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Jimmy Carter has dedicated his life's work to helping people. Among his many achievements, Habitat for Humanity has succeeded in giving people the American dream of owning a home. His other achievements include working for peace between the Ar...ab Nations and Israel. The list goes on. For those of you skeptics who will nit pick about his Presidency and claim that it was a failure, Jimmy Carter could have walked away and retired to his peanut farm in Plains Georgia, never to be heard of again. Instead he ch

America the Dutiful

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore team with MySpace Celebrity and celebrate Barack Obama's presidential inauguration in a truly inspiring way with The Presidential Pledge, a moving video directed by Demi and produced by Ashton’s Katalyst Films. Reflecting Barack’s call for change, the film features over 50 of the biggest stars in Hollywood revealing how they plan to personally participate in keeping America strong, proud and green. The clip will be presented to our new President during his inaugural celebration.

“There’s an assumption that this one man is going to take on his new job full-time and somehow wave a magic wand of change, and I don’t believe that to be true,” Ashton tells Reuters. “I think that we have to be the leaders, and that’s not celebrities--I think that we as citizens have to be leaders of the movement that we want to create.”

What a nice way to start off the morning. Watching Morning Joe get creamed.

I often find that when my head is filled with the noise of the world around me, I need to go back to music in order to fill my head up with something more fulfilling.

I have been going through my I Tunes list and have been drawn back to the acoustic sounds of Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds "Live at Radio City" from April 2007. One of my favorite tracks from this Acoustic Concert is "Eh Hee".

From Wikipedia:

"Eh Hee" was written as an evocation of the music and culture of the Khoisan people of southern Africa. In a story told to the Radio City audience (an edited version of which appears on the DVD version of Live at Radio City), Matthews recalls hearing the music of the Khoisan and, upon asking his guide what the words to their songs were, being told that "there are no words to these songs, because these songs, we've been singing since before people had words". He goes on to describe the song as his "homage to meeting... the most advanced people on the planet".

ENJOY!

I have just listened to the first of four videos that MSNBC has up of Barack Obama's Sunday, Meet the Press interview with Tom Brokaw.

In this first part he talks about the economy and his overall view of what we have to face. For me it seems that he is treading lightly over the subject and not trying to get pigeon-holed before he actually gets the keys to the White House. I don't know if I am just trying to read between the lines too much or if there is something that I am missing. I would love to ope