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Letter to Mr. Palin

Dear Mr. Palin,

Congratulations on the selection of your wife as the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States
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We understand you are a member of the United Steelworkers of America union. While I'm sure you're excited by your wife's candidacy for high office, you may be discouraged to learn that the union dues you pay are already being used to defeat her.

When USW union bosses endorsed Barack Obama in June, they pledged to support his campaign using funds collected from union members. Steelworker dues will pay for a variety of political activities throughout the electoral season, and a significant portion of those activities will be aimed at defeating the McCain-Palin ticket.

( This is another reason why I don't believe Union dues should be used to support one who is running for office. Why should  Mr. Palin  dues   be used to elected the men who are running against his wife. Read the rest of this enlightening open letter sent to Todd Palin from National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix.)

 
Alaska Governor Baby by beautyandbeast.
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chance to show our compassion to Cuba

The heavenly signs pierce the soul, harsh and devastating.
You can see them in the eyes of a wounded Haitian child caked in mud, gasping for life after Ike, the Category 3 hurricane that killed more than 300 and left a million homeless.
You can track the signs, too, in Hurricane Ike's path through Cuba.
By Tuesday, Havana's old buildings were crumbling from Ike. The storm was blamed for the death of at least four Cubans in other towns and was expected to do more damage to an already devastated Pinar del Río province, where Gustav 10 days earlier destroyed crops and 100,000 homes.
How many more signs before we walk the compassionate conservative talk?
You can't send help to your loved ones if you're in an immigration cell, unable to work for no other crime than your status as persona non grata.
Bush has the opportunity to rise above the expected political drill of nothing for Cuba until the Castro brothers leave. It's good to see the Treasury Department is poised to approve new licenses for nongovernmental groups to offer hurricane relief to the Cuban people, but we can do more.

No one with any sense is saying dump the Cuba embargo and kiss up to the Castros. But what's so wrong with a 90-day window for Cuban exiles to rush to their families left behind and offer help, as Democratic congressional candidate Raúl Martinez has suggested?

I suspect Fidel and Raúl won't allow it. They only care about free credit so their already debt-driven government can get U.S. goods for nothing. Let them play politics with Cubans' suffering.
(The above was written in  a column  by MYRIAM MARQUEZ called Ike a chance to show our compassion .I believe she is right that the leaders of Cuba won't go for this. However I would like to know what others think of this idea.)
 
 
Gustav #22- by jtjohnson555.
Hurricane Gustav in Los Palacios, Cuba, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008 
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A Kennedy plumbs life as a Catholic

Catholicism ran deep at the home of Bobby and Ethel Kennedy. ( A Kennedy plumbs life as a Catholic )
Prayers before and after every meal, when a family trip was beginning, when something got lost. Bible readings after dinner. St. Christopher medals around the neck. St. Francis pictures on the wall. Virgin Mary statues in the corner. Mass schedules by the bedsides. And Mass every Sunday, until Bobby was killed in 1968; then it was daily.

"It was central to my upbringing - I mean, we woke up in the morning, and we were down on our knees, consecrating the day to Lord Jesus," recalls Kerry Kennedy, 49, the seventh of the 11 children of the Kennedy couple. "And then before bed, we'd spend about 20 minutes with the entire family saying prayers together."

But today, like many Catholics, Kennedy has a hard time reconciling her own views with some of the teachings and actions of her church; in fact, she often can't. So Kennedy decided to talk with well-known Americans about their often complicated relationships with the Catholic faith; the result is a revealing book being released tomorrow.

The book, "Being Catholic Now," offers an unusually intimate view of how much being raised Catholic shapes the identity of many prominent Americans, but also how much tension many feel with the institutional church.

"Don't even let me go into Cardinal [Bernard F.] Law and that he has been rewarded with a princely title in Rome," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Kennedy, referring to the former archbishop of Boston, who resigned over the sex abuse scandal and now oversees a prominent basilica in Rome. "It is just appalling. I cannot deal with that, so I don't."

Bill O'Reilly, the FOX News personality, told Kennedy, "Cardinal Law is a villain. I got him removed from office in Boston. I pounded him relentlessly, because he was not doing what he should have for the protection of children in this country."
But Kennedy finds praise too. Anna Quindlen, the columnist, has many disagreements with the church, but says, "as an instrument of social justice, nobody does it better." Cokie Roberts, the journalist, says, "Catholicism is a place that gives me a solid sense of justice, hope, and love." John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, says, "My faith is always a source of strength for me." And Martin Sheen, the actor, says, "The central mystery of Catholicism is so powerful. It's simple. God becomes human. Go figure."
(Almost every church  has done wrong things because all churches have to recruit from the human race because the Bible says in Romans 3:23 we all have sinned and come up short of God's glory. Also people from different churches can struggle in their spiritual walks. However I believe  every person if they know it or not are trying to find God. All of us need a relationship with Jesus  Christ. No church or
 tradition can fill the void  in our lives. )
 
 
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US Catholic bishops condemn US immigration raids

US Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday charged that immigration raids on US workplaces break up families and disrupt communities, without addressing the country's flawed immigration system.

"The humanitarian costs of these raids are immeasurable and unacceptable in a civilized society," Bishop John Wester, chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) committee on migration, said.

"I call upon the Department of Homeland Security and President (George W.) Bush to reconsider the use of these worksite enforcement raids, and without the implementation of necessary human rights protections, to please abandon them," he told a news conference.

"We ask them and the country, including the presidential candidates, to again turn their energies for building support for a comprehensive overhaul of our broken immigration system," he said.
( My question for these bishops who is breaking the law President Bush, Homeland Security? Nope it is those who are being arrested at these raids. Read more on this issue US Catholic bishops condemn US immigration raids.)
 
