Sen. John McCain told the NAACP and some skeptical black voters Wednesday that he will expand education opportunities, partly through vouchers for low-income children to attend private school.
The likely Republican presidential nominee addressed the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest civil rights organization.
Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman reponded to McCain's speech.
In a statement released by the Democratic National Committee, Columbus (Ohio) Mayor Michael Coleman said despite McCain’s warm words of support, his record tells a different story.
“What Sen. McCain did not say to the NAACP was that he has voted against funding for disadvantaged students at least 12 times in his career; he has voted four times against hiring high-quality teachers to high-needs schools; he has voted against increasing funds for dropout prevention; and he has voted repeatedly against increasing funds for Head Start,” Coleman said in the statement.
He also criticized McCain’s record on No Child Left Behind, saying McCain did not vote to adequately fund the program and that the senator’s education plan lacked specifics.
As Senator John McCain addresses the NAACP national convention in Cincinnati, we're betting he's not going to mention his own voting record on civil rights.
Did you know---
McCain has earned an F from the NAACP for every grading period during his 25 years in the U.S. House and Senate. His record has only gotten worse over the years – from a career high of voting in agreement with the NAACP 50% of the time in 1985-86 to his all-time low of 7% in 2005-2006.
McCain voted AGAINST 1983 legislation establishing the federal holiday marking Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Back home in Arizona, he supported Gov. Evan Mecham's decision in 1987 to rescind an executive order in which Mecham’s predecessor created a state holiday for King. [HR 3706, Vote 289, 8/2/83; CQ 1983]
McCain called the Confederate Flag a symbol of heritage: 'Some view it as a symbol of slavery...others view it as a symbol of heritage. Personally, I see the battle flag as a symbol of heritage,'" McCain said. [New York Times, 4/20/00, San Diego Union Tribune, 1/18/00]
Learn More about McCain's Civil Rights Voting Record
Obama’s speech in front of the NAACP
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Several of the Philanthropy organizations mentioned here were selected by Congress to be watchdogs over the growing number of Veteran and Patriotic related charities.
I personally worked with the American Philanthropy Institute (API) that gave testimony before Congress on the shameful inefficiency of many well known Veterans Service Organizations and the ever increasing number of Patriotic causes from Yellow Ribbons to Recruitment mass mailings, up to an including fraudulent claims that in order to get one's Veterans Benefits, one had to join the American Legion.
I brought these complaints to the attention of both the U.S. Postal Inspectors Service and Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. I even asked then Ohio Attorney General Mark Dann to review the accounts on file with the Charity Office of the Ohio Attorney General to see for himself that several Veterans Organizations such as the American Legion and VFW were mismanaging fund raising efforts focused more so on recruitment outreach, administrative overhead, and paying off commercial ad agencies.
Both the federal Postal Service and Senator Brown's office tried to discourage pursuit of these findings or any investigation FEARING the political clout of the American Legion and VFW.
I frankly gave up by deciding myself and extended military family, plus anyone else who would listen to me TO NOT DONATE TO ANY PATRIOTIC OR VETERANS CHARITY UNTIL THEIR LEADERSHIP CLEANED UP ITS ACT AND MORE SO UNTIL AT LEAST HERE IN OHIO such mismanagement and inefficiency in fund raising is EXPOSED and FIXED.
Folks, we are heading into hard economic times that impact ALL CHARITABLE organizations even as these Flag Waving and Support Out Troops groups proliferate. Ohio politicians of both parties are looking the other way, so it is up to you THE DONOR to check with the Ohio Attorney Generals Office and ask for a review of all charitable organizations to confirm $$$ they are raising is going toward the purpose YOU expected.
Anyway, this is my way of A CAUTIONARY NOTE to those Veterans', Military Family, and passionate Patriotic Organizations that have set up POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES. When it comes time for a white glove audit of the fund raising accounts of charitable patriots, those with a PAC are going to receive the most attention, and better have your fund raising accounts balanced in favor of your membership and mission.
