I usually have a lot to say. I just know when to keep it to myself.
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Expected Date Week of 3/17/08 :)
http://www.ipohome.com/common/ipoprofile.asp?ticker=V
Well, i've been guilty of
number 2 (and 4) once or twice, lolol
Not only was that a nice post, but
the SECOND post ever for me to have "marked"
into my favorite posts. Thank!
Here's the first one:
Posted by: jimmenknee
In reply to: serfdom who wrote msg# 60222 Date:10/10/2007 3:04:50 AM
Post #of 68367
Ah Hem! She has always been a lady-- in that light I offer:
"On a Lady's Writing." by Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743 - 1825)
HER even lines her steady temper show;
Neat as her dress, and polish'd as her brow;
Strong as her judgment, easy as her air;
Correct though free, and regular though fair:
And the same graces o'er her pen preside
That form her manners and her footsteps guide.
a valentine for you....
WHEN GIRLS DRINK TOO MUCH............
1. WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHERE OUR PURSE IS.
2. WE BELIEVE THAT DANCING WITH OUR ARMS OVERHEAD AND WIGGLING OUR BUTT WHILE YELLING 'WOO-HOO!' IS TRULY THE SEXIEST DANCE MOVE AROUND.
3. WE'VE SUDDENLY DECIDED THAT WE WANT TO KICK SOMEONE'S BUTT AND HONESTLY BELIEVE WE COULD DO IT TOO.
4. IN OUR LAST TRIP TO PEE, WE REALIZE THAT WE NOW LOOK
MORE LIKE A HOMELESS HOOKER THAN THE GODDESS WE WERE JUST FOUR HOURS ! AGO.
5. WE START CRYING AND TELLING EVERYONE WE SEE THAT WE LOVE THEM SOOOOO MUCH.
6. WE GET EXTREMELY EXCITED AND JUMP UP AND DOWN EVERY TIME A NEW SONG PLAY'S BECAUSE 'OH MY GOD! I LOVE THIS SONG!'
7. WE'VE FOUND A DEEPER/SPIRITUAL SIDE TO THE GEEK SITTING NEXT TO US.
8. WE'VE SUDDENLY TAKEN UP SMOKING AND BECOME REALLY GOOD AT IT.
9. WE YELL AT THE BARTENDER, WHO WE BELIEVE CHEATED US BY GIVING US JUST LEMONADE, BUT THAT'S JUST BECAUSE WE CAN NO LONGER TASTE THE VODKA.
10. WE THINK WE ARE IN BED, BUT OUR PILLOW FEELS STRANGELY LIKE THE KITCHEN FLOOR (or the mop?)
11. WE FAIL TO NOTICE THAT THE TOILET LID'S DOWN WHEN WE SIT ON IT.
12. WE TAKE OUR SHOES OFF BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IT'S THEIR
FAULT THAT WE'RE HAVING PROBLEMS WALKING STRAIGHT.
You too! Happy Valentines Day!!
omg, you can see me?
prenup, lizzy....prenup.
On a side note, I had told a few of my ihubbian pals
(back in September, lol) that I'd be back on board(s) full time with the advent of
Visa. They are apparently a great mirror to the bears
at the moment and will be the starting flag of the bullish
trends in the big boards IMHO.
Hi, sorry about the delayed response. VISA (V) is still
amending it's prospectus, as latest as YESTERDAY.
Here's the link for all of the filings and amendments
since the first......
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001403161&owner=include&count=40
Delay? Ohhhh yeah. They aren't about to come out during
an economic "crisis" right now. It's great for them to ease back a bit, sit in the shadows and let the hype settle down ........IMHO.
Earnings Calendar : Today after the close look for the following companies to report: AATI, AW, AMMD, ANST, ARRS, ASIA, BJRI, BFAM, BUCY, CPKI, CBOU, CTHR, CEM, CMG, CGNX, CRAY, DRYS, GMST, GGC, GOL, HITT, MMSI, PEET, PCLN, RADS, SONO, SPXS, USTR, WTW, and WMGI. Tomorrow before the open look for the following companies to report: ANF, ALE, B, BNHN, CPB, DSX, HRL, SJM, RDN, SCG, and YGE.
