OK so i JUST posted a blog on Geography but this is kind of a follow up.
The subject of this post came up in a Religion class actually. And by that i mean a class on Religion taught by a Professor of Theology are Eastern Kentucky University. Which by the way is PAINFUL to take if you are not a idiot. Because you are the Minority.
90% of the people who seam to take religion classes are Bitchy Women who are STUNED to find out that the whole class is not about THERE Religion despite the title being World Religion.
(If you really want to make them mas use 1 Timothy 2:11-12 on them) "let a women learn in silence with all submission. And i do not permit a woman to teach or to have authoirty over a man, but to be in silence" Now its important to note that i don't really buy that crap. Its just usefully to shut up really bitchy religion women in Theology classes. (But i digress)
So our Theology teacher asked us one day, wile we were talking about religion in the new world how many country's are in North America. Almost every one in the class answered Ether 2! (Most of the religious Harpy's) or 3 (Most of the kids right out of high school) One girl answered 10. I answered 17. (The answer is 23)
The teacher admitted that he himself did not know, but he like me and the other girl knew it was more then 2 or 3. The point to asking is this. Most people think North America is Canada and the United States MAYBE Mexico.
But if you look at a map North America Starts AT PANAMA! So that's all of Middle America (which by the way is a region not a continent, just like the middle east of the Caribbean) And BTW the Caribbean is part of North America as well, along with Greenland. (which is itself not counted as a country in the 23, sense its part of Denmark)
The reason i couldn't get 23 right was because i don't know all those little one island nations out in the Caribbean.
Now this confusion comes from two sources.
The first being the use of the word Middle America. (Meaning the area from the Yucatan Peninsula to Panama) Mean the southern part of Mexico on down. People also call it Mezzo America. (which means middle in Latin.. i think its Latin) The point being this has nothing to do with Geography, its actually meant to represent the part of North America that is still largly inhabited by Native Descended people.
The second source is that schools in middle American. (Mexico on down in this instance) Teach that south America starts at Mexico. WHY? Because they consider every above Mexico white and every one below Latino. Part of the La Raza idle. (La Raza means The Race)
The problem with this is again consistency. First off. In most nations Latino's like middle easterners are Caucasian. Secondly they largely consider Lation in America to be white. Which just doesn't make sence, many of them have been there much longer then America or Mexico.
Not to mention that if a Mexican went to Columbia and said "I am Latino" The Columbia's would tell them. "No your Mexican" Because indeed, the Colombians are much closer to being Native Americans then most people from Mexico.
So the entire Middle America thing is just Bunk, there is no real consistent reason to separate it, and if you did why isn't the Caribbean in there? Because its a subo-political idle trying to pass its self off as Geography.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Geography 101. (Continents)
OK so back onto Geography.
There is a big discusion in the geography community that has been going every sense some smart ass Geography student looked at the map and said.
Wait.... Europe and Asian are basically the same landmass.
Or.
Wait..... North and South America are connected by a small strip of land.
Or.
Wait..... Asia and Africa are connected by a small strip of land.
OK so the problem stems from one fact.
There is no GOOD definition of a Continent.
The most widly used is "Continents are understood to be large, continuous, discrete masses of land, ideally separated by expanses of water."
OK so that means.
#1. Large. But large is a general term. Asia makes up 30% of the earth's landmass. So its Large by any comparison, but really just saying large is pretty slip shot.
#2.Continuous. OK so this one isn't that bad. And this is were most people throw in Asia/Africa and North/South America. The Argument is that a tiny little strip of land doesn't constitute Continuous.
#3. Discrete. So if you take Europe to a hotel and do the Nasty it wont kiss and tell.... No wait, when they say Discrete they mean apart from other 'enter word here' land masses in this case.
#4. Ideally Separated by Expanses of water. That's kind of iffy as well that's like saying a Sandwich Ideally has bread on it.. but we will let it slide.
OK so there are a number of opinions about how many continents there are, but they tun the gamut from 5 to 7.
Now what we are looking for hear is a good CONSISTENT count of Continents.
7. The first being the Seven Continents model. This is the one most westerners are taught in school. North/South America Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Europe and Asia. OK so the only trouble with this one is that Asia and Europe have NOTHING dividing them. Some people say the Ural Mountains do. But screw them, no one said anything about Mountains counting, if they did then India/California would be there own Continents.
Now the reason that Asia and Europe are separate is ~Drum Roll~ Because the Europeans and Asian's want it that way. NO REALLY that's why, because the cultures of the two land.... area's (Senses its the same landmass) Are so different they like it that way. That and if its was the same area then it would be HUGE. 36% of the earth's land mass. and holding 71% of the earth's population.
