BBC: Iraq Bases Spur Questions Over US Plans

The national sources are finally picking up what a Journal Inquirer reporter had in the paper a week ago.

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Won’t have time to get the photolog site up until this weekend, so I’ll continue posting them here for now. Got two today!

Since the photo from last night was absolutely horrible, I went back and reshot it during the day. Looks a lot better; you can actually see all of it.

A feature of ECSU that’s relatively new, the bridge’s purpose in life is simple: transport people from the Wood Support Services building to the newer Gelsi-Young Administration Building. It’s accessible from the second floor of both buildings.

Enjoy, and expect another tomorrow.

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So, I’ve decided what to do with this LJ. My paid account runs out in June, and I’ve been debating for some time whether or not to renew my account. Well, the main thing that I liked with paid accounts was the ability to have a subdomain for my blog. Now that everyone has this, however, I think all the incentives have gone away. I don’t use extra icons, and any photos I can host myself. I don’t do voiceposts, and while I use a style that I think only paid users get, I believe it’ll remain when the paid account expires - I just can’t change it, and since the S2 system is so freaking confusing, I never will.

So, what to do? Well, as I’ve shamelessly promoted for some time, I have a main website. I’ve set up ways for you to reply to anything I post (you can just use your LJ URLs to log in), but I don’t want to inconvenience people with an extra step. Thus enter MTLJPOST, a plugin that allows me to mirror everything I post on the site to this blog. That’ll work nicely, as you can still reply here without going anywhere. So, that’s the plan.

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I have a digital still camera that’s aching to be used, so I decided to address the need. Starting last night, I will (or rather - try my best to) take one photo a day. There will be no topic; I will simply take a photo of something that stands out in my eye. However, sometimes I may introduce a theme. For example, expect a week or so after my trip to Greece next January to be a week of Greek photos. The photo will always be of something that’s newly taken by the camera, no old photos.

For the sake of time, and to introduce the project, I’ll post the first few photos here, but I am going to be creating another weblog for the purpose of the Photolog. And now to start:

The Eastern Connecticut State University Clock Tower - The symbol of what has invaded my life for a year and a half.

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Ok, so “awesome” and “upset” don’t usually work well together, but they define two consecutive NCAA D-1 basketball games from tonight. I didn’t watch any of the Duke and LSU game, so I cannot comment on that.

First
Western Virginia and Texas were really going at it tonight. 14.7 seconds - the fastest turn over of events I’ve ever seen in any type of game. So, it seemed like Texas had it in the bag. WV was close, but the only way they were going to get it was by getting some free throws, and like one two-shot. So, in an amazing display of tactics in about the last eight seconds, WV scores and amazing three-pointer to tie the score 71 to 71. So, seems like the game is going to go into over-time. But, wait for it…
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Via CNNSI: Source Story

Now, I rarely watch football myself, but I found this story being filed in the “awww, ain’t that sweet” section of my brain.

A judge increased jail time from six months to five years for the brother of Pittsburgh Steelers safety Tyrone Carter because he failed to report to prison on time for driving with a revoked license.

Tank Carter, brother of this football player, sacrificed (more of) his freedom to go watch his brother play some big time football, and win! Instead of spending six months in the slammer, Carter now gets to spend five years. Ok, so between the choice of having to watch a family member perform some game or act in a live performance from a prision cell, knowing I could probably congratulate them the next day, or watching them live, and spending four more years behind bars? I think I’d choose the former option. Just my opinion.

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So, our fine President says that we’re in Iraq for the long haul, but how exactly long is a long haul? Long enough to establish a permanent presence there? Well, today I thought I’d review an article I read in my local newspaper yesterday. Note that this isn’t an article I’ve read in any national news source as of yet, so good luck finding it. However, if you’re interested, join me and “Continue Reading” to find out if there’s something we’re just not hearing…
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I was just reading this article on Wisconsin democrat Russ Feingold’s proposal to censure the President, and a certain phrase from our favorite Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Now, I’m not sure if this is being taking out of context, but here goes:

“The American people are solidly behind this president in conducting the war on terror.”

My response? Which America are you speaking of, Mr. Frist? Last time I checked, an increasing number of Americans do not support Bush’s handling of the war on terror. According to this BBC article, his approval rating is currently hovering at 41%, meaning that something is clearly wrong. Or, have you not noticed the people in your own party who are trying to distance themselves from Bush at hopes of actually re-winning their seats in November.

In these situations, I often wonder if the person speaks before they think…

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As to prevent my death from the dedicated SG1, Atlantis, or Galactica fan, I’ll tell you to “continue reading”…
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And now w.bloggar. I think I like it better, and you can edit posts you haven’t written with it, unlike SharpMT. SharpMT also lets you edit more than one entry at a time, but seriously, I don’t do that. So, w.bloggar it is.

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