Did not Watch….news or radio or TV today….

For starters:

The weekend programming drops at least 50 IQ points, 

The commercials are longer and more of them.

The networks did not get any rating points from me for CPAC.

VOTE with the REMOTE….V.

 

Fewer people are on social networks and blogs tonight….maybe they are out spending money and enjoying themselves….YEAH…..

Sadly, others are missing from this site for other reasons….they just got fed up…..V.

Dear Media…Have you ask any regular republicans about what they think about the direction the party is going?

I mean, like in front of a building when people are going out to lunch, they would all be republicans….they are the only ones left with credit cards, expense accounts for lunch out these days….

I mean like in a shopping area, do a man on the street thing,….

REPUBS…WE NEED YOUR IMPUT…

How do you view the people at the seemingly top of your party?

What did you think of the CPAC?

what did you think of the CPAC Agenda?

What did you think of the CPAC Speakers?

I mean a real basic repub feed back on these questions…should be interesting.

I think that maybe only 20% of them would know what you are talking about.

They just mindlessly vote repub to identify themselves with what they perceive as power and money….blindly walking over the cliff….V.

http://www.consumerwarningnetwork.com/2009/02/20/how-to-use-produce-the-note-in-non-judicial-foreclosure-states/

Great site, informational and I sent it to as many poeple as I dared…..

Click, read,…share…bookmark….V.

Anyone else get a phone call from a ..Teresa Brae…?

She called me a couple of days ago…used the Obama name frequently….was doing the contact for ….Organizing for Obama?….I checked…she has many new profiles on this site all …NEW…

Her number did not ID on my cell phone,…she is listed as a ‘call center DC’…among other things..

What is up with this?…V.

I am encouraged…hopeful…and not worried…I put my personal agenda aside….I have it difficult…by any standard…but …nothing to compare to most folks.

Did you read the post down page that folks were walking out of their homes and only taking what they could put in a car….is this the beginning of…the days of …the new….THE GRAPES OF WRATH?

I have been worried about it for a long time…anyone who does not know what I am writing about….rent the movie…and/or …read the book…rich people drove by and threw dust in the faces of people walking down the road with what belongings they could carry.

We do not have to wait for the Stim Package to write us a check….we can and should help each other out.

We need to organize our town groups and formulate a plan to store goods and distribute help…temp house families, children to go to school…that is the most cruel thing lf all

Having to leave your home with school children….no bed to go to sleep in…to kitchen for making meals…no bathroom and shower…no washer and dryer….and to go to school and face your fellow students…It happened to my children because of a divorce.

I have first hand knowledge of what that feels like…suddenly your children on sleeping on the sofa of neighbors who can take them to school the next day….and the courts gave my ex my house and my money…..It happened to a family in our town this week…the stay at home mom has two children and a part time job….

The ex got the house and his job and does not pay….she is worried sick.

We have to help these people….the Courts need to award the house to the mom and the kids…as a matter of fact…..it is heartless to think that children do not have a ‘financial stake’ in the home.

 Just the adults….it is the kids home as well…dead beat dads are cruel to know that they WON the suit and brag to there friends…like they are VINDICATED for bad behavior….

My situation was 20 years ago…but others are going through it now…with loss of jobs and foreclosures….I feel for the teens….be good to them….alcohol and drugs are not stress relief…and is a bad thing for teens too..

We need to organize…maybe someone has a store out of business, warehouse, barn, farm, something….to let people store things in…or put to share with others….food pantry….we all got to help.

I ache for my countrymen…but I trust my President to work on the big stuff…we have to put our hands out to others…he can only do so much…V.

www.edshultz.com   Big Eddy Shultz on the radio this afternoon had a lot of comedic material with the Repub CPAC….you can imagine….

I almost forgot how bad my throat hurt…and here I am, having an outofbody experience with the pain….and laughing my insides out…..

Checked my email,….took some over the counter sinus stuff….and got a junk email….’make her moan in bed’….heck I wish I were up and about….

4 plus inches of SNOW…..back to the emails….I got this too….to funny

I was confused when I heard the word ‘service’  used with these agencies. 

Internal Revenue ‘Service’ 
U.S. Postal ‘Service’ 
Telephone ‘Service’ 
Cable TV ‘Service’  
Civil  ‘Service’ 
State, City, County & Public   ‘Service’ 
Customer ‘Service’ 

This is not what I  thought ‘service’ meant.

But today, I overheard two farmers talking,

and one of them said he had hired a bull to

‘service’ a few cows.  BAM!!!  It all came into focus.

Now I understand what all those agencies are doing to us.  

Now you are as enlightened as I am.

I just caught you guys post…I am getting ‘crusty’…I know it. 

I just don’t like the

A.  Web Site Mess…

B. The sly ‘ole MR FOX and gang…they being stupid is one thing…but the masses that still watch them and keep them on the air is another…they must have wall paper glue for brains…

I have a vicious sore throat that is a total distraction….home for the day,,,it is dark and snowy since about 11 am…..I appologize for my attitude and will nap ….catch you later….V.

Accountability and Transparency”We cannot overstate the importance of this effort. We are asking the American people to trust their government with an unprecedented level of funding to address the economic emergency. In return, we must prove to them that their dollars are being invested in initiatives and strategies that make a difference in their communities and across the country. Following through on our commitments for accountability and openness will create a foundation upon which we can build as we continue to tackle the economic crisis and the many other challenges facing our nation.”

Memorandum to Head of Departments and Agencies, February 9, 2009

 

The President has made it clear that every taxpayer dollar spent on our economic recovery must be subject to unprecedented levels of transparency and accountability.  He has identified five crucial objectives for Federal agencies, to ensure that:

• Recovery funds are awarded and distributed in a prompt, fair, and reasonable manner;
• The recipients and uses of all recovery funds are transparent to the public, and that the public benefits of these funds are reported clearly, accurately, and in a timely manner;
• Recovery funds are used for authorized purposes and every step is taken to prevent instances of fraud, waste, error, and abuse;
• Projects funded under the recovery legislation avoid unnecessary delays and cost overruns; and,
• Programs meet specific goals and targets, and contribute to improved performance on broad economic indicators.

To meet these objectives, the President is directing Federal agencies to take critical steps in preparation for the Act’s implementation.  See here, for the White House’s February 9, 2009 initial implementation memorandum and February 18 detailed guidance memorandum.

Blue Posters and Trolls ….take note….

I was concieved not far from and right after the Roswell Incident of possible Alien Landing Craft crashing in the desert sands….

i was ther many times in the few years after to view the ground with my family……before it was a tourist attraction….V.

I turned on really early, woke up sick with a terrible throat and bronchial infection….5 am…silently flipped through news channels with the mute on and text on the screen. 

If you look at the written test you can see what a mess McCain’s talk was….nightmare,..what if that was the Address To Congress Speech that was presented last night.

If you could get a written text of that media spot….what a convoluted mess that was…truly Repub sicko…non-speech…and why did John McCain have Sarah Palin sitting behind him in the Address to Congress and some of the Congressional Members have to stand in the Aisle during the speech…is this not ….’AN ADDRESS TO CONGRESS’?  and honored guest sit in the balcony?

Add it to Sarah Palin’s Tab to Alaska…for expenditures she owes her state for family travel….

the Federal Tab..Sarah Palin..a SEAT IN CONGRESS…..V.

The ‘de facto’ ‘homeowner’ is the BANK,….

……They just wanted to get signatures on paper…to sell the paper….get it?

……They did not care if the ‘contract holder’…could pay or not…if they said NO…you can’t afford it and we will not loan on that house at that price….it would not have happened.

Bank:…de facto owner of huge lists of property

……..leveraged the ‘paper’ for extending more ‘loans’ to be ‘de facto’ owner of more property to get more ‘paper’ on

……..has a lein on the foreclosed ‘buyer’ for unpaid difference PLUS COSTS TO TAKE BACK THEIR OWN PROPERTY

……..will resell the property to another ‘buyer’ for…’PAPER’

……..WILL LEVERAGE ‘PAPER’ FOR MORE LOANS

……..WILL FORECLOSE AND LEIN ‘BUYER’….

……..WILL RESELL THE HOUSE FOR ‘PAPER’

……..OVER…AND ….OVER….AND OVER

….How many times did they flip ‘collectively’ houses made out of ‘Ticky Tacky’….and poor construction products….it just had to last for about 10 years….

 

House of ‘PAPER’ Cards finally fell down as all Pyramid Schemes do….V.

‘BLUE INK BABIES’….Write in Blue ink and have not yet leared to communicate.

‘Wallies’…or ‘Wall Eyes’….as in Wall Street Sharks

‘Trash Tenders’…as in Talking Heads that only deal in Trash…

Like Trash Tenders, Boats that are Garbage Trucks on Water.

Wine Drinking Chowder Heads……that only respond to input from other

‘Wine Drinking Chowder Heads’…..which makes for ‘Group Think’…

 

 

If the moderators of this site do not control the ‘BLUE INK BABIES’…..

‘BLUE INK BABIES’….Write in Blue ink and have not yet learned to communicate.

I will think the DNC encourages and promotes it to drive off the first page ….

Controversial Material….they would have to respond to …V.

The ‘de facto’ ‘homeowner’ is the BANK,….

……They just wanted to get signatures on paper…to sell the paper….get it?

……They did not care if the ‘contract holder’…could pay or not…if they said NO…you can’t afford it and we will not loan on that house at that price….it would not have happened.

Bank:…de facto owner of huge lists of property

……..leveraged the ‘paper’ for extending more ‘loans’ to be ‘de facto’ owner of more property to get more ‘paper’ on

……..has a lein on the foreclosed ‘buyer’ for unpaid difference PLUS COSTS TO TAKE BACK THEIR OWN PROPERTY

……..will resell the property to another ‘buyer’ for…’PAPER’

……..WILL LEVERAGE ‘PAPER’ FOR MORE LOANS

……..WILL FORECLOSE AND LEIN ‘BUYER’….

……..WILL RESELL THE HOUSE FOR ‘PAPER’

……..OVER…AND ….OVER….AND OVER

….How many times did they flip ‘collectively’ houses made out of ‘Ticky Tacky’….and poor construction products….it just had to last for about 10 years….

 

House of ‘PAPER’ Cards finally fell down as all Pyramid Schemes do….V.

I turned on really early, woke up sick with a terrible throat and bronchial infection….5 am…silently flipped through news channels with the mute on and text on the screen. 

If you look at the written test you can see what a mess McCain’s talk was….nightmare,..what if that was the Address To Congress Speech that was presented last night.

If you could get a written text of that media spot….what a convoluted mess that was…truly Repub sicko…non-speech…and why did John McCain have Sarah Palin sitting behind him in the Address to Congress and some of the Congressional Members have to stand in the Aisle during the speech…is this not ….’AN ADDRESS TO CONGRESS’?  and honored guest sit in the balcony?

Add it to Sarah Palin’s Tab to Alaska…for expenditures she owes her state for family travel….

the Federal Tab..Sarah Palin..a SEAT IN CONGRESS…..V.

If I hear one more word about the ‘irresponsible’ buyers I will blow a gasket……not good.

IF THE $$#%ing {I listened to www.stephaniemiller.com Stephanie Miller radio this morning.  I am an old dame learning to get to the point quicker]

IF THE #$%#ing ….BANKERS, AND APPRAISERS, and GREEDY Wall Street loan packagers,…

didn’t give loans on inflated prices….to PERSONS who could not afford them….

IT WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.

 

END OF STORY……V.

You are welcome to move to a country where the President, Leader, King, Grand Poo Bah….

is not concerned with Jobs, the economy, health care, infrastucture, and your Blah, Blah, Blah,……

Bon Voyage…V.

I did not research it…I remember what a disappointment last years speech was…I was STILL A REPUBLICAN THEN….saying….give us something we need….what we got was …talk about …we were in deep waters then…..the Iraq war was bloody and unsure day to day….play that sucker again and listen to it before you say a word about this year’s speech…a small town constable couid have made a better speech than BUSH LAST YEAR….

REPUBS and RIGHT ‘WING NUTS’  go to a weekend retreat or convention or something….we are doing well without you….no need to sh0w up …you don’t want to read the bills,…vote….just collect your pay and pan for the cameras….

