Pam Ayres / British Comedy / Video 5 mins

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Outstanding comedic poetry from the fabulous British performer, writer and poet, Pam Ayres.  It’s impossible not to laugh and laugh and laugh!
No props are required when talent of this standard is on display.
You will love it!

Pam Ayres : They Should Have Asked My Husband – 5 mins 47

The Disloyal General

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As Commander in Chief, President Obama needs to sack US General Stanley McChrystal for his disloyalty; not for his inability to implement the Obama administration’s flawed military strategy.
Responsibility for the patently obvious US failure in Afghanistan rests with the White House, for the quicksand policy of believing, as did the disastrous Bush administration, that [...]

Barton’s GOP Grovel to BP

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Texas Republican Joe Barton, proved today that he is not fit to occupy elected office of any kind. Including that of local dogcatcher. ( And I happen to like dogs).
First he made his groveling appeal to protect the interests of BP at the expense of his fellow Americans, then when hammered with an [...]

American Teenage Sailor Found OK

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Breaking News
6 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time / 11th June 2010
Australia’s ABC national radio news has announced that a Qantas search and rescue flight out of Perth, Western Australia, manned by search and rescue experts, following  a 2000 kms  flight across the Indian Ocean, has located the upturned yacht of American teenage sailor, Abby [...]

The Untold War / by Nancy Sherman

Acclaimed author Nancy Sherman’s latest book is titled The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds and Souls of our Soldiers.

Nancy Sherman
Professor Dept. of Philosophy
Georgetown University
Washington DC 20057
shermann@georgetown.edu -
Former Distinguished Chair in Ethics, U.S. Naval Academy
www.untoldwar.com <http://www.untoldwar.com>
www.nancysherman.com
New York Times Editor’s Choice:
The Untold War
“Sherman’s ‘philosophical ethnography’ is at its most powerful documenting the stories of veterans”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/books/review/EdChoice-t.html?scp=1&sq=Editors%27%20Choice&st=cse
Featured [...]

Video Shows Oil Gushing From Damaged Pipe into Gulf

Video Shows Oil Gushing From Damaged Pipe into Gulf
DeepwaterHorizonJIC — May 12, 2010 — ROBERT, La. — Oil and gas stream from the riser of the Deepwater Horizon well May 11, 2010. This video is from the larger of two existing leaks on the riser.
This leak is located approximately 460 [...]

Obama @ White House 2010 Correspondents’ Assn Dinner

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President Barack Obama speaking at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, at the Washington Hilton Ballroom, Saturday May 1st 2010.
Part One .. 8 mins 58 secs

Part Two .. 8 mins 19 secs

Musings On The Masters

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I must admit that I couldn’t help but watch Tiger play his first round and then cheer him on. I suppose that is when you admire the efforts of a real champion – that is what you cheer – regardless.  Not necessarily in support of an individual athlete, but more for the witnessing of [...]

Tiger Woods – The Jekyll & Hyde of Golf

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I was stunned by the tasteless decision by Tiger Woods and Nike to use Wood’s father’s voice in that advertisement for Nike.The matter of whether or not Woods learns anything from his recently revealed experiences should never have been used by any business as an excuse to promote their image and goods.
I believe the [...]

Once More up to the Breach / A Healthcare Comment

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After having failed to take charge of the healthcare agenda from the start, this new president has one last chance to achieve a positive result in this critical policy area.  To date though, he has failed to accept that bi – partisanship is less important than the delivery of quality legislation. The [...]