THE OFFICIAL COLLEGE OUTREACH ARM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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"You work three jobs? ...uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of 3 in Omaha, Nebraska ~~lil B

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." Feb 23, 2000 ~~lil B

"Recession means that people's incomes, at the employer level, are going down, basically, relative to costs, people are getting laid off." Feb 19, 2004 DC ~~lil B

"Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter." ~~lil B

It won't be long now. 345,600 seconds, 345,599 seconds...

Now that Colin Powell came out in support of Barack Obama, the McCain ticket scrambled to attack with their radical behavior by repackaging "Hatred."

Since when is there a "Real" America, or a "Socialist" America and calls for reviewing legislatures for "ProAmerica viewpoints, or not" to expose them? Shame on Michelle Bushit Bachmann! A new kind of hate. "Do an expose' to see if they are pro America or anti-American" ?? - LOL, let's start with YOU Michelle. Newspapers will read, "Bachmann Hangs FIRST!"

I look at this entire campaign in terms of molding Playdough; the McCain ticket claims they will 'reform' because they are the "reformers" and "mavericks." Well, you can turn the playdough into a different pot, several times even, but it's still a pot, still the same dough, susceptible to air drying. Republican ideology is just more distraction from the reality that they have nothing to offer except the same 8 years of the Same Party. It's a long term approach, nothing different. Remember, this is the Party of: Terry Shiavo, Larry Craig, Ted Stevens, Corrupt Bastards Club, and lobbyists that buy their campaigns and corporate takeover.

Barack is not going to reform the same stuff, but rather, he'll TRANSFORM America. Difference is, he's not going to continue playing with the same old Playdough; he's changing the medium to get results of real change. Clay lasts longer than Playdough. This party, made up of average hard working American will no longer wait for things to trickle down from higher powers, we're going to work from the bottom up, and earn our living, and we can expect this too will benefit corporations and they too can pay their fair share of taxes...that's what they fear the most. Republicans believe THEY are paying too much taxes, and why they sent lobbyists to Congress to buy them off, Bush rolled their taxes back and McCain wants to increase the tax cuts and make them permanent. So, the contest is between Average blue collar workers against greedy CEO's. McCain doesn't want Barack and Biden to keep reminding us that John voted 4 out 5 times with GWB. If you Loved Bush, You'll LOVE his Poo - dle.

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First, restore confidence Forget four years. In the first six weeks of his tenure, the new president's to-do list will include: Restoring a sense of public confidence that the country can meet and solve the financial challenges ahead. At campaign rallies, Obama already has quoted FDR's admonition that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Guiding implementation of the financial industry rescue plan, including figuring out which toxic assets Treasury should buy from struggling institutions and how much to pay for them. The move to use $250 billion of the bailout to buy stakes in banks will put the government in the unfamiliar role of part owner of institutions that embody free-market capitalism. Beginning to revamp a regulatory structure largely built during the Depression so that it reflects the complexity of the current global financial system. Deciding whether and how to begin the drawdown of most U.S. combat forces from Iraq. Obama says he wants to complete the withdrawal in his first 16 months in office. McCain says a reduction is on the horizon but hasn't set a timetable. Responding to the urgent request this month by Gen. David McKiernan, the top commander in Afghanistan, for more U.S. troops there. Army Times reports that Gen. David Petraeus, who takes overall command of the region on Oct. 31, plans to deliver a report to the president in February after conducting a "top-to-bottom" review. Submitting the federal budget for fiscal 2010 to Congress in early February. It presumably will reflect the costs of the bailout plan and the revenue impact of the economic slowdown. Being prepared for terrorists to strike during the transition, a timing they have used before. The World Trade Center was bombed five weeks after President Clinton took office in 1993; the Madrid train bombings took place three days before national elections in Spain in 2004; car-bomb attacks were attempted in London and Glasgow days after a new British prime minister took office in 2007.

PALIN’S APPROVAL RATINGS WENT FROM HIGH 90% DOWN TO 68% http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/542179.html It’s down to 62% now From Good to Bad:

http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/556346.html

Palin abused her power, launched a nasty campaign - in 'code' ; and Barack promised to keep it on point, on issues and he did, so it's no wonder he's in good standing with average Americans that are sick of GANGSTER CAPITALISM and GANGSTER MENTALITY. Barack has proved time and time again that he's the more presidential candidate our country and world disparately needs. American's were stupid once, then twice, but they aren't going to be fooled again, they want change and will help Barack bring CHANGE we can truly believe in. Voices for Change will ring in 20 days, verdict is peeking around the corner.

