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I saw those tacky loud ghetto burlap bag grandma jello pudding pop designs the "top" designers are trying to stuff her in for the Inaugural Ball and none of them fit the styles I've seen her wear yet.
I've seen her in classic, elegant, sophisticated (unless she's doing J Targete casual) and those designers have got the "slave-motif" going on. They didn't put a lot of thought into what they've seen her wear.
I've observed and when I was a little girl I wanted to BE a fashion designer and interior decorator. Therefore I give my Unsung and Unasked For opinion. NONE of those gowns work.
So, I give you...
Midnight Black and Deep Purple- ankle lengthBlack Silk Chiffon draped in back with light bow accentEngraved Black and purple boa down front of dress from waistline has hand-sewn pearls to match pearl necklace (drop choker)
I call it Understated Drama with PearlsIt has that Roman Goddess "feel" to the bodice.
This gives her what she's done in the past with a slight bend toward the dramatic, It is certainly traditional, but off the beaten-down path for a most special occasion.
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Sincerely,Larry CoxExecutive Director
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December 10, 2008
Being mindful does not come naturally to most people. It is actually a skill that needs to be practiced and one that can greatly improve the quality of your life. Meditation is one path to learning to be mindful as are certain types of exercise, such as Yoga, that force us to be in the moment. Our mind wanders, this is natural but we can bring it back to the present with some effort and focused attention.
An exercise to help you to be Mindful is as follows: Take a walk outside, alone or with someone else, and do not say one word. Be in total and complete quiet. Notice your surroundings in great detail. Pay attention to the sights and sounds around you, the smells in the air, the feeling of your clothes on your skin and your feet on the ground. Notice what different parts of your body feel like, even if you are noticing discomfort. Notice your breathing. When thoughts of your day or things you need to tend to move into your consciousness, notice them and let them go. Don't judge yourself for becoming distracted, accept it as part of the process and get back to focusing on your sensory awareness. Do this exercise for at least 20 minutes as often as you can.
The more you practice, the better you will become at clearing your mind. It is not unlike a muscle that needs to be exercised. You can try being mindful in small ways as well such as when you are eating. Take a bite of food and pay close attention to the process as you chew. What does it feel like in your mouth, what tastes do you notice most - sweet, sour, bitter? Notice the texture as you chew and swallow.
There are many other small exercises you can do to practice being mindful so whenever you get a chance, do them. Mindfulness has been shown to be useful for a variety of mental health and physical health conditions such as anxiety, depression, hypertension, and infertility among many others.
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April 2008 Kim Clement Prophecy about the ElectionPam Clark - The Journey ListNov 6, 2008
Thanks to Angela Carter for forwarding this.______Kim Clement: Steve Shultz on Kim's OBAMA word: 'This is Not My 'Obama' Endorsement! It's Kim Clement's Prophecy Concerning Obama' Note from Kim Clement's Assistant, A.T.Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:01 PMSubject: Fwd: March 29, 08--Obama Prophecy Steve,Here is the transcribed and APPROVED Obama prophecy that Kim gave in Harrisburg, PA. A.T. THE MIDDLE EASTGod says, 'There is a sway in the political arena; a change in your political world. Enough of this discussion about Jeremiah Wright.' God said, 'This makes no difference. It is a spirit that has endeavored to rock and sway the people and to divide them.' God said, 'I will sway it next week. Yes, I will, and because of Pennsylvania , I will raise up the man I want,' says the Lord, 'to rule and to reign and to declare victory in the Middle East .'
We declare victory in the Middle East tonight. We declare victory in America tonight. For the Spirit of God says, 'Hear, oh people of Zion . Those who have been afraid in Zion , those who have been afraid in this nation--fear not! For your news media has intimidated you, and therefore, it is My turn. Next week, I will arise. I will change everything.'
'I'M TALKING ABOUT OBAMA'
For they have unfairly spoken against an African man, and I'm not talking about Jeremiah Wright; I'm talking about Obama. For God said, 'Even though you may think this or that, there is an element of righteousness inside of him to reach out for Jesus. Therefore, I will sway it next week,' says the Spirit of God, 'and I will cause My man, My power--to exalt in the White House what is necessary to declare victory. For this time, I shall rise up and I shall make known who I am in a way that I have never done it in this nation,' says the Lord.
'Do NOT SAY IT IS THIS ONE OR IT IS THAT ONE'
For the Spirit of God says, 'Do not say, 'Is it this one or is it that one?' Hear me out. I am raising up My mantle, My voice. This nation shall be awakened to a spiritual activity that has been dead for 42 years. Listen to Me,' says the Lord. 'I will take over in a way and in a fashion that will bring a force of spiritual unity in this nation for the first time. You can believe it or not. I will take white and I will take African, and I will bring a unity in the Church between the two of them,' says the Spirit of God.
