It's SUNDAY!

Its time for another list although I have to say this week was lacking in the inspirational category. Nothing stuck out but here goes anywasy

Blackalicious has a new album out it was a bit too funky for me but the first track World of Vibrations caught my attention perhaps some of you may enjoy it too.

Robin Thicke's song "I Wanna Love you Girl" is good too.

Read Jumpa Lahri's Interpreter of Malidies an insightful set of short stories although I felt some of the stories could have been novels in and of themselves.

Didn't really watch any TV so nothing to report there

Hmmm..... This week was jus a lot of work and very little in the way of Entertainment. Until next time....

Feelings of a loss

I read this article and thought everyone should read it. It just talks about the earthquake and the response or more appropriately the lack of response that has followed. Just a few Statistics to help remind us of what is going on.

Magnitude of Quake - 7.6
Area of Quake - Northern Pakistan and Kashmir all the way to parts of India.
Death Count - An article last week wednesday pinned in at about 80,000.
Number of Homeless - 3 million
Major Needs - Tents & Blankets
Estimated Damage - 5 billion Dollars

It almost seems to late to do something but one has to try...

Another List

I think I am going to make this a Sunday thing reflecting back on the interesting discoveries of the previous week assuming there are any.

Songs

So Sick - Ne-yo (I like it and I am sure you will too)

December 4th - Jay-Z Grey Album (Thanks for this one Terrence I love it, by the way the whole album is good)

Main Vari Vari - Mangel Pandey (A R Rehman does it again)

Books

When Broken Glass Floats (Truly Depressing but provided me glimpses of a history I knew nothing about)

Memoirs of a Geisha (colorfully depicts the history of an era in a fictional medium)

Another list completed...

Just a bunch of mumble jumble

Jus so you know I spend a lot of time on the road. Driving is like second nature and as of late constantly listening to hip hop seems more and more difficult. So been listening to a lot of NPR .... a whole lot of NPR, which means I have heard a little too much about Harriet Miers and the new tactics this week to get her nomination through. I am just wondering would a Corporation of any stature be able to change their course on a weekly basis for their newest product. Well maybe we will try this strategy this week. This administration inability to do anything correctly baffles me. Lets take a look at a few things that have happened during this administration. First of all another man wins the popular vote and Bush becomes President anyways. We went to Afghanistan to find Osama, still looking jus can't seem to find him. Oh and by the way the parliamentary elections in Afghanistan have resulted in the election of multiple war lords and also some of the members of the previous Taliban Regime. We go to Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction, we don't find any, lucky for us we find good ol Sadaam hiding in a cave. Deadlines come and go for our withdrawal and nothing happens, every so called success is clouded by the information that the insurgency isn't getting weaker perhaps there resolve is getting stronger. As if our inability to do anything well abroad isn't bad enough. A major hurricane wipes out a whole city and our beloved president continues his vacation for a couple of days. Lets look at the aspects of vacation, our current president has taken more vacation then any other president in the history of our country in a time when the citizens are enjoying less vacations then ever before. I could keep ranting but I will quote what Churchill once said and then pose a question. "Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain." Although this may be true I am wondering why the conservative leadership doesn't seem to have a brain. I will just post a few quotes from a former Republican VP and our beloved current President.

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. " -- Dan Quayle

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix" -- Dan Quayle

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure" -- Dan Quayle

"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." -- George W. Bush

"We must have the attitude that every child in America—regardless of where they're raised or how they're born—can learn." -- George W. Bush

"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." -- George W. Bush

"Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is." -- George W. Bush (This one takes the cake there were more death penalty sentences in Texas under George W. Bush as governor then ever under any other governor in any state of the country)

Sometimes I wonder

"Im very confident in my insecurity about myself.."

-- A friend