Yes, fellow travelers!
We TOO can experience the wonders of Obamian Socialist Ideals.
Much like the ones that created the modern 'middle'class"...
It was called the GI BILL of Rights I believe.
It socialistically allowed people who might otherwise not ever have afforded it-- to own a first house.
Yes, the evil totalitarian socialists (the post ww ii government) hatched the insidious plot.
We're in RUIN this very day due to it.
Damn poor people got houses, got cocky and uppity and began investing in stocks!!!!
Oh, tis a tangled and odious weave we web....when Stalin comes a knockin'
Beware! Beware!
If Obama keeps up more people might own houses!!!!
Get yer pitchforks and meet me at the church at midnight!!!
(oops, I forgot...newt and rush can't use hand tools and besides they got a dinner party tonight)
There goes the revolution!
Now the damn fish are addicted to tea and i got 5,000 pitchforks i can't sell.
Maybe I'll loan em to some real people so they can pitch that line of crap out of the way before we all get it on our shoes.
So, we leave the reader, agape at Rush and Gingrich's 'paper-revolt"...a document written on
toilet paper...and head, fearful of socialism but contrite that our country
is much too spoiled and lazy to ever adapt to it, into the brave new world of twitter.
(yes, and scrap that "meeting at the church" too! WAY, way too socialist for twiddle and dee)
bow--wooo!
In fact, it appears that Pelosi uses military aircraft less often than her predecessor, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
I am so happy to write my first blog post! I really appreciate the awesome Obama Biden leadership, the campaign team and this fabulous website! Congratulations and thank you so much! This is a wonderful way to share and connect!
By way of a little background, my heritage is Asian American from Hawaii. I graduated from Columbia University in New York, majored in economics. I love Washington D.C. I have been in D.C. since I came to complete my Masters and Ph.D. majoring in economics and international relations from GWU. My passion is achieving human potential and promoting community service and social entrepreneurship. I love making new contacts and developing new win-win-win relationships.
I look forward to meeting you at the free monthly networking community events that I help to organize as president of Allies Building Community Inc. (A.B.C.) so people of diverse backgrounds can regularly come together to network, bond, know and appreciate each other as fellow members of the human family! This is a good way to introduce friends and allies to each other to start conversations for possibilities. I look forward to meeting you at one of these meetings. The next one is on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009.
On the third Sundays of every month in 2009, from 12:30PM to 2:30PM, our Meetup Alliance for Networking comes together to explore opportunities for community service, to make new contacts, exchange ideas, develop new friendships and build community spirit! We have networking conversations over lunch (self-pay) at the Burma Restaurant, 740 6th St. NW 2nd Floor, Wash. DC 20001. This is about one block from the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro station (red, green, yellow lines). (We chose the Burma Restaurant because they have good food, are near the Chinatown Metro stop, and they give us the entire restaurant for our regular monthly event.)
A little more background: A.B.C. (Allies Building Community), its friends and associates, were instrumental in the creation The Friendship Archway bringing together Wash. D.C. and Beijing as "Sister Cities". Located next to the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro station at 7th and H Streets NW, DC., it is the widest single span Chinese archway in the world. Unlike most monuments in Wash. DC that look to the past, the Friendship Archway looks to the future, a strong visual symbol for bridging the joint East-West, Chinese and American aspirations for peace, friendship and cooperation. China and America will be the two leading economic superpowers in the 21st century. The Friendship Archway commemorates their necessary interdependence.
The Friendship Archway physically symbolizes how to bridge over superficial differences by focusing on shared ideals and by working together to develop many effective solutions for generating more joy, friendship and prosperity for all. For more information, see http://www.archway2.org/ or http://www.meetup.com/networking/ or http://www.meetupalliance.com/conversationsNET/ My friends and I look forward to meet you on the 3rd Sundays of each month in Downtown Wash. DC! Please feel free to invite your friends and allies to meet us at the Burma Restaurant. Meetup.com/networking/ will send you monthly reminders if you sign up free of charge.
Our free monthly get-togethers are about appreciation, joy, fun, good humor, nonjudgment, nonattachment, unconditional Love and acceptance, sharing perspectives and developing community around your passion or cause. We believe all of us can make A Bigger Contribution by giving our positive energy to the world! You and I can change and be more powerful generators of Loving energy. You and I can give more gifts of hope, appreciation and friendship. We can all make a difference by choosing to focus on we want for ourselves, for others and for the community. Let's BE the change by becoming more aware of our subjective perceptions and attitudes. Let's help to spread happiness, locally and globally, on land and online!