This night in America and in this next week, God has informed us to 'watch' as He unfolds and reveals things so you will know that your nation has not been set aside for division and discord; but a time in the Church where African-American, where white or Caucasian, where Hispanic and every race in this nation under the spiritual guidance of the Spirit within a midst of war and division--will bring them to a place of unity.
'IT SHALL NOT BE BLACK, IT SHALL NOT BE WHITE, IT SHALL NOT BE HISPANIC'
And God said, 'Where one race stood on the steps and covered the fields with million-men marches and Jesus proclamations, there shall be one of the greatest gatherings at the Capitol that you have ever seen,' says the Spirit of God. 'This time it shall not be black, it shall not be white, it shall not be Hispanic, it shall not be from this or that belief, but there shall be a unified sound. Two years from now, where they will hear the sounds of faith and unity and within this next reign, there will be laws that will be changed in favor of the most High God. Not because of Democrat, not because of Republican, but because of spiritual unity and intervention. I will bring you out of what they call 'a recession' into your highest economy that you've ever had in your next four years,' says the Spirit of God. 'Do not think it impossible, for it shall be so.'
'The gatekeepers (I am speaking of) of this nation are the spiritual leaders--the Apostles and the Prophets, the Teachers, the Evangelists, the Pastors'
'For the gatekeepers of this nation are not the Mayors nor the Senators. The gatekeepers of this nation are not the Congressmen or the Congresswomen. Yes, they are gatekeepers but the gatekeepers (I am speaking of) of this nation are the spiritual leaders--the Apostles and the Prophets, the Teachers, the Evangelists, the Pastors that I've raised up. And there shall be a sound of unity that will call from Heaven the manifestation of God as it has never been in this nation. Get ready for your sons and your daughters who will prophesy just like Joel said in the last days. In the last days your sons and your daughters, they shall be prophets and prophetesses and your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall have visions. This is that time,' says the Lord of hosts.
'LET NOT YOUR OPINION CLOUD YOUR SPIRITUAL MIND'
'Let not your opinion cloud your spiritual mind. You say, 'What are you saying?'' The Spirit of God says, 'Call them not denominations, rather abominations, for I am not speaking of these that have built walls. I'm speaking of the true warriors that shall sway the political field; that will sway the justice. It shall be more than a million gathered; more than a million gathered!' And God said, 'They shall say, ' Washington , what is this? This is a sound that we have never heard before.''
'I WILL TAKE THE OIL CRISIS AND BRING IT TO AN END'
And God said, 'I will take the entire Northeast and I will shake it and the double portion that I promised upon the Elisha generation shall be released. Do not say we are in recession, for I will take the oil crisis and bring it to an end, and the rapidity of it shall take place because of the unity of the saints and the unity of the gatekeepers. Get ready, for what you have seen on the television regarding Jeremiah Wright and everybody else is not for evil, but for good. I will turn it around and bring unity in My house,' says the Lord of Hosts.
'YOUR PRESENT PRESIDENT WILL NOT LEAVE HIS OFFICE OR HIS TERM IN SHAME'
'Your present President will not leave his office or his term in shame. There will be a very precise vindication of numerous things that were scorned, that were mocked by men, that thought they knew but understood nothing. And when the baton is handed over,' God said, 'there shall be no fear in the nation.' Now take that and be secure.
I speak not as a politician tonight. I speak to you as a prophetic voice. Not tolerated, but celebrated by the people. Stand firm, you and your house will serve the Lord. And as the prophet Joel said in the last days, your sons and your daughters... sons and daughters are being raised up to prophesy and to have visions. Old men to dream the dreams. That mantle has been cast upon the Church. Therefore, I would say your time of acceleration has reached its peak. You're taking off!
Kim ClementProphetic Image ExpressionsEmail: hope@kimclement.com
And congratulations to President-elect Obama and Vice-President Elect Biden!
And to our future first lady: Michelle Obama!!!!
Good work! See you in Washington in January!!!
Secretary of State Bill Richardson
Secretary of the Treasury Jim Webb
Secretary of Defense Gen. Wesley Clark
Attorney General Kenneth Lee Salazar
Secretary of the Interior Colin Powell
Secretary of Agriculture Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Secretary of Commerce John Kerry
Secretary of Labor Rep. John Conyers
Secretary of Health and Human Services Hillary Clinton
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Sanford Bishop Jr.
Secretary of Transportation Chaka Fattah
Secretary of Energy Al Gore
Secretary of Education Caroline Kennedy
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Admiral Robert Williamson
Secretary of Homeland Security Brig. Gen. Larry Gillespie
The entire Republican party is representative of the fool I work for - not internet savvy.
They underestimated it and insisted on using telephones and connecting the old school way, through rich folks like them who would continue to make the "others" think their voices and their votes don't count.
They never heard of myspace, facebook, online networking, don't like text messaging, refuse to even use voice mail. Oh, but they don't know how much they miss when they don't pay attention to online community and the power of digital freedom, thank you Al Gore!!!
