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Dr. Ralph Stanley Endorses Obama

2008-10-10T07:16:17-05:00

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Reproductive Rights attacked

2008-09-25T18:33:51-05:00

We have just under 24 hours left for our effort to stop the Bush administration’s latest attack on women’s health care. We need you to act now, before the midnight deadline on September 25.

The Bush administration has issued a rule that would limit the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate reproductive health information when they visit a health care provider. It’s more of the Bush administration’s bad medicine, and this is our last chance to stop it. This new rule could allow individual health care providers to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control — and then refuse to provide these basic services.

A woman’s ability to manage her own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology. We have until September 25 at midnight to voice our opposition. While the country’s attention is focused on the upcoming election, the current president seems determined to do as much damage as he can before he leaves office. We have just one more day to voice our opposition to the Bush administration rule.

Please take a moment right now to add your name to the hundreds of thousands of others who will not stand by and let this happen without a fight. It is during crises like this when your support for Planned Parenthood and the people we serve is most needed. Click here to add your voice. Thank you for standing with us, and please keep an eye out for future updates on this vital issue.

Sincerely,

Cecile Richards,

President Planned Parenthood Federation of America
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Debate-Impressions?

2008-09-26T22:51:51-05:00

I could only listen on NPR-interested to see what you folks who could see it thought…

The Internet - Political Smears

2008-10-06T17:31:23-05:00

People are kicking around YouTube videos alleging some very strange things happening around Obama’s campaign..Many have already been exposed but here’s a link to some more that need serious investigation. I’m all for freedom of speech but that should not include outright lies and sham videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEQz5dltmI

http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/category/videos/

US Army Brigade Being Assigned to the ‘Homeland’

2008-10-05T12:27:28-05:00

Why has this not been seen in the mainstream media?
This was passed 9/30/08!
“For the first time ever, the US military is deploying an active duty regular Army combat unit for full-time use inside the United States to deal with national emergencies, including terrorism, natural disasters and civil unrest.”
Read about it:
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/09/30/us-army-brigade-deploys-for-homeland-mission/

Is this a direct violation of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights? Could it be they are anticipating massive protests againsts what is going on with the bail out? Could it have something to do about Congress holding a closed door meeting in March-the first in 179 years? They said it was over FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ). They were warned that in September we would be broke and by February of 09 there will be no money for SS medicare. Could it be they are being trained to be used in the case the President decides to declare martial law and send in this force to “prevent an escalation in violence and aggression against the US government.” Is is a way of controlling the American populatiom when you refuse to give up power? This is scary stuff, wake up people!
Read more about this:
http://swfreedomlover.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/us-army-to-assist-law-enforcement-in-the-us/

No body found in Steve Fosset’s plane wreckage.

2008-10-02T12:10:08-05:00

Well the mystery continues. Was he in the possession of a parachute during the flight and was it located at the wreckage site?

I remember being part of a recovery team in No. Wash. State back in the seventies. We recovered a body of a ANG pilot lost for 11 years in a wilderness area along the Canadian border. The body lay in the open for all those years and only a few parts were missing, the skull was found several hundred feet away down a steep slope. The right arm from the shoulder down were never found. Ouch. Despite the tragic circumstances we had a grand time camping a trekking through the alpine meadows and forests of the area and taking in the sublime mountain scenery.

For closure purposes, (seems Steve is still subject to the current economic climate), I hope they find his body soon so his family can find peace.

Magazine Subscriptions

2008-09-26T17:21:56-05:00

Anybody else receiving “junk mail” from magazines like the one I received from GQ today? It was a bill for $23 coupled with the following:

Your order has been received and your first issue is on the way.

This is just the last of several such “offers” received in the last week or so. I grow suspicious that somebody is signing me up for this stuff. Is that possible? Who would so such a thing is easily answered but what to do about it is the question.

You Could Always Vote Green

2008-10-01T15:20:31-05:00

Er, or maybe not. Damn, McKinney, you crazy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nc-DouFzYM&eurl=http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/01/mckinney-dod-shot-5000-prisoners-during-katrina/

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

2008-09-30T23:13:45-05:00

This is an illuminating look at Iran from an insider’s point of view, a must read for anybody who really wants top understand the Iranian people and learn why we SHOULD not go to war with Iran over loud mouth Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vitriolic rhetoric. He was the featured guest on the Daily show Monday night. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=186077&title=hooman-majd

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In this critical but affectionate portrait of Iranian politics and culture, Majd, the Western-educated grandson of an ayatollah, delves into the very core of Iranian society, closely examining social mores and Farsi phrases to identify the Persian sensibility, which, Majd determines, cherishes privacy, praise and poetry. Nothing is too small or too sweeping for Majd to consider, and although he announces his allegiance to the former president Khatami, he remains scrupulously even-handed in assessing his successor Ahmadinejad, shedding light on the Iranian president’s obsession with the Holocaust and penchant for windbreakers and why the two are (surprisingly) intertwined. The author’s brisk, conversational prose is appealing; his book reads as if he is chatting with a smart friend, while strolling around Tehran, engaged in ta’arouf (an exaggerated form of self-deprecation key to understanding Persian society). Although Majd seems to gloss too quickly over realities that don’t engage his interest—women’s voices are only intermittently included—this failing scarcely mars this remarkable ride through what is often uncharted territory.

http://www.amazon.com/Ayatollah-Begs-Differ-Paradox-Modern/dp/0385523343/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222830236&sr=8-1

Financial Crisis

2008-09-19T23:24:15-05:00

What say you, forum members?

Is anyone here really concerned about what’s going on? The loan industry could very well be in a state of collapse, and no matter what your station (or perceived station) everyone will be affected in some shape way or form.
Personally, my investments are self-destructing and, mostly, I’m powerless to stop it. So much for privatized social security.
Now the government is proposing some astronomical bailout. With that, I leave you with Michelle Malkin’s take on it. For once, some of you may agree with her
(somewhat. maybe).

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/19/the-mother-of-all-bailouts-the-death-of-fiscal-conservatism/