Obama's plan to address congress is needed, but it also smacks of desperation.
If this fails the it will be because he and the Democrats in congress augured this into the ground when they went into August without a coherent message on health care.
I still support Obama, but let's face facts. He's acting like a senator. We voted for a presdent. A president who can LEAD.
http://kennethmarkhoover.com
I don't think the Senate should be allowed to go on recess w/o public option health care! What's with Sen. Reid? What a woozie! Get 'er done! Don't allow the repugs to derail legislation again!
HEALTHCARE, HEALTHCARE, HEALTHCARE! PUBLILC OPTION, PUBLIC OPTION, PUBLIC OPTION!
Legislators that take money from lobbyists or anyone else should be tried for corruption, graft, and accepting money for votes.....lobbyists should be charged with bribery, influence peddling, and corrupting of public servants! I am sick of all this lying about healthcare being quoted by the repugs quoting a source that is owned by the private healthcare interests!!!
Once healthcare is passed, all the other pieces WILL FALL INTO PLACE! Jobs, jobs, jobs! Economic recovery!
Hello fellow voters,
Call your insurance agent and change your policy form AIG to another carrier (Probably better to pick a respectable mutual insurance company, ex.. Guardian, Mass Mutual, Northwestern Mutual, New York Life). AIG is not going to apologize or correct their misuse of our tax dollars, unless we lower their amount of the policies in force dollars. So, if you are really upset change your policy, I don't care if its life, long-term care, short and long term disability, auto, or health insurance. Just hit them where it works and let’s ask the President to put a special tax on AIG and or request for all our money back. Let’s make an example out of AIG, to set a standard for all other financial and non-financial firms.
Please people lets use common sense when changing your policy, make sure you apply, get the underwriters acceptance, and the in-force policy with the final policy letter, then cancel your AIG policy. This process should take 20 to 30 days.
Sincerely,
A disgruntle taxpayer.
Because of all the new digital channel frequencies there is a broad spectrum of program opportunities for broadcasters, sponsors and the listening and viewing audience. These new technologies open up a broad spectrum of new venues allowing the radio-talk call-in programs to merge with television channels and with the Internet in both video and audio formats. This results-in by far the best audience reach compared to the use of one type of broadcast frequency format. The quality of our mass communications is a high-level determinant of the quality of our lives and our eventual destinies. Nearly everything we know, do and achieve is communicated through our eyes, our ears and other sensory organs. This is why all forms of radio and television broadcasts represent our most important resource toward beneficial change for all of humanity.A large percentage of America's problems have been due to the lack of transparency in government and corporate affairs, resulting in needless wars and economic inequities. Our government gave the big finance companies $750 billion without stipulations as to how it was to be used, now they have given broadcasters are public owned digital frequencies without stipulations or guidance in the way that they are to be used for the public interest, need and necessity. Over the air television broadcasting is a virtual wasteland. There is little or no utility value content in broadcasting programs. The hierarchical intelligentsia's voice in broadcasting has failed the owners of the broadcast frequencies & has also failed the global citizenry. This failure has cost our global community trillions of dollars of loss & untold suffering, it is time for the owners of the frequency resources to have unbridled access to broadcast over the new digital channels.Government of, by and for the people cannot function in the interests' and needs of the people unless they have some control over the dissemination of content on their public owned broadcast frequency airwaves. We cannot permit these new government licensed digital frequencies to be used or squandered in non-essential unproductive content. The potential to change the course of our destinies and to allow a representative Republic to function for the benefit of the people will always depend on the people having a powerful voice in the content of the information that is disseminated to them through the frequencies that they own.We need interactive programming content that involves telephone talk, the merging of radio, television and the Internet, in order to reduce the use of energy and toward rebuilding our economic communities from the ground up. Here is a link to WPR The Ideas Network Audio Archive Stream; 02/06/9, 10am broadcast, "Born Again American," founded by Norman Lear Internet home of "Born Again American," Sign the Pledge & email your friends with a link. |Internet Home of TV Producer, Norman Lear's Website We can begin to build radio & TV communication community networks along with syndicated programs to reach every community in America so that, "We the People can begin to speak to each other & participate in organizing toward empowering ourselves toward governing ourselves, as was intended. Wall street & the finance sector would not have gotten out of hand if 9 years ago the truth had been disseminated to "We the People," & therefore we had forced our elected representatives to force the Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate wall street & finance sector! Trillions of dollars could have been saved along with our economy!All of what I have suggested is feasible & should be accomplished for everyone's benefit ASAP. There is much more, which we will deal with later. - Darrell Udelhoven BR Internet Merge The Mass Media Role Toward Economic Restoration My Political and Economic Page Links The Real Political Issues Wisdom Principled - Empowerment Communications Darrell Udelhoven (U-DL-HOVEN) Darrell - Bloomington udarrell
The quality of our mass communications is a high-level determinant of the quality of our lives and our eventual destinies. Nearly everything we know, do and achieve is communicated through our eyes, our ears and other sensory organs. This is why all forms of radio and television broadcasts represent our most important resource toward beneficial change for all of humanity.A large percentage of America's problems have been due to the lack of transparency in government and corporate affairs, resulting in needless wars and economic inequities. Our government gave the big finance companies $750 billion without stipulations as to how it was to be used, now they have given broadcasters are public owned digital frequencies without stipulations or guidance in the way that they are to be used for the public interest, need and necessity.
