Well, it’s time we get out to the fields... after all, we don’t want to disappoint our new masters. [/cynic]
To hell w/ the SLAVE America Act. We serve America by serving ourselves & our families....individually.
‘Can we has a revolooshun, yet’? Srsly?
Snakes all of them, serpents, in the biblical sense.
I never thought i would live to see this day.
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But I have been saying that about a LOT of things since November 2008.
Why in the world would so many Republicans vote yes for this???
It passsed. Voinovich voted for it.
Thank you joygrace, for keeping us all posted. Did you ever determine if the Senate version has the verbage about making the volunteer service mandatory, that was in the House bill?
Everyone of these bozos should be impeached for violating the 13th amendment.
I refuse to obey this thing or my children or my grandchildren. I intend to use the 13th amendment while it is still in the constitution as my defense before being sent to the new re-education camp.
On the plus side: It will be fun to watch the reactions of the obamanoids when they find out they are going to have to actually WORK for the first time in their life.
The 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service, taking place June 22-24 at the Moscone Center - West in the heart of San Francisco, is the world’s largest gathering of volunteer and service leaders from the nonprofit, government, and corporate sectors. Come to the San Francisco Bay Area to tap into the renewed enthusiasm for volunteering to meet critical community needs and participate in vital conversations about the future of service and volunteering in America. Come away inspired, refreshed and energized!
THIS YEAR’S THEME — “Civic. Energy. Generation.” — reflects the tremendous excitement in our nation today as people of all ages and backgrounds unify in a powerful movement to bring about social change.
The 2009 conference will be held at the Moscone West in San Francisco, which consists of over two million square feet of meeting space and is a certified eco-friendly facility.http://www.volunteeringandservice.org/
Featured Speakers : Andy Goodman About Andy Goodman
Andy Goodman is a nationally recognized author, speaker and consultant in the field of public interest communications. Along with Storytelling as Best Practice, he is author of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. He also publishes a monthly journal, free-range thinking, to share best practices in the field.
Andy is best known for his speeches and workshops on storytelling, presenting, design and strategic communications, and has been invited to speak at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton, as well as at major foundation and nonprofit conferences. He currently serves on the faculty of the Communications Leadership Institute, which trains nonprofit executive directors and grantmakers.
In 2007, Al Gore selected Andy to train one thousand volunteers who are currently helping the former Vice President engage more Americans in the fight against global warming. In 2008, Andy co-founded The Goodman Center to offer online versions of his workshops and additional communications and marketing classes to nonprofits, foundations, government agencies and educational institutions across the U.S. and worldwide. When not teaching, traveling, or recovering from teaching and traveling, Andy also serves as a Senior Fellow for Civic Ventures and is on the advisory boards of VolunteerMatch and Great Nonprofits.
Look what I found....... “As he builds a $1.75 billion empire, Michael Milken reaches into an old bag of tricks.”
Some geniuses are driven by an inevitable force. Case in point: Michael Milken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken Thus we find the former junk bond king, now 55 and barred for life from securities activities, sitting on the throne of a $1.75 billion private education empire that includes private and publicly traded companies. The old suspicions still dog him. But even those suspicious of him say that, by all appearances, he appears to be doing it right this time. So what’s the catch?
His new sovereignty, Knowledge Universe, oversees nearly 50 companies, many of them interlocking. Some are wholly owned by KU. In others, KU holds anything from a majority to minority portion, (see chart). What they all share is place and purpose within Milken’s latest grand vision, one reminiscent of his junk bond kingdom from which he made as much as $500 million annually. Together, Milken’s new numbers include 14,000 employees worldwide. Though only 5 years old, Knowledge Universe is already on the brink of dominating several sectors of what is being called the Internet’s next killer app: e-learning. A space so vast, with a potential market of more than $10 billion a year, online learning could turn out to be the richest truffle since Milken sniffed out the untapped potential of high-yield debt.
http://www.forbes.com/asap/2001/0910/064.html Corporation for National and Community Service Board Chairman - Urges Service Stimulus
Submitted by NationalService on Wed, 12/10/2008 http://servicewire.org/content/20081210/nsb/Stories-Field/Corporation-National-and-Community-Service-Board-Chairman-and-For **Stephen Goldsmith** is the chairman of the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps and other national service programs.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Goldsmith#Chief_domestic_policy_advisor Goldsmith is currently a Partner of Knowledge Universe, which invests in internet-oriented education companies, day care and childhood learning companies... Goldsmith also serves on the boards of several companies including: National and Board Leadership
• Chairman, Corporation for National and Community Service
• Chair, Anacostia Waterfront Corporation
• Board Member, Fannie Mae Foundation
• Board Member, Homes for Working Families
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/faculty/cv/StephenGoldsmith.pdf
http://www.knowledgeu.com/ Nice. These volunteers also gets Guv money to send their kids to KinderCare Learning Centers -(an American operator of for-profit child care facility)(Knowledge Universe Learning Group)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KinderCare_Learning_Centers
Does anyone else see a huge conflict of interest? From what I posted?
“SENATE VOTES TO TRIPLE AMERICORPS, BOLSTER SERVICE”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008910666_apcongressnationalservice.html
(9 paragraphs down)
“The House, which passed a similar bill last week, plans to bring the Senate version to a vote as early as Monday.”