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Nuke, you mentioned the body armor, how has that changed since your first trip? What are the pros and cons for the new design? It seems that there is a balance between being safe when hit and avoiding getting hit in the first place. For example, heavy cumbersome stuff that makes you an easier target versus lighter more maneuverable types that allow you to get out of the way easier. I've read comments that some guys will not wear it because of comfort and a belief that it causes the enemy to aim for their heads.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 06:35 PM) you should make them burn an American flag in homeroom everyday. if you did that you could probably get a guest appearance on the "O'reilly Factor" and maybe even "Hannity and Combs". imagine how sweet that would be I teach kids how to burn the flag all the time. I organize a weekly flag burning down on South Padre Island each week during the summer. I've been saving up American flags to burn. You wouuldn't believe how many people will give them to me to burn. I probably have close to a hundred.

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 04:17 PM) As is almost anyone with a cervix and uterus. I like how those with a penis are hootin and hollerin' about it being a bad, bad thing... I wonder how those dolts would deal with 1/100th of the pain that comes with cervical or uterin cancer. Idiots. Are you saying that women can't decide what to do with their bodies, that the Governor has the right to make the decision on what must be injected into them? Is it because women can not understand the risks and benefits of the vaccination, so a Governor with a penis must decide?

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 10:38 AM) ? Does anyone here say the pledge of allegiance or something similar to the flag every day? Yes

The appropriate course was for the state to make the drug available to every female in the state. Those that can't afford it, should receive it for free or a reduced cost. For the Governor to decide what should be injected into any person's body is wrong. I believe medical decisions ought to be made by the patient along with their Doctor, not the Governor. With minors, the parents should also be involved, especially an eleven year old. But here we have the Governor, with heavy ties to the one company that will receive huge financial gains, deciding that every eleven year old in the state should be injected with that company's vaccine. What other medical decisions do you want your Governor making for you and everyone else in the state? Do you not trust yourself and your Doctor, so you need the Governor to make the decision? And before someone points out polio, mumps, measles, TB, etc. Those are communicable diseases and a clear public health danger. This is a private health danger. I agree that most every woman should receive this vaccination, I just disagree that the Governor should be making the decision. Interesting that the majority here would not risk upgrading to Vista because it is too new, but a brand new drug should be forced into every eleven year old female in the state. FDA approval hasn't been a 100% assurance of safety. Waiting until the vaccination has been rolled out on a wide scale and injecting your daughter in a couple years, when she is fourteen, may be wise for some children. But that decision has been taken away.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 08:26 PM) What? I was thinking of a thread of small essays, almost a mini-blog thing.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 06:04 AM) I think the problem is more along the lines of the complaints about GWB not sending enough troops to 'get the job done' and then as soon as he proposes a surge, at that very moment it becomes a bad idea. Check my bolded text. It seems, no matter what the reason, changing your mind is now a mistake in American politics. That is dangerous.

I can't believe we haven't done this one before . . .

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 03:33 AM) People value their faith over health? Serious question here... In some cases yes, in most it is a medical belief that all vaccinations and inoculations are bad. They point to the number of people who have tragic side effects to the shots. What is most troubling to many in Texas that have been watching this Basically you have a drug company, with a proprietary drug, getting it passed as state law that you have to use their product. There are proiviusions for free vaccinations for the poor and under insured.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 10:17 AM) I get to go to Philly again next week, joy lol. Have you been back to Mexico?

It seems that the humble floppy disc has died, and is leaving without any fanfare or notice. Ah the joy, the freedom of the 5 1/4 inch massive storage device. 640K of information could be stored on one. Entire programs, unzipped, fit on them. I large, bloated, program might occupy a half a dozen. Then the nearly indestructibility of the hard plastic 3 1/2 inch appeared. Double the capacity, half the space. A person could actually stick on of these in your pocket. Take entire documents home. Operating systems would fit on a few. Apple ones didn't talk to PC ones, but they all loked the same. The sound of the floppy thunking into the drive, the electronic whirl and dance, the light popping on. It is now going the way of a true modem. The device that actually modulated and demodulated signals allowing a digital signal to be transmitted over an analog phone line. Now it's a flash drive or cd. It's blue toothing a file, a wireless home network. The sneakernet, putting on your sneakers and running a floppy to a coworker, is gone. I have an external floppy drive buried in my notebook bag. It's gathering dust, but I hate to throw it away. Maybe it reminds me of old timers. We don't want to throw them away.

