On September 18, 2007 Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave what he expected to be his last lecture. You see, he’s dying of pancreatic cancer. He spoke to a packed auditorium on ‘Really Achieving your Childhood Dreams’. You can read more of the lecture at www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.
Since he gave this lecture the video of it has gone viral. Just today he talked about it again. He has lived longer than he expected when he gave that lecture last September. He says he has enjoyed the extra time he’s been granted. He’s spent more memorable time with his family and has testified before Congress requesting more funding for finding a cure for this deadly form of cancer.
Diane Sawyer of ABC News is doing a TV special on Wednesday, April 9th at 10pm. Click for promo.
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Blogs For Borders Weekly Video Log…
Our weekly vlog podcast on illegal immigration and border security issues. In this weeks edition:
Importing Mexico? Where is the roughest neighborhood in Mexico? LA!
Reconquista the musical! Mexican rapper demands amnesty makes threats!…
Beer Monday: A Shift In The Global Warming Debate…
Monday! The start of a new work week. Time to get busy, shift a few paradigms, revolutionize outside the box. How ’bout a beer?
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Someone has slammed a few six packs at the New York Times, which is the only think that can explain how this artic…
Obama Not Through With Troubles From Pastor Wright…
The WSJ says that Obama May Not Have Fully Contained Damage From Ex-Pastor, and I tend to agree with that. Obama may have jumped back up in the polls, but we need to keep an eye on the areas that he he needs:
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SCHLITZ!…
I used to drink Schlitz back when every penny counted, you remember the days, hell, those are still the days! We used to jokingly call it “Shitz” because of the “bubble guts” that would attack the morning after. Ah the memor…
Hats Off to McCain…
There are a number of senators and congressmen on the Hill who have children of an age to be able to enter military service. From what I understand, most of them have chosen not to join the military. At times, these legislators have been hammered f…
Doozie of the DaY: Dhimmi Jacqui Smith…
But I forgot………Moral equivocation is the new PC height of sophistication, is it not?
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The Government Squeeze…
Podcast Show Notes
Many are tightening their belts in these tight economic times. There are Several State governments that aren’t and would rather try and squeeze taxpayers.
Iowa looks at taxing typos, while California goes after music downloads,…
Goldilocks and the Three Bears…
This version of the story is perfect to tell to a little girl with long, curly blonde hair.
ONCE UPON A TIME in the middle of a deep, dark wood there was a tiny little house with two rooms. In that house lived three bears: Daddy Bear; Mommy Bear; and B…
One of Tennessee’s Anti-war groups has some strange bedfellows…
Welcome readers from Wizbang, Stop the ACLU and many more sites who linked to me today. The word is getting out, thank you!ÂÂ
I want to preface this story with two comments. One, I typically avoid labeling anti war groups as commies or socialists u…
Question: Why are they raising the toll on the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge?…
Answer:
You still have some money, and they want it.
Alternate answer: Because they think you will let them.
Exit question: Are we people or sheep to be shorn at every opportunity?
Nuff Said.
Trackposted to Ou…
Dutch Court upholds free speech…
Via Hot Air:
Amazing, the things that are litigable these days. This wasn’t the public prosecution hinted at by the Dutch government last week but “merely†a private suit filed by the Netherlands Islamic Foundation to have criticism of …
Dutch Court uphold free speech against Islam…
Props to the Dutch Court for not folding under Islamofacist pressure.
Dutch court: Geert Wilders has free-speech right to criticize Islam
Amazing, the things that are litigable these days. This wasn’t the public prosecution hinted …
Clinton and the lie wasn’t - but is - except it isn’t a lie so much as a mistake about the truth…kinda…
I saw this noted on Sister Toldjahs Blog, and honestly, that is the best I can do to summarize it.
