Barack Obama’s Guide to Becoming the First Black President of the United States. Needless to say, First be Black to fall in the Category, First Black President of the United States. Half-black will also qualify as sufficient credentials.
Step 1: Go to to an Ivy League School. Harvard or Yale would most likely do.
Step 2: Run for House of Representatives and fail. Then run for Senate and win.
Step 3: Wait for the worst President in History; George W. Bush to Leave office.
Step 4: With the opposing party in ruins, begin campaigning by appearing on Oprah with a new book.
Step 5: Make sure you go on Oprah several times, and get Oprah to reject the other party’s candidate.
Step 6: Get Oprah’s friends to give you money and endorsements.
Step 7: If elected Oprah will give away free chicken to everyone.
Step 8: Hire the best speech writer; possibly of all time.
Step 9: Script everything you are going to say during the campaign and do not stray.
Step 10: Avoid all possible debates on a National forum.
Step 11: Hire a gremlin from your Party to run against you; Hillary Clinton will do.
Step 12: Make sure you are still cool with Oprah.
Step 13: Make sure you are still cool with Oprah, The Most Powerful Black Woman in the U.S.
Step 14: Claim to be superman.
Step 15: Create your own action figures with ninja swords and Jedi light sabers.
Step 16: Get Chia Pet to make a bust of you. (Look at Ridiculous Obama Products Here.)
Step 17: Become one of the greatest Celebrity Fads in history to gain votership.
Step 18: Allow other party to run McCain/Palin. The battered Vietnam Vet that is 150 years old and an Alaskan Soccer Mom.
Step 19: Let the other party fall apart some more.
Step 20: Wait for that sweet smell of victory.
The rest is history folks. (Only word of advice, get Ketchup on your burger or everyone freaks out) Feel free to comment.
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Domestic Violence laws are in desperate need of change on how abusers are prosecuted across the nation. Tougher laws need to be implemented and taken out of the States hands and be prosecuted on the Federal Level. Thus, making it tougher for the perpetrators of violence to plead down to lessor charges and the safety of all women and their children will be protected. Within this reform, child visitation and child custody will be change, as well, how protection orders are obtained and enforced. There are more women disappearing at the hands of their abuser’s and murdered. Abusive father’s gaining custody of their children with the carelessness of the courts blind eyes and not protecting the interests and safety of children, for fear of violating parental rights. Protection orders not being enforced and many violations are ignored because the lack of “proof”. This has to change.
Women’s Legal Resource Foundation will lobby for the Regan Martin Domestic Violence Reform Act commencing immediately. Please join Women’s Legal Resource in our crusade to change Domestic Violence Laws.
For more information please feel free to email all inquiries to: randi@womenslegalresource.com
Thank you for your support.
By: Randi RosenWomen’s Legal Resource
An astounding 2,300 Americans are reported missing every day, including both adults and children. But only a tiny fraction of those are stereotypical abductions or kidnappings by a stranger.
For example, the federal government counted 840,279 missing persons cases in 2001. All but about 50,000 were juveniles, classified as anyone younger than 18. In an article by David Krajicek on Tru TV reports, Slightly more than half—about 25,500—of the missing are men. About four out of 10 missing adults are white, three of 10 black and two of 10 Latino.
Among missing adults, about one-sixth have psychiatric problems. Young men, people with drug or alcohol addictions and elderly citizens suffering from dementia make up other significant subgroups of missing adults.
About half of the roughly 800,000 missing juvenile cases in 2001 involved runaways, and another 200,000 were classified as family abductions related to domestic or custody disputes.
Only about 100 missing-child reports each year fit the profile of a stereotypical abduction by a stranger or vague acquaintance.
Two-thirds of those victims are ages 12 to 17, and among those eight out of 10 are white females, according to a Justice Department study. Nearly 90 percent of the abductors are men, and they sexually assault their victims in half of the cases.
