EVERYONE HAS A CHANCE FOR SUCCESS in 2007!

EVERYONE HAS A CHANCE FOR SUCCESS in 2007!
Category: Religion and Philosophy

People often handle life as they do bad weather.

They while away the time waiting for it to stop,
Yet the tide of opportunity comes to everyone.

Opportunity knocks all the time, but you've got to be ready for it.

When your chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong,
for time and chance happen to everyone.

Take a second look at what appears to be someone's "good luck."

You'll find not luck but preparation, planning and success-produced thinking.

When you're prepared for opportunity your chance for success is sure to come.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Decide that 2007 will be your year for success and prepare for it to happen.

If you plan a change, be sure you're not jumping from the pan into the fire.

Take the time to ask someone with experience... then decide.

Learning from the mistakes of others is the lowest price you'll ever pay for your own success.

HAPPY NEW YEAR - Everyone - Thank you for Being a Friend...!!!!!

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What is Our Deepest Fear - for 2007?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate....Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure...It is in showing our light, not our darkness that most frightens others...and living in fear does not serve the World for the better, for there is nothing enlightening about shrinking back so that others won't feel insecure around us...

We were ALL meant to shine as children do...it is not just in some of us, it is in ALL of us...and once we let our light shine it motivates others to have the courage and inspiration to do the same - for once we are liberated from own fear of the darkness, we can help to lead others into the light - as our mere presence automatically liberates and enlightens those around us...

I wish to say Thank You to those who have SAVED a Life - Today!

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People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on....and share their light and their love with others...:)

Stephen Rene
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Christmas 2006 - Act in the Spirit of LOVE toward One Another

CAN WE LIVE AND ACT IN A SPIRIT OF PEACE, LOVE and JOY?

The place to begin to improve our world is in your own hearts and minds.
To get along with others, and to love them without forcing our love upon them.

Imposing your beliefs on people will not bring you Peace, Love or Joy.
Having TRUE concern for others, TRUE respect for their rights and freedoms,
ALLOWS them to be themselves.

IF WE CAN Do this WE ALL CAN enjoy peace.

Having REAL consideration for others is the basis of a RICH and REWARDING life.

Most people are not against US, they are merely out just for themselves.

Differing ideas will always clash, but not those of the heart, the mind, and the soul.

Peace, Love and Joy WILL come to THOSE who honestly DO Live and Act in a spirit of Love.

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Merry Christmas - from My Family to Yours!
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In this Spirit,

Stephen Rene

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I believe the past is the past - and only want to believe in a more positive future -by being more honest with others, and so much more positive and bright...in our light...

This is our journey, our destiny, and we need to stay focused on a more righteous path with God.

In my LIFE - I wish only to encourage others - even when there is the need to share anger toward me - I will understand the anger, and always be there to just wipe away the tears, and will never take it personally.

I will always TRY to lift you up - when you are down, and try to motivate you with my writing and my positive thoughts - toward you and your life.

2007 is going to be a year for many spectacular miracles - and ALL will SEE THESE COME TO PASS.

IT TRULY CAN be a year that will lead and inspire everyone - who believes in spiritual direction on a whole new level and calling - but only if we can "keep our eyes on the prize."

And in "Knowing the truth will always set us free."

We CAN make it even in the face of:

1. Job Loss
2. Moving to a NEW HOME
or EVEN
3. Relational "Break-Up" (even at the Holidays!)

This was ALL completely expected based on the efforts shown in that WE ARE trying to make a POSITIVE difference - in the lives of others.

WE CAN ALL make a difference and share in this together - if we will only try?
You may not know it - yet - but - you have made a positive difference in my life...


Thank you, J, for the many positive thoughts and prayers - this HOLIDAY Season.

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I know a girl
She puts the color inside of my world
She's just like a maze
Where all of the walls all continually change
And I've done all I can
To stand on her steps with my heart in my hands
Now I'm starting to see
Maybe it's got nothing to do with me

Fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too

Oh, you see that skin?
It's the same she's been standing in
Since the day she saw him walking away
Now she's left
Cleaning up the mess he made

Fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too

Boys, you can break
You'll find out how much they can take
Boys will be strong
And boys soldier on
But boys would be gone without the warmth from
A woman's good, good heart

On behalf of every man
Looking out for every girl
You are the god and the weight of her world

So fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters, too
So mothers be good to your daughters, too
So mothers be good to your daughters, too
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Title Daughters
Artist John Mayer
Album Heavier Things
Track 10
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"Happy Holidays and To ALL a GOOD Night"

Stephen Rene
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Corporate Evangelists Love to Spread the Word !!!

Spreading the Word about Chief Corporate Evangelists (C.I.E)

When Google hired Vint "Father of the Internet" Cerf last September, it gave him the ecclesiastical-sounding title of "Chief Internet Evangelist." His job, as Cerf himself has explained, is "helping people understand--both inside and outside of Google--what Google's potential is." Now to nontechnophiles or those residing outside Silicon Valley, the move might have seemed like another New Agey gesture by the search-engine superpower. This is, after all, a company with the it's-hard-to-keep-from-rolling-your-eyes corporate mantra of "Don't Be Evil." So, is chief Internet evangelist just an effort to apply a quasi-spiritual gloss on some glorified marketing position?

Don't be cynical. Google is only one of many companies, mostly in the technology sector, designating certain employees as "evangelists." Microsoft has technology evangelists reaching out to developers and consumers through company-sponsored Internet forums such as Channel 9 and The Hive. Some companies, such as Sun Microsystems, have even created the overarching position of "chief evangelist" who focuses more on trumpeting core values and vision. The word "evangelist" comes from the Greek word eu-angelos, meaning "bringer of good news."

But the job of a corporate evangelist is about way more than preaching the wonders of a company to customers and clients.

"Evangelism is about sharing your dream so that other people believe in it as much as you do," says Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist for Apple Computer and one of the key people responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. "Those people then, in turn, get even more people to believe. Just like Jesus did as the most important evangelist [in history] who recruited 12 more evangelists [to spread the good news worldwide]."
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YOUR FRIENDS CAN MAKE YOUR WORLD

Your environment is the mental feeding ground from
which the food that goes into your mind is extracted.

Choose your environment with care, one that is positive,
one that lifts you up and gives you wings to soar.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Don't become a victim of your environment.

Create favorable conditions through your associations.

Your own inherent spirtual force and energy will compel things to turn out
the way you desire them to be when you're surrounded by positive people.

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Can WE all start showing that we really do care for one another - even if it can only be as friends?

Can WE air all of our differences - openly and honestly - without fear - and come out on the other side in a better place than we were when we started?

Can WE share truth honestly - even if it may hurt those we love sometimes, or even cause us to argue needlessly - but when it is done in true friendship the resolve to remain friends for a lifetime will be sustained - and that can & will withstand the test of time.

I know we CAN ALL be better off, and I hope WE ARE ALL better people - because we did. Thank you J.

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Keeping the Faith - always,
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Suburban Poor Outnumbered By Urban Counterparts

In 1999, the number of poor people living in cities and suburbs was roughly even, at about 10.3 million apiece, according to the report. Last year, the suburban poor outnumbered their urban counterparts by about 1.2 million. Suburbs are adding people much faster than cities, making it inevitable that the number of poor people living in suburbs would eventually surpass those living in cities.

America’s suburbs are becoming more diverse, racially and economically.

The poverty rate in large cities (18.8 percent) is still higher than it is in the suburbs (9.4 percent). But the overall number of people living in poverty is higher in the suburbs in part because of population growth.

“There’s poverty really everywhere in metropolitan areas because there are low-wage jobs everywhere,” Berube said.

Recent immigrants are increasingly bypassing cities and moving directly to suburbs, especially in the South and West. Those immigrants, on average, have lower incomes than people born in the United States.

Berube and research analyst Elizabeth Kneebone studied poverty figures for the 100 largest metropolitan areas, measuring changes from 1999 to 2005, the most recent data available.

“Traditionally, cities have been viewed as home to poor populations, surrounded by middle- and upper-income suburbs,” the report said. “This ’tipping’ of poor populations to the suburbs represents a signal development that upends historical notions about who lives in cities and suburbs.”

Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, said many of the same social and economic problems that have plagued cities for years are now affecting suburbs: struggling schools, rising crime and low-paying jobs.

“I call it the urbanization of the suburbs,” Morial said.

“I hope this says to people that the way to confront poverty is not to wall it off and concentrate it,” Morial said. “You really need policies to eliminate it.”

Cleveland was the city with the highest poverty rate last year, at 32.4 percent, while San Jose had the lowest, at 9.7 percent. Suburban McAllen, Texas, at the southern tip of the state, was the suburb with the highest poverty rate last year, at 43.9 percent, while suburban Des Moines, Iowa, had the lowest, at 3.7 percent.
© 2006 The Associated Press.

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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

by Daniel Goleman



Editorial Review
"Passionately argued … lucid."
—Publishers Weekly

Book Description

Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to connect” and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect of our lives.

Far more than we are consciously aware, our daily encounters with parents, spouses, bosses, and even strangers shape our brains and affect cells throughout our bodies—down to the level of our genes—for good or ill.

In Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world. Its most fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a “neural ballet” that connects us brain to brain with those around us.

Our reactions to others, and theirs to us, have a far-reaching biological impact, sending out cascades of hormones that regulate everything from our hearts to our immune systems, making good relationships act like vitamins—and bad relationships like poisons. We can “catch” other people’s emotions the way we catch a cold, and the consequences of isolation or relentless social stress can be life-shortening.

Goleman explains the surprising accuracy of first impressions, the basis of charisma and emotional power, the complexity of sexual attraction, and how we detect lies. He describes the “dark side” of social intelligence, from narcissism to Machiavellianism and psychopathy. He also reveals our astonishing capacity for “mindsight,” as well as the tragedy of those, like autistic children, whose mindsight is impaired.

Is there a way to raise our children to be happy?
What is the basis of a nourishing marriage?
How can business leaders and teachers inspire the best in those they lead and teach?
How can groups divided by prejudice and hatred - come to live together in peace?

The answers to these questions may not be as elusive as we once thought. And Goleman delivers his most heartening news with powerful conviction: we humans have a built-in bias toward empathy, cooperation, and altruism–provided we develop the social intelligence to nurture these capacities in ourselves and others.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Keeping the Faith,

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Happy Thanksgiving - From US to You - This Special Day!

The Best of Thanksgiving Wishes to you and yours - this Holiday Season.

Stephen Rene
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Email Reply to Post:

In truth, faithfullness, and [the] kindness of our hearts [as they] beat together and call to one another in the language of God. I wish for you a glorious day of Peace and Thanksgiving.

J.

Thank You so much for writing this beautiful note and sharing this with me and my Son.

Song of the Day

There was a man back in '95
Whose heart ran out of summers
But before he died, I asked him

Wait, what's the sense in life?

He said, Son why you got to sing that tune
Catch a Dylan song or some eclipse of the moon
Let an angel swing and make you swoon

Then you will see... You will see

Then he said, Here's a riddle for you, Find the Answer

There's a reason for the world
You and I...

Picked up my kid from school today
Did you learn anything about the world today?
You can't live in a castle far away
Now talk to me, come talk to me

He said, Dad I'm big,
but we're smaller than small
In the big scheme of things,
well we're nothing at all
Still every mother's child sings a lonely song
So play with me, come play with me

And Hey Dad, Here's a riddle for you, Find the Answer

There's a reason for the world
You and I...

I said, Son for all I've told you
When you get right down to the Reason for the world...
Who am I?

There are secrets that we still have left to find
There have been mysteries from the beginning of time
There are answers we're not wise enough to see

He said... You'll be looking for a clue
I Love You free...

The batter swings and the summer flies
As I look into my little angel's eyes
A song plays on while the moon is high over me
Something comes over me

I guess we're big and I guess we're small
If you think about it man you know we got it all
Cause we're all we got on this bouncing ball

And I love you free...
I love you freely...

Here's a riddle for you
Find the Answer...For There is a reason for the world
It's You and I...

Artist - John Ondrasik
Album - Two Lights
Track - The Riddle
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Quote of the DAY

Not everything that counts can be counted,
and not everything that can be counted - counts."
- Albert Einstein

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------------------The lyrics of these songs say more than I ever could.

Thank you for helping me and my son,

Stephen Rene

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Steve,

The danger of total honesty is that it forces one to take off the mask. It allows judgement. It is sometimes a catalyst for insecurity and jealousy.

But I think more important than any of the dangers is the nakedness of the soul....the vulnerability....the casting off of the garments of pride and false pretense, which can be harshly judged or cradled and nurtured.

You [helped] make me want to be more than I ever thought I could be.

Thank you for allowing me to offer honesty [like never before].

J

Real Time Intel - SAVING Lives Online Around The World - Everyday

Oct 31, 2006

WASHINGTON - The U.S. intelligence community Tuesday unveiled its own secretive version of Wikipedia, saying the popular online encyclopedia format known for its openness is key to the future of American espionage.

The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web much like its more famous namesake on the World Wide Web.

A "top secret" Intellipedia system, currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users since its introduction on April 17. Less restrictive versions exist for "secret" and "sensitive but unclassified" material.

The system is also available to the Transportation Security Administration and national laboratories.

Intellipedia is currently being used to assemble a major intelligence report, known as a national intelligence estimate, on Nigeria as well as the State Department's annual country reports on terrorism, officials said.

Some day it may also be the path intelligence officials take to produce the president's daily intelligence briefing.

But the system, which makes data available to thousands of users who would not see it otherwise, has also stirred qualms about potential security lapses following the recent media leak of a national intelligence estimate that caused a political uproar by identifying Iraq as a contributor to the growth of global terrorism.

"We're taking a risk," acknowledged Michael Wertheimer, the intelligence community's chief technical officer. "There's a risk it's going to show up in the media, that it'll be leaked."

Intelligence officials say the format is perfect for sharing information between agencies, a centerpiece of the reform legislation that established Negroponte's office as national intelligence director after the Sept. 11 attacks.

They also said it could lead to more accurate intelligence reports because the system allows a wider range of officials to scrutinize material and keeps a complete, permanent record of individual contributions including dissenting points of view.

That might help avoid errors of the kind that led to the widely criticized 2002 national intelligence estimate that said Saddam Hussein possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

Intelligence officials are so enthusiastic about Intellipedia that they plan to provide access to Britain, Canada and Australia.

Even China could be granted access to help produce an unclassified intelligence estimate on the worldwide threat posed by infectious diseases.

"We'd hope to get down to the doctor in Shanghai who may have a useful contribution on avian flu," senior intelligence analyst Fred Hassani said.

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Quote of the DAY

Not everything that counts can be counted,
and not everything that can be counted - counts."
- Albert Einstein

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Thank you everyone for the kind thoughts and prayers - always...:)
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Keeping the FAITH - always,

Stephen Rene
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"Together - WE CAN SAVE LIVES - if we will try to learn to SHARE - Everyday!"
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Who made up the word "Utopia"??
Thomas More published a book in 1516 called "Utopia." He made up the word. It referred to an imaginary land where everyone was equal and there was goodness in the people and all believed a just God. Everyone shared what he had and helped anyone who needed help. But Thomas More didn't live in any Utopia - he was ultimately punished by beheading for refusing to sign a paper that said Henry the Eighth was England's top religious authority.

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PEOPLE COME INTO YOUR LIFE FOR A REASON
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People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

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Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime. Thank you everyone for the kind thoughts and prayers - always...:)
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Keeping the FAITH - always,

Stephen Rene
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"Together - WE CAN SAVE LIVES - if we will only try to learn to SHARE - Everyday!"

