Andrew Lipke ::
Listening to his song Stick By You right now on Pandora.com – love it! I’ll need to wait a couple days & see if I can find his album at Half Price Books or just buy it from Amazon. Good stuff.
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‘I’ve been to the Mountaintop’
Delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. April 3, 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee – the night before he was gunned down by an assassin:
Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It’s always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you. And Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world. I’m delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow.
Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, “Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?” I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God’s children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn’t stop there.
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Question for today…
How should the non-violent teachings/actions of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. affect a countries foreign policy?
This just in…
Here are some of the latest rumors circling the web today…
- MacBook Air includes secret filter to block all references to Ron Paul
- Blood was digitally removed from There Will Be Blood
- Patton Oswalt has signed a two-year contract with the Baltimore Ravens
- ABC announced George Lucas‘s Matrix Babies coming this fall
- Report links Alvin, Simon to performance-enhancing helium
- The Dinobots will be voiced by the Wu Tang Clan
- They shot that tiger because it knew Tom Cruise was gay
- Islanders on “Lost” to adopt adorable, wisecracking orphan cousin
- No new Garfield movie until 2011
- B.A. Baracus played in new A-Team movie by Marcus Carl Franklin, Ben Whishaw, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, and Cate Blanchett
- New Radiohead video available only as an animated GIF
- Hillary Clinton thinks Batman Forever got everything right
- Peter Parker is going to start failing Chemistry so kids can better relate to the character
- iPhone tells Diane Sawyer of Jobs’s “inappropriate touching”
- There are too many pop culture references in Internet lists
Now granted, these are just rumors – but don’t say I didn’t tell you so.
Is your candidate running?
Folks are talking more and more and more about NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg possibly running for president.
Everywhere he goes folks are asking and so far he’s still saying “No.”
But how can we know for sure? I mean really?
NPR’s Robert Smith devised a simple solution that should work for any and all possible presidential candidates. Now if only someone could get a similar card for vice-presidential candidates.
Play candidates Bingo with your favorite (possible) candidate
The Bussey Bunch
Looks like I found a new TV show I might get to watch with Laurie.
She says, “i’ll watch it but i’m not promising anything.”
At least it’s on TLC – that might help.
It’s The Bussey Bunch – based on the folks that run PCW Wrestling in Arlington.
It’s the same federation Tim and Dennis wrestle for – in fact Dennis (Apoc) is in the trailer a couple times (look for the guy breathing fire).
Should be interesting to see. I’ve never been a huge fan of PCW from what I’ve seen – but they’re running a wrestling federation and I’m not – so they do have that going for them ;-).
See the schedule on TLC.