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...and Palin isn't??

Tweed? Ugh. It looks great colors-wise, but from the pictures I was thinking something like Neoprene...THAT would be cool.

Maybe I wasn't clear, but I never felt like I needed to wear them until freshman year of college in Los Angeles. Now back in Indiana, I NEED to wear them even during cloudy weather. Yes, it's glare, but that and the skin oils don't really explain why I went 18 years never needing sunglasses in Indianapolis, to needing them every day after 9 months in SoCal.

Yea that was me before moving to SoCal. Never needed them in Indiana, but MAN the sun's bright out west. After freshman year of college and wearing sunglasses every day, I NEED to now otherwise I just squint like crazy. My eyes just got really sensitive.

Sorry 68, you must have misread whatever celebrity gossip blog you got your info from; those celebrities spend $2,000, not $200 on sunglasses. That's pretty harsh. Definitely nobody else's business. Good for you. I bet Bob Barker just wet himself. AGREED. I never wear prescription glasses. The night and day lenses are perfect; never have to worry about them. Same here. I've never financed anything, and don't plan to. I don't have anything to prove, so I choose not to live beyond my means and risk bad debt. But $200 really isn't a lot of money at all. Seriously...that's the price of 4 video games. And if you take care of your things, like I do, they last and look great forever. I have 4 pairs of sunglasses, all ranging in price between $120 and $200, but I wear them all the time. All day, every day when I'm outside. Oh yea, quality over value every day of the year, when the choices are mutually exclusive (hint: it is possible to get both sometimes). There's a big difference between finding a killer deal and buying things for cheap. Killer deals make you feel 10x better than the same item for retail price, while buying cheap is a serious mental downer. No one likes to own $h! that falls apart or breaks all the time. Treks are pretty good. I liked mine.

Two words: crystal meth

This is so selfish, but I hope the Big One in LA waits until I'm done with grad school and doing some serious urban planning. When Caltrans built the East LA interchange, they destroyed the community of Boyle Heights...and that interchange is terribly inefficient. The only way it would ever get "fixed" and give Boyle Heights its formerly beautiful lakeside park back is if the Big One caused the elevated deck to collapse there, and it likely will as it has not been reinforced much if at all, and as implied, is built on top of a lake.

Anytime you have mountains, you have faults.

Yeah, what you describe is definitely a district reaction to NCLB. From the tiny class size, I'm guessing it had to do with funding separate special needs programs getting cut in order to fund the new NCLB bureaucracy. Your mother sounds very dedicated...many teachers wouldn't put up with that kind of environment. Is she actually a credentialed special needs instructor, or did the district just say "here you go!"?

I clicked the link, and all I saw were the dame quotes you quoted. Funny thing is, I see not one word of what Obama allegedly even did, just condemnation of "his actions." Tell me, what was it? And don't say trying to suppress his critics with law enforcement...what is he accused of ACTUALLY doing that is being called suppression by an obvious political opponent?

Now how's that? I know both Indiana and California have dedicated special-needs programs so things like that don't happen. Sounds like a budget issue on the part of the district...

Haha oops...did not get that last night...

Agreed,but haven't the Ws only been around since '87?

Ouch. Feel you on losing $200 sunglasses. Not a happy feeling at all...

Not really afraid of any of them since they're beyond my control. Hurricanes are the ones that weigh most in my mind if I'm making a housing decision, though.

YAY!

It's been around since I was in middle school.

They better. Completely irresponsible.

That's the Chinese knockoff version.

No I watched it, and obviously you noticed the same thing I did, as you immediately follow up with: Sorry, but defense spending has increased so much, and to the detriment of other, more worthy programs over the past 8 years. It above all else needs to be reigned in, in the form of a gradual, responsible withdrawel of troups from Iraq. Finish up our business in Afghanistan. But Iraq never needed our presence, and we need an exit strategy NOW. So for McCain to call for a spending freeze on everything BUT defense, social security, and medicaid...what exactly is going to get cut? Just thinking about all the government programs that fall outside of those categories makes me ill. Using a hatchet instead of a scalpal is VERY analogous. As for Obama (and really, McCain) not saying what he would be willing to cut in light of the current financial crisis...honestly that was a stupid question. It is way too soon to know what the effects of this will be. This isn't January, budgets haven't been decided, and we are just too far away to know if there is a need to respond to any other crises. I also think it's underhanded to ask a question to the candidates essentially to see what single-issue voter constituency they're willing to alienate by saying that issue isn't that important to them. Sure, budgets will be tighter, some goals may not be realized, but why do things have to be cut entirely? Why not just adjusted spending across the board? No, I really disliked that question.

No, McCain's "spending freeze" exempted defense and programs like Social Security and Medicaid.

The Veep debate will be comedy gold. Maybe it'll be adapted into a screen play.

...and if you vote for the third party candidate in an election with at least one popular candidate of the major parties, you will ALWAYS lose.

Al Quaida isn't a nuclear power (yet), and Pakistan is currently an ally. We can play the what if game until the sun goes supernova, but it doesn't change the fact that Al Quaida is somewhere in Pakistan gaining strength.

I disagree. While the design isn't cutting-edge or modern, I can't think of anything in the engineering that isn't. I'm not going to subscribe to FWD < RWD because there are modern FWD cars out there. There's a lot of techno goodies in these cars, and I think they're fairly cutting-edge in the non-performance luxury market.