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Whatever you think of Barack Obama, this is pretty cool:
The president who fought to abolish slavery superimposed with the first Black president..
Yep, those that are smiling ;-)
Can't believe you're 5 already - such a big girl!
Some people have far too much time on their hands...
Wonder what the image would look like today?
This is great news, finally Amazon has opened the UK arm of their online MP3 music store.
MP3 format, no DRM, support for iTunes and Windows Media Player and cheap prices (songs from 59p, albums from £3). Sorted!
[As an aside, I had no idea how difficult finding, downloading and copying music to an MP3 player could be until the kids had non-iPod players. You forget that for all their faults (DRM, high prices etc) Apple really has made the process so straightforward for normal users.]
- At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars...See If They Slow Down.
- Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.
- Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.
- Put Your rubbish bin on Your Desk And Label It 'In.'
- Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone is Over Their Caffeine Addictions…Switch to Espresso.
- In The Memo Field Of All Your cheques, Write 'For Smuggling Diamonds'
- Finish All Your sentences with 'In Accordance With the Prophecy.'
- Don t use any punctuation
- As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.
- Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
- Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go.'
- Sing Along At The Opera.
- Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme?
- Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.
- Have Your colleagues address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.
- When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream 'I Won! I Won!'
- When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The car park, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!!'
- and...
- Tell Your Children Over Dinner 'Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.'
Great quote:
"Every Sunday we had Eucharist, prayers from the congregation, and a noon meal for the neighborhood. When the usual congregation would pray, we would pray for the hungry in Ethiopia and for an end to the war in the Near East, and so on. Well, this bag lady started coming to church and she would pray things like, "Lord, I have a cold, and I would really like you to cure it." Or, I’ve just had a horrible week and I’m depressed. Lord, would you please raise my spirits You never hear prayers like that in most of our churches. Why? Because the last thing that Christians want to do is show one another that they are vulnerable. People go to church because they are strong. They want to reinforce the presumption that they are strong.
One of the crucial issues here is how we learn to be a people dependent on one another. We must learn to confess that, as a hospitable people, we need one another because we are dependent on one another. The last thing that the church wants is a bunch of autonomous, free individuals. We want people who know how to express authentic need, because that creates community."
- Stanley Hauerwas
I said this as soon as both the UK and US government discovered some spare change with which to bail out private institutions whilst neglecting their aid promises. It doesn’t really matter who said it, I’m glad at least that someone with a louder voice has said something about this.
It`s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can`t find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.
Bono, rock star and anti-poverty activist