Bobby Hanafin
Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired
PS: Those of you who believe I'm being too harsh on Patriotic War Profiteers, and Veterans Organizations (regardless how much political clout they do or do not have), take my word for it (or goe to any base and request a community tour or visit).
You will note that the Army and Air Force Exchange Service and DOD Commissary Agency provides more support for our troops, even those stationed in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan more so than anytime America has been at war. OUR TROOPS ARE ALWAYS PROVIDED SUPPORT BY CONGRESS AND THEIR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, that is their job and our tax payer dollars in action. There frankly is no need to give donations to any active duty troops or families (National Guard units could use as much moral support as possible given proximity to active duty base support is questionable).
EXAMPLE: In order to make an in their face POINT to Flag Wavers and We Support Our Troops more than thou nuts, I wear a T-Shirt that has the Military Star Card emblazed on the front and back. War profiteers HATE to see someone who knows how our troops are really supplied PROVE IT!
Put another way, our troops received better shopping and entertainment support than they did war fighting equipment going into the occupation. IN SUM, OUR TROOPS ARE NOT CHARITY CASES, SO WHY SHOULD THEY BE CONSIDERED AS SUCH WHEN THEY GET OUT???? Read More »
Our military family was thrilled to note that progressive PACs have beat this effort to the punch in battleground states by launching counter campaign ads focusing on that which American Voters can relate to - HOW MUCH THE WAR IN IRAQ COST IN $$$$$$$$$$
Stay on that theme, and as the economy worsens, and it will the longer we Stay in Iraq, that RELATIONSHIP will checkmate anything that PRO-WAR Veterans and Military Families have to say. Also, remember that those 20,000 or so mention below VOLUNTEERED to go to Iraqnam, and VOLUNTEER to stay. If that is true then 20,000 is just about the right number to garrison Iraq and Afghanistan as we pull out. SEND THOSE 20,000 back to or keep them in Iraq and Afghanistan then allow those who volunteer not to stay LEAVE.
Why do WE THE PEOPLE have to make everything so complicated. Oh, the icing on the cake. If 20,000 Veterans can afford a Million bucks to pay for PRO-WAR campaigns, they sure can raise the funds needed to PAY FOR THE WAR. There should be a tax cut for any American who does not want to pay for the War in Iraq. That way those Americans (regardless of party) who passionately want to commit to the War on Terror can do so. HAVE AT IT!!! Read More »
By E. J. Dionne Jr. Washington Post
Monday, July 7, 2008; A13
EXERPTS (LINKS TO SOURCE TO BE FOUND IN COMMENTS SECTION)
Posted by Bobby Hanafin
Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired
"When a candidate calls a second news conference to say the same thing he thought he said at the first one, you know he knows he has a problem."
With that lead in, Washington Post some OP/editorial commenter, I never heard of throws out a pun about Republican efforts to trap Obama in a Catch 22 on Iraq that they hope will either cost him votes or degrade any trust in swing voters that Obama would seriously end the Iraq War, if all "appears" to be going well with what could become an EXTENDED SURGE.
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In a review of Obama's Zanesville visit, The New York Times says: "Obama's high-profile embrace of a key theme of Bush's time in office -- the 'faith-based initiative' -- is just the latest example of him trying to show his centrist side."
If I didn't know the guy was a professor of constitutional law and actually cared about things like the rights of nonbelievers and the importance of separation of church and state, I'd be worried. But he does.
In his outreach to evangelicals, Obama needs to watch out for charity workers who proselytize, religious-based organizations that restrict health care services to the public, religious leaders who distort the abortion issue, and a holy host of other stuff. He knows that.
He also knows that it's worth the effort to extend a hand to religious folks. Even those suspicious of organized religion like I am have to admit that churches are the strongest social group in many Ohio neighborhoods. Church groups drive anti-poverty programs and are a rallying point for all types of social causes.
Unlike the online community, the faith-based community represents warm bodies with their shirt sleeves rolled up and ready to offer help.
Like the man said, "We need an all-hands-on-deck approach." (And I love the quasi-military phrasing.)