BUSH SPEECH LAST YEAR……LAURA..which was nice…THE GIRLS….which was stilted…..BARNEY….which was overdone…AND …HEH…HEH…HEH….double speak….words….no substance….

REPUBLICANS…..REPLAY GEORGE W. BUSH’S ..STATE OF THE UNION …SPEECH FROM LAST YEAR….ON PRIME TIME TOMORROW….

LOSER….LOSER….LOSER…LOSER…..AND ….LAY OFF ….

THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES….BARACK OBAMA.

HE IS A STATESMAN THAT …..ANY REPUB …IS UNWORTHY TO STAND IN HIS SHADDOW….

HE REACHES OUT….AND YOU ARE SO STUPID…AS TO SNUB HIM…

.JUST BECAUSE YOU LOST AND WANT IT BACK……BOOOO…..HOOOO……V.

Sly …’ole MR FOX……when you think the lies could not get any more profound and stupid.,…

 

Blamed  President Obama’s activities to move the Stock Market down…..ie the approval rating for him an his actions…..

[parapharased....'the stock market move down 3xx points the day of the stimulus bill,....the stock market moved down 3xx points the day of.....the stock market moved down 3xx points the day of... in showing disapproval rating for Barack Obama'.....

There were 3 of them, …now I tell you,…was it a disaproval rating….

or afraid the game was up on unchecked greed….

or were they in the men’s room changing their underwear?……V.

 

As I type I am in a ….HABILITAT FOR HUMANITY ..meeting

What are you doing?

Each day reach out to do one thing, if only to support and encourage others…V.

HUSH RUSH…Words from this morning’s  Sly ‘ole Mr FOX…Rush was a call in guest to rebut Obama’s message ‘…for Republicans to stop listening to Rush…’

All he did was a proliferation of words that were over generalized and did not say anything of one line of message you could quote…just..’words’.

I quit listening to him …even just to find out what the ‘nut wad’ was saying now….

not even worth giving him the …blip on the ratings radar screen…V.

Thank you for the numbers on FOX news…i did not think they had that kind of viewership…I was surprised…

All during the campaign and since..I mention Olberman, Maddow, Air America hosts etc to Dems…they do not listen to radio..or TV..that much..and really do not care for particulars…I am sorry that the thread went so far off course from your text…

I Have a real problem getting long time friends who are repubs to leave me alone…it is like they are drugged or something….

They want to know if I am…..’Feeling Alright’…I must be having problems if I went…Dem….It is crazy…they sound like RUSH TO NEWS…V.

Conservative Media Outlets….the days before the Inauguration,…you were surmising that he should have ….LESS…than 100 days to work on things….because he had a head start with an early transition…..will we have  a full retraction of those statements…is this fast enough for you.

I believed him to be the best, intelligent, and proactive….but I am in absolute admiration of the Man we elected ….Well done…hardly describes it….

All of the world should be talking about the great job he is doing….

Thank you Mr. President from all us us here…..V.

I heard there was a ‘todo’ about it coming at 8 am EST….I am PST and can’t find anything on it….did not RUSH to the radio either…can anyone give me a heads up….

Giving up my cat that passed yesterday…V.

Coast To Coast is discussing…micro chips…in people and animals…and not to use search engines like Google to look things up because it is all recorded….well if they want to track a ‘ole dame like me…they are just wasting there time….I just am not that interesting….have a very simple life…and no vices….sooooo…….SEARCH ON…..GOOOOOGLE ROCKS….

I have so  many things on my GOOOOOGLE page…..games….web cams from all over the world….I can see snow in Japan….web cams in major cities….it is an application   that changes web cams from all over the world….I have the application of the slide show of the Smithsonian….and another of Art Galleries around the world….all on one page….

And the NEW YORK TIMES….puzzles that are interactive….you can just click on it and type…or ask the answer….its not cheating…you learn stuff like that.

AAANNNDDD…..I forgot to mention….that color puzzle that works like TETRIS…remember TETRIS…I got …TETRA SIZED….A LONG TIME AGO….

I also have….SCRABBLE BLAST…my last score was just short of 190,000….it is frustrating…you just can’t get much higher….I have it on two computers…worked it for years….can’t hardly pay attention to much else….totally addicted…

Soooo…..the trade off of using GOOOOOGLE….what they are getting from me….is minuscule…to what I get from them……toooooo   cooool….V.

Dear Clarence….AKA …Buddy…My Rescue Cat….I miss you tonight….curled up here on your blanket on my bed….next to my laptop…as I type to my Obama Family….I know you are not sick and I miss you terribly….

I am going to help others in your memory….You have your picture on one of my Cause Pages on Facebook as the Mascot….you will be the mascot of the things I do for others….rest well my…Buddy….I would usually reach over right know and rub your ears….they get cool about this time of night…I put your little body in a box and it is out on my Potting Table…I will miss you this spring as I work on the garden and my potting table….

We will do good things as I volunteer…and remember…i rescued you…I can help rescue people.

Good night my friend…thank you for coming up in the yard that morning…Sept 11, 2009 as I sat in the garden….feeling sad about the re runs of the 9/11 tapes and turned the TV off and went outside….you came up to me and put your paw up on my knee…to comfort me….we watched the elections news together and the work we did together late at night writing ….thank you for …

adopting me….V.

My Obama Family….please save me from my ‘Right Wing Nut’ friends…and the radio idiot that said…..IT WAS A …WIN FOR THE REPUBS TODAY….NOT ONE OF THEM VOTED FOR THE BILL….HOW …KRAZY….K…R…A…Z…Y….CAN YOU GET.

My rescue cat passed this life today…it is my first night with my lap top that he is not curled up beside me…he was older and I took him to the vet and got antibiotics for him….he got over his ‘KITTY COLD’….but did not eat or drink…except what I used a syringe and put down him…he passed today….Clareance..AKA…Buddy….was so smart and such a gentleman….we telepathy to each other….

 My Right ‘Wing Nut’ …friend that moved to Canada ‘sorta’ long time friend I told I could not deal with her issues….called a few minutes ago …she is in town in her Condo that her mother paid for her…as opposed to the Condo her mother paid for her in Victoria….asked if I was ….’feeling better’ and ‘wanted to talk’…not about my cat…she was sure I was not well for telling her off……she had sent me an email….after I told her to …’GO AWAY’….that maybe…I…YES…I…WAS HAVING A BAD DAY……

NO….CYNTHIA…YOU ARE NUTS…..REPUB….STUPID…BIGOTED….BACKWARD…LIVE IN A SHELL OF YOUR MOTHERS MONEY…..YOUR MOM IS RICH AND IS A REPUB…AND YOU ARE LOYAL TO THE MONEY…..NOW I FEEL BETTER….

My posts go to my Facebook ….she will probably read this…..GET OVER YOURSELF AND GO AWAY.

2010  Elections….What is going on in your Area….Who’s your next pick for office in mid-terms?

Let’s find out….we gotta start working on it now….we can organize and work for next elections in all areas…what’s the buzz?

The GOPUSA…is all about the mid-terms….we grass roots people have a job to do…

Okay…so I am the only one up at this hour….I have no critical statements for the media…they have been doing a great job….but I let that….Sly ‘ole Mr FOX…alone…not even curious about what he is up to anymore….he will fall in his own trap…you wait and see….V.

RWN’s….Right ‘Wing Nuts’

Whew…had an odd day…Clareance…aka ..Buddy …my cat…I picked him up this morning to carry him out to go around the house for his morning ‘duty’.  I put him down and he …FELL OVER…he can’t stand up or walk…he has been sick…the vet put him on antibiotics…and hydration injections…I have been squirting water down his throat…he does not eat…the kitty cold and coughing are over …but he is so weak…and lost all his weight…that was a beginning on today.

COLD, SNOW RAIN….I ditched going into sales meeting this morning to stay with Buddy,…not much encouragement to stay home this morning needed….the market is low….office quiet…weather bad…Buddy sick…but I did go in at 2 pm

Did the usual stuff and opened my email…..IN WITH THE USUAL…GUN RIGHTS NUTS….BIBLE QUOTERS….AND THOSE OUT TO SAVE MY MORTAL SOUL FOR VOTING FOR OUR PRESIDENT…WAS THE FOLLOWING:

A Facebook note from a childhood friend in Texas….my Facebook notes appear on her site as well because the sites are joined with comments on each….not to post ….”the ideas of our president on her site”

These folks will never …GET IT…like the Dutch community just north of us….couldn’t beat them over the head with a wooden shoe for the  ‘Religious Rightist’….Repub junk….

THANK GOD…THEY ARE THE….NEW MINORITY….all of the rest of us FREETHINKERS…I do not see any HOPE for them…..They will never allow themselves to see how bad the last administration was…or what has been done for us in less than a week….I pray for them…V.

 have been reading a lot of pages tonight trying to get some bad emails and posts to my other sites from old friends who are ….you guessed it…

RIGHT ‘WING NUTS’…It does my heart good to see that phrase picked up in other posts and even the media and press….

this was in a post about 5 pages back…I will post again with credit to the writer…I just had to post this to get over my ‘wing nut’ rant for tonight.

To read all of it go to:

 

To ALL REPUBLICANSBy consciencious objector – Jan 27th, 2009 at 2:40 pm EST this is the last portion  of this post:

WE NEED TO GET TO SOLVE THE RECESSION AND GET THE ECONOMY BACK ON ITS FEET.

IT`S NOT HONORABLE TO BLOCK THE BEST STRATEGIES OR THE BEST PROGRAMS TO BEGIN TO SOLVE THE GIGANTIC CHALLANGE THIS IS TO THE DEMOCRATS,JUST BECAUSE IT`S NOT THE REP`S DOMAIN ANYMORE.!!!!

LET`S WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE THIS CRITICAL SITUATION AND FIND WAYS TO ACCEPT THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN AND HAVE DONE SO IN SPITE OF ALL THE TANTRUMS AND HYSTERIA THE INSATISFACTION OF THIS REALITY MAY PRODUCE.

I FOR ONE, AM WILLING TO GO THE EXTRA MILE AND MAKE THE HIGHEST EFFORT IN ORDER TO ASSIST BARACK ANY WHICH WAY I MAY TO MY BEST CAPACITY.

SO, IT`S EITHER THE NATION OR THE SELFISH AND OBTUSE OUTLOOK THAT WILL PREVAIL.

AND TREASON STILL OUGHT TO BE PUNISHED BY THE SHOOTING SQUAD

Yes its clothes…and that is part of the mystic of being a great First Lady….

Do some history of the Inaugural Dresses of the recent FLOTUS..

Mrs Carter wore…an ancient neck ruffles gauze thing she wore to his Gov Inauguration

Hillary wore…the ugliest red and white checked suit and dress coat that was a blurr on the media…cameras to not do checks well…it made her huge hips look awful and when they got out of the limo in the parade…it was ghastly.

The Inaugural Gown goes to the Smithsonian on a wax figure with all the prior First Ladies…so yes it is important…

And yes, we are going to see some fashion from Michelle as well as good common sense dressing…and raw intelligence….she will outshine any other First Lady and be more important than Jackie Kennedy….because she is modern, more active, and sooo…now…..V.

More ‘new’ postal stamps…enough already.
This has long been a contention of mine.

First of all, the USPS, is not part of the US Gov, like the IRS, and a whole host of services we think are, they are ‘contracted entities’…with contractual right to use…US…blah, blah, blah.

Most design stamps do not have the amount on them.  I have some ‘Tulip’ stamps that no one can tell me the denomination…I did not ask for design stamps, just went for ‘stamps’.

Only the Liberty Bell stamps are ..’forever’ stamps and can be used ‘forever’ to deliver mail..they do not say ‘forever’ or denomination either.

I think a good case for attempts to deceive are in order for the stamps…they probably get a bit write off or federal monies for ‘DEVELOPEMENT AND DESIGN’….

ENOUGH ALREADY….USE ONLINE POSTAGE…METERED POSTAGE…POSTAL STORES…ETC…REFUSE TO BUY …JUNK STAMPS…IN 3 MONTHS…WHO CAN TELL THE DENOMINATION…VALUE…OR IF THEY GO UP AGAIN.

The answer to all of this is ….;don’t….as much as I think it was atrocious for the things that happened…should not have to anyone ever on the planet….

ans the right’wing nuts’ would go crazy with this one…not to close it after saying you would

Here is the deal…..Just stop torturing them…give them trials at Gitmo….

