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Umm, who is Mayhill Fowler.

Just a bit of trivia, for those who don’t already know this: Mayhill Fowler, the blogger who first posted the “bitter” remarks that have gotten some small-town Americans so mad at presidential candidate Barack Obama, describes herself as “born and bred in Tennessee.”

I live in rural America. Umm, who is this person?

Link, my dear Commercial Appeal, Link please.

And because Smiley is of the groovy, he sent me this.

Damn, I wish I could play guitar.

Thanks CeeElCee. You are the bestest.

Send my beloved Left Wing Cracker your love and appreciation today.

1000 posts as of today and growing strong.

He’s a powerful voice and a wonderful man.

I tip my glass to you, my friend.

Will Bunch interviewed Barack Obama and this is what he said:

Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race — and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to “immediately review the information that’s already there” and determine if an inquiry is warranted — but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as “a partisan witch hunt.” However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because “nobody is above the law.

What are your thoughts? The war, spying, excessive government, constitutionality and more are on the minds of many citizens? Is it enough? The question is could this, in this 24-hour news cycle I keep talking about, be something that could change things up.

Talks amongst yourselves.

Badger posted this a couple of weeks ago and I just couldn’t help but steal it.

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I love Cake. And I dig the original, which is here. Ozzy Osbourne loved him some fringe.

Someone named Sturgis wrote a post over at PopFi about zombies. Of course, I was all over it. But guys, if you dig a zombie, we have may just found our Mecca.

It’s Zombie Daily and it’s absolutely smashing. I cannot gush enough. Artist Rob Sacchetto has a zombie a day, zombie tattoos and some of it has some good old pop culture satire going on.

I love a zombie and here’s one of Sacchetto’s:

Xark and Cantalyssa. Good people.

Zombie Lovers as well and you just are going to have to go here to see what I’m talking about.

I guess it’s brains for brunch in zombieland.

Ahh, our friend Bigfoot has been heard. You read that right. HEARD.

While they didn’t see hide nor hair of the beast itself, 20 people taking part in a four-day search for Bigfoot in West Virginia say they found tracks believed to have been made by the elusive creature.

Members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization’s 2008 West Virginia expedition also claim to have heard sounds made by Sasquatch.

Bigfoot should be a spy for the U.S. Government. He is an elusive fellow.

Aunt B. and I are on the same page. We both keep talking about this, of course she says it better than I ever could, but this is a reality.

We were, in effect, not making it.  And I often stood in my kitchen crying and singing over and over to myself “Everything’s going to be all right” at first straight from “No Woman, No Cry” and then, over time, it became it’s own song, with a tune far removed form Marley.

Still, we weren’t paying five bucks a gallon for milk or three bucks a gallon for gas.

Read the rest of her very candid post and I want to add. Time are lean for so many people.

Why aren’t others making it into a political debate when the facts are people, working people, are having a rough time?

This perplexes me to no end.

Don Fenley, the author of Of This And That, points us this morning to a story from Business Week about the military and YouTube. Yep, I said that right:

The YouTube recruitment video is part of a high-profile ad campaign running on TV, in print, and on the Web. In the ads, the Air Force boasts of its ability to protect the nation from a potentially devastating cyber attack. The ads overstate just how protected the U.S. military’s networks are, but they underscore a new sense of urgency: As computer networks play increasingly vital roles in the U.S. military—nd expose it to new dangers from skilled information warriors trained by other nations—the U.S. needs a new type of 21st century soldier.

Apparently they are looking for a few good men/women to YouTube?

The Business week story focuses on Internet Threats and digital warfare. I hadn’t really considered this but then again, I don’t think about stuff like this very much.

Apparently, there has been some issues of whether China has conducted cyber-spying.

Anyway, go read Fenley’s story and the rest of it. It’s pretty interesting. I wonder when there will be sign with Uncle Sam saying “We Need Hackers.”

The world is changing.