says "Install Google Chrome". Click on it and follow the directions. When it asks you if you want Google Chrome to be your default browser, say yes. It will automatically pick up your InternetExplorer preferences and when you open it just use it the same way you use IE. If you have questions, just post a message on my profile page and I will try to help.

Jodee2004 - shut down your browser completely - maybe even reboot your computer. Let us know if that still does not work.

The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 12-DEC-2011. The results were as follows: Details Notes Number of banks 24 Auction price selling dinar / US$ 1170 Auction price buying dinar / US$ ----- Amount sold at auction price (US$) 145,450,000 Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) ----- Total offers for buying (US$) 145,450,000 Total offers for selling (US$) ----- Exchange rates Dollar's exchange rates / in Baghdad markets You can always check it at http://cbi.iq/index.php?pid=CurrencyAuctions

NATO to End Iraq Training Mission Published December 12, 2011 | Associated Press BRUSSELS – NATO says it will permanently shut down its military training mission in Iraq at the end of this month and withdraw all its soldiers from the country by Dec. 31. Officials had said that talks on extending the eight-year mission were stalled over NATO's request for legal immunity for the foreign trainers -- an issue that earlier torpedoed plans to keep a residual U.S. military presence in the country. A NATO statement Monday said the North Atlantic Council, the military alliance's governing body, decided to end the training mission because "agreement on the extension of this successful program did not prove possible despite robust negotiations conducted over several weeks." NATO has about 130 advisers from 13 member nations and Ukraine in Iraq. Fox News

Since the original poster has now posted that this article has been pulled. I am closing this topic to stop the bashing.

I don't know what state you are from but I DO KNOW that I can walk in my local Wal-Mart store - step up to the 1st Convenience Bank counter and sell my dinar to them tomorrow if I want to. They no longer sell dinar but said they would buy it back anytime I want to turn it in. That also applies to the VND. I know that a lot of the banks are saying they don't deal in dinars, but after the RV or the currency becomes a tradeable worldwide currency, all of the banks that handle foreign currency will take it. All of that being said, I cannot walk into my Credit Union and do the same as they do not handle any foreign currency.

The responses on this thread have gotten out of hand - since you can not discuss this issue without calling each other names, the topic will be closed.

The first thing you should do is read Adam's Cash In Guide. A lot of your questions will be answered. It is a free download. http://dinarnews.net/cashinguide.php

This is an old article from the Bush Administration era quoting Secretary of State Colin Powell and has been posted before. It is not a current article but for some reason has been re-published. Closing topic.

This has been posted before - this is an old article written during Bush administration and quotes Secretary of State Colin Powell. Closing topic.