I began including Barack Obama in my creative life after his first debate with Senator Clinton. I wanted him to take back his power. Thus I created a "Take back your Power" song and video for him, his wife Michelle, and everyone else; A musical guide for people to take back their powers together. After MOVE ON called for a 26 second Obama Ad, I reworked it for that.
You can see the 26 second MUSEic video Obama AD at:
http://journeyswithskyklark.blip.tv/#872682
Later I integrated the entire process from conception, through creation, to completion into one of my 30 minute TV shows, "JOURNEYS with SKYLARK". (You can see the TV show in Fort Collins, Colorado on Comcast Channel 97. It plays Tues. 10PM, Wed.8PM and Thurs. 10PM)
You can see a 3 miniute edit of the 30 minute show at:
http://journeyswithskylark.blip.tv/#1336735
Later on in the campaign three other women with healing and helping abilities gathered at my studio and we did a 'prayer' circle calling in light, love, power and protection for The Obamas. Special effects were used to show this spiritual light energy. You can see this 7 minute clip at:
http://journeyswithskylark.blip.tv#1427406
And when Senator Obama came to my home town of Fort Collins Colorado, I printed up press passes from our public access tv station and did a three camera shoot of his wonderful talk to the 50,000 people who came. You can see 10 minutes of that talk at:
http://journeyswithskylark.blip.tv/#1435208
(I really wish there were a way to having living links on this blog...or a way to coach us on how to do it if it is possible...So if someone on board sees this, please give me a notice at cskylark@comcast.net. Thanks!)
I'm commiting creative time, consciousness and TV expertise to world healing in every way I know. Please call on me to help. With great appreciation to President Elect Barack Obama for the position he now takes as a world helper, healer...savior. May peace, prosperity and enlightenment be the outcome. Carol Skylark
I'd like to see a TV or radio program scheduled regularly during prime time
Entertaining enough to attract segments of population who ordinarily wouldn't keep up with political news and factual and informative enough for the segment of population who defininitely do. A show for all people.......
One that outlines each of Obama's Teams, their purposes, plans, processes, progress, and successes. One that inspired and lets the American public know what they need to do to be involved and do their part. One that creates enthusiasm for Americans and other nations as well.
and One that creates unity of humanity, peace, and hope.
Once in a generation leadership
Seize the moment
I am my brothers keeper
The United States of America
The guy is special
Unusual
Good
Positive
Man...THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
BarakObama.com
So I see the recent McCain propoganda Ad that talks about Barack not having executive experience and how the next President needs to have that experience to deal with the first crisis they will face, the economy.
It occurs to me that our current President was governor of Texas for 8 years and has been President for nearly 8 years. That is 15-16 years of executive experience and he is clearly unable to handle this crisis (and many others). This leads me to assert that perhaps simply having executive experience has no bearing on how well someone can handle a crisis.
IF we want to ignore that and actually make the HUGE assumption that it makes a difference, how much executive experience does McCain have? The only thing I've been able to find online that MIGHT be construed as executive is that he was the leader of his flight wing.
This is a tired argument with no real merit. Let's talk about real issues and not red herrings.
Ralph H. Baer Joins the www.GamingKrib.com as an Advisor…“Father of the Video Game” in 1966 Ralph made a revolutionary invention: the video game - many of them. He is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry. In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for inventing the home console for video games and spawning the video game industry. In 2005, he recieved the “Legend Award” for his work in the development of video games.between learning and retaining math information.
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Barack Obama’s personal message and support of “The Gaming Krib” …”Thank you for all you do!”“But there’s one last ingredient that I just want to mention, and that’s parents. We can’t do it just in the schools. Parents are going to have to show more responsibility. They’ve got to turn off the TV set, put away the video games, and, finally, start instilling that thirst for knowledge that our students need.” Obama/McCain Debate #3 08′.
