Tuesday Open Thread
How is your Tuesday so far? I’ve been incredibly busy, how about you? Why don’t we get started with this open thread?
A woman calls into a tech show because her wireless access disappeared. It turns out she had been stealing a neighbor’s wifi for more than a year.
The tech guy offers some good advice. I’m still giggling about how she bought an extender. I guess she thought she was just entitled to free wifi?
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — who finished tied for sixth place with just 4 percent of the vote in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s presidential straw poll over the weekend — slammed CPAC on Fox News afterward.
The conference, he said, “has become increasingly more Libertarian and less Republican.”
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And is CPAC corrupt? Huckabee didn’t quite go that far, but…
Because of the way that it solicits sponsors, it’s almost becomes a pay-for-play. It’s kind of like, who will pay money to be able to be a sponsor and to get time on the program. That’s one of the things that has hurt its
It sounds like Republicans are quite worried about the results of the CPAC straw poll. Ron Paul has the power to cause the Republicans a lot of headaches in 2012. All this grassroots energy that Republicans keep talking about – a lot of that comes from Ron Paul followers.
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http://blog.motorists.org/6-cities-that-were-caught-shortening-yellow-light-times-for-profit/
heard this on the radio today, anyone else ever heard of this?
GTF Outta Here
More Snow???
looks like it is all gonna be north of us, cass.
I guess it is too bad that Bush didn’t give up when he didn’t have the votes to go to war with Iraq like Obomba is giving up on the public option.
HCR 2010 = WMD 2002 Obomba lies while HCR dies.
Eagles release Westbrook.
V….been through Wilmington lately? I think their yellow lights are set up to make sure you cant make it through to collect big money from citizens.
I work there every day. The one next to fulton paper is the one with the camera 😉
I don’t think that Wilmington yellow lights are too short — I do think that their traffic lights are abominably timed.
But here is a report on the bad behavior of toll-takers on the NJTP and Garden State Parkway. I can’t imagine that taking tolls is at all fun or even interesting. But I think that the surliest toll takers are at the I-95 Delaware toll.
Actually, for a while, the City of Wilmington was using their own standard for how long yellow lights were. It varied by a second or more from the DelDOT standard. I cannot tell you for sure whether or not that was fixed.
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didn’t want any of you to miss out…
someone jumped off the roof of my building today…. and didnt die. http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100223/NEWS/100223015/-1/updates/Police–Cable-broke-man-s-fall-from-13-story-building
im not trying to make light of this at all…. it is just bizzare.
Governor Signs Delaware Right-to-Carry Reform Bill!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Please Thank the Governor Today!
NRA-ILA is happy to report that Governor Jack Markell (D) has signed House Bill 258 into law.
HB258 will extend the validity of a concealed carry permit from 2 years to 3 years for initial licenses and 3 years to 5 years for renewal licenses.
Thank you to all of the NRA members who answered the call to action in support of HB258. This victory would not have been possible without you.
Please contact Governor Markell and thank him for signing HB258. The Governor can be reached by phone at (302) 744-4101 or (302) 577-3210.
Wrong blog, dude. Nobody here is paranoid enough to need a gun. It’s a good-government move, in that it cuts down on red tape.
Just returned from my LAST college admissions tour/interview w/ child #3. WAHOO!!! I walked thru the door and admonished #4 to give me 4 weeks before we start on her. Anyone want my notes?
LOL, Joanne I can’t WAIT to get started again. I’m talking to parents of 12 year olds about it, lol. Anything likely?
Believe me, I LOVE this stuff, and could do it for a living–but this is showing to be an “Outlier” year proven by phenomenol application numbers. Nailbiting wait now I guess. But, at least he got interviews.
Does anyone know if this happened? If not, has it been rescheduled?
Team USA draws inspiration from real American Heros.
Langenbrunner gets expert advice from another capt.
NHL.com ^ | 02.24.2010 | Mike G. Morreale
It was back in October 2005 when U.S. Army Ranger Captain Chad Fleming was about to embark on a mission that required his unit to locate the second most sought-after terrorist in the Northern sector of Iraq.
It would be the final mission of his third deployment to the country — just 18 hours from returning home to Alabama.
“A high-valued target had presented itself and popped on the radar, so myself and 18 other men went in to get him,” Fleming, 36, told NHL.com. “We ended up getting into a fire fight and an ambush situation occurred.”
The ensuing battle cost Fleming his left leg just below the knee.
“Two hand grenades and a gunshot wound is what ended up getting my leg,” he said. “No one ended up losing their life on our mission, but one of my squad leaders (Sergeant First Class Joe Kapachzewski) lost his right leg below the knee.”
Rather than transition out of the military after receiving his prosthetic leg, Fleming would deploy to Iraq three more times and lead his men into combat missions as the detachment commander of a special operations unit.
“The last thing I wanted to do was send my guys back overseas without me,” Fleming said. “This might sound cliché, but this was my calling in life. This was what I always enjoyed doing. I love this country.”
That’s precisely the message Fleming drove home when he was first invited to speak to members of the United States Olympic hockey team during orientation camp in Chicago last August.