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Friday last I had the honor of attendinding Grandpa Dine's Spiritual cleansing. I was in the circle with my grandpa and many wonderful Native brothers and sisters, whom made a special sacrifice to pray for grandpa all night long, from early evening untill the following day at sunrise.


ALL NIGHT LONG THERE WERE SACRED PRAYERS AND SONG FOR MY GRANDPA'S HEALTH AND WELL BEING. HE WAS ADMINISTERED THE MOTHER SEED PEYOTE AS THE PRAYERS AND SACRED SONGS WENT ON ALL NIGHT LONG. HIGH UP IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE SANTA ISABEL RESERVATION.

Through the night until morning he took many teaspoons full of powdered mother seed and washed down with peyote tea. He was up all night on his ironwheeled horse. The experience for me was a highly memorable one. The sacred fire in the circle was kept going all night by the fireman, and the Roadman blessed him and I many times with Eagle feathers. As the Roadman prayed to Grandfather Spirit to cleanse the cancer from my Grandpa's body. The Roadman Glen Justky came all the way from a rez north of Casa Grande Arizona and he brought with him family members to assist with the entirety of the sacred ceremony.

I felt blessed just from being as one with our people and to have been under a beautiful starlit night on a mountain top as the coyotes serenaded us with their song, to have heard the crow of the roosters and see the birth of a new wonderful sunrise which became the first day of the rest of my Grandpa's life. He will live longer because the mother seed will cure him from his cancer, and Grandfather Spirit Creator of all will not allow my Grandpa to go home to Grandfather Spirit before his time.

I feel as if I have become one with all of our people and happy to be home.
Attention all Temecula Residents,
If you have any family members going to Vail elementry School, of Temcula Unified School District, you should be aware that there is a breakout of th swine flue and that it has been kept under wraps as far back as early June.
The first cases should have been reported to the CDC in Washington D.C. and Bethesda Maryland CDC.
It was not for obvious reasons. However since my little brother was exposed at the school and contracted the disease we are now all under order and guide lines from the CDC to stay Quarantined for the next 10 days. Two people have died from the disease in the County of Sandiego in the past month.
The Swine Flue is lethal if not treated.
The school district was not particularly in a hurry to make the report. Their main concern is to avoid a money loss from the federal subsidy they recieve for each child. My grandfather Dine' Warrior made a call to the CDC office in Washington DC and henceforth was passed on to the direction of the Bethesda Maryland office.
The School District of Temecula has not made it public to the parents of all the other students in the school.
Many of those children have brothers and sisters that go to middle School and Great Oaks Highschool. The disease can become a major epidemic if not properly handled. The sad part is that not all people have proper medical coverage and can not afford to take their children to the hopital emergency room to get treatment. The latter are the ones that may end up dead, and all because some money hungry school districts only care about the money and not the health of the students.
The Native American communities donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the school districts in their areas every year, from Gaming on the Rez. I ask myself is it right for our people to be forking out money to the school districts if this is going to be their attitude. I do not think so. My grandfather Dine' Warrior will be going on a crusade to stop this practice, and to make it known to the shool districts that all children go there to recieve an education and not to be put in harms way by money grubbers, who do not care what happens to the children in their trust. No child should be exposed, Native American or other. I am writing this blog under guidance and direction of Grandpa Dine' Warrior.
The CDC is now aware and making sure that guide lines are being followed and will be watching closely that this type of behavior does not repeat, Grandpa Dine' Warrior is going to stay on top of this situation along with the CDC.
I think the recent flap over the recent nominee to the Supreme court, Sonia Sotomayor, has to do with the lack of understanding of the decision process. Most Americans do not create a decision tree to examine their choices before making a decision, or choice. However, a Federal Judge, or a Supreme Court Jurist would have to consider all the parameters of their decision before making their decision.

Furthermore, I believe that Justice Sotomayor was relating to the process she uses to evolve her decisions as appropriately as conceivably possible to the needs of the society in which she represents. Her life history will allow her to think of other criteria in which a white male may not consider when assessing the facts of a legal case.

Justice Sotomayor is absolutely correct in relating to her individual history in assisting her dissemination of facts related to her decision making process.