For immediate releaseSeptember 18, 2008 U.S House Subcommittee will ask FCC to examine harm to public, educational and governmental television In response to testimony from Alliance for Community Media members yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government voiced strong bi-partisan support for public, educational, and governmental (PEG) access for communities and asked the FCC to examine whether AT&T and other cable operators are in compliance with the Cable Act of 1984. In opening remarks, Subcommittee Chairman Congressman Jose Serrano (NY-D) and Congressman Mark Kirk (IL-R) expressed concern that local PEG access channels are in danger of declining or disappearing as a result of the current regulatory and business environment. Barbara Popovic, Executive Director of Chicago Access Network Television, representing the Alliance, and Michael Max Knobbe, president of the Alliance’s New York chapter, and Executive Director of BronxNet, presented testimony that detailed multiple problems with PEG access channel delivery arising out of recent actions by the FCC, state legislatures, the cable industry and AT&T. Problems that were outlined included a loss of funding and channels, movement of PEG to higher numbered channels (referred to as “channel slamming”), reduced quality and functionality of existing channels, and loss or reductions in public cable drops to schools, libraries and other public centers. Regarding the issues of AT& T’s treatment of PEG channels, Ms. Popovic said “Bottom line, AT&T, the company that promotes ‘choice’ in cable franchising, is giving viewers no choice when it comes to PEG.” Mr. Knobbe discussed the problems associated with channel slamming, which include additional costs to consumers to view PEG channels. FCC Media Bureau Chief Monica Desai agreed that at least one of these practices may be illegal, stating “We believe that placing PEG channels on any tier other than the basic service tier may be a violation of the statute.” When asked why the FCC was not enforcing that provision of the statute, Ms. Desai indicated that the FCC needed a formal complaint in order to act, and had not received any. In response, Subcommittee member Adam Schiff (CA-D) stated that he believed the FCC had authority to enforce the law whether or not they’d received complaints. In closing, Subcommittee Chairman Serrano (NY-D) and Representative Kirk (IL-R) announced that they would send a letter to the FCC asking it to deal with the issues raised at the hearing.
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The Alliance for Community Media is the national nonprofit membership organization representing the interests of over 3000 Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access organizations. For more information contact the Alliance at 202-393-2650.
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Photographs of the September 17 congressional hearing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29275533@N06/sets/72157607380961613/
For weeks I've been talking to my family in Cumming, GA about the elections. My dear sweet family who have been Democrats for decades are suddenly undecided or are thinking of going Republicans. What is there to decide I asked each and every one of them? There responses seem to come straight out of FOX's INBOX. "Make sure you see Olbermann or Hardball or the new Rachel Maddow Show" I yell in desperation! There answer? "WE DON'T HAVE MSNBC!" I didn't believe them. It couldn't be true! Well surprise surprise apparently the source of their influence is a political tactic that began on, or around August of this year, just in time to lie and plant deception for the upcoming elections! Not only did they pull MSNBC from standard cable in Cumming, GA and Boston and elsewhere (see more for link), it's been having a psychological dominio effect across the country where Comcast is available, or in control with people who don't frequent the internet. And guess who the culprit is?
Former Romney Spokeswoman Feddeman
I will be voting for Barack Obama on November 4, but not because I think he has all the answers. I'm voting for him because he's shown a willingness to TRY something. I fear that with the Republican ticket, we're going to end up with four more years of policies that have gone nowhere.
So, with this in mind, I wrote a lengthy note to the Obama camp and emailed said note to the campaign offices, Senate offices, and several Democratic blogs. The gist of my message is that they need to shift the message away from one of personalities back to the question of vision. The following is an excerpt from what I wrote:
Dear Guys & Gals of the Obama Campaign:
[...]
Anytime the media attempts to drag you into a debate about personalities, shift the question back to McCain's TOTAL LACK OF VISION. Hammer away at the idea that it takes more than adding a buzzword to a campaign to make that party about "change." Redefine the playing field. What about this approach: since the McCain camp isn't detailing the kind of so-called change they're talking about, since they're offering no VISION, why not go ahead and do it for them?
Create an ad in which you say something like this:
[Narrated by James Earl Jones]
"Now that the campaign is getting tough, John McCain is suddenly about CHANGE. But if that's the case, why hasn't he offered any specifics?
[Insert video clips of McCain saying "I don't know" or similar vague comments]
Since McCain won't, or simply can't, offer Americans a vision of what Republican change will be, we thought we'd give him a hand:
THE MCCAIN BRAND OF CHANGE:
- Even HIGHER unemployment rates than the recent historic high under Bush.
- Increased reliance on fossil fuels and new drilling that is harmful to our environment.
- At least seven Washington lobbyists operating in the White House.
- An expanded war in Iraq.
- More government bailouts that benefit Republican fat-cats.
- Increased alienation from the rest of the world.
- MORE and more of the same failed Bush policies.
