Happy New Year

Palm Beach: last day of the year

Happy new year to you all

Palm Beach: the fun begins

Greetings from athens

Goodies: Eggnog recipe by Martha Stewart

Merry Christmas: From Family Guy

Humor: Philippine jail "Thriller"

that's AWESOME

USA: Xmas decoration the billionaire way

Its pretty neat I have to admit :-)

WSJ: Noonan on Huckabee

a good reminder why I (heart) Peggy despite her bias.
for the insight in the american conservative heart

excerpt
"Mr. Huckabee is clever. He puts forth his policies, such as they are, based on a faith-based understanding of public policy, and if you disagree with his policies, or take a hard shot at them, or at him, he suggests the reason is that you look down on evangelicals. This creates a new fissure in a party already riven by fissures. He has been accused by some in the conservative press of tearing the party apart, but it was being torn apart before he got on the scene. His rise is not a cause of collapse but an expression of it.

He plays the victim well. Others want to "trip him up," but he'll "get my message out there." His foes are "Wall Street-Washington" insiders, elitists. On the "Today" show he said his critics are the type who never liked evangelical Christians. When one of them runs, these establishment types say "'Oh my gosh, now they're serious, they don't want to just show up and vote, they actually would want to be part of the discussion and really talk about issues that include hunger and poverty and things.'"

This is a form of populist manipulation. Evangelical Christians have been strong in the Republican Party since the 1970s. President Bush and Karl Rove helped them become more important. The suggestion that they are a small and abused group within the GOP is strange. It is as if the Reagan Democrats, largely Catholic and suburban, who buoyed the Republican Party from the late '70s through 2004, and who were very much part of the GOP coalition, decided to announce that Catholics have been abused within the party, and it's time for Christmas commercials with floating Miraculous Medals.

Does Mr. Huckabee understand that his approach is making people uncomfortable? Does he see himself as divisive? He's a bright man, so it's hard to believe he doesn't. But it's working for him. It's getting him his 30 points in Iowa in a crowded field.

Could he win the nomination? Who knows? It's all a bubbling stew on the Republican side, and no one knows who'll float to the top. In an interview this week with David Brody of CBN, Mr. Huckabee said people everywhere were coming to him and saying, "We are claiming Isaiah 54 for you, that the weapons formed against you will not prosper."

Prayer is powerful. But Huckabee's critics say he's a manipulator with a mean streak and little knowledge of the world. And Isaiah 54 doesn't say anything about self-inflicted wounds."

And on the bright side

The third world

Athens north: drinks with alex

Design: Starck call Kindle's design "sad"

Link: sevenload.com

Elections: Not very successful Obama Ad

poor kids.. imagine how many times they made them wish happy christmas

Athens: home sweet home

Real Life: I never knew how much I miss London

Soundtrack of the day: Back to black

Amy Winehouse Lyrics

New York : last minute..

.. Museum, instead of last minute shopping. The New Museum is amazing

Creepy: NASA broadcast interrupted by spider

(the poor spider attacked the.. lens)

Hillary: My favorite TV spot so far

because its her mom, and moms will ever be moms

New York: the nutcracker

YouTube: White Man Beaten By Black Teens On NYC Subway (raw footage)

I was just watching this scary video on many blogs and it really reminded me of the scenes outside my house in Tribeca. The whole concept of moving to this part of the city was to enjoy the rare civilized "all-american-cupcake-land" feeling while being in Manhattan (and not at the burbs). Unfortunately exactly across my building there is this Peppers Club with patrons that behave exactly like they do in the YouTube video. All this anger and primitive feelings. Street fights every weekend, shootings, girls beating each other to death. To be honest its the first time in my life that I have to face this type of demographic. Gangs of black people extremely aggressive, usually with each other. I always had a much more mellow stereotype on my mind - but apparently in this case perception is reality. And I thought of "Crash" again - and the thoughts of the guy that plays the role of the black film producer and his inner conflicts and the urge to compensate for them. Looking back it all makes sense now, definitely more than it did when I was living in Europe.

New York: fashion city:)

New York: Skyline

DSC05811.JPG, originally uploaded by Stigmabuster.

and this weird light this afternoon

New York: Saturday on Long Island

Saturday on Long Island, originally uploaded by TrespassersWill.