Also, they rely solely on being 'known' - having lots of money and old guard connections; and took for granted that some unknown who happened to be black wasn't going to find enough people interested to even worry about him.
By the time they started to worry, it was too late and they were caught with their Depends down. They underestimated the people that Obama never once took for granted.
This new school blue-turned-white-collar electronically-savvy young black lawyer from out of the god-only-knows-where whipped their old tired stuffed-shirt lunatic elitist fuddy-duddy can't-click-on-an-email-without-written-instructions part-fascist butts!!!
Go Obama 08!!!
What will America do on Wednesday after the "honeymoon" is over with Obama
and it's time to get down to brass tacks?
Thanks to Sarah Palin, We Get to See the Cruelness of the GOP as It Really Is
By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. Posted November 3, 2008.
Palin has helped reveal to the public pit-bull snarl that rouses GOP supporters to cry out, "Traitor!" against Obama, and "Kill him!"
It was Jesus Christ, if Matthew is to be believed, who said, "Love thine enemy." It is in that spirit that I write this belated valentine to Sarah Palin.
Sarah, I love you for having revealed unto the media the snarling heart of the beast that is the base (and the soul) of the Republican Party. Yes, you have the lipstick and the heels, not to mention the calves and bosoms, that send Republican men into swoons, but you have more; the pit-bull snarl that rouses your supporters to cry out, "Traitor!" against Obama, and "Kill him!"
George Bush kept those folks in their kennels, ran as a "compassionate conservative," and always masked his most heinous plans in double speak. Bush the Elder, Ronald Reagan, and even Richard Nixon never explicitly ran on hate and fear of "the other." They used words that were coded enough that it was possible to pretend that they were true.
But now the beast is loose.
Why Obama will win this election:
America is thirsting and starving for integrity and truth and justice and to restore theoretical American values.
Every time the Republicans do something dumb his numbers go through the roof because people are getting sick of the BS. As an attorney working in the United States of America, Barack Obama knows that if someone accuses him of something, the burden of proof is on them to prove it out. He doesn't have to do anything or say a word. So, he sat back and watched those Republican piranha eat themselves alive. It's classic textbook legal courtroom know-how and savvy, true American-style.
I wish I had enough money to pay him to represent me in my own court case. I'd pay him a million-dollar retainer just from having watched him work in real life. Classic. Helluva lawyer.
He's even got trained volunteers all over the country (including Florida) positioned to watch the polls on Tuesday, along with the sheriff's, cops and lawyers in each polling precinct that were already assigned there. He was Ready on Day One. If that's not a man who would have been prepared to go into Afghanistan and kick bin Laden's asz and get the hell out without very much loss of life, I don't know who is.
Preparedness always matters -- and so does an exit plan.
He had this campaign mapped out when he threw his hat in the ring. I can tell it by the way he's run it and kept people inspired through two whole LONG years of one hellacious battle after another. He already knew what was coming, he prepared himself, his family, and his supporters, and argued his case before the people like a true American lawyer, betting on the fact that there are more people out here with a little money than the few who have a ton of money. He was right. Even that Andy Martin nutcase backwoods lawyer who challenged him on his Hawaiian birth certificate has GOT to know my now that Obama would knock him cold out in a courtroom, if he ever had the privilege. I mean McCain wasn't even born on US soil and not once has Obama asked for his LONG FORM birth certificate with a raised seal on it.
They've thrown everything at Obama's character and integrity BUT the kitchen sink and he's not even feeling it, at least not in public. He doesn't even have smoke billowing from the coals they tried to burn him with. Looks like America has finally gotten the message that racism doesn't work for ANY OF US, but our thanks go out to McCain, Palin, and especially to Hillary Clinton, for trying it out this election year, and to Obama for addressing it before it went too far with the only people who count. Those who are voting for him.
While the Rethuglicans were busy acting the asz over petty personal crap just because they could find no fault with him politically, he stayed fresh, low-key, focused and on-target...and he didn't let anyone or anything slip out of his razor-sharp aim while he was at it.
He's got the same staff he started off with--nearly zero fallouts, if any. He told people to vote early and vote absentee (basically, because they can choose where they want to vote AND because sheriff's, lawyers, law students, and policeman watch the count on the absentee ballots and "vote counters" are sequestered like jurors on an OJ Simpson trial during the entire process -- LOL!!! Theoretically, I could guess any number of reasons Obama told us to vote early and vote absentee, but that's another book for another time.)
In the meantime, McCain has had to start over with a new staff every 2-3 months. Nobody trusts him and his own people don't like him -OR- Sarah Palin. The people on McCain's OWN campaign call him a nutcase and called her a moose-killing "diva."
The man Obama did not go to law school for nothing and he's been as cool as a cucumber in spite of all the attacks. Whoever paid for his law degree, it was obviously worth every dime.
