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August 01, 2005

Everett (Wa.) Teen USA Trades Tiara For Kevlar Helmet

Kinda cool:

The petite brunette says Army service has always been in the back of her mind.
"I'm capable, I'm healthy. This is the right thing to do," said Cabanayan, who attended Cascade and Marysville-Pilchuck high schools before earning her GED. "I cannot wait for that moment of putting on a uniform. It gives you that honor."

Very few pictures are available of her, although there is this one:

Which isn't the sort of shot any of us are looking for.

Over at Fark, where this story was found, the usual suspects are wishing death on her.

But they support the troops, you know.

Thanks to Fat Kid.

posted by Ace at 04:42 PM

Comments

I'd like to "support her troops".

OK, that was not necessary. My bad.

You go, girl.

Posted by: fugazi on August 1, 2005 05:08 PM

Cool story.

Posted by: brak on August 1, 2005 05:27 PM

She's got more balls than most of the imbeciles that replied to that post.

Posted by: Sterm26 on August 1, 2005 05:44 PM

Yeah, my tell was passed along more for the commentary than the link. It's funny, but I know at least 5 people just lik her. Granted, they're not all "Ms. Teen so and so's", but they share the same attitude, which is in stark contrast to the ankle biters in that fark thread.

Posted by: fat kid on August 1, 2005 06:30 PM

OMFG, send her to Fort Campbell, please God thank you.

Posted by: SGT Dan on August 1, 2005 06:35 PM

Good looking women like that shouldn't be jumping out of perfectly good airplanes SGT Dan! But, as a former Chairborne Ranger, I might be projecting a little :)

Posted by: BrewFan on August 1, 2005 06:43 PM

Very interesting. My daughter is a Miss Teen USA for our town and will be in the Miss Texas Teen pageant in Nov. In the Miss Houston USA pageant (not teen) one of the girls in the top ten was a Marine. Pretty impressive gals.

Posted by: Rightwingsparkle on August 1, 2005 07:43 PM

Man alive has FARK become a complete shithole. Maybe it always was, but there are some really dispicable people over there.

Plus, there's way too many of them. It's not nice and quiet, like it is over here. They just aren't our kind of people.

Posted by: Steve in Houston on August 1, 2005 10:57 PM

One of the local morning shows ran a piece that was done on her by a Seattle station.

Se's hot. Plus, she wants to go into the infantry and kill bad guys.

I think I'm in love.

Posted by: Steve LaVergne on August 2, 2005 07:59 AM

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E3C89C20-6A0A-48F9-9476-A72F4E00A426.htm

Maybe she is a masochist and just wants to sodomize little boys. Support the troops!!

Posted by: Frank on August 2, 2005 08:48 AM

Frank,

Seymour and aljazeera are really, really reliable sources so keep believing brother. You're the inflated scrotum guy aren't you?

Asshat.

Posted by: BrewFan on August 2, 2005 09:04 AM

thing about fark is - its a place where you cant really dissent because they loons will go APES*%T on you.. so you only see one side now.

Fark its self has the same cultural makeup as the rest of the nation - basically 52 48..

Posted by: bender on August 2, 2005 09:41 AM

Brewfan,
When the bush administration finally is forced to follow the court order demanding release of the tapes in question, and the statement is verified. I do expect a full apology from you. I am sure you will comply.

Posted by: frank on August 2, 2005 09:55 AM

frank, are you sure you don't mean the Nixon administration?

Posted by: Dave in Texas on August 2, 2005 10:13 AM

"I do expect a full apology from you. I am sure you will comply. "

I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. What I would do if I was you was engage in some serious self-reflection and try to find out why I take such delight in the suffering of others and why its more important for America to fail then your political agenda.

Posted by: BrewFan on August 2, 2005 10:15 AM

Self reflecting complete.
America has already failed it's principles in this case. Hiding from that fact does not absolve us of guilt. Although to some, not facing reality has it's benefits.

http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=imOUU2rj8m&Content=608

Posted by: frank on August 2, 2005 10:26 AM

frank,

I say this with love in my heart: you're still an asshat.

Posted by: NickS on August 2, 2005 10:31 AM

Frank is just another one of those idiots who believe that if this is true, that it somehow reflects badly on everyone else. This is the mindset of the modern left and it helps them to spread responsibility around so that their bad actions seem less so. The idea that an individual is resposible for his/her own actions and does not taint the rest of the country just does not register.

Posted by: Defense Guy on August 2, 2005 10:33 AM

Defense Guy,
So by your reasoning it should be okay to burn the flag of the U.S.of A. then right. I mean the flag may represent the U.S. but the actions of one individual destroying the symbol of America does not represent you in any way, even though the flag does. After all, you did not burn the flag. Glad to know your reasoning is so consistent.

Posted by: frank on August 2, 2005 10:57 AM

frank,

Admit it; you lefties just want to see all of the naughty pictures.

Posted by: BrewFan on August 2, 2005 11:03 AM

Frank,

I won't speak for Defense Guy, but I and a number of others around here fully believe in your right to burn the flag. Further, we reserve the right to call those who burn the flag infantile and narcicistic pricks. Just as you have a right to spout bs and quote aljazeera, after you have revealed the tiny ideological cage you live in, we get to call you an asshat.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Posted by: TheDude on August 2, 2005 11:16 AM

Hey frank: are most muslims blameless for the actions of barbarous Islamofascist head-cutters?

Of course they are.
Right?

Why don't our countrymen deserve the same consideration?

And by the by, we do support the right to burn the flag. Because that very freedom makes a mockery of lefties' usual claims that America is a fascist state.

Posted by: lauraw on August 2, 2005 12:15 PM

Sorry, all. I try and try, but Frankie gets like this once in awhile. I turn away for a second, and he's posting drivel on some blog, or baying at the moon, or eating hamster leavings, or somesuch. I'm not sure, but I think it's the way the crayons and paste he eats on the sly interact with his medication.

Posted by: Frank's Day Nurse on August 2, 2005 12:30 PM

How cute, a new troll.

Posted by: Slublog on August 2, 2005 12:43 PM

O.T.: Are the Swiss fucking nuts? I heard on the news that the police are required to remove their shoes when they raid the homes of islamic terrorists .

Posted by: on August 2, 2005 02:53 PM

And Frank can't even keep his attention on the fact that there is a picture of a really cute girl posted on the site.
Good job, Ace!

Posted by: Mikey on August 3, 2005 10:07 AM

thank you for your support.

Posted by: Jenny Cabanayan on August 4, 2005 05:42 AM

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I don't know, I always thought there was a distinction between mere magic rings and the Rings of Power created by Sauron. But this suggests that Bilbo knew this was a ring of power created by Sauron.
Now I don't remember when Bilbo wrote the Hobbit. In the movie, he shows Frodo the book in Rivendell, and I guess he wrote it after he left the Shire. I guess he might have added in the part about the ring being a ring of power created by "the Master" after Gandalf appraised him of his research into the ring.
I never noticed this before. I know Tolkien re-wrote this chapter while he was writing LOTR to make the ring important from the start. And also to make Gollum more sinister and evil, and also to remove the part where Gollum actually offers Bilbo the ring as a "present" -- Bilbo had already found it on his own, but Gollum was wiling to give it away, which obviously is not something the rewritten Gollum would ever do.
But I had no memory of the ring being suggested to be The Ring so early in the tale.

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