Over the air television broadcasting is a virtual wasteland. There is little or no utility value content in broadcasting programs. The hierarchical intelligentsia's voice in broadcasting has failed the owners of the broadcast frequencies & has also failed the global citizenry. This failure has cost our global community trillions of dollars of loss & untold suffering, it is time for the owners of the frequency resources to have unbridled access to broadcast over the new digital channels.Government of, by and for the people cannot function in the interests' and needs of the people unless they have some control over the dissemination of content on their public owned broadcast frequency airwaves. We cannot permit these new government licensed digital frequencies to be used or squandered in non-essential unproductive content. The potential to change the course of our destinies and to allow a representative Republic to function for the benefit of the people will always depend on the people having a powerful voice in the content of the information that is disseminated to them through the frequencies that they own.We need interactive programming content that involves telephone talk, the merging of radio, television and the Internet, in order to reduce the use of energy and toward rebuilding our economic communities from the ground up.
Here is a link to WPR The Ideas Network Audio Archive Stream; 02/06/9, 10am broadcast, "Born Again American," founded by Norman Lear Internet home of "Born Again American," Sign the Pledge & email your friends with a link. |Internet Home of TV Producer, Norman Lear's Website
We can begin to build radio & TV communication community networks along with syndicated programs to reach every community in America so that, "We the People can begin to speak to each other & participate in organizing toward empowering ourselves toward governing ourselves, as was intended.
Wall street & the finance sector would not have gotten out of hand if 9 years ago the truth had been disseminated to "We the People," & therefore we had forced our elected representatives to force the Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate wall street & finance sector! Trillions of dollars could have been saved along with our economy!
All of what I have suggested is feasible & should be accomplished for everyone's benefit ASAP. There is much more, which we will deal with later. - Darrell Udelhoven
All of what I have suggested is feasible & should be accomplished for everyone's benefit ASAP.
There is much more, which we will deal with later. - Darrell Udelhoven
BR Internet Merge
The Mass Media Role Toward Economic Restoration
My Political and Economic Page Links The Real Political Issues
Wisdom Principled - Empowerment Communications Darrell Udelhoven (U-DL-HOVEN) Darrell - Bloomington udarrell
It's no surprise Republicans in Washington thought they could stay the course and keep government running the way they liked it, slow and inefficient without accountability. They are testing President Obama's voice of change and that means ours too.
Don't sit idle and let the forces that drove us into an economic ditch get what they want. Make calls to your Congressional leaders. Tell them about the letters arriving in the mailbox everyday with credit card companies and banks changing the rules of credit, such as raising lending rates even on their best customers. That while American taxpayers bailed them out economically and continue to do so and for what? They are content to keep the money and make more money as the situation worsens and Americans can't pay their credit card debt due to unemployment and trying to keep food on the table.
Ask why Congressional Republicans and some Democrats are willing to make the economic situation worse. Ask them when they will freeze their salaries and drop some of their perks to save money. Just as in the campaign, President Obama, nor his staff can do it alone, we have to stay involved and keep reminding our leaders that we are their bosses not the other way around. Republicans are content to add amendments to offer more corporate tax breaks while leaving the middle class and those without jobs or health care stranded.
Step up, take a stand and don't be shy about making repeated calls. President Obama has three million volunteers that aren't shy and can make a difference. The right has Rush Limbaugh and no other plan except to get in the way of change.
Yes We Can again.....again and again! Groups like Move On.org and AARP are among those sending emails with phone numbes attached and petitions for us to electronically sign to put pressure on Congress for real change, not just something they pledged on November 5th. Republicans don't want to be bi-partisan, as in Abraham Lincoln's time, they want to become the Do Nothing Party.
