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noon already?
Oct. 29th, 2001 11:13 amNo wonder the morning was going so fast. I forgot to change the clock on my desk.
Oct. 29th, 2001
car repairs
Oct. 29th, 2001 03:28 pmI'm getting a fender for $40, and a headlight for $65.
Sixty five dollars?! It's a lens, and a plastic housing. Okay, two, since the turn signal is connected to it. But still. It lists new at $150, but this is salvage.
I'm going to take off tomorrow afternoon to do the fender, but they won't have the light in until maybe Wednesday. I have until Friday to get the light fixed to avoid paying a ticket. If I don't get it fixed by then, I can get an extension (it was a 15 day warning), but I really need to get it fixed before I go up north this weekend.
Sixty five dollars?! It's a lens, and a plastic housing. Okay, two, since the turn signal is connected to it. But still. It lists new at $150, but this is salvage.
I'm going to take off tomorrow afternoon to do the fender, but they won't have the light in until maybe Wednesday. I have until Friday to get the light fixed to avoid paying a ticket. If I don't get it fixed by then, I can get an extension (it was a 15 day warning), but I really need to get it fixed before I go up north this weekend.
fools rush in
Oct. 29th, 2001 03:48 pmI just read in the paper today, that we (this administration and the previous) have been negotiating for years to get Afghanistan to hand over bin Laden. They said they'd hand him over to a neutral country, but we said "no, it's got be us."
Right there.
What were we thinking? Let this guy go, just so we could look tough? We refused to give them the option of saving face, *and* turning over the bad guy, just so... why? There was a real solution, and we were too shortsighted to take it.
(Can anyone find this story? I think it was AP)
I think it comes down to shortsightedness. I think the reason the military solution sounds like the best one, is because nobody will take the time to think of a better one.
Right there.
What were we thinking? Let this guy go, just so we could look tough? We refused to give them the option of saving face, *and* turning over the bad guy, just so... why? There was a real solution, and we were too shortsighted to take it.
(Can anyone find this story? I think it was AP)
I think it comes down to shortsightedness. I think the reason the military solution sounds like the best one, is because nobody will take the time to think of a better one.
furthermore
Oct. 29th, 2001 03:57 pmSomeone said:
We currently have al-Quaida's leaders in a state of disarray, and we dare not allow that to change. Now that we have started this campaign, we cannot let up until our mission is complete. To do so now would open us up to equal or worse atrocities than the one that plunged us into this war to begin with.
Can someone remind me what, exactly, this mission is, and when will it be complete? What are our stated (or unstated) objectives?
We currently have al-Quaida's leaders in a state of disarray, and we dare not allow that to change. Now that we have started this campaign, we cannot let up until our mission is complete. To do so now would open us up to equal or worse atrocities than the one that plunged us into this war to begin with.
Can someone remind me what, exactly, this mission is, and when will it be complete? What are our stated (or unstated) objectives?