The Baroque World of Fernando BoteroMay 26 through August 19, 2007
...World Rejoices. The best part of this story is that one of the smaller influence teams gets the most viewers around the world. I think the US will catch up to the rest of the world... San Antonio SPURS 2007 NBA Champions!
THE FOLLOWING IS A BY-THE-NUMBERS LOOK AT WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE DURING THE NBA FINALS IN BOTH GAME CITIES:
Global Reach
A record 128 broadcasters (breaking last year’s all-time mark of 112) will provide coverage of The Finals in a record 46 languages, including Arabic for the first time.
More than 250 international media members from 23 countries and territories will cover The Finals.
36 international television and radio networks and Web sites will converge in the two game cities.
11 customized international NBA television shows will shoot behind the scenes at The Finals, up from 5 last year, including, among others, Hoopark (China, CCTV), NBA Lin Ju Li (China, GDTV-Guangdong), NBA Zhi Zao (China, 32 telecasters), NBA Magazine (NHK, Japan), NBA Jam (RPN, Philippines), Basketball Tonight (ESPN Star Sports Taiwan, Pan Asia), NBA Time and American Dream (Canal+, France), Espanoles NBA (Canal+ Spain) and NBA Timeout (US, AZN).
A record 9 international players will be competing, including the Spurs’ Tim Duncan (U.S. Virgin Islands), Francisco Elson (Netherlands), Manu Ginobili (Argentina), Fabricio Oberto (Argentina), Tony Parker (France) and Beno Udrih (Slovenia), and the Cavaliers’ Zydrunas Ilgauskas (Lithuania), Sasha Pavlovic (Montenegro) and Anderson Varejao (Brazil).
Yes!!! I'm not weird, and I have the study to prove it. Thank you study.
The issues covered in this report include the following:
The role of government - Americans support an active government that tackles problems, provides services, and aids those in need.
The economy - Americans support increasing the minimum wage and strong unions, and believe the wealthy and corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes.
Social issues - Americans support legal abortion and embryonic stem cell research; opinions on equal rights for women and gay Americans have grown dramatically more progressive in recent years.
Security - Americans support a progressive approach to national security, emphasizing strong alliances and diplomacy over the indiscriminate use of military force. On domestic security issues, progressive approaches to crime and gun control enjoy wide support.
The environment - By enormous margins, Americans favor strong environmental protections, a core progressive belief.
Energy - Americans support energy conservation and the development of alternative fuels.
Health care - Americans clearly favor universal coverage and are more than comfortable with government solutions to the health care problem.
Southern Baptists are convening; will any Christians be with them?
"Mostly male, mostly white, self-styled 'anointed ones' who control the SBC and who by the force of their egocentric personalities and the threat of eternal damnation to anyone who opposes them rule and reign as surely — and at times as ruthlessly — as any religious cabal of the Middle Ages."
...and to celebrate Today, the Day that our Holy appointed president, back when he was my Holy appointed Governor Signed that paper above declaring June 10, 2000, to be JESUS day. Here we have a musical celebration that seems to be making the rounds in Chile:
Weyrich: “Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.
TB Guy Tops Bush in New Poll
Latest Sign of Trouble for White House
In the latest erosion of President George W. Bush’s job approval rating, a new poll released today reveals that Mr. Bush is now less popular among the American people than the so-called “TB Guy,” Atlanta attorney Andrew Speaker.
While the president’s approval numbers have been in a virtual free-fall in recent months, few political insiders expected him to be trounced by Mr. Speaker, who has been accused of exposing airline passengers to tuberculosis.
Additionally, the poll results are historic in another way, since they mark the first time that a sitting president has been deemed less popular than a quarantined disease carrier.
But at the White House today, official spokesman Tony Snow tried to put a positive spin on the numbers, saying that Mr. Speaker’s poll numbers received an artificial “bounce” as a result of all of the press coverage he has received in recent days.
“If President Bush had been quarantined for spreading tuberculosis around the world, his numbers would be right up there with the TB Guy’s,” Mr. Snow claimed.
Perhaps in an attempt to change the subject, President Bush participated in a ceremony today in which he declared victory over peace activist Cindy Sheehan.
Posing in front of a banner reading “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Bush said that Ms. Sheehan’s departure from the peace movement means “I won’t have to spend this August in Crawford hiding in the barn.”
Elsewhere, getting married can have significant psychological benefits for those suffering from depression, according to a study published today in the Journal of Larry King.
"Despotic movements need paramilitary forces that operate outside the law, forces that sow fear among potential opponents, and are capable of physically silencing those branded by their leaders as traitors. And in the wrong hands, a Blackwater could well become that force. American taxpayers have so far handed a staggering $4 billion to “armed security” companies in Iraq such as Blackwater, according to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.)."
"Erik Prince, who founded and runs Blackwater, is a man who appears to have little time for the niceties of democracy. He has close ties with the radical Christian Right and the Bush White House. He champions his company as a patriotic extension of the U.S. military. His employees, in an act as cynical as it is dishonest, take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution. But what he and his allies have built is a mercenary army, paid for with government money, which operates outside the law and without constitutional constraint."
see that's funny, because you know that's a lie. Go read the article for more funnery.
...and about the racists whose opinion he values so much, its true, meet some of his experts.
You need help Lou... you need an intervention.
Darwin Online - Perfect
This is cool. Read the heresy, or even better listen to the complete texts on your MP3.
I don't know why, but this song can be about so many things... all I know is that when I read it Bush and Tony Blair pop into my head.
There is one thing I hate about it... its the way the lyrics mock me, the way they know I'll never be able to write something as good as they are.
YOU HAPPY PUPPET
Natalie Merchant / Christian Burial Music © 1989
how did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string?
how did you learn everything that comes along with slavish funnery?
tell me something, if the world is so insane,is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head?
how did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string?how do you manage to live inside this tiny stage you can't leave?
tell me something, if the world is so insane,is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head?
a dullard strung on the wire when the master's gone you hang there with your eyes and your limbs so lifeless how did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string?
how do you manage to speak, your mouth a frozen grin?
a dullard strung on the wire when the master's gone you hang there with your eyes and your limbs so lifeless tell me something, if the world is so insane,is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your empty woodenhead?
your hollow head, your marble eyes, your wooden hands and your metal jaw pins all wait in limbo for the man who knows how to move you this way.
Natalie Merchant is very good.
