I do believe we both read the same posts here. From reading her comments, she does come across as racist among other things. And she even trolled me, serves me right for linking her entry, now delinked.

Hi Greyhawk:

I noticed, as well, that he forgot to review your blog. Maybe it was intentional? heh, just kidding! I think it was an accident.

Anyway, what I have noticed here is that you are picking up more readers. Or, at least, they are commenting more. As I said over at Robert Prather's site, "The Mind of Man", I'm very glad that people are reading your sites. Yours is also a very good blog and well deserving of such recognition.

Race ends tonight! Good Luck to you! Hopefully some of the links will start showing.
(example: I've noticed at least 4 total blogs that have linked to my entry but only 2 have shown up yet.)

What? IT must have been one of those I lost, and just overlooked when I had to redo about 7 of them. It will be fixed by tally time.

It has been fixed, but may not be just exactly what you wanted.

Tiger, I didn't want anything. However, I value your honest opinion. In fact, I agree with it. The post was written two different times, before the war as a quick but heartfelt rant in response to a comment, and after as a more considered response to the letters home. I considered re-writing the first part for flow but decided to leave it as it was to accurately reflect my thoughts before and after the war. (I even left in references that are utterly meaningless as they refer to comments that are now "lost".) I will say this as far as that particular essay goes: 1)the best parts of it were not written by me and 2) My reason for entering it was to get exposure for the charitable organizations that are linked at the end of it. I will likely soon have those charities on my sidebar where most folks have their paypal tip jar.

"Graham Lester: A nonbeliever's defense of religion"

Irony? That religion has advanced a cultural evolution? (That's the only irony I see.)

Or perhaps the irony is that a radical sect of a religion is now trying to reverse that evolution.

No no, the irony is only in that Graham, while disagreeing with religion, was defending it, therefore I, though disagreeing with Graham, voted for him.
His entry is very well written. And I believe he's on target to chastise those who would point to the negative things done in the name of a religion as representative of that religion.
However, given that the vast majority of wars being fought in the 21st century are on the fringes of the Muslim world (I know, Ireland, Ireland, and Ireland) I wonder just how small that sect is?

Hello Mog. The best thing (to me at least) about the whole Truth Laid Bear thing has been my finding other weblogs I likely wouldn't have found until much later. Yours being one of them. I'll pay proper respects soon.

Serenity
I think the "missing links" issue probably affects everyone nearly equally. The scans are done each night at around midnight Pacific, so say Blogspot is down at that time then I suppose no Blogspot votes would be counted. Ditto any other servers. Unfortunately, this may be a likely time for scheduled maintenance - especially the Sunday night/Monday morning time frame. But again, I would suppose this impacts everyone.
I did not enter this to win. (Suuuure! - no, really, I could have campaigned and gotten the needed votes to win. Shucks, I could leave my friens alone and create 50 blogspot blogs a day and vote for me!) And I may do a lengthy entry on this topic soon. "Advice to my fellow losers!"

You may be right. I've seen the links to your blog in the showcase fluctuate. They are back up to 7, thankfully, (if not more by now).

As for the possible, "Advice To My Fellow Losers" entry, I'm very looking forward to it. I hope you write it.

Ah that explains why my links haven't shown up. I've been getting frustrated cause I linked posts and they never showed.

And thanks for "finding" my blog. Reminds me I have two years worth of blogger posts to move. I am enjoying it more that I am not using blogger.