So where does this leave family members and friends of missing persons? Where do they go? Sure, there are support groups within local church organizations, social services and victims of crime organizations, but is that enough? What happens to those who can’t speak out about their loss? What happens to those who are hurt so much so, to get out of bed is a task in itself. The grief no one can imagine but the person feeling it. With missing persons, there is never closure, no finality until that person is found and often a lifetime goes by without a sound. Sitting by the phone dreading the day it rings with news but in your heart,you know they are not alive. How do you remember their face? How do you remember their voice, their dreams?
When I started Women’s Legal Resource, I focused on domestic violence, divorce and custody issues. Women go through much more at the hand of their abusers without being in court. More and more women each day are missing at the hands of their abusers. Women are no longer just beaten down, they are murdered and never to be found again. I met a woman by the name of Delilah. Delilah shared with me a story of a little girl who died in a car crash and was set to testify against the man who molested her. Becca McEvoy who endured a year of rape and sodomy at the hands of her step father, Bob Ingle, a police officer. This man was going to get away with this crime because now since in a court of law, you are entitled to face your accuser and since Becca McEvoy is no longer alive, no crime? Crawford vs Washington . The law is not black and white, nor is justice balanced.
I followed Delilah to her site Peace4 The Missing. I was in awe. I joined with no expectation but to be a resource of support, instead found a community of people helping one another in a very special way. Delilah and Maggie’s Rose are Co-founders of Peace4 The Missing, who found each other while on a blog for Stacy Peterson and who both held the same compassion to see Stacy’s safe return home. As I became more involved with Peace4 The Missing, I felt cared for, nothing like I have ever felt in a online-community before. This felt different, I felt safe and never did I feel preyed upon by nosy newbies butting in trying to force their opinion of how I should feel, like most other online communities do.
These ladies have created a network of love, support, hugs, buddies all with a will to let you know you are okay and that it’s okay to feel not okay. With little baby steps, new members speak of their pain, loss and fears and are always embraced with love, kindness and respect. Each member has a unique story to tell and are not always willing to tell it. With the more time you spend on Peace4 The Missing, the more you want to tell your story to be understood or to just let it out once a for all with hope to reach out to another member who is pain and needs a hug.
For example, it was Christmas time and for most people, not a very happy time of the year. I know for myself personally, I wish they would let Christmas fly by without notice. Delilah and Maggie’s Rose created the buddie system and each member was paired up with a member for the holiday. I found that to be a warm act of kindness. I was notified of my buddy and I sent emails of support and hugs. However, I was not a great buddy as I was sick more than present, but none the less I checked in to let them know I was there for them without feeling burdened or wanting to hide under the covers until Spring.
Peace4 The Missing has over 240 members and counting and has over 34 different and unique groups. If you have family member who is missing, you can post your photos, get advice on how to search for a missing person and other very valuable information you need in every state. If you are a victim of an unsolved homicide and need support, you will find it here and all with unconditional love. I am proud to be a member of this community, I have gained new friends who mean a great deal to me and I have a better understanding of what it’s like to feel the loss of someone missing something I never experienced before.
You can start your own blog, post events and conferences about Missing Persons and be rest assured the administrator will be there to protect you at all times. Be forewarned, this is not a community where you will be invisiable, you will picked to participate, either on the newsletter, or remembering someone’s birthday, this community helps you come out of your shell and to become pro-active and embraces you to be part of a very special family.
There have been many "Yes We Can" songs and videos out there and most have not risen to the quality of will.i.am
But this NEW VIDEO, see link below to "Yes We Can (Change our Destiny)", has that same potential to inspire millions to act, to be involved, to re-engage.
Read on and help this video get to the inaugural to be played via videotape or live. I want no fame or fortune. I just want to make a difference and I know this song and video can. You'll see when you watch it.
The “Yes We Can (Change our Destiny) Project” was created to help ensure that the collective energy of 10’s of millions of people who were inspired by President Elect Barack Obama will be re-kindled on inauguration day to even greater heights (because our world needs us now more then ever).
Watch the Video and help Change Our Destiny. Be inspired.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwspAagg8uw&feature=channel_page
Inspire millions more by passing this video on. Make it go viral. Help it be played at the inaugural.