I'd go a WS game regardless of who was playing. I would also cheer for whatever team the person who I was with was cheering for, assuming they bought the tickets. I once went to a Cubs game and pretended to be a Cubs fan. It was great. I could make comments like "this is the worts team in history. No wonder it's been 100 years, it will be another 100 before we win.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp worth the click

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Feb 1, 2007 -> 02:06 PM) That's fine with me. I thought i could throw that in there in case some little toddler ends up with pink sox gear. I'd never buy it, but let's say you go to take your niece and she's sporting it. However if Tex says no exceptions, then no exceptions damn it! Well, a toddler may be excused, but her uncle should fix that ASAP. I was thinking if YASNY showed up in a pink cap and jersey, he shouldn't be allowed either, not just chicks. I kid, because I care™

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 06:33 AM) A Cubs fan. It figures. And Mark took a photo with him??! That proves he isn't a true member of the SOX community. If he really was a true member of the Sox community, he would have smashed the guy's cell phone and screamed Sox Rulzzzz!

Birthdays Today! Ten of Them and I do not reecognize any of the names. But hey, Happy Birthday!

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Feb 1, 2007 -> 08:20 PM) The only thing holding Apple back is being locked into proprietary hardware. If Jobs takes the gloves off and has Leopard ready for all intel based systems then we would be ready for a fight. This had me thinking. Who/What is Apple? Hardware? Software? OS? Balance of the three? It's not Motorola chips anymore. Would Apple be Apple if Dell started making computers that ran on the Mac OS? Would Apple be Apple if they offered a choice of Mac OS or Windows on their hardware? Would Apple exist if everyone was smart enough to use a PC?

QUOTE(soxwon @ Feb 1, 2007 -> 05:10 PM) Right now ill rank the contenders 1 Obama 2 Hillary 3 Edwards 4 Biden GOP 1 Mccain 2 guliani 3 romney 4 huckabee 5 brownback just my opinion, who differs? Edwards (most electable in the general) Clinton Obama Biden (his comments dropped him) GOP

QUOTE(Soxy @ Feb 1, 2007 -> 03:13 PM) Weird science. It was weird, my senior year I lived with 3 other girls and 3 of us had the same personality type. The other girl was an ENPJ. She was faaaaaaaaaar less cool than us ISTJ girls (although getting that many emotionally reserved perfectionists in one place was, uh, special). I'm ta-ing Psych of personality and we're doing Jung, so I thought I would brush up on his personality types. Personality was one of my favorites. My favorite was Abnormal and watching the hypochondriacs self diagnose all their problems. How are you studies going? Are you achieving a good balance between TA and student? Your Type is ENFPExtrovertedIntuitiveFeelingPerceiving Strength of the preferences % 22756222

QUOTE(danman31 @ Feb 1, 2007 -> 02:47 PM) This is reason enough to hate the city of Boston forever... Men accused of hoax plead not guilty CNN Video of coverage Wow people are dumb. I don't know how no one recognized them, but I'm ashamed to be a human being right now. F*cking idiots. Also, it was supposedly done in 7 other cities as a marketing campaign, but didn't cause a scare anywhere else. OMG! They have "circuit boards"! If you are Turner Broadcasting you have to be LOVING this to no end. They could never have afforded this much publicity. We are at Terror alert Yellow. These people take that stuff seriously and knew what to do. In case you don't regularly visit http://www.dhs.gov/xinfoshare/reportincidents/ here's the scoop

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 1, 2007 -> 02:54 PM) Interestingly enough, that has not been the strategy of Karl Rove in the last 2 Presidential elections at all, in fact, Mr. Rove's strategy has been to specifically state that the strategy you outline is wrong. Rove's strategy was to turn out the base and try to get 50%+1 voters out of the base, and it succeeded in electing GWB 1 time, and came very very close a 2nd. Rove did not care at all that Kerry beat Mr. Bush significantly in so-called "Independent" or swing voters, because he turned out enough of his base to get a win.. Strategist have pointed out that while the GOP didn't fight for the undecided, the Dems did not succeed in getting them to the polls in enough numbers. It's semantics and spin. The other factor is you have to energize your base enough to actually go vote.

