Posted on 06/23/2007 11:08:55 AM PDT by J.J.P.
US soldiers rescue a pregnant woman as they patrol the volatile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
FRiend, some of us here at FR like this stuff. If you don’t, feel free to ignore it. This is about the only forum for such things, as the DM don’t often show them. I read a lot more than I watch TV or video. That doesn’t mean I limit myself to only one form of information intake. I do not, however, demand you conform to my specifications. This is still America, and we can be, in fact are encouraged to be, different in our tastes and abilities. Leave us to gather our information where we may, will you?
Not to mention that BBC recorded and published something positive about our troops. That is practically a historical event in it’s own right!
Y’all are reading way too much into somebody’s opinion.
I may have caught you at a bad moment there. Frankly, dialup sucks, but it beats having no access at all. I remember doing dialup at 300 baud...
Being able to watch video in realtime is nice. This was a particularly nice video to watch. I’ll second the suggestion to check out DSL that someone else made to you. If for no other reason, it speeds up downloading your email for reading later. It also lets you make phone calls while doing so. Here in my area (central Oklahoma), AT&T is advertising DSL packages for about $15 a month. I’ve got the business-class package for $35, but we share the link among half-a-dozen or so computers.
My dad lives in rural Colorado, and DSL isn’t available there yet, but will be soon. I’ve strongly suggested he sign up when he can. I make the same suggestion to you. If you like to read, there is a tremendous amount of material that suddenly becomes much more accessible. Not to mention the videos... ;)
Thanks. They have DSL in this town, but whenever I ask they say it isn’t out in my area yet. Years pass. I would launch my own commsat, but I couldn’t see it from here anyway.
Sidenote on cable, I REALLY don’t want the crud that comes with it in my house, so DSL was and is the only real option for us. I’ve still got one pre-teen left in the house, as well as the two teens. You may not have that particular problem...
Actually, I am down to very few problems. The main problem is my stack of required reading is growing as quickly as I can digest it and I have to lug the old books to the recycling stand just so I have room for the new ones. One good thing is the dumpster divers are getting some excellent literature for free.
It is a self-made list. Started with a Christian Sufi masquerading as an English Moslem and his cites. Then those cites led to other cites and next thing there is Emerson and Goethe sitting next to my PC. It’s the usual stuff they tell you to read in college but you never have time then. I’m retired and now I have made time to read this pile of #$%^. Veco, von Herder, Ockham, Bacon (both), there is no end. I just had to order yet more from Amazon.
In no way and at no time would I recommend any of this to anyone.
What went to the dump was Adlai Stevenson and Dag Hamerskjold. Should have dumped those black pessimists sooner even if they are Sufis.
I read all the time. News, history, literature, mistery, fantasy and science fiction...but never said I could type ;-)
Amazing. How do you tell fantasy from news, and which is which?
God bless your cousins and may He keep them safe.
Thanks - awesome video showing how awesome our troops are! God bless ‘em, every one of ‘em!
Thanks for the info
I was not alive during WW2 but my grandparents and parents often talked about how the movies would play live footage of our men in battle and on rescue missions, before they showed the feature film. Wish they would show that same AMerican spirit, sigh.
Great find, thanks for posting this.
On second thought, I’ll keep my money... I’m a true sadist, not a masochist.
Like cake_crumb I read mostly fiction, with the addition of required texts (and anything that looks useful/interesting) in my field of study, which is special education. I discovered that a social studies teacher had to be a coach to get hired around here, and I don’t (and won’t) coach.
Adlai Stevenson is mostly fiction. Like the War on Poverty, The War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism, the Border. You probably mean what is intended to be fiction, which is closer to reality than anything in Washington.
No, that’s more like opium dreams. Fiction is things that could have happened, but didn’t. My favorite type is science fiction, with heroic fantasy a close second.
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