:)
Happy Valentines Day!!!
Thank you for your agreement as you've highlighted
my point perfectly:
"These are idioms, and not meant to be taken scientifically"
Parables, idioms, etc....
We must take it all with a grain of salt, use it for
our own purposes and remember that it is a tool for
interpreting history, "not meant to be taken scientifically" i.e. as fact.
is this post the post of the day?
"All you have to do is read Scripture, and you will learn a lot of things."
if that is so then why does the
Scripture pronounce the earth is flat?
(Job 38:13, Jeremiah 16:19,
Daniel 4:11, Isaiah 11:12- etc....)
i think it's full of history and can be spiritual, but i still
question how much fact it contains....and YES (before you
wonder if I'm just anti-religion) I
have an educated religious background and upbringing
JMHO and unsure if this is the proper board to even
discuss this subject.........
ironic...it's [super delegates] the most undemocratic part of the democratic primary.
Here tea,
I think these figures fit in there as well....
======================
Suicides among active-duty soldiers in 2007 reached their highest level since the Army began keeping such records in 1980, according to a draft internal study obtained by The Washington Post. Last year, 121 soldiers took their own lives, nearly 20 percent more than in 2006.
At the same time, the number of attempted suicides or self-inflicted injuries in the Army has jumped sixfold since the Iraq war began. Last year, about 2,100 soldiers injured themselves or attempted suicide, compared with about 350 in 2002, according to the U.S. Army Medical Command Suicide Prevention Action Plan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/30/AR2008013003106_pf.html
Well he's up on delegate now, just not
super delegates.
Which is my point....he has more states and delegates,
but she is listed to have more regular ol' popular
votes according to that link? Can it be so?
In my mathematically impaired brain,
it simply doesn't add up.
Unless of course, the majority of the popular vote
came from California. Is that what you mean?
Perfect, thank you! It's just facinating
to me that Obama has won so many states, and
more soft pledge, yet Clinton is up
on the popular vote.
actually, those are good too- but I'm looking for just
a count on the popular vote without pulling out my
calculator
OK, now THIS is funny. During the MLK speech,
please watch our former president:
I'm personally not in favor of the superdelegate system.
(do they have a cape, too? lol)
It's an easy guess, that by popular vote of BOTH parties,
that Obama has attained the most ballots. Do you
know of any site that actually offers this information on
the count? ..just curious...tia
i'm looking forward to the poll results again tomorrow.
this election has had me on the edge of my seat, personally.
I wonder if there will be an upset in Texas. From my
understanding, she's in the lead there with the polls.
....... Maine was not expected to vote the way they did.
What a race!
ah, the swing dancers
When it was her husbands campaign, it was brought up over
and over again.......he did very well here as I recall.
That explains why the Arkansas Governor began establishing a northern beachhead in Illinois last year. Now, with an array of endorsements and a foundation of political support cultivated for months, Mr. Clinton is hoping for a decisive victory here on Tuesday to cap his Super Tuesday sweep and push him substantially closer to the Democratic nomination.
Mr. Clinton paid a highly publicized call on Mayor Richard M. Daley this week, but the Mayor remains neutral, although "friendly neutral," as one Clinton supporter put it. Still, Mr. Clinton has garnered the support of numerous Chicago pols, including many of the people around Mr. Daley. Mr. Clinton's campaign is heavy with veterans of Illinois politics, like David Wilhelm, the campaign manager, who also managed Mr. Daley's 1989 and 1991 campaigns
"They've spent a lot of time contacting and recruiting people, and it's paid off," said Thomas Hynes, the Cook County Assessor, who signed on with the Clinton campaign last year. Mrs. Clinton's Hometown Roots
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4D9113CF930A25750C0A964958260
Then during her campaign, she forgot all about us and pretty
much handed it to her opponent. He's been a great Senator,
but she didn't seem to even try and defeat his efforts. imho
Hillary Diane Rodham, Dorothy and Hugh Rodham's first child, was born on October 26, 1947. Two brothers, Hugh and Tony, soon followed. Hillary's childhood in Park Ridge, Illinois, was happy and disciplined. She loved sports and her church, and was a member of the National Honor Society, and a student leader. Her parents encouraged her to study hard and to pursue any career that interested her.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/hc42.html
well, she's from Chicagoland (born and raised).
