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Taylor Swift was awarded the "Best Female Country Vocal Performance" at the 2010 Grammy Awards.

White Horse was awarded the Grammy as the "Best Country Song." You can realise the power of Taylor Swift's songwriting as she tells a story in just a few phrases:

For Roll-Out On America's Roads

Cut-Away View of Chevy Volt Electric Motor Drive

Bubbles From the Champagne Evaporate The Taxman Comes To America's Homes as those of US that have jobs start receiving their income information from their employers. Then the search begins for an Income Tax Preparation Service in their neighborhood.

Taxact the Online Tax Preperation Service "Has All the Federal Tax Forms and Schedules"

When We Need Them?

With the recent attempt by a passenger on an airliner to ignite an explosive device concealed in his underwear it would be nice to have security personnel with the "Super Power" of "X-Ray Vision" working at airports around the world. No doubt, the problem will be solved by spending additional billions-of-dollars on new passenger-screening machines and re-training the security employees again and imposing more indignities and inconveniences on all travelers.

Danica Patrick Will Be Driving the Number 88 Chevrolet Impala

from Formula One to theNASCAR Nationwide Series at the Daytona Super Speedway.

Danica Patrick has been practising at the Daytona Super Speedway preparing for the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 mile race and was the 19th fastest lapping the track at 181.061 MPH in the Number 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet Impala.

The fastest lap was turned by Mikey Kile at 183.061, a much more experienced driver on the Super Speedway. Alii Owens was the fastest of the seven women with a 182.957 lap. Both drivers are with the Venturini Motorsports Chevrolet Team.

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Daytona 500

and Guitar Picker has won all the major music industry awards for Best Female Singer like at the MTV Video awards show where Kanye West jumped-on the stage and snatched the award out of her hands saying that Beyonce should have won the Best Female Video Of-The-Year Award.

After writing and performing songs since she was eleven-years-old, at nineteen, Click Underlined Link:

Denmark to attend the UN Climate Change Conference while he is in the neighborhood" to pick-up the Nobel Peace Prize. He is expected to commit the US to large-scale reductions in Carbon Dioxide Emissions that are blamed by climate scientists for the "increasing Global Warming" that is causing the glaciers to melt.

President Obama is going to commit the US to a major change in the sources of our fuel that generates the electricity that makes our lives possible. There is legislation that has passed in the House of Representatives, the "Cap and Trade Bill" that will add a Tax to every source of energy and every product and service that we use in our everyday lives.

Sarah Palin's autobiography Going Rogue sold 300,000 copies on it's first day and the thousands of Americans camping-out in front of bookstores! so they could receive a wristband to have their copies signed surprised the broadcast print and corporate Internet Media as they have always been skeptical about her "qualifications" for "higher office" (than governor of Alaska.)

Going Rogue is the story of Sarah Palin's life up-to-the-present time and her experiences during the summer of 2008 when she was Senator John McCain's Vice Presidential running mate.

Sarah Palin Endorses Conservative Party Candidate

There was a Special Congressional election in New York State's Republican North Country and a Democrat won! In doing the research several weeks before the election when the Republican candidate was still in the race we had surmised that she and the "Conservative Party" candidate would "split the vote" and still one of them would prevail because Republicans vastly outnumbered the Democrats and the always viable Workers Family Party in registered voters.

That Straddles An International Border

Los Angeles, California is the musical capital of the world as the MTV Network is located there along with the Universal Music Group that lists the top-of-the-chart Rap groups on it's roster. Yet, a Rap group is not the most popular in biggest seller of CD albums in Southern California.

The most popular musical group in Los Angeles is Los Tigres del Norte and they have an new best-selling CD La Granja.

fromcoast-to-coast as she continues to write about her experiences on the road with the band that will be on four new songs on the re-release of her second album Fearless.

We have been writing about Taylor Swift for several years as she was singing about her high school experiences on her first album that had he breakout hit single on it, Click Link: Teardrops On My Guitar

As the baking-hot late summer days in the United States can change into crisp, cool nights in only several days the fall season is marked by rapidly shortening days.

As September is the start of the college and professional football seasons we are reminded of one of the most exciting plays when the team that is down by 3 points is on offense with the time clock ticking-off the last seconds of the game and the quarterback raises his arm and throws a long pass three-quarters of the way down field and...it is intercepted by the defensive back who runs it back all the way for a touchdown that cinches the game for the home team.

As We Know It

It is funny how events far removed from what we have to deal with every day can have an enormous effect on how we live. The "Free Trade" agreements that were enacted during the terms of President's Bill Clinton and George Bush II are an example of something that seemed beneficial at the time that has turned into something that rusted-out the framework of the American industrial heartland.

