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The Punany Poets - Black Love American Style
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Food Fad of the Week: Watermelon is the New Viagra after Red Wine as Heart Medicine
Posted under Citizen Journalism, Political Way back then there was a drumbeat of reports on the health benefits of drinking red wine, now comes Watermelon as the new Viagra. Tim Dowling offers his take on Watermelons and Male Plumbing in The Guardian. It all started he says with a report by Dr Bhimu Patil, director...
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Tibetans, Dalai Lama Supporters Say China Just “Stalling”
Posted under Citizen Journalism, Political Tibetans involved with or close to discussion with China are now more and more convinced that the talks are a waste of time. "There is a growing perception among the Tibetans and my friends that the whole tactic of the Chinese government is to engage us to stall for time,"...
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Makeover: Let’s Make McCain More Like Bush
Posted under Citizen Journalism, PoliticalSo, I have a great idea:
With four months until Election Day, and four months since Sen. McCain secured his party's nomination, the Arizona senator is relaunching his campaign. Trailing Democrat Barack Obama in the polls and dogged by the dismal approval ratings for the administration of George W. Bush, the campaign rearranged its staff last
week. The primary reason: to sharpen its messages.
Trailing in the polls? Who knew? Anyway, since McCain is such a terrible campaigner who can't read a teleprompter, and since McCain's biggest liability is comparison to Bush, why don't we make him more scripted, and take away the thing that his supporters purport to like about him: his spontaneity?
So the campaign will try to find ways to better manage what comes out of these sessions. Aides say they will push Sen. McCain for tighter delivery and to contain diversions -- if not completely eliminate them. One senior adviser said the message will be executed "crisply" from now on.
Oooh, that will work. Let's run his campaign just like 2000 and 2004. Let's 
remind people everything we dislike about President 23%, including hiring all the Bush hands we can. Let's do this while attacking Obama for not being his own core self.
Brilliant.
I can't wait for the GOP convention. Should be some great theater, and a chance for a terrific warm embrace by the most unpopular President in post WW II polling history, reminding people what a dumb decision the GOP made in holding the convention in true-blue Minnesota, while the Democrats turn Colorado bluer.
Anyone want to bet on how many personnel changes the McCain camp will have between now and then? I hear Ken Duberstein is still available.
Jul
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‘Madeleine is dead’ claims ex-police chief in charge of the case
Posted under Citizen Journalism, Political The former detective in charge of the Madeleine McCann case has made a claim that the four-year-old missing girl is 'dead'.I think that even if he does think this - he should never come out and say it."Goncalo...
Jul
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Call for sharia rules in English law
Posted under Citizen Journalism, Political Law is a shifting thing and all country's laws change over the years with changes in moral and cultural thinking. Societies move on but many feel it would be a change too early and too far to incorporate elements of...
Jul
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Tomatoes: After $500 million in losses, the FDA appears wrong
Posted under Citizen Journalism, Political The Food and Drug Administration may have been wrong about the source of the 11-week old salmonella outbreak. With 1,700 samples collected and all shown to be negative for salmonella, they are now looking at...
Jul
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Tropical Storm Bertha - New Orleans Hurricane Center
Posted under Citizen Journalism, Political Looks like Bertha is heading straight for the East Coast!"Bertha is moving slowly west-northwestward over the open waters of the tropical Atlantic. As of Friday evening, the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was...
Jul
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Warning! Tofu May Harm Your Memory
Posted under Citizen Journalism, Political Vegetarians beware. Those that eat lots of any kind of specific food might be in danger of too much or too little of one chemical or another. After all in the end that's all that food is - a combination of chemicals....
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