Unsurprising that we wrap this list up with a 23 year-old Brazilian. They’re hot, and they like to get naked. Neither one is that great on its own, but those qualities in tandem make us very lucky. It’s the strangest thing…my research didn’t turn up any info on her stats. It’s almost like no one cares.
Full Name : Diana Lurena Taurasi Public : Diana Taurasi Nickname : Dee Country : United States (USA) DOB : June 11, 1982 (Age 29) Place : Chino, California Height : 6' 0" Weight : 172 lbs. Sport : Basketball - WNBA Team : Phoenix Mercury Level : Professional Status : Superstar
Full name Keven Filipo Mealamu Date of birth 20 March 1979 (age 32) Place of birth Tokoroa, Waikato, New Zealand Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Weight 106 kg (16 st 10 lb)
Sean Maitland Rugby Player Profile and Pictures 2011
Player Profile: Sean Maitland joined a rare group when he scored a try with his first touch of the ball in Air New Zealand Cup play, having taken the field late in Canterbury's opening match of the 2007 campaign against Bay of Plenty. The Waikato-raised youngster had a week earlier made his first class debut during the pre-season fixture against North Harbour. A precocious talent, Maitland was a member of the victorious New Zealand Under-19 side at the IRB Junior World Cup. He is an exciting attacking three-quarter who has impressed many good judges since he linked up with Linwood at the start of 2007. Maitland had a very strong season with the Crusaders, scoring eight tries.
Player Stats: Height:1.89m Weight:97kg Date Born:14/09/88 Provincial Caps:38 Provincial Debut:2007 v North Harbour Super Caps:28 Super Points:55 Super Debut:2008 v Brumbies Current Season Games:15
This self-produced music video about the federal debt has gone viral on Instapundit and Ace of Spades and Powerline, three of my favorite conservative blogs. But it's so good (not just the message, the music is cool too) that I have to link it:
We are all focused on the debate in Congress over lifting the debt ceiling. The whole thing seems like Kabuki theater to me... a dance of weirdly costumed and weirdly behaving people that supposedly has great meaning, but which seems to an outside, objective viewer to be a purposeless, symbolic, ritualized sham. We have a $3.8 trillion dollar budget. It is scheduled, through the miracle of baseline budgeting, to go up by roughly 7% a year, or $250-300 billion every year. If we cut a whole trillion dollars over ten years, with very little of it "front-loaded," we haven't really cut much of anything, have we? But the markets will be mollified for a time anyway, and the Senators and Congressman can all pretend as if they've done something meaningful.
Meanwhile, the world goes on with unpredictable events that could be cataclysmic in consequence -- Black Swans, to use the current vernacular.* Here are two:
News that the top echelon of Turkey’s military offered their joint resignations is not much of a surprise, given ongoing politicized trials against particular officers, and the general acceptance that a secular military is at odds with an increasingly Islamicized government. But there will be lots of long-term ramifications. Turkey, as an historical window on the West, has been praised as about the only Middle East Islamic nation that accepted democracy without foreign imposition, and is often referenced as proof that there is nothing antithetical between constitutional government and a resurgent Islamism.
But with such departures of secular officers, the message grows more complicated and may be that if a high-ranking military official is Islamist, the way to advancement is assured; while the old secular path leads nowhere. Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah seem to be more the eventual models, in which the military becomes a protector of Islam and ensures that the armed forces serve rather than prevent the insidious religious take-over of social institutions.
We're not spending a lot of "news" time noticing these events, but I suspect that in the long-term they're more important than whether Congress does the inevitable and votes to raise our debt limit one more time. (This is not to say that the long-term inability of the American government to control its profligate spending isn't of enormous consequence, only that this particular instance of raising the debt limit isn't the huge deal it's made out to be.)
* The term comes most prominently from the recent book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The Regular Guy just started it, and will report at some point. One of his most interesting points is how, since no one knows what's really going on, reading the newspaper is a waste of time, because we always spend time noticing the unimportant items, and never notice the huge things that are happening.
David Beckham ProfileBirth Name: David Robert Joseph Beckham Birth Date: May 2, 1975 Birth Place: Leytonstone, London, England, UK Height: 5' 11½ Nationality: British Profession: Actor, member of Real Maddrid Football Club, Model Education: Manchester United to their youth training program at the age of 14 Husband/Wife: Victoria Beckham Adams (former member of Spice Girls; born on April 17, 1975; married on July 4, 1999) Father: David Edward Beckham (married in 1969 in Hoxton, east London) Mother: Sandra West Sister: Joanne (born in 1982) and Lynne (born in 1972) Son: Cruz Beckham (born on February 20, 2005 in Madrid via Caesarean section), Romeo James (born on September 1, 2002 at 9.40am; at the Portland Street Hospital in London), Brooklyn Joseph Beckham (born on March 4, 1999) Daughter: Harper Seven Beckham (born on July 10, 2011 weighing at 7lbs 10ozs in Los Angeles, California) Claim to fame: English football superstar signed with Manchester United in 1993 and Real Madrid in 2003 Pictures:
Profile: Nationality France Date Of Birth: January 25, 1988 Birthplace: Moscow, Russia Residence: Miami, FL, USA Weight: 132 1/2 lbs. (60 kg) Parents: Father - Gregori; Mother - Lioudmila Siblings: Sisters - Olga and Oxana Personal Information: Currently without a coach ... Father is Gregori (former ice hockey coach who moved family from Moscow to Lyon when Tatiana was 8 months old); mother is Lioudmila; older sisters are Olga and Oxana ... Moved to Miami after 2005 Wimbledon ... Favorite cuisine is Mexican, French and Japanese; enjoys cooking at home (says she’s a very good cook) ... Enjoys shopping, seeing friends and family, horseback riding, skating, playing piano, ballroom dancing and spending time with her five-year-old nephew Paul, her Persian cat Cherie, labrador Missy and Yorkie, Belle ... Favorite cities are Paris and New York ... Enjoys 1980s and any club music; favorite films are “Dirty Dancing” and “Grease”. Pictures:
Once again, there's a big tragedy in the real world and only People puts it on the cover. This is just another example of People being the classiest and most reliable of the magazines you can buy at the supermarket checkout stand.
Birth Name: David Robert Joseph Beckham
Publication: People
