Month: May 2008
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What I would rather be doing today
Over the holiday weekend, I spent a lot of time listening to my old cassette tapes and mp3s that I have made from my old LPs. A lot of that stuff was from the early 80s and got me to thinking about my early high school days. I’m not one of those people who get…
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The World Bank refuses to help Myanmar
According the The Voice of America news website, the World Bank is refusing to give loans to Myanmar because the military government hasn’t paid any outstanding debts since 1998. Once again the greedy and incompetent junta that runs that country are causing damage to their people at a time when they can no longer afford…
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Funny how things work out
Maybe I am seeing conspiracies where there are none, but there was a turn of events in Detroit politics that I think are mighty funny. If you know anything about the city’s politics, then you know that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is in a bit of trouble. One of his most vocal supporters on the Detroit…
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California Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriages.
The Supreme Court of California says that the state cannot bar same sex marriages. Cool.
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California Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage
California’s Supreme Court is going to rule on the legality of the state’s ban on gay marriage. It’s about time. There’s too much work for the United States to do to worry about whether or not two people who love each other can get married or not. Ridiculous. In the grand scheme of things it…
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Is it just me or is this just sad?
Two of the top headlines today are ‘Clinton wins by a landslide in West Virginia‘ and ‘Hope fading for tens of thousands still trapped in rubble in China‘. Usually things like this don’t bother me because I understand the awesome power of hyperbole, but for some reason, reading the comparison of a failed US Presidential…
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Now China is in trouble
First, Myanmar gets hit with a cyclone that left 1 million homeless and almost 100,000 dead. Now, China gets hit with a major earthquake (7.8 on the Richter scale in one portion) and it turns out thousands have been killed. Of course this is just the initial estimate; it will probably end up being much…
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New Version of the Audacity Beta
According to PodcastingNews.com (and verified by me going to the site), there is a new version of the Audacity Beta available. Podcasting News has a write up of all of the major changes. Cool.
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Then you get nothing, like you’re supposed to get
Last year, Michigan and Florida party leaders (Republicans and Democrats alike) got together and decided that their states didn’t have enough say in the selection of the presidential nominees so they decided to move their primaries up from wherever they were to January. This ticked off the national party leaders on both sides. The Republicans…
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Myanmar Update 5/9/2008
As outrageous as I have found the behavior of the Myanmar generals who run the cyclone ravaged country (see amateur video below that was linked from the BBC’s news site), I found it even more reprehensible that the junta is finally accepting foreign aid, but not foreign aid workers. Here are links to stories from…