Dear ONE Member, Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted not only to protect the $1 billion that was in jeopardy, but went even one step further and allocated an additional $450 million to fighting global poverty in 2007. This is the largest amount ever committed by the United States to fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, three of the world's most devastating diseases. This is the first step in an almost unbelievable turn of events that wouldn't have been possible without you. Literally hundreds of thousands of lives will be saved because of ONE members' advocacy. You sent over 200,000 letters in January alone - and 142 members of Congress signed on to the Durbin-Brownback and Lee-Shays "Dear Colleague" letters. Here is what Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Congressman Christopher Shays had to say about your efforts: I want to than k the ONE Campaign and all of it s member s for adding their energy and their voice s to the global s truggle again s t HIV/AID S and extreme poverty. The letter s and call s made by ONE campaign member s epitomize the power of what i s po s s ible when one per s on ta k e s a s tand for what i s right. Each of you ha s s tood up to be counted becau s e you k now that s topping the s pread of the global HIV/AID S pandemic i s po s s ible, and that together we can turn that po s s ibility into a reality. - Repre s entative Barbara Lee (Democrat, CA-9) Although there have been remar k able achievement s in combating HIV/AID S in Africa and around the world, the truth i s we've not yet been able to k eep pace with it s s pread. I am grateful for the a s s i s tance of the ONE Campaign in s upport of the Lee- S hay s letter reque s ting additional funding for program s to combat HIV/AID S , tuberculo s i s , and malaria. 92 member s of congre s s s igned the letter and we couldn't have done it without the ONE Campaign. - Repre s entative Chri s topher S hay s (Republican, CT-4) Thank your member of Congress for co-signing the Lee-Shays letter. You sent a clear message to Congress about how critical this funding was to you and your representative listened. Now we need to send them your thanks for stepping up their efforts against global poverty. We want our allies in this battle to remember your support as they begin the 2008 budget process and decide future funding for the fight against extreme poverty. We are building a movement, and this victory is just more evidence of what's possible. We fought off what would have been a devastating billion dollar blow and improved our lot in the process. And we did all of it while Congress was making some very tough choices. Working together in the years to come, we'll have the opportunity to redefine what's possible again and again. Congratulations on your part in this. The battle isn't over yet as the resolution still has to clear the Senate, but this is a huge first step and the members of the House who represented us deserve our enormous thanks for making it happen. Send a thank you to your representative for fighting global poverty. Thank you for your voice, Josh Peck, ONE.org

We probably should define center. Generally, candidates can view an election as having three groups. The first are their strongest supporters who will vote for them regardless. There are a bunch of them here, even though they won't admit it, but they will vote for the candidate from their party regardless. So those two groups are spoken for, they are either voting for or against you and there is very little you can do to win/lose those votes. The fight becomes for the "undecided" or "middle" group. Who can sway the most out of that group. Substitute policies, sports teams in the two team city, or Coke vs. Pepsi. The concept is accurate. Getting back to the topic title, of al;l the issues facing America and the World today, isn't the Iraq War the most obvious place we need new decisions? Remember Iraq was going to kill us all with their WMD, the Government was torturing civilians. Mission Accomplished in solving those two issues. We didn't find any WMD and we have forced a regime change. Right or wrong, we achieved those goals.

http://www.votevets.org/ Interesting stuff. I am going to hell, but they did it on purpose. When the speaker said on the other hand, I thought of Forrest Gump and laughed. "But you ain't got no hand?!" Probably not the reaction they were looking for. With one of two exceptions above, I agree with this 100%. A couple are unmeasurable and too vague for my taste.