Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make real the promise of quality, affordable health care for the American people.The Affordable Health Care for America Act is a piece of legislation that will provide stability and security for Americans who have insurance; quality affordable options for those who don’t; and bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses, and the government while strengthening the financial health of Medicare. And it is legislation that is fully paid for and will reduce our long-term federal deficit.Thanks to the hard work of the House, we are just two steps away from achieving health insurance reform in America. Now the United States Senate must follow suit and pass its version of the legislation. I am absolutely confident it will, and I look forward to signing comprehensive health insurance reform into law by the end of the year. http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/obamaforamerica/gGMmWn
Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make real the promise of quality, affordable health care for the American people.The Affordable Health Care for America Act is a piece of legislation that will provide stability and security for Americans who have insurance; quality affordable options for those who don’t; and bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses, and the government while strengthening the financial health of Medicare. And it is legislation that is fully paid for and will reduce our long-term federal deficit.Thanks to the hard work of the House, we are just two steps away from achieving health insurance reform in America. Now the United States Senate must follow suit and pass its version of the legislation. I am absolutely confident it will, and I look forward to signing comprehensive health insurance reform into law by the end of the year.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/obamaforamerica/gGMmWn
Many new photography forum participants don’t know how to post, or embed, an image within a forum message. The process is quite simple and the method is the same for most forums. The image must first be uploaded to a server such as at an online photo hosting site.
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Go to the image at a hosting service, right click it and open the Properties menus.
Next, highlight the full address (URL), copy the URL and then paste it into the subject area in a forum post. For the image to appear, you MUST include the .jpg extension.
Generally, you should get the URL from the image itself, not the address bar of a browser.
For example, below is the full URL to a thumbnail photo in the Digicamhelp Photo Galleries. One space has been added after the http: so you can see the how the text is supposed to appear (you wouldn’t normally add a space).
http: //www.digicamhelp.com/gallery/thumbs/256-graceful-goose.jpg
When the correct URL is posted in a thread, the image will appear.
This method is the most commonly used in photography forums, but not all forums use it. Some require code placed around the URL for the image such as: [img] URL [/image]
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Chris, please give us a Organizing for America Personal Fundraising "page". Is it Okay for us to still use The Holiday Fundraising and the Main Personal Fundraising Campaign for '08 pages for fundraising drives? s.o.s. we need new FR pages to help us raise finances for the PBO Mega-Party!!!!!!! C'Mon!!!!! Let's Do This!!!!!
We Really, Really, Really Need a New Fundraising Page!!!!!!
The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually all of the industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; however, the main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's, and the extensive stock market speculation that took place during the latter part that same decade. The maldistribution of wealth in the 1920's existed on many levels. Money was distributed disparately between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U.S. and Europe. This imbalance of wealth created an unstable economy. The excessive speculation in the late 1920's kept the stock market artificially high, but eventually lead to large market crashes. These market crashes, combined with the maldistribution of wealth, caused the American economy to capsize.
The federal government also contributed to the growing gap between the rich and middle-class. Calvin Coolidge's administration (and the conservative-controlled government) favored business, and as a result the wealthy who invested in these businesses. An example of legislation to this purpose is the Revenue Act of 1926, signed by President Coolidge on February 26, 1926, which reduced federal income and inheritance taxes dramatically. Andrew Mellon, Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury, was the main force behind these and other tax cuts throughout the 1920's. In effect, he was able to lower federal taxes such that a man with a million-dollar annual income had his federal taxes reduced from $600,000 to $200,000. Even the Supreme Court played a role in expanding the gap between the socioeconomic classes. In the 1923 case Adkins v. Children's Hospital, the Supreme Court ruled minimum-wage legislation unconstitutional.
The large and growing disparity of wealth between the well-to-do and the middle-income citizens made the U.S. economy unstable. For an economy to function properly, total demand must equal total supply. In an economy with such disparate distribution of income it is not assured that demand will always equal supply. Essentially what happened in the 1920's was that there was an oversupply of goods. It was not that the surplus products of industrialized society were not wanted, but rather that those whose needs were not satiated could not afford more, whereas the wealthy were satiated by spending only a small portion of their income. A 1932 article in Current History articulates the problems of this maldistribution of wealth:
We still pray to be given each day our daily bread. Yet there is too much bread, too much wheat and corn, meat and oil and almost every other commodity required by man for his subsistence and material happiness. We are not able to purchase the abundance that modern methods of agriculture, mining and manufacturing make available in such bountiful quantities.
Through such a period of imbalance, the U.S. came to rely upon two things in order for the economy to remain on an even keel: credit sales, and luxury spending and investment from the rich.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/6854/greatdep.html
BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Jindal administration is estimating that Louisiana will have to spend $336 million to buy land that the Army Corps of Engineers needs to build levees and floodgates on to protect the New Orleans area.
On Wednesday, Garret Graves, the chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, said the Jindal administration wants the Louisiana Legislature to use $200 million this year from the state surplus to buy land with.Graves said the state will need to buy $336 million in land by 2010.As part of the state's share of levee costs, the state has agreed to buy land sitting next to levees and floodgates the corps is working on.
http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9870124
Barack Obama has not slammed nor dissed against anyone and the fact that these people are trying to make a name for themselves in the midst of this economic misery is just terrible. They will not give him a break because they want a 60's civil rights leader instead of a 2009 President. They need to run for President themselves and then they can implement their own agenda.
P.S. And All that I can say is Praise the Lord and Pass the Potatoes.
