Posted on 08/24/2009 4:23:38 AM PDT by Scanian
United We Serve kicked off on June 22 and runs through September 11, which will be marked for the first time as a National Day of Service and Remembrance. The initiative focuses on five key areas: education, health, energy and the environment, community renewal, and safety and security. It is being led by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that improves lives and strengthens communities through volunteering and service. www.serve.gov
The Recovery Act includes $201 million in funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service to support an expansion of AmeriCorps State and National and AmeriCorps VISTA programs. This investment is a strong vote of confidence in the value of national service in engaging citizens in addressing unmet needs and strengthening communities.
BTW, the information about the abstained votes is innaccurate...
Olsen was laid up due to that heart condition he had (at the time) and could not vote on that day and registered an abstention...When the bill came back from the Senate he recorded a Nay vote on the bill...
The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it's not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.
Iron fist, velvet glove.
A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH
...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.
Check out my last post...I went bck and checked and Louie could have registered a Nay vote when it came back to the house (as amended or something...)
Even though it passed, the final tally, those abstentions could have changed...
Of course the KBH factor is already a known quantity...
I hope she is the first to line up grab a hard hat, reflective safety vest and a trash bag and goes to clean up the highways somewhere...
We need to make my tagline the national psyche...
Lennox Yearwood
July 8, 2009 Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr: "Healthcare must be our lunch counter moment for the 21st century"
By Kate Thomas
Today's hip-hop "Healthcare Remix" panel discussion at SEIU's headquarters in Washington, DC shed a bright light on the need for healthcare reform that does more than just expand insurance coverage--and why it is imperative that every community has a voice at the decision-making table.
"Healthcare Remix" panelists, from left to right: PJ Urquilla, artist and writer, Upset The Setup; Ms. Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey, the mother of producer J Dilla; Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., president and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus; Mr. Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor, member of A Tribe Called Quest; Dr. L Toni Lewis, president of Committee of Interns & Residents/SEIU Healthcare; Elizabeth Muniot, Director of Events for the Lupus Foundation of America and Casey Rae-Hunter, Communications Director of Future of Music Coalition
Is there any question that this man is unfit for the office of President of the United States? This measure was signed by the same man who refused to put his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance in 2008. He does not have America in his heart. He is our Anti-American President.
You know what...you have summed up in four words the entirety of barack hussein obama!
We have called him narcissist, a socialist, a community organizer, a Marxist, incompetent, thin skinned, ruthless, egotistical, holding himself up as the Messiah, embracing a God complex etc., etc...and yet nothing is more true than this simple statement...This man is insane....Indeed he is!
figure in both the peace and climate movements as an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq and our country's “dependence” on foreign oil
Yearwood was a co-creator of the 2004 campaign "Vote or Die" with Sean "Diddy" Combs. He was also the Political and Grassroots Director for Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Summit Action Network in 2003 and 2004, and a Senior Consultant to Jay Z's Voice Your Choice. In 2008, he created the "Respect My Vote!" campaign with T.I. and Keyshia Cole.
Yearwood organized a hip hop concert at 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. dubbed "Shut It Down", calling for the end of what Yearwood claims to be torture at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp and for the camp's closure. The concert featured Dead Prez and several other hip hop artists. Amnesty International and the ACLU helped with the event
Yearwood was arrested by Capitol Hill police outside of a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on 2007-09-10, and charged with disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer. According to Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, spokeswoman for the Capitol Police, Yearwood was stopped from entering the room after allegedly attempting to cut in front of people waiting to get in. “What he tried to do was jump to the front of the line. He was told he couldn’t do that,” Schneider said. “And he pretty much charged at the officers to get past them into the room, after he was told not to.”
ready...aim...
We seek to create the national and political will to implement real solutions that lift up our urban core and dissolve and alleviate the unequal burdens of climate change.
The birth of Hip Hop culture was a response to the very policies and practices that have sustained a persistent cycle of poverty in our communities over the past forty years. The Hip Hop community can speak to these policies and practices from a position of expertise and an understanding of the profound urgency for change.
Barbara Lee, Advisory Board Chair
Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Programs, Liz Havstad at 202.293.5902.
bttt.
I understand your position and pointing this out. You are not even indirectly defending him. There were willing participants to create this defiling of 9-11 on all sides.
““President Obama is exactly right: Service can help our nation get through this economic crisis,” said U. S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the Committee. “We can’t afford to delay. We must work as quickly as possible, in a bipartisan way, to send him legislation that will launch a new era of American service to build a stronger, vibrant America.””
AND
“For low-income, low-skilled young people, the emerging green economy offers pathways out of poverty,” said Van Jones, the president of Green for All. “We simply need to put the pieces together with a unifying, mobilizing call for national service to join the urgent effort to curb global warming and help build a green economy, supported by adequate funds to ramp up models that have proven their effectiveness and develop new ones where necessary.”
Recognize Van Green?
FROM
http://edlabor.house.gov/newsroom/2009/02/service-can-help-america-emerg.shtml
PS
Since Kennedy has his name on the act, I propose it to changing the day he drove off the bridge in his 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88:
July 18
What next, the 4th of July will be transformed to “thank god for Obama” day?
December 7th should now be what ... adopt a foreign citizen day?
This sacrilegious heathen has no concept of National Pride.
Dignity or reverence.
Maybe he should turn Arlington National Cemetery into a food co op open market???
I will remember the vicious attack most
Josef Goebbels was an amateur compared to the friends of President Zero.
Van Jones of Green for All
Fox News Notes Communist Past of the ‘Green Jobs’ Czar
By Sam Theodosopoulos (Bio | Archive)
July 10, 2009 - 17:16 ET
The administration’s “Green Jobs” czar, Van Jones, has a “very checkered past” deep-rooted in radical politics, including black nationalism, anarchism, and communism. The broadcast network newscasts have mostly failed to report on Mr. Jones’s past political affiliations which are lock-step with the network’s downplay of coverage regarding President Obama’s associations with the former radical and terrorist William Ayers during the election
Obama File 82 Exclusive! Obama, the Communist Van Jones and the Demos Connection by Free ThinkerNY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2319008/posts
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