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I normally do not write about news/politics, but this whole North Korea issue is getting out of hand. Seemingly out of the blue, we found out that North Korea had tested nuclear weapons. Guess what happened!? Other countries got upset. Big surprize! Oh wait, what’s that, Iran was involved? According to this news article, “North Korea did have one defender yesterday. Iran, which the United States and its European allies say is running its own clandestine nuclear weapons program, said on its state radio that U.S. ‘pressure and humiliation’ had led North Korea to conduct the test.” It’s like the grade-school playground, “Despite numerous warnings from his peers, ten-year-old Kim went ahead and tested a firecracker he had somehow obtained from the Chinese kid.”

Ok, so at this point everyone is upset and watching North Korea and looking for a reason to blame Iran. Sure enough, both parties act-up. The media tells us that Korea is at it again! They are getting ready for another test. Next, Americans (all of us) found a ship! Supposedly this ship has “something bad” *cough*nuke*cough* on it. Oh, and, to just get everything setup perfectly we find out that “Iran [is] determined to become nuclear”. Quoting the story, “We will produce our own nuclear fuel over the next five years, and sell it to them at a 50-percent discount.”

I’ll go ahead and write the next news story for you:

North Korea buys discount Iranian Nuclear Fuel

Amidst sanctions, North Korea “just can’t afford better”
SOMEWHERE IN ASIA — North Korea allegedly purchased discounted nuke juice from Iran. Iran, long time friends with North Korea, said, “We really like trouble, so we broke them a deal”. North Korea said that its decision was not because they want to annihilate anyone, but simply because the UN sanctions made it too expensive to buy it from Al Qaeda.

Here is my prediction: Media will tell us that a nuke from North Korea flew but was shot down by our super space guns or missile defense warships. USA wont fire back, instead choosing to invade both Iran and North Korea. Soon enough we will have monopoly on the Middle East and a square in Asia. Our gas prices will drop, surging SUV sales, and everything will go back to normal.

What is really funny though, is even by the end of this post consumers have already forgotten about North Korea.

In a stint of creativity and angst, I created this last night: http://socialrecession.com/

In other news, I realized last night that I can go from idea to product in less then 4 hours… this includes registering the domain, setting up the webserver, mail, graphics, copy, and the actual HTML. The barrier to entry on the Internet is very low.

The irony ensued as Belle and Sebastian (a Scottish band) wished in Independence Day.

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After that my Polish friends and I went down to South Shore to catch the fireworks.

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Lots of people!

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Poland!

… was the last thing I heard from the Swedish girl as she left my side at the Jose Gonzalez concert. She said something about having a messed up back and that she had go stretch out somewhere. Fair enough. I figured I had lost her, but she was just trying to be polite and lead me on (which is not all that polite). Then, around halfway through the set (about an hour later) she poked me. We chatted a bit more… but then I lost her again while everyone was exiting!! Oh well. Perhaps she was actually trying to avoid me.

ANYWAY, Jose Gonzalez is awesome.

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Another blurry photo of a band you have not heard of

In other news… I went to the Statue of Liberty!

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Google, Statue of Liberty, this sums up my summer

This was an adventure too. When I got there the line for tickets was about half a mile long, ending in the middle of Castle Clinton National Monument. Being an avid national park cancellation collector, I asked the guard if I could go into Castle Clinton to get my stamp and she let me through. Once inside, the lines for Statue of Liberty were much shorter. After about 10min of standing in line I was able to get a ticket. Then, after standing in that line, it was time to go stand in the line for the ferry. This time I walked straight to the end of the line and waited patiently… then I realized I was in the back of the ticket line!! It had wrapped all the way around the building. So, I asked where to go and was pointed in the correct direction. I walked right up to the gated area where the ferry bag checks started and was through in no time… however, right before I entered I looked back… it seems that I accidentally cut in front of about a 1000 people! I seriously did not mean to, but it happened.

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Look! We get treated like cattle at the auction!

I was very impressed with the capitilization of the monuments.

Other then seeing the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, my favorite part was seeing the National Park Ranger on a segway.

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Lets talk about goofy looking

Along with Liberty and Ellis Island, I also saw Grants tomb. They literally have him in a big black stone coffin. Sort of reminded me of Ho Chi Minh, except you could not see him.

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So, yeah, that was Monday.

I deleted a few of my blogs by accident :(. Thought I was deleting spam, did not think about it enough I guess.