For those of you who have never seen a sumo match, load up your bittorrent client (I use Azureus) and download this torrent.
This is the final day of the sumo tournament going on right now that I attended last week. The video is two hours long, and is just the Makuuchi division (the 40 highest ranked wrestlers). The final day was a bit of an exhibition, since Hakuho won the tournament yesterday. The only question for today was whether he would finish the tournament undefeated. With this win, and his win at the last tournament in March, he is expected to be promoted to become the 69th Yokozuna.
One match is not going to make a fan out of you… I’ve been following the current Yokozuna, Asashoryu, since he became Yokozuna around the time I started traveling to Japan a few years ago. As tournaments happen and careers progress, it gets really addicting to follow both.
I know, I know. I just got back from a Tokyo, spent a day soaking in an onsen, watched the sun come up in a shouchu bar, and watched the yokozuna get beat during the summer sumo tournament in Ryogoku, and here I am posting more Ron Paul videos.
Apparently, while I was gone, Ron Paul gave Rudy G a bit of a high school world history lesson during one of the debates. Afterwards, Bill Mahar invited Dr. Paul onto his show to go into more details.
One comment before the show. About two months ago, Bill Mahar had Ron Paul on his show very quickly, and he dismissed Dr. Paul as a neo-confederate nut. During his introduction, I think Bill Maher was uncharacteristically conciliatory.
Stolen from a post on Tara Barthel’s Blog, here is a true story that will cause you to appreciate every moment of your children’s lives.
The celebration of Eliot Mooney’s life was so beautiful. I am eternally thankful that his parents recorded his life so well, and that they had the heart to share this treasure with others.
Praise God for every day our children live and may this big-picture perspective encourage us to be Godly parents who love our children and consider it a joy to be allowed this honor to take care of them while they are here.
The NH Institute of Politics announces that the Republican presidential debate will take place on June 5, 2007, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. “Sponsored by CNN, WMUR-TV and the New Hampshire Union Leader, the debate will include every major republican candidate currently running for president: former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, U.S. Sens. John McCain and Sam Brownback, Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Govs. Mitt Romney and Jim Gilmore, and Congressmen Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter.”
Here’s a youtube video produced by the Ron Paul folks that show some highlights from the recent debate on MSNBC, plus some endorsements from folks like Pat Buchanan.
And here’s the comments from the McLaughlin group:
You need to listen to these comments by presidential hopeful, Rudolph Giuliani, to a New York ferret advocate. Worse than displaying his sheer idiocy, his rant shows how this guy thinks. In 1999, Mr. Giuliani passed a law banning ferrets in New York City.
Now, I’m not really an animal guy. However, as long as your dog, cat, or pot-bellied pig stays out of my yard and doesn’t keep me awake at night, I will fight for your right to own whatever pet you want. Apparently, since Mr. Giuliani does not see any benefits to New Yorkers owning ferrets, therefore, there should be a law banning them.
Do you really want a guy like this to be president? Anything legal that you do now will be subject to Mr. Giuliani’s “sanity test”. If it doesn’t make sense to him, he might just pass a law banning it.
A debate between the Republican presidential candidates will be shown on MSNBC tonight. Here’s the list of candidates who will be participating tonight:
Sam Brownback
Jim Gilmore
Rudy Giuliani
Mike Huckabee
Duncan Hunter
John McCain
Ron Paul
Mitt Romney
Tom Tancredo
Tommy Thompson
There’s rumors that seven of the ten candidates are in danger of not being invited to the next debate. Apparently, MSNBC has set the polling cutoff at 1%, and only three men, Giuliani, McCain, and Romney, are the only candidates consistently polling at that level.
Here’s hoping that Ron Paul presents himself well tonight, and is invited to that later debates. As I’ve said before, he’s the one candidate who I think can honestly debate the issues.
This morning, I dug up every last dandelion in the back yard - and left all the wild violets behind.
Does anyone else have a special place in their heart for flowering weeds? I once dug up many violets in the yard and lined the borders of my flowerbeds - that’s how much I love them
I always think of this verse when I look at my lawn, dotted with flowering weeds:
Luke 12:27-29 “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith!
This verse inspired me to look up more gardening verses… so I’m passing them along! Amazing how many there are, as gardening is such a perfect metaphor for so many spiritual concepts.
For those of you who have never seen a sumo match, load up your bittorrent client (I use Azureus) and download this torrent.