With McCain, things will CHANGE in Washington all right--for the worse. Barack Obama, on the other hand, is for the RIGHT kind of change in Washington and America. He has a real vision for America, and he's been up-front about it from day one.
[Insert bullets on major issues]
Barack Obama...Change you can believe in.
John McCain...changing what he believes."
If you're a Democrat or Independent, make sure you're registered to vote, and MAKE SURE YOU VOTE on November 4.
If you're a Republican, feel free to stay home and complain.
It's about time! A local TV reporter in Maine had McCain on and finally asked him some tough questions about the issues. Needless to say, John McCain looked VERY uncomfortable. We need to spread this around!
Reporter: "Well, you say you're sure she has the experience but again I'm just asking for an example - what experience does she have in the field of national security?"McCain: "Sure. Energy. She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America. She is the Governor of a state where 20% of our energy supply comes from there and we all know that energy is a critical and vital national security issue. We've got to stop sending 700 billion dollars of American money to countries that don't like us very much. She's very well versed on that issue and she, uh, also represents is a Governor of a state that is right next to Russia and ah, ah, she really understands Russia and their newly aggressive behavior in the world which is also something that we have to be very concerned about."
Reporter: "Well, you say you're sure she has the experience but again I'm just asking for an example - what experience does she have in the field of national security?"
McCain: "Sure. Energy. She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America. She is the Governor of a state where 20% of our energy supply comes from there and we all know that energy is a critical and vital national security issue. We've got to stop sending 700 billion dollars of American money to countries that don't like us very much. She's very well versed on that issue and she, uh, also represents is a Governor of a state that is right next to Russia and ah, ah, she really understands Russia and their newly aggressive behavior in the world which is also something that we have to be very concerned about."
I don't know how people start email chains or get an internet movement going, but I have an idea - and if anyone reads this, maybe you can help pass it along.
Let's SHOW McCain how contemptible we find his ads. Let him waste the money. I say we tell everyone we know to change the channel or better yet turn off the TV whenever a McCain attack ad appears. If it isn't an ad about how McCain will make this country better, we don't want to watch it. Even if we can get noise going about this so that the mnedia cover it, that's something! It will show McCain we're serious!
If anyone thinks this is a good idea and knows how to get it done, please let m eknow. Or by all means get it done... Take it as your idea and run!!!
This is the email I sent to my friends (if you want, copy and paste it for your own use). I made it non-partisan so it can reach a wider audience:
We should tell politicians to stop running their negative attack ads. The best way to change behavior is through people's wallets. An ad that no one watches is a waste of money. Let's turn off the TV (or change the channel at least) when the negative ads run. Let's let the politicians know - if you're not telling me what you're going to do to make the country better, I don't want to hear it. If you think this is a good idea, please spread it to anyone else you think might be interested. We can take this country back!
My favorite CTA performer (and new bud), Albert Griffith/GQ/Tha Teacha, told me about Barack Obama's appearance on Letterman on Sept. 10. I missed it on TV, but found a video clip on the CBS web site. Here's the link to Letterman -- click on the picture of Dave and Barack to play the clip.
Also on Sept. 10, NPR played audio clips of John McCain and a host of other politicians using the good ol' "lipstick on a pig" phrase. McCain himself used it during the primary season to criticize Hillary Clinton's heath care initiative. Listen here to NPR clips. (Ugh, I can't believe even I am posting about this stupid non-issue.)
Thanks for the tip, Albert!Albert on this site: http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/grQfxAlbert on TPM: http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/gq
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TECHNOLOGY Tech Czar Might Rule Policy Under Obama
Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008
An administration run by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., would likely create a national technology czar with broad authority to develop policy, elevating high-tech issues to the cabinet level in a major recalibration of the government's approach to regulating the communications sector.
The move would have substantial implications for the FCC, an independent agency that could be answerable to a new layer of bureaucracy or bolstered by it, depending on political circumstances.
The plan is being floated by the Democratic presidential nominee's top tech-minded advisers and supporters, including FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, widely viewed as a contender to run the agency if Obama is elected.
"There's a need for a single source at a White House level to coordinate technology policy across different agencies," Adelstein told CongressDaily late last month after a speech in Denver at the Democratic National Convention.
"They're extremely serious about it," he said of the Obama team, describing the proposal as a "fundamental tenet" of the Democratic nominee's tech agenda.
