AP reports that the Army has now banned the use of any armor not provided by the U.S. military. Such bans are apparently quite rare for troops.
“I don’t think the Army is wrong by doing this, because the Army has to ensure some level of quality,” said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan [...]
So they left Mexico in search of a better life, higher incomes, etc. Why do they praise it so in their rallies?
Source: AP/Yahoo
Senator McCain, President Bush, Senator Kennedy, and others want to cut a deal: we stop the threat of deportation and we call them “temporary workers”, if they pay a fine and back taxes, [...]
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner can be had at Target rather cheaply, 30% off the cover price. Levitt the economist joins with Dubner the journalist to write a book about statistics-based fear and incentive analysis. It isn’t a pure theory text like [...]
Upon the news of my maternal grandmother’s passing I started changing plans, telling the boss it was going to be a couple more days before I showed up in Duncan, OK.
Normally I go through my corporate travel agency to fix company-purchased tickets, but this being the weekend I was left to American Express emergency travel. [...]
The twenty-first edition of the Lutheran Carnival will be held here at the LC Gridiron. RandomDan has suggested a deadline of April 7, 7pm Central Daylight Time, which means we have four weeks less one hour to get some posts in. XXI will be kicked off on Palm Sunday.
Lutheran Carnival rules can be found [...]