Apparently the facts were wrong, making it a lie, except that the essence was correct making it Clintonian truth. Kinda. I can’t sort it out …
Obama Says He Has Most Foreign Experience. No Really!…
Laughter is not helping. Breathe, breathe. Whew. OK
(Huffington Post) Last night at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama took a question on what he’s looking for in a running mate. “I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of st…
Godly Wisdom — April 8, 2008…
Treat Your Heart Like A Well — Fill It With Clean, Pure Water
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Iraqi boy receives surgery thanks to Marine…
A story from Haditha Iraq you won’t hear much about in the MSM: From Gainesville Times: Ammar Haddad Muhammad, a 5-year-old Iraqi boy, and his father landed on time Saturday night in Charleston, S.C., to begin the process of getting…
Charlton Heston Speaks On Global Climate Change!…
This recording was the prologue to Michael Crichton’s book Jurassic Park, read on the Rush Limbaugh show on 3 Feb 1995.
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Pigeontrack: An “Absolut” World…
Un pigeoned believable! AP: The Absolut vodka company apologized Saturday for an ad campaign depicting the southwestern U.S. as part of Mexico amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers. The campaign, which promotes ideal scenarios under the slog…
Crooks And Liars On Patraeus…
I just had to do a dumpster dive. Why am I not surprised by what I found? I refuse to go farther then Crooks and Liars. Can only take so much of the douchebattery from them. These comments were found in a post about one of the rude protesters
Will pat…
Barrack Obama - 100 years of *fill in the blank*…
Obama and his campaign (along with Hillary!) have been making much of John McCain using the term 100 years in regard to Iraq. The claim being that McCain is ok with war lasting 100 years. But in a case of perhaps hell is seeing ……
The facts don’t matter, Just the feel…
Reposting this from 2006.
The world of politics is never pretty and often very ugly.
One of the most ugly features is how the politicians switch facts around to protect their argument. They determine a conclusion that fits their needs, …
LET THERE BE NO CONFUSION: OBAMA WOULD BE THE END OF AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT…
OBAMA’S RED MENTOR PRAISES RED ARMY
By Cliff Kincaid
Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red …
LightS ouT KidS!…
No thanks Big Government.
I’ll take my soft, romantic lighting with a dimmer any day of the week.
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Reverend Eric Lee Belittles Jewish Philanthropist…
Blacks continually claim racism is still alive and undaunted in America.
They should know….
From LGF via the Jawa Report
Barrack Obama’s friend and minister Reverend Wright appears not to be the only one claiming oppre…
War News: Vets On The Hill 4/8/08 PART 1…
Yesterday on 08 APR 08, a group of men and women - Patriots - both currently serving in the United States Armed Services and those of service past, gathered in a Ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel in Arlington, VA. The Gathering began - per orders - at 0…..
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Help me win and I promise I’ll get back to more inane political commentary! Actually I’ll get back to it soon anyway, if I can get five minutes when I’m not having to s…
DRUG HELPS PROTECT MICE & MONKEYS FROM RADIATION DAMAGE…
Luckily I’ve been fortunate enough to never be closely associated with anyone with cancer. I do know that the radiation treatment is sometimes worse than the disease. And G-D forbid we make marijuana easily available to them…
I saw thi…
Obama: “That’s Just How White Folks Will Do You 
Gateway Pundit has more links but that should wet your appetite
Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, Rosemary’s Thoughts, WayWard Fundamentalist Christian, Right Truth, DragonLady’s World, Leaning Straight Up, A Newt One-punking the global …
Jeremiah Wright is the least of his problems…
as for the ultimate foreign policy test, the one John Kerry called, “passing the Global Test,†Obama proposes a diplomatic Manhattan Project of sorts, with Iran’s Mahmoud Amadinejad.
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How inspiring Randy Pausch is! If you liked “The Last Lecture”, another fantastic memoir I just read and highly recommend is “My Stroke of Insight” by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Her TEDTalk video (ted.com) has been seen as many times as The Last Lecture I think, and Oprah did 4 shows on her book, so there are a lot of similarities. In My Stroke of Insight, there’s a happy ending though. It’s an incredible story! I hear they’re making it into a movie.