Sorry for the unexplained absence- just didn’t feel like blogging. I don’t know what happened to Tim, but I am wagering the Friday Beer Blogging might have something to do with his disappearance, as well.
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salvage
I bet the problem is you went outside and saw carbon based people right?
You have to stop doing that.
Rusty Shackleford
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AucHSxf2PKzUDYkpjiFTiCZDubYF?slug=ap-steelers-roethlisberger-motorcycleaccident&prov=ap&type=lgns
Pb
News…
Hurricane season starts up, looks like Florida might be getting their first one with TS Alberto…
Bush convenes a meeting to figure out how much and how soon we can cut and run from Iraq before the midterms–no news there, that’s been their plan for quite some time now.
The debate about whether or not we should close Gitmo rages on? I thought The Decider already had his say on this one, just like he did on Abu Ghraib… you know, the “As President, I’d really like to get rid of it, and now I’m just going to shut up and do nothing and let you and the news media forget all about it” routine. It seems to work rather well.
Oh, and this just in–Rusty Shackleford Pastes Ridiculously Long URL Into A Comment Without Making It a Link, Balloon Juice Comment Thread Suffers.
Steve
I thought you’d be all over the news that up-armored Humvees are killing American troops. Seems that adding extra weight makes them more likely to roll over. Maybe the Army knew what it was doing after all.
Faux News
Well as my 96 year old Grandmother used to say:
“I’m lucky to even get out of bed in the morning”.
Not exactly a daily meditation quote, but the old gal had a point. Perhaps Tim just didn’t feel like getting out of bed.
Tim F.
Tim’s computer has been functional for all of 30 minutes now. All that I can say at this point is that Symantec is very lucky that I am not an imam with the ability to declare jihad.
Also, Rusty, please embed your damn links.
Pb
Steve,
I take it that’s not what they meant by “Let’s Roll”… Who knew, right? If only automakers or the military had done some sort of analysis to see if these sorts of vehicles were likely to roll over in the first place. No one could have predicted etc. etc.
The Other Steve
Well fucking duh. And get this too… When you’re worried about getting shot at and blown up you drive faster, just aggravating the safety problems.
The Humvee was NEVER designed for this kind of service.
Hell, I don’t think you can create a vehicle for this kind of service that won’t have some share of weakness or problems.
This whole fucking concept that you can execute a fucking war without fucking causaulties is fucking stupid. And I hope I swore enough to get my fucking point across.
The Other Steve
Oh yeah, and why did CNN treat a guy as credible who is trying to sell another vehicle to the military?
Isn’t there anybody independent these days, who actually cares about what’s happening instead of lining their pocketbook on the government teat?
Krista
Tim – I feel your pain. My new Dell came with that Roxio DVD burner that kept checking for updates and providing error messages umpteen times every time I started my computer. It took quite a bit of rejiggering, and a lot of very bad language on my part, to finally get rid of it.
Pb
The Other Steve,
Hey, at least he wasn’t “promoting a book” too.
Actually I saw someone commenting on cable recently that the reason they have these safety problems is to keep them easy to repair and lower costs–that if they had to make their vehicles as safe as, say, minivans, then they’d be like 4x more expensive. (Never mind that military vehicles already *are* really expensive anyhow…)
ppGaz
Isn’t the army ordering the vehicles with the leather and the Stability Control Systems? That’s the way my wife configures her SUV. Damn near impossible to roll the thing over by swerving it, from what I’ve read.
She likes the big heavy thing … says she wants plenty of metal around her. I say, I’ve seen your driving, and I can’t argue. Then she gives me a certain look, which I cannot exactly translate for you.
In any case, the vehicles down at the car lot now are just about unrollable. Why isn’t that also the standard for the military vehicle?
t. jasper parnell
Again, this guy ought to be supported.
This is just odd and scary and not just to those of us who find the nut cases who cloak their nutcaseness in religion, but to others who think that holy writ contains all that they or thee need to know
Pb
t. jasper parnell,
Obviously we need tort reform to protect us from these frivolous lawsuits coming from the right wing… :)
The Other Steve
Man, I’m kind of looking forward to that game so I can play a minion of Satan and take out all the evil doing Christians in New York City.
Perry Como
San Fran handgun ban was struck down. Not surprising, but good news.
Krista
t.jasper parnell –
I love this quote from the story:
Mr. Thompson – master of alliteration.