See the GOP Obstruction Report

Just Follow the Link:

http://www.dscc.org/gopor/index



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Thanksgiving Day Message from the President

On Thanksgiving Day, Americans across the country will sit down together, count our blessings, and give thanks for our families and our loved ones. American families reflect the diversity of this great nation. No two are exactly alike, but there is a common thread they each share.

Our families are bound together through times of joy and times of grief. They shape us, support us, instill the values that guide us as individuals, and make possible all that we achieve. So I’ll be giving thanks for my family — for all the wisdom, support, and love they have brought into my life.

But today is also a day to remember those who cannot sit down to break bread with those they love.

The soldier overseas holding down a lonely post and missing his kids. The sailor who left her home to serve a higher calling. The folks who must spend Thanksgiving apart from their families to work a second job, so they can keep food on the table or send a child to school.

We are grateful beyond words for the service and hard work of so many Americans who make our country great through their sacrifice. And this year, we know that far too many face a daily struggle that puts the comfort and security we all deserve painfully out of reach.

So when we gather, let us also use the occasion to renew our commitment to building a more peaceful and prosperous future that every American family can enjoy.

It seems like a lifetime ago that a crowd met on a frigid February morning in Springfield, Illinois to set out on an improbable course to change our nation. In the years since, Michelle and I have been blessed with the support and friendship of the millions of Americans who have come together to form this ongoing movement for change.

You have been there through victories and setbacks. You have given of yourselves beyond measure. You have enabled all that we have accomplished — and you have had the courage to dream yet bigger dreams for what we can still achieve.

So in this season of thanksgiving, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to you, and my anticipation of the brighter future we are creating together.

With warmest wishes for a happy holiday season from my family to yours,
President Barack Obama

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Good Advice for Our President

"Always speak the truth. Think before you speak. Write it down afterwards."

--Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)


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The Party of NO on Health Care Reform

What else to say?

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This Tribute Is a MUST

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Let's Get the Truth

The Attorney General has announced that he was appointing a special prosecutor to investigate torture of 'terrorists' under the Bush Administration:

While this is a major step forward, more needs done. The Attorney General is selectively investigating torture in a limited number of cases and only examining the actions of low-level interrogators. This violates the Convention Against Torture. The Attorney General knows this international treaty requires all acts of torture be investigated and all those involved be held accountable, by prosecution.

Keep the pressure on! Ask your policy makers for a full investigation.

Hold Bush Administration policy makers and White House lawyers who facilitated and approved outright torture of 'terrorist' detainees accountable!

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Take action by writing the Attorney General, urging him to investigate everyone involved in torture. Investigating a handful of low-level interrogators from the CIA is insufficient when thousands have been tortured at the bequest of others higher up in the Bush Administration:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/6850/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27114


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A Thought Worth Thinking About

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

---Henry James (author, 1843-1916)

Can't we all just get along?

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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?

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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!

Not A Moment Too Soon. . .
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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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Florida GOP Reps Leaders in the Party of NO

Florida's Republicans are in typical, cynical denial just to serve their own wayward partisan interests. This time, they refuse to accept the fact that Barack Obama is the President of the United States.

For examples of their latest irrationality (but certainly not a thinking role model for children):


Congressman Bill Posey from Melbourne has drafted legislation designed to fan the rumors on the extreme fringe of the Republican Party questioning President Obama's citizenship. Can you believe it? These rumors are of course, completely false. But the Party of NO just won't give up. Congressman Posey should be focused on creating jobs and jumpstarting the economy, but it seems he's only obsessed with pandering to the right wing, which he does so well. Obama's birth certificate is soooo on the record.

State Senator Rhonda Storms refused to acknowledge the fact that President Obama is the President during a hearing in the State Senate. Senator Storms repeatedly called Obama, "Senator Obama," "Candidate Obama," then she called him "The Messiah." And when the Democrats objected, the Republican Committee Chairman just got mad. She refuses to acknowledge the outcome of the overwhelming election nationwide of Barack Obama.

Bill Posey, Rhonda Storms and too many other Florida Republicans remind us that there is so much more work to be done before we can truly bring change to Florida. Their attitudes belong to another age that does not serve well the interests of modern Florida.

