O! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

The Star Spangled Banner

Over the span of my life, I have noticed the trend in ER visits change drastically. There was once a point in time when the only visit to the ER was a life threatening issue, a car accident, broken bones or someone requiring stitches. Those were the some of the reasons you went to the ER.

Now today, I have seen and heard of people going into the ER for non life threatening issues such as earaches and flu like symptoms. My question is why? Why do physicians tell patients to go to the ER instead of trying to work them into their office? Why do you walk into almost any ER in this country and find it full of people waiting for hours on end to get seen? A lady I work with started having chest pains a couple of weeks ago at work and we took her right over there. She got there at 10:30 am and wasn't seen by a physician until almost 4:00 pm. There is something seriously wrong here people and I just would like to know some of your opinions and I would like to know why people go to the ER for an earache.

Analysis: Obama's centrist emphasis gives GOP ammo

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Please excuse this post but I still cannot pm with IE. Check your email - the one you sent to me to ask Jacob to contact you.

Thanks.

When trying to send a pm to someone, this is the error message I get in IE



Also, when clicking on a friend in dashboard it sometimes gives you the typical IE http error 500 screen page.

The problems did indeed happen when the push was made on the 26th. IE7 experiences problems when viewing dashboard and user names are also trunkated in IE, not FF. When viewing in FF, all seems to go well. Trying to send a pm in FF takes you to just a blank page as well as IE7. This is not the same issue as before with the pm function. This blank page appears before you even get to enter a pm.

Real Clear Politics also gives you the polls on some of the Senate races around the country:

Real Clear Politics Senate

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The Senate is beginning discussions right now.

Missouri: McCain vs. Obama SurveyUSA McCain 50, Obama 43 McCain +7.0

Survey USA

I was driving home when they had the quarum call so I missed it all. Does anyone know who the 15 Senators were on this?

"A test vote on the measure Wednesday won the support of 80 senators who want to begin debate. Only 15 senators tried to kill the bill by blocking the debate."

Surveillance law survives Senate test, passage seen Thursday

Senator Leahy is speaking now and does not support this bill.

Right now they are having a quarum call to delay the process in the senate and they are still on the mortgage bill, but later today they are scheduled to begin on FISA.

Clinton staff plays ping-pong

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On several posts tonight I keep seeing these things we won. Would someone please tell me what was won and who we are?

Examples:

1. Re: None so blind as on who will not see Reply
By Barbara"Hussein"Johnson aka "fistbump" 12 minutes ago
Lets start.

There is only a few of them. I've been taking down names. Only a few of them. I still am not convinced they are not Repugs.

But anyway

WE WON

((fist bump))=Obama08/12


2. Re: Lincoln Reply
By Lincoln Park Dem Today at 10:09 pm EDT
time will tell jack...

Obama '08, '12

We won!


3. By Barbara"Hussein"Johnson aka "fistbump" Today at 10:27 pm EDT
Can you understand english??

Oh some small words like, WE WON Obama 08/12

???????????????

((fist bump))= Elvis has left the building

and last but not least

4. By Barbara"Hussein"Johnson aka "fistbump" Today at 10:22 pm EDT
We Won,
Obamanites Won.

You know the people you are so mad at. That all you can do is try and scare with boogie man threats.


We Won, We beat the best of the Best. Will beat all the rest. Repugs with or without you.

Just say it. Tell the truth and shame the devil.


((fist bump))


So, I guess Obamanites are now a party that won something???? The last I knew this was the Democratic Party and not the Obamanite party.

"White House contender Barack Obama and his defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton will hold their first joint campaign rally at the end of the week in New Hampshire, Obama's campaign said Monday.

It said the former adversaries will hold the "Unite for Change" rally on Friday in the aptly named New Hampshire town of Unity -- where each candidate got exactly 107 votes in the state's January primary. . . ."

Clinton to join Obama Friday in New Hampshire

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Bloomberg News on Friday that he will try to push for a separate vote on immunity for telecommunications companies when the Senate takes up electronic surveillance legislation next week.

"I'm going to try real hard to have a separate vote on immunity,'' Reid said in an interview to be aired this weekend on Bloomberg Television. "Probably we can't take that out of the bill, but I'm going to try.''

On Friday, the House passed an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that called for a federal district court to review the legal justifications for granting immunity to the telecoms that participated in the wiretapping program.

Separating the bill would give political cover to Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who could vote for many of the updates to the 1978 FISA law, but could still vote against telecom immunity, an issue that has become a key flashpoint on the left.

It remains to be seen if GOP senators would allow Reid to unpack the delicate compromise that congressional leaders worked for months to broker.

Although Reid said "we will have to see" when asked how he was going to vote on the measure, earlier this week Reid indicated he likely would not support the new FISA compromise, as he still had concerns about the immunity issue.

Reid to push for separate vote on telecom immunity

As you know, Senators Clinton and Obama will be appearing together this Friday. The location and details have been kept a secret. Where do you think they will be appearing?


Politico had fun with their guess of 5 places and here is their suggestions:


Five places Obama and Clinton should go


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