GeoT

My mistake – should have prof read – all neighbors AREN’T nice.
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that’s what I figured. I mean you’re cheery but not THAT cheery

Good news from Iowa, now all we need is Ca to overturn that piece of crap they passed.
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Our State AG, Jerry Brown, has reversed his stance and is backing the challenge to Prop 8. I think there is a good chance the courts will throw the original Proposition out as unconstitutional.

My mistake – should have prof read – all neighbors AREN’T nice.

Iowas Supreme Court rules same sex marriage ban violates rights of gays and lesbians.

Women in Afghanistan
New Afghan law worries Nato chief
The law has been described as “oppressive” for women

Nato’s head says it could be difficult to persuade European countries to contribute more troops to Afghanistan because of controversial new laws.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7981340.stm

All neighbors are nice. Maybe that’s your new mission – turn the neighbor into a nice neighbor.
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ALL neighbors are nice? I wish that were true. I have no idea who it is, but I always make a point of introducing myself to the neighbors when I move to a new house and start off on a good foot so I’ve done my part. If someone doesn’t have the decency to come to me first about a problem, that’s their problem. Besides, like I said, Moose is a sweetheart, it was a bum rap.

Good morning all

Yesterday tunred out to be the great day I had planned on it being yesterday morning. A nod to GeoT , btw.
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someone turned in my dog… it’s a frame up I tell ya

she’s the sweetest dog on earth. The Animal Control officer came in and met Moose and gave her the official seal of approval… she’s still got a clean record but apparently one of my new neighbors doesn’t like her.

angels81
Totally agree
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me three.

One of the things that I think a lot of people miss, is we have opportunities to instill into our kids the fundamental reasoning of the American “experiment.” They need to understand why this is a republican democracy, etc.

For me, my view of politics as largely formed by my Catholic faith, and everything else was built on up. It is a far more complex world than many try to portray. It’s just easier for them to sell a simplistic message than tell the complicated truth.

Yesterday tunred out to be the great day I had planned on it being yesterday morning. A nod to GeoT , btw.

secularhumanizinevoluter says:
03 April 2009 at 5:05 am

“Obama Unites France and China”
Maybe this guy CAN walk on water!!

Sec, sec, sec – NO – he can’t walk on water.

But he’s one hell of a swimmer.

And knows how to tread water when it’s needed.

Oh happy days……

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMmJVw470t4&feature=channel_page

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GeoT – I couldn’t agree more. One of the things that disturbs me terribly is that so many of our young people think that history, especially why we became who and what we are today, is not important. I had history and civics drilled into me. I was taugh two things – those who don’t know history are bound to repeat it and ignorance of the law is no excuse. Though I’m no Constitutional scholar I had enough of a foundation to understand when the Constitution was being mangled which under Bush/Cheney it was.

I was always proud to be an American; not the flag waving type of American but one who was proud of the document that the Founding Fathers had given us to form a government, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that guaranteed our freedoms.
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I think we should re-emphasis this in our schools from early on. Exactly what’s in these founding documents and why they were put there. In a way we need to leapfrog BACK past the distortions of recent years to the original, unambiguous basics that we were founded on.

Michelle going to the girls school and showing just a little of her own emotion because she IS so dedicated to educating all children.
I am very proud to be an American.
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So am I Betsy.
I like what djjl wrote in another post: “It was nice of Michelle to invite her husband along” The First Lady did us all proud.

LOL. Yep, Obama out-gamed them once again. All week Faux News has been touting this as a win for Sanford, wonder what they will be saying tomorrow. Nevermind, they will just make some more shit up.

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As soon as I saw that from the White House, I knew what they were up to …

If someone must dig a grave, it must as well be the governors themselves …

Classic game of CHICKEN !

Another brilliant move by the WH this week, saying that the legislature could not force Sanford to take the money. By taking away Sanfords ability to say, ‘no thanks, but the state legislature can force me to take it’.

This way he was forced to put his money where his mouth was. Either he had to take the money or face the wrath of the people in SC. I could just see people picketing the Governor’s mansion. Evidently, he could too.

first Palin now Sanford…all bluster, predictable:

Sanford gives in on stimulus, will seek funds for S.C.

WASHINGTON — Gov. Mark Sanford will comply with a midnight Friday stimulus deadline and become the last governor in the nation to seek millions of dollars in federal economic-recovery funds for his state, aides said late Thursday.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/65407.html

It remains to be seen whether that agreement comes to anything, but at least they could get past that and on to something else.

The quote about Roosevelt and Churchill is the quote of the day.