PWC Shares in the Respect for - Flags of Our Fathers - An Award Winning American Film

Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood adapts co-authors James Bradley and Ron Powers' book Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima for this tale about a man who discovers that his father was one of the six men who raised the American flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima. Bradley knew that his father fought in World War II, but it's only after the aged veteran dies over a half a century later that the unsuspecting son will learn of the remarkable bravery that led American troops to a key victory over the Japanese in one of the war's most pivotal battles. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Cast
Ryan Phillippe John "Doc" Bradley
Jesse Bradford Rene Gagnon
Adam Beach Ira Hayes
John Benjamin Hickey Keyes Beech
Paul Walker Hank Hansen
Jamie Bell Ralph Ignatowski
John Slattery Bud Gerber
Joseph Cross Franklin Sousley
Barry Pepper Mike Strank
Neal McDonough Capt. Severance
Robert Patrick Col. Chandler Johnson
Melanie Lynskey Pauline Harnois

Crew
Clint Eastwood Director, Producer, Composer (Music Score)
Robert Lorenz Producer, Executive Producer
Steven Spielberg Producer
Paul Haggis Screenwriter
William Broyles Screenwriter
Thomas Stern Cinematographer
Adrian H. Gorton Art Director, Set Designer
Jack G. Taylor Jr. Art Director
James Bradley Book Author
Ron Powers Book Author
Phyllis Huffman Casting
Deborah Hopper Costume Designer
Joel Cox Editor
Henry Bumstead Production Designer
Gary A. Lee Set Designer
Joseph G. Pacelli Jr. Set Designer
Digital Domain Visual Effects
Michael Owens Visual Effects Supervisor

Thank you Mr Eastwood and so many others involved! WE know You are Listening and Seeing the Truth. Please continue helping US save the lives of others needing it - Everyday!

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Annapolis - PWC Weekend Top Movie of the WEEK!!!

PWC Movie Selection of the Week:
Annapolis

Directed by
Justin Lin

Writing credits (WGA)
David Collard (written by)

Genre: Drama / Sport (more)

Tagline: 50,000 Apply. 1,200 Are Accepted. Only The Best Survive. (more)

Plot Outline: Set against the backdrop of boxing at the Naval Academy, centers on a young man from the wrong side of the tracks whose dream of attending Annapolis becomes a reality.

Cast overview, first billed only:

James Franco .... Jake Huard
Donnie Wahlberg .... Lt. Commander Burton
Jordana Brewster .... Ali
McCaleb Burnett .... Whitaker
Chi McBride .... McNally
Wilmer Calderon .... Estrada
Jimmy Yi Fu Li .... Midshipman Lin
Macka Foley .... Ref
Jim Parrack .... A.J.
Brian Goodman .... Bill Huard
Vicellous Shannon.... Twins
Roger Fan .... Loo
Billy Finnigan .... Kevin
Katie Hein .... Risa
Tyrese Gibson .... Cole

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Commentary: This Father and Son Film is about the journey WE ALL must face in our lifetimes and the many opponents and obstacles we must face as individuals - as well - and sometimes even from those our own team! But the film also shares how WE CAN triumph and achieve success by simply working together to help one another and only with the help of others willing to provide it to us - everyday!

Those who rent this one will get the message of the film midway through - and what it meant to me and others watching it. Hopefully it will touch all of you who rent it too...:)

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Can WE SEE N.O.W. - "If Everyone Cared" How Much Better The World Could BE?

"If Everyone Cared"----------------------

From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight

Singing Amen, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I'm alive

[CHORUS]
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We'd see the day when nobody died

And I'm singing

Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, I'm alive

And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen I'm alive
Singing Amen I'm alive

[CHORUS (X2)]

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We'd see the day when nobody died

We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died

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Performed by NickelBack
Album: For All the Right Reasons
Track: If Everyone Cared

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I know many of you are trying behind the scenes to really help me, have seen that my efforts are sincerely designed to encourage helping others needing it, and in the relationship I have shared publically with my son, Dane...:) Please share this story with all those you meet or know, and continue to share positive prayers and thoughts for a peaceful and loving relationship with others - we meet everyday. Please help to see that we learn the importance of life - and what should always have been and be about helping others, in need in our love and our help, and in complete appreciation for the blessings of having a child you can always love - even if it is from a distance - always:

I Truly Thank MyLord and Every Person Who has shared and tried to be a POSITIVE Part of MY LIFE and the LIFE of my Son! Bless you and your family - always!

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FORREST GUMP GOES TO HEAVEN

The day finally arrived. Forrest Gump dies and goes to Heaven. He is at
the Pearly Gates, and is met by St. Peter himself. However, the gates
are closed, and Forrest approaches the gatekeeper.

St. Peter said, "Well, Forrest, it is certainly good to see you. We have heard a lot about you. I must tell you, though, that the place is filling up fast,
and we have been administering an entrance examination for everyone. The test is short, but you have to pass it before you can get into Heaven.

"Forrest responds, "It sure is good to be here, St. Peter, sir. But
nobody ever told me about any entrance exam. I sure hope that the test
ain't too hard. Life was a big enough test as it was."

St. Peter continued, "Yes, I know, Forrest, but the test is only three
questions.

First: What two days of the week begin with the letter T?
Second: How many seconds are there in a year?
Third: What is God's first name - it begins with "J"?"

Forrest leaves to think the questions over. He returns the next day and
sees St. Peter, who waves him up, and says, "Now that you have had a
chance to think the questions over, tell me your answers."

Forrest replied, "Well, the first one -- which two days in the week
begins with the letter "T"? Shucks, that one is easy. That would be
Today and Tomorrow."

The Saint's eyes opened wide and he exclaimed, "Forrest, that is not
what I was thinking, but you do have a point, and I guess I did not
specify, so I will give you credit for that answer. How about the next
one?" asked St. Peter."

How many seconds in a year? Now that one is harder," replied Forrest,
but I thunk and thunk about that, and I guess the only answer can be
twelve."

Astounded, St. Peter said, "Twelve? Twelve? Forrest, how in Heaven's
name could you come up with twelve seconds in a year?

"Forrest replied, "Shucks, there's got to be twelve: January 2nd,
February 2nd, March 2nd..."

"Hold it," interrupts St. Peter. "I see where you are going with this,
and I see your point, though that was not quite what I had in
mind....but I will have to give you credit for that one, too. Let us go
on with the third and final question. Can you tell me God's first name?"

"Sure," Forrest replied, "it's JAH."

"JAH?" exclaimed an exasperated and frustrated St Peter."Ok, I can
understand how you came up with your answers to my first two questions,
but just how in the world did you come up with the name "JAH" as the
first name of God?"

"Shucks, that was the easiest one of all," Forrest replied. "I learnt it
from the song, "HalleluJah", Praise my Lords name, "HalleluJah",
St. Peter opened the Pearly Gates, and said: "Run Forrest, Run."

COOL FACT OF THE DAY...
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Who made up the word "Utopia"??

Thomas More published a book in 1516 called "Utopia." He made up the word. It referred to an imaginary land where everyone was equal and there was goodness in the people and all believed a just God. Everyone shared what he had and helped anyone who needed help. But Thomas More didn't live in any Utopia - he was ultimately punished by beheading for refusing to sign a paper that said Henry the Eighth was England's top religious authority.

WE the People CAN celebrate our 1st United States Constitution Day - Sept 17, 2006

The National Archives celebrates the United States Constitution this month with public programming and with a special family event on Constitution Day—September 17.

The original document continues to be safely preserved and displayed in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building. Parts of the building, however—including the new William G. McGowan Theater—were badly damaged by flooding that occurred this past June. Repairs are under way, but the theater will not be ready in time for this month’s programs.

Our neighbors at the United States Navy Memorial have generously donated the use of their Arleigh and Roberta Burke Theater, in the Memorial’s Naval Heritage Center, for the programs below.

The Memorial, which honors the men and women of the United States Navy—past, present, and future—is located on Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 9th Streets, across the street from the National Archives Building. It is open to the public Monday–Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. For more information, call 202-737-2300 or visit www.navymemorial.org.


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Thursday, September 14, at 7 p.m.
Arleigh and Roberta Burke Theater
United States Navy Memorial
Students’ Right to Free Speech

A Constitution Day Partnership Program with the Newseum
In 1965, Mary Beth Tinker, her brother John, and their friend Christopher Eckhard wore black armbands to school to honor the dead on both sides of the Vietnam War. They were suspended under a new policy banning armbands at school. Lower courts supported the policy. However, in the 1969 ruling Tinker v. Des Moines, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the students, saying that students do not “shed their constitutional rights when they enter the schoolhouse door.” Although later rulings defined students’ rights more narrowly, the Tinker case remains a landmark ruling.

Where do students’ rights to free speech stand today? Join moderator Frank Bond, Newseum producer and former WUSA-TV reporter and anchor, in a discussion of student free-speech rights with Mary Beth Tinker, former student activist; Francisco Negron, general counsel for the National School Boards Association; and Mark Goodman, executive director of the Student Press Law Center. Current high school student leaders also will be part of the panel.

This program is presented in partnership with the United States Navy Memorial.


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Monday, September 18, at 7 p.m.
Arleigh and Roberta Burke Theater
United States Navy Memorial

The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency
A Constitution Day Partnership Program with Oxford University Press
How do we balance personal liberty against public safety in the face of grave national danger? Are there inevitable trade-offs, and, if so, when must we let the Constitution bend and when must we insist that it stand firm?

Are censorship measures justified in wartime that would not be justified in times of peace? Should “enemy combatants” be indefinitely detained without a hearing? Should executives be able to restrict civil liberties for reasons of national necessity, as President Lincoln did when he suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War? How can constitutional law best remain responsive to current events?

Join two of the most prominent legal scholars in the nation, Judge Richard Posner and Geoffrey R. Stone, as they debate these issues that are crucial for our time. Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Posner is the author of Not A Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency, inaugural volume in the series Inalienable Rights, a new 14-volume series from Oxford University Press. Stone, series editor, is the Harry Kalven, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and the author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Act of Sedition of 1798 to the War on Terrorism. Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States and author of The Haunted Wood, a study of espionage during the Cold War, will moderate the discussion.

This program is presented in partnership with the United States Navy Memorial.


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Constitution Day Family Celebration
Sunday, September 17, noon–3 p.m.
Happy Birthday, U.S. Constitution!
Constitution Day Family Celebration


View the film The Road from Runnymede, 1992, 57 minutes (Jefferson Room, noon and 1 p.m.)

Have a piece of birthday cake and meet President James Madison, Father of the Constitution (Washington Room, 1 p.m.–2:30 p.m.)
Meet Syl Sobel, author of The U.S. Constitution and You (Washington Room, 1 p.m.–2:30 p.m.)
Sign the Constitution (Presidential Conference Room Lobby, noon–3 p.m.)
Take a guided tour of 600 years of political struggle—from Magna Carta in 1215 to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787—in The American Constitution: The Road from Runnymede, a film for young viewers. Then join the National Archives in singing, “Happy Birthday, U.S. Constitution!” Enjoy “Constitution cake,” and talk with President Madison, the “Father of the Constitution.” Put your own signature on a facsimile of the Constitution. Chat with the author of a children’s book about the Constitution.

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Capitol Hill staffer Cathy Travis has written Constitution Translated for Kids, a book that frames the basic document of American government in easy-to-understand language. It might help some adults see the issues a bit more clearly, too.


Senator Robert C. Byrd - "Because checks and balances are necessary."

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Sen Byrd - My Son and I Thank You for your responsible and insightful leadership!

May God Bless you and our Great Nation on this day of very significant American history.

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Teen thinking ? - No Empathy? and No Guilt? Can WE NOW SEE HOW to "Help Save a Life" Today?

Teen thinking - In the study, teens and adults were asked how they would react to certain situations. As they responded, researchers imaged their brains.

The area of the brain associated with higher-level thinking, empathy, and guilt is underused by teenagers, reports a new study. When considering an action, the teenage medial prefrontal cortex, located in front of the brain, doesn't get as much action as adults.

"Thinking strategies change with age," said Sarah-Jayne Blakemore of the University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. "As you get older you use more or less the same brain network to make decisions about your actions as you did when you were a teenager, but the crucial difference is that the distribution of that brain activity shifts from the back of the brain (when you are a teenager) to the front (when you are an adult)."

Teen thinking ? - No Empathy? and No Guilt?

Although both adults and teens responded similarly to the questions, their brain activity differed. The medial prefrontal cortex was much more active in the adults than in the teens. However, the teenagers had much more activity in the superior temporal sulcus, the brain area involved in predicting future actions based on previous ones.

Adults were also much faster at figuring out how their actions would affect themselves and other people.

"We think that a teenager's judgment of what they would do in a given situation is driven by the simple question: 'What would I do?'" Blakemore said. "Adults, on the other hand, ask: 'What would I do, given how I would feel and given how the people around me would feel as a result of my actions?'"

Developing sensitivity

Children start taking into account other people's feelings around the age of five. But the ability develops well beyond this age, the new research suggests.

And while some of this sensitivity could be the result of undeveloped regions in the brain, the experience that adults [should learn to] acquire from social interactions also plays an important role.

"Whatever the reasons, it is clear that teenagers are dealing with, not only massive hormonal shifts, but also substantial neural changes," Blakemore said. "These changes do not happen gradually and steadily between the ages of 0–18. They come on in great spurts and puberty is one of the most dramatic developmental stages."

The results of the study were presented today at the BA Festival of Science in the UK. © 2006 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved.

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Can We Now See - How to TEACH THEM "Right from Wrong?"
Can We Now See - How to TEACH THEM "Honesty, Morality, and Ethics?"
Can We Now See - How to TEACH THEM "Respect for Others - not just Themselves?"
Can We Now See - How this CAN and HAS SAVED A LIFE from perishing?
Can We Now See - How to take a STAND to Protect Them thru Parental, Educational and more responsible Media Reporting and Political Leadership???

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If Everyone Cared and Never Cried
If Everyone Loved and Never Lied
If Everyone Shared and Swallowed Their Pride
We Could SEE the Day When Nobody Died

If They Could Love Like You and Me
Imagine What the World Could Be
With Our Only Light in Paradise
To Show and Teach the World to Sing
As We Lay Beneath the Stars
and Truly Realize How Small We Are

If Everyone Cared and Never Cried
If Everyone Loved and Never Lied
If Everyone Shared and Swallowed Their Pride
We Could SEE the Day When Nobody Died

If They Could Love Like You and Me
Imagine What the World Could Be

Singin' Amen We are Alive
Signin' Amen We are Alive

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Album - "ALL The Right Reasons"
Track - "If Everyone Cared"
Produced by NickelBack and Joey Moi

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Have WE Shared our LOVE for One Another Today?
Have We Shared the Truth about Shared Parenting Today?
Have We Shared the Truth about HealthCare, Freedom and Democracy Today?
Have WE TOLD the TRUTH Today?
Have WE SAVED a LIFE Today?

According to Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women:

"If there is a divorce in the family, I urge a presumption of joint custody of the children. Shared parenting is not only fair to men and children, it is the best option for women. After observing women's rights and responsibilities for more than a quarter of a century of feminist activism, I conclude that shared parenting is great for women, giving time and opportunity for female parents to pursue education, training, jobs, careers, profession and leisure. There is nothing scientific, logical or rational in excluding men or forever holding women and children as if in swaddling clothes in an eternally loving bondage. Most of us have acknowledged that women can do everything that men can do. It is time now for us to acknowledge that men can do everything women can do [in parenting of our children - equally]."

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Mars Date of Planetary Closeness Corrected - Thank You for the Alert!

PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Monday, July 28, 2003
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NEW Link to verify: http://www.marstoday.com/viewpr.html?pid=12175

Mars Moves in for Some Quality Visual Time

Living too close to a neighbor may not be very appealing, but when Earth's neighboring red planet moves closer than it's been in 50,000 years, observers expect nothing but acclaim.

This August, scientists and amateur astronomers will benefit from the spectacular view of Mars as it appears bigger and brighter than ever before, revealing its reflective south polar cap and whirling dust clouds.

