CHange -- Change -- Change Change is on the way. CHange -- Change -- Change Change is on the way.
Baby, let me tell you, I've been up, down, kicked around, head over heels. I see your face, you're the same way too. You've been so low, touch and go, you know how it feels.
But, hey -- but, hey -- hey! Listen to me, when I say...
That I feel... -- Change! It's in the air! -- Change! It's everywhere! -- Change! ... and we aint gonna pass this way again. -- Change! So, take my hand, -- Change! and take a stand. -- Change! I know together, baby, we can win! Yes!
With a little faith. -- Faith! With a little hope. -- With a little hope! With a little joy. Change is on the way!
With a little trust. -- Trust! With a little courage. -- Courage! In a little while... Change is on the way!
CHange -- Change -- Change Change is on the way. CHange -- Change -- Change Change is on the way.
Baby, it's a strange time. We're on a rocky road, overload, feeling confused. I look around, and it blows my mind. It's been so wrong, for so long. I'm feeling abused.
But, hey -- but, hey -- hey! Listen to me, when I say...
That I feel... -- Change! It's in the air! -- Change! It's everywhere! -- Change! ... and we all have the freedom to make the choice. -- Change! So, take my hand, -- Change! and take a stand. -- Change! Express yourself, baby. Raise your voice!
With a little faith. -- Faith! With a little hope. -- With a little hope! With a little joy. Change is on the way!
With a little trust. -- Trust! With a little courage. -- Courage! In a little while... Change is on the way!
We are strong enough, to weather the road, till the race has been won. We can step into the sun. I got to believe that!
With a little faith. -- Faith! With a little hope. -- With a little hope! With a little joy. Change is on the way!
With a little trust. -- Trust! With a little courage. -- Courage! In a little while... Change is on the way!
CHange -- Change -- Change Change is on the way. CHange -- Change -- Change Change is on the way.
-------------------------------------- Change Is On The Way Written by Sam Harris Sam Harris Music (BMI)
All I know is that I feel like Rip Van Winkle waking up after a 20 year nap and wondering what is going on.
I will admit that I am a Democrat and have been most of my life....I have been known on occasion to vote a split ticket, as every once in awhile a Republican candidate addressed my values and needs. Democrats have always signified to me, "The party of the (little people, the have nots) working class people."
The Republicans represent "Big Business", "Corporations", the people who have and the people who don't have a clue about standing in line at a food bank for out-dated, half-rotten food. The Republicans tell me that I DON'T MATTER.....
But this campaign has me fired up more than any other in my 42 years as a voter. It is a slam dunk for me. Medical costs and care are out of reach and reason for millions of people. I have had to file bankruptcy in the past because I couldn't pay the medical bills. I have been homeless and lived in my van for 3 weeks with 2 cats until I could find a place to move into and that I could afford.
I was without any medical coverage whatsoever for over 3 years. Now I have Medicare and I worry about getting the help I need because I won't be able to pay anything that may be left after Medicare pays their share or that the Republicans will succeed in making the cuts to the providers, thus shutting out more doctors available to help their patients. Medical coverage as it stands today is only for the haves not the have nots.....
Ask yourself why John McCain is allowed to earn the salary he gets as a Senator and still collect his SS Disability. Most people I know who are on Social Security are allowed to make only $2600 a year (that is if they are capable of any type of employment at all) in addition to their monthly.
Why are our Congressmen/women collecting their full salaries plus full medical benefits after they leave office? We should all be so lucky!!! In the real working world, when you leave a job, you no longer get your salary or the medical benefits you had......
Barack Obama has given me the courage to say that I (one person) can help make a difference. I have HOPE for the first time in over 6 years. I also know and believe that things have to CHANGE and that many people do not want to or are not willing to make the changes necessary to make our country a country to be proud of.
During the middle to late 70's the problem of global warming, peak oil, the need for more fuel efficient cars, less carbon emissions was starting to be addressed but the next administrations put it all on the back burner. Now 30 years later, the same problems are being discussed but no body wants to address them. Everybody wants a quick fix (a band-aid) but that will not solve the problem.
How many of you have put your car(s) in the garage or carport and use public transportation to get to and from work? How many of you make combined trips for paying bills, grocery shopping, and other errands? How many of you know what to recycle and how to recycle? How many of you have made no effort what so ever to help in any way to do what we ALL need to do to help save our planet, our world.