This video is the output of a singularly special experience created on a single day in Chicago by a group of people who are as talented as they are inspired.
Inspiration is the most powerful force in the world. You can help re-ignite it. We’ve seen that simple actions multiplied by millions can create real change. Your one simple action of sending this video to everyone you know, and they in turn sending it to everyone they know, will once again, inspire millions.
As President Elect Obama said on November 4th at Grant Park, we have an opportunity to put our hands “on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope for a better day.”
Join the movement. Send the video to everyone you know and ask them to do the same.
Yes We Can.
Change our Destiny.
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The Yes We Can Change Our Destiny song and video was written, produced, directed and performed by Steven Miles Sulkin and with nearly 40 of Chicago’s and the nation’s top musicians, filmmakers and engineers. It was recorded (interestingly, though accidentally) on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th, 2008 at The Chicago Recording Company and written on November 2nd, 2008. It is our hope (but a hope that can only be possible with your help) that this song will be played live or via video at the inaugural, so as to re-inspire 10’s of millions that “Yes We Can” wasn’t about winning an election, it was about winning back our world and shaping a new destiny.
(note: The President Elect Barack Obama footage from Grant Park is legally and fully licensed from a stock footage source).
Peace,
Steven Miles Sulkin
From Washington to Hollywood… they’re all gearing up to be at the “motha’ of all Inaugurations”.
QUESTION:
Would you want to be more of a part of this historical moment by viewing the Obama Inauguration at a local movie theatre with others? Would you pay for a ticket? What about watching it home on Pay-Per-View?
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During this election, I kept thinking back to a few years ago, when I saw an episode of Oprah, in which the special guest was Barack Obama. It was a political episode, and was no so struck with it. Until I started hearing what this man was saying. All he believed in. I could hear the passion in his voice. I could feel his soul speaking out. I could see that he truly realized what an impact he had made on Oprah Winfrey, that she would have him on her show. Some Senator. And I, like the rest of the world, started thinking, what an amazing politician. What incredible strength. What charisma. What an understanding, and great concern for our countries real, vital issues. And what.. this man should be our president. This is the one. The one that I have been searching for to lead my children and children's children and theirs into a successful, peaceful future.
On the show that day, Oprah made that comment, that with all his ideals, and experience, passion and will, he should run for president. That comment got a standing ovation.
But he broke our little American hearts even more... by saying that that was not a plan he had for the future. I was sooo crushed. I thought, finally, a man who knows what he's doing, and cares about us all, and he has the opportunities that some would kill for, and the know-how, and the support obviously... why wouldn't he??
Anyway when I heard hge was running. I knew without a doubt that he would be our next president. I pray everyday for him and the entire Obama family for their success, and happiness for the journey before them.
I pray that ignorant cluster of humans in the world to have less power, less opportunity and less of a voice. Nothing better screw this up. it's time.
"Mama, what is war?" My four and half year old asked me this morning. I could not bear to tell her. I just looked into her eyes, clean and pure with hope and promise and decided to let her not know what war is for a little while longer.
If you havent watched "We Are The Ones" by Will. I. Am (From the Black Eyed Peas), then pull up a chair and turn it up. Then, when you wipe your tears~watch "It's A New Day"~his latest song available on iTunes.These songs make me proud to be a member of the human race. For the first time in history, I see that anything is possible, and having world peace could possibly happen in a lifetime. Amen brother Will. We love you.
Watching the speech[sic] last night was showing me nothing new from anything last week. I agree more with what Suze Orman said on Oprah two days ago concerning the current situation, though I also suspect other things. (I've had several posts on the economy in my blog). And frankly, I don't think that the government buying anymore financial properties and/or mortgages (except the Fed, IMO) will stabilize anything. Buying up the stuff, including the debt will only permit another crash like this one to recur.
Besides, I have other questions as well: Assuming the bailout goes through...
Too many crazy things have been going on! I don't profess to know it all, though.