12 days left until election day. I hope as many vote as possible, but chances are that won't happen. If Barack Obama is to win this election, we'll all have to get out and vote, but apparently it is a bad thing for average Americans like myself and others to have an educated opinion nowadays. Well I have just one thing to say; Whaen your sitting in your living room saying"Wow, that was a mistake electing John McCain as president" and you've lost your job and your house because you couldn't afford the mortgage, don't come crying to me.
Well, we're getting closer and closer to election day; I still haven't really seen much of a change in the way people treat politics. Everyone keeps factoring in one thing; Religion. You have to realize that the Founding Fathers didn't want religion to be a part of politics and the government. When they sat down and wrote not only the Declaration of Independence, but the Constitution as well, they came to an agreement; this was not a Christian country they were creating, but a country of many religions, from Christianity to Hindu to Judaism to Muslim. Yet, every election in the past one-hundred years has been based on the religion of the candidate and not the issues plaguing the country, our country's motto is E Pluribus Unum, not E Unum Pluribus. That's all I have to say this month, So I shall talk again next month.
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An Open Letter to Congress:
Why does anyone think that giving a failed industry a trillion dollars is a good idea? Where is the guarantee that things will be different?
If this makes sense to you, please forward to your Congressman and Senators, and submit to Senator Obama's office.
Let's try a trickle up theory for a change. Let consumers decide, with their own dollars - which companies should survive.
Consider what would happen to the economy if Congress
1) Immediately enacts usury laws that lowers the maximum on interest rates and prohibits fees on all credit cards and other loans.
2) Enacts an emergency one time re-establishment of credit to foreclosed homeowners who are otherwise creditworthy, to purchase fair-market-appraised homes again through a special fund during the next two years, eliminating speculators and investors.
3) Repeals the recent bankruptcy laws that favor corporate rights and re-establishes citizens' rights to plead cases individually.
These steps will free consumers from unfair consumer and predatory practices choking the economy, and control the bank and mortgage industries, allowing free market environment that is balanced and pro-goods (manufacturing) instead of (money) services, creating more jobs that boost the economy, creating the upward spiral needed.
By Ahmed Rehab
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[Ahmed Rehab is strategic communications director for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties group. He may be contacted at arehab@cair.com]
You have to wonder about a film that could muster no better an endorsement to adorn its poster than that of CNN’s resident right-wing extremist Glenn Beck. "Obsession is without exaggeration one of the most important films of our time," says Beck. (Who would accuse Glenn Beck of exaggerating?)
The film Beck is lauding, “Obsession: Islam’s Radical War against the West,” is a 2005 work of anti-Muslim propaganda that has recently been widely distributed via an unprecedented campaign.
Wow,... its really hard to believe that this campaign has been going on for just about 20 months now. That as you all know is just shy of 2 years. All the hard work, and all the sacrifice, all the hot days canvassing, and the parties, and the frienships we have made over these 20 months, all comes down to one thing... November 4th.
I have sat down and actually thought about it... and come to this conclusion, "What am I going to do when it is all over?" haha I am sure everyone else has had the same thought, when all the confetti comes to a halt, there are two things I have hope for. One that Barack Obama is elected President of the United States, and two, that we as a nation have come to love one another, and care for one another in these two years we have been working ever so diligently together.
I think this campaign is about more than just canvassing, and polls, and politics. It has a deeper meaning in and of itself. The message of Hope and Change, not just in our country, but of each of us individually has some how shaped and molded my future into something greater than just myself. That when Barack Obama raises his hand, and is sworn in on Jan. 20th, that I can sit here and firmly say, if it wasn't for me, then this wouldn't be happening. That if it wasn't for you, and for me, and for all of us, this dream may not have been realized, and that when I am old and gray I can tell my grandchildren that this was the moment in the history of the world when we as a people really came together. When we stopped the fighting and the bickering and really came together to help the common good of all mankind, and that I am so lucky to be a proud part of it. No matter how small my effect, I can say as firmly as my feet are planted on the ground, that I did something here today in this place. That I stood up, and spoke out, and told this government of ours, "ENOUGH!" That I wasn't going to stand by while my brothers and sisters cried the night away with empty stomachs, and pockets full of lent. That those seniors with no medicine, and the farmers with no hand to help would not wake up another day without those things under my watch. We as a PEOPLE have finally accomplished what the founding fathers intended us to do. That is UNITE, and WORK HARD FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF MAN. That is what we have done here today... That is what we have done here today.
Thank you all so very much,
for everything that you have done, and for helping me help us,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart,
Johnny Mclaurin
South Carolina For Barack Obama
Throw the flag against: The McCain-Palin campaign.
Call: Unsportsmanlike conduct.
What happened: A new 30-second TV ad attacks Barack Obama's record on education, saying that Obama backed legislation to teach " 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners." The announcer then says, "Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."
Why that's wrong: This is a deliberately misleading accusation. It came hours after the Obama campaign released a TV ad critical of McCain's votes on public education. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama did vote for but was not a sponsor of legislation dealing with sex ed for grades K-12.
But the legislation allowed local school boards to teach "age-appropriate" sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners, and it gave schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators.
Republican Alan Keyes tried to use Obama's vote against him in the 2004 U.S. Senate race. At the time, Obama spoke about wanting to protect young children from abuse. He made clear then that he was not supporting teaching kindergartners about explicit details of sex.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Tuesday of McCain's ad: "It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls."
Penalty: 15 yards for the McCain campaign's deliberate low blow.