My friends and I want more than just the absence of war or violence. We want to build an infrastructure of communications, mutual trust, good will and friendship among people of diverse backgrounds. Let's choose to reflect a change or improvement in our attitude, behavior and choices. We look forward to meeting you at our next Meetup Alliance community get-together in Wash. D.C.! Aloha!
'Maximum 600 Palestinians died in Gaza' Jerusalem Post, Israel (Jan 22, 2009) Cremonesi interviewed Gazans who echoed Israel's insistence of how Hamas gunmen used civilians as human shields. One Gazan recalled civilians in Gaza ... 'Video: Palestinians in Gaza Reopen Smuggling Tunnels' - http://www.youtube.com/v/w1_CJXAzows
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292939271&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
AIR FORCE * ARMY * COAST GUARD * MARINES * NAVY
If you are going to be in Washington DC during the Inauguration you may want to attend the Blogfest event to Help Wounded Veterans. see http://www.usaservice.org/page/event/detail/4jqt3
Where were you when the world stopped turning?
“If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ebenezer Baptist Church, 4 February 1968.
HELP WOUNDED VETERANSSource: David Apperson, LIFE CLOUD
http://veterans.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxFK9
The Pickens Plan: For those who would like to become an active participant in a solution for our nations energy needs I urge you to join with T.Boone Pickens in his quest for a cleaner planet through alternative energy.
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Alternative EnergySource: David Apperson
url: http://veterans.barackobama.com/page/community/tag/alternative-energy
"Our veterans are part of an unbroken line of heroes who have defended the American people and stood up for American values" - PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA
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PRESIDENT INAUGURAL TICKETS are available for those who would like to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. RSVP must be made by 15 DEC 2008. This will be an historic moment of FAITH, HOPE and UNITY. Confirm your reservations while you still can.
Some US Senators are already out of tickets. As of 15 NOV 2008, I recommend trying to connect with your local congressional representative.
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UPDATE: WASHINGTON, DC - Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC), today introduced legislation prohibiting the sale and counterfeiting of inaugural tickets."The Inauguration of the President is one of the most important rituals of our democracy. The chance to witness this event should not be bought and sold like tickets to a football game," Senator Feinstein said. "This legislation is meant to immediately stop the unscrupulous behavior of those who obtain these tickets for free and then seek to profit by selling them, often at dramatically inflated prices. This bill also would target those duping the public with fraudulent tickets or promises of tickets they don't actually have."It is my hope that Congress will pass this legislation during this week's lame-duck session so that we can stop scam artists and profiteers from maligning this historic event," Senator Feinstein added.The bill would make it unlawful to sell or attempt to sell tickets to the presidential inaugural swearing-in ceremony. It also would be illegal to create a fraudulent ticket or forge a ticket to the inauguration. Those who violate the law would face fines of up to $100,000 and imprisonment for up to one year.Tickets to the 56th Inaugural Ceremonies are provided free of charge and are distributed through members of the 111th Congress and the President-elect and Vice President-elect. Tickets will not be distributed to Congressional offices until the week before the inauguration and will require in person pick-up with proper identification.No websites or other ticket outlets have inaugural swearing-in tickets to sell, despite what they may claim. Last week, Ebay/StubHub announced it would not allow the sale of inaugural swearing-in ceremony tickets on any of its websites.
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"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA
"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA
RSVP MIDNIGHT PRAYER AND CELEBRATION - 31 DEC 2008
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS OUR NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
We invite everyone breathing, or not, the opportunity to show global unity and dedicate three [ 3 ] minutes of time on News Years Eve to thank God for President Obama and ask the Creator of All Things for a GLOBAL BLESSING for ALL NATIONS, PEOPLES, AND TONGUES.
May we agree that 2009 can be a year of healing for the nation and the world as we celebrate this historic election. All faiths are encouraged to join the festivities. LET US GO DOWN TO THE RIVER AND PRAY.
Text translations of the readings supplied by GOOGLE TRANSLATE through GLOBAL BIBLE STUDY.