Debate, discuss, just like WE SHOULD!!!
"The society's deprivation relies/ not on our differences/ but the separation within."
--Linkin Park, "Frgt/10"
"Watch Your Rights!" (StahrT)
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Re The Summit on Service at Columbia University organized by Service Nation in which Presidential Candidates John Mc Cain and Barack Obama shared their views on service.
The debate brought back to me memories of collaborating with the Peace Corps in farflung and distant communities during my career at the United Nations.
Listening to the forum prompted me to make this post, which is the same as I posted earlier.
I would hope that honoring those who served in the Peace Corps could be the subject of a future show (Larry King, Oprah, the Daily Show) and introduce the new concept of a global youth corps below.
Global Youth Corps for Sustainable Development - mission to have peace break out in the world.
I collaborated with the Peace Corps during my career at the United Nations, and remember the energy and enthusiasm of those American youth, open to learning local languages, foods, culture, and sharing info about the USA with communities.
This prompted me to suggest to the presidential candidates during the primaries that they should consider having a platform on service and youth which would not be unidirectional, like the Peace Corps, but involve youth from around the world.
This Global Youth Corps would be multidirectional, where youth from each country, not only from USA, would traverse the globe armed with PCs/laptops,iPods... United Nations Instruments - like the Convention on the Climate Change, the Declaration of Human Rights, the Goals of the UN - Millennium Development Goal, etc...working on connecting, linking, cooperating.
A network of youth, exchanging skillsets, learning languages, music, appreciating and understanding cultural and behavioural practices and differences, knowing that, though we live in different climes, and different lands, we are basically the same - human beings.
These differences can be made clearer when youth are grouped by eco-zone: youth from mountains, small island states, deserts, forest environments, all having specific adaptive and cultural behaviors which disappear or metamorphose when thrown into foreign environments, usually the urban areas. Now the world can benefit from the knowledge and efforts of these youth.
Global youth corps for sustainable development would be of value as the youth involved would become future leaders and their participation in this movement would help make the world a better place - they would be in the drivers' seats for the creation of a better world based on service
Hello to You World would be the goal as we connect, communicate to create a better world . The project below is one way going forward
http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/O3YPNO
Something to think about:
Do we want reform? To reform: To make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustice. Do we want replacement? To replace: To substitute a person or thing for another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected.
Reform is not a bad thing. Problem is, reform can take years because you're simply trying to change an entrenched system already in place. The same folks with the same habits. It's difficult to convince someone in this kind of 'hampster wheel' to fix things. Now replacing something denotes starting from scratch. There's no one to convince of anything. Replace what's broken and move forward.
I make Rhinestone shirts and have beautiful Obama designs! I love Oprah so much. I think she is the most amazing teacher on the planet and great role model. People make fun of me because I frequently mention what I have learned from her show, book recommendations, etc. But I have learned to live with it and know I am not alone. I want to give a couple of my rhinestone Obama shirts to Oprah and Gayle since they will be attending the convention and have rented a house in Denver. Does anybody out there know how I can get them some shirts for the DNC? I would appreciate serious suggestions. Maybe somebody who actually knows someone living in the area of the house they are renting? Thanks All!
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Even though it may not look like it or feel like it, you are making progress.
Continue working towards progress instead of perfection.
Nothing or no no one is perfect.
Just keep taking steps.
Keep making those phone calls.
Continue following your plan.
Remain focused on your goal.
Do what you have to do right now to get to the next level.
Complete every task.
Keep every promise and commitment.
Don't look back.
Let no one weaken your walk of faith and determination.
Remain teachable.
Place yourself in a blessing position by associating with people on-the-grow.
Talk with teachers.
Walk with winners.
Climb with champions.
Study successful people.
Something great is about to happen for you!
Start giving thanks right now before you can even see the outward manisfestation of your prayers and desires.
Everything you do from this day forward will take you further away or closer to your potential for successful living.
-by Dr. Jewel Diamond Taylor, Motivational Speaker & Author