He just smiles and keeps rolling because he knows he's above reproach and has nothing to hide. What he is "hiding" someone made up just like those people who threw tainted evidence in OJ's trial in California and ended up killing their own case just for trying to be sneaky about it.
If Obama was hiding something, like Sarah Palin did with those governmental Yahoo emails, no one would be able to find it so easily. Yet, his record is right out there for anyone who has internet access and a newspaper or even an old dialer radio to see. That's why he doesn't respond to the attacks unless he has no choice: His whole attitude is 'check the record for your damn self, I've got a campaign to run'.
Funny how people use christianity to manipulate people, then don't act like christians after they get what they want form the idiots who are being played. That's proof positive that America wasn't a christian nation from Day One. However, getting back to my point here:
Not once did Mr. Obama ask to see John-boy's birth certificate, though McCain wasn't even born on American soil, period. Obama has worked in America all of his adult life, and has always paid his taxes here as a citizen, as well. He had to have his birth certificate and social security card to get a driver's license and do anything and everything else he has done as a US citizen, but that wasn't enough for them. He passed their OWN system of checks and balances; then just because he did, they had the audacity to challenge the crap THEY invented. His integrity in attacking McCain on issues ONLY speaks volumes.
The fact that he never once attacked McCain's personal character or his integrity as a man and a citizen of the USA has sent a long and wide viable and visible message to the people who support him, as well as those who weren't supporting him before who have now bailed on McCain.
It says a lot about a man's character when he can stay focused and on point and on message, with a few minor adjustments here or there--because Obama is 'finally' starting to sound like a broken record--which means he is at the closing stages of his argument that not only can America get back on track and fix this Republican-made mess; but yes, we can get past our racial and ethnic and religious differences and be the One America that we should always have been from the start. It's a good thing he sounds like a broken record these days: It means he never lost sight and never lost track of his original goals and intentions. In two years, he never once allowed himself to be side-tracked by the BS. True textbook application of legal theory. Argue your case directly to the jury and to hell with the judges--in the end, the people, the jury of peers, are the ones who get to decide. If OJ WAS guilty, Obama is the man who could have put him behind bars for life.
McCain on the other hand, changes his message depending on who he is talking to and what mood they are in at the moment. Obama stays on message and on point no matter who's yelling "terrorist" and McCain shifts his message depending ON who's yelling "terrorist."
Now, let's see McCain and Palin keep themselves above reproach like that at least until Tuesday: (my guess is, they can't. They started a hailstorm of racist activity by not addressing it from Day One and they have to stay with it or risk some more troublesome news in the next two days).
From what I, Ye Olde American Citizen, have seen so far and for the past two years, the only way they were GOING to take Obama down was if they had managed to rattle enough skeleton bones, dunk enough Klan-type boogey men, slam enough Netherworld coffin lids, and roll out enough short-sheeted ghosts to scare the hell out of everybody. Apparently, they didn't have enough money to buy all of their costumes, props and equipment for the season because they were too busy spending it on Sarah Palin's clothes.
Halloween's over.It's been real.
Time to move on and get down to the REAL business of electing a president.
Obama 08
The pre-paid credit cards are traceable.
hey have a card number on them just like any other debit or credit card which was applied for through a bank or loan company or savings institution. They have to be registered when purchased at the counter in order to be activated.
If Master Card and Visa and AMEX makes these for gift card purchases, then they have a paper trail of every purchase made and at every store they were made--even if they don't have the purchaser's name. The purchaser has a receipt for their purchase and can be brought forward. Anything that doesn't show up with a receipt gets rejected.
In other words, if they are accusing Obama donations of possibly being from "bad sources" the burden of proof is on them to prove they are--and they can't prove it. They're just preparing for a legal showdown Tuesday if Obama wins by stirring up a can of lies ahead of time to provide a backdrop for issues they themselves created and caused.
If they're so "up" on fraud and bad donations that can't be traced, it means they've done it themselves. Many times. As my granny said, "If a man accuses you of cheating and you KNOW you're not--you might want to take a deeper look into what he's doing." He might be telling on himself.
There are about 50 different ways those debit cards can be tracked down--they come through legal American banks. This isn't a government that spies on its own citizens and doesn't know how to track down the sources of credit card purchases, even if they ARE unregistered gift cards.
Besides, Obama can give it all back today if he wants. His campaign is, literally, IN THE BLACK. He's already slated to win on Tuesday without having to spend another dime. McCain and Palin have been doing all of his campaign spending for him, anywhere from inciting race riots and violence against a presidential candidate to heaven only knows what else out of plain pure jealousy.
Had they ran their own race on the issues instead of attacking Obama as a man, he might have had a bigger and more contentious fight on his hands; but they shot themselves in the feet and the mouth, thrashing around on a race card that likely cost them this election as it cost Hillary the primaries.
I get what McCain is saying about the economy.
Make no mistake about it. When McCain talks about government 'benefits,' his prayer goes something like this: "God bless me, mine, mines, what's mine, us four and no more."
