April 10, 2006
News Bits!
- Cy, the one-eyed-kitten was sold to a museum that promotes the theory of creationism. The Lost World Museum opens later this year in Phoenix, Arizona and promises to house a regular freak show.
- French President Jacques Chirac was influenced by the protests of the young people across the country and has recalled his proposition for employment laws.
- In Canada, some bodies of suspected members of the Bandidos Biker Gang were found outside of Ontario. We naively thought gang-turf wars ended with West Side Story.
- Everyone thought that the immigration bill was nearing a compromised conclusion on Thursday, but the fighting and bickering within and between parties, we'll all have to wait until their recess is over in two weeks. Huge demonstrations, rallies and protests are expected around the nation this week. About 500,000 rallied in Dallas yesterday. Locally, several students and teachers from UT are organizing to demonstrate today.
- The City of Kyle, just south of Austin, opened their new City Hall this weekend. Well, City is getting a bit presumptuous with the description; the new building contains the small town's first elevator.
- Although the Dallas Stars already maintain a spot in the NHL playoffs, their loss to San Jose this weekend still sucks.
- An Engineering student at UT, Danny Thanh Le, drowned at Windy Point in Lake Travis yesterday while swimming with friends.
- For all you college hoochies out there, Playboy Magazine is going to be checking out Austin's selection around the UT campus for their annual Girls of the Big 12 spread. We think it will be a great article.
- Calling all geeks! Silicon Labs is publicly challenging local High-Tech companies to participate in the Silicon Labs Marathon Relay taking place on July 4th. We're expecting it to be a brutal competition and brutally hot!
- What silly people. An organization called Working Families for Wal-Mart has become an elemental force behind a war between national labor unions and Wal-Mart Stores.
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Danny Thanh Le, who drowned off Windy Point this past weekend, was from my old neighborhood in Houston: Alief. I never met the guy, but all of us from Tha Lief feel saddened when one of hers gets taken... (yes, the neighborhood is a "she").
Best wishes, and warm thoughts go out to his family and friends during their grieving of this tragedy.