If you are transferring them just to close it…because of the bad time it was…to try to get another prison to take them…or another country…they are already in prison in another country….

Humane treatment…open inspections by global inspectors….world court trial…fair treatment

those that are not terrorists when they are picked up.,.have to be nearly crazy now.

Make amends to their families….cheaper than transfer to another country…send them home.

The bad ones….leave them at Gitmo….let the Iraqis go to Gitmo and guard them….

Mortgage Alert….the post below about the mortgage bankers and the amendment for allowing the home to go to bankruptcy…..

What i know about it from hearing it in my industry….

1.  If you are in danger of defaulting on your mortgage….you have heard….talk to your banker and try to work it out…..BECAUSE THE BANKERS WANT TO BE THE FIRST TO KNOW.

2.  I have seen ….people with the bank notified….put the house on the market as indanger,…bailout…or short sale…[foreclosure in the making]…the bank has to sign off on ALL paperwork to sell any home tha is mortgaged…..

What I have seen:…multi-offers sent to banks on one house….they are not even seen by the person in charge of that file….they just stack them up and do not even return the call to the realtors….FOR SALE BY OWNER…or anyone else…..

tHEY WANT:

A.  THE PROPERTY

B.  A LEIN REMAINING ON THE PERSON THAT DEFAULTED

C. INCLUDING CHARGES TO RECOVER THE HOME, THE CLEAN UP, REPAIR, PAID EXECUTIVE TO OVERSEE THE EVENT….PHONY CHARGES UP THE ….WAZOO….

D. RESALE THE HOME AT TOP DOLLAR …BANK OWNED…THROUGH THEIR PET REATOR….Someone who gets all they have for sale….at a discounted commission….and

C. ANOTHER DANG FOOL TO SIGN A NEW MORTGAGE.

IT IS A …..WIN…WIN…FOR THE BANKERS…..AND TO TOP IT OFF…

BANKRUPTCY JUDGES WILL PULL THE MORTGAGE OUT OF THE PROCEEDINGS….AND GIVE IT TO THE BANK…to collect themselves.

Bankruptcy laws should cover this….not another AMENDMENT…hidden on the coatails and buried in yet another piece of legislation…..go back to….HOW WAS IT CHANGED IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Then fix that…..V.

 

He has worked harder than the last 8 years, you know…ole …’whats his name’…and he has not been there a week yet…..

He has literally taken the world on his shoulders….and nerves.

He needs some R and R….get him to some …HOOPS…..AND …OR …CAMP DAVID…

At least for over night ….we need him…

Congress and the Media need to catch up with him anyway…they are behind a few years.

….Just Thinking about the Man….V.

Could this be the first ….public project?….A first …YES WE CAN….CHANGE….PROJECT?

After all it is winter,…the growing season is slow now and it does not have to be put in blade for blade repaired….something has gotta give…21 Million would feed and shelter a lot of seniors and homeless….some of them would do it too….V.

Are you sure all of the ….uh….Grass…is going to get put on the lawn?

Probably could get the job done with volunteers and the seed….don’t you think there is a little graft in 21 million?…now come on!!!…it is expensive but even a half million would be a lot for grass?…..what are they putting down…Marajauna?…V.

We could all list a wish list for something ….most of us need things but are fighting for the common good…..the poor and the sick served first….amen.

A lot of people came on board for single purposes….

but we all stayed and fought hard for CHANGE and the MAN to be PRESIDENT…..

HE WON….GET OVER IT…..

The Right ‘Wing Nuts’ think that we here….are all painted with the same brush….they have to be blind…look at the pictures and the tapes of the campaign events…look at the tapes of the crowds.

We are ONE….WE UNITED…WE …ARE …HERE ..TO …STAY….WE ….WILL HAVE CHANGE….

The media should be doing live documentary of the days in office….instead of the talking head thing…that will be usless air time by next week….V.

hello media,…time for that extra cup o coffee….make notes for todays programs…I know you are out there….

Here’s the deal……

I AM SICK OF PEOPLE DYING, AND GETTING HURT…ANYWHERE…A PERSON IS A PERSON

And God bless the women, children, oldsters, peacemakers, and innocents, caught up in it.

If we can’t stop it,….leave….put our military, and support personell, on planes and ships and bring them home…leave all the weapons….and everything else…they will either have peace or all kill each other….either way …we win….You can’t fix Stupid…to quote Ron White.

We need to return to battle field warfare for them…all those that want to fight go out and when the last man stands….that side wins…end of story…

As I count it:

War in iraq

War in Afghanistan

War Isralies and Palestinians.

Indea and Pakastan have troops on the border….LEAVE THE MIDDLE EAST.

I watched the movie produced, directed, narrarated, and starred in by John Huston ’THE BIBLE’ on TV tonight….the same people were fighting about the same silly things….BRING OUR TROOPS HOME…..before anymore of the darlings get hurt or killed…..V.

Religion Says:

Empty the church of the Unwashed and Odd….we have to worship God.

Make a donation….we have the church to support,

A well kept fortress,….a Pious Port.

Take no note of anyone not like us…If they were like us they would not make such a fuss.

And of course should your circumstances change, you must have done something off the radar range.

Spirituality says:

Why are your doors closed but for a few hours a week? 

When out in the cold are the sick, hopeless, and meek.

Everyone marvels at the glory of your building, magnificent and strong.

To refuse shelter in its spreading arms is wrong.

90 days without a paycheck, an illness, or bad luck,

Can make you one of these and no one will hear you

When you scream…….&%#$….!

This is an original item I just wrote….it expressed my feelings so well.

Right “Wing Nuts”….how dare you push your piety and spite out the hatred and evil hate speech,….and want others to think you are the better of the People….I am to Spiritual to be called the modern social definintion of Christian…or Republican…or Conservative…Eat my dust….V.

 

hello media,…time for that extra cup o coffee….make notes for todays programs…I know you are out there….

Here’s the deal……

I AM SICK OF PEOPLE DYING, AND GETTING HURT…ANYWHERE…A PERSON IS A PERSON

And God bless the women, children, oldsters, peacemakers, and innocents, caught up in it.

If we can’t stop it,….leave….put our military, and support personell, on planes and ships and bring them home…leave all the weapons….and everything else…they will either have peace or all kill each other….either way …we win….You can’t fix Stupid…to quote Ron White.

We need to return to battle field warfare for them…all those that want to fight go out and when the last man stands….that side wins…end of story…

As I count it:

War in iraq

War in Afghanistan

War Isralies and Palestinians.

Indea and Pakastan have troops on the border….LEAVE THE MIDDLE EAST.

I watched the movie produced, directed, narrarated, and starred in by John Huston ’THE BIBLE’ on TV tonight….the same people were fighting about the same silly things….BRING OUR TROOPS HOME…..before anymore of the darlings get hurt or killed…..V.

hello media,…time for that extra cup o coffee….make notes for todays programs…I know you are out there….

Here’s the deal……

I AM SICK OF PEOPLE DYING, AND GETTING HURT…ANYWHERE…A PERSON IS A PERSON

And God bless the women, children, oldsters, peacemakers, and innocents, caught up in it.

If we can’t stop it,….leave….put our military, and support personell, on planes and ships and bring them home…leave all the weapons….and everything else…they will either have peace or all kill each other….either way …we win….You can’t fix Stupid…to quote Ron White.

We need to return to battle field warfare for them…all those that want to fight go out and when the last man stands….that side wins…end of story…

As I count it:

War in iraq

War in Afghanistan

War Isralies and Palestinians.

Indea and Pakastan have troops on the border….LEAVE THE MIDDLE EAST.

I watched the movie produced, directed, narrarated, and starred in by John Huston ‘THE BIBLE’ on TV tonight….the same people were fighting about the same silly things….BRING OUR TROOPS HOME…..before anymore of the darlings get hurt or killed…..V.

My Facebook Cause page….Bring Our Troops Home …Now…please join and make it the biggest site on Facebook….make a statement….

     http://apps.facebook.com/causes/182453?m=05e3e92a&recruiter_id=22776378

 

Another link sent to me that is great…alternative mediation as a way of problem solving in the Middle East and a it is a great read on the site…

 

http://www.jerusalem-academy.org/index.html

 

Pray for our Troops….safety and safe journey home…call on what ever truth leads you…the time is now….V.

 

 

hello media,…time for that extra cup o coffee….make notes for todays programs…I know you are out there….

Here’s the deal……

I AM SICK OF PEOPLE DYING, AND GETTING HURT…ANYWHERE…A PERSON IS A PERSON

And God bless the women, children, oldsters, peacemakers, and innocents, caught up in it.

If we can’t stop it,….leave….put our military, and support personell, on planes and ships and bring them home…leave all the weapons….and everything else…they will either have peace or all kill each other….either way …we win….You can’t fix Stupid…to quote Ron White.

We need to return to battle field warfare for them…all those that want to fight go out and when the last man stands….that side wins…end of story…

As I count it:

War in iraq

War in Afghanistan

War Isralies and Palestinians.

Indea and Pakastan have troops on the border….LEAVE THE MIDDLE EAST.

I watched the movie produced, directed, narrarated, and starred in by John Huston ’THE BIBLE’ on TV tonight….the same people were fighting about the same silly things….BRING OUR TROOPS HOME…..before anymore of the darlings get hurt or killed…..V.

hello media,…time for that extra cup o coffee….make notes for todays programs…I know you are out there….

Here’s the deal……

I AM SICK OF PEOPLE DYING, AND GETTING HURT…ANYWHERE…A PERSON IS A PERSON

And God bless the women, children, oldsters, peacemakers, and innocents, caught up in it.

If we can’t stop it,….leave….put our military, and support personell, on planes and ships and bring them home…leave all the weapons….and everything else…they will either have peace or all kill each other….either way …we win….You can’t fix Stupid…to quote Ron White.

We need to return to battle field warfare for them…all those that want to fight go out and when the last man stands….that side wins…end of story…

As I count it:

War in iraq

War in Afghanistan

War Isralies and Palestinians.

Indea and Pakastan have troops on the border….LEAVE THE MIDDLE EAST.

I watched the movie produced, directed, narrarated, and starred in by John Huston ’THE BIBLE’ on TV tonight….the same people were fighting about the same silly things….BRING OUR TROOPS HOME…..before anymore of the darlings get hurt or killed…..V.

States, Counties and Cities, could save millions, by going to the 4 day work week.  Not extended hours, not 4 tens, just 4 days….so many offices that are non-essential could save utilities, staff, and related costs by going to 4 days….even if they hired an extra person here and there or part timers and interns for the busy 4 days…..

It would save the money for the essential services that are being cut.  Children services, art and music in schools, and people that are losing their jobs entirely could be saved….we all can do our part….

Small business could save the same way by closing, say Sunday, Monday and Tuesday….once everyone got used to it….we would do the same amount of business….and know what days we used if it was uniform…..

The biggest savings would be on fuel……heating and air conditioning,….fuel of people driving to work….the enviornment….pocket books…..day care…..it would be streamlined and efficient…V.

 

and after Mr. Grinch stole Christmas….and had it all tied up in a bag and was going to push it over a cliff….he waited to hear the crying and nashing of teeth in Whooville below…..and the sounds of laughter and song where heard….

Mr. Grinch, “Maybe Christmas does not come from a store,….maybe it means much more,”

45 minutes until Christmas morning….and off to see my family….and feast….I am sure they will have roast beast….and have traded way too much stuff…..in pretty bows and fluff….i will come to dinner and remember the poor,….I am sure Christmas means so much more.

The ‘wing nuts’ will gorge the homeless, and turn them out in the cold.  Empty the church of the unwashed and odd…..we have to clean up the place and worship God….V.

Makes me think I would like to watch the Grinch Who Stole Christmas….Whooville…..on parade.

Let me know when the new Millienum starts….January 20, 2009.

Michelle Obama will be the First Lady with a late Birthday present….The Rose Garden…..V.

Twas the Night Before Inauguration
By John Cobarruvias
BayAreaHouston.blogspot.com

T’was the night before inauguration and what to my dismay
The market was tanking, I lost my 401K!
The stocks were hung, in downfall they stuck
While Bush did nothing, a truly lame duck

The republicans were nestled, their heads in the sand
With visions of defeat of the republican brand.
And Cheney with his gun, his heart a pace
Looking for someone, to shoot in the face.

