Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

COFFEE BREAK 35

+ Updated at 4:27pm EDST

+ I feel strongly that Lou Dobbs owes the nation, indeed the planet, an apology for supporting the ludicrous claim that President Obama was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. There is overwhelming evidence that shows that Obama was born in Hawaii, our fiftieth state, on August 4, 1961. And, even if Obama was born in Kenya (and he wasn't), he would still be a US citizen because his mother was a US citizen. Here are a couple of websites to check out if you want to urge Lou Dobbs to apologize and / or demand CNN bring Dobbs back to at least semi-respectable journalism by abandoning this story ASAP: http://dobbsconspiracy.com/?src=db1 & http://mediamatters.org/

+ For the first time this summer, it is hot, humid and hazy along the Erie Canal today.

+ As long as you have a box of tissues handy I strongly recommend THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, another DVD we saw after reading
the S&P review. Themes include: Devotion; Love; Nurturing; Questing; Transformation; You. There is some really good music too including one or 2 by Alicia Keyes who is one of the stars but Dakota Fanning who plays the 14 year old Lily steals the show.

+ A couple of Tweets I offered today:

Monday, April 27, 2009

COFFEE BREAK 13

+ I'm coordinating The Joyful Noise Cafe at First Presbyterian Church, Utica NY which will be held on May 23, 6pm to 8pm. The Church has a JNC web page. The Joyful Noise Boys will perform and several other wonderful musicians and other performers. Please tell all your friends who live in the Utica area.

+ I'm savoring the 3-game Red Sox sweep at Fenway over the Yankees. The Sox have now won ten in a row to go from 2-6 to 12-6. Can we talk dynasty now?

+ Grubs are wrecking our lawn and demanding time and money and energy I would rather put into something else.

Monday, April 20, 2009

COFFEE BREAK 10

+ No I am not convinced the Yankees will finish last in the AL East even after their humiliating losses in their brand new stadium. But it would be OK with me if they were to finish last!

+ WONDERFUL BASEBALL UPDATE!! The Red Sox got back over .500 (7-6) today with a 12-1 Patriots Day romp over the Orioles at Fenway. The Sox swept the 4-game series with the Os. Big Papa hit a double and a triple to break out of a slump. See the Boston Globe story.

+ The Presbyteries of The Presbyterian Church (USA) continue to vote to keep Gays and Lesbians and Bisexuals and Transgenders (GLBT) from being ordained as Ministers of the Word or Elders or Deacons. But the vote keeps getting closer. More than 40 per cent of the Presbyteries have voted for inclusion, a much higher proportion than in the past. The General Assembly has voted for inclusion several times but the Presbyteries have not concurred up to this point. John Shuck offers an important analysis in "Four Presbyteries Vote Tuesday" appearing today in Shuck & Jive, a fantastic blog for the Progressive Christian movement. Many of John's posts recently deal with this issue and are worth reading. My Presbytery, the Presbytery of Utica, is one of those in the minority who voted for inclusion. Our vote was nearly unanimnous.

+ I am one of those citizens of this planet who has been moved to tears by the video of Susan Boyle singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables. Click here to see and hear this amazing moment of grace. Click here to see my post at The Abundancetrek Blog.