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ghetto

south Central Los Angeles
west and south Chicago
Compton
Detroit
Flint, MI
Gary, IN
Philadelphia
Washington, DC
Baltimore
Harlem
Miami
New Orleans
Houston
south Phoenix
Oakland, CA
El Paso
Camden, NJ
Newark
Providence, RI
Buffalo, NY
Cleveland
Cincinnati
St. Louis

in other words, BLACK

Ghetto is the black equivalent of whitetrash.

by [e-mail] August 5, 2007

starter marriage

Refers to a married couple who probably does not plan on staying together: a "warm up" to a future relationship for both partners. It focuses on convenience instead of commitment.

A starter marriage is the dumbest thing ever. It's an oxymoron becuase the word MARRIAGE infers staying together permamantly. If you don't plan on staying together, why get married? Just break up and stop wasting each other's time for real relationships.

by [e-mail] August 21, 2007

industrial revolution

The period of technological innovation in the world that began in England in the 1800s and spread to America during the Reconstruction Era immediately after the Civil War. One major effect was the genesis of middle class America as people took jobs in emerging industries and new industrial plants. Before the industrial revolution there were only two social classes in the United States: wealthy (many were slave owners) and poor agrarian families. The wealthy at that time were hardly wealthy by today’s standards.

It’s believed that the invention of the printing press sparked the revolution, leading to the creation of the steam engine, followed by industrial plants and technological innovation. The industrial revolution then sparked the emergence of big business and capitalism as people found employment opportunities in new industries and industrial plants, attracting people to urban areas. The textile industry, mining, the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare, the insurance industry, power plants, retail industries and the steel industry are just a few industries that emerged during the industrial revolution. Thanks to the emergence of the steel industry, the world’s first “skyscraper” emerged in Chicago in the 1880s. Then came the invention of the car by Elwood Hayes of Kokomo, Indiana; and the airplane by the Wright Brothers of Ohio; and then television and radio; and then the rocket by Robert Goddard and the space age; the birth of the microchip and the computer; mass communications, and then Big Brother and the internet--all of these were effects of the industrial revolution that greatly changed our society and lead to the current “second industrial revolution.” In less than a century mankind went from being a strictly agrarian, slave-owning society to landing on the moon.

Key events during the Revolution:

The invention of the lightbulb and phonograph by Thomas Edison, the invention of the telgraph by Samuel F.B. Morse, the invention of pills and elixirs by Colonel Eli Lilly (Eli Lilly and Co. pharmaceuticals), the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, the beginning of the retail industry with Sears-Roebuck, the unification of America's railroad in Promontory Point, Utah, Andrew Carnegie and the Steel Industry, John Rockefeller and the oil industry, etc.

From the Garden of Eden to the mid 1800s, the world changed very little. But with the Industrial Revolution, mankind went from being a agrarian society to one that can talk to someone on the other side of the world—or the moon--in mere seconds.

by [e-mail] May 28, 2008

chicago

The best city in America and my “second home town!!” America’s 3rd largest urban area with almost 10 million people in 3 states (Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin) along the southwest shore of Lake Michigan. It is a very large metro area that may not be as big as New York or Los Angeles, but is America’s largest inland city and more metropolitan in profile than the latter (at least Chicago has cleaner air and adequate public transportation unlike L.A.). Its most common nickname, “the windy city” actually has nothing to do with meteorology. Although windy (especially during its frigid winters when winds come off Lake Michigan), it stems from its boasting politicians in the 1800s during the world’s fair about the city’s greatness, which it no doubt has. It is the cultural, commercial and transportation center of the Midwest and is a very diverse city with a lot to offer: beaches, a huge lakefront, arts, museums, culture, shopping along Michigan Avenue, awesome architecture (the Sears Tower is among the tallest buildings in the world and the city is building the Chicago Spire, which will surpass Sears as the tallest building in the U.S.), Chicago Deep Dish Pizza, the Gold Coast Dog and one of the world’s busiest airports. The Chicago Metropolitan area contains over half of Illinois’ state population. Not surprisingly, Chicago has so many things to see and do: Navy Pier, shopping along Michigan Avenue, going to a ball game, visiting the Museum of Science and Industry, the Adler Planetarium, the Lincoln Park Zoo or the Brookfield Zoo, go swimming in polluted Lake Michigan (unless it’s the middle of a frigid winter) or going to Lake Geneva for the weekend. The worst thing about Chicago may be its gang problem (who doesn’t have gangs?) and extreme climate: hot and humid summers and frigid winters. Just try exposing yourself to the winds of Lake Michigan in January. If climate is the worst thing about Chicago then I’d say things are pretty good. New York can go screw itself. New Yorkers are fake and Chicagoans are real. Chicago over New York any day.

