tkil

Should be banned, especially from combat, because they just can't hack it, right?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050616/ap_on_re_us/woman_silver_star;_ylt=AgpsoTWxY06xl.QxVPhaRDms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2M2YzbmJmBHNlYwN1cw--

Female army sargeant earns Silver Star, first one earned by a woman since World War II.

While I don't agree with the fact that we're having this conflict at all, I do support our troops that are out there trying to be as honorable as possible. There are a lot of them, and they deserve a much more honorable chain of command than what they've got...

This one is for thatdamnninja, who was haunted by a very noisy bird this week. (He's currently on vicodin, so now he's just mildly annoyed as opposed to being thrown into a homicidal (ornithocidal?) rage...)

In case he misses it after it leaves, I made a recording for him to remember those sweet, sweet chirps by.

TDN, this bird's for you.

[Geek fodder: that was recorded with my iSight and PowerBook, transferred to my linux box where I transcoded it from AIFF/WAV to MP3 with Audacity and LAME. The miracles of modern technology...]