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Comment on Flickr FoodStream by Slow Carb Diet Experiment | Scott'Soapbox

Slow Carb Diet Experiment | Scott'Soapbox — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:56:55 +0000

[...] will be to see where I am at after week two. The book has some other tricks with cinnamon and food photos but I don’t want to spoil it all. Cancel [...]

Comment on Slow Carb Diet Experiment by Flickr FoodStream | Scott'Soapbox

Flickr FoodStream | Scott'Soapbox — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:33:06 +0000

[...] I am trying out a new idea dieting aid from The 4-Hour Body as part of my Slow Carb diet experiment. The idea is similar to the written food journals popular with many trainers, [...]

Comment on Habitat House Going Well by Habitat House 2011 | Scott'Soapbox

Habitat House 2011 | Scott'Soapbox — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:58:17 +0000

[...] Last year was a blast so be sure to come out if your interested this year. You can get more info and sign up here: [...]

Comment on Alienware m11x Heartbreak And First Impressions by Alienware m11x Initial Review | Scott’Soapbox

Alienware m11x Initial Review | Scott’Soapbox — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:47:31 +0000

[...] boring – they are time consuming. However, I feel like I have enough good data -beyond my first impressions- to help those in the market for a portable yet powerful notebook to make a better decision. [...]

Comment on Ineffective Congress Criticizes Political Progress by skuban

skuban — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:51:18 +0000

Thanks for the compliment and the comment… sorry it takes a while to approve comments, the comment spam is just about overwhelming.

In regards to NCLB, I will side-step the effectiveness of the implementation of that program as that would be long post by itself. I will say that I like the some of the basic ideas behind NCLB. Those being A) the requirement of teachers to have an educational background in the subject matter and B) a standardized testing of students to allow school to school comparisons. Both are worthwhile, moving beyond that it quickly gets complicated.

Comment on Ineffective Congress Criticizes Political Progress by quovadio

quovadio — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:40:26 +0000

I would agree with the argument that we must get our own house in order before we can start criticizing their house, except for the fact that we are funding and facilitating their house our soldiers are offering their lives to bolster the credibility of the Iraqi house. No matter how big the plank in our eye is, we do have a right to expect more out of them.

And as for lack of progress, I can’t say I ever expected much out of Pelosi, Reid, et al. However, as little as I expected, I am surprised and sickened by their tremendous inability to live up to even my cynical expectations. But lets not act as if this lack of progress is peculiar to the democrats. Of the several major domestic initiatives that Bush originally campaigned for way back in 2000, the only one he managed to pass in any form resembling his original design was No Child Left Behind. He did pass a prescription drug benefit, but a weak and watered down version of his original aspiration. On top of which, the current freefall of the administration is based largely on Iraq policy, but let’s not forget that the catalyst in public opinion was his smug, didactic, condescending, and ultimately doomed publicity tour for the privitization of social security. I say all this not to emphasize that Republicans are bad at progress too, but to say that it six and a half years, the President has made no major advances in domestic tranquility. That’s along time to not get anything done, no matter what your party affiliation is.

And one other not on NCLB, it is also in danger…and I couldn’t be happier. It is an insult to teachers, an insult to students and most of all an insult to standards. I’ve worked in schools since its inception, and I can tell you that it doesn’t work. In fact, we just heard this week that SAT scores are the lowest since 1999.

Still, and in all sincerity, it’s good reading your blog. I haven’t gotten to disagree with you in a while. And I agree, that cigar tax is unbelievable.

Comment on Funny Support Phone Call by stillspinning :Coming to you at up to 1600 km/hr - The New Layout Finalized Version???

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:27:09 +0000

[...] So I’m getting tired of trying to figure out what the problem with the single page posts is and have opted to take that part of the site down until I can figure out what the problem is. So until I’m met with more ridicule I’m going to stick with this lay out. The next big project will be to figure out adding a second column…after I get the pages fixed. [...]

Comment on Funny Support Phone Call by chuck.silo

chuck.silo — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:38:45 +0000

gripe gripe gripe…but you’re right about the blue. i’ve made some additional changes.

Comment on Tri 2 Update by ShadowGnu

ShadowGnu — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:46:51 +0000

No. You were already lazy. ;)

Comment on Diet Tip by Newbirth

Newbirth — Tue, 02 May 2006 03:49:44 +0000

I gave up regular Coke a long time ago. I limit myself to one diet cola or diet fountain drink per day. The regular is sickeningly sweet to me now and I actually PREFER the diet.