Obama's Independence Day Message

This weekend, our family will join millions of others in celebrating America. We will enjoy the glow of fireworks, the taste of barbeque, and the company of good friends. As we all celebrate this weekend, let's also remember the remarkable story that led to this day.

Two hundred and thirty-three years ago, our nation was born when a courageous group of patriots pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the proposition that all of us were created equal.Our country began as a unique experiment in liberty -- a bold, evolving quest to achieve a more perfect union. And in every generation, another courageous group of patriots has taken us one step closer to fully realizing the dream our founders enshrined on that great day.

Today, all Americans have a hard-fought birthright to a freedom which enables each of us, no matter our views or background, to help set our nation's course. America's greatness has always depended on her citizens embracing that freedom -- and fulfilling the duty that comes with it.

As free people, we must each take the challenges and opportunities that face this nation as our own. As long as some Americans still must struggle, none of us can be fully content. And as America comes ever closer to achieving the perfect Union our founders dreamed, that triumph -- that pride -- belongs to all of us.

So today is a day to reflect on our independence, and the sacrifice of our troops standing in harm's way to preserve and protect it. It is a day to celebrate all that America is. And today is a time to aspire toward all we can still become.

With very best wishes,
President, Barack Obama

July 4th, 2009

P.S. -- Our nation's birthday is also an ideal time to consider serving in your local community. You can find many great ideas for service opportunities near you at http://my.barackobama.com/page/m2/55c13f3c/50157ace/2eeff00d/11885043/611580727/VEsH/.

John Mica Makes MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Worser Category

John Mica and friends continue to stand by their political lies and hypocrisy. It is sadly at America's detriment:

Can Florida Congressional District 7 not vote this jerk out this time?

FAYE ARMITAGE is the only candidate with the credentials to provide Florida families with a secure future, NOW!

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FAYE ARMITAGE Supports the New EPA Stand against Big Oil and Coal

An important message from FAYE ARMITAGE for CONGRESS in FL District 7 on world climate change:

On April 17, EPA formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that endanger public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that will lead to the regulation of the gases for the first time in the United States. This is a huge step forward in the fight to curb global warming, even though to date the Senate has refused to act on this particular issue, because of republican opposition like that of John Mica, of course.

However, the EPA cannot start regulating carbon until they've accepted public comments and can show there's broad support for this policy. Should be a no-brainer, right? Not for Big Oil and Big Coal:

The oil and coal industries are paying lobbyists to wait in line at hearings, and are waging a massive campaign to weaken any new regulations from the EPA on this issue. They've spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying in Washington, and they'll stop at nothing to keep the EPA from implementing the strong efforts to regulate carbon and other noxious gases, totally against the interests of Florida families, yet supported by John Mica. Go figure?

Email EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging her to take swift action to regulate carbon and other heat-trapping gases. Click on the title link!

FAYE ARMITAGE Exposes John Mica's Big Oil Connection:






Send a Donation to Faye for Congress 2010 to have your voice heard in Washington on Saving Florida's Coast!

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Faye Armitage for FL Congressional District 7!

This is just a note of encouragement to Faye Armitage to run again against the do-nothing John Mica for FL Congressional District 7 in 2010 !:

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

--Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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President Obama Knows this Me Thinks. . .

'To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."---- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Comments on IE 8

Even though the interface is little changed, IE8 does have some major improvements over IE7. . .

Internet Explorer 8 has been designed to improve the performance of web applications. This is especially significant as more of our computing tasks are moving off the desktop and into web applications like Gmail and Google Docs and other Java related services.

The new browser also contains each webapp in its own tab, allowing it to be saved even if other tabs crash. CSS support has been improved, with standard improvements in SVG and other audio/visual support to be added in later versions, it appears.

Other features are much new and improved, too. IE8 has a smarter address bar than before. Start typing a URL and a drop-down offers suggestions from your recent history and/or favorites, returning preliminary results as you type. It also allows easy addition of a plug-in search engine to most any websites, complete with images, text and page descriptions.

IE8 even has a browsing mode to protect against scripting and other attacks. You can even make context sensitive commands when you right-click on different page elements, for example by being given options to "Blog this" or "Search for this" or "Translate this." Try it, you''ll easily figure it out.

There are new little features that will please, like a new bookmark manager and the
ability to isolate and print a specific part of any page.

As most know, Mozilla has been ahead of the curve on many of these features, such as the smart address bar and the security protections for a long time. Opera is way ahead on emerging standards like those applying to CSS and HTML. Google Chrome too is ahead with its private browsing mode, with the ability to isolate web applications within tabs.

Microsoft's IE8 is faster than IE7, although it does use up more memory. Yet, it's still not the fastest or the most innovative of the browsers available. Overall, it serves the mainstream user well with its broader affinity for most on and offline applications, reflecting the reality that up to 75% of the web is particularly Microsoft friendly.

Presently, IE8 is a manual download- that may change in the near future for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and 3/ Vista users.

More later. . .But, any comments below now are appreciated.

Please see a reprint of this post at OpEdNews:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Some-Initial-Comments-on-I-by-Timothy-F-Newkirk-090330-353.html




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John Mica Must Go

Here is just one more reason why. Please, follow this link:

John Mica Doesn't Support Medical Research!


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Some Insight into the GOP Party of NO

"Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency."
--Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)


Remember the republicans who want to prosecute doctors for performing abortions, or even giving contraceptive advice for billions in poverty due to serious population and ecological pressures? Remember the republicans who want to change public policy on the environment and more to the obvious public detriment, because science disagrees with their political and religious idealogy? Remember the republicans who deride others as traitors or want to throw persons into prison without due process just because they disagree with them, forget the explicit provisions otherwise in our constitution. . .Shall we go on? A cruel and insensitive lot, to be sure.

True to form, in this economic crisis the GOP Party of NO has derided and obstructed every serious attempt to ameliorate it without any valid response otherwise, prolonging the hardships of the American people. The republicans perceive partisan gain a value above all, damn the rest of us. They have shown themselves to be utterly cowardly and self-serving in this great emergency!

Keep the bums out of power.

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