On August 27, 2003, the fourth rock from the sun will be less than 55.76 million kilometers (34.65 million miles) away from the Earth. In comparison to the space between your house and your neighbor's yard, that may seem like a large distance, but Mars was about five times that distance from Earth only six months ago.

"Think of Earth and Mars as two race cars going around a track," said Dr. Myles Standish, an astronomer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Earth is on a race track that is inside the track that Mars goes around, and neither track is perfectly circular. There is one place where the two race tracks are closest together. When Earth and Mars are at that place simultaneously, it is an unusually close approach, referred to as a 'perihelic opposition'."

Opposition is a term used when Earth and another planet are lined up in the same direction from the Sun. The term perihelic comes from perihelion, the point of orbit in which a celestial body is closest to the Sun. This August, Mars will reach its perihelion and be in line with Earth and the Sun at the same time.

The average opposition occurs about every two years, when Earth laps Mars on its orbit around the Sun. In 1995, the opposition brought Mars 101.1 million kilometers (62.8 million miles) from the Earth, twice as far as this most recent approach.

"It gets more complicated as the race tracks are changing shape and size and are rotating, changing their orientation," Standish explains. "So this place where the two tracks are closest together constantly changes, changing the opposition closeness as well. This is why a 'great' approach, like the one this month, hasn't happened in 50,000 years. But with the tracks closer together now, there will be even closer approaches in the relatively near future."

Aside from visiting a local observatory, peering through a telescope is the best way to take advantage of this unique opportunity. Since June, Mars has been noticeably bright in the night's sky, only outshined by Venus and the Moon. Observers in the Northern Hemisphere will see it glowing remarkably in the southern sky in the constellation Aquarius, best seen just before dawn.

"You're not going to go outside and see some big red ball in the sky. It will look like a bright red star," said Standish.

The word 'planet' is derived from the Greek expression for 'wanderer.' At such a close distance, Mars remains true to this expectation as it consistently wanders across the night's sky. Tracking the "red star's" movement from week to week is yet another way to appreciate the opposition as Mars appears to dart across the sky in comparison to more distant planets, such as Jupiter.

Although Mars will be closest on August 27, astronomers suggest viewing the planet earlier, as dust storm season is just beginning on the red planet and can obstruct a more detailed view.

Whether you are viewing through a telescope, glancing through a pair of binoculars, or star-gazing outside the city, be sure to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, for Mars will not make another neighborly visit this close until 2287.

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I feel I may have been a little mis-lead by the source but the 2006 anniversary of this information was not meant to be any great mis-understanding?

Thank you for sharing it with me and my son - always,
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The 7 wonders of the ancient world - MARS closer to EARTH on this Special Day!

The 7 wonders of the ancient world are:

The Temple of Artemis,
The Colossus of Rhodes,
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon,
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus,
The Lighthouse at Alexandria,
The Great Pyramids of Giza, and
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia.

A Complete Listing of WORLD WONDERS - http://www.wonderclub.com/AllWorldWonders.html
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It isn't sufficient just to want. WE must ask ourself, "What am I going to do to get the things I want?"

Always bridge the gap between where you are now and the place you intend to be in the future.

A strong resolution to succeed will be more important than anything else.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as they please. There is no such thing as mere chance.

WE must be willing to take that first step. and when we take it remember that with God's help WE can do anything we set our minds to, or that WE wish to do, and have anything WE wish to have, and be anything WE wish to be.

WE must look at things as they can be as in the end.
WE can only fail - if WE never ever try to succeed - in doing the right thing for others - not just for ourselves.
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Happy Birthday Dane -

I love you more than you may ever know. On this day please always remember that the planet MARS was closer to our Planet EARTH than ever before in human recorded history.

This was from Me to You
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PBS Documentary on Family Law to Be Aired - BRAVO PBS!

PBS Documentary on Family Law to Be Aired

The documentary on family law which PBS promised after our Campaign Against PBS's Father-Bashing Breaking the Silence is called Kids & Divorce: For Better or Worse, and it will be airing on PBS affiliates in mid-September.

PBS broadcast the anti-father documentary Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories on many of its affiliates last October. The film accused family courts of anti-mother bias, attacked Parental Alienation Syndrome, and portrayed divorced dads seeking shared custody as batterers and child molesters aiming to steal children from their mothers. The film was extremely one-sided, and presented a harmful and inaccurate view of divorce and child custody cases.

Working with Fathers and Families, the American Coalition for Fathers & Children and others, we organized a campaign against the film, and over 10,000 of you called or wrote PBS to protest. Our demand was that "PBS provide fatherhood and shared parenting advocates a meaningful opportunity to present our side."

The campaign generated considerable media attention and controversy, and both PBS's ombudsman and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's ombudsman expressed sympathy with many of our aims.

In November we made the bombshell announcement that one of the women profiled as a heroic mom in the film had been found culpable of multiple acts of child abuse by a California Juvenile court. While the film claims that the mother lost custody of the daughter because of the father's legal machinations, in reality the Juvenile court transferred custody to the father to protect the girl.

In December PBS issued a statement saying they would commission an hour-long documentary to examine the issues raised in the film and by our campaign. PBS said that "plans call for the documentary to be produced and broadcast in Spring 2006" and that the "hour-long treatment of the subject will allow ample opportunity" for those of differing views to "have their perspectives shared, challenged and debated." We commended PBS for understanding our concerns and taking action to address the situation.

In April PBS filmed and interviewed Fathers & Families members. PBS describes Kids & Divorce: For Better or Worse as follows:

"Millions of American families are affected by divorce. Divorce and its aftermath generate strong emotions, sometimes influencing children into rebellion and bad behavior. By profiling several children and parents going through a divorce, the program explores how divorce affects children, how parents can lessen the negative effects and the efforts to reform how the way custody decisions are made."


Where the New PBS Film Is Airing

Just as Breaking the Silence did not air on some PBS stations, Kids & Divorce won't either. However, if you know of an airing of Kids & Divorce which is not listed, please email us or leave us your positive comments.

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Principle-Centered Leadership - "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

In this guidebook to personal fulfillment and professional success through "principle-centered leadership," the author of the best-selling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People invites readers to center their lives and leadership around timeless principles. He shows how no person or organization can be content to stay where they are -- how the goals of excellence and total quality express an innnate human need for progress in personal, interpersonal, and organizational life. Truly effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships according to principles -- natural laws and governing values that are universally valid. Leadership is the ability to apply these principles to problems, resulting in quality, productivity, profitability, and win-win relationships.

Drawing on 25 years of teaching and consulting, Stephen Covey writes about the key to managing expectations, the six conditions of effectiveness, and the patterns of organizational excellence. He explains how nothing fails like success, how to understand people's potential rather than just their behavior, and how to "manage from the left, lead from the right." With integrity, sensitivity, and insights that made The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People a nationwide best-seller, Principle-Centered Leadership demonstrates how lifelong learning can empower relationships at work and at home.

Principle-Centered Leadership will help you resolve these dilemmas and many others:

How do we achieve and maintain a wise and renewing balance between work and family and between professional and personal areas of life, in the middle of constant pressures and crises?

How do we unleash the creativity, talent, and energy of the vast majority of the work force, whose jobs neither reguire nor reward such resources?

How do we create team spirit and harmony among people and departments that have been attacking and criticizing each other for years, while contending for scarce resources, playing political games, and working from hidden agendas?

How can we realize that the choice between hardball ("tough" management that tries to force a better bottom line) and softball ("kind" management that hopes for a better bottom line) is transcended by a third alternative that is both tougher and kinder?

How can we have a culture characterized by change, flexibility, and continuous improvement and still maintain a sense of stability and security?

How do we get people and culture aligned with strategy, so that everyone in an organization is as committed to the strategy as those who formulated it?

How can all people at all levels of an organization internalize the principles of total quality and continuous improvement when they are so cynical, fatigued, and disillusioned with all the past "programs of the month"?

How can we create a complementary team based on mutual respect when so few value diversity and pluralism?

How do we turn a mission statement into a constitution -- the supreme guiding force of an entire organization -- instead of nebulous, meaningless, and cynicism-inducing platitudes?

How do we maintain control, yet give people the freedom and autonomy they need to be effective and fulfilled in thier work?

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My Sincerest Thanks to Everyone as Together WE CAN Help others to Achieve the Impossible...

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"Together - We Can Continue to Make a Difference - Everyday!"

Isn't it TIME we NOW show Forgiveness - as Continued Hatred for One Another will never Succeed in the End?

"We CAN ALL Start Changing Lives for the Better Everyday for our children!"

"Together We Can Make a Difference - and - already Have "Saved Lives" in the Family Law System...and around the World...!"

"Thank you for listening, for doing the right thing to help, and for Saving a Life from being injured needlessly...as this is what truly matters...and always has!"

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Isn't it TIME we NOW show forgiveness for those individual(s) or
movement(s) which have the Nations' best interest and the right motive(s) in mind...

Isn't it TIME we NOW show that we wish to help those trying to help resolve these LIFE SAVING issues, and will never wish that another human being (parent or child) is ever hurt by the present system again?

Isn't it TIME we NOW show ALL are fairly treated "as is guaranteed by our Constitution" for ALL Persons equally under the law, without discrimination - hatred - and/or with malice and aforethought to intentionally damage (financially) or injure (emotionally) another child or parent - anymore...?

Can WE NOW SEE and Can WE NOW HEAR the tears of our nations children and those who have done nothing wrong but share their thoughts and case stories and the legal issues openly and honestly before the MEDIA, our State / Federal Political Leadership, and the American People of our GREAT NATION?

Can WE Pardon Them from any further continued attack(s) on their right to preserve our Constitution which has always guaranteed "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" with their children?

Can WE truly show we CARE about Peace, Joy and LOVE toward our children and our fellow man ALL YEAR round - not just during the annual Christmas Season?

I believe WE CAN Make this a NEW YEARS Resolution for ALL to SEE and WITNESS!
Don't You?

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QUOTE - Earl Nightingale in 1989 once said:
"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."
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RECENT Reply in comment:

I am thinking of you and wishing you a very Happy, Healthy New Year.

I truly hope things work out for you and your son.

I also have to tell you I think the work you are doing is quite admirable.

Love,
Donna - NJ

National temperature set at ‘broil’ - Are We Watching the Weatherman?

National temperature set at ‘broil’: "Broiling temperatures in the 90s and beyond gripped large swaths of the country Monday. At least two heat-related deaths were reported."

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Can WE not See?
Can WE not Hear?
Is this not another Sign of the Times?
Is this not the TIME to share the TRUTH about LOVE for one another - Everyday?
Will We - Can We not share in saving a LIFE today?
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Do you not believe - it is now time - to make a change for LIFE...?
David thought he could slay Goliath and did!
I Thank my Lord everyday for he has saved my life.

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We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults become afraid of the light.
Plato


Keeping the Faith,

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Earth is catching up with Mars - Closest approach between the planets in Recorded History!

This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that Will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in Recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is In 2287.

Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be Certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth In the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.

The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes closest to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and Will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 And will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification.

Mars will be easy to spot. At the Beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m. And reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m. By the end of August when the two planets are Closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its Highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty convenient to see something that no human being has Seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at The beginning of August to see Mars grow Progressively brighter and brighter throughout the Month. Share this with your children and grandchildren.

IT SHOULD BE DULY NOTED THAT NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS planetary alignment AGAIN in HISTORY.

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My son, Dane was born on Aug 27, 1998 in St Petersburg, FL and now resides in Bethel, CT? Could this all be just an astronomical coincidence? I am sure it must be...:)

Thank you for alerting me about this stellar event in history...:)

My only wish is that we could all be closer to one another and share in more LOVE and in the TRUTH - with ALL - who mean the most to US - everyday.

Contributed by: Montero - http://www.monterothesource.com

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Is Our US Government Engaging in a Social Experiment?

Q: Isn't Being a Good Parent a "Constitutional Right to Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness?"

A: Congress is setting aside up to $100 million a year to promote marriage and $50 million a year to produce committed fathers!


WASHINGTON - Ron McLain has no qualms about the federal government getting involved in marriage. Indeed, he’s counting on it. McLain has applied for a $550,000 federal grant to hire counselors for Marriage Mentoring Ministries Inc., a tiny business in Fresno County, Calif., that helps couples before and after they exchange wedding vows. He also has a bid in for a $250,000 grant to teach men to become better fathers.

“The market is obviously very ripe for this with the divorce rate as high as it is, and obviously couples want a good marriage,” said McLain, who oversees the organization along with his wife, Joan. They specialize in training couples to mentor other couples, with many of the classes taking place at local churches.

The grant money represents the latest shift in welfare reform in the United States. For the next five years, Congress is setting aside up to $100 million a year to promote marriage and $50 million a year to produce committed fathers. This year’s allotment goes out before Sept. 30.

Programs aimed at prevention
Supporters say that if the government can get more low-income parents to tie the knot and help them work through the rough spots that inevitably occur, then those families are less likely to need federal assistance in later years.

“Children who grow up in healthy, stable, married households don’t wake up one day and decide they want to run away to Hollywood and become street prostitutes,” said Wade Horn, the Bush administration’s point man for welfare reform. “Couples in a healthy, stable married relationship don’t come home one day and decide they want to abuse their children.

This, in my view, is an exercise in limited government.”

Others see the government as engaging in a social experiment with scarce resources they say would be better put elsewhere.

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., says the Republican-backed program is like a city filling potholes right before the next mayor’s race. Only this time, the administration is reaching out to religious groups.

“This is one of those real strange things they get involved in where they say they want small government and they say they want to get government out of people’s lives. Then they go try to find two high school kids and use some money to encourage them to get married,” McDermott said.

Proponents see no conflict
But Rep. Wally Herger, R-Calif., said children in one-parent households are seven times more likely to live in poverty than those in two-parent households. Yet, more and more children are being raised in broken homes, which leads to more spending on welfare and other government programs, he said.

“It’s amazing to me how anyone can find this controversial,” Herger said. “Being a parent of nine children myself, it’s tough enough to raise children when there’s two parents, let alone when there’s just one mother, totally alone, trying to raise a child.”

David Fein, a demographer who has conducted extensive research on marriage and the poor, said getting low-income couples to marry is not the hard part.

“They actually marry at the same rate as more affluent people. The problem is, subsequently, their marriages are much more fragile,” he said.

There are various reasons for that fragility, but financial stresses and strains play a part. At the same time, the poor don’t have the same ability as wealthier Americans to get help when their marriage needs it, he said.

But Fein’s point underscores that seminars on conflict resolution and learning to say you’re sorry won’t solve the problem entirely.

“Fortunately, the people who have developed these policies are not arguing that all you have to do is help people learn better relationship skills,” he said.

Money already at work
The federal government has provided some money in recent years to promote marriage, an average of about $14 million annually during the past four years, said Horn, the assistant secretary for children and families in the Department of Health and Human Services.

Marriage Mentoring Ministries, which works with church groups, already has obtained one grant for $50,000, which McLain used to hire a part-time employee and to purchase a computer and printer as well as other supplies. He used the equipment to make thousands of leaflets about the benefits of marriage.

McLain hopes the larger grants will allow his organization to reach minority communities. He likes welfare’s expanded emphasis on marriage, especially what it can do for children.

“When they watch mom and dad ... resolving their conflicts and having a normal relationship, they’ll be better able to carry that on in their relationship when they start dating and get married,” he said.

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ISN'T IT NOW TIME our Children finally See and Hear the TRUTH from their Parents - about LOVE and RESPECT - not Hate - for One Another - and possibly be what has been missing from so many Domestic, International and Global relationships over the last 100 years?

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Recent MsNBC Questions: A GoodWill Hunting Story?

A number of people have suggested thinking differently, ending bickering and/or fostering [global] cooperation?