As tax-free institutions, I believe churches are obligated to give back not only to their members, but also to the community at large. This is a much broader task than just giving to the needy. ("Needy," in itself is problematic...Who decides who's needy?)
In Columbus, there are some black pastors (sorry I don't know their names) who have been working with the city on its new curfew law and mentoring young people. I applaud these men and their genuinely faith-based efforts.
In many neighborhoods, churches and synagogues can best support their communities by giving young people (especially teens) some place to gather. When I was a kid, churches sponsored Friday night "coffeehouses" and group activities for teens. Today, no church seems to want the liability.
My point is there are many worthy faith-based ventures that do not require federal funding.
Reposted on ProgressOhio courtesy of Veterans for Common Sense (VCS)
On Saturday, June 28, 2008, without fanfare, scheduled media attention, or photo-ops, Senator Barack Obama stopped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center to visit wounded war veterans, a group that he has said endured and continues to endure substandard care under the Bush administration.
Obama was in DC to speak to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, spent about two hours inside Walter Reed. On his way in and out, he did not speak to the small group of reporters who follow him, and the visit wasn't on his public schedule.
ROBERT L. HANAFIN, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired
(THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF ANY POLITICAL CANDIDATE BY EITHER MYSELF OR VETERANS FOR COMMON SENSE (VCS) WHICH I AM A MEMBER OF - MAJOR HANAFIN)
Read More »Some black gays seem so happy and gay. Not me.I'm still as pessimistic as ever. These days I don't see
anything that looks good in the world for some black gays.Especially if they don't look gay. I've been sexually harassed so many times by black women that I can't see straight . I know that black women are desperate for men but really. Some have taken their
lack of companionship to new heights.
Most gay bars that I go to seem extremelly right wing. I just got back from Cleveland for a few days where I went to the Leather Stallion and had to sit through a boring conversation with some old white queen who seemed compelled to let me know that she was a man of wealth and means .a( if I were supposed to be impressed).The queen also talked about how American foreign policy shouldn't negotiate with it's percieved enemies.I was really turned off and went back to my hotel alone.
Step 1 - Click on Voter Registration Instruction Manual for Designated Agencies: High Resolution (pdf)
OR:
Click on Voter Registration Instruction Manual for Designated Agencies: Low Resolution (pdf)
Step 2 - Access Sec1:29 (34 of 46)
Step 3 - Read (D) "A board of elections shall not be required to distribute a copy of a brochure under division (B) of this section to any of the following officials or employees are requesting more than two voter registration forms at one time in the course of the official's or emplloyee's normal duties:
(1) An election official;
(2) A county treasurer
(3) A deputy registrar of motor vehicles;
(4) An employee of a designated agency;
(5) An employee of a public high school;
(6) An employee of a public vocational school;
(7) An employee of a public library
(8) An employee of the office of a county treasurer;
(9) An employee of the bureau of motor vehicles;
(10) An employee of a deputy registrar of motor vehicles;
(11) An employee of an election official.
I need to say at this point I am definitely NOT open to conversation addressing the relative merits of this law and rationalizations of why this law is okay. It is not okay. The following is "off the table for me":
1. If people really want the info, they'll get it.
2. Anybody can just print it off from the web.
3. Nobody reads these things.
4. Our taxes shouldn't be used to pay for this.
5. Single mothers/fathers and married mothers/fathers on welfare know everything there is to know about benefits. They can just as easily get this information if they cared.
I've been hearing the above opinions frequently in many different contexts. The above 5 statements have been made by normal middle class individuals who lead genuinely self - sacrificing lives to help others.
Obviously, I'm not an attorney. I wish for a magical filing of an emergency temporary (effective AT THE VERY LEAST until all formal results of the November 2008 Presidential Election are made public) injunction in a Federal District Court to shut this withholding of the paper copy of the 2008 Ohio Voter Information Guide DOWN.
Frankly, I believe that part of this is political arrogance by Democratic candidates that they or their campaign staff do not recognized PEACE groups, especially a by-state organized grassroots movement BIG MISTAKE. I would be the first to point fingers at the Republican Party, it is a given they are ARROGANT, except at least one Republican has the humility to fill out and acknowledge these most serious state and national issues.