Chicago is the best large city in America!!

by [e-mail] September 14, 2007

wedding

The most important day of a woman’s life. A day invented by women for women, planned since their early childhood, to eventually rob a man of half his life savings he has worked his entire adult life to achieve. Immediately after a woman accepts her alleged Prince Charming boyfriend’s proposal, her estrogen immediately turns her into a bridezilla and she goes into high gear calling her mother and friends, reads every issue of Modern Bride Magazine to get ideas for her dress, the bridesmaids dresses, the cake, the invitations, the flowers, and scoures the internet for where to take the honeymoon. All this while the nonchalant groom-to-be takes it all in stride and brags to his buddies how he will finally be able to get some whenever he wants (forgetting the fact that he hopes his bride-to-be will never find out he’s screwing one of the future bridesmaids and having to get a home pregnancy test). The groom-to-be, knowing he will soon not be single anymore, gives an all out effort to go to as many bars, nightclubs or strip joints with his buddies while he can to find all the girls he can screw before committing to “the one.”

The couple allegedly lives in several years of bliss, only to eventually end when both lovers hate each other and seek a divorce attorney. The woman eventually gets the man’s balls thru his wallet by getting half his life savings that took his entire adult life to achieve.

A wedding is nothing more than an expensive day invented by women for women in an attempt to scheme a man of half his life savings it took his entire adult life to acheive.

by [e-mail] March 26, 2008

Indianapolis

The capital of Indiana and second largest state capital. It may be America’s 12th largest single city (but it’ s metro area ranks 28th) and growing for some reason, but this city is Lousy with a capital-L. There is no diversity. No culture. No nightlife. No job growth. No high paying or high-tech jobs for that matter and most are in manufacturing. No greenspace. No scenery. No mountains. No lakes or even rivers. No seashore. No sizeable suburbs even though its largest, Carmel, has about 80,00 estimated however. Too many foreclosures. No reliable public transportation system. No lightrail system and NEVER will be. No sidewalks. And not even a descent skyline: it hasn’t changed since its tallest building, the Chase Tower was completed in 1990. The city is afraid of thinking big and only builds “skyscrapers” of only 20 stories or so that it considers tall for some reason. What a joke. Even smaller Nashville, TN will soon have a skyline that will be considerably larger. Indy recently ranked as America’s worst city for singles according to Forbes magazine. The city’s inefficient bus system called IndyGo uses buses that pollute pollute pollute. Not one city or school bus uses a hybrid or electric engine. And Indy’s people drive drive drive everywhere. Nobody takes public transportation because it hardly exists. For this reason Indianapolis is a major contributor to air pollution.

I can see why this place is called NapTown. It should be called ComatoseTown. Even cities half its size are more lively. I can see why it has the cheapest housing of any “large” metro area because nobody in America, except Indiana residents want to move there. Don’t move here unless you are at least in your thirties and have a family. If your single, stay away or go to Chicago. And to think, this city considers itself “world class.“ What a joke. If you are on I-65 going toward Chicago, keep driving because there is nothing here. It is lousy lousy lousy. And did I mention lousy?

Indianapolis is only a good city if you don't desire any architecture, nightlife, a high paying job, culture or diversity. It sucks for being a "large" city. It could be more considered a large town. Forget being world-class because it will NEVER happen.

by [e-mail] August 14, 2007

Alaska

A big, cold, barren state of the United States and the 49th state admitted to the Union, lying on the far NW corner of North America. It has a whole plethora of mountains, river valleys and forests. With some 600,000 or so residents, it has the lowest population density of any state. Some 65% of the state is government-owned land. Juneau is the capital and Anchorage is the largest city.

The Ididarod dogsled race is in Alaska and is a major event.

No, Alaska is not a state where the only inhabitants are Eskimos. The Eskimos live mostly in villages in the far north and hunt and fish for food. Most of Alaska is white and primarily vote Republican.

Most residents in Alaska work in mining/extracting, government and tourism. Alaska was originally called Seward's Folly until oil and gold were found in the late 19th Century. Alaska has gobbles amounts of oil reserves and has the Alaskan Pipeline going from Fairbanks to Valdez. The state's huge oil reserves and natural resources actually make it one of America's richest state's per-capita.

Alaska is a big but beautiful and rich state.

by [e-mail] March 6, 2008