Colt Mccoy Injury

PASADENA, Calif. — Texas has lost the lead and likely their quarterback for the rest of the game. Colt McCoy’s injury has left the Texas offense struggling. And Mark Ingram’s 2-yard TD run gave Alabama the lead on the second play of the second quarter. McCoy’s injury has shell shocked the Longhorns offense, who produced only Hunter Lawrence field goals despite moving to the Alabama 1 on the first drive and the Crimson Tide 25 on the second possession.  That McCoy is in the locker room without his pads after he was treated for the injury. His roommate and close friend Jordan Shipley has gone to the locker room to console him.

Alabama took advantage of the good field position and moved the ball consistently on the play. It looks like they have Texas on its heels.

Ray Stevens We The People

Ray Stevens is well-known for his comical and satirical songs and his new one arrives at just the right time.  Stevens takes on Congress, President Obama and the health care legislation.  The video pretty much says it all as does this short excerpt:
Hey, Congress,
You vote Obamacare, we’ll vote you outta there
We the people have awakened to your tricks
You vote to let this pass, you’ll be out on your $%*&
Cause we the people have awakened

The music video is below and the complete lyrics follow:Lyrics – Ray Stevens, “We the People”

It’s gonna be a big heart breaker
Grandma needs a new pacemaker
And the doctor says I realize she’s ill

But there’s talk of legislation
On all our medication
And maybe all we can do is put her on a pain pill

Hey, Congress,

You vote Obamacare, we’ll vote you outta there
We the people have awakened to your tricks
You vote to let this pass, you’ll be out on your $%*&
Cause we the people have awakened

[Spoken] And to put it in words you might understand, if you had the common sense that God gave a billy goat, you’d no doubt notice that your constituents – the electorate – that’s us voters  – are onto your pork barrel special interest tax and spend scam.  Or to put it more succinctly – Phssssss

We’ve heard from Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh
What you got in mind for grandma
And we found this O’Reilly fella on FOX

We’re kind like Joe the Plumber
And when we crunch the numbers
It all adds up, we’re voting you out at the ballot box

You vote Obamacare, we’ll vote you outta there
We the people have awakened to your tricks
You vote to let this pass, you’re gonna be out on your $%*&
Cause we the people have awakened

[Spoken] And to put it mildly we’re harboring feelings of extreme alienation due to copious amounts of horse manure that have been shoveled out of the White House and the Capitol Building and we sense that we are being royally defecated upon.  We’re getting the impression that you think we are not relevant to these proceedings and dismissing our input into the situation.

Please tell Nancy Pelosi
We’re gonna do the Hokey Pokey
Put the right ones in
And pull the left ones out

You vote Obamacare, we’re gonna vote you outta there
We the people have awakened to your tricks
You vote to let this pass, you’ll be out on your $%*&
Cause we the people have awakened

[Spoken] And you might want to start looking for another line of work.  How about the medical profession? Yeah, they’re gonna need every one they can get that will put up with the red tape and the pay cut.  Hey, why don’t you kill every last job, tax every last penny and infringe on every last God given right to life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness cause let me tell you ain’t nobody happy with you!

We the people have awakened

[Spoken] And it occurs to me you might really like it down in Venezuela

Audra Mcdonald

Earning an unprecedented three Tony Awards before the age of 30 (Carousel, Master Class, and Ragtime) and a fourth in 2004 (A Raisin in the Sun), singer and actress Audra McDonald is frequently compared to legendary performers such as Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. But like all great artists, she is a unique force, blending a luscious, classically-trained soprano with an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling. In addition to her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist appearing regularly on many of the great stages of the world. Audra McDonald opened the 2008-2009 season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with a gala concert at Disney Hall, celebrating Esa-Pekka Salonen’s final season as music director. During the summer of 2009 she returned to the New York stage as Olivia in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, directed by Daniel Sullivan. She was also heard performing a new song by Stephen Flaherty in the Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular, broadcast live on NBC. Along with her live performances, Ms. McDonald maintains a thriving television career, earning an Emmy nomination for her role in the made-for-television movie version of A Raisin in the Sun on ABC, alongside hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, her co-star from the 2004 Broadway revival. Returning to ABC in the fall of 2009, Ms. McDonald can be seen as Dr. Naomi Bennett in the third season of the hit television series Private Practice. Her most recent recordings are Kurt Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny—winner of two 2009 Grammy Awards—and a new studio recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Allegro, released on the Sony MasterWorks Broadway label in February 2009.

During the 2007-2008 season, Audra McDonald appeared with the New Jersey Symphony, conducted by frequent collaborator Ted Sperling, as well as in concerts at Cal Performances, the Gilmore Festival, the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, the Savannah Music Festival, the Purchase Performing Arts Center, the Thomasville Entertainment Foundation, the Shedd Institute for the Arts, the Ferst Center for the Performing Arts, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, and a special Juilliard gala opposite Barbara Cook.