The mainstream media has been talking about various demographic groups and who they are voting for and why in this Presidential primary election season. African Americans for Obama, women for Clinton, Evangelicals for Huckabee, a lot of indistinguishable generic white people for McCain. This post explains why the MSM are wrong

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This post contains a YouTube video clip of Ali Farka Toure performing at the 2003 Festival in the Desert near Timbuktu, Mali, from a documentary made in 2003 by Martin Scorsese for PBS.

Ali Farka Toure, who won a Grammy in 1995 for his album "Talking Timbukto with Ry Cooder, was he premier ambassadoe of he traditi

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A grab bag of subjects crammed into a single post. Consumerism,blogging tips, netiquette, parenting, salaciousness, nudity (not really but that is the #1 key word of all time), contests, prizes. This post has got it all. Marvelously compressed into a few paragraphs, ROTUS's philosophy of blogging and life.

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Today Blogger announced it's new OpenID sign in system for comments. Blogger will once again allow links back to blogs outside it's own domain in comments on Blogger hosted blogs. The Blogger dashboard carried an apology and explanation today, although the explanation leaves an unanswered question. Why did Google delete the linkback field i

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I am proud to announce that this blog has been named Blog of the Day at Fuel My Blog . This only days after my other blog I’ll Never Forget The Day I Read A Book! was similarly honored. It makes no difference to me that new blogs are always chosen for this award or that there is another one coming along every day. I fear that I may be accus

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I have always identified with Charlie Brown. Somehow Charles Schulz had gotten into my head and put my life into his comic strip. Not surprisingly David Michaelis found this to be a common reaction to the Peanuts strip among many people that he talked with, in preparation for this book.

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President Bush once again has not allowed mere facts to stand in the way of his foreign policy. Stating, "Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," the president continues to push for sanctions against Iran for not having a nuclear weapons program.

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I was in a university lecture hall in 2003 to hear former UN weapons inspector tell the audience that o weapons of mass destruction wold be fond in Iraq. I was in the same hall when Joe Wilson explained how he knew that the yellow cake uranium story in the 2004 State of the Union Address was false.

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Has your blog received an award from some website you have never heard of? Did you put the award on your site? Learn how online awards work.

Anyone can create an award online and it will actually be worth more than a square of toilet paper. In this post the author demonstrates how to give an award that will increase readership for the rec

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