When out on the house floor, there came such a clatter
I sprang to the internets to find what’s the matter.
Away to my screen I ran with a flash
Hoping the market, didn’t crash.

The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow
Showed me someone I needed to know.
When what to my eyes, I paused, with a comma
But a vision of hope, It was Barack Obama!

With excitement and conviction in each of his steps
I wondered what he and his el ves, w ould do next.
More rapid than eagles his appointments they came
And he whistled and shouted, and called them by name.

Now Emanuel! Now, Dashle! Now Richardson and Biden!
On, Clinton , On Napolitano, and Gates, no sense in hiding!
To fix the economy, our reputation and more.
And to stop the killing of this unnecessary war.

As Obama stood still, the republicans they trembled
Remembering 8 years of a disaster they had assembled.
They’ve broken our banks, and doubled our debt.
They scared us to death with weapons of threats.

They squandered a surplus, They started a war.
They shredded our constitution, littered on the floor.
They attack our unions, our immigrants and those who are gay.
They claim to be Christians, yet on the sick they prey.

Winter Dehydration …  It can cause a bad attitude, fussiness in children, short tempers in others, in mild forms….headaches, muscle cramps, back and kidney aches…..name it.

It is easy to tuck in on wintry days and not drink anything but coffee and chocolate….coupled with dry air…can cause mild dehyration…in any form can make the body react without seeminly cause.

Heat a pan of water to just warm drinking temp, put in a cup with a splash of juice, or small piece of peppermint, or just a pinch of cinnamon and half teaspoon of sugar….give to children and oldsters as well….several times a day is good….at least once a day….give children fluids in the form of a water, or water base non-stiumulating drink….V.

Just want an at home Griswold Christmas. We have old fashion lights on the house and shrubs, Sent Christmas cards, tree to the ceiling, and over decorated, 6 strands of twinkle lites and little wooden red apples and boxes of gold, blue, and red balls. But that is all I want…Seattle is 60 miles away, do not want to go to Christmas Day and back that night. We have 8 inches of snow in Bellingham. Train is broken, buses stopped, Seatac closed, …so what…..its Christmas if I have the lights on safe and warm at home with Christmas on the TV… Christmas Eve….order hot steaming Pizza from the Pizza Pipeline in Bellingham, ….walk to the Catholic Church for mid night mass…..I am not catholic…married twice to catholics ….spent more time in mass than most….curl up in new red flannel pajamas….get a box of pastries for Christmas morning from Avenue Bread….watch Christmas movies all day….eat sandwiches and candy….not do  anything because….’yer supposed to’..oh yeah….bowls and bowls of hot buttered popcorn with parmesean cheese and tons of butter…V.

 

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/393113_airport22.html

Stranded Sea-Tac Airport passengers hope for the bestLast updated December 21, 2008 6:39 p.m. PT

By MOISES MENDOZA
P-I REPORTER

Hundreds of tired travelers lined up at ticket gates Sunday at Sea-Tac Airport, hoping to find flights and leave the airport, where many had been stranded for more than a day.

Crosswinds at Sea-Tac Airport led to the cancelation or delay of dozens of flights Saturday night and Sunday morning, leaving thousands of people with nowhere to go.

The cancellations hit Alaska Airlines particularly hard, and may continue into Monday. Alaska and Horizon Air canceled all flights at Sea-Tac and Portland International Airport as of 2:45 p.m., in part because of a lack of de-icing fluid. Passengers who live locally were told to go home for the evening, and others were told to make their own hotel arrangements.

A port spokesman said individual airlines are responsible for keeping their own planes de-iced, which is why some planes were still making it out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Sunday. Two runways remained open.

“It’s kind of a perfect storm,” port spokesman Perry Cooper said. “I’ve had people here for 20 years and they have never seen anything like this.”

While a lack of de-icing fluid made the situation worse, Horizon spokeswoman Jen Boyer said the stretch of bad weather had exhausted the airlines’ crews and equipment during the holiday rush.

“We’ve just been playing catch-up with the weather, that we’re running out of fresh crews and running into maintenance deadlines for the aircraft,” Boyer said. “We still have three days to get everyone home for Christmas, and we’re trying to get everyone there.”

Passengers booked on a canceled flight may re-book on the next available flight without penalty or apply for a full refund of the unused portion of their ticket.

Akiko Onuma, a 21-year-old Scripps College student from California, flew into Sea-Tac on Saturday night from Ontario, Calif. She had a 9 p.m. Saturday connection to Lewiston, Idaho, on Horizon that was canceled.

“There were hordes of people — literally hundreds of people — trying to figure out what to do,” Onuma said.

By the time Onuma got her bag at midnight Saturday all the hotels were booked, she said, so she spent the night at the airport.

Onuma is now hoping to get out Monday morning on a flight to Walla Walla.

Terry Haybert of Tacoma was at the airport with his wife and 5-year-old daughter. He had a 1 p.m. flight to Portland on Sunday, which was canceled.

“This was the biggest mistake ever, we should’ve just driven,” Haybert said of his holiday plans.

Joseph Gudall from Blairstown, N.J., flew from Newark to Seattle, hoping to get to Fairbanks, Alaska, on a 9 p.m. Saturday flight from Seattle. The departure time kept getting pushed back until the flight was canceled at 1 a.m. Sunday, he said.

“It was a sheer disaster,” Gudall said. “I never thought this could happen.”

Gudall is booked on a 9 p.m. Sunday flight to Fairbanks. Gudall is heading to Alaska to visit his daughter.

Alaska Airlines spokesman Paul McElroy said cancelations may continue into Monday if the weather doesn’t improve.

“Since we’re dealing with Mother Nature, it’s really uncertain,” McElroy said. “We’re hopeful that we can resume our schedule Monday, but we’ll have to see.”

On Sunday afternoon, airport staff handed out blankets and pillows to travelers, who were sprawled out over any available space.

Passengers should contact their carriers for flight status before heading to the airport, spokeswoman Terri-Ann Betancourt said.

Passengers whose flights are scheduled to leave Monday should allow extra time to get to the airport and they should expect long lines once they arrive.

People whose flights are canceled, should rebook from home, Betancourt said.

Cooper said heavy winds had died down by early Sunday. But poor weather at airports in the Northwest and around the country remained a problem, he said.

“It’s that systemwide domino effect,” he said.

While airport restaurants and stores did not receive their deliveries Saturday, trucks were able to drop off goods on Sunday morning, Betancourt said.

“We should be OK with concessions,” she said.

Flight status can be found at the airport’s Web site: hosting.portseattle.org/fids. Those with reservations on Alaska or Horizon can check their flight status online at alaskaair.com or horizonair.com, or by phone at 800-252-7522 for Alaska and 800-547-9308 for Horizon.

P-I reporter Brad Wong contributed to this report.

© 1998-2008 Seattle Post-Intelligencer

I have an adult child that is stranded and can’t get in or out of a mid point stop…..I did not know she was traveling…..it was none of my business….and it is only getting worse here….V.

      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/show.aspx?userurl=Vernavob&year=2008&month=12&day=21&url=Vernavob-Introductory-Program     This is my first Blog Talk Radio,  BTR, my first program, I did not do a test.  I lowered the register of my voice, and was in a glass dining room. 
The echo and the voice register is not good….however, I did not follow instructions and do a test first.   I read the directions as I was waiting for my first show to start on the clock countdown.  Not a good idea…I will practice the voice quality….V.

In relationship to the amount of time the beautiful day Barack is sworn in…..please give it up….the amount of negative stuff is just awful…..I am looking forward to the day…..the blessed day we have CHANGE……….do you want some cheese with that ….Whine?….V.

Stay with the Obama Site, we have had our ups and downs, trolls, word jousts, butted heads on oppions, but we came out the stronger….I love this site and my Facebook site is great….it is linked to this one and is a wonderful place….am adding a new feature and will take a little more time to get it ready…..not enough hours in the day for communicating, writing and all the good stuff…V.

Verna became a fan of Clark Griswold. 1:37pm Film – 99,007 fansAdd Comment – 0 Comments  

Think outside the box….a square box called a house…this is a thought provoking as it is beautifull…a  site as well for being green…..

http://weburbanist.com

Loose nut behind the keyboard……what do you have to offer in the way of positive ideas for the nation,….that you and others can fix?

Call to prayer or whatever truth leads you….we have a fight on our hands….we need some of the spiritual actions we took during the campaign….we got what we wanted and let down our guard….we have to keep it up…..Vera…where are you…some more you folks get in on this….the snarling repubs, the angst in the ranks over Obama’s actions….you name it…..

Like I said of the VP pick….when the blog was giving all the advice we could stomach to read….I said, ‘Let Obama pick the VP he wants to work with shoulder to shoulder every day…he has a big job to take on….we have trusted him with it….we must trust him to pick his people….amen…V.

Is it time for a National HOMESTEAD ACT?

1.  The home can not be used for collateral for any debt surety.

2.  The home stands alone for mortgage funds, no combined debt into funding.

3.  The home is exempt in bankruptcy proceedings.

4.  The home must go through a one year default phase before foreclosure to offset loss of job other major life changing events, like death of the breadwinner, allowing for time to sell and restructure the debt.

5.  The home is not a blank check for credit card companies to suck the money out of equity, nor a basis for auto dealers to tap the life blood of American families.

6.  The National American Homestead would be the ENTIRE value of the home.  Some states have a homestead act that covers only a small portion of the home.  This allows it to be taken and sold under value and a small portion of the funds given to the owner to move on….even these funds are not exempt from further attachment after it becomes funds owned by the original owner.

7   The National American Homestead  would set apart the American Home as the nest from which the American Spirit rises each day to go to school and work and is the backbone of stability in America.

8.  The National American Homestead would be anywhere the home is owned and is the primary residence of the entire family.  The family could be one person, or all that are listed as the primary residents of the home.

9.  The National American Homestead would allow all that are listed as residents, including children  and seniors the right to the value and peaceful pursuit of happiness in the dwelling.  No more are children the disenfranchised non-owners of a family failure or divorce. 

10.  The National American Homestead would again be the sanctuary it is intended

on demand hydrogen is a simple cheap fuel additive.  The idiocy of hydrogen tanks on cars is dangerous, and ties the car to ‘refuel’ at gas stations…on demand hydrogen is a small electric pulse in a pint of water under the hood.  No hydrogen tank….about a 45% increase in fuel savings.

How much money, federal funds have been wasted by the Auto Industry by using these funds for RESEARCH for hybrid, electric, hydrogen tank, propane tanks, and bio fuels that they know are dangerous and will never be used.

A motor will generate enough electric power to refuel its own battery cells…

The real fix is the on demand hydrogen. 

We lose out on every front with lack of knowledge.

Is it time for a National HOMESTEAD ACT?

1.  The home can not be used for collateral for any debt surety.

2.  The home stands alone for mortgage funds, no combined debt into funding.

3.  The home is exempt in bankruptcy proceedings.

4.  The home must go through a one year default phase before foreclosure to offset loss of job other major life changing events, like death of the breadwinner, allowing for time to sell and restructure the debt.

5.  The home is not a blank check for credit card companies to suck the money out of equity, nor a basis for auto dealers to tap the life blood of American families.

6.  The National American Homestead would be the ENTIRE value of the home.  Some states have a homestead act that covers only a small portion of the home.  This allows it to be taken and sold under value and a small portion of the funds given to the owner to move on….even these funds are not exempt from further attachment after it becomes funds owned by the original owner.

7   The National American Homestead  would set apart the American Home as the nest from which the American Spirit rises each day to go to school and work and is the backbone of stability in America.

8.  The National American Homestead would be anywhere the home is owned and is the primary residence of the entire family.  The family could be one person, or all that are listed as the primary residents of the home.

9.  The National American Homestead would allow all that are listed as residents, including children  and seniors the right to the value and peaceful pursuit of happiness in the dwelling.  No more are children the disenfranchised non-owners of a family failure or divorce. 

10.  The National American Homestead would again be the sanctuary it is intended to be.

Is it time for a National HOMESTEAD ACT?

1.  The home can not be used for collateral for any debt surety.

2.  The home stands alone for mortgage funds, no combined debt into funding.

3.  The home is exempt in bankruptcy proceedings.

4.  The home must go through a one year default phase before foreclosure to offset loss of job other major life changing events, like death of the breadwinner, allowing for time to sell and restructure the debt.

