Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/InksLWC.rss Furl archive. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:05:41 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/36755886/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36755886 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:38:05 GMT China Olympics 2008 Beijing Olympics 2008 Olympics 2008 Summer Olympics Beijing Beijing Olympics Gold Medal Gymnastics Nastia Liukin Silver Medal Summer Olympics Béla Károlyi OK, I’m sorta taking a little break from politics (although I’ve got a story I’m working on for tomorrow), and just watching the Olympics. 5 http://www.furl.net/item/36643092/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36643092 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:34:47 GMT China Olympics 2008 Beijing Olympics 2008 Olympics 2008 Summer Olympics Beijing Beijing Olympics Gold Medal Michael Phelps Swimming Mark Spitz OK, so I saw the video of the 100 meter butterfly event live at a sports bar, and when he won, the entire place erupted in a cheer. This was the closest, and most amazing race I’ve seen in my entire life (it even beat the NASCAR races, and I’ve seen some NASCAR races that a pretty good). The margin that Phelps won by was .01 seconds. Here’s a video: 5 http://www.furl.net/item/36633820/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36633820 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:04:29 GMT China U.S. U.S.A. United States of America George W. Bush George Bush Olympics 2008 Beijing Olympics 2008 Olympics 2008 Summer Olympics Beijing Beijing Olympics Gold Medal Michael Phelps Summer Olympics National Anthem Swimming OK, I watched this late last week, and NBC FINALLY posted the video on their website. It’s the National Anthem playing while Michael Phelps is winning his gold medal for the 400 meter something (I’d look it up, but my computer is a little slow right now). I don’t remember if this shows it, but I loved President Bush’s face when the anthem just cut off 5 http://www.furl.net/item/36632151/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36632151 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:16:52 GMT China Olympics 2008 Beijing Olympics 2008 Olympics 2008 Summer Olympics Beijing Beijing Olympics Gold Medal Gymnastics Michael Phelps Nastia Liukin Shawn Johnson Silver Medal Summer Olympics Gymnastics has always been a sport that I’ve admired (and completely sucked at), due to the fact that in order to do well, you have to be able to do a LOT of stuff - uneven bars, balance beam, floor routines, etc… (perhaps I just admire athletes in sports I competely fail in: gymanstics and hockey). 5 http://www.furl.net/item/36490466/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36490466 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:48:38 GMT Georgia Chechnya China Russia U.S. U.S.A. U.S.S.R. UN Union of Soviet Socialist Republics United Nations United States of America War President George W. Bush Military George Bush Abkhazia Gori Mikheil Saakashvili Separatists South Ossetia South Ossetia War Tbilisi Tskhinvali Vladimir Putin Alright, I have to admit, I was a little behind in this story - I don’t know why, I just hadn’t heard anything about it until Saturday, and this is my first opportunity to post about it. 5 http://www.furl.net/item/36464187/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36464187 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:04:22 GMT Police Michigan Crime Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick Scandal Election Jennifer Granholm Court Court Case Criminal Canada criminals felony Bond jail City Council Recall Election guilty Assault Governor Detroit City Council Ayanna Kilpatrick Ontario Windsor Bond Violation … because it’s just too dang funny to watch him violate his bond over and over again. But seriously, I would rather have him out of jail and committing more crimes, than kept in jail where he can’t commit any, and here’s why: I don’t trust Detroiters to remove him from office yet. The more crimes he commits, the more likely it is that he gets the boot, and as long as he’s not harming anybody right now, I say let him continue to violate his bond. 5 http://www.furl.net/item/36403659/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36403659 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:00:24 GMT Police Michigan Crime NBC Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Scandal Jennifer Granholm Court Court Case Criminal Canada Hearing Media criminals Law Laws Bond jail Judge Attorney WDIV guilty Perjury Assault Lawyer Governor 36th District Court Ayanna Kilpatrick Bobby Ferguson Brian White Joann Kinney Ronald Giles Ontario Thomas Jackson Windsor Sharon McPhail Devin Scillian You know, every blogger at on point or another sees a story unfolding before him/her and thinks, “This is gonna make an incredible blog post,” and the news interview I saw today was exactly that. Watch the following interview between WDIV’s (NBC-4) Devin Scillian and former Councilwoman turned Mayoral candidate turned Mayoral aide: 5 http://www.furl.net/item/36362845/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36362845 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:24:25 GMT Politics 2008 Election Energy Republican General Election Barack Obama John McCain Democrat Elections Election Campaign oil Ad Campaign Ad Gas Gasoline Attack Ad Paris Hilton Britney Spears Celeb Ad Conservation Offshore Drilling Alright, so as I posted about before, John McCain put out an ad called “Celeb” which shows Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, and compares Barack Obama to them, saying that he’s a celebrity. Then Paris Hilton responded with the following ad (sorry, 5 http://www.furl.net/item/36355689/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36355689 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:25:02 GMT Michigan Crime Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick Scandal Court Court Case Criminal Canada Wayne County Prosecutor jail Judge Attorney guilty Kym Worthy Wayne County Prosecutor Appeal Lawyer Defense 36th District Court Robert Moran Ronald Giles Jim Parkman Jim Thomas Ontario Thomas Jackson Windsor Well, Kwame Kilpatrick has been sent to jail, after it was revealed that he went to Windsor, Ontario for a business trip, violating his bond. Kwame apologized for the mistake in not telling the judge of the trip, saying, “I’ve been living in an incredible state of pressure and scrutiny.” He said that he had gone to Windsor to discuss the sale of the tunnel between the U.S. and Canada, saying, “We got the deal back on track. … It wasn’t a spur of the moment, willy nilly, I can frolic in Canada.” 5 http://www.furl.net/item/36319562/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36319562 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:52 GMT Politics 2008 Election House of Representatives Michigan Primary Democrats General Election Election Results 2008 Primary Democrat Elections Election Representative 13th District Carolyn Kilpatrick Martha Scott Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Mary Waters Here are the final results, from the Wayne County Clerk, for the Democrats 13th Congressional District primary: REP IN CONGRESS DIST 13 Vote for not more than 1 Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick . . . . . 20,906 38.90% 5