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Archive for September, 2007

17 Sep

For Prompt Delivery, Tell Dell to Forget It.

As we prepared to send our daughter off to college, one of the things we decided she needed was a laptop computer. We found a nice one at Dell that had all the features she was looking for (cool color) and so we ordered it on July 17th 2007. If you wonder [...]

12 Sep

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I have just finished reading “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain for the ninth time in my life.
It truly is an amazing book. One I believe should be read at every age in a persons life.
I read it as a boy and thought it was a marvelous adventure about a boy rafting [...]

07 Sep

The Twelve To Eighteen Month War

We’ve had the 100 year war,  the war of 1812, the 30 year war, the 6 day war.  I think the war in Iraq should be called “The Twelve to Eighteen Month War”.
It appears that just about everything about it is supposed to take that long.  It’s how long it should take to crush the [...]

02 Sep

I Have Disaster Fatigue

I consider myself a sympathetic person. I noticed the other day however, on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, that I kept switching channels on my radio dial away from one FEMA trailer story after another. I didn’t want to hear. I’m a veteran, yet stories of more casualties in Iraq [...]

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