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.
h/t: PA Pundits
April 8th, 2008 at 3:45 am
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 …
April 8th, 2008 at 4:03 am
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 …
April 8th, 2008 at 4:28 am
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 …
April 8th, 2008 at 7:54 am
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…
April 8th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Godly Wisdom — April 8, 2008…
Treat Your Heart Like A Well — Fill It With Clean, Pure Water
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April 8th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
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…
April 8th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
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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April 8th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
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…
April 8th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
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…
April 8th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
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 ……