And he doesn't have to say it direct. Look at the Republican's record. And if you forget the Republicans and look at John McCain's record alone--it speaks for itself. He couldn't even get rich my himself, so he had to cheat on his wife to get that. Lucky Cindy. She didn't even need him in her life and she'll end up paying him alimony if she gets tired of it and leaves and if he gets tired of her and calls it.
You don't have to go any farther back than Ronald Reagan to see what they mean as opposed to what they say. What do they do for the average everyday common man who works making them rich? Nothing. They're not talking TO us, they're talking DOWN to us and out loud to each other in "code."
"Spreading the wealth": Code for -- THEY want to take the money our minions earn for us and actually give them a share of it.
"Obama pals around with terrorists" or "Obama's a Muslim/Muslim sympathizer" or "Obama's an Ay-rab": Code for -- There ain't no way in hell we're letting a n-word run this government.
"Joe the Plumber": Code for -- by "small" business, we mean those who make at least $5m a year, net profit; and can do their employees the humane favor of at least paying them minimum wage.
"Trickle down economy": Code for "p- on you" if you can't get where I am in life with or without the needed resources. We're the kings and queens of the jungle and you were just meant to be nothing from the day you were born. Stay there.
I could call out more, but you get the idea. It's been their M.O. from Day One.
Then along comes Obama, who, even if he loses this election, is set for life. It shouldn't even matter to him if he wins or not because he and his wife and daughters will be humming along in Cash City while the rest of us are stuck with the wrong choice--once again. It's not going to hurt Obama personally if McCain wins. He's set.
But Obama tends to get real passionate in his speeches about finding a way to make sure that those who actually work for the money that McCain and his type profit off of with no labor expended on their own part get a piece of their own action. And why does he even have to do this at all? Because THEY won't.
Yet, they wouldn't have that wealth if all their underpaid grunges without decent health bene's walked out and formed their own business conglomerates and told them they're on their own. The workers could put Budweiser (if Cindy still owned it, that is) out of business within 24 hours and then stare at them and say, "Who's on the beach now?"
If Obama is looking to "spread the wealth," he only feels that people who work for a living should not be halfway between homelessness and living in overpriced suburbia thanks to people like McCain and his corporate and small business wealthy buddies--Masters of the Universe, they think they are. Obama feels that if we get up and go to a job every day, that we shouldn't have to decide between paying bills and eating, then get shot down for having bad credit when both become expedient at the same time; that we shouldn't be without health and life insurance; or without an opportunity to get a decent education for ourselves and/or our children, those of us who have them. They've pitted this poor man against poor man, white on black, hyphenated American against everybody game for too long and it's time that we the people of the United States of America end it once and for all. This is what they do while we fight amongst ourselves over skin color, money, who looks better than who, which one of us can attract a millionaire, ethnicity, who dresses better than who, who has the bigger and nicer house, whose school is better than who's, et al ad nauseum -- crap that doesn't matter a hill of beans to McCain and their type.
They instigate race and class wars to conquer and divide people over bu**sh** to get them what they want, but they're the same ones who will stare at you like you're a Plutonian Martian and go "Joe Who?" when they see you in the same room with them. If they can keep you worrying about the fact of whether you're more likely to get better pay and opportunities to advance if you're white as opposed to the dungeon low-pay dead end jobs they give college educated black folk, then they've got everybody right where they want them. I mean, if I were inclined to actually enjoy being held down and viciously rectally ravished against my will, I'd vote Republican, too. Fortunately for me, the political anal thing, as hosted by a bunch of low classed first-rate elitist pricks, doesn't work for me.
Capitalism has not done this country a bit of good except for a select few who are welcome to 'the Club'--new money, old money, ... as long as they make "at least" $5m a year [and are men who have white skin] they can buy a chair in the GOB Club. Anyone else who makes that much can go join their own club.
I have to say, though; I give my boss credit for honesty. He doesn't hide beneath fluffed out words when explaining what the Republicans really mean. He just comes right out and says things like he could give a crap less about anyone other than himself and his family and his Golden Retriever.
And he also says that he would be happy to throw dented rusted cans of food and old outdated meat and milk at poor people who don't work (like me) if the government would just get out of his pocket. (As if his tax write-offs and shelters that bring him to nearly zero tax liability compared to what he actually pays in taxes isn't enough.) AND, he says, as far as he and his are concerned, Obama just wants to take THEIR money and redistribute it to people (like me, the poor fat lazy welfare recipient type) who sit on their lazy butts and don't work.
I can be in the same office with this despicable asinine jerk that I work for, and he'll say things like, "He [Obama] can redistribute it all he wants...in a couple of years, we'll have it all back."
In a room full of white men, with me present he says it, and they all, like, just crack up laughing. Like I'm so ignorant, I don't know what they're saying and they could care less if I do know. Nasty and superficial and arrogant, all of them. Turds of a feather...
