Being Non-News

What an utter waste this whole talk of former Representative Massa's "snorkeling" and "tickle fights" has been. Who gives a flying fart, really? Why are the news networks making such a big deal of this? It's pure foolishness. What a waste of airtime. News has largely become gossip. Is this really what viewers want?

I agree with Representative Kennedy.


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Being Precious

I love the movie, "Precious." I saw it last night and was moved incredibly. It is difficult not to love Precious and to completely empathize with her. The script is fantastic. It is obvious why Geoffrey Fletcher won the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay. (His acceptance speech was beautiful.) Mo'Nique also delivered a powerful believable performance and it is obvious why she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Even though her role was extremely brutal and harsh, there was even a humane tender moment for her character which was brilliantly acted. (Her acceptance speech was not so beautiful.) Gabourey Sidibe was utterly believable as Precious. And, how precious she is in this role. Sidibe was nominated in the Best Actress category. I was so inspired by two interviews that I saw with her that I wrote of her here last year and included the videos. May God bless the precious young women in such a plight all around the world.

Being Goldman Sachs

David Pfeiffer, Communications Director for the White House, wrote in a blog post on Sunday that Goldman Sachs advised their investors that "profits will continue to soar under the status quo." Now, where do you think Goldman Sachs' interests lie?

Being Non-News

Fox News reported incessantly on ACORN and assisted in their losing 3 million dollars of government funding which was largely used to get out the vote, especially of those who have never been active in their government. Fox News and Republicans praised James O'Keefe, the young man who was later charged with attempting to wire tap Senator Landrieu's phone, for setting up a prostitution plot that was supposed to reveal that ACORN was an illegitimate organization. This seemed to me then and even more so now to have been an attempt to suppress the vote. ACORN had gotten 1.2 million people to vote in the last election. Stephen Colbert breaks it down for us:

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Being True

"This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

–Shakespeare, Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 3

Being true first begins with ourselves.

Being Inspired by Others

Psalm 8

O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth,
Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

4 What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?

5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands. You have put all things under his feet,

7 All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the field,

8 The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

Being Happiness

What happiness! Coca Cola puts a "happiness machine" in the middle of a college campus. This is just delightful!



Make someone happy today! Be happiness!