Louis CK travelled with the USO to entertain the troops in Kuwait and Iraq recently. Here’s his story. He’s a comedian but also a photographer and took interesting photos from the helicopter rides. Note his comedy and the blog link has a bit of swearing and is sometimes crude.
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Travel Blog with interesting photos of Kuwait
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Our Garden in Kuwait
We have one strawberry plant in a pot by the front door. You can click on any of the following images to open it up larger.
And some other flowers growing into the palm leaves.
This is growing in a bush at the neighbours driveway.
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Hummer Recovery Unit
I saw this in the International Clinic parking lot.
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Starbucks Retrenches
Starbucks is continuing to close stores. Will they recover. I think so, only because they already own the best locations. Location is everything. I saw last week even in Kuwait that Starbucks is closing some stores in Kuwait. The one in Salmiya by the International Clinic is closed down.
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Contribute to Microfinance in Developing Countries
I found these sites via The Strobist.
Kiva and here’s a documentory.
Kiva allows microfinance institutions around the world, called “Field Partners”, to post profiles of qualified local entrepreneurs on its website. Lenders browse and choose an entrepreneur they wish to fund. Kiva aggregates loan capital from individual lenders and transfers it to the appropriate Field Partners to disburse to the entrepreneur chosen by the lender. As the entrepreneurs repay their loans, the Field Partners remit funds back to Kiva. As the loan is repaid, the Kiva lenders can withdraw their principal or re-loan it to another entrepreneur.
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Ukulele
Someone told me about the Wellington International Ukelele Orchestra and that is them above. Ukulele is like the banjo, you can’t take sad lyrics seriously.
Well, I bought a Uke and brought to Kuwait for mostly everyone else to play.