That was his way of saying that us stupid low class working types (that they have already decided are nothing but a bunch of p-change welfare hogs) can't handle money anyway, so he's not worried about Obama getting elected because we're so "adept" at money management that we'll give it all back to them in no time. Oh, how I thirst to prove him wrong; just like he was wrong when he said Obama would never get this far in the election. He still says there's no way in H377 Obama is going to win, regardless of the fact that the polls say otherwise.
What's sad is that he is specifically referring to "poor blacks," whether they work or not -- and so far, he's right on that. There's only one way to prove him wrong, but miracles are few and far between. I could teach black folk, or any other folk who were interested, how to form conglomerates that will put those jerks out of business, but it will take a unifying spirit that Americanization has taught us not to have.
I can teach folk how to make their money work for them instead of working for their money; I watch them do it and I have their game down pat, but I get no takers on that no matter what I do. And I can't do it by myself. Alone, I have exactly what Mr. "I don't give a shyt about anyone else" wants me to have--nothing. But he's no different than anyone else I've worked for in 36 years, so there's really no place else for me to go.
That doesn't mean there's no hope whatsoever; it simply means that it will take an outright miracle, Obama or no Obama. That's something Obama can't do for "poor" black folk, rich black folk who throw money away on worthless junk, or anyone else of ANY race for that matter.
But what Obama can do is pull out right now and say "You're on your own," take his cheese and his residual cream off the top and run like Wall Street. If Martin Luther King Jr. had done it, they'd have left him alone and we'd still be riding on the backs of buses and coming in through the back door and looking at the "we don't serve Negroes" signs.
I realize that black folk have gotten so arrogant and stuck their noses so far in their own stink that they think King was not needed and that change would have come about on its own whether he was in that fight or not, [something some black Republican who hates black people likely told them, like a Clarence Thomas type]; but Obama can, indeed, fade to black and forget all of this. Easy.
See, without Obama, change will come about on its own. He is not needed, either, to hear some tell it. But Obama has seen the way 'they' work, and he knows what they do and why they do it, and he knows that nothing will change unless someone sticks their neck out and forces the hand that bites us all. And in a few decades, no matter what he accomplishes in office, someone will say "We didn't need him. It would have happened on its own." That alone would be enough to make me quit and not care.
He is only working to make sure that people, all races and ethnicities of people, who actually work for a living can get something out of it, something their own bosses don't want them to have: Equitable pay, decent benefits, quality control. However, they do give us cake and cheap wine for those million-dollar months in sales from time to time. "Why, we just wanted to say thank you by letting you have cake." I wish I could show some folk how to have cake and eat it, too -- I know how; but no one pays attention and I certainly can't do it alone.
Side Note: No grassroots candidacy has ever toppled the prime real estate upper class government elitesman in the history of this nation that I know of. If there has been a grassroots winner of the office of president, I stand corrected, but I haven't heard of it.
Here's to the Winds of Change. May ye olde force be wid ye.
The Republicans don't know what a "socialist" is, because if they did, they'd be watching the flying birdie that's sitting in the White House now instead of Obama.
THEIR president is the one who wanted to rush through a bill for government takeover of banks and corporations. That is about as 'socialist' as it gets. Socialists believe in exactly what George Bush is doing: Trying to gain control over the bigger banking and finance operations and ["get this":] insurance companies so that, instead of you controlling your money and who you do business with, they get to dictate it to you.
They're rolling out a "new world order" socialist government right under these idiots' heads and they're so busy squawking Obama on race that they're not even paying attention. But isn't that how things got to this place in the first place?
They consistently divide and conquer by splitting people into meaningless social factions that they don't care about, then use that mentally deficient smokescreen to take people's eye off the ball while they re-work the kind of socialist government that will work for you ONLY if you make, according to McCain, "at least $5m a year." Fact is, these people are voting for McCain and don't realize he's told them over and over again that he doesn't care for anyone who doesn't fit into his socialist elite circles. In other words, if anyone who doesn't operate on McCain's [wife's] financial level came anywhere near him after November 4, he'd thumb them up and snub them faster than you can say "Say it ain't so Joe." They're kissing the feet of a Judas of their own making.
In the 'socialism for the wealthy only government' that the Thugligcans are trying to set up before Bush leaves office, the doors are closed on the possibility that anyone else outside their circles has an opportunity to attain self-made wealth, or to "join the country club."
It's a last-minute move to lock out everyone that they can from being able to profit off their own labor and to position them to have to take whatever the government decides to give WHEN it decides to give it, if ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7i0wCFf8g
Almost-convict Gov. Sarah Palin, who knew and consorted with, in her adult political life, a known secessionist who admitted he hated the United States and wanted Alaska to part ways with it, and who also knew and consorted with a certain senator by the name of Ted Stevens in her adult political life knowing full well what she was doing when she "pal'ed around" with him, who has also been found guilty of her own charges of abuse of official power, who had her running mate signing blank checks for personal expenditures totaling more than $100,000 worth of expensive clothing and shoes and stylists for herself AND her kids, who used Alaska's money to shuttle around children who were supposedly "on official business," who throws her children under the bus to further her own political agenda, and who also has accused a certain Senator by the name of Barack Obama of "pal'ing around" with a certain 'terrorist' who was never convicted of that which he was accused of around the time Obama was eight years old SUDDENLY has the nerve enough NOT to want herself inextricably linked to Ted Stevens?
