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| I just had the realisation that I should have gotten the xanga user
name xngawillmakeyougoblind. I think it's still open and I could
still get it, but it might be too long. Either way I don't care
enough.
Still posting at tangentmind.org btw. The RSS/Atom feed thing is
nice too because you never have to actually check it...you can just get
it in your aggregator(I just use my mail client, thunderbird). I
get my own blog in my aggregator just for my own entertainment.
Sometimes I even read it in my mail client after I post it on the
web. I'm not vain or anything.
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| Tangentmind.org Double Post #5
finger pointing.
So, Kanye West says the situation in New Orleans is Bush's fault because he doesn't care about blacks. However, this blog
seems to claim otherwise. It says that Bush urged the mandatory
evacuation, and that mandatory evacuation was unprecedented because
they are usually voluntary. It could just be another
right-wing-bush-loving blog, but if there's truth in it then less blame
should be placed on the president.
Where should the blame be
placed? It's probably a combination of factors and a combination of
many people so it should be divided. The truth is usually some sort of
ballance, and not an extreme(but not always). I'm sure there are many
heroes and many villains and many that just fall in between.
However,
there were literally hundreds of buses that were owned by the city of
New Orleans that were not utilized. You can see some of that here, here, and here. So there is probably a lot of fault in the local government of New Orleans.
Also some fault in the Federal government though:
"Many
had been critical of the slow response, with many people (particularly
in New Orleans) left without water and food for three to five days (and
continuing) after the storm. Among the first to express criticism of
the management of the crisis had been The Pentagon, who complained only
a day after Katrina hit that beaurocratic red tape from the Bush
administration and the FEMA, (newly reorganized under the Homeland
Security Department) had caused the delay of a scheduled and authorized
military hospital ship from Norfolk, Virginia, among other related and
prepared active military crisis response procedures."
Something else:
A town in Missisippi was obliterated.
Awesome 18 or 20(maybe) year old guy guy grabs abandoned bus and saves people.
Note that the kid in the picture on that link is not the aforementioned
driver. All the news snippets I've seen have said he stole it or looted
it and not that he commandeered it or grabbed it or saved it. That is
possibly a great deal of what Kanye West was talking about(maybe not,
see below). Some of them don't mention it was abandoned and most, if
not all, probably don't mention that it would probably be water logged
and leaking poison into the water if he didn't get the bus(they also
can't seem to agree on his age, but that's beside the point). I need to
get a banner for that guy. He deserves one much more than Kanye West,
even if Kanye did speak some truth.
Speaking of, there are a lot
of posts on the web and other talking heads disgusted by Kanye West,
which I guess, is to be expected. Notice, however, than many of them
say things like "I never heard of Kane West before this" even though he
was in Times as the "smartest man in pop music".
However, Kanye could have been talking about this. A misunderstanding. | | |
| tangentmind.org double post #4
No more Birthday + Ericcson Cell Phone Tools
So,
my birthday has come and gone and now I'm 21 and can buy alcohol, hand
guns, and rent vehicles to my hearts content. If there's anything else
I can do now, and couldn't do before, let me know.
Here's the round up on birthday presents:
1.Money!: Thank you Grandma Chlorine, Leslie, Rachel*, and especially my Grandpa Art Martin.
2.A
cell phone! from the parents. It was my dad's old one but it's still
pretty good. I figured out how to copy all the content I want from the
computer to the phone. I have one of Paul's midis set as a ring tone
and a Dave Brubeck mp3 and some games and stuff. Ask me me for the
number, if you know me and think I'll give it to you.
3. A nice air filter! from my Brother, his wife and co. It's a hepa filter with some ion stuff. It's right next to my bed.
4.
A new computer! from my parents. Well, sort of a new computer. It's a
barebones set up, but I can just put the video card I have now in it.
It's still relatively fast. Also, my dad took the money my sister gave
me to pay for the 160 gig hard drive.
5. A belt? Well....leslie gave me money for a belt but I haven't bought one yet.
I think that's it. If I forgot something, let me know.
I
don't have a Sony Ericsson phone, but for those of you who do, there is
some neat open source software at
http://fma.sourceforge.net/index2.htm. If you have bluetooth or
infrared you can use it to control winamp or power point...and probably
some other things. Neat, eh?
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| Tangentmind.org double post #3
Faux-Republicans
I'm not sure if the liberals of today are really liberals. However, the republicans of today are not really Republicans.
They're probably not really christians either. So, if any of you reading this
are voting for them on the premise that they are either Republicans or
Christians, you might want to rethink your vote.
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Hey, that's Cab Calloway in the Blues Brothers! Cab Calloway is
awesome. There's at least 3 Betty Boops with Cab Calloway songs
in them. Those are awesome too.
Tangentmind.org Double Post #2
Aoki Pizza
http://otakuworld.com/data/voles/movies/aoki.mov < Aoki pizza commercial(Japanese) by the same guy who did Ren and Stimpy
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