I believe that this is the message that needs to come out of the White House regarding their excellent choice for the Supreme court.
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November 4 signaled a monumental change in the landscape of America. We have made tremendous gains in the US House of Representatives, US Senate, and NY State Senate. This is not mentioning the overwhelming victory of President-Elect Barack Obama. The Young Democrat Association of Fulton County strapped on its work boots and provided needed help in these victories.
We don�t want stop now. We would like to further our gains. We want to increase our membership and provide the needed help for the 2009 fall campaigns. What we need are funds. We are looking forward to our fund raisers of family game nights, mini golf tournaments, bowling events, and our big give a way. We have even changed our name to Friends of Foothills Democrats.
First and foremost we are asking for donations. Any amount is welcomed and appreciated! Our big give a way is with a $25.00 donation your name is placed in the running for either a 1979 CB750 Honda Motorcycle or its equivalent value of $800.00.
Please make your check out to Friend of Foothills Democrats (FoFD) and send it to 1739 State Highway 67, Johnstown, New York 12095.
Thank you for your time, donation and visit our website.
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Joshua Schermerhorn, Chairman
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According to the Political Wire, "Brian Adams, a mathematics and computer science professor at Franklin & Marshall College, reports that there's a 99.98% chance that Sen. Barack Obama will win the presidential election on Tuesday."   Read More »
Fact Check: Is Obama 'palling around with terrorists'? Posted: 09:00 AM ET Gov. Palin commented about Sen. Obama and William Ayers at a rally in Carson, California Saturday. Gov. Palin commented about Sen. Obama and William Ayers at a rally in Carson, California Saturday.

The Statement: Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin said Saturday, October 4, that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is "someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."

Get the facts!

 

The Facts: In making the charge at a fund-raising event in Englewood, Colorado, and a rally in Carson, California, Palin was referring at least in part to William Ayers, a 1960s radical. In both appearances, Palin cited a front-page article in Saturday's New York Times detailing the working relationship between Obama and Ayers.

In the 1960s, Ayers was a founding member of the radical Weather Underground group that carried out a string of bombings of federal buildings, including the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, in protest against the Vietnam War. The now-defunct group was labeled a "domestic terrorist group" by the FBI, and Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn — also a Weather Underground member — spent 10 years as fugitives in the 1970s. Federal charges against them were dropped due to FBI misconduct in gathering evidence against them, and they resurfaced in 1980. Both Ayers and Dohrn ultimately became university professors in Chicago, with Ayers, 63, now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Obama's Chicago home is in the same neighborhood where Ayers and Dohrn live. Beginning in 1995, Ayers and Obama worked with the non-profit Chicago Annenberg Challenge on a huge school improvement project. The Annenberg Challenge was for cities to compete for $50 million grants to improve public education. Ayers fought to bring the grant to Chicago, and Obama was recruited onto the board. Also from 1999 through 2001 both were board members on the Woods Fund, a charitable foundation that gave money to various causes, including the Trinity United Church that Obama attended and Northwestern University Law Schools' Children and Family Justice Center, where Dohrn worked.

CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved.

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told CNN that after meeting Obama through the Annenberg project, Ayers hosted a campaign event for him that same year when then-Illinois state Sen. Alice Palmer, who planned to run for Congress, introduced the young community organizer as her chosen successor. LaBolt also said the two have not spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages since Obama came to the U.S. Senate in 2005 and last met more than a year ago when they encountered each other on the street in their Hyde Park neighborhood.

The extent of Obama's relationship with Ayers came up during the Democratic presidential primaries earlier this year, and Obama explained it by saying, "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood … the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago — when I was 8 years old — somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense."

The New York Times article cited by Palin concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers." Other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic, have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.

The McCain campaign did not respond Saturday to a request for elaboration on Palin's use of the plural "terrorists."

Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now "palling around," or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.

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I new article posted to cnn.com entitled, "Bailout talks implode, economy's fate in peril", is suggestive of the talks imploding. However, it is conceivable to me that it is not the talks that are imploding, but rather the Republican Party that is imploding before our very eyes.

They can see that everything they have run on since President Reagan, less government; de-regulation; supply-side economics; and last but not least the trickle down theory, is the root cause of our current economic mess. The question for them is not how they save our economy, but how do they save their Party?

Popular opinion is solidly behind the Democratic Congress with demanding that the bail-out of our financial market meet the conditions of regulation and oversight; mortgage assistance for people whose mortgages are in trouble; scrutiny over the amount of the bail-out; and language to stop any "golden parachute" payments going to the CEO's of the organizations involved within the bail-out.