6a. aka:The smart six.
ok so the first of two counts just stats the above. That Asia and Europe are the same land mass, and should be the same Continent, in fact many people who use the 7 Continent count still use the term Eurasia (Notice that Europe is first in the name, Despite being small, having less people and being 2nd alphabetically, Course Asiope sounds dumb) the up side to this count is that it's consistent at least.
6b. aka:The crazy six.
ok so this one has the same number of Continents as the above, but this time idle is that Europe and Asia are different land masses but the America's (North and south) are the same land mass. Now i think most people right away would see the trouble, THIS is not consistent. If north and south America are the same land mass, shouldn't Africa/Asia be the same? or Europe and Asia be the same? I mean North and south america are only connected by a 70 mile wide Isthmus most of it being lake.
Africa and Asia minor. (The middle easy) are only connected by 119 mile wide Isthmus, most of it being natural river. So what that 30 miles make all the difference?
Now to be fair, this is mostly taught in South / Middle America. And most people who teach this also think North America is much smaller then it is. (As do most Americans) So there grasp of Geography is more of a Social idle and less of a Earth Science.
5. The Crazy five!
ok so this one is crazy for the same reason as above, this one is a combination of the two above. America (A combo of the north/south) Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica.
OK so again we go back to the Africa/Asia thing. Why are they separate if north and south America arent?
And Finally.
4! aka: The consistent one.
You ever see a movie were there is ONE Sane guy in the whole movie? This is that guy.
This one just takes the 5 Continent idle and makes it NOT CRAZY by saying.
"Hay is Africa is touching Asia, And Asia is touching Europe. Then.... Arent they all the same landmass?
Yes, yes it is. Afro-Eurasia aka Afrasia aka Eurafrasia aka Eurasica.
Or as i like to call it the African-Eurasia SUPER CONTINENT!
is just that idle that you must be consistent in your counting, and that anything touching anything else is the same landmass. The problem with this model is simply that this new super continent comprises 56% of the worlds landmass and 85% of the population of the planet.
The idle of Continents is to divine the worlds landmass into smaller parts so you can quickly and easily refer to places, if you say Afro-Eurasian Crisis. That's pretty general.
PS: Tectonic theory.
So people have the idle, or have posed the idle that you could just use Tectonic plates to decide how many Continents there are. But there are a couple problems with this idle, #1. Continents are older then Tectonic Drift theory. By o..... 1800 some odd years. #2. Continents are a matter of Geography, Tectonic plates are a matter of Geology. And THOSE are NOT the same subjects my friend. #3. If you did that there would be screwed up Continents.
For instant Austrailia and India are on the same plate. The middle east is on its own plate, Greece is ALMOST on its own plate, All of Eurasia is on one plate with the exception of the north easy part of Russia. The Phillippines are on there own plate, Panama as well. So you see the trouble.
There is a big discusion in the geography community that has been going every sense some smart ass Geography student looked at the map and said.
Wait.... Europe and Asian are basically the same landmass.
Or.
Wait..... North and South America are connected by a small strip of land.
Or.
Wait..... Asia and Africa are connected by a small strip of land.
OK so the problem stems from one fact.
There is no GOOD definition of a Continent.
The most widly used is "Continents are understood to be large, continuous, discrete masses of land, ideally separated by expanses of water."
OK so that means.
#1. Large. But large is a general term. Asia makes up 30% of the earth's landmass. So its Large by any comparison, but really just saying large is pretty slip shot.
#2.Continuous. OK so this one isn't that bad. And this is were most people throw in Asia/Africa and North/South America. The Argument is that a tiny little strip of land doesn't constitute Continuous.
#3. Discrete. So if you take Europe to a hotel and do the Nasty it wont kiss and tell.... No wait, when they say Discrete they mean apart from other 'enter word here' land masses in this case.
#4. Ideally Separated by Expanses of water. That's kind of iffy as well that's like saying a Sandwich Ideally has bread on it.. but we will let it slide.
OK so there are a number of opinions about how many continents there are, but they tun the gamut from 5 to 7.
Now what we are looking for hear is a good CONSISTENT count of Continents.
7. The first being the Seven Continents model. This is the one most westerners are taught in school. North/South America Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Europe and Asia. OK so the only trouble with this one is that Asia and Europe have NOTHING dividing them. Some people say the Ural Mountains do. But screw them, no one said anything about Mountains counting, if they did then India/California would be there own Continents.