Speaking of President's Day, this year on the 200th anniversary of President Lincoln's birth, celebrate on February 12th, his true birthday, not the government holiday. He deserves that and more for facing challenges that inspire President Obama to stay strong and bring better days to America and the World.
Happy Birthday Mr. Lincoln!
Janet Webb, Frisco, Texas
Our accounts and blogs on MYBO are still active, and still free! How kewl is that!
So, we've elected the man, now what? Well updates from the White House are making tree-hugging liberals think we've died and gone to Heaven (Summerland for my fellow neo-pagans). And each day deepens my Presidential Crush:
1/22/09: Obama's third Executive Order issued on his second day in office will see Guantanamo Bay closing in a year's time and emphasizes detainee constitutional privilege of the writ of habeas corpus and enforces standards of the Geneva Conventions. His fourth Order in the same day forms a task force of high level officials to determine future detainee policy
Wait, it gets better, his next Order, issued on the same day, ensures lawful interrogations--effectively taking care of that torture problem we've been having since 2007. The order creates a task force of high level officials to "study and evaluate whether the interrogation practices and techniques in Army Field Manual 2 22.3, when employed by departments or agencies outside the military, provide an appropriate means of acquiring the intelligence necessary to protect the Nation." Thus examining existing interrogation techniques.
And it gets still better! This same order also deals with CIA "dark" prisons: The CIA shall close as expeditiously as possible any detention facilities that it currently operates and shall not operate any such detention facility in the future."
Three dark blots removed from the conscience of the nation in one day.
But one wonders. In that fifth Order there's this statement: "From this day forward, unless the Attorney General with appropriate consultation provides further guidance, officers, employees, and other agents of the United States Government may, in conducting interrogations, act in reliance upon Army Field Manual 2 22.3, but may not, in conducting interrogations, rely upon any interpretation of the law governing interrogation -- including interpretations of Federal criminal laws, the Convention Against Torture, Common Article 3, Army Field Manual 2 22.3, and its predecessor document, Army Field Manual 34 52 . . . ."
Is this intended to prevent lower rank military personnel from again taking the fall for bad decisions on interrogations? Does this put that onus on higher level officials? Is anyone familiar with military law reading my blog???
Well we've only covered one day, and it gets better. . . so I hope Jimmy Carter doesn't get too jealous while I wallow for several blog entries on how Obama has saved the New World--oh make that Renewed World: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/a_national_day_of_renewal_and_reconciliation/
Until next time Renewed Nation . . . . .
P.S. As promised! Informative links! http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/executive_orders/
OBAMA INAUGURATION 2009 ALL AMERICAN BALL
It is time to get your tickets for the Ball!
This Ball is being presented to enable all of us to express our joy and thanks in the historic election of President Barack Obama.
All unsold tickets will be called back in to the committee on Monday, January 7, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. and thereafter will only be available at the door for $30.00.
If you need the tickets brought to you, or need a ride to the Ball, please call or email me, or one of the other members who are on the committee to bring you your tickets.
If you need transportation to the Ball, or perhaps, you know others that will come if they have a ride, please contact me, Carole Jordan, or any of the other members, and rides will be arranged for you
If you are unable to attend the Ball, the MFDW Jones County Chapter is requesting cash donations or items for a Silent Auction. The funds raised through the Ball and Auction will be going to support local candidates in future elections. So, please dig deep and give our candidates a foot up for their efforts to serve in the public sector. We can't make change happen unless we can change the face of our political electorate. There is still much work to do in our state!
If you would like to help this effort: We are asking for donations of nice items to be offered in a Silent Auction to be conducted at the Ball. This can include Obama memorabilia of any kind or art work, clothing, jewelry, books, gift certificates, event tickets, cars, vacations, or hobby equipment, electronics and hi-tech items, or even cash cards.
If you don't have an item to donate for the Auction, then a cash donation would be very much appreciated by the Chapter.
So here is the pertinent information:
Date: January 17th, 2009:
Event Location – The Reserve – Downtown Laurel on Central Avenue
When - Saturday Jan. 17, 2009 Time- 7:00 P.M. until
Attire- Semi-Formal
Tickets- $25.00 per person
Tickets at door- $30.00 per person
Make checks payable to: Mississippi Federation of Democratic Women (MFDW will do).
350 tickets maximum for sale
Mississippi for Obama supporters can contact me: Carole Jordan, 601-344-8874 email: or whitedove4monarchs@gmail.com>
or: Karlotta Pruitt, 601-326-2025 email:jkpruitt56@comcast.com
You can confirm your intent to attend by signing up on My Barack Obama in local events (Laurel) at BarackObama.com.