A chief technology officer would play a lead role in developing national broadband policy, drawing on the expertise of a wide range of departments, including Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, EPA, HHS, HUD and Treasury.
The appointee also might coordinate inter-agency efforts to establish tax certificates designed to boost minority ownership of media properties, oversee spectrum policy and help improve the government's reliance on information technology.
But the idea of a federal tech czar is proving highly controversial, with critics raising concerns about the level of authority he or she would have and increased prospects for turf battles and gridlock that could undermine the overarching goal.
They emphasized that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy already tackles some responsibilities the CTO would be tasked with.
At a communications forum in July, three of Adelstein's FCC colleagues expressed caution.
Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps said he prefers to make the agency more independent rather than "politicizing" tech issues at the White House, although he is open to a more narrowly focused national broadband czar.
Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell suggested that each party's view of a CTO hinges on whether it controls the executive branch, while fellow GOP Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate also worried about harming the commission's independence.
Adelstein dismissed concerns that more bureaucracy and bickering would result. "I really think that there can be better coordination. The FCC alone can't deal with all of these issues," he said, adding that there is a need for a "central focus" on high-tech matters in the White House.
He insisted the proposal is not a byproduct of recent controversy about the commission's approach to regulation. "I think it's really a positive vision for how to improve and deal with some of the inadequacies of the last eight years," he said, referring to the Bush administration, which has been criticized by Democrats for ineffective regulations governing media and telecom companies.
Bill Kennard, who headed the FCC during the Clinton administration and is now a telecom and tech adviser to the Obama campaign, said no determination has been made about which government department, if any, a CTO would join. "We haven't gotten to that level of detail," he said. Kennard is now a managing director with the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm.
Ed Black, president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, was cautiously supportive, noting during an interview in Denver that a CTO would send a "symbolic message" about Obama's commitment to making technology a bigger priority.
But he cautioned that the new title is not a "silver bullet" for fixing years of what he insists has been neglect. "Such a person can be an advocate and a centralized place to get information," he said.
There have been technology officers at various agencies and departments in the Bush and Clinton administrations but there has never been a government-wide CTO.
Last year, the White House closed its Technology Administration, a division of the Commerce Department, and eliminated the title of undersecretary of technology, a role widely viewed as weak and ineffectual.
The Democratic Party platform calls for creating a CTO "to ensure we use technology to enhance the functioning, transparency and expertise of government," while the GOP platform does not broach the matter.
"I don't think that making a new presidential appointment and adding a layer to the federal government" is the solution, said former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a senior policy adviser to the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona during a recent interview with C-SPAN.
by David Hatch
We’ve all heard by now, I should think, that in February 2009, analog TV’s won’t receive broadcasts anymore (they’re all going digital). Well, the government is giving out coupons so you can get a free box which would allow you to get the digital signal. This got me thinking, if the government is giving out coupons for digital TV boxes so we can all watch TV, why don’t they give out coupons so everyone can ride bicycles?
If everyone rode bicycles, there would be no emissions going into the atmosphere. It wouldn’t cost us anything to fill up our gas tanks and we would become healthier.
The only drawback I see is people won’t drive bikes, for a variety of reasons. Distance from home to work is too great is probably the biggest one, but excuses like “I don’t know how to ride,” are just that: excuses. You can learn to ride. You can learn to do anything. It’s whether or not you’ve got the incentive to do it. That’s the question.
Imagine if half the US population, (half the US population is 150 million people), started riding bicycles everywhere they went. It would change our culture. This would probably happen in urban areas first, given the distances, with Rural America sticking to autos. But slowly, things would change. The air would be cleaner, the gas prices would be lower, Global Warming would be slowed down (perhaps not a lot, but some), and America would shed pounds.
All it would take is a coupon.
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How are you doing today? I have entitled this blog entry "Marriage and Divorce, Oregon Style", because for whatever reasons these people have, Oregon laws are written more or less the same as all the rest of the other States, but in practice it is a very different kettle of fish altogether, especially if the Matlands are involved in either doing the ceremonies, or the courthouse for Linn County are doing the divorces.Or yet again, if it is one of the many marriages that the Matlands are actually participating in, when being the new spouse.
