Archive for the 'people we admire' Category
Veterans Day
Remembering all those who served.
photo: stupid soldiers stuck in iraq
they’re responding to john kerry’s recent remarks made at pasadena city college:
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
i’m glad our well-educated soldiers can laugh [...]
Red Auerbach (1917-2006)
Red Auerbach passed away on Saturday.
Auerbach was one of the greatest basketball coaches ever. He won nine championships as the coach of the Boston Celtics and seven more as the Celtics general manager.
Time and again you hear Celtics describing Red as “a player’s coach.” To the world outside his own huddles and locker room [...]
love resonates after september 11th
below is an excerpt from peggy noonan’s most recent column. she discusses the calls from people in and around the twin towers and on doomed flight 93 to their families:
Life was reduced to its essentials. Time was short. People said what counted, what mattered. It has been noted that there is no record of [...]
USpolitical.com (a new blog)
One of my favorite all-encompassingly readers (and commenter!), Ryan, has started a new blog about US political issues.
From a recent article about terrorist attacks, Ryan writes:
I find it extremely naive to presume that military actions in “The Iraqi slaughterhouse, besieged Gaza, wasted Lebanon†somehow account for them. Americans are not slaughtering Iraqis, rather, Iraqis are [...]
offer: $100,000 if landis takes polygraph
details at michaelrobertson.com
floyd landis
“the greatest one-day comeback of the modern tour”
after dropping behind the leader more than eight minutes on wednesday, floyd is only 30 seconds back going into the individual time trials. go floyd, go.
Arnold Friberg and The Ten Commandments
I had never realized that Mormon artist Arnold Friberg was even involved in making The Ten Commandments (the movie), much less that his “paintings were the basis of what the film was to look and feel like.”
DeMille commissioned Friberg to create the scenes and costume design for “The Ten Commandments.” Friberg moved to Hollywood and [...]
Memorial Day
Here Rests in Honored Glory an American Soldier Known But to God
read about the minuteman border fence project
or go straight here to donate
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informacion sobre el proyecto minuteman de construir una cerca en la frontera
done al proyecto hoy!
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(PHOENIX, AZ) April 20, 2006 – Chris Simcox, President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, today announced plans by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (“MCDCâ€) to work with local Arizona [...]
Don Knotts (1924-2006)
Don Knotts passed away earlier today.
The Andy Griffith Show is still one of my favorite TV shows.
Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. He was 81.
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The West Virginia-born actor’s half-century career included seven TV series and more [...]
Consumption Rules (A New Blog)
A friend of mine just started a blog.
Consumption Rules.
Just like the title suggests, it will cover economics, consumer, and business issues, as well as politics and current events.
Check it out.
alexander ovechkin magichkin
espn has video of ovechkin’s amazing goal.
the kid can play.
this old blog post
is timely, once again.
The Reason for the Season
Merry Christmas.
