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Support our Troops

I have been really busy with my daughter's most recent surgery and events my other daughter is doing over the summer so I haven't blogged much lately, but wanted to be sure to mention the effort by Move America Forward, Michelle Malkin and others to support our troops.  Please check out "From the Frontlines" -- a web-a-thon to support the troops with care packages.  Here is a description of the effort from Michelle:

We’ve got a star-studded line-up of troops, military charities, celebs, and talk radio stars — from Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin to Dr. Laura and Laura Ingraham to musician John Ondrasik and “Lone Survivor” author and Navy SEAL hero Marcus Luttrell — who’ll be joining us in our eight-hour marathon fund-raising drive to help send the largest number of care packages in history to our men and women in uniform serving overseas.

Sean Hannity announced yesterday that he’s personally donating $15,000 to the From the Frontlines effort. Awesome. Here’s my challenge to regular readers and commenters of this site and Hot Air. At the end of the web-a-thon, I’d like to see you collectively match that donation. Can you take up the challenge and make a pledge? Can you all help me walk the troop-supporting walk and raise $15,000 by the end of the night? Can we do it? Yes, you can.

You can order a care package here.

Congrats

Congratulations to Vinnie Del Negro who has just been named as head coach of the Chicago Bulls.  Del Negro played for Jim Valvano at NC State and was in one of my classes there.  My boyfriend and I studied with him a time or two, but my most vivid memory is of sharing an umbrella with Vinnie following one class when a sudden downpour caught him without an umbrella.  I remember it because I am about 5'1" and when you share an umbrella with someone who is almost two feet taller than you, the umbrella does not do you much good.  I remember getting fairly soaked (although my head did stay mostly dry). I think about it occasionally when I share an umbrella with my kids.  I am always sure to hold the umbrella just above their heads, rather than mine.

Del Negro has played for the NBA and has been an on-air analyst, but has not coached.  It will be interesting to see how he does.  Congrats and best wishes, Vinnie. 

Ouch

This is one of those stories that makes men winch.  Heck, it made me winch.