So let us look at this a bit closer.There are obviously both men and women at the homeless shelter, and being normal and having the need to be loved or feel wanted, some meet and fall in love.Then they look towards the pastor or the minister to perform the ceremony for however much it is that Matlands charge nowadays.This is supposed to be the happiest day of one's life.By taking money for doing the ceremony,and they most definately do, and the Matlands not being ordained, that alone is fraud.One marriage ceremony whereby the people are charged, can be prosecuted.Think how many have taken place over thirty odd years.
So OK, Matlands will do nearly anything for money.I can understand that.They know that this is fraud, but choose to go ahead anyway.Now I am only referring to people/couples who meet up and fall in love, who either live at the shelter or in the area and think that Matlands really are genuine, and therefore ask them to perform the service.That is fine.Those people are innocent to the crime that they unwittingly get embroiled in.The records of that union are placed in Linn County Courthouse and Oregon Vital Statistics, or when Matlands were in Cave Junction, they were kept in Josephine County Courthouse.
But what when it is one of the Matlands themselves who find a new victim, who usually comes from the homeless shelter and there is perhaps no family that seem to know that that person is perhaps even staying there? Whichever Matland is on the prowl , they chat the unsuspecting person up, letting them see what good church people they are, and impress them with tales of all of the properties that they own, and in general, give them the full spiel, and perhaps that person thinks that they are on to a good little number anyway.But having said that, they still have absolutely no idea of course that this is part of a big scam.So the paperwork is filled out, lodged in the court and the Marriage ceremony goes ahead.Then just weeks or months later, that person is seeing that not everything is as it first appeared.Matlands will work your butt off, open bank accounts, put utilities in your name, steal your mail, and if you have children which came with this new spouse(for want of a better word)put them to work, use and abuse them, and they will do that to the spouse as well.If there is any money to be got from welfare, Food Stamps, or anything that gives Matlands more money, then Gale would be the one to sort that as she is the one who deals with the paperwork because she is a trained forger. She was trained by the best when in California working in a clothing sweat shop.She wanted more money, so they trained her to do the books and the art of forgery.And believe me, she is good at it.What she doesn't know, isn't worth knowing.And you only have to look at what she is doing today, to know how good she is.Right under all of your noses.
So we have the illegal marriage. We have the new spouse sort of getting an idea that not is all as it should be. Nobody perhaps is contacting him/her and they are feeling more and more isolated from past friends and family and 'their mail' and they are not allowed to use the phones.So alarm bells have to surely be ringing in their heads.On top of this there is the violence, plus they have to work their socks off for the Mission, in one capacity or another and therefore have no time to think hardly, let alone cop on that they are just being used for whatever Matlands had plans on using them for.
Then comes the time when they have to leave this situation and find that the Matlands are not wanting that to happen and so do everything to make sure that that person is going nowhere.I have already described some of their tactics whereby they will chase you down like they are a posse, whereby they use their vehicles instead of horses,then God help you if they catch you, then see what happens to you.But that is not the subject of this entry.One man who married Gale had three children. The paperwork went on file, however it was not worth a light.The situation for him became so intolerable that in the end, he had to escape in the middle of the night.But had to leave his children behind with the intention of returning in the daylight to pick them up when he had found a place to take them.Matlands refused to part with his children and things got so serious that he had to go to the police to get a 'Writ of Assistance' to get them back.Now you would think that that was quite straight foreward.The children were only two, three and five years old when this illegal marriage took place.Surely wouldn't the police simply go and knock on Matlands door and pick the children up. It's not as if Gale gave birth to any of them or that Gale had been married to this man for any length of time. But NO! Matlands wanted those three children for their evil purposes.Money being one.To get those children back, the police had to trick the Matlands and when they were out of the way on the street, other police went in and grabbed them back.Had Matlands have not had to part with them, according to Gale, they would have been counted as orphans and were worth far more to them.But doesn't it make one wonder if perhaps there was not a more sinister plan and were they perhaps going to sell them on like a lot of other children were in Oregon, which of course you can read about on the 'Voice for 'Children Website, listed on my Links section.And be sure to see the names of who is featured on the Hall of Shame, pages and read the Supreme Court Hearings and listen to the video recordings and read "The Truth is on Trial" pages and then if you live in Oregon and are reading this, you will see so many of the people whom Oregonians are supposed to look up to.They are the very same people that are running your State offices and courts and SCF and in the Children's Ombudsman's office.
So I am going to close this part of the blog and return with some more food for thought following the divorces that took place with Matlands as Petitioner.