Make sure to support Barack tonight, he's going to be above the fray once more. Look who's calm, cool and collected.  

 

October 14, 2008
An Open Letter to the American People,

This year's presidential election is among the most significant in our nation's history. The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths in science and technology and who can harness those strengths to address many of our greatest problems: energy, disease, climate change, security, and economic competitiveness.

We are convinced that Senator Barack Obama is such a leader, and we urge you to join us in supporting hi m.

During the administration of George W. Bush, vital parts of our country's scientific enterprise have been damaged by stagnant or declining federal support. The government's scientific advisory process has been distorted by political considerations. As a result, our once dominant
position in the scientific world has been shaken and our prosperity has been placed at risk. We have lost time critical for the development of new ways to provide energy, treat disease, reverse climate change, strengthen our security, and improve our economy.

We have watched Senator Obama's approach to these issues with admiration. We espe cially applaud his emphasis during the campaign on the power of science and technology to enhance our nation's competitiveness. In particular, we support the measures he plans to take - through new initiatives in education and training, expanded research funding, an unbiased process for obtaining scientific advice, and an appropriate balance of basic and applied research - to meet the nation's and the world's most urgent needs.

Senator Obama understands that Presidential leadership and federal investments in science and technology are crucial elements in successful governance of the world's leading country. We hope you will join us as we work together to ensure his election in November.

Signed,

Alexei Arikosov Physics 2003
Roger Guillemin Medicine 1977
Peter Agre Chemistry 2003
John L. Hall Physics 2005
Sidney Altman Chemistry 1989
Leland H. Hartwell Medicine 2001
Philip W. Anderson Physics 1977
Dudley Herschbach Chemistry 1986
Richard Axel Medicine 2004
Roald Hoffmann Chemistry 1981
David Baltimore Medicine 1975
H. Robert Horvitz Medicine 2002
Baruj Benacerraf Medicine 19 80
Louis Ignarro Medicine 1998
Paul Berg Chemistry 1980
Eric R. Kandel Medicine 2000
J. Michael Bishop Medicine 1989
Walter Kohn Chemistry 1998
N. Bloembergen Physics 1981
Roger Kornberg Chemistry 2006
Michael S. Brown Medicine 1985
Leon M. Lederman Physics 1988
Linda B. Buck Medicine 2 004
Craig C. Mello Medicine 2006
Mario R. Capecchi Medicine 2007
Yoichiro Nambu Physics 2008
Martin Chalfie Chemistry 2008
Marshall Nirenberg Medicine 1968
Stanley Cohen Medicine 1986
Douglas D. Osheroff Physics 1996
Leon Cooper Physics 1972
Stanley  ;B. Prusiner Medicine 1997
James W. Cronin Physics 1980
Norman F. Ramsey Physics 1989
Robert F. Curl Chemistry 1996
Robert Richardson Physics 1996
Johann Diesenhofer Chemistry 1988
Burton Richter Physics 1976
John B. Fenn Chemistry 2002
Sherwood Rowland Chemistry 1995
Edmond H. Fischer Medicine 1992
Oliver Smithies Medicine 2007
Val Fitch Physics 1980
Richard R Schrock Chemistry 2005
Jerome I. Friedman Physics 1990
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. Physics 1993
Murray Gell-M an Physics 1969
E. Donnall Thomas Medicine 1990
Riccardo Giacconi Physics 2002
Charles H. Townes Physics 1964
Walter Gilbert Chemistry 1980
Roger Tsien Chemistry 2008
Alfred G. Gilman Medicine 1994
Daniel C.Tsui Physics 1998
Donald A. Glaser Physics 1960
Harold Varmus Medicine 1989
Shel don L. Glashow Physics 1979
James D. Watson Medicine 1962
Joseph Goldstein Medicine 1985
Eric Wieschaus Medicine 1995
Paul Greengard Medicine 2000
Frank Wilczek Physics 2004
David Gross Physics 2004
Robert W. Wilson Physics 1978
Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry 2005

The views expressed in this letter represent those of the signers acting as individual citizens.
They do not necessarily represent the views of the institutions with which they are affiliated. The
Medicine award is for "Physiology or Medicine."