5.  The home is not a blank check for credit card companies to suck the money out of equity, nor a basis for auto dealers to tap the life blood of American families.

6.  The National American Homestead would be the ENTIRE value of the home.  Some states have a homestead act that covers only a small portion of the home.  This allows it to be taken and sold under value and a small portion of the funds given to the owner to move on….even these funds are not exempt from further attachment after it becomes funds owned by the original owner.

7   The National American Homestead  would set apart the American Home as the nest from which the American Spirit rises each day to go to school and work and is the backbone of stability in America.

8.  The National American Homestead would be anywhere the home is owned and is the primary residence of the entire family.  The family could be one person, or all that are listed as the primary residents of the home.

9.  The National American Homestead would allow all that are listed as residents, including children  and seniors the right to the value and peaceful pursuit of happiness in the dwelling.  No more are children the disenfranchised non-owners of a family failure or divorce. 

10.  The National American Homestead would again be the sanctuary it is intended to be.

Is it time for a National HOMESTEAD ACT?

1.  The home can not be used for collateral for any debt surety.

2.  The home stands alone for mortgage funds, no combined debt into funding.

3.  The home is exempt in bankruptcy proceedings.

4.  The home must go through a one year default phase before foreclosure to offset loss of job other major life changing events, like death of the breadwinner, allowing for time to sell and restructure the debt.

5.  The home is not a blank check for credit card companies to suck the money out of equity, nor a basis for auto dealers to tap the life blood of American families.

6.  The National American Homestead would be the ENTIRE value of the home.  Some states have a homestead act that covers only a small portion of the home.  This allows it to be taken and sold under value and a small portion of the funds given to the owner to move on….even these funds are not exempt from further attachment after it becomes funds owned by the original owner.

7   The National American Homestead  would set apart the American Home as the nest from which the American Spirit rises each day to go to school and work and is the backbone of stability in America.

8.  The National American Homestead would be anywhere the home is owned and is the primary residence of the entire family.  The family could be one person, or all that are listed as the primary residents of the home.

9.  The National American Homestead would allow all that are listed as residents, including children  and seniors the right to the value and peaceful pursuit of happiness in the dwelling.  No more are children the disenfranchised non-owners of a family failure or divorce. 

10.  The National American Homestead would again be the sanctuary it is intended to be.

Why the silence?  Where is the broadcast?  We get silent visual blips on the other news channel but not any of the testimony?……..What is there to hide?…..V.

Thank you for all the good words….I had to leave my office and drive home and got lots of comments I could not answer until now….yes I have friends here….ans yes maybe some of the long time friends I did grow up and away from in more than one way…..I can’t thank you enough all of you for being here…

here is the post I made:

have more to fear from my life long friends than Obama supporters I meet for the first time.

I really think that they would not offer me a cold drink of water in the Texas Heat if I were there. 

I think they believe I will go to hell for my political choice and them to if they are anyway even cordial to me….talk about being decieved…I wish they could hear themselves…V

 

Call to prayer or whatever truth leads you….we have a fight on our hands….we need some of the spiritual actions we took during the campaign….we got what we wanted and let down our guard….we have to keep it up…..Vera…where are you…some more you folks get in on this….the snarling repubs, the angst in the ranks over Obama’s actions….you name it…..

Like I said of the VP pick….when the blog was giving all the advice we could stomach to read….I said, ‘Let Obama pick the VP he wants to work with shoulder to shoulder every day…he has a big job to take on….we have trusted him with it….we must trust him to pick his people….amen…V.

I have more to fear from my life long friends than Obama supporters I meet for the first time.

I really think that they would not offer me a cold drink of water in the Texas Heat if I were there. 

I think they believe I will go to hell for my political choice and them to if they are anyway even cordial to me….talk about being decieved…I wish they could hear themselves…V

 I am back on after a long day….I did not want to leave the discussion this morning about the CSPAN congressional hearing…..I am with you W.C. on your post…

I am an ‘Obamaican’…I had not read the posts before I put that one up just after yours…I have never seen such hatred and possible ‘terrorist’ in formally rational people in my life…it is frightening….V.

What is it?  Why do my repub friends who I love and respect believe this stuff?  I mean, you guys are not stupid?….I have never seen such hatred from normal folk in my life….I just do not understand.
 
The antichrist is not going to come until after the 4 horsemen and the rapture to deceive the undecided and new converts after the Holy Spirit is removed from the earth.
 
You need to read the entire series of LeHaye’s Left Behind series….
 
But the question for now….why do you hate so much?

I have heard that Bill Clinton and George Bush Senior were co-CEO’s of this corporation…..

There is a lot of Iraq oil money, and war dollars not accounted for……

 

The design for the Dubai City Tower is for 400 habitable stories topped by a 400 meter energy producing spire. The overall height of the project is 2,400 meters.

Read more at http://www.dubai-architecture.info/ »

This has been a great portion of the blog…how I wish I could just stay on…or bookmark the pages to get back to this section this afternoon….gee I hate to miss out on this discussion….V.

I read back a few pages on the blog and am, as many times, amazed how I had a thought and came on and it joined the feelings of the posts above it.  We have really put it in plain terms that the air heads in charge of the financial markets should get it….we are not taking it anymore.

She said, “you have abandoned the mortgage bail out…..and [paraphrased] how she had faith in him and stood up for him with her caucuses and told them that he Bernanke, was able to take care of it. 

 

on demand hydrogen is a simple cheap fuel additive.  The idiocy of hydrogen tanks on cars is dangerous, and ties the car to ‘refuel’ at gas stations…on demand hydrogen is a small electric pulse in a pint of water under the hood.  No hydrogen tank….about a 45% increase in fuel savings.

How much money, federal funds have been wasted by the Auto Industry by using these funds for RESEARCH for hybrid, electric, hydrogen tank, propane tanks, and bio fuels that they know are dangerous and will never be used.

A motor will generate enough electric power to refuel its own battery cells…

The real fix is the on demand hydrogen. 

We lose out on every front with lack of knowledge.

Sarah Palin just sent out a request for $5 Million to get the vote out this weekend……

Maybe Cindy McCain can loan her the money…..

Cindy will probably be ready for Tuesday to be over….she can get rid of the haircut and curls they put on her and the softer frillier clothes to soften up her image……

Start right now …Join Me….and call on what truth leads you until the last vote is counted….

I need people to add on to a list that will be in constant contact with your spiritual force….

to fight the SPIRITUAL WAR….that is going on…..

You can bet the RIGHTEOUS RIGHTIES are in seance…..

The remind me of the Pharisees of the Bible….

too self righteous to help anyone but them selves and were clean on the outside but their hearts were full of hate…..V.

Online Rally…..$25 to pay expenses to defeat McCain

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 The campaign has ask us to to this…..

LET THEM HEAR FROM US…..ONE MORE TIME…..SET THE NEWS AND WORLD ON THEIR EAR…V.

Online Rally…..$25 to pay expenses to defeat McCain

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 The campaign has ask us to to this…..

LET THEM HEAR FROM US…..ONE MORE TIME…..SET THE NEWS AND WORLD ON THEIR EAR…V.

Online Rally…..$25 to pay expenses to defeat McCain

Online Rally…..$25 to pay expenses to defeat McCain

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 The campaign has ask us to to this…..

LET THEM HEAR FROM US…..ONE MORE TIME…..SET THE NEWS AND WORLD ON THEIR EAR…V.

Online Rally…they have ask for $25…let’s all do it…..all of us can give $25…and it will be huge….together…like we have done this so far….All of us holding hands together….send out personal requests….email friends….blog it….do it…..today…V.

Online Rally…..$25 to pay expenses to defeat McCain

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LET’S ALL HOLD HANDS TOGETHER…..ACROSS THE NATION AND MAKE HISTORY…ONE MORE TIME…….V.

Please ….Please…Please…Someone….make a book of the Pictures from the Campaign….and some of them posted here…like the Life magazine print we have….50 years in pictures……It is history yes,….but it is also some of the most beautiful pictures of Barack Obama…..in the crowds….in the back drops…..fantastic…V,.

Will you walk a mile with me Brother?

Will you walk a mile with me Sister?

We just have a few more miles to go…….V.

 

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ALL ARE WELCOME TO MY FACEBOOK CAUSE PAGE……

THIS IS NOT A CHRISTIAN ONLY SITE….I JUST FELT THESE ARE GOOD FOR THE SOUL RIGHT NOW….WE HAVE EVERYONE ON THE PAGE……I AM SPIRITUAL .,…NOT  RELIGIOUS….THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE….V.

WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER…WE HAVE TO STAY CONNECTED….CLICK ON ….VERNA…ASK TO BE A FRIEND….THEN CLICK ON THE ….FACEBOOK PAGE….V.

Olivia Branch Walker…..’Everything is going to be alright’

Hang on just a little longer ….everything is going to be alright…Hang on just a little longer….V . 

 

I started my Obama group early Jan 1 of this year….I have come to know the different personalities on the blog…I have my favorites that I read…

I log on and look for the ones I know..whether I comment or not..Barack Obama is the great UNITER…look at all the people he has brought together here…I

 started a Facebook Obama page and there is a link to it on my personal page on this site..but it will not get all the people I like to read….Will we still be together after next week..? 

Please ….Please…Please…Someone….make a book of the Pictures from the Campaign….like the Life magazine print we have….50 years in pictures……It is history yes,….but it is also some of the most beautiful pictures of Barack Obama…..in the crowds….in the back drops…..fantastic…V,.

This time of night,…tick…tick….tick…tick…tick…tick…tick….tick….

the cat on the end of the bed on his comforter…tick…tick….tick…tick…tick…tick…tick….tick…..

my laptop…tick…tick….tick…tick…tick…tick…tick….tick….

Barack Obama on TV….tick…tick….tick…tick…tick…tick…tick….tick……

the clock on the wall.…..tick…tick….tick…tick…tick…tick…tick….tick…

my vote mailed in….tick…tick….tick…tick…tick…tick…tick….tick..

.is one second closer to the vote count tick…tick….tick…tick…tick…tick…tick….tick…

next Tuesday night….tick…tick….tick…tick…tick…tick…tick….tick……

Peace to all and to all a goodnight..tick…tick….tick…tick…tick…tick…tick….tick…….V.

Imagine  Barack Obama giving a speech and the back drop is the New York Stock Exchange.  We can imagine his speech on the economy and the talking points that would breathe health into the economy.,

Now, imagine John McCain giving the same talk he does complaining about Obama and nothing on the economy and Palin by his side on the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange….and interupting Palin saying…..”Whooo Boyyyy, the way we do it in AAAALLLLAAASSSKA……”

……..’nough said?…….V.

Sean Hannity on his radio program this afternoon, opening the show up with, ‘did the press ask Michelle Obama if she received a wardrobe from the DNC?….Did anyone of the media ask where her clothes came from…over and over again the same question rephrased…not making a statement but phrasing is as a question to make the same point.  Of course he knows the truth…so he can sidestep the truth by phrasing is as a question.  But still hammer home to the silly listeners that lap that stuff up….but no skin off his nose…he was just asking questions.

Can be viewed on www.CSPAN.org/politics   Ohio Voters Focus Group

CSPAN has on a magnificently run program, a focus group of Ohio voters. NOT so much for what they said, but what they did not say…
The format was brillliant…the questions, the way they were delivered…It was an educational presentation of the structure.

The participants were not the focus. They were not as ‘undecided’ as they would put on…one was a bitter Hillary supporter voting for McCain. No undecided there….In severall rounds of surgical questioning,….after much hesitation at each question…had to formulate a answer to justify her answer.

Others,…had to reach, I mean reach, to justify not voting for Obama for the obvious reason….bigotry. Cold crass bigotry….they used his orator skills as a liability….me thinks…because he has a better brain…education…focus…direction than they do and they can not accept that he does….so it must be something wrong with it.

G I M M E….T U E S D A Y N I G H T ….Q U I C K…..V.

The McCain Palin Web Site, …The RNC Web Site……no issues are discussed on how they are going to fix this nation.

My vote is mailed in for Barack Obama…I just went to the other web sites to see what you would find.  Stay with me on this…we are going somewhere at the end.