She is just as much, and even more, in cahoots with Stevens AND her American-hating friend AND her witch-hunting pastor as Obama is with William Ayers, especially since she "pal'ed around" with Stevens and the secessionist and the pastor when she was a full-grown adult and a political figure , not when she was eight years old and unelected to a government office.
She even has the government-backed home improvements and travel bills that the people of Alaska unwittingly paid for to help her case.
If they DO link her with that "Ted Stevens thing" that had nothing to do with her, it would be no less than she deserves for trying to link Obama to something that had nothing to do with him. The DA who tried to prosecute Ayers back then even said it was insane logic.
What goes around, flies around. ***thwack!***
I don't do YouTube videos at all (though I've watch thousands other people have done) and these are my very absolute first, so the quality of the clips are not a good texture. I had to use MS Windows Moviemaker and couldn't find a "fix" in their program, so...
Here Goes:
I wish someone would give me some pointers on making these pictures clearer...but...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmJiIYuWPF8p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG7RMK0FIBQ
I hope you enjoy them anyway
I am one of those "faceless" credit card users and I have every right to donate money online with my credit card if I so choose.Who do these people think they are? They sound very jealous to me. Or is that there are more people out here with $5 or $10 than there are millionaires with a million dollars to donate to McCain (not that Obama doesn't have his share of "rich" contributors).
Millions of people use their cards online every day to pay bills and conduct other kinds of business and transactions, including making donations to charities and other things.I'll tell you why Obama raises so much money. Because every time the Republican campaign 'smears' him or tells another lie about his campaign, we get emails from friends and family saying to donate anywhere from a dollar to $10, or more if we can, for every lie they tell that ends up being untrue: If the Republicans would stop lying, Obama wouldn't collect so much online. They need to stop the racism and the lies.He gets $5-$10 just from me alone every time they call him a terrorist, an Arab, a Muslim, say he's not an American citizen, or just plain outright says something racist -- and I don't mind sending it. I work part-time and I don't mind sending it, I'd send more if I could.Obama collects this money because the Republicans won't shut their nasty unscrupulous faces and stop calling him racist names. owadays, not too many people write hard paper checks any more. So what?No one should have to show up at an Obama headquarters in person wit cash just to donate money to his campaign. There is a jealousy factor in there "scrutinizing" his online donations and calling people like "faceless," as well as in that "birth certificate" mess.If Obama has to show up with a birth certificate with a raised seal after having worked in America and paid taxes here as a citizen all of his adult career life, then we want the birth certificates of every politician in this nation...raised seals and all.If someone dares to try to take away my right to donate online in whatever amount I please up to the campaign contribution limits, they will hear from me and hear well. As well as thousands of other "faceless" people like me.
They've tried everything in their power to stop the steam shuttle, but he just keeps rolling along. If they'd stop messing with Obama, people would probably slow down on the giving.Just because he's internet savvy and they are not, they are not going to make him an exception. He's worth more than John McCain. That ought to explain everything.
Honest truth is, Obama should not have to spend another dime on campaigning in the month of November: McCain and Palin have done all of his talking for him and spent THEIR money doing it. LOL!!!
1) "Trickle down" economy means the rich get to unzip their pants and "p" on the poor at regular intervals by half-a paying them, then overcharging them for goods and services, then passing the tax burden on to the same people who aren't being paid and yet are still paying astronomical market prices for goods and services. I call those "trickles" the Golden Showers compliment of the elitist privileged.
2) The vast majority of people who will be gettting a tax CUT are taxPAYERS -- meaning they actually work for a living. If you don't pay taxes, there's nothing to cut. However, thanks to someone who thinks that anyone who doesn't make $5m a year is not considered rich, then we're ALL on welfare from where they sit.
3) Forty-two percent of income tax payers make less than $30k a year and end up with ZERO tax liability. On the other hand, the people who do the loudest shouting about their tax money are barely paying taxes themselves: They get shelters, deductions, write-offs and other tax benefits that the poorer working classes are not privvy to, which dually shifts the tax burden to those who can least afford it.
