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What do The Game, hip hop’s latest sensation, and Martha Stewart, America’s incarcerated domestic diva, have in common? Bankability. Based on a comeback. The Game’s debut album, the “most anticipated album of the year,” hit stores at number one on the charts. MTV attributes his success to “the unconditional street love he’s been given by [...]
“My friends are tastemakers”
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005Huh? Did you know the latest, greatest rage among marketers is to entice you to buy their brands by outfitting ordinary “cool kids” in them — not just athletes and celebrities anymore — for free? The NY Post calls it: a new kind of advertising phenomenon – one that goes beyond more established methods like [...]
It’s Official
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005The top law enforcement officer in the land is Latino. Over the objections of 35 vocal Democrats and one nominal Independent, the Senate confirmed Alberto Gonzales on Thursday to be the nation’s next attorney general. Democrats who crossed party lines to vote for Gonzalez were Senators Lieberman (CT), Landrieu (LA), Pryor (AR), Nelson (FL), Nelson [...]
“It started spreading like cockroaches”
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005This story reminded me of Enid. Last night, fans at an Alabama girls high school basketball game rioted, forcing police to clear the gym and cancel the game. Before Enid became the mature, wise-beyond-her-years youth specialist we at Xcel know and love, my first introduction to her was at a neighborhood football game nine or [...]
Court Update
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005The judge agreed today to decide the ownership question once and for all before proceeding any further with the eviction case against Generation Xcel and my dad’s church, Abounding Grace Ministries. If she concludes that the purported landlord does not properly own the building, they have no legal basis to continue trying to evict us. [...]
This is Deep
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005Thanks to Fritz Kling, who emailed me the following Nelson Mandela quote from his 1994 Inaugural Address. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be [...]
Five weeks later
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005… they’re still finding victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Yesterday, relief workers in Indonesia found the bodies of 1,000 more lives lost. That brings the official death toll to 157,000, with more than 100,000 people still missing. Even though the Tsunami’s shifted from view, keep praying, and giving.credit card accept transactionamazon credit card accountbad [...]
A little perspective
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005December’s tsunami claimed approximately 250,000 lives in one horrific afternoon, making it one of the worst natural disasters in history and triggering an unprecedented outpouring of global compassion. Yet in shear scope of impact, the tsunami pales in comparison to the global reach of HIV/AIDS. “Worldwide, 22 million people have died of AIDS, and today [...]
Things that make you go hmm
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005A pretty, 20-something aspiring actress was shot and killed by a thuggish posse of muggers last week in our neighborhood. Her fiance cradled her in his lap as she breathed her last breath. This murder was indeed a tragic crime. People should be outraged. But from the resulting press coverage one would think it is [...]
Hard to imagine, but for years Joel refused to preach.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005… That’s NBC’s Today Show, talking about Joel Osteen. Check out the report here. Diana and I met Joel and his wife at a California hotel last summer. They seemed to be genuinely nice people.accredited loan processing coursesnon accrual loanlease acne loanalaska loan acpebradley loan acquired jim solutionsprocedure acquiring sole trader loanacquisition chicago placement loanacreage [...]
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