During the mid 1990's, Hillary Clinton visited a small town here in Washington State. She visited a grade school and said, "It takes a village to raise a child." She was rediculed by many. I believed her then and I believe that that statement holds true today even more so. The Bible says, "We are our brother's keeper."
Use your computers and go to the General Electric Web site. See the progress being made in Europe regarding alternative energy. I believe it is called http://www.ge.com/innovation/index.html. General Electric, an American Business, has been able to make a difference in Europe. Ask yourselves, "Why are not the same progressive efforts being made here in the United States of America?" GREED!
I don't want much in my life. I just want to be able to go to a doctor without having to worry about the expense. I want a healthy planet for all human beings and the animals who exist with us. I would like to see ALL people just learn to accept each other, no matter, the color of their skin, their religious beliefs, their financial class. I would like to have a world that lives with less FEAR and more trust. I know, I'm dreaming.
I just completed a 3 month course at the local community college. The class was called Business Services and gave me the opportunity to learn a little more about MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, refreshed my math skills, customer service and a class about developing more positive habits in my life.
I loved the class for the positive mind set I developed. It was a small class, we started out with about 8 students but only 4 of us completed it. I felt like the class mom...lol.....I am 63 years old and the other girls were 31, 25 and 26 years old. It was great. I got many opportunites to share stories about the 60's and 70's in the hope that the young woman would understand how much times have changed and how the opportunites are wide open for a young woman to pursue a career these days.
On Graduation day, our instructor gave us a book. It was called, "The Last Lecture". A book written by Professor Randy Pausch. Professor Pausch was diagnosed with liver cancer and given 5 months to live. The book is inspirational and life changing.
This evening I was surfing through the internet and I came across a video of Professor Pausch's "The Last Lecture". I felt I needed to share it. I am only posting the first video and hope that you will feel compelled to view not only the rest of the lecture but watch the interview with Diane Sawyer.
I think Paris Hilton is the epitome of someone who has had way too much in her life and is a spoiled rich brat but this is just too funny.....Not to mention that I also believe she has no talent......But this is good!!!!!!
On top of it, her energy plan makes sense. But hold on....Is she suggesting a "compromise", oh no!!! Not a compromise....
The awful truth is that if we had paid attention to what was being said over 30 years ago about "peak oil", pollution, the environment, we would not be having the heated arguments that are going on today....
There is no quick fix.....A band-aid will not take care of the problem.
How many of you have curbed your use of gasoline? How many of you have changed the way you run your errands? How many of you turn the lights out in a room when no one is in the room? Remember the efforts we made back in the 70's to help with the energy crunch!!!??? How many of you leave the TV playing in a room when no one is watching it?
My energy company here told me that during the summer when you are not using your electric heat, that I should shut the heat system off at the circuit breaker, as it still draws electricity. It is called something like "PHANTOM" heat and reflects on your energy bill.
All of us can do our parts in trying to conserve energy. It requires that we educate ourselves and then change our "habits" and our "mindsets"....
How many of you are recycling? How many of you know what can and can not be recycled and the proper way of disposal? Hey. It doesn't hurt to throw that flashlight battery in the garbage, after all it is just one or two batteries. This is how most people think. But when 50,000 or more people have this mind set, it poisons the environment. Find out where and how to recycle something as simple as a battery....In my apartment complex, one of the tenants has taken it upon himself to collect other tenants batteries and then he takes them down to the proper disposal site.
Sorry the video doesn't come through...I feel that too many of us have bought into unnecessary FEAR. Please start taking an active interest in what our Congress is or is not doing. It is WAY Past time for ALL of us to start questioning everything that has and is happening everywhere in our WORLD.
Seymour Hersh reports Cheney considered false flag plans. (Photo: Glenn Brown / cjfe.org)
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh - a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker - revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President's office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.
In Hersh's most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The "meeting took place in the Vice-President's office. 'The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,'" according to one of Hersh's sources.
During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney's office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected:
HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don't we build - we in our shipyard - build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.
Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can't have Americans killing Americans. That's the kind of - that's the level of stuff we're talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.
Watch it:
Hersh argued that one of the things the Bush administration learned during the encounter in the Strait of Hormuz was that, "if you get the right incident, the American public will support" it.
"Look, is it high school? Yeah," Hersh said. "Are we playing high school with you know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal? Yeah we are. We're playing, you know, who's the first guy to run off the highway with us and Iran."