If these characters' obsurd views weren't enough bad news for Florida and the nation, click on the OpEdNews link below exposing the latest hypocrisy of John Mica of Florida 7- a Party of NO senior member. . .

http://www.opednews.com/articles/GOP-Party-of-NO-is-NO-good-by-Timothy-Newkirk-090313-818.html

Sad, sad, sad. . . yet people still vote for these reprobate fools!



Florida Republicans don't want to talk about Florida's problems because their policies caused the worst economic crisis in this state since the Great Depression. Now, Republican corruption, fiscal mismanagement and the continuing support of these policies by the jerks above is festering, making things worse.

Florida Democrats want change so that we can jumpstart the economy and create jobs. Democrats will clean up the corruption across our state - putting an end to the Republican waste, fraud and abuse.

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Misanthrope Rep. Mica Is No Good for Florida 7

Attention Democrats Everywhere !!!

The rumor is that Democrat Faye Armitage will soon announce her new bid for the 7th Congressional seat in Florida against obstructionist troglodite John Mica, long since irrelevant and needing gone.

In the last election cycle, Faye made great inroads into this previously republican stronghold in northern Florida. Endorsed by progressive and even many conservative groups alike, Faye looks like our best hope to unseat the do nothing Mica, having come closer than any recent Democratic candidate to doing so. Florida District 7's demographics have radically changed to the center in the last decade, paving the way for a Democrat like Faye Armitage to take this crucial Congressional seat.

Faye Armitage is a real progressive candidate. We in the Florida netroots community like her savvy. We know she will be a huge upgrade over Mica in Washington, simply because she is so right on the issues that concern Florida and the nation:

*Faye is a longtime strong opponent of the disatrous war in Iraq and endorses our troops coming home and quickly and safely as possible.

*Faye favors national healthcare, because she believes it is a right and not a privilege.

*Faye favors using taxpayer dollars to benefit the working and middle classes, not the wealthy.

*Faye recognizes the dangers of global warming and wants us to actively pursue the scientific causes of the problem and find a solution.

*Faye wants us to develop alternative fuel sources, weening ourselves off foreign oil, especially including no drilling for oil off of Florida's environmentally sensitive coast.

*Faye is a strong longtime advocate for stem cell research policy not controlled by right wing extemists.

*Faye is in favor of the U.S. truly paying the debt it owes our veterans, meaning better healthcare and other deserved benefits.


Faye Armitage doesn't just bring casual opinions on these issues. She is an economist and has worked in the health care industry to bring about real, helpful change for us. We need more people in Washington with compassion, actual experience and knowledge on these imperative subjects confronting our democracy, right now!

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Please help the voters of Florida's Congressional District 7 and the country replace the blowhard, do nothing, republican rubber-stamp John Mica with progressive Democratic candidate Faye Armitage. She is the REAL candidate to represent the people of Florida's District 7! Go to Faye Armitage's' (needing some updating, Faye- lol) website http://www.fayeforcongress.com and contribute there to her soon to be announced Congressional campaign for 2010 !

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Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:

Faye Armitage for Florida's District 7 in 2010


See this republished at OpEdNews here:


http://www.opednews.com/articles/Faye-Armitage-Needs-Your-H-by-Timothy-Newkirk-090215-651.html

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The Promised Land

Please view the new animation in the Sidebar Liberal Media theater:

'THE PROMISED LAND'

It is a skillfully created rendition of the spirit of the inaugural of Barack Hussein Obama by our friend Mark Fiore (and we don't mean sending off persons to be tortured- for that you can look at other of his animations, to be sure- lol).

Thanks Mark, again!


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Wise Words for Obama

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble—the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have." -- H. G. Wells (historian and author, 1866-1946).


Best of Luck to your new administration!


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Oppose GODTV Now!

Deal with the evil Focus on the Family during their new cable phenom GOD TV premier with its creepy 'End Times' Month! Express your dismay on the airing of their 'ex-gay' Love Won Out conference, with its hateful anti-gay propanganda and distorted science.

Let's tell the truth! Watch this video and send it on (courtesy of Truth Wins Out- TWO):

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