Now what has made the news is that the ranking Republican member of the House Banking Committee, Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), has conceded that he does not have authorization to speak for his colleagues. This is a very troubling assertion, but it also shines a bright light into the vast darkness that is the current Republican Party.

It appears that committee appointments mean nothing to the House Republican Leadership, and that every issue must be approved by leadership, albeit minority leadership, in order to be recognized by all Republicans in the House. This is the House Republican modus operandi that equals their Senate counterpart's use of the filibuster.

What happens now? It is really quite obvious. We've seen it before. After the media gets hold of this and projects a picture of a static Democratic Congress, then, the House Republicans will reach consensus. We then will be told, lead by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), how they stood together for the American people and solved this economic crisis.

This cheap political grandstanding by the Republican Party is hope only of stopping the implosion of their political affiliation. Call your Congress person, call the media, tell them that this political nonsense must end. It is time to put all Americans first, and end politics as usual.

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We can now see the meaning to McCain's madness of picking Sarah Palin for his VP. There have been numerous pundits, the latest being Ed Rollins with this beauty click here, in which attempt to keep the Democrats appearing as they are not united by keeping the Hillary Clintonnon-issue an issue.

The republicans, or the MSM for that matter, did not get the the upheaval in which they desired from the democratic convention. Therefore, McCain, in all his ineptitude, decides to try to reignite the flames of despair for the Democratic party with his selection of a female VP with seemingly less (that's debatable) experience than O8ama, and of course the media will assist with this contemptible attempt at fanning this conflgration because it sells air time and news print.

As I've said so many times on this blog. BEWARE THE MEDIA! They care more for their own balance sheet than for our country,or any that live in it.

I think McCain is searching for an early reason why he lost the election. This is the first 'most important decision' that the next president must make. So, McCan't does this?<br />
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How does Palin's age, at 44, somehow justify and/or relieve the tensions of voters whom are concerned about his age of 72, when she has absolutely no experience? If anything now his age becomes even more of an issue in the minds of voters because of her lack of knowledge of the global community? How can they pare off, or spin, the experience issue of Barack O8ama when their VP selection does not even know what the Vice President does? In her own words!<br />
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Oh, and as for the gender credibility of this choice?  There is none; period!  Does McCain really believe that Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters will support Palin solely on the basis that she's a woman?  The one thing that John McCain missed is the fact that Hillary Clinton was just as qualified as Barack O8ama, and that is why their primary battle was soo-ooo close and grueling. <br />
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Yep, his first most important decision, and John McCain blew this one big time. Maybe what they're not telling us is that nobody really wanted this position. For that matter, maybe the repubs are already distancing themselves from this election and planning on rebuilding their party in 2012?<br />
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I've said before that that was the reason they wanted Hillary to take the nomination. They all know, especially KKKarl Rove, what a screwed up mess they have made the past eight years. Now they are planning on undermining Barack O8ama's administration allowing him (and the Democrats) to take the wrath of the American people just like Jimmy Carter did in 1976-1980.<br />
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I think what we Democrats need to be assessing is who the Republicans are planning on putting up as their candidate in 2012. They seriously are planning on O8ama being a one-term president. The only thing that will alter their plan is if the Democrats can achieve a filibuster proof senate majority. In which case, President O8ama will become an A ONE two term president.
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Mikheil-Saakashvili.jpgMikheil-Saakashvili.jpg Mikheil Saakashivili

 

Spirited Dona believes NATO and or UN officials should be standing strong with Mikheil, in the actual Tbillisi capital,  or prepare to send him humanitarian packages. I saw police cars run over and tossed for fun aggression on television by the Russians in Georga, just what I expected, as Condoleeza came and left She was right to go, just not leave him, alone. I just saw a lady in a food line. The Russians killed her brother, her only relative. She asked "why" and "what" am I to live for now! Wars I and II started exactly like this. Now, I behold the hesitation, that honor requires of the world to take action,  with mine own eyes. President Mikheil was born under Russian rule. Will he die under Russian rule?

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AP Photo/Charles DharapakGeorge Bush looks like he's on the Ed Sullivan show.

3026400  Just like my career, poster girl, great Democrat, and all around great American girl! Christie Brinkley! For those of you naysayers, I might be a poster girl, if fellow blogger, young Dine, has his dad take a poll in Iraq, that the troops need a poster girl, with a slight less snazz than Christie. We don't want to over occupy the thoughts of our troops!