Recently Officials at the University of Cambridge, where Stephen Hawking is a mathematics professor, confirmed that Hawking wrote a message but said he would have no further comment. Hawking's question: "In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"

Hawking's groundbreaking research on black holes and the origins of the universe has made him one of the best-known theoretical physicists of his generation. Author of the global best seller "A Brief History of Time," Hawking is known for proposing that space and time have no beginning and no end - [but human life always will].

Lately, he's been pondering about the fate of [the] human [race].

In a June 13 speech in Hong Kong, Hawking said the survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth.

He said that if humans can avoid killing themselves in the next 100 years, they should have space settlements that can continue without support from Earth.

Hawking is one of 10 celebrity questioners Yahoo solicited as part of its "Ask The Planet" campaign. The Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet company spent weeks trying to track

Hawking down but got his participation within a day of reaching the correct assistant, said Patrick Crane, vice president of marketing for Yahoo Search. The question was submitted a few days before the Hong Kong speech and posted this past Wednesday.

Over the next week, Yahoo employees are expected to work with Hawking to sift through the answers and select one or several to highlight as best responses.

Yahoo Answers, like an offering from Google Inc. and one planned by Microsoft Corp., is among the services aimed at tapping the collective intelligence. It's based on the premise that humans as a group can do a better job at finding information than machines or any single person can.

Anyone can ask or answer a question, regardless of expertise, although Yahoo will eventually implement a rating system meant to elevate users with better reputations, based on their past [experience] in asking [meaningful questions] and getting [solid meaningful] answers [from those with the political will, finances and a global super power willing to help to make it happen].

Past celebrity participants include Donald Trump, Isaiah Washington, Al Gore and "Click & Clack," the hosts of NPR's "Car Talk." U2 lead singer Bono closed the celebrity series Friday by asking, "What can we do to make poverty and the destruction of family unity history?"

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Welcome to the Governor's Ex-Offender Taskforce - ARE NOT non-custodial Mom's and Dad's in need of the Same Protections in our Society Today?

THE LAND OF THE SECOND CHANCE

One State recently announced a NEW program - Florida is committed to the ideal of America being the land of second chances, as expressed by the President of the United States who declared: "When the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."

There are currently 86,000 inmates in Florida's prisons, of which over 26,000 are expected to be released within the coming year.

Successful reentry and reintegration in one's community is a matter of critical import to the public's safety.

Without successful re-entry into one's community, recidivism is likely to occur, to the great detriment to the public safety, Florida's communities, families, taxpayers, and individual ex-offenders.

There is hereby created the Governor's Ex-Offender Task Force formed to help improve the effectiveness of the State of Florida in facilitating the re-entry of ex-offenders into their communities so as to reduce the incidence of recidivism.

Governors' Charge to the Task Force:

1. Identify barriers to successful reentry - legal, policy, structural, organizational, and practical barriers to successful reentry.
2. Recommend reforms that will eliminate barriers to successful reentry
3. Recommend implementation strategies.
4. Recommend measures to assess the effectiveness of the reforms.

THE NEXT TASK FORCE MEETING:

Monday, June 26 at the Quorum Hotel in Tampa, FL from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

The Ex-offender Re-entry Summit sponsored by the US Attorney's Office and Abe Brown Ministries on June 27-28

BRAVO - You are seeing and listening to the TRUTH!
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Can the Family LAW Legal System be made easier Legally too...YES!

"ONLY when we truly start to help one another - we will in the end - ultimately - help ourselves."

"We are all human, none of us perfect, prone to making mistakes. But it is how we as a people re-act to them and help expose these basic human rights violations, if not, correct them, and modify those unethical acts...that truly matter." SRene2005

"What is Our Deepest Fear? Could it be That by Helping Others it might lead to a more loving and understanding society built on equality regardless of gender, creed, race or religion in honor of our US Constitution?" SRene2005

"Ask Not - What WE can do to only help ourselves - today?
Ask instead - What WE CAN ALL do to HELP one another share in Saving a LIFE - today.

It Starts One Person at a Time
But will - in the END - Multiply One Hundred Fold
If We Together will only TRY to Share Our LOVE with others - Everyday!" SRene2005

The Weather Man - In this FILM - Cage's character debates his professional versus his personal issues and by doing so turns his FATE and LIFE into a relative success - in the end...!
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Can WE NOW SEE that by Sharing and Saving Lives - WE CAN and WILL Succeed in showing the WORLD WE CAN LOVE and not teach hate TO OUR Children - as this is the only way WE WILL Survive and Live Together - Domestically, Globally and Internationally - in the future! SRene2005

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What America is Historically ALL About - A Great 4th of July Story

What America has been Historically ALL About is LOVE, Life and Living in FREEDOM and the Pursuit of Happiness – Everyday!

(by Rob Stafford, MsNBC - Dateline correspondent)

As I drove the long winding road into the small logging town of Darrington, Washington, I worried about the little boy I was about to profile. Seth Cook has progeria, a rare premature-aging disease that is terminal. I thought about my own kids and how I would react to such a dire diagnosis. And I was concerned that if Seth sensed any apprehension on my part, I would hurt his feelings and that was the last thing I wanted to do.

Then I met Seth and he was not the boy I expected. Yes, like all children with progeria, he is frail and tiny. Seth stands just three feet tall and weighs only 25 pounds —the size of an average 2 or 3-year-old. But as soon as he spoke, I was struck by his confidence, strength and above all his optimism. Right away, he put me at ease — and I'm supposed to be the one making him feel comfortable. Soon Seth was showing me around town where it's clear he's the smallest big man on campus.

Everyone knows Seth.

We played with his dog in the park, took a stroll through the woods and he whopped me at one of his favorite video games. Seth loves to laugh and he laughs a lot. I wondered how could anyone facing Seth's future be so happy? Perhaps, I thought, his parents had sheltered him from the reality of his fate. Actually, I found that Patti and Kyle Cook have been very honest with their son. The Cooks have a strong faith and have given their son a double dose of unconditional love that seems to have prepared him for everything.

I didn't want to ask Seth about death, but he brought it up. "I can't wait to get to heaven," he said as though it were the coolest summer camp a kid could imagine. "What do you think heaven is like?" I asked. Seth replied, "I'm gonna go fishing with the Lord. Fishing for Swedish Fish and hunting Gummy Bears and chocolate rabbits. It's guaranteed that you catch at least 10 fish a day." But enough talking, Seth wanted to play some more so we did. Seth is a boy in a hurry and he doesn't waste a second.

While you might think Seth's story is about dying — it's really all about living and making the most of the life you've been given. I arrived in Darrington worried about saying the wrong thing to a boy with a terrible disease and left wanting to spend more time with one of the wisest persons I've ever met…

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From another interview Rob wrote:

"If you can learn anything from this, it's to hold the people that are close to you and keep them close. Tell them you love them because you never know what's going to happen."

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After the interview, I was supposed to fly back to work in New York. Instead I decided to rent a car and drive to my hometown in New Hampshire. I visited my family that night and caught a flight in the morning.

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson)

ONCE UPON A TIME...
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July 4, 1776 The US Declaration of Independence was approved by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Declaration sought to influence public opinion to support independence from England, and to gain support from foreign powers, particularly France. The document was drafted by Thomas Jefferson, considered one of the strongest and most eloquent writers of the Continental Congress.

July 4, 1845 Writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau went to live in a shack adjacent to Walden Pond, Massachusetts. During his two-year stay he kept a journal of his thoughts and encounters with nature. His journal became the basis for "Walden," one of the most important treasures of US literature.

(Contributed by Lowell Merklin - Daily Mentor - FL)

Happy Independence Day !!! Semper Fi...

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Have WE Shared The Truth – Today?
Have WE Shared in Saving a Life – Today?
"We CAN Everyday - If Together WE will only TRY - It is in ALL of Us"

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Nicolas Cage Gives $2M for Child Soldiers

Another PRIME Example of Those who are "Watching and Listening" to the Need to Help Others domestically and globally - which "will in the end actually Help" our Children - in the Future.

BRAVO - Nick!

Jun 29, 4:17 PM EST

LOS ANGELES -- Nicolas Cage has donated $2 million to help former child soldiers worldwide. The donation by the Oscar-winning actor will help provide shelters and medical and psychological rehabilitation services, said Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA.

Cox accepted the donation Wednesday at a United Nations Conference in New York. Amnesty International will administer the funds.

"I understand that this pledge is not a solution for the problem," Cage, 42, said when he announced the contribution by video.

"It's my hopeful wish that today's discussions on this tragic subject at the United Nations conference may bring us closer to eradicating the nightmare of child soldiers."

Cage said he has worked with Amnesty International for more than two years.

The United Nations estimates there are at least 300,000 child soldiers participating in armed conflicts in the world today.

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'The Weather Man' Stills
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Can WE NOW SEE that by Sharing and Saving Lives - WE CAN and WILL Succeed in showing the WORLD WE CAN LOVE and not teach hate - as the only way WE WILL Survive and Live Together - Domestically, Globally and Internationally!


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Powering up Tomorrowland - Dreams Do Come True with urban Wi-Fi — and Anaheim!

In the past decade Garry Betty has experimented with just about every possible way of connecting his customers to the Internet — and wiped $1 billion of his shareholders' capital off the balance sheet in the process. But now the chief executive of Earthlink says he sees a way to take his revenge on the giant rivals who have long beaten him bloody.

In Anaheim, Calif. Earthlink has attached little white boxes to 1,500 traffic lights. At the end of the month Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle will cut a ceremonial wire, turning on those boxes and powering up America's first big-city Wi-Fi network, which will offer residents high-speed wireless Web access across Anaheim for $22 per month.

While many cities have fought bitter public battles over building urban Wi-Fi networks — phone and cable companies loathe the idea of the cut-rate competition — Anaheim is about to become the first major-league city to do it.

For More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13503419/

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This was a great suggestion made on MsNBC for New Orleans and other areas hit hard by Katrina, as well as, other major huricanes last year. It may very well have saved some lives by providing LOW COST internet related vehicles to help others "learn. communicate and earn more online" than ever before - in support of their families and their children - everyday.

A Special Thanks to The Wash Post, MsNBC, Google and Yahoo for watching and in keeping the Faith in the mantra - "Doing Unto Others - Can and Does Help Save Lives - Everyday."

Have We Shared OUR LOVE for The Truth with Others Today?
Have We SAVED a Life - Today?

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Google and Dell, eBay and Yahoo - New Era of Collaborative Partners in Competition?

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Google and Dell, eBay and Yahoo…Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, and Meg Whitman, eBay CEO, concur on the attractiveness of [NEW] partnerships for [positive future internet] growth and both give thumbs up to the new era of collaborative competition. Plus, Whitman speaks to Schmidt (a Princeton classmate) "several times a month."


Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, 5/31/06, investor conference call:

"We much prefer the partnership approach….partner whose incentives are with ours. We work together. They improve their product, we get the benefit. The customer sees a more integrated solution. So there’s a lot of reasons to think that the structure of the industry going forward will have a lot of these kinds of deals. We are trying to do the best deals, we think we have the strongest product in the space. So now is a great time to sign those deals. Of course, the partners always have the opportunity to switch partners if they become dissatisfied with us, and vice versa. So it keeps everybody on their toes as well…the answer is partnerships."


Meg Whitman, eBay CEO, “Ebay cautious on web mergers”, 6/18/06, Financial Times:

"I think the most interesting thing about the last couple of years is this, you know, cooperation and competition. You know, we compete with Yahoo, and we now have a very big partnership with them.

I think in the old days, when I was growing up in business, you never did anything with a competitor. You know, when I was at Hasbro, we didn’t do a lot with Mattel. When I was at Proctor & Gamble, we didn’t do much with Colgate. But it’s a different world.

So we struck this very big deal with Yahoo, and then a week later they invested in our largest competitor in Korea. I don’t’ know - I think it’s sort of the New World Order, and I knew it was happening and it didn’t really bother me. You know, Google is another example. Google is a very important part of our strategic alliances and we do a lot with them. But, you know, they're also going to compete with us in a number of areas."

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BUT Will ANY of these Big Muli-Billion Dollar Companies extend a hand to HELP the other Smaller Online Internet Companies wishing to do "No Evil" and Needing Their Partnership and Colboration Too?

Will Not Wall Street and the MEDIA be Watching to SEE and HEAR what heppens next?
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HAPPY "PARENTS" DAY - Weekend Good News

NEW YORK — Internet search leader Google is testing a system that aims to speed purchases online but bears no resemblance to the popular PayPal payments service of Web auctioneer eBay, Google's chief executive said Thursday. Analysts had recently speculated whether Google would directly compete with PayPal, dubbing its potential new service "GBuy." Google has not yet announced details of such a service or given it a name. But Google CEO Eric Schmidt provided limited details about the system Thursday. The company's payment system will aim to facilitate quicker purchases by a consumer from a marketer, and a beta version is expected soon, he said.

"It's not like PayPal at all," Schmidt said when asked about "GBuy" during a New York meeting hosted by Conde Nast's new Portfolio business magazine.

"It makes no sense for us to go into businesses that are occupied by existing leaders," he said. "We want to solve new problems in the payments space."
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"Will Google "Do No Evil" and truly try to help those less fortunate than themselves - when the "current #2 Online Auction Company" is being targeted by the 2 Internet Giants trying to get into bed together and "Monopolize the Auction industry?"

Yahoo! and eBay ----- TEAM UP?

Two Internet bellwethers team up in a "best of breed" partnership.
Even bellwethers know when to swallow their pride and flash a little flexibility. Just ask Yahoo!(Nasdaq: YHOO) and eBay(Nasdaq: EBAY), who have announced a strategic alliance that will showcase their respective core strengths on both sites. Now they have a chance to analyze each company's offerings and drum up a "best of breed" solution that, if successful, will make [other online auctions] matter a little less.

Link to this story: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12972782/from/ET/

"Stay tuned as Wall Street and the Media are Watching to SEE what will happen next?"
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I just wanted to say thank you to ALL OLA NEW Founding Members who are signing up others as NEW Founding Members - too! WE Welcome YOU ALL this Fathers Day 2006 and May your Experience on OLA be a very POSITIVE, Prosperous and Fruitful one. So many ARE now showing they are willing to share this with others across the NATION.

YES - WE CAN clearly NOW SEE how many really want to HELP all of US succeed in helping one another, and by doing so, help US ALL to succeed in a SINGLE Common Goal!

YES - WE CAN clearly NOW SEE that by working together, WE CAN someday become the #1 Online Auction Company used by more people in and around the World - than any other!

Anything is Possible if WE Together Remember that We CAN make Dreams Come TRUE - Everyday!

WE ALL really (do) matter! Thank You - everyone - who wishes to be involved with US in this tremendous positive effort to help others - not just ourselves!

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QUOTES OF THE DAY
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the Appellation." --George Washington

Get a good idea and stay with it.
Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right.
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We CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING.

We can have anything on earth that We want,
once you mentally accept the fact that We can have it.

If We want success, begin thinking of yourself as a success.
The feeling of being successful has to come first.

If We have a deep inner conviction that We will always have all that We need,
if We actually feel prosperous, it will be so.

The only thing that stands between Us and what We ALL want from life
is simply the will to pursue it and the faith to believe that it is possible to achieve.

Only OUR mind sets Our limits.

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Can We N.O.W. Help those LESS fortunate - together - side by side - hand in hand...?

Isn't it TIME we start to work together N.O.W. to show forgiveness for those individual(s) or movement(s) which have the Nations' best interest and the right motive(s) in mind...

Isn't it TIME we start to work together N.O.W. to show that we wish to help those trying to help resolve these LIFE SAVING issues, and will never wish that another human being (parent or child) is ever hurt by the present system again?

