
Soldiers prepare to enter a dwelling during a cordon and search operation in Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Bronco Suzuki.
I liked this photo because of the mud on the Soldiers. I know that sounds weird, but a Soldier I happen to know in Baghdad has told me that the mud is so deep that you easily sink down to your knees in it when walking around the FOB.
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January 18th, 2007 at 1:17 am
On the Subject of Prayer…
Laura of Pursuing Holiness, recently posted some thoughts on the subject of prayer (you can read some of them here, here,here, and here.)
While pondering what she had offered I was reminded of the following quote:
One need not tell God everything about…
January 18th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Thursday Thirteen VIII - Random Thoughts…
Thirteen Random Thoughts I’ve Had Today:
1. Almost every school district employee NOT working as a classroom teacher has far too much time on their hands - case in point: a program I am running has people driving to schools to collect each …
January 18th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Part II: Beyond the Echo Chamber…
We need local groups, not just on the internet, but meeting face-to-face, working to support each other and showing up live to give testimony, make their views known, and apply pressure. And we need a nation-wide coalition to support and coordinate suc…
January 18th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
A couple of favorites……
I don’t have time for any real blogging today, so I thought I’d take the cheap and easy way out. Here are a couple of my favorite posts that you probably haven’t read.
Painting a room in 30 seconds or less
Work Hard, Ride for the Br…
January 18th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Tammy Nyp Sex Tape…
Tammy Nyp is currently the #4 most popular item at Technorati, with 3,349 blogs using that tag in the past 24 hours. Who is Tammy Nyp, you might ask? Is she any relation to Kim Kardashian, of whom I have also never heard?
Close. According to Wikiped…
January 18th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
ALERT: Pelosi Won’t Block Iraq Funding to Stop Troop Surge…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she won’t block funding for additional troops.
Pelosi: Democrats will never cut off funding for our troops when they are in harm’s way.
It is, I think, very difficult for the president to sustain a war o…
January 18th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Got Bandwidth?…
How fast does your site load? One of the most common problems I see with web pages is slow load speed. Most often the problems that are slowing the site down are easily fixable. Unoptimized images, too many images, too many scripts, and way too many…