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Major General Michael Oates has started blogging as a way to connect better with his troops and their families. He blogs in a simple questioning style and is really trying to spur discussions that can help bring about positive results and changes for the soldiers he commands. Welcome to Task Force Mountain. This website is dedicated to giving the Soldiers of Task Force Mountain, their families and friends, the news media and anyone interested a view of our world in Iraq. Climb to Glory! taskforcemountain.com The Task Force Mountain Sound Off was started by the General as a way to really connect better with the soldiers he commands and give them a medium in which they can feel more comfortable voicing their opinions. His decision is another example of the power of blogs and how they are infiltrating so many areas. Fundamentally what I'm doing is not new. What I'm doing is communicating with my soldiers. What's new is the medium in which we're communicating. Major G

Regardless of your political leanings it is hard to argue against the fact that America is in a bit of turmoil economically at the moment. Whether you feel it is all Bush's fault, hope Obama will change your situation, or think one or the other is good, bad, or ugly, you probably feel like something needs to be done. I came across an article this morning Reinventing America by a gentleman named Michael Tchong. It is very long article, but he touches on everything from values and morals to government simplification. What I really liked about the article was the fact that not only does Michael talk about what he feels is wrong he gives his ideas and recommendations about what to do and how to do it. According to his figures in the article he believes that following his recommendations would save $1.3 trillion. The $1.3 trillion saved would entirely offset the current budget deficit, while providing a $100 billion surplus. He has recommendations ranging from metric system conversi

Due to the extreme cold my desire to do anything productive outside of my home has shrunk to the point of pretty much disappearing. With temps at -18 and wind chills close to -50 being outside even just to go from house to car is a painful experience. Even with layers of clothes and no skin exposure the cold is still biting. The car doesn't like it either. My car has never really like the cold that much and was very cranky this morning. I eventually got it convinced to take me to work and we both survived the frigid morning. I have all weather tires on the car, but they are high performance tires and not really for weather this cold. They are very hard in this weather and the traction is pretty bad. Combine that with the rear wheel drive and you can see how much fun driving around up here in the cold and snow can be. Well I hope all of you out there are staying warm. I just wanted to say a quick hello to all of you this morning. I am trying to get back on a more regular posting

Okay there has been this ongoing "WP snob" thing going on for a very long time. WordPress users tend to look down a bit on those that use the free hosted Blogger platform. I use both and there are things I like about both Blogger and WordPress. I have blogs hosted that use WP and blogs such as this one that are still using Blogger. I have always liked the "almost" WYSIWYG template editor that Blogger has. You can move your stuff around in that or if you are so inclined you can edit the HTML directly. This is a huge plus for folks that are new to blogging. When I am talking with people that are looking to start a blog and get there feet wet in this domain I usually recommend starting with Blogger. The learning curve is much shorter and allows them to focus initially on content and building community. With the improvements made over the last year in the Blogger realm you really can have a great blog using only Blogger. If you are wanting a broader presence that goes

Yep...After a very short meaningless totally anecdotal study, I have decided that beer makes my blog better. How, you ask? Well let me explain. For those of you who drop by on a regular basis or subscribe to the feed and read that way, you may have noticed that I haven't posted much on many of my blogs recently. Since the middle of November I have been very busy and just have run out of time. I just have waaayyy to many projects going, and have been eliminating superfluous time-consuming ones since the first of the year. I made the mistake of getting too many irons in the fire and have been paying the price. I was on vacation quite a bit from the middle of Nov through the end of the year and just didn't have time to get to everything. I realized I was just spread too thin to really be enjoying the fruits of my endeavors and decided to begin a New Year's pruning. During the process of looking over data and analyzing projects from my blogs, affiliate marketing, various eb