The loan has been repaid I hear.........
Clinton has raised about $130 million, but she was recently compelled to loan her campaign $5 million out of her personal funds. (The campaign has since paid it back.) Privately, some donors have said the campaign was slow to use the Internet to raise money, relying too heavily on the Clintons' old fundraising network
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-hillary11feb11,1,5175375.story
The media made hours of telecasts off the "loan" and notice
it was only by google that word of the campaign (i'm assuming) or her recent donations by sympathetic supporters....
have actually just paid her back? Is that even appropriate to
have been paid back?........AND so early in the game?
FWIW, Neither Democratic camp spent even a dollar
on advertising here in Illinois. I never even noticed
until our primaries. Entering the polling place, there
wasn't a single Hillary or Obama lawn stake. All I saw
were signs for our local officials.
The memo from the manager reads as it was
her idea to step down, due to conflict in
raising her children.
However, she remains on the payroll....essentially
a demotion for the sake of the campaign (as I interpret
this) after a weekend sweep by the opponent.
I find the timing suspect, personally. jmho
Why else would a campaign manager leave at the peak
of the campaign?
"I will serve as a senior adviser to Hillary and the campaign and travel with Hillary from time to time on the road."
-Patti Solis Doyle
thoughts on how the public will embrace the new
campaign manager "shuffle" in the clinton camp?
personally, america doesn't want to see another
president mistake on their hiring practices. She had
known her manager for 16 years I've read.
Imagine if she were trying to assemble her administration?
I personally didn't see that as a favorable decision.
jmho.
Obama Wins Nebraska Caucuses
02/09/08 Neb. Caucus 73% (precincts reporting) Obama 69%
Four States Hold Contests; Huckabee Takes Kansas Delegates
By DAVID ESPO,AP
Posted: 2008-02-09 20:42:01
Filed Under: Elections News
WASHINGTON (Feb. 9) - Sen. Barack Obama defeated Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in caucuses in Nebraska and led in Washington on Saturday night, hoping to chip away at her delegate lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The two rivals also contested a Louisiana primary.
The Democratic race moved into a new, post-Super Tuesday phase as Sen. John McCain flunked his first ballot test since becoming the Republican nominee-in-waiting. He lost Kansas caucuses to Mike Huckabee.
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, got nearly 60 percent of the caucus vote a few hours after telling conservatives in Washington, "I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them." He won all 36 delegates at stake.
Obama was winning nearly 70 percent support in Nebraska, compared with 31 percent for Clinton, in caucuses with 24 delegates at stake.
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, got nearly 60 percent of the caucus vote a few hours after telling conservatives in Washington, "I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them." He won all 36 delegates at stake.
McCain cleared his path to the party nomination earlier in the week with a string of Super Tuesday victories that drove former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney from the race. He spent the rest of the week trying to reassure skeptical conservatives, at the same time party leaders quickly closed ranks behind him.
His Kansas defeat aside, McCain also suffered a symbolic defeat when Romney edged him out in a straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting across town from the White House.
Republicans also held caucuses in Washington, with 18 delegates at stake, and a primary in Louisiana, where 20 delegates awaited any candidate who could gain a majority of the vote.
McCain began the day with 719 delegates, far ahead of his remaining rivals. Huckabee's Kansas victory left him with 234.
The Democratic race was far different, close and likely to get closer.
A total of 158 delegates was at stake in the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington. Caucuses in the Virgin Islands offered three more.