Isn't it TIME we start to work together N.O.W. and honestly show that in the future ALL are fairly treated by our Family Law System "as is guaranteed by our Constitution" for ALL Persons equally under the law; without discrimination - hatred - and/or with mailice and aforethought; to intentionally damage (financially) or injure (emotionally) another child or parent - anymore...?

Can WE NOW SEE and Can WE NOW HEAR the tears of our nations children and those who have done nothing wrong but share their thoughts and case stories and the legal issues openly and honestly before the MEDIA, our State / Federal Political Leadership, and the American People of our GREAT NATION?

Can We N.O.W. Help those LESS fortunate than ourselves - together - side by side - hand in hand...?

CAN We Try to Always Remember:
"ALL WE NEED IS LOVE" - The Beatles - 1960's.
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House OKs new FCC indecency fines? WE Remember "Andy Griffith," "Leave IT to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" But Does Our Society Today ?

The 379-35 House vote on the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act [sends the clear message that] Congress gave notice to broadcasters Wednesday.

The National Association of Broadcasters said it would prefer to see the nation’s 13,000 radio stations and 1,700 TV stations police themselves. “The NAB position is that we think responsible self-regulation is preferable to government regulation in areas of program content,” spokesman Dennis Wharton said.

Since the 2004 Super Bowl incident, many broadcasters have voluntarily policed their broadcasts through means such as five-second delays on live broadcasts.

The legislation coming out of the Senate does not go as far as a bill sponsored by Upton that the House passed last year. That measure would have increased the maximum fine to $500,000, allowed fines for individual performers and given the FCC the authority to revoke the licenses of broadcasters fined three or more times.

The FCC has also actively responded to the increase in complaints about lewd material over the airwaves, with total fines jumping from $440,000 in 2003 to almost $8 million in 2004.

The agency recently handed down its biggest fine, $3.3 million, against more than 100 CBS affiliates that aired an episode of the series “Without a Trace” that simulated an orgy scene. That fine is now under review.

The FCC recently denied a petition of reconsideration from CBS Corp.-owned stations facing $550,000 in fines over the Janet Jackson breast-revealing incident at the 2004 Super Bowl.

Under FCC rules and federal law, radio stations and over-the-air television channels may not air obscene material at any time, and may not air indecent material between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. when children are more likely to be in the audience.

For More on this Story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13166836/

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Movies of the WEEK from Global Databank - I.M.D.B. - Have You Saved a Life Today?

Disclosure (1994)

Directed by
Barry Levinson

Writing credits (WGA)
Michael Crichton (novel)
Paul Attanasio (screenplay)

Tagline: SEX [and n.o.w. gender] is power.

Plot Outline: A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life [out of jealousy needlessly].

User Rating: 5.8/10 Stars (8,598 votes)

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Douglas .... Tom Sanders
Demi Moore .... Meredith Johnson
Donald Sutherland .... Bob Garvin
Caroline Goodall .... Susan Hendler
Roma Maffia .... Catherine Alvarez
Dylan Baker .... Philip Blackburn
Rosemary Forsyth .... Stephanie Kaplan
Dennis Miller .... Mark Lewyn


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Fatal Attraction (1987)

Directed by
Adrian Lyne


Writing credits
James Dearden (also earlier screenplay)

Tagline: SEX [or n.o.w. gender] can be equally abusive.

Plot Outline: A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family [in violation of a court order and 2003 FL Bar disciplinary action].

User Rating: 6.7/10 Stars (10,640 votes)

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Douglas .... Dan Gallagher
Glenn Close .... Alex Forrest
Anne Archer .... Beth Gallagher

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WE CAN and should SHARE our "thoughts and opinions without fear of reprisal" with those in need of help and our MORAL support - who show they can and want to save the lives of others - everyday - if given the chance to do so...

As WE continually have and will continue to show, "again and again" over the last 3-4 years - WE will always "try to do the right thing for others instead of just ourselves."

"It is in ALL of US...and shines" more brightly everyday the "light of awareness" on the problems we must N.O.W. stop and face openly with deeper understanding and insight in our country and in our society - if not for our children's Equality and future Freedom - and WE CAN do so EVERYDAY.
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According to Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women:

"If there is a divorce in the family, I urge a presumption of joint custody of the children. Shared parenting is not only fair to men and children, it is the best option for women. After observing women's rights and responsibilities for more than a quarter of a century of feminist activism, I conclude that shared parenting is great for women, giving time and opportunity for female parents to pursue education, training, jobs, careers, profession and leisure. There is nothing scientific, logical or rational in excluding men or forever holding women and children as if in swaddling clothes in an eternally loving bondage. Most of us have acknowledged that women can do everything that men can do. It is time now for us to acknowledge that men can do everything women can do [in parenting of our children - equally]."

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Happy Memorial Day Weekend - Saving Private Ryan (1998)

US Memorial Day Movie of the Week - Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Directed by
Steven Spielberg

Writing credits (WGA)
Robert Rodat (written by)

Tagline: The mission is [about saving] a man's life.

Plot Outline: Based on a World War II drama. US soldiers try to save their comrade, paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines.
User Comments: Actually it's pretty GOOD history!
User Rating: 8.3/10 Stars (124,277 votes)

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Hanks .... Captain John H. Miller
Tom Sizemore .... Sergeant Mike Horvath
Edward Burns .... Pvt. Richard Reiben
Barry Pepper .... Pvt. Daniel Jackson
Adam Goldberg .... Pvt. Stanley Mellish
Vin Diesel .... Private Adrian Caparzo
Giovanni Ribisi .... T-4 Medic Irwin Wade
Jeremy Davies .... Cpl. Timothy P. Upham
Matt Damon .... Private James Francis Ryan
Ted Danson .... Captain Fred Hamill
Paul Giamatti .... Sergeant Hill
Dennis Farina .... Lieutenant Colonel Anderson
Joerg Stadler .... Steamboat Willie
Max Martini .... Corporal Henderson (as Maximilian Martini)
Dylan Bruno .... Toynbe

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PEOPLE COME INTO YOUR LIFE FOR A REASON
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People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

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Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime. Thank you everyone for the kind thoughts and prayers - always...:)
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"Together - WE CAN SAVE LIVES - if we will only try to learn to SHARE - Everyday!"

Merger mania: Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Google ?

Merger mania: Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Google ?

Reuters has a speculative story, based on a JPMorgan Chase report, that a major tectonic plate is shifting [and] will occur among the major Internet presences.

Growth is slowing, competition is getting more fierce, and bulking up and making strategic alliances (at the expense of their competitors) is viewed as a way to defend the moat.

eBay and Yahoo, Microsoft and Yahoo may be revisited, and Google will likely sit it out, according to the report. Last night I had dinner with Andy Abramson, who speculated that Microsoft could hook up with another Seattle-based company, Amazon.

Or, how about Microsoft and eBay?
Or, AOL and …?

What's your guess about who should or will get in bed with whom?

Speculation is rife on Wall Street that a big Internet deal or alliance is in the works, with Google, Yahoo, eBay or Microsoft as possible partner--and a Yahoo-eBay partnership seen as most likely.

"A partnership or merger between eBay and Yahoo is the most strategically feasible," a report authored by analyst Imran Khan and the JPMorgan Chase Internet team said Monday.

"A combined company would have the leading position in auctions, communications, payments, graphical advertising, audience reach and geographic breadth," the report said.

Silicon Valley insiders, high-tech bankers and financial analysts are giving new credence to potential merger deals, which fly in the face of common wisdom that the Internet's rapid growth has always outweighed the logic of consolidation.

But Internet growth is slowing, and competition among the biggest companies--Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft--is intensifying.

eBay stock is down 30 percent on the year.

Yahoo is off 20 percent, and

Google down 10 percent.

Google, which nearly doubled its revenues last year, is expected to grow 62 percent this year.

eBay is seen growing 30 percent, down from 50 percent two years ago, and

Yahoo's growth is slowing at a similar pace.

eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said the company works very closely with all the major Web search providers--Google, Yahoo and Microsoft--but he declined to comment on any potential Yahoo tie-up.

eBay is one of the world's biggest buyers of Web search terms. It manages a portfolio of 15 million keywords on different search sites aimed at wooing bidders.

"We don't comment on rumors and speculation," Durzy said. "We are talking to Yahoo and other companies all the time as part of our normal course of business."

Yahoo was not immediately available to comment.

The 56-page JPMorgan report weighs other scenarios, including the possibility that Microsoft's MSN Internet unit would strike a partnership with Yahoo. Google is viewed as likely to sit out big mergers and continue to go it alone, Imran argues, a view that many Wall Street analysts share.

Investors worry that gains by these companies are likely to come at the expense of one another, rather than through Internet expansion, driving shares down this year.

Microsoft shares are off 12 percent so far in 2006, hit by product delays as well as a recent move by the company to step up investment to better compete with Google and Yahoo.

Market share gains by Google are most frequently said to be driving the talk of partnerships or mergers.

On May 3, The Wall Street Journal carried a story that Microsoft's MSN unit was planning a stop-Google strategy by seeking to buy a stake in Yahoo.

Last week, Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel confirmed that his company had been approached by Microsoft to buy a piece of Yahoo's search business. He ruled out a deal for what he viewed as a centerpiece of Yahoo's strategy to sell Web advertising.

"I will not sell a piece of search--it is like selling your right arm while keeping your left; it does not make any sense," Semel said in a public forum in New York last week, where he was interviewed by The New Yorker writer Ken Auletta.

He dismissed an outright merger between Microsoft and Yahoo, saying, "That conversation has never come up."

"For me, the most interesting alignment would be putting together Yahoo and eBay," analyst Scott Devitt of brokerage Stifel Nicolaus said, but he cautioned: "These things tend to be discussed often and rarely occur."

The strengths of Yahoo and eBay are seen as complementary, with Yahoo in media and eBay in e-commerce.

Yahoo's foreign strength is in Asia, and eBay's is in Europe.

The most compelling scenario is an alliance where eBay uses Yahoo search to drive consumers to eBay auctions, Devitt said.

In return, Yahoo could take advantage of assets such as eBay's PayPal online payments franchise and the vast Skype Web telephone audience that eBay has acquired, he said.

eBay must tread carefully, however, so that it does not cut off ties to Google. The online auctioneer depends on Google search referrals for an increasing amount of its audience.

"I don't particularly find eBay in a position of power," Devitt said. "eBay needs its relationship with Google."

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USA Today Does a Triple Play - the GOOD NEWS is?

Nasdaq feels pain of trampled tech stocks
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Pity the poor tech-stock investor. While the market in general had a dreadful day Wednesday and has been struggling for two weeks, the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite has had a bummer month and year. It's down 7.4% since mid-April and dipping into its lowest levels since December.


Parents are tech- savvier
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Parents are learning that if they want teens to communicate with them, they need to keep up with the technology whether it's MySpace and instant messaging or cellphone texting and multi-player computer games. Parents who embrace the new technologies are learning that kids are willing to communicate on their own terms.


Students tune in through film
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A recent C-SPAN-sponsored contest, StudentCam, encouraged young people to create and submit 10-minute documentaries on issues as diverse as video-game violence and wiretapping. All winning documentaries also can be viewed on the Web at StudentCam.org.

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CAN WE TELL the TRUTH in America today?
WE Truly CAN - if WE will only
Let Our Light Shine...Honestly...and Ethically.
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Happy Mothers Day - Helping Those With Mental Handicaps or Illness?

From the Wash Post - April 23 - editorial section:

[Some still to this day are using the] "Insanity Offense" [as it was] used by a recent Supreme Court case to argue that our health and legal systems prevent the mentally ill or handicapped from getting treatment before they commit crimes and then treat them as criminals after they do.

In the District, the Ervin Act balances the rights of the individual with the interests of society by providing mental health services for those in need and protecting the safety of the community. The act provides for the Commission on Mental Health of the D.C. Superior Court, a three-person panel that holds hearings on every referred case of an alleged mentally ill person who is likely to be dangerous as a result of the illness.

As is "not always the case" in Family Law: "All parties are given a thorough hearing while represented by lawyers."

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There is always a best way of doing everything. Find it - Embrace it.
True greatness comes from being great in even the samllest of things.

If you will only try, you can always do a little more each day.
Manytimes it can be more than you think you possibly can.

It will be in your constant effort to be first-class in everything you attempt to do that will help you and others conquer the heights of success - like David and Goliath of ancient times.

When you do more than the average ind your progress multiplies itself out in exact proportion to the effort you put into something. Neg words and deeds equal the same in return - but pos words and deeds can yield so much more.

Always do more than you're supposed to do and you can have,
become or achieve anything you want in spite of impossible odds against you.

If you truly want enduring success try to think positvely about others, be honest with your spouse, family and others in your community by sharing a little more than most - in advance of the rest of the world.

"Together" we can take on a giant system and have the will to win what is right and good - like David and Goliath of ancient times.

Our efforts to simply expose the truth for and about gender equality - not bashing - one another... truly can change lives for the better - everyday.

We can together share our lives, and "love for our neighbor."

Can WE show others "how this is truly about helping those less fortunate than ourselves" - and as we do - that it will ultimately help those in our society needing it? Do so for our children and families - and ALL those future generations - who truly CAN SEE and HEAR the truth about - and by example lead with unselfish love and respect for one another - in every way.

If you have something nice to say about someone share it with others...
If you can't find something nice to say - then keep it to yourself...
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May 14, 1897: Stars and Stripes Forever John Philip Sousa's march "The Stars and Stripes Forever" premiered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The occasion was the unveiling of a statue of George Washington. In 1985, a bill was introduced in Congress to make "The Stars and Stripes Forever" the official national march of the US Military.

Pacific Current Is Weakening - Could This be a Sign of Times to Come?

NEWSWire - Pacific Current Is Weakening - Could This be a Sign of Times to Come?
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A 10,000-mile air circulation pattern over the Pacific Ocean is getting weaker, threatening to shut down the easterly trade winds and starve fish, a new study said.

The most likely cause of the decline of the current, known as the Walker circulation, is human activity, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Miami said in today's edition of the journal Nature.

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Track of the Week - New Release
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If Everyone Cared and Never Cried
If Everyone Loved and Never Lied
If Everyone Shared and Swallowed Their Pride
We Could SEE the Day When Nobody Died

If They Could Love Like You and Me
Imagine What the World Could Be
With Our Only Light in Paradise
To Show and Teach the World to Sing
As We Lay Beneath the Stars
and Truly Realize How Small We Are

If Everyone Cared and Never Cried
If Everyone Loved and Never Lied
If Everyone Shared and Swallowed Their Pride
We Could SEE the Day When Nobody Died

If They Could Love Like You and Me
Imagine What the World Could Be

Singin' Amen We are Alive
Signin' Amen We are Alive

NickelBack - "ALL The Right Reasons"
Produced by NickelBack and Joey Moi
"If Everyone Cared"
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When Lightning Strikes - Can WE Share our "Light and our Love" w/ the World?

-----------Man killed in Fla. when lightning strikes
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A man was fatally struck by lightning while talking to his neighbor about the coming hurricane season. Harold Bennett, 65, was standing outside his home when he was hit in the head about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, said neighbor Judy Thompson.
“It was like somebody had shot him,” Thompson said. “The lightning went right through him ... It was horrible.”

It was lightly raining when Bennett was taking the garbage outside and spotted Thompson rearranging furniture.

“He always liked to talk any chance he got, and he asked me if I was moving,” Thompson said. “I said I was just clearing out the back for hurricane season.”

The two were standing about 25 feet apart. Thompson was not hurt.

Can WE SEE how precious a life can be...Can WE SHARE our sympathy when it is needed?

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PORTLAND, OR - Two weeks after police have credited [a homeless man] with saving the life of one of their own, he is still there, in the parking lot, downplaying his actions as police drive by every so often to offer thanks or donations.

