Marianne Williamson and Coach Carter

I recently watched Coach Carter, I must admitt I was somewhat reluctant when I took it out of its box. I felt like I had seen it before, like the genre was done with. NO more beating all the odds kind of movies for me, but man I was wrong. Great movie, great story, great message and [...]

Photo of the Day…

n a sunny October day, a Mongolian herder leads camels over a sand dune in the Badain Jaran Desert, one of the vast, mostly empty landscapes that make up the southernmost section of the Gobi, Asia’s largest desert. Photographer Adam Wong positioned himself downslope from the animals to emphasize “the beautiful motion they make as [...]

Faces of the Dead (New York Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20061228_3000FACES_TAB1.html 
This is a very cool and poignient link. It shows a face of an American serviceman who was killed in action. Timothy Martin, but every pixel on his face represents a soldier who also died in Iraq. It is really so sad, what where once anonamous statistics to me are now faces and with stories [...]

Names of Those Killed in Action

These are the names of those who left this life. They died in Iraq. I pray that the families of these men are comforted, I pray that we can end the war soon. Whatever you may think about the Iraq war, or war in general no family should have to recieve the news that their son/father/brother was [...]

U.S. warns Serbia it’s responsible for safety of embassy

BELGRADE, Serbia (CNN) — The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade is evacuating all nonessential personnel following Thursday’s attack on the building by a crowd of protesters, a spokesman for the embassy told CNN Friday.

Serbian riot police stand in front of the damaged U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on Friday. US. ambassador, Cameron Munter, is staying, officials said.

The embassy [...]