Nicolas Sarkozy

May 31, 2007

I think the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France (pictured here) is an amazing and positive event. Here’s wishing him all the success although all the special interest groups (unions, etc.) will do everything they can to keep him from carrying out his plans. Chirac’s legacy will be hard to undo. Here is one of Sarkozy’s campaign quotes: “My devotion to our relationship with America is well known and has earned me substantial criticism in France…I’m not a coward. I’m proud of this friendship and I proclaim it gladly.” Wow.

Sarkozy is 52 years old and is of Hungarian and Greek-Jewish descent. He remarked that many European countries have “full employment” so why can’t France. He went on to say that France’s 35 hour work week had made them lazy and sent the best and brightest to New York or London.

Some interesting statistics: The French save more, work fewer hours and pay higher taxes then we do in the U.S. Also their unemployment is very high, especially for those under 25, which currently is about 22%. Here’s wishing President Sarkozy all the success possible.

Written by Dr.Tom Hill

Filed Under Politics

Traveler

May 30, 2007

I saw the preview of Traveler. It looks like a compelling new show. It starts tonight. Here’s the information on it.

How well do you know your friends? Would you bet your life on it? After spending every minute of the last two years living, working, and partying together, grad-school students Jay Burchell, Tyler Fog and Will Traveler depart on a cross-country road trip. But when an innocent prank at one of New York’s oldest art museums coincides with the bombing of the iconic building, Jay and Tyler are blamed for the terrorist attack and realize that their “friend” Will may have been the one who framed them. Unable to find Will or any evidence that the Will Traveler they knew even existed, Jay and Tyler are forced to flee the city and go on the run.

Now, hunted by the F.B.I. as domestic terrorists, the friends must rely on each other to elude capture, while trying desperately to prove their innocence by answering two questions — Who is Will Traveler? Why did he do this to them? Jay and Tyler search for clues both in the present and the past, and slowly unravel a conspiracy that involves their friends and family members and calls into question the very nature of American democracy.

Director David Nutter, who has defined many hit series including “The X-Files,” “Without a Trace” and “Supernatural,” along with the writer of “Eight Below” (David DiGilio) and the Oscar-winning producers of “American Beauty” (Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen), combine “The Fugitive” and “Enemy of the State” into a taut, tense thriller about innocents on the run. This action-packed drama taps into 21st century paranoia with provocative themes, complex characters and pure adrenaline-fueled entertainment.

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Where was I???

May 29, 2007

What in the world? A UFO was reported over O’Hare International Airport November 7th, 2006. This is the first I’m hearing about it? I can’t decide what’s crazier, the fact that people thought they saw something in the sky or that it took me 6 months to hear about this, especially living only 20 minutes from O’Hare