Bret Smith, the commander of Northeast Precinct, where Off Tobey is assigned on the graveyard shift, hopes to find Whitman [some] transitional housing - another way of showing gratitude. "He deserves that and anything else we can do for him," Smith said.

Off Tobey said "he could not find words that expressed the depth of his feelings" for the [homeless man]. "He was a blessing to me, simply," he said. "A guy was beating on me and wouldn't have stopped unless [Whitman] pulled him off - I'm sure of that."

But Whitman, 53, doesn't think of himself as any kind of hero. Home for him is a 1977 Lincoln Versailles, faded pastel yellow, with tags that expired in December 2003.

But to Portland cops, his actions are a big deal. Wednesday night, about 15 officers and sergeants from the graveyard shift drove from the precinct to the bar parking lot after graveyard-shift roll call with a carload of blankets, long johns and food. They also came with money left in an envelope put out at two Northeast Precinct roll calls, which they thought would add up to $30 or $40, enough for a few nice meals.

"It turned out to be about $250," Teig said. "People from every precinct have been giving us stuff for this guy, so I think we'll be making more trips out to see him. We couldn't fit everything in the car."

Whitman said what he really needs is a secure job. He was in the Navy from 1971 to 1974, he said, then got jobs doing custom woodwork, later building exhibits at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry. Heart and prostate problems forced him to cut back his hours, he said. Then, a year and a half ago, he said, he got laid off.

"I just can't hump sheets of plywood anymore, but I'd love to be doing something, y'know?" he said. He seemed taken aback that anyone would want to know more about him.

"I didn't do nothing special," he said.

"You would be surprised," Teig said, "how many people don't step up [when they are needed]."

"In this neighborhood, people should know what this guy did for one of our guys and that we got his back," Teig said. "I hope nobody tries to lay a hand on him except to shake his hand."

"That would be nice, real nice," [Whitman] said. "[I] Don't know what all this fuss is about, though. I don't want anybody to make a big deal."
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Thank You EVERYONE and so many in the media, government, and national org's as we SHARE with you those in need of our help - who show they can and want to save the lives of others - everyday - if given the chance - and who are in need of our assitance too.

As they continually have and will show, "again and again" they always "try to do the right thing for others instead of just themselves."

"It is in ALL of US...and shines" the bright "light of awareness" on the problems we must N.O.W. face openly with understanding and insight in our country and in our society - for Equality - for Freedom - and do so EVERYDAY by simply showing and sharing these stories of un-selfish acts of love for one another - no matter what our gender or economic status in life...
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Keeping the Faith - always,
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Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting Awareness Day!

When: April 25th, 2006
Where: Around the world!

Thank you to everyone, all over the world, who made April 25-Parental Alienation Awareness Day such a huge success. We would like pictures/media coverage /information about your event, so we can post it on our website. We will continue to provide information and awareness throughout the year, until children all over the world can enjoy the right to love and be loved by both parents.
We welcome your ideas and suggestions, and hope you will continue to provide us with your stories as inspiration, so that next year, will be even bigger and better.

Regards,
Sarvy Emo
Robin Denison
co-founders
www.parental-alienation-awareness.com

DON'T FORGET we still have the wonderful workshop with Mr. Harvey Shapiro in Miami on April 30th

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Do your part to get your local community aware of this problem!

Did You Know That...
Parental Alienation is a form of Child Abuse?

Parental alienation involves the systematic brainwashing and manipulation of children with the sole purpose of destroying a loving and warm relationship they once shared with a parent.

Most people do not know about Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting until they experience it. Parental Alienation Awareness Day is put forth to help raise awareness about this growing problem of mental and emotional child abuse seen mostly in cases of divorce or separation.

We need your help to educate and make aware to the public the effects of Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting.

If you've been effected by Parental Alienation or know someone who has, or are a past victim of a parent who exhibited Hostile Aggressive Parenting and Alienated from one parent, please write and tell us your story.

The aim of the awareness day is to make the judges, police officers, phychiatrists, lawyers, as well as friends and family of the people abusing their children by HAP and alienation tactics to become aware of this growing problem and form of abuse.

With awareness comes education and understanding, and the power to stop the abuse of innocent children caught in the crossfire of people they love.

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Google sets records with $2.7 billion IPO

Popular search engine company files for its eagerly anticipated initial public offering.

Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, finally filed for its initial public stock offering Thursday and promised to maintain its long-term focus even though it will soon face the intense scrutiny of Wall Street. The company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it expects to raise as much as $2.7 billion from the offering, which it will conduct in the unusual format of an online auction in a bid to make its shares more widely available.

Company Mantra - "Do No Evil"
Google, founded in 1998 by former Stanford University students Sergey Brin and Larry Page, has quickly become one of the most successful Internet companies, thanks to search technology that many experts say is superior to offerings from rivals. (For more on the founders' stakes in Google and their pay, click here).

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, joined Google as its chairman in March 2001 and was named CEO later that year.

The company has become not just a tech juggernaut but a popular culture phenomenon as well, with people using the verb "Googled" to describe searching for information on the site.

It probably makes the most sense to compare Google with Yahoo! since it is Google's main rival. Yahoo! reported net income of about $238 million last year and has a market value of about $36 billion. So it is valued at 151 times trailing net income.

Based on that multiple, Google's stock market value would be about $16 billion.

But Google would be worth more if you looked at a price to sales ratio. Yahoo! is valued at about 24.5 times 2003 revenues of about $1.47 billion.

Using that multiple, Google could have a market worth of about $24 billion!

Brin and Page pledged in their letter that they will not play the game of managing expectations, trying to meet quarterly earnings estimates just to appease Wall Street. The two even quoted legendary value investor Warren Buffett.

"In Warren Buffett's words, 'We won't "smooth" quarterly or annual results: If earnings figures are lumpy when they reach headquarters, they will be lumpy when they reach you'," the two wrote.

In addition, the offering is structured in a way so that Brin and Page will continue to have strong control of the company's fate. Brin and Page own nearly a third of the company's Class B stock, which has 10 times the voting power of the Class A shares to be sold in the public offering.

The auction process is fairly unique, particularly for a company of Google's stature.

But Google has a reputation of doing things differently, which should make for some interesting times once the company starts trading.

Can We Help Others See and Hear the TRUTH - SAVING a Life - Commentary

Can We Help Others - SAVING a Life - Commentary

Will we continue to show the darkness and the lack of love needed for our children from both their biological parents involved?

Here is a bit of the truth our Radio / TV Media, State - Federal political leaders are seeing - as well - and hopefully we will not be censored - by those who don't want to allow others to hear it - and are conspiring against those who are under attack for wishing only to share the TRUTH about it.

1. PBS - Children's Stories Under Fire - and is Typical

The recent airing of the PBS documentary about Abuse appear to have backfired on the backers of the production and programming - as the latest court documents and testimony which becomes public record has shown.

Yet - the arguments needlessly continue from both sides LAWYERS against the other in an attempt to dis-credit each special interest groups' side in the matter.

To be balanced - it would appear that both the mother and the father due to the adversarial process we have put into place - have created the negative enviornment for the child.

Both sides are / have clearly shown themselves as acting less mature than children and have been making the case for the other side for over 40 years now. N.O.W. can we ALL Please Stop the Fighting and the Selfishness for our Children - and for their more positive future's in America and around the World?

2 . According to Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women:

"If there is a divorce in the family, I urge a presumption of joint custody of the children. Shared parenting is not only fair to men and children, it is the best option for women. After observing women's rights and responsibilities for more than a quarter of a century of feminist activism, I conclude that shared parenting is great for women, giving time and opportunity for female parents to pursue education, training, jobs, careers, profession and leisure. There is nothing scientific, logical or rational in excluding men or forever holding women and children as if in swaddling clothes in an eternally loving bondage. Most of us have acknowledged that women can do everything that men can do. It is time now for us to acknowledge that men can do everything women can do [in parenting of our children equally]."


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Stephen Rene
Have We Heard The TRUTH about SHARED Parenting?
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IF WE WILL WORK TOGETHER and NOT AS THE LAWYERS WANT IT TO BE -
WE WILL CONTINUE TO SAVE LIVES EVERYDAY!

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3. Tagline: "A Life is waiting"

Plot Outline: An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there. After attempts to trick him into breaking the law -Hanks refuses and ingeniously learns the only way he can to survive with the deck continuiously stacked against him and his quest for his father - and something he says: "I am sure he would do for me - too." In the end his honest efforts are found by many to be pure of heart and heroic - even by gov officials who finally show some compassion, and from the airport on-lookers - fully aware of his case.

4. It's time to upgrade family courts so moms and dads are treated equally.

Join us! Purchasing the book will help drive legislative reform. Come on in and check out excerpts from Comeback Dads.

5. Get an update on the Shared Parenting Bill
STATE by STATE and AS A FEDERAL EMERGENCY ACT of Congress...in the future!?
We were told it could never be done...working well together no matter the gender, race, or religious belief side by side - with like minded - fair and balenced souls of today...who still beleive in upholding our US Constitution and Bill of Rights couragously, with wisdom, strength and generosity - WE CAN and WILL expose the TRUTH.

6. Not only were these great men and women endowed with a burning love of liberty, but they were of a breed quite rare today...

In the 1770's many helped to establish on this earth a kind of government that had never before existed: a republican form of government, which had as its primary function the preservation for each individual citizen the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The Founders recognized the absolute necessity of morality and religion in maintaining that government; and they recognized the importance of binding that government in the chains of a Constitution to strictly limit its power. And they recognized that the right of a citizen to own and be secure in his property was fundamental to that liberty and thus took steps to insure that government respected that right.

And so it remained for many generations of Americans. Eventually though, Americans took for granted the constitutional protections they had enjoyed since birth.

7. Hi Steve -

I talked to my kids about your sight, they seem really interested. My son Roy has two kids, not married, but he is a good dad, he provides for his kids and gives
them all the love and affection they need and he totally agrees with what you are doing.

It s a shame that most dads get the rear end of the bargain, I know of some great dads that want to be with their children and would do anything to be with them but mommies don't agree, why because they are in it for the
money, they are selfish, they are thinking of their needs and not the need of the child.

I wish parents would think more about their children and how important they are, children are our future and if we want them to grow up to be great model citizens, we first as parents need to be great model citizens - too.

8. Hi Steve -

I just wanted to say that what you are doing here is wonderful and I support it 100%.
We need more people like this to help our children all over the world. Children are being exploited everyday and in everyway not only by strangers but by parents also. We need to put a stop to this at once and I think that this program will help do that.

Through my own experience I feel that parents should share their children, why should our children pay for our mistakes why should they be to "blame" we women do this, we take it out on our children, we are so angry at our spouse that it only seems logical to take it out on our children.

Anyway I leave you with this and in hopes that the right person will read it and take it to heart, keep up the great work because I believe that as soon as the word gets around, this will take off like a rocket. Have a blessed day...:)


Notes - Biblical Secrets Can Make You a Success

9. —GOAL-PICTURING—

Keep the image of my coming success before myself and God, seeing it now as a present reality to act upon in faith.

In frequent prayer, visualize yourself as a success, enjoying the substance of things hoped for and reaping the rewards of your work. Do NOT, as many mistakenly do, picture yourself doing the work itself. Focus on the end, not the process. See the result, not the routine, or you may discourage yourself by making the effort seem tiresome.

10. —GOAL-STRIVING—

As I work at achieving my goals, I shall stay alert for new opportunities disguised as problems.

You may wish to pray for a bigger vision of success, as your goals get tempered with experience and you discover new opportunities. Refer always to your Major Life Purpose. Not every idea is one you should invest in. Use old goals as stepping stones to new ones. Most successful people upgrade goals as they go along, once they find out how many new, unexpected opportunities now open up for them.

11. —GOAL REACHED—

I must have further plans when I reach my success goal, so I don’t get bored and undo all my hard work and God’s blessing by aimless living.

When humans get bored they do dumb things like messing up their lives, undoing the works that made them prosper and forgetting God. Then they have to start all over again. To avoid this risk, keep growing, keep adding new goals as old ones are realized, always keep trying to be a blessing and share love for one another to and for others.

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12. "Love for One Another" is the KEY

Can we show this kind of love to so many who are involved in the current Family Law conflicts of today and finally admit the only TRUE resolution is in bringing families together in LOVE - not in the present day darkness of fighting over $$$ and legal fees - which is hurting not helping our children - in our American 21st Century" - Stephen Rene -

Spreading the Word - Chief Corporate Evangelists

Spreading the Word
Corporate evangelists recruit customers who love to create buzz about a product

When Google hired Vint "Father of the Internet" Cerf last September, it gave him the ecclesiastical-sounding title of "Chief Internet Evangelist." His job, as Cerf himself has explained, is "helping people understand--both inside and outside of Google--what Google's potential is." Now to nontechnophiles or those residing outside Silicon Valley, the move might have seemed like another New Agey gesture by the search-engine superpower. This is, after all, a company with the it's-hard-to-keep-from-rolling-your-eyes corporate mantra of "Don't Be Evil." So, is chief Internet evangelist just an effort to apply a quasi-spiritual gloss on some glorified marketing position?

Don't be cynical. Google is only one of many companies, mostly in the technology sector, designating certain employees as "evangelists." Microsoft has technology evangelists reaching out to developers and consumers through company-sponsored Internet forums such as Channel 9 and The Hive. Some companies, such as Sun Microsystems, have even created the overarching position of "chief evangelist" who focuses more on trumpeting core values and vision. The word "evangelist" comes from the Greek word eu-angelos, meaning "bringer of good news."

But the job of a corporate evangelist is about way more than preaching the wonders of a company to customers and clients. "Evangelism is about selling your dream so that other people believe in it as much as you do," says Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist for Apple Computer and one of the key people responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984.

"Those people then, in turn, get even more people to believe. Just like Jesus was an evangelist who recruited 12 more evangelists."

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Keeping the Faith - always,
Stephen Rene
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A FAMILY LAW REFORM - CHILD's BILL of RIGHTS is PARAMOUNT to our Nation's FUTURE

Disputes involving both parental and children's rights have escalated in EVERY State in the UNION in recent years.

So the legal, moral, and ethical question naturally arises: How should Federal and State laws react to these events?

Such an inquiry requires us to examine HISTORY for a reasonable and balanced legal answer. An understanding of American history would help. The journey of the Pilgrims to Massachusetts was a journey of religious conscience from the orthodoxy of Anglican England. So, too, was the journey of the Society of Friends to Pennsylvania.Harlan Fiske Stone, later to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, drew on this history when he wrote: "Both morals and sound policy require that the state should not violate the conscience of the individual. All our history gives confirmation to the view that liberty of conscience has a moral and social value which makes it worthy of preservation at the hands of the state. So deep in its significance and vital, indeed, is it to the integrity of man's moral and spiritual nature that nothing short of the self-preservation of the state should warrant its violation; and it may well be questioned whether the state which preserves its life by a settled policy of violation of the conscience of the individual will not in fact ultimately lose it by the process."

As a society, we have long recognized the truth of Stone's words, refusing even to compel the religious conscience of objectors to serve in wartime. We exempt from combat service anyone who "by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form. "Our civil rights laws prohibit discrimination" on the basis of religious belief in any employment or business situation.

So, the answer from our history and the law is fairly clear. The answer we've given to those who are conscientious objectors to war should be the same answer we give those who are conscientious objectors to abortion. The principle of liberty of conscience must be a universal one, evenly applied across all religions and all beliefs, lest the government be in the uncomfortable and untenable position of choosing among disparate religious views and determining their legitimacy. We should no more compel a pharmacist to dispense birth control if it violates his conscience than, say, compel a prison guard to participate in an execution if religious objections cause him to oppose capital punishment.

That same history also allows us to draw appropriate lines. Freedom of conscience is a shield against compulsion, not a sword for religious orthodoxy. That is the beauty of the balance struck by the Free Exercise and Establishment clauses of the First Amendment. Those who bring their religion into the public square may not be compelled as the price of admission to abandon it.

