Posted in Barack Obama, Election '08, Politics, Race, Social issues, current news analysis, fun things, tagged african americans, andres useche, Barack Obama, black people, calypso, cocoa tea, global, hispanics, india, indians, music videos, obama presidency, obama songs, obama tours the world, Obama wins, obama's overseas tour, punjabi, punjabi poetry, reggae, si se puede cambiar, soca, the mighty sparrow, the white house, the world reaction to Obama, worldwide attention on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To coincide with Obama’s overseas trip I’ve posted a couple of global music videos celebrating and praising Barack Obama’s candidacy.
Here’s a soca song for Obama by Trinidadian soca legend Mighty Sparrow….
Jamaican reggae superstar Cocoa Tea does a wicked reggae song for Obama..
Andres Useche uses Obama’s slogan, yes, we can as his hook..and it works perfectly…
There’s even a punjabi poem celebrating Obama’s rise….
Hmm..with [...]
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Posted in Social issues, current news analysis, fun things, olympics 2008, tagged athletes, beijing, China, fencing, fever, gymnasts, gynastics, international, iran, islands, morning, msnbc, olympics, optimistic, sports, trials, US, vollyeball, watching, wrestling on June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, I watched the US Olympic trials in Judo and women and men’s Greco-Roman wrestling on MSNBC.
Yes, I said women’s wrestling I didn’t know that women wrestle at the Olympics? Did you? Apparently it became an Olympic sport in 2004..hmm..I don’t know how that slipped by me, well anyway, add that sport to my Olympic watching list..
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Posted in Election '08, Politics, current news analysis, fun things, just because, tagged air america, bloggers, blogs, CNN, greetings, housekeeping, humble, jeffersons, Politics, slate, thank you on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m sending a big thank you to the people over at Slate.com for linking to my humble blog last week to all the guys and gals over there…
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
And I can’t forget all the people out there who keep coming back day after day and are linking and posting comments to my ‘ramblings’ thank you so [...]
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Posted in current news analysis, fun things, tagged americans, arizona, fit, fitness, game, older, phoenix, sheila johnson, smile, spunky, tennis star, top on March 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sheila Johnson, 60, of Phoenix Arizona is a tennis star!
Yup, I’m not kidding, a freaking tennis star and apparently she’s at the top of her game! That’s amazing with so many ‘older people’ in the news making me mad it was nice to see one that actually made me smile, if only for a minute today..
I just hope I’m [...]
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Posted in Politics, fun things, just because, women's issues, tagged obama, madeleine albright, secretary of state, david sedaris, president elect, books, personality, dress your family in corduroy and denim, required reading on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Just got this book yesterday at the airport in Phoenix, usually I bring my own reading material since the book and magazine selections at most airports tend to be hmm.., what shall I say…..limited (that’s the most decent word I could think of..lol) but I took a chance and the book store there was pretty decent. I haven’t been able to put down Madam [...]
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Posted in Election '08, Politics, current news analysis, fun things, tagged body, cereal, Clinton, democratic, Mccain, mind, obama, primary, soul, speeches, wisconsin on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Watched John McCain..too bland… way too bland…
Watched Hillary..too sweet, not good for me…
Watched Obama, just right…. and he’s good for the body and the soul too!
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Posted in Election '08, Politics, current news analysis, fun things, tagged air force one, bill clinton, fighting, hillary clinton, job perks, president on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bill Clinton is an asset to his wife’s, Hillary’s campaign so she says but I think this is the real reason he wants to her to be President is so he gets to fly all around the world on Air Force One,..talk about job perks..lol, You know, I think that’s one of the main reasons they [...]
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For all those who want to learn a bit more about those awesome, just awesome CNN touch screen TVs check out these great links provided by one of my blogger friends BigWorld. CNN’s Touch Screen are not only innovative they are just plain cool..just cool and check out the guy who developed them here too..I just love them…I want [...]
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I thought men love talking about Viagara…
Posted in Election '08, Politics, current news analysis, fun things, tagged republicans, old men, GOP, senator john mccain, viagara, birth control, wonder drug, erectile dysfunction, male issues, viagara pills, senators, john mccain viagara comment, video on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
But apparently John Mccain doesn’t. He looks in visible distress at the first mention of the word Viagara by a reporter..
How long before this is used on the late night shows? If it hasn’t been used already..LOL..
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