This guy is my new discovery - he takes awesome pics - check out his flickr and blog!
This picture is awesome

Soundtrack of the day: 2 - Konstantinos Vita

This is one of the most exceptional greek artists in dance theater and in music.
Konstantinos Vita and Dimitris Papaioannou-

here comes a question for my greek friends:

kamia idea pos agorazoume DVD stin Ellada? Diavasa sto vima oti kukloforise to DVD tou "2" alla den mporo na to entopiso sta site.. kanena kalo e-shop?

New York: Smith & Mills

Smith & Mills, originally uploaded by TrespassersWill.

This my favorite neighborhood joint.

New York:city as a canvas

Fox: Golden Compass and God

ok thats HILARIOUS..

GOP: Kennedy speech on separation of state and church

how do we say mitt? absolutely no relation!

Britney: Can u imagine having to get through this every time?

..you actually get out of your place? no wonder the poor girl lost it completely

GOP: Peggy Noonan on Mitt

our favorite ultra conservative editor from the Wall Street Journal makes an interesting twist:


"There was one significant mistake in the speech. I do not know why Romney did not include nonbelievers in his moving portrait of the great American family. We were founded by believing Christians, but soon enough Jeremiah Johnson, and the old proud agnostic mountain men, and the village atheist, and the Brahmin doubter, were there, and they too are part of us, part of this wonderful thing we have. Why did Mr. Romney not do the obvious thing and include them? My guess: It would have been reported, and some idiots would have seen it and been offended that this Romney character likes to laud atheists. And he would have lost the idiot vote.

My feeling is we've bowed too far to the idiots. This is true in politics, journalism, and just about everything else."

i heart peggy (although I usually disagree with her) - but the closing line is TOP!

GOP: Romney Slate abstract

awesome quote from Slate:

According to the admittedly very contradictory scriptures of the New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth warned his disciples and followers that they should expect to be ridiculed and mocked for their faith. After all, how likely was it that God had decided to reveal himself to only a few illiterate peasants in a barbarous backwater? Those who elected to believe this stuff were quite rightly told to expect a hard time, and the expression "fool for God" or "fool for Christ" has been with us ever since. That concept has some dignity and nobility. Entirely lacking in dignity or nobility (or average integrity) is the well-heeled son of a gold-plated church who wants to assume the pained look of martyrdom only when he is asked if he actually believes what he says. A long time ago, Romney took the decision to be a fool for Joseph Smith, a convicted fraud and serial practitioner of statutory rape who at times made war on the United States and whose cult has been made to amend itself several times in order to be considered American at all. We do not require pious lectures on the American founding from such a man, and we are still waiting for some straight answers from him.

God help us: Huckabee is officially crazy

OMG - another candidate that literally said that he is God chosen. sad. (i almost liked this guy for a week!)

Patsavoura daily: Eleutherotupia

Opos sxedon kathe mera i laikistiki ataka tis imeras apo tin "intellectual" Eleutherotupia gia tous akoma pio "intellectual":

" opos tonizei o "skoteinos prigkipas" P. Mantelson"

ta sxolia dika sas..

Mac ad parodies

Frank!

iPhones in action

CBS: end of semester party live

Presidential Elections: Mitt: Freedom requires religion

ok - That line "freedom requires religion" just flushed any measure of support for him i had down the toilet. its ridiculous its offensive its wrong. not to mention exactly the opposite to "religion requires freedom" i didnt hold his religious beliefs against him but he just held his against me(and millions of others).

Romney: Another dissappointment for a former favorite

non-stop flip-flopping for a candidate that had so much potential.

From AmericaBlog

Romney is a flip-flopping, two-faced, hypocritical liar. There aren't words strong enough to describe what a disingenuous, deceitful politician Romney is. This latest flip-flop, on religion, is part of an ongoing pattern with Romney ever since he decided he wanted to be president. You'll recall that only a few years ago Romney was pro-choice, pro-gay, and anti-gun. Now he's the opposite on every single thing he ever believed in. And we're seeing the same inconsistencies on his positions on religion. Romney was private about his religion, about religion in general, until he decided he wanted to run for president. At that time, he decided he wanted to woo the far right of the Republican party. To do that, he needed to pretend that he was a far-right Republican, rather than the liberal Democrat he truly is. So, Romney became a raging Christian and a raging Muslim-hater, as both of those have traction in the far-right of the GOP. And that's where Romney's Muslim-bashing comments of last week came from - Romney probably doesn't care whether or not there are Muslims in his cabinet. But he knows that much of the GOP cares, so he's just making stuff up at this point, trying to pretend that he's intolerant towards Islam in order to get some chits.

S to P

Columbia; in full winter dress

CBS: iFollies teaser

Introducing soraya!

First snow in New York

Squash day