But neither can they impose their views on others. Society may accommodate religious beliefs by, for example, not requiring a pharmacist to fill a prescription that violates his scruples. But the pharmacist may not legally then impose his beliefs by refusing to identify an alternate source for medication whose dispensation remains a lawful, and permissible activity.

To be sure, the balance is a delicate one. But it's a line we must draw faithfully if we are to remain true to our history and to the laws currently in place.


Is "Identity Politics" the politics of group-based movements?

The accepted definition of the term is: "Identity politics is the politics of group-based movements claiming to represent the interests and identity of a particular group, rather than policy issues relating to all members of the community. The group identity may be based on ethnicity, class, religion, sex, sexuality or other criteria."

Identity politics divides society into distinct political classes and declares them to be antagonistic to each other’s interests: blacks against whites, women against men, gays against heterosexuals. The focus is on the "rights" of the specific group— that is, those things the group claims to deserve and wishes to acquire by law. The "rights" are commonly based on the existence of historical oppression.

Identity politics is a sharp departure from the traditionally American ideal that rights are universal, not particular. That is, that all human beings possess the same rights, which are not determined by differences such as sex or race.

The presence of slavery in the United States into the 19th century reminds us that the ideal was not always realized, and sometimes not even closely. Nevertheless, it was the ideal of the Declaration of Independence—"all men are created equal" — toward which politics consistently moved.

The abolition of slavery said race was irrelevant to the rights an individual could claim. The enfranchisement of women said much the same thing. When Susan B. Anthony argued for women’s rights, she did not ask for special treatment, only for the full embrace of human rights. She wrote:

"We [women] have stood with the black man in the Constitution over half a century…Enfranchise him, and we are left outside with lunatics, idiots and criminals."

Identical rights under the law carries a strong presumption that all individuals share the fundamental political interest of having those rights respected. Consider freedom of speech. If not protected "freedom of speech" is converted from a Constitutional backed human right into a tool of oppression that must be blunted by force.

Only if you advocate group rights and reject individual ones does it make sense to cry out for sexual solidarity in voting. Ironically, such a call reverses the political trend that secured the vote to women in the first place. Namely, the demand for inclusion in human rights. The demand by women to have their rights equally recognized so they were no longer in a separate legal category "with lunatics, idiots and criminals."

The early feminists who fought for true equality did not speak of "special interests." They spoke of human rights."

Aren't our Nation's CHILDREN deserving of a simplified and non-adversarial process of FAMILY LAW that encourages "Balance, Love and Commitment to the CHILD not to ourselves, and that of fundamentally simple "truth and basic common sense?"
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Stephen Rene
e-Business-Professionals
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Bio: http://ebusinesspros.expage.com
Blog: http://FathersWhoCare.blogspot.com
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What is Our Deepest Fear?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate....Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure...It is in showing our light, not our darkness that most frightens others...and living in fear does not serve the World for the better, for there is nothing enlightening about shrinking back so that others won't feel insecure around us...

We were ALL meant to shine as children do...it is not just in some of us, it is in ALL of us...and once we let our light shine it motivates others to have the courage and inspiration to do the same - for once we are liberated from own fear of the darkness, we can help to lead others into the light - as our mere presence automatically liberates and enlightens those around us...

I wish to say Thank You, Sir - for You have saved My Life.

Equal Rights are what our Founding Fathers and our US Constitution guarantees -

Equal Rights for Both Parents - & for our children - can be guaranteed - equally - as well...!
SRene

Weekend Movie Rental - Kicking & Screaming (2005)

ON SALE - Mailed to my Son, DANE - at his request:

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Kicking & Screaming (2005)
Directed by Jesse Dylan

Writing credits (WGA)
Leo Benvenuti (written by) &
Steve Rudnick (written by)

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Tagline: All his life Phil Weston has dreamed of being on a winning team. Phil... your time has come.

Plot Outline: Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team!

Cast overview, first billed only:
Will Ferrell .... Phil Weston
Robert Duvall .... Buck Weston
Mike Ditka .... Mike Ditka
Kate Walsh .... Barbara Weston
Musetta Vander .... Janice Weston
Dylan McLaughlin .... Sam Weston
Josh Hutcherson .... Bucky Weston
Steven Anthony Lawrence .... Mark Avery
Jeremy Bergman .... Hunter
Elliott Cho .... Byong Sun (as Elliot Cho)
Erik Walker .... Ambrose
Dallas McKinney .... Connor
Francesco Liotti .... Gian Piero
Alessandro Ruggiero .... Massimo
Sammy Fine .... Jack

Also Known As:
Kicking and Screaming (USA) (alternative spelling)
Soccer Dads (USA) (working title)
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A rag-tag bunch of nobodies has to square off against the unstoppable professionals of the best local youth team. It is a great story, but it has been done to death. If you're a fan of Will Ferrel, you will like this movie. He is very funny in it. The movie also tells the story of the relationship between father and son with both comedy and touching moments sprinkled in. Robert Duvall gives his usual great performance. Mike Ditka gives a pretty funny performance as himself. He played exactly what his image is. If you go to this movie expecting to laugh, you will feel it is worth it!

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"SAVE a LIFE Today - Show LOVE for your Neighbor!"
"Together WE CAN Make a DIFFERENCE in our Childrens' LIVES!"
"Changing Lives for the BETTER - EVERYDAY!"

More than 80 celebrities have joined forces to HELP Others and Change Lives!

More than 80 celebrities have joined forces to read, sing and compose music for "The Bible Experience," a new 70-hour dramatic audio performance of the Scriptures.

Actor Blair Underwood landed one of the key roles in the production - the "L.A. Law" star gets to record the voice of Jesus. "Whether you believe the doctrine or not, you cannot deny the impact that the life of this man, Jesus, had on everyday life," said Underwood, who played Jesus Christ coming back to earth in the 1992 movie "The Second Coming." Underwood's favorite part of his role is the crucifixion. It was "the culmination of the three years of his teachings, but it was the beginning of a whole new walk for believers forever," he told USA Today.

Oscar-winner Denzel Washington also makes a contribution to "The Bible Experience," reciting the love poetry of Solomon's Song of Songs along with his wife Pauletta.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is the voice of Judas, and also the prophet Jonah from the Old Testament.

Robert Guillaume is the mighty angel of Revelation, as well as Noah.

Angela Bassett reads the Christmas story and is Ester from the Old Testament. Tisha Campbell-Martin of "My Wife and Kids" takes the role of Mary Magdalene.

"Our co-producer Lou 'Buster' Brown says we're taking God's word and we're gel-capping it: surrounding it with elements that make it more palatable for mass consumption in today's marketplace," Kyle Bowser, an award-winning co-producer from Inspired By Media Group, told USA Today.

The group launched the multimillion-dollar project with financing from Zondervan, the nation's largest Bible publisher. One question arose during casting: Should only faithful Christians get roles in the project?

"Some of the people whose voices they will be reading were not exactly saints, either," Paul Caminiti, publisher of Bibles for Zondervan, told USA Today.

"We wanted something unusual, something more visceral, something more experiential," he added. "We're trying to engage a new urban generation, and most are already turned off" by the King James' archaic translation. The New Testament in CD and MP3 formats will be in retail outlets by September, and the Old Testament follows next year.

Notes - Biblical Secrets Can Make You a Success

—GOAL-PICTURING—

Keep the image of my coming success before myself and God, seeing it now as a present reality to act upon in faith.

In frequent prayer, visualize yourself as a success, enjoying the substance of things hoped for and reaping the rewards of your work. Do NOT, as many mistakenly do, picture yourself doing the work itself. Focus on the end, not the process. See the result, not the routine, or you may discourage yourself by making the effort seem tiresome.

—GOAL-STRIVING—

As I work at achieving my goals, I shall stay alert for new opportunities disguised as problems.

You may wish to pray for a bigger vision of success, as your goals get tempered with experience and you discover new opportunities. Refer always to your Major Life Purpose. Not every idea is one you should invest in. Use old goals as stepping stones to new ones. Most successful people upgrade goals as they go along, once they find out how many new, unexpected opportunities now open up for them.

—GOAL REACHED—

I must have further plans when I reach my success goal, so I don’t get bored and undo all my hard work and God’s blessing by aimless living.

When humans get bored they do dumb things like messing up their lives, undoing the works that made them prosper and forgetting God. Then they have to start all over again. To avoid this risk, keep growing, keep adding new goals as old ones are realized, always keep trying to be a blessing and share love for one another to and for others.

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Stephen Rene
e-Business-Professionals
Non-Profit: www.ParentsWhoCare.us
Bio: http://ebusinesspros.expage.com
Blog: http://FathersWhoCare.blogspot.com
Bus: www.eBusinessProfessionals.us

Proposed FEC Rules Would Exempt Most Political Activity on Internet

"We tried to craft a regulation that would allow the maximum amount of freedom for people as possible," said Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub, a Democrat.

Most bloggers [are] individual Web users, and such Web sites as Drudge Report and Salon.com are exempted from regulation and will be free to support and attack federal candidates, much as newspapers are allowed.

For the most part, leading advocates of the blogger community welcomed the proposed rules. "As a whole, these are rules that I think those who have been fighting regulations are going to be cheering," said Richard L. Hasen, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, who runs the Election Law blog. The rules provide "broad exemptions for most political activity on the Internet, and expand the media exemption to the Internet," he said.

Hasen and others noted that as technology advances, the regulations will have to be modified. In particular, Hasen said, "as the Internet and TV converge, the FEC or Congress will eventually need to rethink these rules to see if they make sense."

"Generally, it's in line with what I think bloggers asked for," said Jerome Armstrong, the founder of the liberal blog MyDD, an adviser to the Howard Dean for president campaign in 2004 and currently an adviser to former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner's political action committee. "They give bloggers the media exemption."

Armstrong voiced concern, however, over potential difficulties that could result from a requirement that campaign ads have disclaimers. "The size of a Web ad and the size of blog ad is so small that having to put a disclaimer on it is going to take up all the space," he said.

The House last week put off consideration of a bill that would have similarly left online political activity largely unregulated. Mike Krempasky, who runs the conservative blog RedState, called the proposed rules "a complex legal and regulatory scheme" and called on Congress to pass legislation sponsored by Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.).

Since 2000, the Internet has grown geometrically as a force shaping virtually every aspect of politics from fundraising to get-out-the-vote drives. The Democratic and Republican national committees are attempting to amass millions of e-mail addresses of supporters and contributors, and candidates at all levels are building lists.

The FEC's six members generally support the proposed regulations, but individual commissioners are expected to offer amendments when they meet Monday.

The commission had been under court order to regulate campaign advertising on the Web. The only restrictions in the proposal require that ads for federal candidates be paid for with money regulated by federal campaign law. Campaign law restricts individual contributions to $2,000, and bars unions and corporations from donating.

In a two-page summary of the 90-page set of rules, Weintraub and Vice Chairman Robert D. Lenhard stressed that the proposals "explicitly exempt from regulation the Internet activities of unpaid individuals or groups of individuals" and "bloggers will not be regulated."

A blogger who gets paid by a campaign will not have to report the money to the FEC, but the campaign will separately have to disclose the expenditures, under the proposed rules.

They would lift all restrictions on employee use of corporate and union-owned computers for political activities, as long as the work is done on employees' own time, not company time.

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Stephen Rene
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Weekend Movie of the Week - The Cooler (2003)

The Cooler (2003)
Directed by
Wayne Kramer

Writing credits (WGA)
Frank Hannah (written by) &
Wayne Kramer (written by)

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Tagline: When your life depends on losing... the last thing you need is lady luck?

Plot Outline: In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.
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Cast overview, first billed only:
William H. Macy .... Bernie Lootz
Alec Baldwin .... Shelly Kaplow
Maria Bello .... Natalie Belisario
Shawn Hatosy .... Mikey
Ron Livingston .... Larry Sokolov
Paul Sorvino .... Buddy Stafford
Estella Warren .... Charlene
Arthur J. Nascarella .... Nicky 'Fingers' Bonnatto
Joey Fatone .... Johnny Cappella
M.C. Gainey .... Highway Officer
Ellen Greene .... Doris
Don Scribner .... Lou
Tony Longo .... Tony
Richard Israel .... Marty Goldfarb
Timothy Landfield .... The Player
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LIST OF ARTICLES - To IMPEACH THE DARKNESS of FAMILY LAW

6/2004 - "Allred vs. Tong--Is Parental Alienation Syndrome a Fathers' Rights Hoax?" - His Side with Glenn Sacks - The high-profile Bridget Marks custody case in New York has put the gut-wrenching issue of sexual abuse allegations in custody battles in the headlines, and Marks has become a cause celebre for many feminists. In that case the court determined that Marks had coached her four year-old twin girls to claim that they had been sexually molested by their father, and judge Arlene Goldberg switched custody from the mother to the father. False allegations of sexual abuse are an important part of a pathology dubbed "Parental Alienation Syndrome," wherein one parent tries to turn his or her children against the other parent...
Feminists assert that Parental Alienation Syndrome is a father's rights hoax--"junk science"--which unscrupulous fathers use to wrest custody from decent, loving mothers. The father's rights movement sees PAS is a damaging epidemic--one which family courts usually turn a blind eye to.

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LIST OF ARTICLES - http://members.aol.com/asherah/articles.html
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Comments
It continues to show the darkness and the lack of love needed for our children from both parents involved...here is a bit of truth the States leaders are seeing as well - hopefully we will not be censored - for wishing only to share it:

PBS - Children's Stories Under Fire - and is Typical
The recent airing of the PBS documentary about Abuse appear to have backfired on the backers of the production and programming - as the latest court documents and testimony which becomes public record has shown.

Yet - the arguments needlessly continue from both sides LAWYERS against the other in an attempt to dis-credit each special interest groups' side in the matter.

To be balanced - it would appear that both the mother and the father due to the adversarial process we have put into place - have created the negative enviornment for the child - here is an short segment of one sides claims (see if you can pick up on what I mean):

Claim #5) Sadia individually and through Fatima has repeatedly described Scott Loeliger as an abusive husband and an abusive father. These claims have never been substantiated. Despite all the fury and accusations from Sadia and from Sadia through Fatima, neither one of them actually claims that Scott ever physically abused them. The entirety of their claims, even if we were to believe them, is "verbal" and "emotional" abuse. Sadia and Sadia through Fatima claim that Scott is a monster.

Claim #4) In addition to the documents and statements of Arellano and various social workers, therapists, and neutral professionals which detail the mother's - Sadia's - violence and abuse, we also posted a letter from Sara, Sadia's then 15 year-old niece. Sara lived under Sadia's care along with Fatima and her younger sister, and also provided extensive evidence of Sadia's violence and child abuse. In a long, heartbreaking letter written to her father in Kenya, Sara says she feared for her life from Sadia's abuse and tells her father that Sadia "isn't what you think she is." The letter can be read here.

Claim #3) In Sadia's new statement here she claims that the Tulare County Juvenile Court "made its findings despite the fact that both Fatima and I denied, and continue to deny that it [the abuse] actually happened."

A Marriage, Family, Child Therapist who has done investigations for Shasta County Child Protective Services reported "She [Fatima] told me she did not want to go home because she was afraid her mother was going to hit her. She said her mother hits her a lot." To learn more and read the document, click here.

Mary K. McDonald, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist who was Fatima's therapist between March of 1993 and December of 1994, reported "I am extremely concerned regarding recent reports that I have received from Fatima Loeliger that lead me to question whether this child is being abused in the care of her mother. On two separate occasions this child reported to me that she was burned 'with a match' my her mother, Sadia Ali Loeliger." To learn more and read the document, click here.