Today: Palin's future son-in-law meets the press Levi Johnston, who's having a baby with the daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin, has dropped out of high school and taken a North Slope job as an apprentice electrician. He would be a senior had he returned to school. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/554608.html

My son is a senior, and he's worked for NOAA, as an apprentice his entire junior year, and did Field and Track and helped build a Science Sphere, now housed at Lena Point (modeled after one in Washington DC). I don't see why his parents would let him quit school to work on the oil slopes with Todd Palin.

These Palin's (Todd and Sarah) are 'loyal to oil' only,  and Alaskans are left out, Alaskan issues are left out, they're being duped, as well as the right wing party. They're all about building the oil corporation, look Sarah's mission is to plant miles of pipeline that will eventually corrode and cost tax payers hundreds of millions. It's already happened on her beat on the North Slope (Prudhoe Bay)...oil spills and fires. I keep asking "what's wrong with tanking the gas?" Trucks are easier to maintain and not a national security issue. And what's wrong with a kid continuing his education? Most girls expecting, HAVE to complete school and go to alternative school to receive a diploma. HE's not expecting, BRISTOL is. There's been no mention of Bristol, only that the Palin children are going to the Juneau school district, which is a big hairy lie too. They are NOT in Juneau, maybe in Wasilla, or Anchorage area, but not registered in Juneau, as they claimed. If I were Levi's mom, I'd be pleading for him to stay in school, or he's just going to become a survivor, and holding onto the hem of Palin's skirt. He'll never be independent. He even said that Sarah better win the election. Why? What's in it for him? His life should be separate from DC politics, so the statement was strange. It just makes me wonder if he were taught responsibility of using protection, both in relationships and in governing his life (school). We know Sarah didn't teach her daughter, but what about Levi's parents? Didn't they teach him either? What's wrong with those CONSERVATIVES up north? Ever heard of being conservative with relationships until you can be responsible for one?

 

 

Palin's per diem under review
$17,000: State will look to see if she should pay taxes on money she gets for staying in her Wasilla home.
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE
The Associated Press
Published: October 7th, 2008 10:38 PM
Last Modified: October 7th, 2008 03:18 AM
Gov. Sarah Palin's practice of charging the state when she stays in her home must be reviewed to determine if she should pay taxes on the payments, state Finance Director Kim Garnero said Tuesday.   Read More »
Bill Ayers Palin is Accusing Obama of Palling With Terrorist
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/545855.html

Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of an association with a former '60s radical, stepping up an effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters. Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the Vietnam War era.
Obama, who was a child when the group was active, has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities. (He was probably in Indonesia or Hawaii and was 8 yrs old when this MAN did was part of these acts against the government).
In 1970, the group was blamed for a pipe bomb in San Francisco that killed a police officer and injured another. Three members of the group were killed in 1970 in an accidental explosion of a bomb in their Greenwich Village basement.
While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it's a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts.   Read More »
You can donate here at Party Builder - do it today, there's only 22 days left. (By the way, stock market rose to over 900 today!)
https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/ChangeWeNeed

Here's a message from Barack Obama about how funds coming in are now DOUBLED, so here goes:
In these final three weeks, our opponents are signaling they will do whatever they can to distract voters and distort the truth, so we need to redouble our efforts.

The negative ads and smears seem to grow by the day. The most effective way to respond is by reaching out to more people than ever before with the truth -- the stakes in this election are too high not to.

We need to grow this movement by 100,000 new donors before Friday.

A previous donor has promised to match your donation to encourage you to give for the first time. This is your last opportunity to partner with a fellow supporter and make your donation go twice as far.

Your donation of $5 will become $10, $25 becomes $50, and $50 becomes $100. Double your impact by making a matched donation today.   Read More »
A message from those of us who think that wolves have had enough of the short end of the stick. This is why I donate $40 per week, for this commercial, simply because if McCain thinks so highly of his VP nominee, than I have to question their integrity, judgment and ethics.

