Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Top events of 2004
I saw that the Associated Press came out with a list of the Top 10 events of 2004. Their list was:
1. US Election
2. Iraq
3. Florida Hurricanes
4. Abu Ghraib
5. 9/11 Attack Report
6. Gay Marriage issues
7. Arafat dies
8. Reagan dies
9. Belsen attack
10. 3/11 Attack (the Madrid bombings)
An organization called RFE/RL said today that it feels the top 10 were these events:
1. Ukraine election
2. Beslan Attack
3. US Election
4. Arafat Dies
5. Handing sovereignty to Iraq
6. Increase of EU's membership
7. 3/11 Attack
8. Dollarfall (fall of the dollar vs the euro and other currencies)
9. Darfur crisis
10. Olympics
This is quite a bit different. No mention of Reagan, Abu Ghraib, or gay marriage, and the Ukraine election is more important than the US one. In neither of these was it mentioned that crude oil has been increasing in price throughout the year. This is my top 10:
1. Ever increasing price of crude oil
2. US Election
3. Florida Hurricanes
4. Abu Ghraib
5. Iraq
6. Bush cleans out his cabinet
7. Arafat dies
8. 3/11 Attack
9. Beslen attack
10. Darfur crisis
This shows what I think was the real big story - oil. Furthermore, Bush's cleaning out his cabinet is a major story too - it seems he is replacing gadflies like Powell with yes men and women.
1. US Election
2. Iraq
3. Florida Hurricanes
4. Abu Ghraib
5. 9/11 Attack Report
6. Gay Marriage issues
7. Arafat dies
8. Reagan dies
9. Belsen attack
10. 3/11 Attack (the Madrid bombings)
An organization called RFE/RL said today that it feels the top 10 were these events:
1. Ukraine election
2. Beslan Attack
3. US Election
4. Arafat Dies
5. Handing sovereignty to Iraq
6. Increase of EU's membership
7. 3/11 Attack
8. Dollarfall (fall of the dollar vs the euro and other currencies)
9. Darfur crisis
10. Olympics
This is quite a bit different. No mention of Reagan, Abu Ghraib, or gay marriage, and the Ukraine election is more important than the US one. In neither of these was it mentioned that crude oil has been increasing in price throughout the year. This is my top 10:
1. Ever increasing price of crude oil
2. US Election
3. Florida Hurricanes
4. Abu Ghraib
5. Iraq
6. Bush cleans out his cabinet
7. Arafat dies
8. 3/11 Attack
9. Beslen attack
10. Darfur crisis
This shows what I think was the real big story - oil. Furthermore, Bush's cleaning out his cabinet is a major story too - it seems he is replacing gadflies like Powell with yes men and women.
Monday, December 20, 2004
Weird and Sexy
It's been a while since I've blogged. I have been busy and have had not time to enter a blog. I now get a chance to get one in. I would like to say that this Yuletide season has been weird. In particular, some libidinous activities have been going on.
First of all there is my office party, featuring karaoke. Not carioca, but karaoke. One of the songs that was sung was "I like my women just a little on the trashy side." Then I heard that at a recent Toastmasters meeting, a female speaker gave a talk on pornography on the web, and showed some explicit examples. And to top it all off, someone at my workplace sent us all an electronic card that called for us to click on tree to turn on the lights, on sky for snow, and so forth, then called for us to click them again one by one, showing scantily clad women.
So what's going on here? There are prevention of sexual harassment rules at my workplace, and social conservatives and extreme feminists have pushed their anti-sex agenda, and people are still doing stuff like this. All I can say is this means that sex has entered the magic land of childhood, Alice in Wonderland, for this world is indeed Alice in Wonderland if things like this are happening.
First of all there is my office party, featuring karaoke. Not carioca, but karaoke. One of the songs that was sung was "I like my women just a little on the trashy side." Then I heard that at a recent Toastmasters meeting, a female speaker gave a talk on pornography on the web, and showed some explicit examples. And to top it all off, someone at my workplace sent us all an electronic card that called for us to click on tree to turn on the lights, on sky for snow, and so forth, then called for us to click them again one by one, showing scantily clad women.
So what's going on here? There are prevention of sexual harassment rules at my workplace, and social conservatives and extreme feminists have pushed their anti-sex agenda, and people are still doing stuff like this. All I can say is this means that sex has entered the magic land of childhood, Alice in Wonderland, for this world is indeed Alice in Wonderland if things like this are happening.
