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Wednesday, July 23, 2003
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I have been linked to!
One of the big problems with my on-and-off blogging is that whatever audience I built before I lost when I stopped. I get a steady 10 to 15 hits a day from Goggle searches, but I don't think many off these become repeat visitors. To me, the key to getting any audience is to get a link from a big blog. I did get a link from Gary Santoro's The Mediaburn Radio Weblog, which may not be a big blog, but I am still pleased to be linked to.
Gary mentions that the Dallas Morning News has started a blog by the editorial board. It seems to be an odd sort of blog. The blog doesn't accept comments. Instead, you apparently click on the editorial board member's name and send him/her your comments. The board member then chooses if your comments are worthy of posting and/or responding to.
9:40:52 PM 
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Read the released NIE on Iraq
Here is the link. Here is the third paragraph of the NIE: "Since inspections ended in 1998, Iraq has maintained its chemical weapons effort, energized its missile program, and invested more heavily in biological weapons; in the view of most agencies, Baghdad is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program." An amazingly strong statment given that, as the NY Times reported, "American intelligence officials and senior members of the administration have acknowledged that there was little new evidence flowing into American intelligence agencies in the five years since United Nations inspectors left Iraq". If the American intelligence agencies had little new information, how could the NIE have such a bold claim? Could it have had something to do with Cheney's three visits to the CIA? Regardless, this is a scandal that we need public hearings on.
9:26:33 PM
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The average popularity of a president
One of the standard defenses of Dubya is that he is popular. I saw that in an article recently, even though his poll numbers have dropped to the high 50's. I was wondering, what is the average popularity of a president? I went over to Professor Pollkatz's and found a table showing the Gallup approval ratings of presidents going all the way back to Truman. There are only 3 approval rating numbers for each even-numbered year, but it gives a significant sample size. What I found is that the average Gallup presidential approval rating is 53.5%. So Dubya is still more popular than average, but hopefully more people will come to their senses soon.
6:20:46 AM
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