From Guardian Unlimited (UK) -- Mobiles 'as risky as drink-driving'"It means that driving while talking on a cell phone is as bad as, or maybe worse, than driving drunk, which is completely unacceptable and cannot be tolerated by society."
"We found that people are as impaired when they drive and talk on a cell phone asthey are when they drive intoxicated at the legal blood-alcohol limit of 0.08%, ..."
From Newsweek -- Hirsh: Debunking the Myth of Al Qaeda... this sort of debunking has occurred with many Al Qaeda "lieutenants" whose gauzy reputations are reduced to pill-sized smallness ...
"In an open system like a network, the bumbler level is always going to be high because of the ease of entry," says John Arquilla, an intelligence expert at the Naval Postgraduate School. "That's how someone like [American Taliban supporter] John Walker Lindh can walk into the high councils of Al Qaeda and meet bin Laden. And recently the bumbler factor has gone up considerably."
America ventured into the lands of jihad and willingly offered itself as a target in place of the local regimes.
From USA Today -- 'Not it!' More schools ban games at recess Another example of how our society has become over-protective of our kids, shielding them from difficulty rather than allowing them to learn how to cope with adversity.
Price of gas $2.69 - What a bargain!
Do you old-timers recall the good old days of really cheap gasoline!
I got up early this morning and drove out to the Tipton Reservoir to get some pictures. I was hoping to catch the mist rising from the water. It was still somewhat misty, but not as much as I'd hoped for.
I've included three of the pictures here. The
rest will be are available online soon as I get around to processing and uploading them.
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I’ve almost finished that chore.I even purchased a carpet steamer (which I apparently, judging by the waste water, needed more than I thought).
Windows, walls, ceilings. I even cleaned the leaves on the plants (well, most of them).
Now, if I could just figure out a way to keep it clean for at least 3 months!
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This morning the phone rang just before 5 am. Well, you know you gotta answer it. You don’t get many frivolous calls at that time of the morning.
It was some kid, looking for Teddy and acting silly. I told him to make sure who he was calling at five in the morning. I was back in bed about a minute when the phone rang again. Since I was sure it was Idiot Boy again, I just launched into him. I told him to stop playing with the phone, grow up, and get his mom. After the mom, he hung up and that was that. Not funny.