Now the reason that Asia and Europe are separate is ~Drum Roll~ Because the Europeans and Asian's want it that way. NO REALLY that's why, because the cultures of the two land.... area's (Senses its the same landmass) Are so different they like it that way. That and if its was the same area then it would be HUGE. 36% of the earth's land mass. and holding 71% of the earth's population.
6a. aka:The smart six.
ok so the first of two counts just stats the above. That Asia and Europe are the same land mass, and should be the same Continent, in fact many people who use the 7 Continent count still use the term Eurasia (Notice that Europe is first in the name, Despite being small, having less people and being 2nd alphabetically, Course Asiope sounds dumb) the up side to this count is that it's consistent at least.
6b. aka:The crazy six.
ok so this one has the same number of Continents as the above, but this time idle is that Europe and Asia are different land masses but the America's (North and south) are the same land mass. Now i think most people right away would see the trouble, THIS is not consistent. If north and south America are the same land mass, shouldn't Africa/Asia be the same? or Europe and Asia be the same? I mean North and south america are only connected by a 70 mile wide Isthmus most of it being lake.
Africa and Asia minor. (The middle easy) are only connected by 119 mile wide Isthmus, most of it being natural river. So what that 30 miles make all the difference?
Now to be fair, this is mostly taught in South / Middle America. And most people who teach this also think North America is much smaller then it is. (As do most Americans) So there grasp of Geography is more of a Social idle and less of a Earth Science.
5. The Crazy five!
ok so this one is crazy for the same reason as above, this one is a combination of the two above. America (A combo of the north/south) Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica.
OK so again we go back to the Africa/Asia thing. Why are they separate if north and south America arent?
And Finally.
4! aka: The consistent one.
You ever see a movie were there is ONE Sane guy in the whole movie? This is that guy.
This one just takes the 5 Continent idle and makes it NOT CRAZY by saying.
"Hay is Africa is touching Asia, And Asia is touching Europe. Then.... Arent they all the same landmass?
Yes, yes it is. Afro-Eurasia aka Afrasia aka Eurafrasia aka Eurasica.
Or as i like to call it the African-Eurasia SUPER CONTINENT!
is just that idle that you must be consistent in your counting, and that anything touching anything else is the same landmass. The problem with this model is simply that this new super continent comprises 56% of the worlds landmass and 85% of the population of the planet.
The idle of Continents is to divine the worlds landmass into smaller parts so you can quickly and easily refer to places, if you say Afro-Eurasian Crisis. That's pretty general.
PS: Tectonic theory.
So people have the idle, or have posed the idle that you could just use Tectonic plates to decide how many Continents there are. But there are a couple problems with this idle, #1. Continents are older then Tectonic Drift theory. By o..... 1800 some odd years. #2. Continents are a matter of Geography, Tectonic plates are a matter of Geology. And THOSE are NOT the same subjects my friend. #3. If you did that there would be screwed up Continents.
For instant Austrailia and India are on the same plate. The middle east is on its own plate, Greece is ALMOST on its own plate, All of Eurasia is on one plate with the exception of the north easy part of Russia. The Phillippines are on there own plate, Panama as well. So you see the trouble.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Geography 101. (You get a F)
OK so as i stated before, I am a Geography student, at a university.
And something i have come to appreciate is people who can find stuff on a map.
A study done by 50+ University's, using college student's, college professors, school children, there teachers, people on the street and MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. Has shown that 1 out of 5 American's can't find the United States on a map.
And that's not a average, that's almost across the boards, for instance college professors and members of congress had the best scores, at 5 out of 6 being able to find it. So that means that one out of six of the people leading our nation can't find it on a map. And ~Clears thought~ Not to upset some people with the rest of the study but, Briggam young university were the people doing the congress part. (If you don't know Brigham young is a fairly conservative college) And they found that. Out of the 90 members of congress that could not find the United stats on a map. 67 of them were Republicans.
Now I'm not bringing that up to make fun of Republicans. (They do that with out my help) I bring it up to make a latter point. But moving on, out of the 4 of 5 americans who can't find the US on a map, 1 out of 4 of them Can't find Canada or Mexico on a map. And out of the 3 remaining 1 of them can't find France, Great Britten, Germany, Japan, China, Russia, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Afghanistan or Pakistan on map. (That none of them, not just can't find one of them)
Why?
Because under Regan, Most of the funding for Geography, and many other "Liberal arts" Subjects were cut, and the stats that suffered the most were pore southern stats. (Mostly Republican) Hence the reason they had lower scores.
And the reason is simple, Many American's, Notable the Extreme right, but largely across the board, just don't think its Important to know were other places are, and maybe there right, but think about this.
