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Tony Blair tells Barack Obama a Tony Blair story
Sometimes it seems that Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, is hanging around this side of the Atlantic like an actual American. Which is great and all. And we love to tell stories specifically for The Ticket’s many loyal British readers.
Anyway, Blair showed up this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, which is a place that could really use some most mornings. Also afternoons. And nights. The breakfast is an annual presidential tradition since President Eisenhower invited himself to join some praying senators back in 1953. Presidents, it seems, are all for prayer, especially after they take office. And which new chief executive wants to be first to say, he doesn’t need any?
So, President Obama was there, of course, along with his wife, Michelle, and also the prime ministers of Macedonia, Mauritius and Albania and the presidents of Haiti and the Philippines. For all eight of our readers in those places. So you know there was a lot of high-wattage beseeching emanating from D.C. on this day.
We’re publishing Obama’s breakfast remarks on the jump; they’re longer than your average prayer and worth a scan. Scroll down or click on the “Read more” line below. We’ve also got a brief video of Obama speaking down there.
But Blair also spoke, entertainingly as usual. He was mindful of Obama’s successful security struggle to keep his campaign BlackBerry post-inaugural “Great news on the BlackBerry,” he said.
Blair then told a story about his first day of not being Britain’s prime minister. A day of serious adjustment obviously.
Blair got his very first cellphone that morning and immediately texted a close friend. Not recognizing the new number, the old pal immediately texted back the humbling reply: “Who are you?”
– Andrew Malcolm
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Photo credit: Pete Souza / White House (Obama speaks, with Tony Blair in the background).
President Barack Obama’s Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, Feb. 5, 2009
Good morning. I want to thank the co-chairs of this breakfast, Reps. Heath Shuler and Vernon Ehlers. I’d also like to thank Tony Blair for coming today, as well as our Vice President, Joe Biden, members of my Cabinet, members of Congress, clergy, friends and dignitaries from across the world.
Michelle and I are honored to join you in prayer this morning. I know this breakfast has a long history in Washington, and faith has always been a guiding force in our family’s life, so we feel very much at home and look forward to keeping this tradition alive during our time here.
It’s a tradition that I’m told actually began many years ago in the city of Seattle. It was the height of the Great Depression, and most people found themselves out of work. Many fell into poverty. Some lost everything.
The leaders of the community did all that they could for those who were suffering in their midst. And then they decided to do something more: they prayed. It didn’t matter what party or religious affiliation to which they belonged. They simply gathered one morning as brothers and sisters to share a meal and talk with God.
These breakfasts soon sprouted up throughout Seattle, and quickly spread to cities and towns across America, eventually making their way to Washington. A short time after President Eisenhower asked a group of Senators if he could join their prayer breakfast, it became a national event.
And today, as I see presidents and dignitaries here from every corner of the globe, it strikes me that this is one of the rare occasions that still brings much of the world together in a moment of peace and goodwill.
I raise this history because far too often, we have seen faith wielded as a tool to divide us from one another ? as an excuse for prejudice and intolerance. Wars have been waged. Innocents have been slaughtered. For centuries, entire religions have been persecuted, all in the name of perceived righteousness.
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Report says Cambodian mining, oil sector corrupt
the corrupt elite of cambodia, one of the world’s most impoverished nations, has comprare cialis laid the groundwork for siphoning off vast profits from a coming boom in mining and oil exploitation, a nongovernment organization said thursday.
britain-based global witness said that rights to exploit the resources have been allocated behind closed doors by a small number of power brokers around prime minister hun sen and other senior officials. the report, titled “country on the side of sale,” said “the same factious elite that pillaged the country’s timber resources has now gained control of its mineral and petroleum wealth.”
“unless this is changed, there is a sincere risk that the break to take away a in general formation out of poverty force be squandered,” the report said levitra online Portugal.
the allegations were denied by information abb khieu kanharith and suy sem, the minister of industry, mines and vivacity, who said worldwide be “always defames the government.”
global witness, which has worked in cambodia for more than a decade, said its findings were based on numerous interviews with industry insiders in the country and with others surrounding the unbelievable more than the course of 2008. the report’s appendix also cites a bevy of academics, journals and newspaper reports.
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Telescope sees smallest exoplanet
The smallest planet yet found outside the Solar System has been detected by a French space telescope.
The rocky world is less than twice the size of Earth.
Only a handful of planets have so far been found with a mass comparable to Earth, Venus, Mars or Mercury.
The discovery was made by Corot, an orbiting observatory with a 27cm-diameter telescope to search for planets orbiting other stars.
About 330 of these “exoplanets” have been discovered so far. But most of them have been gas giants similar to Jupiter or Neptune.
“For the first time, we have unambiguously detected a planet that is ‘rocky’ in the same sense as our own Earth,” said Malcolm Fridlund Generico cialis, Corot project scientist from the European Space Agency (Esa).
“We now have to understand this object further to put it into context, and continue our search for smaller, more Earth-like objects with Corot,” he added.