Preliminary results of a survey of voters leaving their polling places in Louisiana showed that nearly half of those casting ballots were black. As a group, African-Americans have overwhelmingly favored Obama in earlier primaries, helping him to wins in South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia.
One in seven Democratic voters and about one in 10 Republicans said Hurricane Katrina had caused their families severe hardship from which they have not recovered. There was another indication of the impact the storm had on the state. Early results suggested that northern Louisiana accounted for a larger share of the electorate than in the past, presumably the result of the decline of population in the hurricane-battered New Orleans area.
Clinton began the day with a slender delegate lead in The Associated Press count. She had 1,055 delegates to 998 for Obama. A total of 2,025 is required to win the nomination at the party convention in Denver.
The day's contests opened a new phase in the Democratic race between Clinton, attempting to become the first woman in the White House, and Obama, hoping to become the first black.
The Feb. 5 Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses in 22 states, which once looked likely to effectively settle the race, instead produced a near-equal delegate split.
That left Obama and Clinton facing the likelihood of a grind-it-out competition lasting into spring — if not to the summer convention itself.
With the night's events, 29 of the 50 states have selected delegates.
Two more — Michigan and Florida — held renegade primaries and the Democratic National Committee has vowed not to seat any delegates chosen at either of them.
Maine, with 24 delegates, holds caucuses on Sunday. Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia and voting by Americans overseas are next, on Tuesday, with 175 combined.
Then follows a brief intermission, followed by a string of election nights, some crowded, some not.
The date of March 4 looms large, 370 delegates in primaries in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Mississippi is alone in holding a primary one week later, with a relatively small 33 delegates at stake.
Puerto Rico anchors the Democratic calendar, with 55 delegates chosen in caucuses on June 7.
People were turned away from a University of Maine student center Saturday morning as Clinton spoke to a capacity crowd of about 1,750 people. She urged supporters to participate in Sunday's caucuses.
"This is your chance to be part of helping Maine pick a president," she said. "So I hope even if you've never, ever caucused before, tomorrow will be your first time ... because there is so much at stake in this election."
Obama, also campaigning in Maine, looked ahead to the general election, criticizing Republican McCain without mentioning his Democratic rival.
McCain initially "stood up to George Bush and opposed his first cuts," Obama said at Nicky's Diner in Bangor. Now the GOP senator is calling for continuing those tax cuts, which grant significant breaks to high-income taxpayers, "in his rush to embrace the worst of the Bush legacy."
If Super Tuesday failed to settle the campaign, it produced a remarkable surge in fundraising.
Obama's aides announced he had raised more than $7 million on line in the two days that followed.
Clinton disclosed she had loaned her campaign $5 million late last month in an attempt to counter her rival's Super Tuesday television advertising. She raised more than $6 million in the two days after the busiest night in primary history.
The television ad wars continued unabated.
Obama has been airing commercials for more than a week in television markets serving every state that has a contest though Feb 19.
Clinton began airing ads midweek in Washington state, Maine and Nebraska, and added Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia on Friday.
The exit poll was conducted by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for The Associated Press and the television networks.
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2008-02-09 07:57:07
http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/obama-wins-nebraska-caucuses/20080209075609990001
The video has had over 2.5 million hits in only a few days.
Regardless of election choice, most people agree that this
is a well made and inspiring tune.....
In most cases, use one of the links below and simply hit "forward" on the email you've received.
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Useful link:
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FTC
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If you wish to report unsolicited commercial email to the FTC, you should forward that spam to http://spam@uce.gov
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knowledge is power, low. Thank you for leaving the posts up.
just kick 'em to the side
do you know........the money that HC (the 5 million)
which she loaned to her campaign...........is
that an interest-bearing, tax-write off loan, which
will be repaid???
Why not a personal contibution from her own pocket?
Why a loan? thanks....
with 17 kids, 35 grandkids and some cats.
yeah i would be 72 and in Rome
I'm sure that was directed at Churak anyhow. Let's see
if he'll answer......