Given, a few candidates from all parties have already stated their positions on the issues via their online campaign websites. If that be true, at the minimum respond to Voters for Peace and tell us that.
Of note, on the Ohio State page of Voters for Peace, yes WE are a presence here; ProgressOhio is listed as one of our resources. We depend on you to answer this CALL TO ACTION.
Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired Read More »
Meet Paula Abeles:
Paula Abeles emailed Politico yesterday to complain that her group had gotten short shrift in a blog item, writing, "I initiated the teleconference [of Clinton supporters] with McCain on Saturday and was solely responsible for the guest list." Another Clinton backer at the event, Will Bower, confirmed that she was "integral" to assembling the group.
When she's not busy shilling for McCain her hobbies include pretending to be a 67 year old black woman on the internet, goading Thomas Jefferson's black offspring into saying something offensive so she had reason to ban them from the family reunion.
"It might have been childish, but I really think I was working in the best interest of the majority of the family members to make the reunion a calm and civilized gathering," she said.
And remember Clayton Williams, McCain's money bundler who thinks rape is hilarious?
Well, the McCain camp called off the fundraiser at his house, but then decided they really wanted the $300,000 and are going to have the event anyway, in a different venue.
Hot on the heels of TerroristFistJabGate, Fox News once again outdoes itself by repeatedly referring to Michelle Obama as "Obama's Baby Mama."
Per that authoritative fount of slang knowledge, Urban Dictionary, a Baby Mama is: "The mother of your child(ren), whom you did not marry and with whom you are not currently involved."
Given that this wasn't an off-handed comment by a guest, but a prepared description of the discussion, this is particularly disgraceful.
Update: A woman who has complained bitterly - and understandably - about racial stereotypes defends Fox News' use of the term "Baby-Mama" to describe Michelle Obama.
http://citybeat.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A145328
The real story - drop down to the bottom where it says "Dining." Click on that link. Look for a photo paired with the title "Still Crazy After All These Years."
According to the National Black Republican Association, the 2008 Victory Plan is elegant in its simplicity:
To win, all John McCain has to do is win 25% of the black vote.
The delusion known as the 2008 Victory Plan has four steps:
- Recruit and train black church and community leaders to spread our conservative Republican message
- Script, produce and air our hard-hitting radio and TV ads for black radio and TV outlets
- Put up MLK billboards across America
- Publish and distribute our very effective magazine, The Black Republican
Read The Full Post at Halfway There
When I get discouraged about the level of political discourse in America, I say to myself, 'at least our politicians don't resort to fistfights.'
Then there's this.... Congratulations, New Zealand you'll no longer be known as that one country where they shot Lord of the Rings.
How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes
http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html
Printer-friendly Word file:
http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.doc
PowerPoint Presentations, Spreadsheets, and a Database
are linked in the article.
Excerpts and Conclusions:
In a subset of 166,953 votes, one of every 34 Ohio voters, the Kerry-Bush margin shifts six percent when the population is sorted by outcomes of wrong-precinct voting.
In a subset of 47,404 votes, the Kerry-Bush margin shifts 6.3% when the population is sorted by outcomes of wrong-precinct voting.
Sorting the same population by vote-switching probability distinguishes a 6.3% difference in Kerry margins. This result infers about three percent of Kerry votes were switched to Bush. Random cross-voting can NOT explain the disparities revealed by comparison of distinct cross-vote probability subsets. Fraudulent Kerry-Bush vote-switching cannot be ruled out.
Conclusions
The 2004 Ohio Presidential voting results do not accurately reflect voter intentions. In Cuyahoga County, the election was flawed and the design appears to have been manipulated. At locations with several ballot orders in use, many votes were cast by voters crossing precincts, hence counted other than as intended. At precincts with the highest Kerry support, the percentage of uncounted votes is inexplicably high. The obvious inference--intentional manipulation produced concentrated undercounting, cross-voting, and vote-switching in areas of highest Kerry support--cannot be ignored in the face of the evidence and statistics. The possibility that ballots were switched to different precincts, post-voting to effect vote-switching, must be considered in a complete chain of custody context.
