Watch this, please. Then tell me your favorite part. Mine? That when Bird throws the ball at Laimbeer, through a crowd of people he drills him in the ear. He deserved it. [via TBL]
I was quite excited when I heard that Kentucky’s new coach was a great recruiter, but that just doesn’t do it justice. After yet another great playing committing to play basketball at UK today (Hood), here’s where we stand. I’m a bit dizzy.
Slurpee Rocks Out With Guitar Hero
Cross-Promo is a beast! Pokemon and others make a bulk of their profits from these related uh… semi-related? almost completely unrelated cheap product sales. Slurpee’s are the only reason I wish we had a 7-Eleven here in Louisville. We used to! But it died…
Brazilian Debt Raised to Investment Grade by S&P
This reminds me that everything is cyclical. I’m afraid it’s going to take America moving completely to the Left before we return to the beliefs of the Founding Fathers.
Guardian: ‘Games are really quite an art form’
Of course they are! According to today’s standards, anything can be art. I certainly do not agree. There needs to be something rare and beautiful about the item in question to even broach the topic, at least for me.
Secret of Scarlet is revealed
In our media saturated society, good marketers will continue to find new ways to promote their products.
Tennessee’s Lofton quietly faced and beat cancer
“I think God wanted people to hear my story. I think that’s what it was,” Lofton said. “At first, I wanted to keep it to myself. I didn’t want to tell anybody, but then I realized that people need to know, maybe to help them or maybe to help somebody else.” I like Chris even more now; what a great guy!
I always give the FRC credit for their stuff but at times I do feel guilty not coming up with the point first. But hey, I’m a blogger, who has time?
This time, the topic is pork spending.
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) may be trailing in delegates, but she is running away with the nomination for Capitol Hill’s biggest porker. This week, the former First Lady requested a whopping $3.2 billion in earmarks, almost tripling the largest amount received by any one senator this year.
It’s a new world record! Wow! Go Hillary go!
Although her spokesmen argue that the projects are legitimate (most are designated for homeland security or health initiatives), the request marks Clinton as the largest spender of the three remaining candidates. In fact, her proposal is $1.39 billion over Sen. Barack Obama’s earmarks for Fiscal Year 2008, and $3.2 billion more than Sen. John McCain’s (which total zero).
See, this is the crux of the issue. Money=Power. More money, more power. Democrats generally want more government programs, not because they are more caring or compassionate, but because they want more control, more power. They want to be the ones saying what can and what can’t be done.
I simply disagree.
I want less government in my life, not more. Is there anything the government does that could even remotely be considered either innovative or efficient? Even a single example?!? I didn’t think so.
As The Hill newspaper points out, most of her programs are “broadly defined, with few details on precisely where the money would go.” McCain, one of the Senate’s most militant anti-porkers, hasn’t wasted taxpayer dollars on earmarks because he refuses to spend any.
I’m not a big McCain guy but this is certainly one of his best traits.
Unfortunately, the rest of the Republican Party doesn’t share his frugality. In the most recent “Pig Book” from Citizens Against Government Waste, the GOP topped the Democrats in spending for pet projects. In March, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) sponsored an earmark moratorium amendment. Clinton, along with Sens. Obama and McCain, voted for it. It failed, and clearly there is no moratorium now.
So now the current crop of Republicans are fiscally acting more like liberals than conservatives. Though I wish it, the future doesn’t look so bright to these eyes.
Tom Cruise’s son Connor to appear in film
I rarely post about celebrities. Ok, maybe every so often, just to poke fun. But in all seriousness, I know of no other time-tested, 100% method of screwing up a human than to toss the youngster into the Hollywood life at an early age. I’m sorry but I fear that Connor is a goner.
Solar Power to the People
It’s always good to have options. Hopefully financing will be run by reasonable people, rather that predatory people.
Consistently good stuff from the FRC. (Why couldn’t the GOP be more like the FRC? Heck, why stop there? Why couldn’t the DEMs?)
