February 8, 2010 • 9:36 AM
The New Orleans Saints made history from climbing from the bottom of the NFL barrel to become Super Bowl Champs! A amazing sports event, Super Bowl XLIV ended with the Saints on top of the Indianapolis Colts, 31-17.
The New Orleans Saints are world champions! The Saints got off to a slow start, but they never stopped playing aggressively and with a fierce passion. They were afraid of nothing, they took risks, and they went out and made the plays to beat a great football game.
I’d point to two key plays. First, obviously, was the brain-rattling Tracy Porter(notes) interception of Peyton Manning(notes) that went for a touchdown, and for all intents and purposes, put the game away. It was a shockingly bad throw from Manning and an electrifying return from Porter. That’ll go down in the books as one of the great plays in Super Bowl history.
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January 30, 2010 • 12:38 PM
I was left with so many, many questions after viewing the echange. Why didn’t Obama call more people in the room to the carpet when he was asked about earmarks. I was waiting on him to call out Phil Gingrey (R-GA) who voted against the stimulus but then showed up at a ribbon cutting for the project it created. How hypocritical. Or that silly, first term guy from Utah who actually voted against the full-body scan machines that likely would have caught the X-mas day terror suspect. But I give Obama props on taking the high road. He was obviously the only adult in the room.
This exchange with President Obama and the GOP highlights what’s systemically and morally wrong with the system. A sitting US President goes to visit over 100 elected officials and has to explain why it’s a good idea to tamp down the rhetoric and encourage them to refrain from political gimmicks to score points while America is in crisis mode.
Doesn’t it strike anyone as disturbing that a room full of party opposition and not one person would stand up on-camera and say, “Mr. President, I pledge to decrease the rhetoric because it doesn’t help the public.” The three “GOP leaders” on-stage were demonstrably impotent while Obama stood a few feet away. As an American voter, that tells me not to expect any support from the GOP.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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January 29, 2010 • 9:25 AM
January 28, 2010 • 10:28 AM
President Obama (file)
President Barack Obama delivered the 2010 State of the Union addressing jobs, the economy, war, education, the health care reform bill, bipartisanship and decency in American politics. The eloquence belied the substance of a new President who has grown wiser through the last year. From my flat screen tv, I saw a U.S. President take politicians to task for filibustering legislation for the sake of politics. It was unprecedented that members of the GOP again looked sour and sullen as the President of the United States urged cooperation.
Further, given the state of the economy, the President revealed his proposal for the spending freeze to start in 2011. In wake of the controversial ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, Obama said head on that it woudl invite special interests and foreign interests to influence future elections.
Side Note: Michelle Obama’s outfit and hair were LAID, FOR REAL?!!
State of the Union Style
I’m a definite Obama supporter and a very practical American. It’s disturbing to me that more Americans regardless of party affiliation are not outraged over the GOP-strategy to filibuster and oppose any new legislative initiave WITHOUT providing new ideas of their own. Even the Virgina Governors’ response was flawed this evening. For example, Obama had already opened the door to off shore energy drilling yet the GOP response said the President should consider it. It was literally less than 60 minutes prior he addressed it on national television. It’s clear the GOP response was pre-written, added nothing substantively different and really didn’t RESPOND to President Obama’s speech. Visually, I must say it was a nicer venue than Bobby Jindal had last year when he was the responder. Why don’t the GOP have more well known officials respond anyway? I’ve wondered why they throw the young ones to the lions. Have Boehnner, Cantor, Graham, or McCain speak why don’t cha!
For me, it’s clear that President Obama hasn’t achieved all he thought he would or said he would. And in this tribalistic society it’s easy to be cyncial and have disdain for someone trying to go against the tide of DC and bring health care, jobs, and peace to our nation. But I can’t do it…for me HOPE ALWAYS TRUMPS FEAR!!!
Check out the full speech here!
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January 26, 2010 • 8:08 AM
Somalia, Eritrea, Tunisia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gambia are all listed as the WORST countries for Africa journalists to work during 2009, according to The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
Nine murders were recorded last year in Somalia by unknown gunmen while 19 other journalists are still held incommunicado in Eritrea jails, for their professional work, IFJ said. The agency has urged the AU to take collective efforts to save journalists in the continent as to protect the Africa press freedom.
Speaking to Reuters in Addis Ababa, Aidan White, secretary general of the IFJ, said “This report outlines in clear, bold terms the scale of the crisis that faces journalists across the continent”.
“The report intends to inform and sensitize African Governments, decision makers, and especially the African Union to prioritize press freedom and freedom of expression as a key component for good governance democracy and national development,” the IFJ report stated. If you believe in Freedom of the Press everywhere, then it’s clear a crisis is afoot in several African nations.
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January 23, 2010 • 6:19 AM
January 22, 2010 • 2:09 PM
Let there be no doubt that the American people has descended into a nation of tribes. Whether its the GOp vs. the Dems, the Whites vs. minority groups, Gays vs. Heterosexuals, or Catholic vs. Others….this court ruling (along with the conservative majority on the court) have made their political will known and the American people are losers.
Forget the fact that previous challenges to corporate political financing have gone before the high court in the 1990’s and again in 2003 (e.g. McCain/Feingold) and were UPHELD…to manage the influence corporations could have on the outcome of elections. As recently as 2003, this was upheld. The Roberts’ court seem to accept the premise that corporations have human traits and should be allowed freedom of speech. That would be a great argument if this was about FREE SPEECH!!!
IT’S NOT. IT’S ABOUT $$$ tied to what you the speech. Corps. have exercised their free speech long before and after McCain-Feingold through bloggers, ads, townhalls, etc. The court errred in their premise. So forget about the rich like Oprah and Bill Gates donating millions to a candidate, Wal-Mart, Exxon, and Disney will be purchasing your next elected official.
The public should forget about ever having any “group power” over corporations whether its media content, poor trade practices, etc. because those corps. don’t answer to you but to the politician they just installed.
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January 21, 2010 • 11:05 AM
It’s clear to me that President Obama (as he said) lost a tie to the American people who swept him into office for if he read the tea leaves for himself and Mr. Brown correctly he’d recognize CHANGE is still necessary and the CHANGES he was mandated to issue are required of him. Browns’ election was not a national referendum but a local one. The mid-term elections will disclose more. But I’m sad that Evan Bayh of Indiana and Jim Webb and other Conserva-Dems are ready to throw in the towel on Democratic agenda items over this one race. It really makes me re-think why these two particularly are so in sync with Lieberman and why for goodness sake is the POTUS not being stern enough. This is exactly the time to push an Obama agenda. It’s not like he’s taking us into war under false pretenses or something silly like that! Grow a pair Mr. President…or this will likely be your ONLY term!
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January 20, 2010 • 5:46 AM
Benefits of Green Tea
The latest research in more than 500 people adds to growing evidence suggesting that green tea has anti-cancer powers. In the study, smokers and non-smokers who drank at least a cup a day cut their lung cancer risk significantly, a US cancer research conference heard. The protection was greatest for people carrying certain genes.
But cancer experts said the findings did not change the fact that smoking is bad for health.
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