Journeys Into the Realms

Palin Lies About Troopergate Report

2008-10-13T01:59:48Z

Palin Makes Troopergate Assertions that Are Flatly False “Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing,” Palin said, “any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.” uh, whaaaa? ...

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Uhm, Palin, It's Gen McKiernan...

2008-10-03T15:11:50Z

Palin Gets Afghanistan Commander's Name, Strategy Wrong (This is all snipped from the Huffington Post, please go there and read the original article. I've snipped this extended bit just in case the link eventually dies) Palin thinks our comm...

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The Shape of Things to Come (in Music)

2008-03-03T03:55:34Z

Obviously, Trent gets it. Every opportunity he gets to experiment with a release, he does it a little bit better. This may not be the exact future of music/merchandise distribution, but I'm willing to put a bet on longnow that this page will be s...

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Northrop Wins (this round)!

2008-03-02T02:16:27Z

As shown in this comparison, the KC45 is still 60% american made, with all non-US sourced parts from EU partners….so, a 25% difference in how “US made” the Northrop KC35 is vs the Boeing 767. The extra capacity, fly-by-wire, and single airframe (...

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Personal List of ME/CFS & Fibro Resources

2008-02-04T01:57:02Z

This is by no means a complete, exhaustive list, but it covers most of the places I tend to keep up with. This is a "living" list, so if anyone has suggestions for me, I'm all ears! General Info/Discussion: ME/CFS News Co-Cure ME/CFS & Fibromyal...

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Raise a Glass of Sweet Tea....

2007-12-10T05:53:43Z

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Larry Lessig is Right on the Money, Love

2007-11-19T00:49:32Z

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My Comment on the CBS News Vet Suicide Rate Expose

2007-11-14T23:58:20Z

I'm a vet, and I can say that the treatment of vets by the VA and federal government is abysmal. The VA help system is so full of twists, turns, conflicting information, conflicting departments that I'm surprised that the number of vets on the str...

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Still Holding our breath....

2007-11-14T23:51:55Z

Well, turns out that my rating is actually *170%*, not 130, like we thought (good news, right?). We still haven't heard anything other than they finished my rating on 1 Nov, so we're still waiting to hear if "concurrent payments" applies to me (wo...

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Finally...We can breathe again!

2007-11-04T20:10:49Z

It took 14 months, much scrimping and hard work by JenniB, but it appears to have finally paid off. We just got the letter that I'm 100% (actually 130%, to be technical) disabled. The rating means that they'll pay us retroactively to Sept. 06 a...

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