First: Hotel Manners
First off, do they still exist? I am trying to figure out if they do or not. As a child I was told to be quiet in hotels. You do not run the TV loudly, you do not SCREAM in the hallway. You do not carry on loud conversations at two am in the hallways. You do not run in the hallway, no matter the time of day. In hotels, at all times of the day, someone somewhere is trying to sleep, so you always use a quiet voice.
This must have died in recent years. Or at least in the last year. The last hotel experience I had in Austin was terrible. Besides being over charged for parking and more than likely the room, I was awoke the two nights I was there at least THREE TIMES due to LOUD CONVERSATIONS AND SCREAMING at the wee hours of the morning. A few times these conversions were clearly caused by alcohol, but still. The Fancy Downtown Hotel is not a dorm room. If you wanted to stay in a dorm room, I have a feeling if you waked six blocks the other way, the University of Texas would have happily put you up. I remember nights like the ones I had this past weekend when I was in college. It annoyed me then, but it was weekends on a college campus, I couldn't expect any less. (Of course when people would stand outside my window and rap at two am on a Wednesday morning when I had to be up at eight for class, that pissed me off.)
So, in the future, please remain quiet when staying in hotels. They are not party dorms. Some people are trying to sleep so they don't look like the waking dead the next morning.
Second:
I bought the new Franz Ferdiand album. Before I bought it, I read some reviews. I had been unaware that the last album, You Could Do So Much Better, basically tanked. I was unaware of this. I guess it did not tank at Beloit College, as I heard it everywhere not just my own room. I really liked that album. Especially the songs "Walk Away" and "That Boy." Adored those two out of all the FF songs I know. Anyways, I bought the new album and enjoy it.
Third:
Is it bad I want Britney Spears to stop failing at life? I want her to succeed for some odd reason. I am not sure why. Usually, I do not care.
12 March 2009
06 March 2009
Failing to truely understand
Well, I've been rather busy of late, hence no update. I missed the year anniversary of Conrad Black heading to prison, 1 March I believe. I was working in St. Louis at the time and hungrily ate up every news article I could find online about Black going to prison.
Anyways, he is still in jail, with nothing to do except defend his beloved FDR and the New Deal. Now, I know I did not write a biography on the man, I am no FDR scholar, but I know that the New Deal did not get the US economy out of depression. Nothing really that FDR did before WWII "got the economy out of depression." He brilliant did give the appearance the economy was turning around. He poured money in through the New Deal, but what got the economy out of its rut was, in fact, the United States entering WWII. Shipping off every able body man to war (paying him to fight) and employing everyone else to build stuff for this war was what jumped the economy back onto the tracks and set it off and running again, until it crashed into another wall at some point.
Before the country entered WWII, the unemployment rate continued to go sky high, people were still loosing their jobs. The New Deal did nothing to change this in reality, it actually made it worse because it made it more expensive for companies to hire people. The draft was what caused the employment rate to decline. The New Deal was a government thing, the projects were government sponsered and thus did nothing for the private sector. Is this country built on the public sector? Huh? No. Its more built on the private sector. And the private sector continued to suffere and die a slow death of failing under the New Deal.
This is something, I guess, Mr. Black has failed to realize. He has bought into the wonderful news reels of the era that basically are propganda for the New Deal and its so called success. I guess he's living in La La Land in jail. It must be nice. I used to live in La La as well, when I was about 8.
Anyways, he is still in jail, with nothing to do except defend his beloved FDR and the New Deal. Now, I know I did not write a biography on the man, I am no FDR scholar, but I know that the New Deal did not get the US economy out of depression. Nothing really that FDR did before WWII "got the economy out of depression." He brilliant did give the appearance the economy was turning around. He poured money in through the New Deal, but what got the economy out of its rut was, in fact, the United States entering WWII. Shipping off every able body man to war (paying him to fight) and employing everyone else to build stuff for this war was what jumped the economy back onto the tracks and set it off and running again, until it crashed into another wall at some point.
Before the country entered WWII, the unemployment rate continued to go sky high, people were still loosing their jobs. The New Deal did nothing to change this in reality, it actually made it worse because it made it more expensive for companies to hire people. The draft was what caused the employment rate to decline. The New Deal was a government thing, the projects were government sponsered and thus did nothing for the private sector. Is this country built on the public sector? Huh? No. Its more built on the private sector. And the private sector continued to suffere and die a slow death of failing under the New Deal.
This is something, I guess, Mr. Black has failed to realize. He has bought into the wonderful news reels of the era that basically are propganda for the New Deal and its so called success. I guess he's living in La La Land in jail. It must be nice. I used to live in La La as well, when I was about 8.
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