When the same test was done in other nation's, Almost every one knows were the U.S. is even, people who don't know were there own county is. (This happened allot in African country's)
Why? Because the U.S. has allot of power, and many would say does allot of good and or bad, in other nations. So American Citizens should at least be able to find places that we influence.
Just memorize the nations i have mentioned today people.
If you don't your on my Idiot list.
And something i have come to appreciate is people who can find stuff on a map.
A study done by 50+ University's, using college student's, college professors, school children, there teachers, people on the street and MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. Has shown that 1 out of 5 American's can't find the United States on a map.
And that's not a average, that's almost across the boards, for instance college professors and members of congress had the best scores, at 5 out of 6 being able to find it. So that means that one out of six of the people leading our nation can't find it on a map. And ~Clears thought~ Not to upset some people with the rest of the study but, Briggam young university were the people doing the congress part. (If you don't know Brigham young is a fairly conservative college) And they found that. Out of the 90 members of congress that could not find the United stats on a map. 67 of them were Republicans.
Now I'm not bringing that up to make fun of Republicans. (They do that with out my help) I bring it up to make a latter point. But moving on, out of the 4 of 5 americans who can't find the US on a map, 1 out of 4 of them Can't find Canada or Mexico on a map. And out of the 3 remaining 1 of them can't find France, Great Britten, Germany, Japan, China, Russia, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Afghanistan or Pakistan on map. (That none of them, not just can't find one of them)
Why?
Because under Regan, Most of the funding for Geography, and many other "Liberal arts" Subjects were cut, and the stats that suffered the most were pore southern stats. (Mostly Republican) Hence the reason they had lower scores.
And the reason is simple, Many American's, Notable the Extreme right, but largely across the board, just don't think its Important to know were other places are, and maybe there right, but think about this.
When the same test was done in other nation's, Almost every one knows were the U.S. is even, people who don't know were there own county is. (This happened allot in African country's)
Why? Because the U.S. has allot of power, and many would say does allot of good and or bad, in other nations. So American Citizens should at least be able to find places that we influence.
Just memorize the nations i have mentioned today people.
If you don't your on my Idiot list.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
People are brown! Get over it.
OK so a good friend of mine were sitting around one day.
And for what ever reason. (Can't remember have slept sense then)
We were trying to figure out what color tone our skin was.
And my friend after sitting there for a moment, had the idle of.
"Hay lets go look up color's on Wikipedia and see were we fall"
Now before i go any further into this discussion, let me say this, I'm Caucasian, and so was the friend i was having the conversation. And i turned out to be a 'Desert sand' My friend who has a decidedly more olive tone ended up being a 'Wheat' And as we sat there looking throw color.
We came to a discovery.
The entire human race. (Unless they are albino) Are brown.
End of story. That's it don't believe me?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_brown
There.
OK so no crap people.
Even before this i knew two things.
#1. I have NEVER seen a black person. I have seen people who have dark skin.
#2. I have NEVER seen a white person. I have seen people with light skin tones.
And people are called yellow and copper as well.
But every natural skin tone falls into the brown pallet.
And besides another race question.
They still call 'White people' Caucasian, But don't call 'black people' Negroid.
Now i know why.
But the question is why do they still call them Caucasian.
But that being said.
*Black is a bad name because no one is black.
*Negro is bad because its derived from a bad naming convention. (Not all 'black' people are from the Niger River Vally) And it now has a negative connotation.
*'Colored' is bad because all people have color (Brown)
*And African American is stupid because its very presumptions.
I say this based on the points that.
#1. Not all black people are from Africa. Many Indian's are darker in skin tone then Africans.
#2. Not all African's are black. There are many white Africans, And in north Africa most people would say the populous was Arabian. (If you didn't know, Middle Easterners are all white, as are Latino's)
#3. It makes the assumption that they are American's. I know a man from England who is black, now what?
And Finally its kind of disrespectful to say. "O your from Africa." You would never say "O your from Europe" to a German would you? There are 53 Country's in Africa. The Continent is the size of one and half north America's. (Which has 23 Country's, Not two)
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So the point is this.
Human's are humans.
Ether go with that theory or the idle that we have Cultural Identity.
No one would say that Spanish people are like Norwegians. But both are predominately white and Europeans. Just like despite what he right wants you to think, not all Americans are White, Cristian (Or even Protestant) Conservatives.
And for what ever reason. (Can't remember have slept sense then)
We were trying to figure out what color tone our skin was.
And my friend after sitting there for a moment, had the idle of.
"Hay lets go look up color's on Wikipedia and see were we fall"
Now before i go any further into this discussion, let me say this, I'm Caucasian, and so was the friend i was having the conversation. And i turned out to be a 'Desert sand' My friend who has a decidedly more olive tone ended up being a 'Wheat' And as we sat there looking throw color.
