russia vs. the world

here's a great article on the current situation with russia and georgia, and now poland... and our involvement. apparently russia thinks the cold war is still happening. we need to get behind georgia, poland, and all the former eastern bloc countries that are embracing democracy... the link is HERE.

lipdub: one take lipsync ending with acapella chorus.

pretty inventive.

University Lipdub (HS Furtwangen)

politics... renewable energy. same old same old, or something new?

ok, i will make no further promises regarding abstaining from political blogging. i can't help myself, but I will tone it down after election day.

check this article out by thomas friedman It's about renewable energy, and how we have the choice for America to move in a new direction, or continue in the same old rhetoric and relying on a foreign oil based America.

the solar taxi - fueled by sun around the world.

Yesterday I stopped by REI and got introduced to this crazy machine called the Solar Taxi. The guy who made this is on an epic voyage across the world, and they happened to stop in Boulder after being invited by the university to speak at a forum. Check out the website here, as well as the photos I took of their stop.

Yeah, I said AROUND THE WORLD with no gas! Crazy, huh? Just shows what could happen to this country if we focused on developing these technologies and how much it could be good for our environment and the economy.

guitar hero guru

check this out... this kid was featured in the nytimes today for being a guitar hero freak of nature... 8 solid minutes of seemingly impossible guitar hero with absolutely no mistakes! he is the only person in the world who can do this, and now has endorsement deals! crazy!

20 feet. 13th street.

I had a couple mins to kill so I took a couple shots of 13th street. Here are a couple shots, located within 20 feet of each other.

olympic support. go usa.

I imagine being president is an extremely hard job 99.9% of the time, so I am thankful that the president can engage in supporting our olympians and doing what looks not to be a very difficult job supporting the women's sand volleyball team. 

Gregory Alan Isakov - Etown

Check out Etown this September, either live in Boulder on 9/18 or on a syndicated NPR station near you. You can also check out my photo of Gregory above, and on the Etown event page here.

President Bush: Addressing China

"America stands in firm opposition to China's detention of political dissidents, human rights advocates and religious activists," Bush will declare in the marquee speech of his three-nation Asia trip. "We speak out for a free press, freedom of assembly and labor rights — not to antagonize China's leaders, but because trusting its people with greater freedom is the only way for China to develop its full potential."
-President George W. Bush

Addition: Read a great article about it here.

It is also of note, that on world human rights affairs, President Bush has a great record. In Africa, he has contributed more to fight AIDS, poverty, and debt than any President in US history.

paris hilton for president, mccain's "celebrity" ad.

this is pretty funny...

psalm 23 - we are never separate

anyone ever read psalm 23 in the old testament scriptures? here's a translation of it, by an artist named jon foreman. the song is called "house of god, forever". it has provided interior comfort to me. i used to read words like this, and take it in on an academic level.... and just breeze through them without internalizing it. for better or worse, it's what certain parts of evangelical christianity do... take apart words and analyze them and come up with some sort of systematic theology. it's all about picking things apart, and micro analyzing.  an alternative, is to understand the big picture, meditate on it...  the big narrative of love overcoming death... the christian story.

anyway, this has meant something to me. it's about god providing, about how everything you need in the here and now is provided for... we are lacking nothing in the present moment, and have hope of the same in the future. we are never separate. we may walk through the valley of death, it may happen... but even while we are walking, we will never be alone, we are never separate from god and his presence. we will not be wanting, all of our needs are met. consider the wildflowers growing in the rockies, or the birds around my neighborhood.... they are provided for, and then consider how much more we are provided for. there is a lot of learning to be had here, and i have a feeling it takes a lifetime of exploration to start to experience this fully:

God is my shepherd
I won't be wanting
I won't be wanting
He makes me rest
In fields of green
With quite streams
Even though I walk
Through the valley
Of death and dying
I will not fear
'Cause you are with me
You are with me

Your shepherd staff
Comforts me
You are my feast
In the presence of enemy
Surely goodness
Follow me
Follow me
In the house of God, forever

God is my shepherd
I won't be wanting
I won't be wanting
He makes me rest
In fields of green
Like quiet streams
Even while I'm walking
Through the valley
Of death and dying
I will not fear
'Cause you are with me
You're always with me

Your shepherd staff
Comforts me
You are my feast
In the presence of enemy
Surely goodness
Follow me
Follow me
In the house of God, forever

griffin on the craig ferguson show