The new find, Corot-Exo-7b, orbits its Sun-like star once every 20 hours.
Because the planet is so close to its parent star, its temperature is between 1,000 and 1,500C - far too hot to support life.
Rock vs gas
The vast majority of exoplanets have been discovered using the radial velocity method.
This looks for spectral signs that a star is wobbling due to gravitational tugs from an orbiting planet.
But the method favours the detection of large planets orbiting close to its parent star.
Astronomers detected the new planet as it crossed the face of the distant “sun”, dimming the star’s light as it passed in front. This is known as the transit method.
Ian Roxburgh, professor of astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London, said the transit method still favoured the detection of big planets, because they blocked out more light from the parent star.
But he added that if you had a small star - as this one is - then a moderate-sized planet would block out enough light to be detected by telescopes.
Professor Roxburgh told BBC News there appeared to be another planet orbiting the same “sun” - a Neptune-sized gas giant.
Advanced science instruments aboard future spacecraft Levitra, such as the proposed European Plato mission, could find many more Earth-mass planets orbiting Sun-like stars.
The Corot mission is led by the French space agency (CNES), with contributions from Esa, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Brazil.
Its main objectives are to search for exoplanets and to study the interiors of stars.
Paul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk
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Trouble in the woods for Dubya
This short posting at buzzflash has been circulating around since yesterday. We can’t vouch for its authenticity, but it at least rings true:
Steak Night at the Deer Camp - A South Arkansas Message to George W. by John R. Bomar
Hey George, I hate to have tell you this, son, but they’re talking bad about you out at the deer camp. That’s real bad. When you’ve lost the deer-camp-boys you’re in big trouble around here.
You see, these are the real good ol’ boys, the ones who make up the backbone in this part of the woods. They’re the ones who build the houses, sell the insurance, install the plumbing and fix your air conditioner when it goes on the blink. They’re just regular, hard working Joe’s trying to make life a little better and get ahead. And up to now they’ve done pretty good. Many of them own their own businesses and are members of the chamber and pay a lot of taxes – a lot of taxes. And a whole bunch of them read the papers and keep up with what’s going on in the world.
George, they’re a calling you a liar. Yep, they are. And if it’s one thing they don’t cotton to, it’s a liar, George. They know liars; they’ve had liars for employees and dealt with liars in trying to do businesses. “Cain’t’ trust a liar” just about sums it up around here, George.
Now, if you’re a known liar we’d give you a nod in passing, but we wouldn’t stop to talk. We’d try to be sociable enough if forced to be around you, but we’d leave as soon as possible. Out at the deer camp we’d mostly try and leave you out of the conversation, but if your name came up we’d all give each other that look that says; “yea, we know about dealin’ with him.”
That’s bad George. Real bad … real hard to get over around here, George.
I guess it’s partly cause we come from pioneer stock. Most of our people moved here from Tennessee and Alabama, and before that Georgia and the Carolinas and some from Virginia. We come from a long line of survivors, George. Only the survivors got this far. They survived by their wits and hard, honest work, with a little luck thrown in. Excuse’ me for saying so, but they also learnt’ real early how to separate the chicken salad from the chicken s****, George. They watched out for what people did rather than pay too much attention to what they said. Their Grandpas taught em’ that.
And, oh yea, these ol’ boys, they really don’t like being played for a fool when they’ve kindly given you the benefit of the doubt. On a scale of one to ten George, that’s a ten.
Yep, deer-camp-boys are proud of their roots and try and hold on to the old ways, as much as they can nowadays. They know the understanding and teachings of their Grannies come hard learned. They’re hardscrabble folk, George, and they judge a man by his handshake, the honesty in his eye and the sincerity in his voice. They’re nice enough when you first meet, that’s the way their Mama’s raised them, but they don’t really take you in till you’ve proved yourself. You know that puddin’ George, its proof tells the tale.
Well, guess that’s about it, friend. Just thought I’d pass this along in case you was interested. Cause when you lose the deer-camp-boys around here, George, there ain’t much left.
John R. BomarArkadelphia, Arkansas
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The 10 Scariest Fans From Super Bowl XLIII
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Super Bowl XLIII Live Blog: The Battle To Legitimize Already-Printed Merchandise [Live Blogs]
whose team will reign crowning? the guys whose fans flap towels or the guys whose state has vowels? which qb wins: the one who found christ or whose appendix was sliced?
Fourth Quarter
10:08 — So this is great. The ruling is that Warner fumbled the ball, but if they review it, then … no, they’re not going to review it. Steelers win their sixth. DO YOU BELIEVE IN SEEING WHAT YOU EXPECT TO SEE HAPPEN IN FOOTBALL? YES!
10:07 — A pass in the middle to Arrington, and there’s the final timeout. But look, they’ve got much better field position and the desperation throw in the end zone isn’t of a Colorado-Kordell Stewart length.
10:05 — And heeeere weee gooo the other way … Fitzgerald hauls in a decent catch, and with 22 seconds left, AZ calls their second timeout.
