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Don't you worry, it's for a cause ...

In response to the recent passage of HR 1540, also known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which will have the chilling effect of suspending the right to due process, the right to a trial by a jury of an accuser’s peers, and the right to habeas corpus, now that the so-called “war on terror” [...]

Quote of the Day

At any rate, congratulations, America, you’ve elected a group of people who believe government doesn’t work, yet will still take a nice cushy job in it doing absolutely nothing productive on your dime. I can’t possibly see how that wouldn’t work out.

via The Black Guy’s Still The President – The Superficial

A response

Lately, especially with the heated debate over the healthcare reform bill reaching a fever pitch, a lot of people have been tweeting things along the lines of “A Prayer for Obama. Psalms 109:8″. Psalms 109:8 states, “May his days be few; may another seize his position.”

What’s scary is the verse that immediately follows. Psalms [...]

A plan?

A-Train asked me today how I see the plan helping people (while avoiding answering my own question to him on how he would try to fix the problems facing our nation today).

I see the plan creating jobs by putting people to work building and updating necessary infrastructure and investing in our energy future, instead [...]

America’s crisis worse than Japan?

America’s crisis in a historical context | Worse than Japan? | The Economist

THERE is one consolation for the depressing instability of finance. History offers a rich array of banking crises from which policymakers can draw lessons—and against which today’s rescue plans can be judged. According to an IMF database, there have been 124 “systemic” [...]

Poetry Friday

PRAISE SONG FOR THE DAY A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration

Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other’s eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.

All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on [...]

The Oaf re-administers the Oath

Obama retakes oath of office after Roberts’ mistake – CNN.com

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama retook his oath of office Wednesday after Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed while delivering it at Tuesday’s inauguration.

The second oath — also administered by Roberts — took place at 7:35 p.m. Wednesday in the White House’s Map Room. Roberts [...]

Quote of the Day

So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow [...]

The Promised Land?

Most blacks say MLK’s vision fulfilled, poll finds – CNN.com

WASHINGTON (CNN) — More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for race relations has been fulfilled, a CNN poll found — a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008.

The CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey was released Monday, a federal [...]

Loving the Obama Kool-aid, so far.

Knowing that many of the Obama faithful (and a number of skeptics) have been disappointed with some of his choices to fill various Cabinet positions, I found this article in Thursday’s Financial Times to be quite astute.

FT.com / Never mind the team: the president does the moves

The campaign poetry is long forgotten. [...]

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Don't you worry, it's for a cause ...

Quote of the Day

A response

A plan?

America’s crisis worse than Japan?

Poetry Friday

The Oaf re-administers the Oath

Quote of the Day

The Promised Land?

Loving the Obama Kool-aid, so far.

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