phixation.

chad’s thoughts.

Entries Tagged ‘Current Events’

Lower 9th Ward – New Orleans 2009

I recently visited the Lower 9th Ward section of New Orleans. Never did I expect to witness the damage and destruction that still exists 4 and a half years after Hurricane Katrina hit. It’s really quite hard to explain the feeling when driving through this city. It’s what I would consider almost largely a modern [...]

RNC08 Day 4: Live Twitter with photos.

On September 4th, 2008 I covered the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN. I blogged in real time via Twitter, shot video and took thousands of photographs. Below find my real-time twitter entries along with photos. Unknowingly, I was the first one to report the bomb squad on the John Ireland Bridge via [...]

Obama is the nominee

As I mentioned about a few days ago, Barack Obama held his rally at the Xcel Energy Center last night. After fighting with almost 40,000 strong in a line about 2 miles long in the heart of downtown St. Paul, It was quite the scene to experience. The Star Tribune reports there were 17,000 [...]

Bill O’Reilly is racist.

I have sat back and watched FOX News and Bill O’Reilly try and spin and slander every other news agency that carried the story on his racist comments. To be fair, here is the audio and below is the transcript:
“You know, I was up in Harlem a few weeks ago, and I actually had dinner [...]

What is going on in Surry County??

Could someone explain this to me? Michael Vick admits that he murdered 6-8 dogs while participating in dog fighting. This all under oath in Federal court documents. The district attorney for Surry County, Virginia then goes to the grand jury and it hands down an indictment on Vick for only one count of killing dogs [...]