OPINION - If you haven't noticed, the "Best Poltical Team on Television" at CNN has been playing a kind of epic spin game to keep the campaign close. While CBS, NBC, ABC and MSNBC have been done what they always do, hunt down stories on Sarah Palin to tell us more about her, identify inconsistencies, fibs and outright lies in her stump speeches, and document the immense waffling of John McCain on every politically sensitive issue on the economy this week, CNN covers it very lightly, and is always careful not to step on the McCain camp's toes, even when they have to follow the press pack into a story.While dozens of media outlets were lambasting McCain for saying that he would fire the SEC chairman one day, and then do a 180 on the next, news cycle or come up with a "Plan" for the bailout even though everyone knows that the Fed and the Treasury Secretary will have a "plan" long before McCain can do anything about the financial crisis, CNN reported the facts of the event, and kept its talking heads away from calling McCain on any of it.
McCain agrees with the 'out of touch ad.' Senator Obama need not change the 'John McCain is out of touch because he doesn't use computers or the internet' ad or copy one note or punctuation mark, nor need anyone back down from or question just how valid it is. McCain, to reiterate, agrees with the statement made in the ad.
This is an update of my Daily Kos post, "John McCain Uses A BlackBerry."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/13/103735/543/712/597294
You can thank the spectacle of Sarah Palin accepting the Republican VP nomination for fuelling the worst aspects of McCain’s campaign. Attacking his opponents has created a dynamism and an energy that had all but withered away, so that now he has foregone his earlier promise for a clean campaign. His voice is louder as it accuses, but who will listen? And who answer?
As with the primary season, the question came: should Obama do the same? Should he answer in kind? The GOP must surely prove easy targets. They have offered almost a decade of poor governance which has displaced America’s moral authority across the world, it has turned a financial surplus into a massive deficit, and it has cruelly abandoned its people to dishonest wars and natural disasters. And now, at the top of the ticket, is more of the same. ‘Fool me – you can’t get fooled again’. Who said that before now?
It is on this basis that we offer change. We now that America needs it. But for every day spent personally attacking opponents and countering attacks in return, another day is spent parrying and defending. Issues have already been lost on the GOP side. The sole purpose of their convention was the reminder of an old personality and the introduction of the new one, and the battle-cry to ‘stand up and fight,’ as if this was enough to elect. But an electorate wearied by 8 years of hawkishness have already lost their taste for this. They have seen it before, politicians treating them with disdain, lying to their face, belittling them before the world.
In relying on attacks to do the work of political discourse, you not only reduce the man attacking, you reduce the audience for listening. Reduce, not only in size but in stature. You have to reckon on the audience’s willingness for the fight, and in doing so you reduce them to the hard, mean-spirited, motley crew. You take from them their intelligence and independence of mind, their power to think and argue and weigh their opinions against the figure on the stage.
The same is true of lying. In lying about the truth, you denigrate those you are speaking to; you begin to think of them as someone to be fooled and reduce their intelligence so they can be fooled. Nothing is more disrespectful than an individual who thinks that you can’t see through them, that you haven’t the capacity to recognise a lie. In wonder if these were Charlie Gibson’s thoughts on Thursday night?
Politics should not be about pulling the wool over your eyes. It should be about opening the debate and inviting you to take part. America is a living, thinking, being. It has been well versed in telling truth from lies. And, certain of itself, it does not need to counter and attack. Its goal is clear. It is on the horizon, if it can just reach a little higher, a little further…
The McCain campaign has kept Sarah Palin shielded from the media since she was announced as his running mate. What country are we living in here? Anyway, ABC has the exclusive finally:Part 1 and Part 2. More to come.
I think despite the hard work the campaign has clearly put in with Palin (who clearly memorized a lot of things), she didn't do very well with foreign policy. It's pretty clear why they've kept her under wraps. The idea/image of Palin has united Republicans, but the more she's exposed in unrehearsed situations like this, the worse the prospects for McCain. She's a good governor, and has done some good work in her state, but clearly she just hasn't thought about national or international politics much at all, to the point where she just doesn't have an opinion on these things. In the end, I think the fault of this pick is less about Sarah Palin's severe weaknesses as a candidate than the fact that the man in the hot seat, the one we should really worry about, picked her.
BUT On the other hand folks, I can feel myself being convinced of Palin's strengths every day. You know, the fact that you can see Russia from an island in Alaska IS a perfectly logical reason why the governor of that state would give her credibility and mean she's qualified to discuss our relations with that country and the Georgian conflict!
Gov. Palin appeared in her first interview tonight. She stated that she is part of a campaign of reform. Isn't reform just another word for change?