Then the Internet came along and investors poured a trillion dollars into investments in the physical network owned by the "Telco's." The Internet was supposed to make the "old economy" obsolete as we were all going to become wealthy sitting around in our jammy's typing on our "desktops" working on the new "WebCommerce" sites that were blossoming in the earthquake's cracks in the sidewalks of the "Silicon Valley."

American newspapers at one time were owned by families that controlled the advertising in their regional markets. The Los Angeles Times was owned by the Chandler family and they reinvested the profits made from newspaper publishing into television stations and book publishing. As the family's wealth grew they hired Wall Street investment bankers for advice on how to become even more wealthy. Their answer was to "go public," list their shares on the New York Stock Exchange, and sell them to the public.

This was a very profitable idea and The Los Angeles Times became worth hundreds-of-millions of dollars. Things were going along great for the company until the Chandlers family's heir's decided to "cash-out" and sell the whole company. The Chicago real estate investor Sam Zell bought the company and "took it private," that is, it was not a "stock company" any more.

I have been doing research on the after-effects of the attack on New York City on September 11, 2001 on the citizens of the United States. There is more emphasis by the US government on tracking it's citizen's activities. For example when you travel by air you have to pay for the ticket's with a credit card there will be a record of your destinations.

When you renew your driver's license it is going to cost twice as much because of the "enhanced" security features that the Department of Homeland Security is going to require because of it's "Real ID" requirements, Click Underlined Link: Real ID to Create Real Problems For US

Taylor Swift is touring America from coast to coast, performing in 52 cities as she continues to write about her experiences on the road with the band. Still singing about the high school days that are receding behind her as the Fearless National Tour bus rolls-on across highways of the heartland.

Millions of fans are not easy to attract these days as the music business has fragmented into dozens of subcultural niches as a concerted effort by certain groups have succeeded in monopolizing the broadcast radio stations in the major markets.

That Taylor Swift has succeeded in "crossing over" from the "Country Music Charts" where she started-out to the "Young Adult Charts" is a tribute to the emotional appeal of her songs, Click Underlined Link:

are being promoted as a way for governments to limit the production of Carbon Dioxide and it's release into the atmosphere that is the cause of Global Warming.

General Motors has staked it's future on the Chevy Volt that will cost a reported $40,000 when it is introduced for the 2010 model year. It is been criticised as "too expensive" for a compact car that can seat four adults and has a driving range of forty miles. GM marketing executives say that the average person drives less than forty miles a day going back-and-forth to school and work so that limited range between recharging is acceptable.

Influence in the United States

After Hillary Clinton was denied the presidential nomination in the Democratic Party primary elections we had initially thought that the "Glass Ceiling" (as she so famously commented on) was the cause of her not becoming the candidate but there are more women Democratic voters then men, so that meant that more women had to have voted for Barack Obama than did for Hillary Clinton.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin had been picked by Senator John McCain to be his vice presidential running mate, she did everything she could to energise his pathetic campaign and has continued to make news even as she appears to leaving the levers of government in Alaska to be operated by someone else:

In summers past traffic on the Internet overall drops-off by up to 30% because most colleges are closed and people go "on vacation" in an attempt to leave their everyday lives, and problems behind, for a couple of days anyways.

Now, there are Internet capable "Smart-phones" that allow us to access our "Social Networking" Website pages from wherever we are on vacation. This is causing the Internet usage that is measured by the cellphone providers to remain close to the levels that they manage during the school year.

There is another development that is going to affect the Internet by the various laptop makers that are selling "Netbooks", smaller than a "Laptop" computers (made possible by not including hard and DVD Drives) that are being offered "free" by the largest cellphone provider (with the commitment to a two-year contract) but this form of Internet:

as she Tours America Coast to Coast

Taylor Swift is spending the summer headlining her first national tour as she is leaving the high school scenes that was the topic of her mega hit song Tear Drops On My Guitar behind and looking forward to being an adult performer, Click Underlined Link: As She Performs in 52 Cities

In some years the American Idol winner, Click Underlined Link:

Catherine Hardwicke Can Help You Make Better Videos

Many people have thought about making longer "movies" after posting a couple of their Orlando, Florida vacation videos online. Seaworld has a new Manta Roller Coaster that will make for some awesome videos as it spins it's riders through it's sinuous excursion through the water park.

