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I did not get a job I interviewed for on the 7th of January and I am overwhelmed with school work for my seminary classes and my classes to get a certificate in post-secondary teaching. 

I have decided not to blog for a while (much probably) and not to read TPM or most other blogs.

It’s a tough world out there and it requires a hard focused work to make it.  It also tends to be a hard place to dream in.

I emailed Tim Penny, former congressman and MN Independence Party candidate for Governor.  I shared with him my vision.

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At Daily Kos, Maccabee shares his observations from 6 months of lurking at Right Wing Blogs.

It seems blogs are often swamps of opinion and group-think.  He came away respecting “real” conservatives, libertarians, but viewing many as loonies.  Unfortunately, he doesn’t link to any posts to support his args. 

This fits with the insights of Paul Musgrave…

Blog readers do not want insight; they prefer provocation. Blog readers do not want explanation; they crave exhortation. Blog readers do not want to learn about novel ideas; they seek to rehearse tired debates.

The blogosphere is not an ideal speech situation, and we are not all listening politely to each truth-claim and debating it in restrained tones with an aim toward uncovering the best possible theory or description of reality. Instead, the group-reinforcement model outlined above works more accurately. If the real aim of political blogs was to convert the other side, they would not be read by people who have already been converted.

I keep these unfortunate realities in mind when I sometimes get a little down over not having a very big readership for my blogging…

dlw

Great Tony Campolo Story Retold.

dlw

This story helps one to appreciate how strongly the Ukrainian people’s hopes from the Orange Revolution were let down.  It also puts our own system very much in a different perspective…

dlw

The Guardian provides wonderful details on how Cheney-Libby manipulated the media to try and throw people’s attention away from the way they manipulated the US into GWII.  Josh Marshall argues persuasively that we are still scratching the surface of a major spin op where the Dems were seriously outgamed by the BushAdmin.

The implications ought to be that we need to become more media-savvy and less concerned about being entertained, as with much tv news. And the Dems need to get their act in gear…

dlw

Davos, Switzerland is the location of the World Economic Forum.  Wallis has two very interesting post, here and here.  Religious leaders are getting more attention at the forum, though Wallis says the discussion needs to go beyond trying to separate “religious types” between extremists and moderates.  “Moderates” need to become leaders that will lead wrt social justice issues that will help deal with oppressive realities that contribute to extremism.

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Kudos a TPMMuckraker,

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will give a formal apology to Maher Arar, the Canadian software engineer whom the United States detained and extradited to Syria, where he was brutally tortured.  The United States has refused to apologize for their treatment of Arar and will not remove him from its terrorist watch list.  Canada will also pay Arar $8 million plus legal fees to settle his case against them.

dlw

The USA Today responds to Christianity Today’s article “Save the E-word” with their own article.

This is not new.

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Sarah McLachan has made a song on U-Tube for 15 dollars and donated the other 150,000 dollars that it would cost to make the song to help people in the two-thirds world.  The video goes into the different things that the money was spent on, as the music plays…

It’s a pretty good awesome idea…

dlw

This is a nice change of pace.

I find it repulsive that Dick cannot say that someone from the other party(Hillary) is capable of being a good president.  This is the sort of ideological extremism that needs to be severely reduced in our gov’t.  Hopefully, he will need to retire for health reasons in the near future… 

dlw

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