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Saturday, September 3, 2005

Paying guests look much better

There was a news story about paying guests from a hotel that were given priority in boarding the buses leaving the SuperDome. They apparently took 700 people from the hotel and gave them priority in boarding the buses that were leaving the arena. This angered a lot of people, and a few tried to cut... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 2, 2005

Bloggers sending reports next to the dead

What amazes me about the situation in the New Orleans Superdome is their ability to keep going without any food or water. They seem to have finally gotten some relief in the form of a food and water train. Now this train has a bunch of soldiers on the convoy to keep the shooters at bay. How are the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

There are too many bloggers not looting

If there's one thing about a disaster, it's looters running rampant in the city. You can see them in every location running away with anything they can carry. Remember the looters of 2003 when Iraq was invaded? They carried away all the national treasures from the Iraqi museum. I saw the director... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

The South gets pounded

There are moments when the news can deliver the most poinent information at the right time in the right place. Hurrican Katrina is definately one of those moments. Katrina has given the South a devasting punch in the solar plexus before it went out of Dixie. The South is a place of deep poverty in... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 29, 2005

Hookers up to their knees in water

Now that New Orleans is being devastated by the Hurricane, what will happen to all the hookers plying thier trade on Bourban street? Will they be in rowboats? Do hookers own cats? And if they do, are their cats called pussy? Don't cats hate the water? Why are all the hookers denigrated? In Japan a... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 26, 2005

Hot chicks after 40?

If men experience an exponential decline in their sexual feelings, then women must get about the same. I have seen very few MILF's in my area and if there are some, they should "get thee to a nunery". A lot of women flirt furiously because they think thier beauty is fading. In this, they are right.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Blogging and podcasting

The new media of the internet has got the most interesting potential. Today I looked into getting a podcast of my own. I bought a good headset with a mic attatched to it but couldn't quite figure out how to work the mixer. The next wave of technology will more than likely be podcasting. Now the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Why don't all nationalities blog?

I am disappointed in this site in that it does not seem to give more opportunity for people of all nations to blog. I have not met any Brazillians in this place that are interesting enough to read. The only Hispanic woman on this site, does not show her picture (she could be a dog) but writes the... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 20, 2005

The Latin American Festival was nice

I came to the Latin American Festival in my hometown with some apprehension. Not that I was differrent and wouldn't fit in to the surroundings, but rather I was afraid for my own physical safety. Instead, I found a warm afternoon filled with very LOUD music setup on speakers that were about the same... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Freakonomics is wierd science

A new book called Freakanomics, by Steven Levitt, claims that the crime rate went down because of legalized abortion. The crime rate did go down but that was mainly due to increased jobs that were created during the Clinton nineties. The rest of the book is just as controversial, I'm sure. In other... Sign in to see full entry.

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