Senator Obama has been running on a platform of change for months. If the Republicans can't even come up with their own one-word mission statement, then why should anyone believe that they have new ideas for the country?
More on the interview below...
Sept. 10, 2008
To all CNN journalists and news producers, #6
Big kudos to Campbell Brown and staff of the Election Center for tonight’s program. It was exhilarating to watch the factual content of your program on so many fronts. Kudos to Campbell for interrupting one partisan commentator (former press secretary to Newt Gingrich) when he tried to answer a question by ducking it and talking about something somebody in South Carolina did. Kudos to Randi Kaye for a more in-depth look at Palin’s record as Mayor and Governor.
Keep the facts coming!
Respectfully,
Carol Benham
Sept. 11, 2008
To CNN Journalists and news producers, #7
No more lipstick stories, please, or any other phony charges of outrage over imagined and nonsensical slights. Let’s get back to the issues and report facts about the record of Gov. Sarah Palin. There’s so much we need to know about Gov. Palin’s record and performance in office. How about investigating and reporting on these issues:
The Wall St. Journal has reported on issues and problems with the building of the sports complex she championed: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122065537792905483.html
The New York Times (and others) have reported on her unusual practice of claiming per diem while working at home as Governor: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/us/politics/10billing.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
ABC News has run investigative pieces on Palin’s firing of the city librarian after inquiring about the librarian’s views on censorship. Palin rescinded the dismissal only after a public outcry. There was no list of books to be banned, but taken in context, the firing of the librarian is a telling story: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5766173&page=1
ABC News has reported on Palin’s firing of the Wasilla police chief and why he says he was fired: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5713866&page=1
The Associated Press has reported that a judged warned the Palin family three years ago not to disparage her sister’s ex-husband. As we all know, the Palin family and staff did anyway and brought pressure to bear on the Public Safety Commissioner to fire the trooper.
Gov. Palin, after promising complete cooperation with the Legislative inquiry into the possible abuse of her office regarding attempts to pressure the Public Safety Commissioner to fire her sister’s ex-husband, is now fighting the inquiry, claiming the Legislature has no jurisdiction. This seems like a blatant attempt to slow the process down until after the election.
Reported by a veterans organization, Palin’s promotion of Alaska National Guard commander smells like old-fashioned bribery: http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1869
Gov. Palin’s attempt to stop the federal government from placing polar bears on the endangered species act
Gov. Palin’s support of aerial hunting for wolves, and a rumored offer she made to give $150 to each hunter that brought in a right foreleg of a wolf.
I count on CNN for facts and news, delivered without bias. Don’t let these diversionary tactics about personal slights, real or imagined, keep us from learning the facts in the days remaining before Americans vote.
Three suggestions:
#1
Obama: Stop Addressing Palin
Start ONLY discussing McCain's policies and ideas (and dishonor). Leave Palin to EVERYONE else. If asked a question about her, say simply, "We don't know much about her, there are a lot of questions about her past, but that is up to her and the McCain campaign to explain and provide. I'll leave it to them to provide the answers to the questions voters keep asking."
Done and done.
And keep saying this OVER and OVER. The only the way the media picks up a line of attack is when it is repeated (Rove knows this VERY well). Keep saying there are "questions about her" and push the media to the McCain campaign for answers. Again and again. There's no need for Obama or the Obama campaign to answer those questions.
#2
Dem Women Leaders: "McCain-Palin is Lipstick on a Pig"
Have a press conference or send out big-name women leaders as surrogates on multiple shows(Pelosi, Clinton, Sebelius, McCaskill, etc.) to state that McCain-Palin policies are "Lipstick on a Pig" and challenge the McCain campaign to make it a gender issue with them. Take the fight to them, draw the fire away from Obama. What will the McCain's response be? Nada.
#3
Have a Press Conference During Palin's ABC Interview
Let's face it: regardless of how hard-hitting the questions are by Gibson, Palin will stick with the talking points (see her performance during the AK Gov Debate) and everyone will be talking about how great an interview she is the next day (kinda like the build up to her speech and the accolades afterwards). The McCain campaign is outmaneuvering the Obama campaign in handling her right now. So, it's time to preempt.
Have a press conference or rollout an big endorsement during her interview. Make a big announcement...it's time to step on her rollout with something that draws media attention. Stop wasting your time "responding" and start being more proactive (like you were in the primaries).