First of all, this one at first glance is far better….the other one is limited and stiff….not much going on at first look.

Second, you go to the first page of the McCain Palin site and it is video’s of McCain on a stretcher.

He is a hero,…yes….he got a medal, 30 years ago.

What is that going to do for a person looking for help with today’s issues?

You open this web site, the first page is what are the issues, the facts, the plan for our nation.

THE RNC web site:

Open it up and click on the blog, …it is all about the smears, lies, mis information we hear everyday.  NO PLAN FOR AMERICA

I did this because I received an email supposedly from Sarah Palin.  It was so stiff and to the point asking for money because this campaign have spent so much, ya da ya da ya da…..It was DEFINITLY not written by the person who signed it….just not the flow of information as it would come from what we have seen of her.

I also received emails from my long time friends that have started a SMEAR campaign against me personally.,..they have joined my Facebook and contacted my fellow workers on that web site and started such a vile untrue mess that it is unconscionable to take in.,,..

YES WE CAN ….overcome the smears, the lies, and stand up for who we are….people that have known me all of my life or for a lot of years…worked with me in office everyday….spent more time with me in the last two decades than my children…..and they do this….

Partly because they are in the same business as me and hope to build themselves up in the eyes of others …..but mostly because they have lost all sense of reason their own bigotry and sense of not being validated if Barack wins….they are absolutely blind.  And that is an insult to persons without sight that have more insight than my friends…..

I told you this was going somewhere,….thank God,…these idiots are the only ones left in the RNC.

Will the last person leaving the RNC please turn out the lights…..V.

 

 

We have a mail in county…..My Vote is in…everyone in town just meets and says..”Hi, How are you? Did you vote for Obama?……That is the greeting among the people in Bellingham Wa.

We are calm and patiently waiting for the rest of the nation to catch up and the votes counted.

By now my grandchildren are all tucked in their beds….all is quite…I am at peace knowing I will have done my part to help insure a better future for them…..

I bring you the PEACE AND CALM of the evening to let you know that when your vote is cast how you will feel. 

Blessing and good vibes to all….V.

That he was persuaded by …….[all those guys]….and said if he is wrong will be willing to admit it. 

Decades of bad cars with built in deficencies that gaurantee dealership repairs and repurchase needed before the loan is paid?  

Ugly dang cars that all look alike and are foreign parts and junk?

Bad loans for even good buyers?  Mice type print contracts with I win you lose language?

DEMOCRATS VOTING 2 TO ONE FOR IT

REPUBLICANS VOTING 2 TO ONE AGAINST IT….

FEAR MONGORING….THREATS FOR LOSS TO AMERICANS….THE OIL IN IRAQ WILL PAY FOR IT.

FEAR MONGORING….THREATS FOR LOSS OF PENSIONS…..THE BANK ASSETS WILL PAY FOR IT.

FEAR MONGORING….THREATS FOR LOSS TO AMERICANS….THE OIL IN IRAQ WILL PAY FOR IT.

FEAR MONGORING….THREATS FOR LOSS OF PENSIONS…..THE BANK ASSETS WILL PAY FOR IT.

What a day in congress….we have republicans agreeing with Nancy Pelosi and Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland threaten the loss of pensions if the bailout and Bush do not get there way…..wow.

It is a day to take names and take action

It would be cheaper to FDIC insurance to all the Pension holders instead of paying the crooks that messed it up hoping that they will honor the pension accounts…….

I am sick of hearing republicans stand up and “threaten” loss of pensions if they do not get $700 Billion dollars……

Just pay the pension holders directly and let the chips fall where they may…..It is now or never.

Just stood up and took Nancy Pelosi’s stand to close and wait……she also said……It was a crisis caused by a mark down of accounting in the banking margin against assets.

IT WAS CREATED……YEAH, A FELLOW REPUBLICAN STOOD UP IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SAID……..WAIT THIS WAS CREATED…….ALL OF US REPUBLICANS ARE NOT BAD……V.

The same words from the same people.  A repub just stood up in the House of Representatives on CSPAN and told the body and America that this is not a bailout, we will make money one this……who is the WE?

The taxpayers are the THEY and our CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDREN that will have to pay for it and the WE they will make the money is the MONOPOLY of credit banks that will make the money and hold us hostage like the gasoline companies……

We have to do something quickly…….DONATE…..INFORM….REGISTER NEW VOTERS…..TALK TO THE REPUBS THAT YOU KNOW…..BEG THEM TO NOT VOTE REPUBLICAN

THE REPUBLICAN EMAIL MACHINE…….IS SO MASSIVE…..I HAD A FRIEND, KNOWLEDGEABLE. WATCVHFUL OF NEWS AND THE ELECTION…..TELL ME THIS WEEKEND…..

“How can you vote for Obama?…..the Muslim nations are happy he is running for President”

i was shocked at my friend……she believed it….she wanted me to believe it……IT WAS NUTS.

IT WAS THE CEMENT THAT SHE WAS CLINGING TO THAT WILL KEEP IN POWER ALL THAT IS WRONG WITH OUR NATION……..

EVERYDAY, EVERY HOUR WE NEED TO WORK ON THIS PROBLEM WITH THE REPUBS…..V..

Since when are we to feel good about a MONOPOLY holding the banks, money and credit lines.  Did not America decide that to have a monopoly in any industry was bad for the economy and everyone in the country?

Anti-trust laws were created to stop this practice.  Remember when the Gasoline companies merged and forced out the independents?

Are we going to see happen to the money market what happened to gasoline?

WE  ARE  IN  FOR  THE  FIGHT  FOR  OUR  LIVES…..

Click on my group, join, donate…..we only have a month left…and days to register voters for the general election.

Everyone must be registered to vote before OCTOBER 4, to vote November 4.  

NEVER BEFORE HAS THE URGENCY OF NOW APPLIED SO WELL. . .. V.

Since when are we to feel good about a MONOPOLY holding the banks, money and credit lines.  Did not America decide that to have a monopoly in any industry was bad for the economy and everyone in the country?

Anti-trust laws were created to stop this practice.  Remember when the Gasoline companies merged and forced out the independents?

Are we going to see happen to the money market what happened to gasoline?

Saying what he did about Teddy Kennedy being in the hospital and they pausing and pie eyed milking the moment with the crowd. 

Hoping to sop up sentiment from the Kennedy fans, short circuit their thinking matter….suspend thinking processes to get a toe in the door for himself.

And what most of us do not realize…..their are a huge amount of people out there that will vote that get the issues confused about who Teddy Kennedy stood up for.   They will just remember that Teddy was on the screen and it will confuse the issue in their minds and associate him with McCain.

Like the preview of the Ole Miss venue and the woman said in very backward mentality, ‘It doesn’t matter, I am still a McCain girl.: and the guy that said, “He is back in Washington taking care of us?   He does not watch the news to know the facts that McCain has not voted since April and flew into town just to draw attention to himself.  It was reported by his colleagues in Congress that he just got in the way.

 

THESE TWO PEOPLE WILL NEVER KNOW THAT….THEY JUST GOT THE CHEAP TV COMMERCIL VERSION OF THE FACTS.

DRANK THE CHEAP WINE AND WERE HAPPY WITH IT. 

 

McCain made a big slip up that no one has caught yet……You get it here first…….

McCain said,”I am not feeling well,  ‘big pause’……….about the last few days………. or what ever it was. 

Is that the REAL reason he SUSPENDED his campaign…….decided not to debate until he was pulled over to the corner like a ‘punch drunk’ old fighter and swabbed up and pushed back out into the ring?

Did he need a break?  Was the schedule too much for him?

The mental capacity has got to be brutal and the physical punishment of making day after day appearances is hard for anyone.

I can’t imagine any other time in history that a pair of somethings like McCain and Palin could be stood up in front of the world to captain the ship of state for America….leaders of the free world and all that stands for and not be laughed off of the stage……ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

YOU WANT THESE TWO TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE OF THE FREE WORLD?

REPUBLICANS…..YOU HAVE BEEN FED A LINE OF BULL LIKE A CHEAP TV COMMERCIAL….AND YOU ARE ZONED OUT AND LETING IT PASS FOR REAL…….

ALL OF AMERICA  AND THE WORLD AND MAYBE THE PLANET ITSELF……ARE OU KIDDING ME?

I have not heard anything about the way I feel about the debate.  Let me run this by all of you and see how it pans out. 

McCain was saying stuff for the masses to say, :See He really cares’  I thought he was insincere and parroting words like cheap wine.

McCain will say anything in front of crowds and cameras.  I know that is not how repubs think.  Been there, done that.

McCain holds values true to the insiders of the party that tell each other stuff to identify and validate their views.  I do not think that views is even the words.  When a couple or few people spend a lot of time in their own illusions it takes on a form of mutual insanity. 

McCain is only the face on a group of staffers that do the real job for the position he holds.  I doubt that he has any real input into his role as senator.   But then I think that about most of the senior senators.  They are too old to walk, hear, see, and yet they can stand in front of the camera and mutter a few words and that passes as doing the job.

McCain made a big slip up that no one has caught yet……You get it here first…….

McCain said,”I am not feeling well,  ‘big pause’……….about the last few days………. or what ever it was. 

 What do you think about these thoughts?   Did you catch any of it like this.  I had a hard time not being angry.  I could see my repub friends just eating up the lies and the ‘rose petals on the pile of poop;.

Sorry for the analogy…..just frustrated that I can’t get through to them the gravity of staying with the Grandpa Of the Past   party…….V.

 

THE MONEY WE DONATE THIS MONTH TO BE SPENT NEXT MONTH MAY SHAPE THE 21ST CENTURY AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. 

Make it an old fashioned ‘At HomeWeek’ ….We have to little POSITIVE time at home with friends and loved ones. Make it a real fun, safe home time.  At the same time your protesting high gas prices. 

Donate to the Obama campaign, click on BellinghamWAforObama and donate.

My site, your site, or the Web site front page and read a little or view a video of the great speeches lately of Barack Obama. 

Donate $21 for the General Election Campaign to CHANGE the 21st Century

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YES WE CAN……Donate today and in September to CHANGE November and the 21st Century.

It is coming up close, ‘Let’s Roll’……V.

We have little time left until the election. 

The 7th inning stretch is over.

Time to put forth Barack Obama’s issues on this his campaign blog.

It is what Barack thinks that is important.

It is what his ideas on the economy, taxation, foreign policy, health programs, that are to be discussed here and with the public.

What the Huffy Post thinks, or a talking head, or anybody else does not interest me anymore.

What any person has to say about anything is not important…..what is and ONLY is important is what Barack thinks and is going to do when elected.

I do not want to see anymore big pictures of a newscaster, or what they say.  I think some of these entities are using this blog for free advertising and promotion. 

Read the issues on the front web site.  Barack’s economic plan and discuss these issues on the front page.

There is so little time left…….YES WE CAN…….V.  

 

In reality….marriage is:

1, Licensed by the state to enter into.

2. Has community property owned by the whole.

3. Has common income for the Good of the whole

4. Each member is expected to contribute to the entity

5. It must be dissolved by the court.

That is what a corporation is.

All persons entering into a civil corporation would have a duty to the state under the license to perform and removing assets from the corporate whole of the civil corporation is under penalty of law.  It would be subject to audit and responsible to the other members and the state.  No more theft by transference.

The partners could also choose to have a ‘Religious’ ceremony under the tenets of their church. 

It would return the marriage act to the church. 

The civil contract could work both ways.

The partners could choose:

1. to have a ‘civil contract’ and no religious marriage.

2. to have both a ‘civil contract’ and a religious marriage.

3. to be separate under the law and have a religious marriage under God in church.

4. to be blissfully single, not having either.

That would end this horrible debate on marriage.  All with a ‘civil union’ would have all rights under those laws and be under a duty to care for the assets of the civil corporation.

All those wishing to be married, are married at church, it is a religious rite of the church like baptism.

It would end to horrible inequities of the current marriage laws.  Not that the laws are inequitable the prevailing financial rape that occurs when one partner steals the assets of the other. The attorneys get first grab and the children are to pawns to who gets the alimony and the house.  If the attorney bill is too high [usually the home is sold to pay them first] or the assets have been removed that support the home.

The children would be equitable partners of the ‘civil corporation’ and the state would be the auditing factor like yearly income tax and inventory of a small corporation.  Because that is actually what a modern marriage is.   