Many individual ballots resulted in a vote-switch, a two-vote margin difference from the intended result. Switched-votes cast for Kerry and counted for Bush had twice the impact as their actual occurrence, by each subtracting one from Kerry and adding one to Bush. Bush and Kerry votes also went uncounted as non-votes or were miscounted as minor candidate votes. A high percentage of all Cuyahoga County votes were cast at locations with multiple ballot orders. The manner in which precincts and ballot orders were combined increased the probability of a Kerry cross-vote being recorded as a Bush vote. Quantitative analyses of candidate votes and of non-vote percentages evidence the cross-voting and the patterns of cross-voting and vote-switching.
Sorting locations and precincts to their specific cross-voting probability subsets reveals intended voting patterns and the degree of cross-voting. The combinations of ballot orders and precincts at polling locations enables quantitative analysis of cross-voting and vote-switching. The complexity of the election's organization--the great number of combinations of ballot orders and locations--also makes the task of determining the number of cross-votes laborious and complex. While that process is not concluded herein, the procedures so far taken in this study define the process. This process may be more easily applied to other Ohio counties given less-complex ballot order combinations.
Any official inquiry into the 2004 irregularities needs to be independent of political interests, and monitored by political interests. The fact that the irregularities discussed herein are known and have been reported to multiple jurisdictions and law enforcement entities, and yet no official inquiry into the election has occurred, illustrates the broader failure of the current election process and judicial system to respond to election fraud and irregularities or to hold officials accountable for their actions. Polling places should never have been arranged such as in Ohio, with multiple ballot orders and separate casting and counting devices. Measures are required to prevent the possibility of similar future flawed election designs. To this end, control of elections should be removed from competing political interests and actors to politically-independent processes, with at the least, independent and political oversight of elections.
Many more conclusions remain to be made as study and analysis continues. The 2004 Ohio election ballots must be preserved to allow further investigations. If this study illustrates anything, hopefully it is the degree to which this problem has not yet been fully considered, and the complete failure of officials to respond. During an era of new voting system technologies and reforms, careful consideration of past errors may prove useful in avoiding their repetition and in preventing future abuses of process and power.
The 2004 Ohio Presidential election remains to be fully investigated. The blatant evidence of irregularities and unfairness of organization continues to be ignored by most jurisdictional authorities informed of the evidence. I thank those few authorities pursuing this matter further.
NY Media Covers Single-Payer Rally; PA Media Ignores Single-Payer Legislative and Political Gains
Did you hear? On Monday, May 12th, 2008, fewer than fifty paces from the Capitol Media Center, in Harrisburg's Capitol Rotunda, more than two hundred citizen lobbyists -- members of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Medical Student Association (our future physicians, IF we pass Single-Payer), the League of Women Voters, the Council of Churches, the Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, Healthcare for All Pennsylvania, organized labor, and the business community -- held a news conference and rally in support of Single-Payer universal healthcare's House Bill 1660 and Senate BIll 300.
Like a tree falling in a distant forest, with no mainstream media (MSM) present to record the event, you probably hadn't heard.
If you depend on the Pennsylvania Capitol Media Corps to inform you of such significant advances in our Commonwealth's democracy, you may be forgiven for not knowing. Again. But please don't repeat the mistake. Again.
This isn't the first time Pennsylvania's MSM has ignored the compelling economic ($10B+ in savings), moral (millions of lives saved and improved), and democratic (65% in poll after poll) arguments of its diverse citizen voices in support of the Single-Payer Solution. The MSM must be forgiven; they don't deal well with rationality -- you know, argument, evidence, and analysis.
Pennsylvania's finest reporters -- those who cover state politics -- also skipped the formal introduction of the citizen-crafted "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act" (twice, in 2005 and 2007); ducked a public hearing before the Democratic House Policy Committee (February 2007); avoided the first-ever single-payer hearing in front of a standing committee, the House Health and Human Services Committee, on March 19, 2008; and drop-kicked the public endorsements of the 900,000-member AFL-CIO, the 35-chapter League of Women Voters, the 20-denomination Council of Churches, numerous business leaders, and many, many more.
