I still haven’t figured the comment system, doesn’t seem to like my template or something.
I finally joined a gym. When I moved out of my old place (which had a tiny gym in the basement) I figured I would just keep active in other ways. Well, it didn’t work out that way. The gym is not huge, there are no crowds, and it has huge sliding windows to get a nice breeze. Perfect.
RIAA – even though actual point-of-purchase sales are up by about 9% in the US – and the industry sold over 13,000,000 more units in 2004 (1st quarter) than in 2003 (1st quarter) – the Industry is still claiming a loss of 7% because RIAA members shipped 7% fewer records than in 2003.
Rummy talks to the troops: “One soldier asked when they would receive improved vests and better armor for the Humvees. It’s those roadside bombs, he said. ‘We lost some soldiers due to them.’ Another asked whether it was true that the military would not pay their full air fare back home. Yet another wanted to know why his military medical coverage wouldn’t handle physical therapy for his handicapped child. When, if ever, would the United Nations send some troops and where would they come from? Would Defense Department employees who are civilians working with the military be permitted to carry guns, asked a civilian working with the military?”
Wolfowitz wants more money. “You come before this committee . . . having seriously undermined your credibility over a number of years now,” she said. “When it comes to making estimates or predictions about what will occur in Iraq, and what will be the costs in lives and money, . . . you have made numerous predictions, time and time again, that have turned out to be untrue and were based on faulty assumptions.” More here.
Brood X is comming. Dun dun daaah.
A team of American researchers announced Wednesday that they have identified an ancient impact crater buried off the northwest coast of Australia — a find that supports the theory that a giant meteor caused a mass extinction on Earth approximately 250 million years ago.
Not really news at this point, but Polygraphs Don’t Give True Story