As President Obama recently related to me regarding local service; "Now is our time to work together, reaffirm our enduring spirit, and choose our better history."
It is our responsibility as Americans to vote, and vote we must. And now is the time to plan, prepare and promote our principles. I invite all citizens of of this great country of ours to post a message on one of 1000 election blogs.
1000 Election Blogselection-blogs.blogspot.com
Dear President Obama, Majority Leader Reid, and Speaker Pelosi:
It's time to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). At this moment of change and progress, it's time to undo a serious mistake made by Congress 13 years ago. The federal government has no business discriminating against loving families by selectively withholding the 1,300 or so legal protections that only legal civil marriage affords.
It's time for the President to fulfill his promise to the American people to eliminate DOMA. And it's time for Congress to show leadership on this issue and send him long overdue legislation to repeal this relic of hatred.
https://secure.pfaw.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=dump_doma&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr011=p8n4xah9j2.app304a
No More Money for Failed Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs; Invest in Comprehensive Sex Education Instead
Tell Congress to Follow President Obama's Lead: No More Money for Failed Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs; Invest in Comprehensive Sex Education Instead.
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=837
When it comes to global warming in the lower 48 states, theAmerican pika is the canary in the coal mine. This adorable rabbit relative, which lives near mountain peaks in the American West, cannot tolerate exposure to warming temperatures from climate change. As temperatures rise, pikas at lower elevations are rapidly disappearing. Already, more than a third of studied pika populations in the Great Basin mountains of Nevada and Oregon have gone extinct, and lower-elevation pika populations have disappeared from portions of California's Sierra Nevada mountains.Fortunately, there's still time left to protect pikas and their mountain homes -- but only if we act quickly. In response to the Center for Biological Diversity's scientific petition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is conducting a review to determine whether the American pika should be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The public has until July 6 to subit comments. This is the first important step toward listing the pika under the Act in order to protect the species and its alpine habitat from climate change.Rapidly reducing global greenhouse gas pollution to safe levels is critical to preventing the extinction of the pika. Please, write today to support protection for the pika and to urge the government to reducegreenhouse gas pollution to levels that will protect pikas and other wildlife species from extinction.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27538
Please Visit Appalachia and See the Truth About Mountaintop Removal
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
Right now, while many Americans are working together to build a clean energy economy, the most destructive oil project on Earth is sneaking across our border. This project, the Canadian tar sands -- a massive plan executed by Big Oil and their allies in Canada's government -- is coming into the United States pipeline by pipeline, refinery by refinery, permit by permit. This project is so huge that it will undermine our climate leadership, perpetuate our addiction to oil, pollute our air and water, violate Indigenous land rights in both Canada and the U.S., and lock us in to a dirty energy infrastructure for decades just when we are finally trying to move to a new clean energy economy. In the words of President Obama: I believe in the new clean energy economy. I believe in green jobs, energy independence and tackling our climate, energy and economic challenges all at once. Tar sands do not fit into our new clean energy economy. Secretary Clinton, I urge you not to grant any State Department permits for the Alberta Clipper pipeline, or any other dirty tar sands pipelines.
http://ga3.org/campaign/statetarsands/exdw7uw44jx55mw5?
A loophole in the Brady Law allows private dealers to make sales without conducting Brady criminal background checks. That leads to illegal gun trafficking and senseless deaths.
Follow up with your Senators and Representative to urge them and their colleagues to close the gun show loophole now.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/action/gunshowloophole/?bro_issue=jun&bro_year=2009#getactive
American ingenuity and determination can certainly develop energy alternatives rather than develop more offshore oil platforms. Congress wavered in 2008, but we can get back on track toward protecting our oceans and ending climate change if you let your representatives know that you believe offshore drilling is not the answer. Drill home that point, by asking your representative to reinstate the drilling moratoria!
http://takeaction.oceana.org/t/6438/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25198
The Mercury Pollution Reduction Act, H.R. 2190, would make the outdated "Foul Four" chlorine plants update their equipment to modern technology that doesn't utilize or release mercury.
Recently, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection moved the bill to the full House Energy and Commerce Committee for their consideration. And soon, a Senate version of the bill will be introduced.