Fortunate for our democracy, news editors and editorial board members across the state assure us that their non-coverage is "not systematic." Whew! Had us worried there.
Just to prove that missing historic healthcare legislative milestones has nothing to do with institutional biases, advertising revenues from 'you-know-who,' lack of professionalism, laziness, cynicism, fatalism, and/or fear, we hear -- time and again -- that information gathering papers, TV networks, and radio stations are simply "short-staffed." "We can't be everywhere," reporters and editors repeatedly cry.
We shouldn't be so harsh on the MSM failing to note our broad-based coalition's critical events related to a paultry ninety-eight percent (98%) of Pennsylvanians directly threatened with personal bankruptcy should they/we endure a debilitating illness, accident, or other catastrophic medical condition. Poor media... Or is it rich media, poor democracy?
So there you have it, folks.
As I've written repeatedly over the last few months, the Single-Payer Solution that tackles the economics, morality, and democracy of healthcare delivery through common wealth, common sense, and common purpose, will pass the State House and State Senate, and be signed into law by Governor Rendell in 2009. But you won't hear about it or see it in the so-called Fourth Estate. No, you'll find out about it through e-mail, blogs, paper pamphlets, and word-of-mouth...
We are democracy -- you and me.
Civilized Healthcare is ours to win, person by person, legislator by legislator. 2008 is the year to educate and organize, research and lobby, campaign and elect Single-Payer candidates. 2009 is the year Pennsylvania delivers a 1776-like earthquake: passing and enacting the Single-Payer Solution (HB 1660/SB 300) -- the state-level model for saving the United States economy, American lives, and American-style democracy.
Mark my words. Mark this message. Share it with your fellow citizens. Crank up your efforts. Educate and organize, research and lobby, campaign and elect. Single-Payer. Civilized Healthcare.
Yours in reason, common sense, and common purpose,
Chuck
It is indeed puzzling that so many Republican members of Ohio's congressional delegation voted no on H.R. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day” (full warm and fuzzy text here).
...until you consider the origins of Mother's Day.
Julia Ward Howe, who penned The Battle Hymn of the Republic, also authored a mothers' Declaration calling on women to oppose war, and worked to get recognition of a Mother’s Day for Peace. Says Code Pink: "Were she alive today, Julia probably would have told her kids to dispense with the roses and chocolates, and instead join her in an anti-war rally. Yes, Julia Ward Howe was a peacenik."
[Howe] saw some of the worst effects of the [civil] war -- not only the death and disease which killed and maimed the soldiers. She worked with the widows and orphans of soldiers on both sides of the war, and realized that the effects of the war go beyond the killing of soldiers in battle. She also saw the economic devastation of the Civil War, the economic crises that followed the war, the restructuring of the economies of both North and South.In 1870, Julia Ward Howe took on a new issue and a new cause….She called in 1870 for women to rise up and oppose war in all its forms. She wanted women to come together across national lines, to recognize what we hold in common above what divides us, and commit to finding peaceful resolutions to conflicts. She issued a Declaration, hoping to gather together women in a congress of action.
Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother's Day for Peace, but her effort was carried on by Anna Jarvis, who had organized women during the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and then toward reconciliation of Union and Confederate neighbors.
Jarvis’ daughter, of the same name, then took up the campaign for Mother’s Day. After the custom spread to 45 states, President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother’s Day in 1914.
Julia Ward Howe's Mothers' Declaration:
Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
Maybe Pryce, Schmidt, Tiberi, Chabot, Boehner, Regula, LaTourette, Hobson, and Turner have a thing against moms. But YOU can make this Mother's Day a Mother's Day For Peace.
Help CodePink help Iraqi refugee moms here.
Send a MomsRising Mother's Day card and tell the presidential candidates to fight for family-friendly policies. here.