10:05 — Michaels mutters something about needing a huge return. And .. an average return by Arrington.
10:00 — Oh, so THERE’S your Wheaties box. Holmes toes the sideline with both feet. That’s a legit catch. Touchdown Stillers. BUT WILL THE REVIEW oh come on, there’s no way that wasn’t a touchdown. Get out of the peep show booth, McAulay.
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9:59 — First down … RIGHT through Holmes’ arms. That would have been a Wheaties box cover had he snagged that.
9:58 — That’s all of PIttsburgh’s timeouts. 49 seconds left.
9:57 — WOW. Holmes runs down the sideline, finds a seam inside, and it’s first and goal.
9:56 — Large Ben scrambles but doesn’t scramble far. [Witty pun involving breakfast scrambles] Steelers call timeout and there’s 1:02 left.
9:55 — Nate Washington makes another first down, but he is brought down in bounds. They’re at midfield.
9:55 — Cardinals blitz, Pittsburgh blocks ‘em all, and Holmes catches the first.
9:53 — Roethlisberger throws one more down the field that’s batted away before the two-minute warning.
9:52 — 2003 MAC Championship phantom nightmares again. Holy shit, Roethlisberger is covered in Crisco.
9:51 — Why not start the drive with a holding call? Sounds apt.
9:49 — So it appears that this Larry Fitzgerald man is a fine wide receiver, but … CAN HE DANCE?
9:48 — !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Let’s just throw this last factoid out of the way before we get to the important shit:
Super Bowl Momentous Momentable Moments That Are Memorable
SUPER BOWL MMMXXXVII ? The HondaTown (formerly Detroit) Lions, three thousand years after becoming the first (and still only) team to lose 16 games in a regular NFL season, win the franchise’s first Super Bowl. Quarterback-droid ORLOVSKY ran a series of computer applications that displayed on his side monitor, “IF LIONS(X) > OTHERTEAM(X), THEN GO TO DISNEYWORLD.” The Lions were finally able to break through after every other NFL franchise sent the majority of their resources to fight the second 500-year robot war. Wide receiver-droid CALVIN was fined by the NFL for celebrating a touchdown by loading a game of FreeCell in his auxiliary mainframe.
9:44 — Of COURSE they converted the first down. You can just tell this will … wait, holding in the end zone? Jesus flag-waving Christ, they’re starting to use Terrible Towels for penalty calling now. That’ll be a safety and a … wait, any other penalties they want to call? Maybe they should do a legal uniform pants check and assess some 5-yarders.
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Exciting New Method of Health Care Finance
The hearts of consumer-directed health care advocates will surely be gladdened by one innovative Georgia family’s effort to pay for care for their two disabled children:
facing snowballing medical expenses also in behalf of their two young disabled children, gregg and brittiny peters quipped they might be in want of to vend everything they owned to check solvent. as the bills tipped $10,000, how, the idea was no longer funny. so on thursday, the georgia four accepted a winning $20,000 ebay bid for all their belongings minus their house.
As John McCain said in the campaign, eBay can adventure movies be the answer for many woes–especially if you don’t mind living without furniture.
Seriously, as we endlessly debate the stimulative potential of various proposed government interventions, Paul Krugman’s moral clarity on the matter should be our lodestar:
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there’s a populist rage building in this country, as americans see bankers getting huge download fantasy movies bailouts while traditional citizens suffer. . . . barney frank, the chairman of the auditorium financial services board . . . argues that ? as a event of political necessity as justly as common the police ? aid to bankers has to be linked to a strengthening of the social safeness net, so that americans can see that the government is ready to help everybody under the sun, not just the outlandish and powerful. the behind path, then, is that this is no time to let action promises of guaranteed health care be quietly forgotten. it is, instead, a for the nonce at once to pretend the torment for universal mind a look after front and center. healthiness care now!
I couldn’t have put it better myself. A state that coddles clueless capitalists while neglecting the parents of disabled children is on its way to a legitimation crisis.
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annie lennox - shining light - new video!
proficient evening! this afternoon i realized i had a ticket to go see adele tonight down at the wiltern (with james morrison opening) although i wasn’t planning on going out this evening - i don’t consider i can pass up seeing her play palpable - after all i do love her coming out album 19 and she’s also a grammy nominee fitting for best untrained artist! rather than i origin out the door i’ve got the brand new annie lennox video (via spinner) in regard to the track shining light (a cover of an ash song) which will be featured on her upcoming anthology release the annie lennox collection releasing on february 17th! popbytes over & out in the interest of tonight…xoxo (of course stub my twitter page pro updates from adele’s show tonight!) ps i love how annie plays her horde members - she’s so damn adorable - ms. lennox rules!
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PHOTO GALLERY: A band of praise
Byfield Parish Church Praise Band presents ‘Behold the Lamb of God’ by Andrew Peterson at their concert on Dec. 21. Check out photos by staff photographer Robert Branch from the event.
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