Even though 95 percent of US chlorine is made without the use of mercury, four outdated plants continue to use old technology and collectively release hundreds of pounds of mercury into our air and water every year. When released to the environment, mercury ends up in our oceans, contaminating seafood.
http://takeaction.oceana.org/t/6438/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=11
www.whitehouse.gov
The campaign that drove Barack Obama to victory in the US presidential election has claimed two top awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Awards.
The campaign, submitted by Obama for America, has been hailed as a masterful combination of new media, door-to-door and community grass roots campaigning with a clever tactical use of traditional TV advertising.
The campaign won two grands prix in the Titanium and Integrated Lions categories.
To win the Titanium grand prix, a campaign must involve a breakthrough idea that is "provocative, challenges assumptions and points to a new direction".
"Titanium celebrates work that causes the industry to stop in its tracks and reconsider the way forward," according to the rules set out by the Cannes organisers.
The integrated prize is awarded to a campaign using three or more media – such as TV, press and the internet - that is "high standard and state-of-the-art".
Earlier in the week, Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, gave a seminar about how the different facets of media were used to deliver the campaign.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/29/barack-obama-cannes-lions
This Admistration is really working on behalf of the American People.
WoW...There are So many Americans without Health Insurance. It is a shame that some elected officials are not insterested in the plight of the Uninsured.I just spent a few hours reading ( I made it to page 363, of course I had to take a break in between pages) some of the American people health challenges, storys/life challenges on the health blog and It was very heart rendering to hear/read about their horrendous plights/experiences.
If these Great Americans Life Stores don't change the minds and hearts of some fo the "fence stragglers" in office, then I don't know what will?
Thank the Lord that we finally have an Administration in Office That Undestands and Gets its.
In the last months of the Bush Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed some bad rules that significantly weaken the oversight of genetically engineered crops. These rules are bad for consumers, the environment, and would allow the biotechnology industry to regulate itself. Can you demand that the Obama Administration ditch the Bush rules, and make rules that will adequately regulate genetically engineered crops?
As published in print version of Cincinnati Enquirer Sunday 21-Jun-2009
For true reform, public plan needed
We need a public health insurance option to improve availability, increase choice, and control costs, which are an unbearable burden on our businesses, families, and economy. Opponents claiming that a public option is "socialized medicine" or "puts the government between you and your doctor" are ignoring two facts. A public option (1) is being proposed in addition to existing insurance options and (2) is no different than private insurance companies that have been getting between you and your doctor for decades. For true reform, we need a public plan that rewards disease prevention rather than revenue generation from disease treatment.
- Mark McCarty
Mount Lookout
Remembering What Makes a Good Father
Words from Barack Obama
Father's Day 2007:
"Let's admit to ourselves that there are a lot of men out there that need to stop acting like boys;
who need to realize that responsibility does not end at conception;
who need to know that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise a child."
Father's Day 2008:
"Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father.
It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."
Father's Day 2009:
"We need to step out of our own heads and tune in.
We need to turn off the television and start talking with our kids, and listening to them, and understanding what's going on in their lives."
1) Racist GOP mailer: Ex-Rep. Vaughn (D) calls it racially charged, a factor in losing seat.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/nov/17/dem-denounces-gop-mailer/
Democrat Nathan Vaughn says this piece of campaign literature mailed by the Tennessee Republican Party contributed to his loss in the 2nd District House race.
The mailer depicts the bodies of three black birds, perhaps crows, with the heads of Vaughn, Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi under a headline reading, "Nathan Vaughn - part of the liberal, big government flock."
The black bird depiction, Vaughn said, was apparently used only against him. "That indicates either a large degree of insensitivity, at best, or just racial hatred," he said. "I think they were just trying to spread hate to win an election. "The intent of those mailers was to put me with Barack Obama and say, 'They're both black, and we need to be against both of them,' " he said, adding that Pelosi's picture was added "as cover."
Vaughn lost to Republican Tony Shipley in the House's 2nd District race by 326 votes, according to unofficial returns.
2) Racist Email from Sherri Goforth, an aide to Tennessee State Senator Diane Black (R), depicted all 44 Presidents.
http://newscoma.com/2009/06/15/racist-and-ridiculous/
Email titled, “Historical Keepsake Photo.”, but Where's President Obama?
Spooky - funny? NOT!!!
Ms Goforth, who has 20 years of service, apologized only for sending it to the wrong people.
CNN Story, Video http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/06/16/nr.racist.email.cnn
