<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post4202938414031627949..comments</id><updated>2009-10-30T11:00:34.452-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Blogging While Black  version 3.1 - City Life Edition: I'd Rather Have Waffles... Unless You're Waffling</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.thebrownblogger.com/feeds/4202938414031627949/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12869083/4202938414031627949/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.thebrownblogger.com/2009/10/id-rather-have-waffles-unless-youre.html'/><author><name>The Brown Blogger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05892123380005014339</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-5718657621160216450</id><published>2009-10-30T11:00:34.692-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T11:00:34.692-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I repeat it in my journal (and this will be my las...</title><content type='html'>I repeat it in my journal (and this will be my last utterance of it, digitally or with the spoken word) about how Huey of the comic strip, &amp;#39;The Boondocks&amp;#39; frames the news on television agaist the reality of what he percieves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I must not be watching the same news everyone else is.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or something to that effect.  Whatever you want to owe it to, we all have the ablility to find out on our own and fit what we learn from our experiences and surroundings, into a concept that makes sense to us.  But it is so hard to for many to do that, because thinking for oneself is not encouraged on any level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you have people giving away that power to make their own decisions to others, who may or may not have our best interests at heart.  Especially when all they want to do is make sure that an individual goal is attainable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gotta get mine ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides, thinking of others as three dimesional images as opposed to the caricatures that has created a new industry, and as long as you can get away with selling blindfolds, people are going to be willing to manufacture them.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12869083/4202938414031627949/comments/default/5718657621160216450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12869083/4202938414031627949/comments/default/5718657621160216450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.thebrownblogger.com/2009/10/id-rather-have-waffles-unless-youre.html?showComment=1256918434692#c5718657621160216450' title=''/><author><name>Big Mark 243</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10974573439218884164</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14170410572634171460'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.thebrownblogger.com/2009/10/id-rather-have-waffles-unless-youre.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-4202938414031627949' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12869083/posts/default/4202938414031627949' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>