StrangeSox

Paulie!

Nice sac by Paulie, 1-0.

I've been watching Lost from the beginning and I'm in to Season 2 know. Something I noticed before last night is that just about every Desmond episode involves a lot of flashbacks and a lot of playing the same scenes we've already seen. I found the later annoying the first time around but I'm wondering if that was intentional now.

Things are going much smoother (read: I actually have the cardio stamina for a full workout) in the second week. Doing p90X and a 20 mile bike ride on my "rest day" will do that, I guess. I switched over to cardio X this week because I'm not quite ready for the full plyo. Hopefully in a week or two I'll feel more comfortable with it.

Episode of the season (so far)

That they were reporters is inconsequential; they could have just as easily been civilians carrying some kinda-gun-shaped item.

Maybe #4 ahead of Danks, but I don't see putting him at #3.

Aside from the obvious "don't go to war unnecessarily", what can be changed in a situation like this? Working on the assumption that the spotter was willfully lying about the number of armed people (6 rifles + 2 RPG's), can the officer who cleared them to engage be held at fault? His command was given in good faith. There may not be time (or properly-secured technological means) to transmit live camera feeds to the officer to review the information before giving the green light--he has to rely on his troops in the field for information. If the spotter really did think those cameras were weapons, is there anything that could be changed? Did the soldiers really do anything morally wrong if they honestly believed that those people were carrying weapons? We could say "better technology and higher-resolution cameras" could make it easier to distinguish, but I think that only addresses this very specific incident and not the broader problem.

Yeah, products like this (iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle) are definitely meant to ramp up and encourage impulse spending on relatively cheap items.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 5, 2010 -> 05:40 PM) The Group "Wikileaks" has seemingly obtained and posted online video of what certainly appears to be the killing of 2 Reuters reporters and multiple Iraqi civilians from a U.S. helicopter in 2007. Is there more of a background on this specific situation available ie were there troops on the ground in the area, was there previously fire coming from that area etc. ?

Give me a PC/ Linux tablet with the same interface and I'm sold. I just hate being nickle-and-dimed to death with products.

I like the concept of the iPad, I just don't like its closed nature and the fact that you have to pay to do anything with it pretty much.

Great way to start the season!

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 02:07 PM) See I'm the same way.. And if anything.. I would KILL to have a Bowflex waaay more than P90X. I need some structured program to keep me on task. It works great with the program though (I can even use the frame for pull-ups) and gives me a wide range of resistances to choose.

Took the day off a few weeks ago, and just happened to luck out with the weather.

Radio show from Detroit Public Radio on the rise of right-wing extremism: Thursday, April 1st show: http://wdet.org/craigfahle/

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 09:50 AM) "Oh no, my goo!" http://mypreciousgoo.ytmnd.com/

he isn't the first to try this. The other cases have been represented by Taitz and were working through the courts last I heard (getting admonished at every stage).

It'll be funny when he gets prison time.

Day 3, Shoulders and Arms (did it this morning). My quads are pretty sore/ tight from plyo yesterday. I've been taken it a little easier this time. The first time I tried P90X, I pushed myself way too hard too much, so I'm building in more endurance. Since I don't have weights, I've had to build a hybrid routine with the Bowflex I have. It's worked well for everyone but the bent-over bicep curls (forgot what that was called).

Thanks Jason, that was the general idea I had in my head. The government was incentivizing the loans via subsidies but wasn't covering actual losses. And they were always covering the defaults

Will they explain the child birth thing in a significant way or just a passing mention?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 08:00 AM) While its true that they've had good lobbyists, I hope you realize that banks aren't going to make money on giving out student loans at like 2% interest delayed 4-8 years. They'd lose money, so frankly, it only made sense to subsidize it, since it was the government that wanted to be able to make sure the loans could be made that way. So the government is still going to lose out on this, right? They'll be taking the loses directly instead of paying out subsidies. I think that's what Mike was getting at.

I have a feeling that more democrats/ liberals will be energized come November simply to keep Republicans from taking seats.

Discuss.