We came to a discovery.
The entire human race. (Unless they are albino) Are brown.
End of story. That's it don't believe me?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_brown
There.
OK so no crap people.
Even before this i knew two things.
#1. I have NEVER seen a black person. I have seen people who have dark skin.
#2. I have NEVER seen a white person. I have seen people with light skin tones.
And people are called yellow and copper as well.
But every natural skin tone falls into the brown pallet.
And besides another race question.
They still call 'White people' Caucasian, But don't call 'black people' Negroid.
Now i know why.
But the question is why do they still call them Caucasian.
But that being said.
*Black is a bad name because no one is black.
*Negro is bad because its derived from a bad naming convention. (Not all 'black' people are from the Niger River Vally) And it now has a negative connotation.
*'Colored' is bad because all people have color (Brown)
*And African American is stupid because its very presumptions.
I say this based on the points that.
#1. Not all black people are from Africa. Many Indian's are darker in skin tone then Africans.
#2. Not all African's are black. There are many white Africans, And in north Africa most people would say the populous was Arabian. (If you didn't know, Middle Easterners are all white, as are Latino's)
#3. It makes the assumption that they are American's. I know a man from England who is black, now what?
And Finally its kind of disrespectful to say. "O your from Africa." You would never say "O your from Europe" to a German would you? There are 53 Country's in Africa. The Continent is the size of one and half north America's. (Which has 23 Country's, Not two)
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So the point is this.
Human's are humans.
Ether go with that theory or the idle that we have Cultural Identity.
No one would say that Spanish people are like Norwegians. But both are predominately white and Europeans. Just like despite what he right wants you to think, not all Americans are White, Cristian (Or even Protestant) Conservatives.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Stupid freaken text boxes.
OK so i understand the point behind the text boxes. (You know those things that ask you to enter the text that is in the box, to you know show that your a real person and not a bot program)
But the question is why do they half to look like a money wrought them?
I mean are bot programs so advanced that they can read a image now?
And if they are do you really need to be a CIA coda breaker to read the image that is needed to fool the bots?
And the thing is, most places now have a handicap bottom, to give you a easier to read group of words.
So if you can use easy to read words, why have the hard to read words in the first place.
But the question is why do they half to look like a money wrought them?
I mean are bot programs so advanced that they can read a image now?
And if they are do you really need to be a CIA coda breaker to read the image that is needed to fool the bots?
And the thing is, most places now have a handicap bottom, to give you a easier to read group of words.
So if you can use easy to read words, why have the hard to read words in the first place.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
I live in a white ghetto. (Greetings from clay county Kentucky )
OK so first off i want to give you a geography lesson.
I live in the State of Kentucky, which is the 4th poorest state in the United States.
I live in Clay County Kentucky, Which is the poorest county in the state of Kentucky.
The Per Capita Income for clay country is $9,716. (As of 2000 census) Making it the 18th poorest county in the nation. And the poorest "white" County in the United States, Only being beaten out by country comprised mainly of Swamps and Desert in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
And Most notably 10 of the country's that beat out Clay County are Native American Reservations.
So i am by no means saying that people in Clay County are the poorest people in the world.
Simply this. $9'716 per person is about he same (About $10 less) then what people make in Brazil.
My county is a third world nation. Or if i wanted to use Current Policitcal Language i live in a developing county located inside the borders of a developed county.
I can to the epiphany that i lived in a White Ghetto, in the same place i came across almost all of my epiphany's in life. At Disney.
I was in my last apartment, the one i spent the most time at on my 2nd stay with Disney.
The household was comprised of. (I'm only using first names)
Myself. (From Clay County Kentucky)
Jamal. (From Washington D.C.)
"D" (From Chicago Illinois)
Derrik. (From Sweet Water Texas)
Abdulla. (From New York City)
Juan. (From SauPalo Brazil)
So in this house hold we had, Myself, Three African Americans, And two Latino's One from a family that lived in Texas seance before it was Texas, and another from Brazil)
Now even if we had a very mixed household, we all got along fine.
After some remixing on the rooms, putting myself and Jamal in the same room because Im a quite sleeper, and he's a very light sleeper. And putting Juan and Abdulla in the same room, because Juan got up very early for work, and Abdulla got up very early to pray to Mecca.
Now on to Jamal, he had trouble with rooming with Juan early on, because Juan Snores and gets up early. And Jamal is a VERY light sleeper, so much so that i eventually ask him. To which D answered that he had been in "The joint" And was afraid i would shank him in the night. We laughed and then Jamal answered the question. "Because i live in Anacostia" Now i knew what that meant, Anacostia is a WAR ZONE. He explained that on more then one occasion he actully had to dive to the floor because of stray bullets hitting his families house.