All assets would be held in the name of the ‘civil contract’ .  You could not steal a car or the bank account or the title to property.   It would have a corporate name other than the partners signature.

To be anti-abortion is to be PRO – ILLEGAL ABORTIONS.  

A Purpose driven life?……I found it boring, childish, a revamp of motivational speakers, feel good, you got to have this book to be one of us…..even tried to go to a book study on that book….to see if there was something I was missing…..the ‘holier than thou old crone with cold hands and a handshake that was a vise grip’  that was leading it frowned if you mentioned anything that was not dull, dead, and ‘your not doing the ‘numbed out of your mind’ duck walk. 

I still think that if I ever see that old crone that took my hand and sqeezed it so hard it hurt for the entire hour I will slug her flat on the concrete.  I am a big girl, and live a clean life, and do not have any ‘worldly’ issues……everytime you meet up with one of these people, you are a sinner doomed for hell because, they need to lead you to Jesus to get another mark by their name in the pastors book.    I am in the Lord’s book of Life….I do not need to be in your book it will be burned up with your copy of the Purpose Driven Life in the end of time.

It sold so many copies because it was promoted by the ‘you gotta do this to be one of us’ to the spiritually hungry crowds that come to find God and get a Sunday morning talk about the pastors family life, his new motorcycle, and the plane he wants to buy…….donate and God will answer your prayers…..puke….God answers my prayers when I say them with a pure intention…..V.

Sick of religious non-spiritual hoo-llolly lump of flesh that is the ‘evangelical’ movement.  It was once a group that was unsatisfied with the religious expression of spirituality that existed and they became their own ‘religion’.  Try to enter that body and not do the ‘evangelical’ duck walk and you will not be accepted. 

They have become everything that they ran from only worse.  I was not impressed with the event with Rick Warren.  He was trying out the candidates to see if they fit the mold of the evangelicals.  That is not what it was based on.  In many respects it is worse than organized religion in its organization.

I attended the warehoused masses for many years and ran for cover.  It is me and God and everything I learned in vacation bible school the rest is man made control.  YUK…..bail out now….I think Christ had a word for them…..Pharases?…..judging everyone if they matched their well washed outsides?…….

Christ said ……the greatest comandment is love….if you do not love your fellow man you can not love God…….V

 

To be anti-abortion is to be PRO – ILLEGAL ABORTIONS.  

Now that I see everyone is up and online with their juices flowing, I want to call to Prayer and good meditations to the Truth that leads you for our Nation and our World.  I have spent the last 24 hours with considerable concern over all that is going on.  Here and around the world, we need a divine intervention for every aspect of our existence.  We are here doing our part and have a vision of Change for all of it. 

With our modern society with all of the technological and communication devices, we still are not learning and sharing a better life.  Everything from transportation, food, housing, children at risk, we seem to be dumber and worse off than in the 50′s. 

Ask the spiritual Truth that leads you to give insight and introspection for a better world. 

I am not so worried about myself, I have given up on many hopes and dreams, my feelings are;  when I go my generations after me will need and want everything I have given up on and what will they have to work with and use when we are gone. 

Let’s send up a collective, “Can you help us down here?” thing.  and the heavens answered, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,YES WE CAN…….V. 

 

GO TO GOOGLE MAPS……GET DIRECTIONS FROM BAGHDAD TO BEJING….IT WILL POP UP A MAP…..WITH THE PIN POINTS ON IT…..

THEN VISUALIZE THE LINE FROM ONE TO THE OTHER….IT GOES STRAIGHT THROUGH THE AREA BEING BOMBED.

PEOPLE DIED TODAY……FOR OIL?

WE ARE IN REAL TROUBLE FOLKS….HOW DID I FIGURE THAT OUT….JUST REMEMBERED THE ROUGH GEOGRAPHY.  

Thanks to great teachers that said what I learn in school is for me to use and to keep learning all of my life.

Back to the bombing…….my distant ancestors came from that area….the oldsters long gone now….looked  like the women walking the bombed streets with their worldly possessions.

It is real folks, we need to pray for them, they, their homes, their loved ones, are standing in the pathway of what some greedy power brokers want.    

 

 

I think the Repubs have fun sometimes…..sometimes,…..you can actually see McCain almost grin,……but joy and smiling are against the rules for regular Repubs, and you have to be on the stage to have permission to almost grin,…..it is just not the done thing at a Repub event,…..event,….it is like an open casket viewing…to go to a Repub thing,….shhhhhhh…..the dead might hear you…..V.

Nursing a sprained foot and hip, fell carrying a watermelon last Sat at the lake picnic pavilion.  I wanted to go to the Fair and walk around the business booths.  That’s out.  Watering the wilting plants started the pain in my foot again.  Stay with me here, we are going somewhere…….

Propped up, lap top, news channels, ad nauseum, email was interesting…..only got a few multi-million dollar prize winning tickets from foreign lands….interesting….I have several emails, and I got the same exclusive, confidential prize in each junk mail box……oh yeah, got a choice of two John McCain fundraisers to attend on either end of the freeway, held in taverns that no respectable person would drive by, no host drinks, no  thanks, gave it up 31 years ago……oh yeah, it is sponsored by the Repub party, and …….I recommend staying off of the I-5 on Thursday evening between noon and midnight…..those folks get together early and finish late……safety issue you know……

Too much time, too much instant coffee, too much guilt for not being out and about this beautiful day.  I thought about going to my office, down at the yacht harbor.  I can sit at my desk and see boat masts the full side of the front and the other side see the Harbor and hear seagulls all day. 

 Maybe, one full day off my foot will help it heal faster……thank God I am healed from the GOP, never went to those drink a thons anyway.  Went to some lunches and dinners where it got pretty wet.  Oh well, I am not down on anyone that imbibes, far from it, I just don’t think  their only events in this area will be one fraction of a percent as fun as the smiling faces and the energy of being at an Obama event, ……..or just passing one of the many, many, Obama yard signs……or seeing the gorgeous pictures on the blog of Obama and the sheer joy of the supporters and stuff going on.  

WE HAVE THEM BEAT ON SHEER JOY FACTOR…….YES WE CAN…….to happy to go to any more serious, droll, pecking order of power postering repub stuff…..had more fun falling down with a watermelon at the lake picnic pavilion on last Saturday. 

See you stayed with me and I took you all the way through that……my pansy baskets are gasping for water in the front…..they are more fun that a packed room of repubs……V.

 

She puts her fist in the air and rallies the PUMAS with “until every voice is heard”.  Surely, in the short time before the convention somebody will step in and tell her we do not need to export this type of chaos to the world stage in the convention.  But nobody stepped up to the plate to tell her before until it was a public disgrace for her to be up in front of crowds. 

    Do we need the security pulling mad dog old dames out of the convention floor on world wide video?

 

     I happen to be a conservative, white haired old dame for Barack Obama for my generations that come after me.

 

And while I am at it……..That hoooolllloooollllly on the media about how much Barack is going to cost us if we vote for him………how about reading his speeches and his economic plan to get it straight if you are a news outlet……if not then you need to report the air time as a political contribution or retract your falsehoods.

I am very proud of the next POTUS.  Barack is ever bit a statesman.  Happy that he had time back home in Hawaii.  We have a big job to do.  All of this coverage on the other candidate only helps our position. 

Just a short stop in for now.  Busy in life, more later.  YES WE CAN……V.

Goodmorning Media,…..I know some of you are up tonight looking on the blogs for your next news draft.  Well…..let me help you along….this is a copy of one of Barack’s Speech and I will highlight a good answer for the latest right wing smears from Barack’s own words…that was so well said….here is a full copy of the speech and the highlights are mine.

 

Barack Obama – U.S. Senator for Illinois – obama.senate.gov‘Call to Renewal’ Keynote AddressWednesday, June 28, 2006Washington, DC

Good morning. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here at the Call to Renewal’s Building a Covenant for a New America conference. I’ve had the opportunity to take a look at your Covenant for a New America. It is filled with outstanding policies and prescriptions for much of what ails this country. So I’d like to congratulate you all on the thoughtful presentations you’ve given so far about poverty and justice in America, and for putting fire under the feet of the political leadership here in Washington.

But today I’d like to talk about the connection between religion and politics and perhaps offer some thoughts about how we can sort through some of the often bitter arguments that we’ve been seeing over the last several years.

I do so because, as you all know, we can affirm the importance of poverty in the Bible; and we can raise up and pass out this Covenant for a New America. We can talk to the press, and we can discuss the religious call to address poverty and environmental stewardship all we want, but it won’t have an impact unless we tackle head-on the mutual suspicion that sometimes exists between religious America and secular America.

I want to give you an example that I think illustrates this fact. As some of you know, during the 2004 U.S. Senate General Election I ran against a gentleman named Alan Keyes. Mr. Keyes is well-versed in the Jerry Falwell-Pat Robertson style of rhetoric that often labels progressives as both immoral and godless.

Indeed, Mr. Keyes announced towards the end of the campaign that, “Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama. Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has behaved in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.”

Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama.

Now, I was urged by some of my liberal supporters not to take this statement seriously, to essentially ignore it. To them, Mr. Keyes was an extremist, and his arguments not worth entertaining. And since at the time, I was up 40 points in the polls, it probably wasn’t a bad piece of strategic advice.

But what they didn’t understand, however, was that I had to take Mr. Keyes seriously, for he claimed to speak for my religion, and my God. He claimed knowledge of certain truths.

Mr. Obama says he’s a Christian, he was saying, and yet he supports a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.

Mr. Obama says he’s a Christian, but supports the destruction of innocent and sacred life.

And so what would my supporters have me say? How should I respond? Should I say that a literalist reading of the Bible was folly? Should I say that Mr. Keyes, who is a Roman Catholic, should ignore the teachings of the Pope?

Unwilling to go there, I answered with what has come to be the typically liberal response in such debates – namely, I said that we live in a pluralistic society, that I can’t impose my own religious views on another, that I was running to be the U.S. Senator of Illinois and not the Minister of Illinois.

But Mr. Keyes’s implicit accusation that I was not a true Christian nagged at me, and I was also aware that my answer did not adequately address the role my faith has in guiding my own values and my own beliefs.

Now, my dilemma was by no means unique. In a way, it reflected the broader debate we’ve been having in this country for the last thirty years over the role of religion in politics.

For some time now, there has been plenty of talk among pundits and pollsters that the political divide in this country has fallen sharply along religious lines. Indeed, the single biggest “gap” in party affiliation among white Americans today is not between men and women, or those who reside in so-called Red States and those who reside in Blue, but between those who attend church regularly and those who don’t.

Conservative leaders have been all too happy to exploit this gap, consistently reminding evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their Church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design.

Democrats, for the most part, have taken the bait. At best, we may try to avoid the conversation about religious values altogether, fearful of offending anyone and claiming that – regardless of our personal beliefs – constitutional principles tie our hands. At worst, there are some liberals who dismiss religion in the public square as inherently irrational or intolerant, insisting on a caricature of religious Americans that paints them as fanatical, or thinking that the very word “Christian” describes one’s political opponents, not people of faith.

Now, such strategies of avoidance may work for progressives when our opponent is Alan Keyes. But over the long haul, I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in people’s lives — in the lives of the American people — and I think it’s time that we join a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern, pluralistic democracy.

And if we’re going to do that then we first need to understand that Americans are a religious people. 90 percent of us believe in God, 70 percent affiliate themselves with an organized religion, 38 percent call themselves committed Christians, and substantially more people in America believe in angels than they do in evolution.

This religious tendency is not simply the result of successful marketing by skilled preachers or the draw of popular mega-churches. In fact, it speaks to a hunger that’s deeper than that – a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause.

Each day, it seems, thousands of Americans are going about their daily rounds – dropping off the kids at school, driving to the office, flying to a business meeting, shopping at the mall, trying to stay on their diets – and they’re coming to the realization that something is missing. They are deciding that their work, their possessions, their diversions, their sheer busyness, is not enough.

They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives. They’re looking to relieve a chronic loneliness, a feeling supported by a recent study that shows Americans have fewer close friends and confidants than ever before. And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them – that they are not just destined to travel down that long highway towards nothingness.