Oh and don't forget to call the Congressional Switchboard at 1-800-839-5276 to give the above members of Congress a piece of your mind about H.R. 1113.
Do you have another suggestion for honoring Julia Ward Howe's Mothers' Declaration? Are you a mom working for peace? Leave a comment below.
The words "Extra Judicial Procedures","Extraordinary Rendition," the loss of our Habeas Corpus and Magna Carta expectations were enabled by multiple passages of The American Patriot Act.
The alledged victims of the alledged sexual harrassment are adults who can figure out on their own that The Ohio Civil Rights Commission is the agency available - should THEY wish to avail themselves of the legal system without a lynchmob mentality.
On April 3, 2008 several news stories broke centering on a serious fine imposed by The Ohio Elections Commission on David Brennan, a Charter school corporate heavy, known as The White Hat Managment. The fine imposed was to the tune of $5.2 million dollars. Jennifer Brunner AND Mark Dann AND The Ohio Election Commission have been credited with identifying the sleazy money problem in August of 2007. Mark Dann has taken on other well - heeled Charter schools that have devasted our public monies and our children. The above heavy, David Brennan can be found on the list of G.W. Bush campaign contributors at one of the following levels: "Bush Pioneers" or "Bush Rangers." Sorry I can't recall which category Brennan falls under. Please remember that fine can be appealed by David Brenner and his army of attorneys.
Parasitic subprime lenders that plunge our college kids into wallet crushing debt. Mark Dann was on them like a pit bull. I'm positive they wouldn't miss his fangs.
Pathological subprime lenders that are "partying hardily" in spirit in the rubble of our foreclosed homes. They also desire Mark Dann to be gone.
Payday Lenders as shown by their pathetic protests with their hapless victims supporting their antics - I guarantee there will be vile celebrations of the worst kind, should Mark Dann leave office or be put out of office.
The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati would probably want a national holiday in celebration of the day should Mark Dann leaving office or being put out of office. Mark Dann put in many hours of grueling work negotiating and legitimizing the departure of The Christ Hospital from the clutches of The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati.
Casinos - Mark Dann has had a critical role to play in nailing the criminals who lead "Coingate." Do we really think that the Native American casino owners who were burned financially by compadres of Bob Ney, one of the creators of The Help America Vote Act want to rehire Jack Abramhoff or his associates? What about the victims of Coingate who were devastated by the pillaging of The Bureau Of The Workers' Compensation Fund? If Mark Dann leaves for any reason - I'm fairly certain it's "open season" on us little people.
How many dedicated public servants are we prepared to give up and write off like Don Siegelman and Elliot Spitzer?
Just remember - Big Business doesn't put food on the table, doesn't provide basic innoculations and other medical care nor provides quality education for those of us struggling to find daily busfare. Big Business doesn't provide hand - counted Election Ballots.
Neither do Superdelegates, Delegates, The Green Party, The Democratic Party, The Republicans nor Independent Candidates.
Big Business guarantees that our Vice - President and President and others won't be spending their twilight years as residents of The Hague. Only Impeachment Proceedings for our Vice - President and our President will create an atmosphere of hope and TRUST that our global trading partners and others need so we can all prosper.
Not only do we need to retain Mark Dann, but we need to STEP BACK AND LET LADY JUSTICE DO WHAT SHE DOES BEST.
Mark Dann requires our appreciation and gratitude in order to assist us, the citizens of Ohio in our fight against hopelessness. Mark Dann, if you read this - please stay right where you are and continue your activism.
Jane Schiff,
May 8, 2008
John Cole shares the following salient observation on the Jeremiah Wright quasi-debacle:
Or maybe I just refuse to spend any more time and energy getting worked up over and denouncing, distancing, and rejecting the wrong people- people who really don’t matter in the big scheme of things. If you have a memo from Jeremiah Wright to John Yoo showing how we should become a rogue nation, let me know. If you have pictures of Jeremiah Wright voting against the GI Bill, send it to me. If you have evidence of Jeremiah Wright training junior soldiers on the finer aspects of stacking and torturing naked Iraqi captives, pass them on.
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