Yesterday, watching those poor people lining up for buses to yet again flee a hurricane, my heart broke.
With all our riches how can there still be people in America who are so obviously so impoverished and helpless?
Unfortunately, it is because our system of education is broken, failed, shameful.
How can any politician believe that property taxes from impoverished areas can pay for world class schools and world class teachers?
A factor in our broken system of education is that first, teachers are underpaid so that schools for teachers "sometimes" fail to attract the most talented people.
Second, the curricula are not teaching prospective teachers how to really teach.
I want every teacher in America to receive the same starting pay as computer programmers and engineeers.
I want better curicula for preparing teachers.
And I want 3,000,000 more, high paid, talented, dedicated teachers who are fully prepared to teach THE LOVE OF medicine, bioscience, math and engineering, starting in the first grade.
Let us all work for an America where everey child has absolutely equal and excellent education, so that in the future no American is so unprepared for life that they end up helplessly standing in line for buses to flee for their lives.
Please donate, tax deductible, to these goals at http://www.fluni.com
I cannot think of anything more consistent with the core values of our Democratic Party.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Press Office
Monday, September 1, 2008
ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, Sarah and Todd Palin issued the following statement regarding today's Reuters story:
"We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.
"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/rnc/1138831,CST-NWS-react01web.article
"There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us. I'm hope I'm as clear as I can be. In case I'm not, let me repeat: We don't go after people's families. We don't get them involved in politics. It's not appropriate and it's not relevant. Our people were not involved in any way in this and they will not be. If I ever thought that it was somebody in my campaign who's involved in something like that, they'd be fired."
He continued, "You know, my mother had me when she was 18. How family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics. I hope that anybody who's supported me understands that's off limits."
We learned that Sarah Falin has a 4 months baby with down syndrome. Would you hire Sarah Falin as an ER/Internsive care doctor of a large hospital? You would be faced with the choice of releasing her to go take care of her son leaving over 50 critically ill patients with no help.
They are saying they think her 4 month old is the daughter's as well. Palin did not announce her pregnancy to her staff until she was 7 months along. Then the next month she "prematurely" gave birth.
With a mother who wants to give so little attention to a poor sick child, how could we not have expected this. The young girl would be on her own raising herself form early. If Palin is going to drop off babies for the daughter to raise while she chases her dreams, why not have one for herself...?
I am trashing Palin here if anyone because as mother who has had to deal with this issue and a plethora of others, I find it hard to believe she is showing good judgment by accepting this nomination when your teenage daughter is going to need you now more than ever. Moreover, she has a four month with down syndrome.
I am also concerned about Palin's older children and her husband.
No one has mentioned it that I know of, but what hit me really hard was that through-out Palin's acceptance speech, while her family stood by watching, it was the oldest daughter that held the 4 month old THE WHOLE TIME.
I believe that the oldest daughter is the one who most of the responsibility has fallen on for raising the younger children.'
Dad is to much of a man's man and has stated that he isn't going to be the "house mom" (para)
The Palin's are also uneducated and don't know how to use birth control. If they are against condoms, then just using "self control" is not something that they are capable of either.
On the front burner of feminism, has been "taking responsibility" for our bodies and how to stop bringing unwanted, or untimely children into the world that we cannot or don't want to REALLY care for.
This was/is an inconvenient child
At this point, Palin is so unknown, there's no way to make a clear judgment about her. But listening to Obama supporters take to the airwaves to shriek with indignation about her lack of experience is just a little too rich. Where were they when Obama, two years into the Senate, announced his candidacy for president?
One Obama supporter and political operative blogged, "In picking an unknown, untested half-a-term governor from Alaska . . . John McCain is following in a long line of reckless men who have rolled the dice for a beauty queen."
Do we really have to do this again?
No sooner was Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the race, and a new woman is in the cross hairs.
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This vignette touched my heart, because it has such relevant symbolism.
In the clips last night, Michelle Obama spoke of finally giving in to Barack's request for a date. She had been refusing his advances because she was very proper in the top law firm of Sidley & Austin, where she was a full fledged attorney and Barack was just a summer intern. Barack surprised Michelle when he took her, not to a fancy restaurant, but to a church basement where he gave a speech to steelworkers who were laid off when the local steel mill closed.
Michelle said Barack riveted everyone in the basement with a magnificent speech about how America actually was, and how America should be.
The clip showed a picture of the burly white steelworkers raptly listening to the young African American orator, demonstrating that the races were cooperating even back then.
I grew up in the same neighborhood as Michelle Robinson Obama, actually in between her house and Rev. Wright's church. I personally knew many of the steelworkers who forever lost high paying jobs to the slave labor wages of Indian and Chinese steelmills, and feel quite strongly about fair trade instead of free trade.
Those hard working men never, ever got jobs with pay remotely near what they earned in the mill, for very hard work.
Micehlle felt the same thing I did, and said that speech in the church basement made it all over, the end! She was in love with Barack.
A symbolic lesson for us all, united.
Democtratic party and uplift the issues of our candidates, my heart burst with pride as I watched our great Democratic Party make history as the first major party to nominate an African American for President of the United States of America.
On the Fourth of July, 2007, I signed the papers to register as a Democrat and abandoned my life long membership in the Republican Party. What a great day!
May God Bless America, and God Bless our Democratic Party!
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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George Bush looks like he's on the Ed Sullivan show.
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!
The Stats
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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CARED. DON'T MAKE ME PAY A RAMSOM FOR THAT MAN MAKING IT LOOK LIKE I WANT HIM. LOL! Read More »