More than 90% of taxpayers with zero liability when they turn in their returns every April earn less than $30k a year, thanks to Joe the Plumber Inc. who refuses to pay Joe the Taxpayer anything above slave wages. If the corporations and business are forced to pay a living wage, he takes his business and moves it to foreign nations where he can legally get away with paying people $1.25 an hour, or $10 a week. It's not that these "lazy people" don't want to work, it's that business owners like Joe the Plumber Inc. and AIG and Chase Manhattan don't want to pay them TO work, so they end up in low-paying or part-time jobs making next to nothing anyway. Either way the middle class goes, whether its in trying to earn a living, trying to barely get by feeding and clothing themselves and their children, trying to pay for healthcare, in trying to educate themselves or their children, or you name it and what have you - they're getting screwed.
4) Businesses pass ANY and every increase on to the consumer, anyway, so tax increases are simply another liability that you, Joe Taxpayer, end up footing the bill for --and you are going to pay it whether there's a liberal or a non-liberal in office. Between tax shelters, write-offs and business owner tax credits for nearly everything you can name, higher-income people rarely pay any taxes anyway and are on the million-dollar corporate dole that Joe Taxpayer pays for off the money he's NOT getting for working.
The heaviest burden for tax liability has always been on middle income and low-income workers, who, while they barely make a living wage, also pay the highest prices for consumer goods and services from groceries to utilities and have to fill in teh gaps while the higher-income people get tax breaks that they themselves can't have. That promise that it would "trickle down" came to pass in the form of the smell of GOP urine.
A $5,000 credit if I can afford to pay $5,000 isn't a help, it's a wash.
Corporations like McDonalds, which makes billions of dollars off of average consumers, and pays young people and/or low-income workers just at minimum wage, have traditionally ended up with ZERO tax liability at the end of a fiscal year. Between the low income and part-time workers and the larger businesses and corporations, all of that "no-pay" debt then shifts directly to the middle class, who are the ones who can least afford it. Yet, helping corporations like McDonald's and business owners who make more than $250k a year pay lower taxes was supposed to make this society better when all it did was turn these working people (called 'welfare recipients' by the GOP) into lifetime economic slaves who can barely get by and will likely be where they are for the rest of their lives, because social programs to help them get a boost up are being cut from the budget AS corporate taxes are lowered.
5) People who don't work for a living because they're lazy make up less than 1% of the nation's welfare "Brats," corporations, however, make up more than 48% of those on the government dole to the tune of, not millions, but BILLIONS.
6) What does all of the above do? It keeps the average working class stiff in an eternal cycle of poverty from the first job they get to the day they retire, and just long enough to hear some Republican come along in their late stage in life and threaten to take all they have left: Social Security and Medicare.
7) Too lazy to work is a racist disqualifier, because it is meant to apply to the 42% of African Americans who make so little money that they end up not having to pay taxes. They quote that 42% of AMERICANS don't pay taxes--what they really mean is that 42% of WORKING BLACK AMERICANS end up with zero liability at return time every April. They are trying to scapegoat some of the most disenfrachised citizens in America by calling them "lazy" and "welfare recipients" when the people they're talking about DO work to make them rich--almost for free. They say they love America, but clearly can't stand certain Americans.
8) The REAL statistics are that 42.5 million Americans have zero tax liability on their returns, (32%); not 42%.
If they can hook you with those figures, they actually tie directly into low-income slave-wage black Americans who actually DO work for a living and are not paid properly. They are overworked and underpaid due to the residual effects of racism and working for phenomenal cheapskates who, if they could use their labor for free and it not be against Federal law, would do just that.
Overall, as they try to slink and slither under that Jim Crow III, Esq. lie about "lazy people who don't pay taxes" (they refer to low-income blacks who don't get decent paying jobs (or ANY jobs at times) BECAUSE THEY ARE black...they use them as an excuse to cover their own dirt of getting rich off labor that they don't want to pay for, by way of salary or benefits like affordable healthcare coverage. They enrich their own mindsets about racial superiority by taking away another man's pride, just because they CAN.
I'm happy to say that my husband IS Joe the Plumber, but he doesn't need a tax break to hire anyone because he works alone. He left corporate America in order to be his own man and call his own shots and be his own man. If he needs workers, he can hire subcontractors and Indies who are then responsible for reporting and paying their own taxes. He'd rather work with indies... regular employees make LESS money and have to spend more time making less money. A "job" isn't helping you, but getting a long-term tax cut or no tax increases so that you can own your own "average Joe" business and work from home--that's what Republicans are deathly afraid of. They won't have a vast pool of slave-wage minions to pull from if Obama's plan works.
That's less time away from home, away from spouses and children, and more time to spend cultivating a family and a home. That's the kind of earning, spending, saving and investing power that we all need. Under Obama's plan, the slave wages stop and maybe everyone gets a shot at building a competing business right next door to good old boy, Joe the Plumber.
I'm all ears to arguments on this point
Now, Joe the Plumber can, like Joe the Taxpayer, do his civic duty and quit whining and pay his taxes like a good Joe the Citizen will be happy to do.
If they want to take advantage of free enterprise and a free market economy, they have to learn that it costs money-tax money-to keep it moving along. If they benefit from it, they can pay for it like everyone else has to.
