My first DSLR camera was a Canon 20D that my parents purchased for me as a graduation present back in August of 2005. We went to the store expecting to purchase the camera for $1,599, but found that it was selling for only $1,299. Boy was I excited.
- Michael Tedesco
Amy Goodman and DemocracyNOW! are directly responsible for keeping me blogging during the most difficult times in late 2004. This is an outrage!
- Michael Tedesco
Amy Goodman and DemocracyNOW! are directly responsible for keeping me blogging during the most difficult times in late 2004. This is an outrage!
- Michael Tedesco
On Monday September 10, 2007 Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance T. Gray died in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad, two of seven U.S. troops killed in the incident which was reported just as Gen. David Petraeus was about to report to Congress on progress in the "surge." Both serving in the Army's 82nd Airborne, America at large would not come to know Sgt. Gray and Sgt. Mora's names until August 19th of this year. Omar and Tell joined with five other soldiers to pen a critical OpEd in the New York Times entitled, The War As We Saw It. In honor of these men please join the bloggers of Comments From Left Field in making a joint contribution on their behalf to the Fisher House. We urge you to give what you can to this noble cause for only in this way can Omar and Tell continue to make the lives of their fellow soldiers better even after their passing. We can think of no honor more fitting of a soldier.
- Michael Tedesco
My blog partner Kyle and I over at Comments From Left Field started a fund raising drive on Tuesday with the intention of raising $2000 for the Fisher House in the names of the two "Op-Ed soldiers" that were killed earlier this month, Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance "Tell" Gray. I am happy to say that in less than two days of running this campaign we have already surpassed our goal. For more information on this drive or to participate please visit, In Honor. ...or click the image below.
- Michael Tedesco
From the page: "A potentially decisive season of hearings and discussions about the performance and future of United States forces in Iraq has come to a provisional conclusion with the Congressional testimony of the US's two leading players in Baghdad: military commander General David H Petraeus and ambassador Ryan Crocker. But any expectation that their or their predecessors' reports assessing the progress of the military "surge" and its accompanying political efforts has proved futile. Instead, Washington - and United States political discourse about Iraq more generally - sleepwalks (see Gideon Rachman, "Many contenders but just one voice", Financial Times, 18 September 2007). This outcome suggests that the feverish predictions of a momentous opening of real debate about the consequences of the US invasion of Iraq were always grounded in fantasy. As with the frenzied anticipation that surrounded the Iraq Study Group report of December 2006, the real attention is better focused on...
- Michael Tedesco