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My nephew just got back to the States from Afghanistan and family members are on their way to see him.  No, unfortunately he’s not back for good, instead it’s a two week hiatus that is much needed.  He had a close call a few months back when the tank he was riding in was destroyed.  […]

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No!  One of them is not changing the White House to the Pink House for all of you who have pink as your favorite color!  I have to admit it did take some struggling to find ten reasons why Paris would make a good president, while I very easily found 15 reasons why Oprah should […]

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It’s coming down to the wire and a silent majority may still be trying to make up their mind (like me) on who they should vote for!  Give me another choice!  Please!!!  This very well could have been the first year that an independent third party could have made an impact by winning the presidential […]

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In less than 24 hours, over a billion people will watch the opening ceremonies in Beijing of the Olympic Games.  How many will be thinking of China’s forceful occupation of the Tibetan people for almost fifty years? 
Maya Muses:  FREE TIBET!!!
Photo Credits:  Flickr

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President Bush is on his way to the opening ceremonies of this year’s Olympics, why am I not surprised!?  Afterall, George W. sure likes a hoedown, and what bigger hoedown than the opening of the Olympic Games!?  But!  What about the Dalai Lama?  When will he be able to end his nearly half a century […]

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With both McCain and Obama talking about the price of gas, oil, off shore drilling, energy conservation, etc., Americans realize that the party may soon be over and life as we once knew it can no longer be maintained!
If you’re like me, however, and have spent half your life living in Europe, you get use to […]

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With the Olympic Games starting in less than a week, the eyes of the world will be on China, but what about Tibet?!  No one has stopped the Chinese government from giving its financial support to the Sudanese government in their ethnic cleansing  and the genocide taking place in Darfur.  Will no country stand up to […]

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I like Christiane Amanpour and have admired her as a serious news reporter for quite some time.  That said, I find that CNN’s chief international correspondent was vying for tabloid sensationalism when she asked French President Nicolas Sarkozy whether he regretted calling Black and Arab youths rioting in the streets of France a few years […]

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As someone who is still sitting on the fence, it’s interesting to watch Barack Obama on his international tour.  Obama is charismatic and is a great speaker; anyone who watched his speech today in Berlin before a crowd of over a hundred thousand people will attest to that.  Obama, none the less, is saying what […]

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Part Three
A week after the “dog incident” we were on the Champs-Elysées after we had climbed to the top of the Arc de Triomphe.  Our plan was to eat pastries and have tea at Ladurée. I mean, where else would we have gone for a lemon tart (which is my favorite), but to Ladurée! They […]

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