And I speak with some experience on this matter. I was not raised in a particularly religious household, as undoubtedly many in the audience were. My father, who returned to Kenya when I was just two, was born Muslim but as an adult became an atheist. My mother, whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was probably one of the most spiritual and kindest people I’ve ever known, but grew up with a healthy skepticism of organized religion herself. As a consequence, so did I.

It wasn’t until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma.

I was working with churches, and the Christians who I worked with recognized themselves in me. They saw that I knew their Book and that I shared their values and sang their songs. But they sensed that a part of me that remained removed, detached, that I was an observer in their midst.

And in time, I came to realize that something was missing as well — that without a vessel for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone.

And if it weren’t for the particular attributes of the historically black church, I may have accepted this fate. But as the months passed in Chicago, I found myself drawn – not just to work with the church, but to be in the church.

For one thing, I believed and still believe in the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change, a power made real by some of the leaders here today. Because of its past, the black church understands in an intimate way the Biblical call to feed the hungry and cloth the naked and challenge powers and principalities. And in its historical struggles for freedom and the rights of man, I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world. As a source of hope.

And perhaps it was out of this intimate knowledge of hardship — the grounding of faith in struggle — that the church offered me a second insight, one that I think is important to emphasize today.

Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts.

You need to come to church in the first place precisely because you are first of this world, not apart from it. You need to embrace Christ precisely because you have sins to wash away – because you are human and need an ally in this difficult journey.

It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street in the Southside of Chicago one day and affirm my Christian faith. It came about as a choice, and not an epiphany. I didn’t fall out in church. The questions I had didn’t magically disappear. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt that I heard God’s spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth.

That’s a path that has been shared by millions upon millions of Americans – evangelicals, Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims alike; some since birth, others at certain turning points in their lives. It is not something they set apart from the rest of their beliefs and values. In fact, it is often what drives their beliefs and their values.

And that is why that, if we truly hope to speak to people where they’re at – to communicate our hopes and values in a way that’s relevant to their own – then as progressives, we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse.

Because when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations towards one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome – others will fill the vacuum, those with the most insular views of faith, or those who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends.

In other words, if we don’t reach out to evangelical Christians and other religious Americans and tell them what we stand for, then the Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons and Alan Keyeses will continue to hold sway.

More fundamentally, the discomfort of some progressives with any hint of religion has often prevented us from effectively addressing issues in moral terms. Some of the problem here is rhetorical – if we scrub language of all religious content, we forfeit the imagery and terminology through which millions of Americans understand both their personal morality and social justice.

Imagine Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address without reference to “the judgments of the Lord.” Or King’s I Have a Dream speech without references to “all of God’s children.” Their summoning of a higher truth helped inspire what had seemed impossible, and move the nation to embrace a common destiny.

Our failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings of the nation is not just rhetorical, though. Our fear of getting “preachy” may also lead us to discount the role that values and culture play in some of our most urgent social problems.

After all, the problems of poverty and racism, the uninsured and the unemployed, are not simply technical problems in search of the perfect ten point plan. They are rooted in both societal indifference and individual callousness – in the imperfections of man.

Solving these problems will require changes in government policy, but it will also require changes in hearts and a change in minds. I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturers’ lobby – but I also believe that when a gang-banger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels somebody disrespected him, we’ve got a moral problem. There’s a hole in that young man’s heart – a hole that the government alone cannot fix.

I believe in vigorous enforcement of our non-discrimination laws. But I also believe that a transformation of conscience and a genuine commitment to diversity on the part of the nation’s CEOs could bring about quicker results than a battalion of lawyers. They have more lawyers than us anyway.

I think that we should put more of our tax dollars into educating poor girls and boys. I think that the work that Marian Wright Edelman has done all her life is absolutely how we should prioritize our resources in the wealthiest nation on earth. I also think that we should give them the information about contraception that can prevent unwanted pregnancies, lower abortion rates, and help assure that that every child is loved and cherished.

But, you know, my Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. So I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman’s sense of self, a young man’s sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence that all young people should have for the act of sexual intimacy.

I am not suggesting that every progressive suddenly latch on to religious terminology – that can be dangerous. Nothing is more transparent than inauthentic expressions of faith. As Jim has mentioned, some politicians come and clap — off rhythm — to the choir. We don’t need that.

In fact, because I do not believe that religious people have a monopoly on morality, I would rather have someone who is grounded in morality and ethics, and who is also secular, affirm their morality and ethics and values without pretending that they’re something they’re not. They don’t need to do that. None of us need to do that.

But what I am suggesting is this – secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King – indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history – were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their “personal morality” into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Moreover, if we progressives shed some of these biases, we might recognize some overlapping values that both religious and secular people share when it comes to the moral and material direction of our country. We might recognize that the call to sacrifice on behalf of the next generation, the need to think in terms of “thou” and not just “I,” resonates in religious congregations all across the country. And we might realize that we have the ability to reach out to the evangelical community and engage millions of religious Americans in the larger project of American renewal.

Some of this is already beginning to happen. Pastors, friends of mine like Rick Warren and T.D. Jakes are wielding their enormous influences to confront AIDS, Third World debt relief, and the genocide in Darfur. Religious thinkers and activists like our good friend Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo are lifting up the Biblical injunction to help the poor as a means of mobilizing Christians against budget cuts to social programs and growing inequality.

And by the way, we need Christians on Capitol Hill, Jews on Capitol Hill and Muslims on Capitol Hill talking about the estate tax. When you’ve got an estate tax debate that proposes a trillion dollars being taken out of social programs to go to a handful of folks who don’t need and weren’t even asking for it, you know that we need an injection of morality in our political debate.

Across the country, individual churches like my own and your own are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, helping ex-offenders reclaim their lives, and rebuilding our gulf coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

So the question is, how do we build on these still-tentative partnerships between religious and secular people of good will? It’s going to take more work, a lot more work than we’ve done so far. The tensions and the suspicions on each side of the religious divide will have to be squarely addressed. And each side will need to accept some ground rules for collaboration.

While I’ve already laid out some of the work that progressive leaders need to do, I want to talk a little bit about what conservative leaders need to do — some truths they need to acknowledge.

For one, they need to understand the critical role that the separation of church and state has played in preserving not only our democracy, but the robustness of our religious practice. Folks tend to forget that during our founding, it wasn’t the atheists or the civil libertarians who were the most effective champions of the First Amendment. It was the persecuted minorities, it was Baptists like John Leland who didn’t want the established churches to impose their views on folks who were getting happy out in the fields and teaching the scripture to slaves. It was the forbearers of the evangelicals who were the most adamant about not mingling government with religious, because they did not want state-sponsored religion hindering their ability to practice their faith as they understood it.

Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America’s population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.

And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson’s, or Al Sharpton’s? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount – a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let’s read our bibles. Folks haven’t been reading their bibles.

This brings me to my second point. Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God’s will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.

Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, as many evangelicals do. But in a pluralistic democracy, we have no choice. Politics depends on our ability to persuade each other of common aims based on a common reality. It involves the compromise, the art of what’s possible. At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It’s the art of the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God’s edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one’s life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime, but to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing. And if you doubt that, let me give you an example.

We all know the story of Abraham and Isaac. Abraham is ordered by God to offer up his only son, and without argument, he takes Isaac to the mountaintop, binds him to an altar, and raises his knife, prepared to act as God has commanded.

Of course, in the end God sends down an angel to intercede at the very last minute, and Abraham passes God’s test of devotion.

But it’s fair to say that if any of us leaving this church saw Abraham on a roof of a building raising his knife, we would, at the very least, call the police and expect the Department of Children and Family Services to take Isaac away from Abraham. We would do so because we do not hear what Abraham hears, do not see what Abraham sees, true as those experiences may be. So the best we can do is act in accordance with those things that we all see, and that we all hear, be it common laws or basic reason.

Finally, any reconciliation between faith and democratic pluralism requires some sense of proportion.

This goes for both sides.

Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.

The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.

But a sense of proportion should also guide those who police the boundaries between church and state. Not every mention of God in public is a breach to the wall of separation – context matters. It is doubtful that children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance feel oppressed or brainwashed as a consequence of muttering the phrase “under God.” I didn’t. Having voluntary student prayer groups use school property to meet should not be a threat, any more than its use by the High School Republicans should threaten Democrats. And one can envision certain faith-based programs – targeting ex-offenders or substance abusers – that offer a uniquely powerful way of solving problems.

So we all have some work to do here. But I am hopeful that we can bridge the gaps that exist and overcome the prejudices each of us bring to this debate. And I have faith that millions of believing Americans want that to happen. No matter how religious they may or may not be, people are tired of seeing faith used as a tool of attack. They don’t want faith used to belittle or to divide. They’re tired of hearing folks deliver more screed than sermon. Because in the end, that’s not how they think about faith in their own lives.

So let me end with just one other interaction I had during my campaign. A few days after I won the Democratic nomination in my U.S. Senate race, I received an email from a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical School that said the following:

“Congratulations on your overwhelming and inspiring primary win. I was happy to vote for you, and I will tell you that I am seriously considering voting for you in the general election. I write to express my concerns that may, in the end, prevent me from supporting you.”

The doctor described himself as a Christian who understood his commitments to be “totalizing.” His faith led him to a strong opposition to abortion and gay marriage, although he said that his faith also led him to question the idolatry of the free market and quick resort to militarism that seemed to characterize much of the Republican agenda.

But the reason the doctor was considering not voting for me was not simply my position on abortion. Rather, he had read an entry that my campaign had posted on my website, which suggested that I would fight “right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman’s right to choose.” The doctor went on to write:

“I sense that you have a strong sense of justice…and I also sense that you are a fair minded person with a high regard for reason…Whatever your convictions, if you truly believe that those who oppose abortion are all ideologues driven by perverse desires to inflict suffering on women, then you, in my judgment, are not fair-minded….You know that we enter times that are fraught with possibilities for good and for harm, times when we are struggling to make sense of a common polity in the context of plurality, when we are unsure of what grounds we have for making any claims that involve others…I do not ask at this point that you oppose abortion, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words.”

Fair-minded words.

So I looked at my website and found the offending words. In fairness to them, my staff had written them using standard Democratic boilerplate language to summarize my pro-choice position during the Democratic primary, at a time when some of my opponents were questioning my commitment to protect Roe v. Wade.

Re-reading the doctor’s letter, though, I felt a pang of shame. It is people like him who are looking for a deeper, fuller conversation about religion in this country. They may not change their positions, but they are willing to listen and learn from those who are willing to speak in fair-minded words. Those who know of the central and awesome place that God holds in the lives of so many, and who refuse to treat faith as simply another political issue with which to score points.

So I wrote back to the doctor, and I thanked him for his advice. The next day, I circulated the email to my staff and changed the language on my website to state in clear but simple terms my pro-choice position. And that night, before I went to bed, I said a prayer of my own – a prayer that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me.

And that night, before I went to bed I said a prayer of my own. It’s a prayer I think I share with a lot of Americans. A hope that we can live with one another in a way that reconciles the beliefs of each with the good of all. It’s a prayer worth praying, and a conversation worth having in this country in the months and years to come. Thank you.

 

 

Hello everyone. Just a note. You are in my special thoughts.  You, your lives, your loved ones, may your needs be filled to overflowing, and hopes and dreams come true.  We have some new members.  Welcome, and Yes We Can, together, individually, and as a whole.  Be encouraged, live each day, I donated 47 dollars for Barack’s Birthday on my personal web page.  We are about to chart a course through history.  We are at the 7th inning.  The summer and the 7th inning stretch is over and we are about to decide the game.  I am not to charge into others lives and promote Obama, some we will never reach.  But the many many people that have an open mind and some will be encouraged and just need some dialog to say, “Yeah, I was thinking about being for Obama, thanks for the chat”  I love the Obama signs around town. 

Barack Obama may not be the chosen one …..[whatever that means]……  however…..he could be the answer, and all that he will bring with him, to many, many,………

PRAYERS

HEARTSICK FEELINGS

WORRIES, ABOUT WAR,

FINANCE,

HEALTH CARE,

JUSTICE,

SAFETY,

HEALING OF OUR NATION,

THE END OF STUPID RACISM

EVERY AMERICAN CAN BE ALL THEY CAN BE

AND WE CAN HELP THOSE THAT CAN’T HELP THEMSELVES.

YES WE CAN….V.