Hi low, fwiw...
That is a part of a nasty smear campaign. Perhaps
you would want to check the facts from the website:
http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/12/obama_has_never_been_a_muslim_1.php#debunked-letter
Barack has never been a Muslim or practiced any other faith besides Christianity, and in January 2005 he was sworn into the U.S. Senate on his family Bible.
I know there's been a lot of Washington smears going around, so I just wanted to send this message and share an honest portrait of Barack Obama.
Below is some more information about Barack's faith and his church. You can get the facts about Barack and his background by visiting the Obama for America website:
http://my.barackobama.com/faithfacts
Thanks
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Here's what others have had to say:
LOS ANGELES TIMES: The Rumors About Obama Are "False And Vile." The Los Angeles Times wrote in an editorial, "That the rumors are false and vile is self-evident...Presidential candidates of both parties have a duty to denounce not only the smear against Obama but the bigotry that underlies it."
NEWSWEEK: "Dueling chain e-mails claim he's a radical Muslim or a 'racist' Christian. Both can't be right. We find both are false. If these two nasty e-mail messages are any indication, the 2008 presidential campaign is becoming a very dirty one. One claims that Obama is 'certainly a racist' by virtue of belonging to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, which it says 'will accept only black parishioners' and espouses a commitment to Africa. Actually, a white theology professor says he's been 'welcomed enthusiastically' at the church, as have other non-blacks. Another e-mail claims that Obama 'is a Muslim,' attended a 'Wahabi' school in Indonesia, took his Senate oath on the Koran, refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and is part of an Islamic plot to take over the U.S. Each of these statements is false. These false appeals to bigotry and fear remind us of the infamous whispering campaign of eight years ago, when anonymous messages just before the South Carolina primary falsely accused Republican candidate John McCain of fathering an illegitimate child by a black woman."
THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: "'Trinity UCC is rooted in and proud of its Afrocentric heritage,' [Rev. John H. Thomas, the UCC's general minister and president] said. 'This is no different than the hundreds of UCC churches from the German Evangelical and Reformed stream that continue to own and celebrate their German heritage, insisting on annual sausage and sauerkraut dinners and singing Stille Nacht on Christmas Eve. Recognizing and celebrating our distinctive racial-ethnic heritages, cultures, languages and customs are what make us unique as a united and uniting denomination.' While Trinity UCC is predominately African American, it does include and welcome non-Black members. The Rev. Jane Fisler-Hoffman, Illinois Conference Minister, who is white, has been a member of the congregation for years."
PROMINENT JEWISH LEADERS: "As leaders of the Jewish community, none of whose organizations will endorse or oppose any candidate for President, we feel compelled to speak out against certain rhetoric and tactics in the current campaign that we find particularly abhorrent. Of particular concern, over the past several weeks, many in our community have received hateful emails that use falsehood and innuendo to mischaracterize Senator Barack Obama's religious beliefs and who he is as a person. These tactics attempt to drive a wedge between our community and a presidential candidate based on despicable and false attacks and innuendo based on religion. We reject these efforts to manipulate members of our community into supporting or opposing candidates."
JEWISH U.S. SENATORS: "Over the past several weeks, many in the Jewish community have received hateful emails that use falsehood and innuendo about Senator Barack Obama's religion and attack him personally. As Jewish United States Senators who have not endorsed a candidate for the Democratic nomination, we condemn these scurrilous attacks. We find it particularly abhorrent that these attacks are apparently being sent specifically to the Jewish Community. Jews, who have historically been the target of such attacks, should be the first to reject these tactics. We won't dignify these falsehoods by repeating them in order to refute them. Instead, we will express our outrage at these tactics, which are being used to demonize a good and decent man and our friend and colleague. Attempting to manipulate voters into supporting or opposing one candidate or another based on despicable and fictitious attacks is disgraceful. These false and malicious attacks should not be part of our political discourse."