Transcript:
HERSH: There was a meeting. Among the items considered and rejected - which is why the New Yorker did not publish it, on grounds that it wasn't accepted - one of the items was why not…
There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don't we build - we in our shipyard - build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives.
And it was rejected because you can't have Americans killing Americans. That's the kind of - that's the level of stuff we're talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.
So I can understand the argument for not writing something that was rejected - uh maybe. My attitude always towards editors is they're mice training to be rats.
But the point is jejune, if you know what that means. Silly? Maybe. But potentially very lethal. Because one of the things they learned in the incident was the American public, if you get the right incident, the American public will support bang-bang-kiss-kiss. You know, we're into it.
…What happened in the Gulf was, in the Straits, in early January, the President was just about to go to the Middle East for a visit. So that was one reason they wanted to gin it up. Get it going.
Look, is it high school? Yeah. Are we playing high school with you know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal? Yeah we are. We're playing, you know, who's the first guy to run off the highway with us and Iran.
Kevin Drum adds:
If this story sounds familiar, that's because it is. In one of David Manning's famous memos describing a prewar meeting between George Bush and Tony Blair, he says that Bush admitted that WMD was unlikely to be found in Iraq and then mused on some possible options for justifying a war anyway:
"The U.S. was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in U.N. colours," the memo says, attributing the idea to Mr. Bush. "If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach."
In the end, of course, we didn't do this. We just didn't bother with any pretext at all.
A rapidly spreading email is tricking thousands—if not millions—of Americans with outrageous lies and misrepresentations about Barack Obama's tax policies.
The email has taken a few different forms, but the most common subject line says:
“Important read - Taxes INTERESTING DATA JUST RECEIVED ON TAXES”
The email starts innocently enough, but the warning signs are there:
Spread the word.....
This is something you should be aware of so you don't get blind-sided. This is really going to catch a lot of families off guard. It should make you worry.
Then it goes on to distort Barack’s “Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election” including:
Capital gains tax
Dividend tax
Income tax
Inheritance tax
New taxes on things like water
Truth:
Barack Obama wants the tax code to favor honest, hard-working people, and he has proposed a $1,000 tax cut for middle class families.
But that hasn’t stopped anonymous smear-mongers from starting misleading rumors like this one.
According to FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit voter advocate group,
“This widely distributed message is so full of misinformation that we find it impossible to believe that it is the result of simple ignorance or carelessness on the part of the writer. Almost nothing it says about Obama's tax proposals is true. We conclude that this deception is deliberate.” (emphasis added)
You can see the entire email—and the point-by-point debunking—on the non-partisan, independent website FactCheck.org:
Dan Abrams discusses John McCain's statement regarding John McCain "wasn't proud of his Country until he was deprived of her company" (when he became a POW) and media reaction or non-reaction to his statement. Michelle Obama had said, "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my Country because it feels like HOPE is finally making a comeback."
I agree with Michelle Obama. For the first time in my life, I am seeing Americans grasp onto HOPE. Listen to what she REALLY said. The sound bytes have cut her statement off and eliminated the words, "because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback". Wake-up people do your homework. Don't take the propaganda that is being released out there.
How would YOU like to have something you said taken out of context and not have the full conversation told? I am sure that in many of our lifetimes we have said something to someone, only to have it go through the grapevine and when it got back to us, it was "taken out of context" or misstated.
Remember the Tupperware game "Telephone". The Tupperware representative would whisper something in a guests ear, she would whisper then to the next guest and so on. Remember the results by the time the "whispered" story was then spoken by the last guest!? We would all laugh.
Well what is happening today is no laughing matter. We as Americans today are supposd to be smarter than that and yet we continue to take what is said in the media as the "whole truth and nothing but the truth".
You all have access to the internet. The computer is a tool, not just a place for emails, shopping and websites to meet or find friends. It is a place where you can look up information. Put a word or statement in a search engine. Don't be complacent in life. Use your common sense and investigate.
Remember how we had to do research for reports and term papers in school? We laughed and said, "What are we going to use this for in our lives?" Well use it to search for answers. With the internet there are unlimited resources. We have a World Library at out fingertips!! Go to newspapers in other countries and see what the world outside of the United States feels and says.
For those of you who sit in judgement of others, shame on you. Judge not that you be judged. Those of you who have had good lives do not judge those who are still struggling in their lives. I was always told in church that I was my brother's keeper. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
O' Great Spirit, let me not judge another until I have walked a mile in their shoes.