When asked why they didn't move away, he answered "Because they can't afford to" He then told us that he was going to college on scholarship, and wanted to get a good job so he could Move his family away from there. Then we started a conversation about high school.
And we both maid a discovery.
Nearly every one that we both went to high school with, was ether dead on in prison. Most of the males. (All of them with my last name) Have been in Jail with the exception of me.
As we kept talking we both came to the conclusion that i live in a white ghetto.
Now there are differences.
Clay county is not a war zone, but there are dangers, if you wander in to the wrong patch of forest, you can be harmed or killed. Something a census worker found out not to long ago.
And for nearly a century the county was run with the same politics that were used in the 1890's.
Two families owning everything, the same family always being major, corrupt judges, voting fraud. Murder, Drugs and corruption.
Wile Jamal's home was more dangerous, he told me he would never live in a place like clay county, we are poorer and less free, until recently we lived in a kind of feudal system.
The family's at the top doling out the wealth and good jobs in the county to family and people who acted as there lap dogs.
The thing is, That clay county, if you Ignore the people could be one of the most beautiful places i have ever been. And if you know the county you can easily stay away from danger. But if you do your almost living apart from the rest of the people.
And just list Jamal's family most people are just to pore to move away.
The only real jobs in the county are state jobs. In particular working at the state pen.
And soon they will be building a Recycling plant that will give jobs to about 300 people.
But again most of the jobs will go to people from the county's around Clay, and people who are in the "Loop" and it comes to my attention that the county's entire economy is built on handling other people's refuse. Human or otherwise.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/census-worker-killed-by-a_n_299725.html
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The link above shows what i mean by, corruption and human waist.
I live in the State of Kentucky, which is the 4th poorest state in the United States.
I live in Clay County Kentucky, Which is the poorest county in the state of Kentucky.
The Per Capita Income for clay country is $9,716. (As of 2000 census) Making it the 18th poorest county in the nation. And the poorest "white" County in the United States, Only being beaten out by country comprised mainly of Swamps and Desert in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
And Most notably 10 of the country's that beat out Clay County are Native American Reservations.
So i am by no means saying that people in Clay County are the poorest people in the world.
Simply this. $9'716 per person is about he same (About $10 less) then what people make in Brazil.
My county is a third world nation. Or if i wanted to use Current Policitcal Language i live in a developing county located inside the borders of a developed county.
I can to the epiphany that i lived in a White Ghetto, in the same place i came across almost all of my epiphany's in life. At Disney.
I was in my last apartment, the one i spent the most time at on my 2nd stay with Disney.
The household was comprised of. (I'm only using first names)
Myself. (From Clay County Kentucky)
Jamal. (From Washington D.C.)
"D" (From Chicago Illinois)
Derrik. (From Sweet Water Texas)
Abdulla. (From New York City)
Juan. (From SauPalo Brazil)
So in this house hold we had, Myself, Three African Americans, And two Latino's One from a family that lived in Texas seance before it was Texas, and another from Brazil)
Now even if we had a very mixed household, we all got along fine.
After some remixing on the rooms, putting myself and Jamal in the same room because Im a quite sleeper, and he's a very light sleeper. And putting Juan and Abdulla in the same room, because Juan got up very early for work, and Abdulla got up very early to pray to Mecca.
Now on to Jamal, he had trouble with rooming with Juan early on, because Juan Snores and gets up early. And Jamal is a VERY light sleeper, so much so that i eventually ask him. To which D answered that he had been in "The joint" And was afraid i would shank him in the night. We laughed and then Jamal answered the question. "Because i live in Anacostia" Now i knew what that meant, Anacostia is a WAR ZONE. He explained that on more then one occasion he actully had to dive to the floor because of stray bullets hitting his families house.
When asked why they didn't move away, he answered "Because they can't afford to" He then told us that he was going to college on scholarship, and wanted to get a good job so he could Move his family away from there. Then we started a conversation about high school.
And we both maid a discovery.
Nearly every one that we both went to high school with, was ether dead on in prison. Most of the males. (All of them with my last name) Have been in Jail with the exception of me.
As we kept talking we both came to the conclusion that i live in a white ghetto.
Now there are differences.
Clay county is not a war zone, but there are dangers, if you wander in to the wrong patch of forest, you can be harmed or killed. Something a census worker found out not to long ago.
And for nearly a century the county was run with the same politics that were used in the 1890's.
