Arts

The Immigration Rallies
By 2015, the largest ethnic group in the country will be Latinos. The rallies are the beginning because, come 2008, we Latinos will be swinging the vote. The GOP knows it --that's why they appointed a chicano as their chairman.

Muhammad Yunus
He won a Noble Peace Prize for proving that poverty not only leads to violence but that the poverty of women, and the violence inherent in that poverty, affects whole nations.

Al Gore
Barack Obama
Cecilia Fire Thunder
Jennifer Hudson
John Edwards
Katie Couric
Keith Ellison
Nancy Pelosi and the new Democratic majority
Seminole / Hard Rock Cafe acquisition

And the "So good it's bad, bad, bad" Award goes to...

Stephen Colbert coined the phrase but the art of truthiness was perfected by Sacha Baron Cohen in his movie Borat.

He is so good he is bad. Badass cool. Brothercool cool. Borat has turned Cohen into the sexiest Orthodox Jew in Hollywood.

I was about to write a review of this great movie, but Tami Hultman does a great job in letting you know what this movie is about. Check it out, I got this from New America Media.

‘Blood Diamond’ Entertains, Educates

allAfrica.com, Review, Tami Hultman, Posted: Dec 11, 2006

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the early days of Master Sergeant Samuel Doe's 1980 coup in Liberia, I was entering a hotel in Monrovia with my five-year-old son when soldiers lounging in the lobby started shouting and indiscriminately shooting. Flight seemed the wrong option, especially when one of the shooters challenged me, "Lady, wheh you goin' wi'dat bag?"

"Looking for you," I improvised. "My son wanted his picture taken with a brave soldier. Would that be you? My camera's in the bag. Do you want to see?" Within seconds, half a dozen menacing youth, brandishing assault rifles, were good-naturedly jostling to be in front of the lens, asking my "small boy" how he liked Liberia, would he like to stay with them, would he show their pictures to everybody in America.

That long-forgotten moment lurched into my mind during a pre-release screening of Edward Zwick's new film, Blood Diamond, starring Djimon Hounsou, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly. During a tense encounter with young rebels in Sierra Leone, U.S. journalist Maddy Bowen, played by Connelly, defuses the threat by taking their pictures.

Founded in 2004, World Up! is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about international cultures, and issues that affect the global community through Hip Hop and its related musics. Through its ongoing events, educational programming, and annual music festival, World Up actively promotes and fosters diversity, cross-cultural understanding and social change through Hip Hop culture.

World Up! is run by a group of volunteers who come from diverse backgrounds and cultures but share a deep love for Hip Hop and how it is used as a tool for social and political change. It has a well established network of artists, DJs, Mc's, film makers, promoters, activists around the globe.

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There are many things to be grateful for this year that have nothing to do with the Democrats winning the elections. I mean, that was good, but life does go on.

Yet if you are like me or my kids, the list of "The Bad" and "The Very Ugly" may go on and on and on.

The lady on this ZoneChefs TV ad scares the beejeebuz out my hairless monkeys. I asked them, why they'd run screaming out of the living room or hide under pillows every time her head would pop on the boob tube. Their answer? "The lips mommy. It's the poofy lips from hell!"

And there you have it. The lady with "the poofy lips from hell" in the ZoneChefs commercial is on the top of "2006's The Very Ugly" list.

Who else do you want to add?