News Bits April 27-April 30
Welcome to the first edition of Mt’s new biweekly news roundup1 . This is for those of us who live under rocks (or in dorms) that can’t seem to locate newspapers or watch the entire 4 hours of local news necessary each day to get what’s happening in the world around us.
In the first half of this week (April 27-April 30):
US News
- Southern California, as well as other parts of the Southwest and Western states, have seen large wildfires for a while. Video.
- Twisters ripped through Virginia earlier this week. Article.
- US Economy is the suck, officially. Article
- Gas is ridiculously expensive. Nat’l average is $3.577/gallon. Article.
- ^ Truckers protested in D.C. on Tuesday. Article.
World Events
- Olympic Torch arrives in Hong Kong, has seen protests in many locations along the route. Article.
US Entertainment
- Miley Cyrus in embarrassing Vanity Fair pictures. Video.
- Paula must be on something - she got really confused on American Idol Tuesday night. Article.
- Shannon Elizabeth gets kicked off of Dancing with the Stars. Article.
- Suggested by Maria, partially, after Maria reminded Mari that Mt used to have news bits for those of us who don’t read it. [↩]
Tags: april 27, first half of week, miley cyrus vanity fair, news roundup, olympic torch, paula abdul confused, price of gas, tornadoes, us economy, wildfires
4 Responses to “News Bits April 27-April 30”
By Zuzsiq on 1 May 2008 at 02:50 am
Hey! It´s most interesting article ever!
By Mari on 2 May 2008 at 14:14 pm
@Zuzsiq
Really? No one else seems to think so. XDDD
Mt sucks more than ever. Success.
By Jonathan on 2 May 2008 at 14:44 pm
3.577$/gallon mean how much for one liter? Here it’s like 1.35$ ( canadian ) for one liter, expensive too.
Is that the beginning of another news-o-ton? Or was it blog-o-ton? You know, back then when you posted one news per day
By Mari on 3 May 2008 at 23:44 pm
@Jonathan
When Mari posted one article a day, it was a blog-a-thon. This is a twice a week thing. In fact, the other half for this week is tomorrow! =D
Mari did the math, and 3.78541 liters = 1 gallon. If the exchange rates are accurate on Yahoo! search, the Canadian equivalent of the price of a gallon of gas is about $5.11 CAD, which translates to about $5.02 USD for a gallon of gas. Holy HELL!! You poor Canadians are paying through the nose!!! What we pay $3.66 CAD for, you guys have to pay $5.11 CAD!!!
Just FYI, the price of gas rose to $3.60 USD per gallon this week on average throughout the states.