Two families owning everything, the same family always being major, corrupt judges, voting fraud. Murder, Drugs and corruption.
Wile Jamal's home was more dangerous, he told me he would never live in a place like clay county, we are poorer and less free, until recently we lived in a kind of feudal system.
The family's at the top doling out the wealth and good jobs in the county to family and people who acted as there lap dogs.
The thing is, That clay county, if you Ignore the people could be one of the most beautiful places i have ever been. And if you know the county you can easily stay away from danger. But if you do your almost living apart from the rest of the people.
And just list Jamal's family most people are just to pore to move away.
The only real jobs in the county are state jobs. In particular working at the state pen.
And soon they will be building a Recycling plant that will give jobs to about 300 people.
But again most of the jobs will go to people from the county's around Clay, and people who are in the "Loop" and it comes to my attention that the county's entire economy is built on handling other people's refuse. Human or otherwise.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/census-worker-killed-by-a_n_299725.html
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The link above shows what i mean by, corruption and human waist.
Working at disney part 3. Transportation.
OK so i covered living at Disney and the basic idle of working there.
Now is one of the jewels of the Disney Program.
Transportation.
OK so let me set it up for you.
When you do the program you have three choices for getting to work. (four if you like $30 cab rides)
#1. Have a car. This can be very handy and will really cut down on your commute depending on were you work. But of coarse it cost money, and the guards can... and DO check the car when you come in and out.
#2. Have a friend who has a car. This is slightly less handy because they might or might not have work when you do. But you can make A KILLING as a cheaper then normal cab service on your day off.
#3. Take the bus. Now there are about 1600 CP's at any given time. More if a short group is in. (Large influxes of college program people doing the program for 2-4 mouths in the summer) And remember that means twice a year, because we get allot of Brazilian Summer program people in the fall.
And seance most people work 5 days a week that means on any day there are about 1143 (Rounded up) People going to and from work. And that's not counting the people just going to the park for the day as guests.
That's OVER 9000!!! (More like 3000) People a day being transported on the buses. Buses start leaving at 6:10.AM. (Zombie Bus One) And end at 4:10.AM. (Zombie bus Two)
And run about every 30 minutes.
The buses are name starting at A-Bus, and ending at the K-bus. (that's about 450 bus trips a day)
OK so stuff you should know about the buses.
#1. They are very punctual.
#2. They are very serious about there time chart. If you get there 1 second after they shut the door, you are S.O.L. my friend.
#3. A bus is meant to hold any were between 54 and 80 passengers. And it can hold ALLOT More. I have seen at least 120+ people on a bus before.
#4.Most of the drivers are ether.
A:Not native English speakers. And wile i am very good at understanding people and it is a requirement for them to speak English. Some of them DO NOT.
B:Are retired and working there to have a little extra money.
#5. Time.
Depending on were you work and were you live, your round trim can take between 30 minutes (EPCOT) And 1 Hour and 16 minutes. (Magic Kingdom)
Wile i have never been on a bus that broke down it does happen. And i have never been on a bus that had a accented, but it does happen. I have on the other hand been on a bus that ran over a wild boar. (There all over the place down there) And it did bust the tire. And i was late for work and they don't care why.
You best bet is that you have a really nice manager that will set your time chart back a hour so you don't half to be at work until a little latter.
All bus drivers fall into a couple groups of driving ability.
First you have the Import drivers who cant drive, cant speak understandable English and talk on there cell phones wile driving. (Illegal and against company policy)
Second you have the Import driver who can drive, Can talk Good English and at least use a blue tooth. (Legal but still against Company Policy)
Third you have the guy who is 60+ years old, who can kind of drive, constantly tells the "Kids" on the bus to quite down. (Something we don't have to do and are not going to do)
And then. Theirs Charles.
OK so Charles is the only bus driver i know by name because he is like the Michel Phelps of Bus Driving. Things i know about Charles from talking to / riding with him.
He is from Saint Paul Minnesota.
He is the youngest son of a family with like like.... 80 kids or something.
His family were dirt poor dirt farmers.
He is at least 65.
He can fit a 10 foot wide bus throw a 4 foot opening without damaging anything but the space time continuum.
The reason i know that Charles is at least 65 is that he flew Jets in the Vietnam war as part of Operation Rolling Thunder from day one. The operation started in 1965. And Charles had the job of attacking North Vietnamese Surface to Air Missile Sights. Witch is allot like bull fighting on the crowd is throwing rocks at you at the same time.
Now this is important to say because most people drive a tour bus like it was a boat or ship.
Charles on the other hand drove it like it was a Multi-Million Dollar Jet Fighter. He always drove the same route, the late Magic Kingdom bus.