If anyone can relate to the struggles of raising a special needs child in this unforgiving world, it’s Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R). Last week, she and her husband welcomed their fifth child, Trig Paxson Van Palin. During her pregnancy, the couple learned that Trig would be born with Down’s syndrome. A pro-family champion who has advanced the culture of life at every opportunity, Palin was faced with embracing this harsh reality in the public spotlight where she has so often lived out her personal beliefs.
Although it was difficult at first, Palin says she and Todd now feel chosen by God to raise “an absolutely perfect” son. In an era when over 80 percent of Down’s syndrome babies are aborted, the Palins feel they have been extremely blessed.
80%?!? What kind of world do we live in?
In a personal letter to her family and friends, Palin wrote, “Many people will express sympathy, but you don’t want or need that, because Trig will be a joy. You will have to trust me on this… Children are the most precious and promising ingredient in this mixed-up world you live in… Trig is no different, except that he has one extra chromosome.” To the people who think that Trig shouldn’t have been born, Palin says, “Look around. Who is perfect or even normal?” Now back on the job, Palin is using her testimony as motivation to work even harder to protect unborn children. This week, she helped to bring new legislation to the floor that would ban partial-birth abortion and promote parental consent on minor abortion. A woman who has never wavered in her defense of life, Palin is off to a great start as an up-and-coming GOP governor with political skills and personal ethics. We congratulate the Palins on their newest addition and pray that their story is an inspiration to couples everywhere.
How’s that for a broad post topic? Well, I’ve got too much to do today to spend extra time “crafting” it. *wink*
I read this article today—Some young religious voters focus on social justice—and found it lacking in so many ways. Some the fault of the author, others either ignorance or deceit on the part of the populace.
They are trying to expand the focus of faith-based politics beyond the religious right’s hot-button issues of abortion and gay marriage. And they are placing social justice issues, like poverty and war, at the intersection of their moral and political decision making.
Poverty is certainly something religious minded people should focus their efforts towards improving but, “The Poor You Will Always Have With You…”. It’s unavoidable. But more importantly, the government’s role should be towards the greater good of our people as a whole.
Second, war is not always evil. There are just wars. Is not the prevention of the slaughter of millions by the sacrifice of thousands a noble effort? The knee-jerk concept that all war is wrong or that anyone who doesn’t endorse a particular low-income project or bill is somehow unloving is in and of itself an insidious act.
The shift of young faith-based voters both dramatic and complex. ”They’re leaving the Republican Party in droves, but they’re not automatically Democrats,” Wallis said.
Unfortunately, I believe this is largely the fault of today’s Republican Party who has done a horrendous job of maintaining conservative ideals. To use a sports idiom, “You gotta go with what got you here.” The GOP hasn’t and (some) people are bolting. There needs to be a clarion call back to increasing freedom (less government) and a higher value on moral responsibility.
”The youth of America today is very divided,” said Esther Winne, 18, a Christian conservative from Lancaster, Pa., who originally backed Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination but now favors Sen. John McCain. ”I think we’re looking for change. I think we’re looking for something new. But I think people are looking in different places.”
Change will always be desired. Always. The grass is always greener…
People should be leery when any politician speaks 90% of the time about change and only 10% of the time about how that change will be achieved.
”The message that Barack Obama tends to have definitely appeals to people in my generation, especially people in the faith and justice movement,” said Jon Gromek, a 22-year-old organizing associate at Network, a Catholic social justice group based in Washington.
Never underestimate the power of good marketing. Barack’s track record shows a consistent voting against traditional marriage and for abortion; two easy-to-track issues that have an obvious religious direction despite what anyone says.
I’m dismayed to say that at the end of the day, far too many will turn a blind eye to the example that Jesus gave—others before oneself, protect the innocent, promote the family as God intended, et al.—and try to justify the choice they want instead of the choice they know is right.
Kentucky fans have known that Rondo was talented from Day 1. Heading into the NBA, the question always was, “Could Rondo develop consistency in his jump shot so that defenders wouldn’t just play off him all day long?”
Looks like that’s exactly what he’s done. Now Simmons can’t contain his superlatives. (Mostly about the veteran’s affect on improving Rondo’s game, but that’s fairly accurate.)
