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After I watched Naomi Wolf presents her 10 things that a would be and a will be dictator does and do.  The hairs on the back of my neck were tingling and stood up.  As Naomi Wolf described the 10 things and my mind was wandering off somewhere else with my own thoughts; I convinced myself to assume that everything Naomi Wolf said were true, then the hypes I'm hearing now that a Democrat will going to be the victor for the White House will never going to happen; Barrack Obama looks like a winner, but even if he gets the popular votes, he may not get enough electoral college votes to win the presidential bid.  So with the assumption that Naomi Wolf's prediction that the America is getting closer to a tipping point where democracy will be no more, then our next upcoming president will not be Hillary and Obama, but the real victor may be whomever going to extend the military might and expanding the war in a more grander scale.

The old media is on a life support and maybe it will stay that way for a long time to come.  The old media got hit by the storm of the new media.  Online streaming videos and on-demand access sort of stuffs have play a major part in the killing of the old media.

Explosion sparks massive fire in southern Ontario city of Barrie.  A Thai restaurant exploded and the fire spreads from there.  No indications of the whys, and whatsoever at the moment, and at the now the firefighters concentrate their resources to subdue the fire.

There is one line that Sun Tzu wrote in his book "The Art Of War" in the 6th Century B.C.  can get your head nodding as if "Man oh man, the dead man has always been right!"  Go to http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html and go down to the section "Waging War" and you can see on line number six writes "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. "  This is sounding very much like our very situation with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Switched - Nov 30, 2007Last week, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle, a new electronic book reader that has quickly become one of the hottest gifts of the holiday season (in fact, the device's first run sold out in a mere 5 and a half hours!

As a professional blogger and entrepreneur, I face the quality v success challenge every day. There are thousands of blogs in dozens of niches that are doing spectacularly well by following the PageViews = Money formula and are quite successful ventures for their owners, although at their core the product is decidedly third-rate. Reading these blogs angers me because I expect better from the top bloggers, but at the same time there's an admiration for their unwavering commitment to doing what works and continued amazement at how we overestimate the intelligence of our readers (selfishly, I might add).

Mud is eatable?  I have to say wow!  It's so sad for the Haitians as they are eating muds to appease hungers.  While I write this post, the Haitians are so poor that they can't even afford a single plate of rice, and instead of just rice, I'm not even talking about meat, they have to eat muds to survive.  Read more at ap.google.com.

3-wheeled Aptera is a new breed of the car-making industry, soon to be anyway!  Aptera has only 3 wheels and probably is the lightest car in the bunches.  Aptera is going to cost you around $30,000.  As the gas prices continue to rise high enough that make your jaw dropping and your teeth grinding whenever you at the gas pump, the push for electric cars and hybrid-likes are increasingly ever more popular.  Aptera has entering the right moment in time, and its futuristic look makes it even more attractive kind of car.  Sexy and sleek!  A more in depth article about Aptera is at usatoday.com.

A terrible tragedy for all involved:"ATLANTA - The popular president of one of Atlanta's most prestigious prep schools gave a rousing talk to the fac

It's come out in the British House of Lords that a pair of twins, who didn't realize they were siblings, were married. Once the couple found out how