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Christie has been to Democratic fundraisers, hosted them, too!

Is the mother of a music prodigy, Alexa Ray Joel, and horse lovers, son Jack, and daughter, Sailor!

A softie who won the Tough Cookie Award this year!

I think she is my latest girl crush!

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AMERICANS SEEM TO BE DROPPING LIKE FLIES IN CHINA! HE IS OKAY, PRIOR TO BEING FOUND UNCONSCIOUS AND DEHYDRATED, TRYING TO MAINTAIN BANTAM WEIGHT IN CHINA! HOW DISAPPOINTED I AM FOR HIM! THE SECURITY HAS GOT TO BE BAD IN CHINA. BUSH SHOULD BE Samd_gary-russell.jpgCARED. DON'T MAKE ME PAY A RAMSOM FOR THAT MAN MAKING IT LOOK LIKE I WANT HIM. LOL!   Read More »
pb member and obama supporter, Jake, had surgery for blood clots, Friday. when you find out how he is, somebody, let us know. Thank you!

morgan-freeman-02.jpgx30143340384623214.jpg  The misfortune of human being, ( the celebrity oriented always say actor), Morgan freeman was my first edition. This is the followup. Morgan has left the hospital. He is free and out amongst us again!

The bad stats

Morgan broke his arm with elbow and had surgery for nerve endings

The spotlight chooses Morgan, not the other way around. Due to the interest in his life, Morgan has said he has been seperated from hiis wife a very long spell, and, yes, it is ending in divorce. Even the wiseest of us have problems.

 The Good stats

He was in the successful picture, "Dark Knight". Although, like a lot of you I go long periods without  seeing Morgan, photos show him very involved.

He owns a restaurant in Clarksdale, Mississippi and  Memphis called "Ground Zero. a Blues club with southern cuisine!

He divides his time between his native Tennessee, his native Mississippi, and his adopted New York.

God bless, Mr. Morgan Freeman! A man who believes everyone is a regular American. Although, he is not officially involved in the campaign, he will vote our presumptive nominee,  Sen Barack Obama.

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Short but sweet.
Prayer. Jacob. clot surgery, Friday!   Read More »
050519_As_Dean_tn.jpg  HE IS THE ELEPHANT STANDING IN THE ROOM, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT, BLOGGER, TRUE BLUE! WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, I THOUGHT HE WAS TOO GOOD LOOKING AND COOL, LIKE JAMES DEAN. I HOPED HE WOULD SEND A FRIENDSHIP REQUST, BUT HE NEVER DID. SLOWLY, I REALIZED HE THOUGHT MY BLOG LACKED STREET CRED. AT THE VERY END WE DID NOT AGREE ON THINGS, EXCEPT I TOLD HIM I WISHED HIM WELL IN HIS LIFE OFF THE BLOG! HE NEVER FORGAVE ME FOR SAYING I LIKED MICHELL OBAMA'S PURPLE DRESS. HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT. I HAVE TRIED NOT TO BLOCK MYSELF IN, HERE. POLITICS VS FASHION. POLITICS VS ENTERTAINMENT. POLITICS VS COMEDY, I CAN DO EM ALL. BUT HE WAS FOCUSED. HE WILL BE URBAN LEGEND ON THIS BLOG! ONLY HIS INDEPENDENCE WILL NOT BE EXAGGERATED. HE WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO BLOG UNDER THE NEW RULES. IT WOULD CRAMP HIS STYLE. I DON'T THINK HE LIKED OR DISLIKED ME. HE JUST WAS! GOOD-BYE, TRUE BLUE! AMERICAN CLASSIC! NO MATTER HOW THEY WISHED JIMMY DEAN COULD COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME-- THEY KNEW IN THEIR HEARTS-- HE COULDN'T! SEE YA ON THE ROAD, TRUE BLUE!   Read More »
55190605  HERE IS MORGAN, RECENTLY, IN NEW YORK. HE WAS BORN IN MEMPHIS, AND DID A LOT LIVING IN MISSISSIPPI! HIS VEHICHLE FLIPPED OVER AND THAT IS NEVER GOOD. A LOT OF PEOPLES' HEARTS ARE WITH HIM!   Read More »
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