I’m picking Boston to win it all this year. Big risk taker I am, huh?
While America is not wholly devoid of innovative architecture, take Museum Plaza for example, most leading designs are coming from Western Europe or places like Dubai where billionaires build skyscrapers like little boys build toy towers.
(BTW, how about that title for some tongue-twister alliteration?)
I love the braggadocio but c’mon, it needs to be fun too! Right?
I made it the 6th level then took this screen shot. After having the music drone directly into my cerebellum I was hunting for the sound mute and accidentally started the game over. Argh! Maybe that was part of their ploy?
Bill Cosby goes hip hop with new album
Certainly would need a sample before purchasing but it can’t be as bad as some of the pure guano that some “artists” are throwing out.
Rock Band Starts to Sell Complete Albums
“Screaming For Vengence” by Judas Priest is coming out soon. Let’s start a petition for some Van Halen, Def Leppard or Queensryche!
Take a couple minutes to watch the short trailer that’s promoting some new DVD’s on the topic of Intelligent Design. It’s very well done. cheap turbotax software byy
Well, let me catch my breath. Can’t say I enjoy visiting doctors these days. Who does?
So… we’re already leery heading into the patient room awaiting the Doppler test. We just want to hear the baby’s heartbeat. The 12 week visit is the scariest because it was at this point that we lost two babies before. Then, our OB can’t find the heartbeat, tries some more, can’t find it, we think, “Oh no… not again…”
Of course, she’s upbeat and says the baby is just being “tricky” and ushers us over to the ultrasound lab for a more thorough test.
We wait an anxious 10 minutes, playing with Barret and trying to maintain our composure. (When I say “our” I mostly mean “my.”)
Then, it’s our turn and after a long 20 seconds we hear the sound that every parent longs to hear, “vvaa vvoom vvaa vvoom”.
I’m getting too old for this stuff. Our praise to God for all His good gifts.
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy,
the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” -C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity
In the three years since Canadians legalized gay “marriage,” a majority of our neighbors have gotten cold feet. Although the number of foreigners who apply for same-sex marriage licenses is still strong, few of the locals are rushing to the altar. In Toronto, home of the “million-strong” Gay Pride March, the city issued a modest 107 licenses to native Canadians in 2005. Seven months into 2006, Toronto had issued only one!
To a lesser degree, the same is true in our own Massachusetts. Demand for gay “marriages” tapered off significantly since the state implemented it, proving once again that the same-sex community is not interested in “marriage” but forced acceptance.
It’s not about what’s best for society. It’s about, “I want what I want.”
Ask the Canadians and even they will admit that “gay marriage” is a social experiment gone terribly wrong. In yesterday’s National Post, Michael Coren laments how his country is accelerating the erosion of the family. “We made a terrible mistake and may not appreciate the full consequences for a generation. We allowed emotion to obscure logic and belittled anyone who appeared out of step with the current fashion. To marry without good reason is regrettable, to divorce good reasoning from public policy is a disgrace.”
Strong families are essential for our country to move forward. Period.
In America, we would be wise to learn from our Northern neighbor’s mistakes. And that recognition must start with the next President. The next occupant of the White House will hold tremendous sway over the fate of marriage and the family. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has announced his intent to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has remained relatively quiet on the issue. His choice of a running-mate, however, will say volumes about his commitment to family values. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) prefers civil unions that provide all of the benefits of marriage and necessitate at least the partial repeal of DOMA.
Great. So what you’re saying is we’re pretty much out of luck?
Politicians push for new iTunes sales taxes
“If you drive a car-car I’ll tax the street.
If you try to sit-sit I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat.
If you take a walk I’ll tax your feet.”
The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure?
“What if we told you that a guy with no background in science or medicine-not even a college degree-has come up with what may be one of the most promising breakthroughs in cancer research in years?” If America is to remain relevant in the global economy, our #1 export will need to be innovation. Guys like this need more freedom to work.
I had been hoping for a bunch of high-quality photos to choose from when I made my first post about our new niece Gigi, but with pressure from my brother, a post with the standard hospital photo is better than nothing, right?
