The lawyers “will not recognize any date for the trial if it comes within weeks or months,” said Khalil Dulaimi, Saddam’s Iraqi lawyer, in a statement issued from Baghdad.

via AP News | IndyStar.com

Apparently not enough notice has been given to Saddam about the Trial date.

My Question: How would you like to be this guys lawyer?

That job has got to suck big time. Imagine going to a party and people whispering and pointing fingers at you talking about how you are defending Saddam Hussein. Or maybe it would be a good thing if I was his laywer because I would suck at it and he would lose for sure. Now there’s a thought.

As expected, gas has hit the $3 mark in parts of the country. I think I’m going to have to start looking for a scooter. The gas hog I am driving now, just won’t cut the mustard.

Imagine you have just been ordered to evacuate your city because of a deadly hurricane rushing into the area. This probably is a very unsettling situation.

Well, let’s take it a step further.

Now, imagine showing up at a hotel who’s normal rate for a room is $79/night, but due to the hurricane, is now charging $200/night. What do you do? Walk away with no where else to go? Or pay the outrageously inflated prices.

Well this is exactly what happened at a Comfort Suites in Baytown, TX. They raised their rates to “discourage rowdy people from staying there.” I don’t know about you, but I don’t care what their reason was, this is PRICE-GOUGING and that is illegal in my book. I hope the Texas Attorney General comes down hard on that hotel. They should be ashamed for what they are doing in the wake of this disaster.

via Diane’s Stuff

It wasn’t much more than a month ago that I was in New Orleans at the IFT trade show. At that time I was worried a little about hurricane Dennis. Apparently, Katrina is the one I’m glad I missed.

Eighty percent of New Orleans is, currently, under 6-20ft of water according to CNN.com. I couldn’t even imagine what residents are feeling right now in that part of the country.

I’ll take Oregon’s rainy weather over the possibility of something with that much destructive force coming around my home, any day.

Well it looks like the “Walken in 2008″ campaign may be a hoax. According to Urban Legends and Folklore, “Web chatter (when has it ever been wrong?) attributes the hoax to members of the aptly named General Mayhem message boards”.

I kindof figured this may not be true, but it was fun to think of the speeches that we would have heard.

Christopher Walken is throwing his hat into the 2008 Presidential race. He couldn’t do any worse than Bush could he? So why not.

This will be an interesting one to watch. Unless, of course, this whole thing turns out to be a hoax.

You know what this needs……. MORE COW BELL!

A new hotel opened up in London and it is boasting spacious 49 square foot rooms. Yes, that is 7 ft x 7 ft (not including the bathroom). Talk about living in a box. I think this is basically one step above that.