Improving the "look" of your videos could use some professional advice and the director of the Hollywood movie Twilight can help, Click Underlined Link: Twilight A Director's Notebook

Loves Found and Loves Lost

Taylor Swift is an "overnight success" that she has been working-on for ten years as her art is a symvionic of her life.

Although high school is the stage for the stories she tells the melodies and her guitar playing are growing more complex as she spends more time on the road with versatile and much more experienced road tour musicians.

With her latest CD Album Fearless Taylor Swift is pirouetting into her transition to an adult singer, songwriter and guitar picker.

As the Detroit Auto Industry melts away in the spring rains we are concerned about the future of the children of America. After being tortured for twelve years of being measured by the tyranny of "standardised test scores" and the prospects of attending college growing slimmer as budgets and classes are being cut as the tuition and fees are being raised every semester.

The President of General Motors was asked to resign by his new "business partner," President Obama, as Click Underlined Link: GM stakes it's future on the Chevy Volt

is Gone done-in by it's own success at attracting people from all over the world to it's Disney land, Fantasy land lifestyle that exists in their minds, promoted by the many Hollywood movies that they have seen.

The reality is that in sight of the state's capital skyline downtown is a tent city populated by Golden Staters with no place else to go.

California is the "seventh-largest economy in the world" as Governor Schwarzenegger likes to brag yet it's environmental laws and high taxes have caused businesses to move to China and Mexico leaving more Californians unemployed even before the current recession, now many hundreds of thousands of them are, Click Underlined Link:

We have been witnessing several of the national newpaper chains filing for bankruptcy as their best advertising accounts, department stores and new car dealers are themselves having a big drop-off in sales due to the condition of the economy.

The Tribune Company owns The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times and The Orlando Sentinel and although they are located in different areas of the US print similar articles, Click Link:Newspapers Across America Are Becoming More Alike

to be treated unfairly by the broadcast print and corporate Internet media.

The new Internet capable Smartphones like the Blackberry Curve are enticing, but the two-year contracts can be expensive: Cancel Unfair Cellphone Contracts

A wolf's howl in the night can be the most frightening when you are camping with just a tent between you and the night, especially when you start hiking in the morning and find the wolf prints just outside the campsite.

Alaska is still the frontier and many of it's citizens depend on caribou and moose meat, an overpopulation of wolves stresses the herd as they have to work harder to forage under the snow.

is not going to be happening on Wall Street.

As the US starts a new Presidential term our economy keeps posting declining index of leading indicators and the only arrow on the charts that is going-up is the number of unemployed Americans.

Whatever your views on President Obama's Economic Recovery Plan the news on the condition of the big money enter banks that are the key to Americans receiving the credit needed to fund their businesses is still not good and some of their stock prices are still falling.

we are concerned about the outlook for America's manufacturing companies and are wondering if the Chevy Volt can save General Motors, Click Link:

will offically commence when Barack Obama takes the oath of office as he becomes President of the United States.

As the Congress debates the auto bailout and Americans are wondering about the Ford Bailout as the solution to that company's cash flow, we wonder if the Ford story in the coming months will be the end of a hundred years of the automobile industry in Detroit as Chrysler and General Motors are also financially ailing.

The Obama "Economic Stimulus Plan" has a significant "Renewable Energy" component that with the billions of dollars to be invested will start the "Greening of America" as businesses take their bio-energy projects from lab experiments to production facilities, Click:

are enticing, like the new touch screen Blackberry Storm that has fast Internet capability.

The Apple iPhone was originally priced high so that only the most affluent users of the latest in tech gadgets would be able to buy it. This was part of Apple's plan to skim-off the most committed of the prospective users and lock them in to two-year contracts.

Apple is known for pricing it's products at the top of the market in each category it is involved in, this ensures that it's profit margins remain high even though it might cost the corporation some sales.

Now that Nokia, Samsung and LG have Internet capable smart phones Apple has lowered the price of the iPhone. The other cellphone service providers also have the unfair early cancellation fees. This is meant to limit competition as the cost of "disconnecting" the service is close to zero, as this done by entering an instruction in an online form.

sites to organize campaign volunteers and get his message to potential voters.

Early in the primary campaign to win the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency the Obama campaign staff placed pages on the major social networking sites, as well as creating one for volunteers as a way to introduce the candidate to Americans that would be interested in his message of Change we Can Believe In.
Think Obamadotcom

As the primary campaign wore-on over eighteen months the Obama site was able to control the message. That is, when negative articles about the minister in Chicago were being broadcast and published, the campaign volunteers were being supplied with Obama's health care and energy plans as talking points to convey to voters in the various state primaries.