A bus that never had less the a billion people on it, they gave Charles this job because they new that if Charles was about to have a crash he would simply Slam on the brakes pull up and let the other Vehicle fly under us before destroying it with a air to air missile.
Charles actually dressed up for the Halloween bus, wearing riding pants, a leather jacket, leather skull cap goggles and a big scarf.
Needless to say if you ride the bus and see a sweet little old man, with white hair, and glasses who's name tag that said Charles. Strap in and enjoy the ride, your in good hands.
Now is one of the jewels of the Disney Program.
Transportation.
OK so let me set it up for you.
When you do the program you have three choices for getting to work. (four if you like $30 cab rides)
#1. Have a car. This can be very handy and will really cut down on your commute depending on were you work. But of coarse it cost money, and the guards can... and DO check the car when you come in and out.
#2. Have a friend who has a car. This is slightly less handy because they might or might not have work when you do. But you can make A KILLING as a cheaper then normal cab service on your day off.
#3. Take the bus. Now there are about 1600 CP's at any given time. More if a short group is in. (Large influxes of college program people doing the program for 2-4 mouths in the summer) And remember that means twice a year, because we get allot of Brazilian Summer program people in the fall.
And seance most people work 5 days a week that means on any day there are about 1143 (Rounded up) People going to and from work. And that's not counting the people just going to the park for the day as guests.
That's OVER 9000!!! (More like 3000) People a day being transported on the buses. Buses start leaving at 6:10.AM. (Zombie Bus One) And end at 4:10.AM. (Zombie bus Two)
And run about every 30 minutes.
The buses are name starting at A-Bus, and ending at the K-bus. (that's about 450 bus trips a day)
OK so stuff you should know about the buses.
#1. They are very punctual.
#2. They are very serious about there time chart. If you get there 1 second after they shut the door, you are S.O.L. my friend.
#3. A bus is meant to hold any were between 54 and 80 passengers. And it can hold ALLOT More. I have seen at least 120+ people on a bus before.
#4.Most of the drivers are ether.
A:Not native English speakers. And wile i am very good at understanding people and it is a requirement for them to speak English. Some of them DO NOT.
B:Are retired and working there to have a little extra money.
#5. Time.
Depending on were you work and were you live, your round trim can take between 30 minutes (EPCOT) And 1 Hour and 16 minutes. (Magic Kingdom)
Wile i have never been on a bus that broke down it does happen. And i have never been on a bus that had a accented, but it does happen. I have on the other hand been on a bus that ran over a wild boar. (There all over the place down there) And it did bust the tire. And i was late for work and they don't care why.
You best bet is that you have a really nice manager that will set your time chart back a hour so you don't half to be at work until a little latter.
All bus drivers fall into a couple groups of driving ability.
First you have the Import drivers who cant drive, cant speak understandable English and talk on there cell phones wile driving. (Illegal and against company policy)
Second you have the Import driver who can drive, Can talk Good English and at least use a blue tooth. (Legal but still against Company Policy)
Third you have the guy who is 60+ years old, who can kind of drive, constantly tells the "Kids" on the bus to quite down. (Something we don't have to do and are not going to do)
And then. Theirs Charles.
OK so Charles is the only bus driver i know by name because he is like the Michel Phelps of Bus Driving. Things i know about Charles from talking to / riding with him.
He is from Saint Paul Minnesota.
He is the youngest son of a family with like like.... 80 kids or something.
His family were dirt poor dirt farmers.
He is at least 65.
He can fit a 10 foot wide bus throw a 4 foot opening without damaging anything but the space time continuum.
The reason i know that Charles is at least 65 is that he flew Jets in the Vietnam war as part of Operation Rolling Thunder from day one. The operation started in 1965. And Charles had the job of attacking North Vietnamese Surface to Air Missile Sights. Witch is allot like bull fighting on the crowd is throwing rocks at you at the same time.
Now this is important to say because most people drive a tour bus like it was a boat or ship.
Charles on the other hand drove it like it was a Multi-Million Dollar Jet Fighter. He always drove the same route, the late Magic Kingdom bus.
A bus that never had less the a billion people on it, they gave Charles this job because they new that if Charles was about to have a crash he would simply Slam on the brakes pull up and let the other Vehicle fly under us before destroying it with a air to air missile.
Charles actually dressed up for the Halloween bus, wearing riding pants, a leather jacket, leather skull cap goggles and a big scarf.
Needless to say if you ride the bus and see a sweet little old man, with white hair, and glasses who's name tag that said Charles. Strap in and enjoy the ride, your in good hands.
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