Immigration Raid by Northwest Federation of Community Organizations.
 
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The heroes and survivors of terror attacks of 9/11/01

Here is something a friend of mine posted in Honor of  911. We must never forget what happen on this day. Yes we can heal but we must never forget. Read what she wrote A Tribute to The heroes and survivors of terror attacks of 9/11/01 in WTC in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington DC
 
 
On a Tugboat by *Hiro.
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Doctor says Parents with Down's Syndrome Kids should Abort

In a sign of just how evil our Western culture is getting , here's an item  about a  Canadian doctor" (Andre Lalonde, executive vice president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Ottawa) daring to put down  the Republican nominee for Vice-President, Sarah Palin, for her decision to continue the pregnancy of her fifth child, knowing full well that the boy had Down's Syndrome.
He went further and declared Palin was a bad role model because other women carrying handicapped babies(sit own for this)  might be.....influenced not to abort them! How horrible. This shows a man who doesn't understand in the hearts of every parents their children are borned perfect no matter what short- comings they might have been blessed with. Read more of this outrage Here's the horrible story.

 
 
Down's syndrome by Richard Bailey.

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Paterson's Racism Claim

On Monday, NY. Gov. David Paterson angered some state lawmakers by comparing them to vampires, calling them a bunch of "blood suckers." On Tuesday, he raised eyebrows again, and tempers, by accusing the John McCain campaign of veiled racism.

At the Crain's Business Forum this morning, Paterson drew attention to a phrase used numerous times by speakers at the Republican National Convention to describe Barack Obama's leadership experience: community organizer.

"I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican Convention – a 'community organizer.' They kept saying it, they kept laughing," he said.
 (This would be funny if it wasn't true. This is an outrage. There is true racism in this nation but this is not. Read more of the above story  here .) 



Governor David Paterson of New York by lardfr1.

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Obama aide questions McCain's honor

 The Obama campaign took its most personal shot ever at Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday evening, questioning his honor over a claim in a new TV ad that the Democrat calls "perverse." ( Obama aide questions McCain's honor    )

The issue was a new McCain advertisement belittling Obama's record on education, and accusing him of supporting sex education for kindergartners.

"Obama's one accomplishment?" the narrator asks. "Legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners. Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."

(Obama had better take this aide to the political woodshed if not Obama might be finished.)

 
obama%2B3 ooops by you.
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Pig with lipstick is still a Pig

 "That's not change," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig," Obama said, "but it's still a pig."

The crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week, "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,'" Obama continued, "it's still gonna stink after eight years.

"We’ve had enough of the same old thing! It’s time to bring about real change to Washington.  And that’s the choice you’ve got in this election."

( I don't know if Obama was talking about  Gov. Palin or not but he has better be careful. It looks to me like Obama is starting to fear. If he keeps this up he can kiss this election  good-bye. Read more on this issue  at  Political Punch.)

 
Lipstick on a Pig by specmotors.
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CEO: America 'More Communist than China'

 Has America created its own variety of communism with the U.S. Treasury Department’s bailout of two beleaguered government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE)? According to Rogers Holding CEO Jim Rogers, the answer is yes.

     “America is more communist than China is right now,” Rogers told CNBC Europe’s “Squawk Box Europe” September 8. “You can at least have a free market in housing and a lot of other things in China. And you can see that this is welfare for the rich. This is socialism for the rich. It’s bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters."

 

(Rogers needs to go live in China, or Cuba to see  what  it truly is like to live  in  a communist nation. Read more of the above story right here .)

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California union to seek Schwarzenegger recall

 California's prison guard union said on Monday it will seek the recall of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after he ordered a pay cut for its members amid the state's protracted budget deadlock.  (  California union to seek Schwarzenegger recall | )

"We're going to move it as quickly as possible," union spokesman Lance Corcoran said of efforts to launch a referendum to remove the Republican governor, who entered office in 2003 after a recall election of then-Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat.

(I admit I don't know too much on this issue. Still I don't believe recall is the answer. If these people believe the Gov. is wrong work to get the right person in office. I am also no fan of the Gov. but I believe too often some voters use recall.)

 
 
 
 
Voters Recall Davis; Schwarzenegger's In by trainman74.
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McCain’s Admission

   (Below is part of a radio commentary I just heard by  Paul Jacob.)
John McCain is a man on a mission. But it was his admission that Republicans in Washington have lost their way that jumped out at me as I listened to his speech accepting the Republican Party presidential nomination.

“I fight to restore the pride and principles of our party,” he told Republicans. “We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us.”
But it was still nice to hear McCain say it. The first step toward solving a problem is to recognize you have one.

(John McCain and  Paul Jacob is right. The Republicans instead of changing Washington were changed by Washington. The more I read about how McCain will cut spending the more excited I get. Still he will have a hard job in fighting congress, I just hope the voters give him a chance to fight. Do read the whole radio commentary McCain’s Admission  or listen to it here.)




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Russell Brand calls George Bush a 'retard'

If his aim was to be noticed by America, Russell Brand more than achieved his goal last night as he ranted that President Bush was a “retarded cowboy” while hosting the MTV awards. ( Russell Brand calls George Bush a 'retard' at MTV awards   )

The British comedian, who is a virtual unknown in America,  (  Just who is Russell Brand?   )left the crème of the music world stunned as he championed Barack Obama, ran down George Bush and made lewd jokes about the Christian pop band Jonas Brothers.
 
(Didn't this man's mother teach him if you can't say anything nice  don't say anything at all. Perhaps Brand needs his mouth washed out with soap.)
 
 
Bite your Tongue by free_wind_space.
 
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