The republicans are so ascew, backwards and out of touch they don't come close to getting it.

The aerial killing of wolves is so disgusting it makes the political history of Chicago look honorable. Sure we may have our own way of doing things, but at least our hearts are in the right place and our souls are intact. They don't call this the heartland for nothin.

Hi,

Have you ever heard of aerial wolf hunting? It's a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then shot and killed at point-blank range.

Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft. We have to get the word out about this!

Please watch this powerful video by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, and then share it with every wildlife lover and conservationist you know:

http://actionfund.defenders.org/palinvideo
Well it's a long list, diplomacy, universal health care, equality, civil rights, public education, environment, to name just a few but of course, wildlife come up as a major concern of mine. After writing to Richard J. Durbin, our Democratic United States Senator, I received this letter from him.

Dear Ms. Falck-Pedersen:

Thank you for your message in support of the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act. I appreciate knowing of your interest in this legislation.

The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act (S. 1033) would add an additional program to the Multinational Species Conservation Fund (MSCF). Federal funds directed to this new program would be used to protect 13 feline and canine species, including lions, cheetahs, jaguars, and wolves.

I have long supported the MSCF, which helps us preserve Asian and African elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses, great apes, and marine turtles. Multinational species programs have succeeded in maintaining or increasing key populations such as rhinos in Indonesia and mountain gorillas in East Africa.

Protecting animals that are endangered or threatened is one of the most important legacies we can leave to future generations.

The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act has been referred to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. I am not a member of this committee, but I will keep your views in mind in case S. 1033 is brought to the Senate floor for a vote.

Thanks again for your message. Please feel free to stay in touch.

Sincerely,

Richard J. Durbin

United States Senator


Now see...this is why....
I am grateful for our democratic leaders. This is one of the many reasons why I support Obama. It's not just because of the economy, education, Iraq, and of course the environment. It's because he like so many other democrates, cares about the world around him. I can't say that about McCain. I just don't see McCain or other republicans caring about much other than profiting from their own petty self interests.


Viva Obama~!
An email from my friend, astrologer, and one of my favorite writers, contained this regarding the republican ticket. IMHO, no one phrases thoiughts better than Caroline.

"McCain couldn't be a better cartoon of the emotionally arrested fighter pilot. Mars haunted by guilt, with an infantile relationship to Venus. One beauty queen after another, and now, completely unmoored from any anchor of integrity or authenticity. He has been flailing to shirk his appointment with Fate, (See Appointment in Samarkand. In fleeing our appointments with our fate, we always end up keeping them.)

So let's invite his soul to return - to admit, confess, reveal his state of self, and in doing so take a small step towards mental health.

And Sarah Palin, bless her heart, "Wowee, I'm over my head, and given away my autonomy to the Rovian Dementors, reached the limits of my visualization of what it would look like to meet world leaders, the Road to Nowhere is my Fate, and returning home to Alaska to be impeached and face indictments is starting to look good."

Awoooooo-yip-yip-yip,
Onward!

Caroline


I wish you all could meet Caroline, see her and, listen to her speak. Caroline Casey is that wonderful combination of wit, wisdom, truth and beauty that many of us aspire to.

Obama 08

Save the wolves

Awoooooo-yip-yip-yip,
Standing tall with Barack Obama I pray our man of the people will get elected to bring all Americans back to the fore front of economic stability. I've shared Obama's message with many business aquaintances and friends, where and when appropriate, to present my support for Senator Obama. I'v spread blog postings touting the Obama message throughout the web. I've even been placing my words of praise for Obama on some conservative sites, doing so in hopes of reaching even one additional voter, sometimes receiving hatemail in return. I've written to those who may not even be registered voters in hopes they'll care about this election for they should. I've also written to those I know living in swing states whom might be persuaded to Vote the Obama-Biden ticket and I am not finished yet.

The Revolution is NOW! The time for action is NOW! And as 60's poet and musical artist Gil Scott Heron so aptly conveyed, the revolution is happening now and it will not be televised. The revolution is in my heart and mind and I urge each of you to move this forward at a period in our history where we can not afford to give way to more
government by and for big business. If you have not already, please join the revolution! We have much work to do. And please pray for the 12,000 former employees of Lehman Bros that they may whether the storm...