Randi Gottlieb Robinson of the Tehama County Department of Social Services in Red Bluff, California, testified as to the abuse Fatima reported to her at Sadia's Tulare County juvenile court trial for child abuse.

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This is what is being shown by both sides - needlessly - and in the current system the victims are the children involved. Isn't time we created a system whereby, the parents had EQUAL BALENCED LAW that stopped the fighting, and the violence - currently - and clearly shown by this PBS documentary.

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Both sides are / have clearly been making the case for the other.
N.O.W. Please Can We Stop the Fighting and the Selfishness for our Children - and for their future's?
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Stephen Rene
Have We Heard The TRUTH about SHARED Parenting?
www.ParentsWhoCare.us
Have We Seen The TRUTH about HEALTHCARE?
www.eBusinessProfessionals.us
IF WE WILL WORK TOGETHER and NOT AS THE LAWYERS WANT IT TO BE -
WE WILL CONTINUE TO SAVE LIVES EVERYDAY!

LA Based story - "CRASH" wins BEST MOTION PICTURE of the YEAR!

LA Based story - "CRASH" wins BEST MOTION PICTURE of the YEAR!

Our Congrats to ALL the films, actors and directors who are making a difference in Hollywood for Equality and the Constitutional Equal Rights of Every Citizen of our Nation no matter what the issues of conflict between gender, race, and of religious beliefs.

"Love for One Another" is the KEY to so many of the current conflicts and the only TRUE resolution is in bringing families together in LOVE - not in the present day darkness of fighting over $$$ and our children - in our American 21st Century" - Stephen Rene -

According to Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women:

"If there is a divorce in the family, I urge a presumption of joint custody of the children. Shared parenting is not only fair to men and children, it is the best option for women. After observing women's rights and responsibilities for more than a quarter of a century of feminist activism, I conclude that shared parenting is great for women, giving time and opportunity for female parents to pursue education, training, jobs, careers, profession and leisure. There is nothing scientific, logical or rational in excluding men or forever holding women and children as if in swaddling clothes in an eternally loving bondage. Most of us have acknowledged that women can do everything that men can do. It is time now for us to acknowledge that men can do everything women can do [in parenting of our children equally]."

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BREAKINGNEWS - FNC Alert - Another Father Remembered

From: BREAKING NEWS
Date: 02/25/06 23:28:37
To: BREAKINGNEWS Subscribers
Subject: FNC Alert

ACTOR DARREN MCGAVIN, FATHER IN MOVIE 'A CHRISTMAS STORY,' HAS DIED

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The Terminal (2004)
Directed by
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Writing credits (WGA)
Andrew Niccol (story)
Sacha Gervasi (story)
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Tagline: "A Life is waiting"

Plot Outline: An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there. After attempts to trick him into breaking the law -Hanks refuses and ingeniously learns the only way he can to survive with the deck continuiously stacked against him and his quest for his father - and something he says: "I am sure he would do for me - too." In the end his honest efforts are found by many to be pure of heart and heroic - even by gov officials who finally show some compassion, and from the airport on-lookers - fully aware of his case.

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Hanks .... Viktor Navorski
Catherine Zeta-Jones .... Amelia Warren
Stanley Tucci .... Frank Dixon
Chi McBride .... Mulroy
Diego Luna .... Enrique Cruz
Barry Shabaka Henley .... Thurman
Kumar Pallana .... Gupta Rajan
Zoe Saldana .... Torres (as Zoë Saldana)
Eddie Jones .... Salchak
Jude Ciccolella .... Karl Iverson
Corey Reynolds .... Waylin
Guillermo Díaz .... Bobby Alima

User Comments: A triumphant Hanks and Spielberg movie. Spielberg does it yet again!

Awards: 2 wins & 2 nominations

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China and the Digital Revolution

Washington Post by staff writer Phil Pan

Based in Beijing, Phil discusses the digital revolution's presence in China, the government's efforts to censor Internet content and the rise of blogging.

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WELCOME TO COMEBACK DADS! - We're glad you're here!

We are dads, stepmothers, grandparents, family therapists, lawyers and others who aim to change laws that guide family courts. We want children of divorced families to have nearly equal time with their moms and dads where both are fit parents. We want joint custody in most cases.

If you're a divorced dad, our book Comeback Dads, by James Dunn provides support and encouragement. Read stories about other divorced dads who face discrimination, loss of custody, unfair restraining orders, false allegations of abuse, even jail time. See the Shared Parenting Bill, proposed legislation designed to rebalance family court. Read perspectives from psychotherapists and attorneys on the family court system.

If you're an attorney or family therapist who works with divorcing families, Comeback Dads may validate your perceptions of a troubled family court that destroys families and perpetuates conflict.

It's time to upgrade family courts so moms and dads are treated equally. Join us! Purchasing the book will help drive legislative reform. Come on in and check out excerpts from Comeback Dads.

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We were told it could never be done...working well together no matter the gender, race, or religious belief side by side - with like minded - fair and balenced souls of today...who still beleive in upholding our US Constitution and Bill of Rights couragously, with wisdom, strength and generosity - WE CAN and WILL expose the TRUTH about ALL those who are "out for $$$ 1st and love for one another 2nd" - and most of ALL the love needed to be shown for our children instead - our Nation has started to open it's eyes and ears to learn more about the family law process ProSe and the past traditions which are coming to an end - God Bless Us in our mission to do the right thing to save lives in our nation from being lost in this 21st Century Civil War between MILLIONS of parents and personally injuring the children involved - needlessly......
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200 Years Ago - There was a generation of great souls...

There was a generation of great souls, who lived on this continent 200 or so years ago when the thirteen original states were but colonies belonging to England. By today’s standards, they were giants; devout men and women, schooled not just in letters and numbers, but well-versed in the scriptures and in the classics, often translated in their own hand from the original languages.

They were avid students of history, especially the history of governments going back thousands of years. From those studies they had gleaned a healthy fear of the power of government and its propensity to corrupt the nature of fallen men. From their writings, we can see clearly that they recognized that the experiment upon which they were embarking, that of starting a new nation from scratch, based on the principles gleaned by the successes and failures of thousands of years of human experience, was of momentous importance.

Not only were these great men and women endowed with a burning love of liberty, but they were of a breed quite rare today, in that they were willing to sacrifice their property, their lives, and even their sacred honor to establish on this earth a kind of government that had never before existed: a republican form of government, which had as its primary function the preservation for each individual citizen the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The Founders recognized the absolute necessity of morality and religion in maintaining that government; and they recognized the importance of binding that government in the chains of a Constitution to strictly limit its power. And they recognized that the right of a citizen to own and be secure in his property was fundamental to that liberty and thus took steps to insure that government respected that right.

And so it remained for many generations of Americans. Eventually though, Americans took for granted the constitutional protections they had enjoyed since birth. Many never knew that things could be any different than they were here in the land of the free. Tyranny and socialism were only hypothetical concepts. Freedom was something that could not be lost.

The precious became common and was taken entirely for granted. Generations failed to pass on to their children the same values their forefathers had passed on to them.

Maybe we thought the schools would take care of all that instruction for us. After all, they teach civics and history in public schools, don’t they? Sure they do, but probably not the civics of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Madison. They also teach history in public schools, but not so that you would recognize it, unless you believe Christopher Columbus was an evil, greedy man and the Founding Fathers all Deists.

Yes, it is a curse of the human condition that we eventually forget and take for granted precious things. But as Moses lays out so clearly in Deuteronomy, there is a price to pay for forgetting. Forgetting is not an excusable sin.

There are consequences to all actions we take and decisions we make.

But our children will not grow into the adults they should be, just because we love them. That love creates an environment in which we can teach and nourish and pass on our values and traditions.

We have failed our children if we have not passed on to them a realistic perspective of government.

We must insure that they know that it is not okay to raid people’s paychecks and steal their property, even if doing so seems to be in the best interest of society.

We must not take it for granted that our children know the importance of spiritual things as well as understand the foundations of traditional morality.

We must insure that they do. These are the core issues facing the future success of our children and our nation - as a whole society - but it is clearly at stake.

Can we make this a priorty in their lives - as law abiding citizens and parents?

For my part - I hope to do so - and hope there are many 1000's of others vitisting my site and blog - you will and do as well and have been commenting on them - honestly.

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Thank you - everyone - for listening and helping my Son and I stay connected and in sharing the sacrifices needed to achieve a certain positive level of success -in the past - and a continued hope for a future based on what our founders truly beleived when our constitution and declarations of independence were written.
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There are things we can do to remember. Every once in a while I pull out a videotape of my kids when they were little. I watch them opening their presents on Christmas morning, wearing those little pajamas with the padded feet. I watch their little, barely awake faces light up. I listen to their bubbling laughter and hear again those sweet little voices I almost had forgotten - they had.

Then, when I have turned off the video, I go to their bedrooms and see them as they are now, looking half grown-up and dealing with the pressures and demands of school work, peer pressure and hormone changes. Leaning over them, I forget the argument we had this morning over the music I won’t let them listen to, and I put my arms around them and hug and kiss them and tell them how much I love them; lest they forget; lest we forget - and know we never ever should let them.

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He Said - She Said Parenting Abduction on the RISE - Can WE Pass LAW to Share Parenting Equally?

A routine traffic stop in North Carolina last week ended a six-year hunt for two missing girls and put the spotlight on a traumatic ordeal affecting thousands of American families every year.

When a child is abducted by a stranger, it makes for sensational headlines. When a child is taken by a parent, few take notice. Yet the emotional toll on children kidnapped in family abductions is no less severe, according to child advocates.

In that abduction, the FBI says a Lillington, N.C., woman picked up her three children from their father’s house near the Virginia border in December 1999 and never returned them.

Steyne, 45, has been charged with violating a custody order and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

While some parents say they need to flee with children to escape abuse most do not have their child’s best interests in mind , said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

...up to 80 percent of cases involve children taken out of anger or vengeance against a spouse, not love for a child,” he said.

The trauma of family abduction is often compounded by lies, Hart-Haviv said: “A child might be told the left-behind parent is dead, dangerous or doesn’t love them anymore.”

And the deeper the deceit, the harder it can be for a child to recover when found, she said.

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"In a more balanced and less adversarial legal process, 1 glaring statistic may help...in the last 10 years 300000 non-custodial & custodial parents have ...
http://www.ParentsWhoCare.us - Jan 23, 2006 -
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Human Rights & Equal Rights for BOTH PARENTS under the US Constitution
is what truly matters - and in the end - we will help to SAVE
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WE CAN SAVE LIVES and Share LOVE and UNDERSTANDING in Family LAW Parenting Matters...

The Aviator (2004)

Directed by
Martin Scorsese

Writing credits (WGA)
John Logan (written by)
Genre: Biography / Drama (more)
Tagline: Some men dream the future. He built it. (more)
Plot Outline: A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.

Cast overview, first billed only:
Leonardo DiCaprio .... Howard Hughes
Cate Blanchett .... Katharine Hepburn
Kate Beckinsale .... Ava Gardner
John C. Reilly .... Noah Dietrich
Alec Baldwin .... Juan Trippe
Alan Alda .... Senator Ralph Owen Brewster
Ian Holm .... Professor Fitz
Danny Huston .... Jack Frye
Gwen Stefani .... Jean Harlow
Jude Law .... Errol Flynn
Adam Scott .... Johnny Meyer
Matt Ross .... Glenn Odekirk
Kelli Garner .... Faith Domergue
Frances Conroy .... Mrs. Hepburn
Brent Spiner .... Robert Gross
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Can We SEE from the film How One Bill from a single Senator who sponsored a BILL for one company or industry can have devastating effects on a Private Citizen - who went before the US Senate - and told his story - which was the Truth about the reason he was picked out and punished for his passion of aviation...
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CAN we SEE that even today there are many caring people listening to the TRUTH in Family LAW - and that ONLY WE "as a people" TOGETHER as ONE CARING NATION - CAN and WILL succeed likewise in exposing the TRUTH about WHY SHARED PARENTING in Family LAW will FINALLY END "MONEY instead of LOVE for our children" as being the core issue truly realized.

THESE REAL LIFE experiences shown in my post below have already taken 100,000's of lives and negatively affects MILLIONS of Parents and their Children in the US and around the WORLD - everyday!

Can WE finally HEAR and SEE this as the TRUTH and correct these immoral acts under our US CONSTITUTION, Declaration, and BILL of RIGHTS drafted to protect us from just these kinds of unethical acts which cost the lives of so many children and their parents dearly?
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WILL our LEADERS sworn to uphold the US CONSTITUTION "pass no law" - as SENATORS and Congressmen and Women - that has been CLEARLY shown is any FEDERAL LAW that does not provide for equal rights for both genders on FAMILY Custody / Visitation - and finally agree to SEE and HEAR those children as WE have noted below - WHO were / are so much more important than the LEGAL FEES and in-equality behind other enforcement programs currently destroying private citizens' lives - needlessly?

Are WE as a PEOPLE SEEING the TEARS and HEARING the CRIES of these children and their parents NO LONGER with us - who were / are hurting today - and as are so many in our society - today?

I BELIEVE we ARE GOOD BY NATURE and that WE CAN MAKE a DIFFERENCE for them - and FOR EACH OTHER - and can help to SAVE the lives of ALL WHO HAVE been needlessly hurt by the unlawful acts - shown openly toward them.
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I wish to Note a FEW CORP's who are listening and are trying to share in this movement in a positive way for a change - in the last 30 years of un-equal gender bias - US parenting law:
1. PBS, CBS, ABC, and NBC
2. Bank of America
3. Capital One
4. Verizon Wireless
5. Montero & Associates
6. The CARING (and Courageous) Federal Leaders & State Leaders and their STAFF'S - on Both Sides of the Isle
7. The 1000's of Celebrities - Actors, Directors, and their Crew's
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Thank you for listening, for helping and for sharing this with others - as it WILL in the end - HELP ALL of US - TO FINALLY SHARE IN A MORE POSITIVE and EQUAL FUTURE with / for our children.
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Family Law Disputes - Another Mother Accused Of Smothering Her Three Children - Crimes of the Heart Continue Needlessly!

DE QUEEN, Ark. - A NYmother accused of smothering her three young children left notes that officials say could help determine what led to the killings, and her priest said Sunday that she had expressed “tremendous remorse.”

Paula Eleazar Mendez, 43, was in a county jail Sunday after being treated at a hospital for swallowing a toxic substance.

She had collapsed as officers arrived at her southwestern Arkansas home Saturday morning in response to a telephone call from the children’s father in New York. Inside the home, the officers found the bodies of the children, ages 6 to 8, lying side by side on a bed, said Chris Brackett, an investigator with the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office.

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Nancy Grace of CourtTV - has been doing a great job focusing on the Andrea Yates story and her release from FL jail and on this story - and by keeping the gender issues balanced on her show!

Other Show Hosts on FoxNews - have not been sheding the light on these cases equally for the reasons we have clearly shown by Federal Stat's on our site www.ParentsWhoCare.us.

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Navigating the Maze: U.S. FED Court Opens Do-It-Yourself Help Desk

By Kari Lydersen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 1, 2006; Page A21

CHICAGO -- When Chicago resident Wallace Bradley filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit against a construction company, he got a quick lesson in the legal process.

After being fired in 2002, Bradley did not have enough money to hire a lawyer and he wanted to deal directly with the company himself. So he filed the suit pro se , meaning he would represent himself in court. It wasn't easy.

The ins and outs are hard when you don't know what you're doing," Bradley said. "You're going against a company which can hire a major law firm to make you keep coming back to court again and again. It's rough."

Bradley, 53, a former gang member turned community activist who has run for Chicago City Council, said he was in the right and should have won the case. But, concerned that the judge might dismiss his suit, Bradley decided to settle out of court in 2004.

"A maze" is how many lawyers and judges describe the process of suing in federal court. But every year thousands of people such as Bradley try to navigate the process.

Now the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago has launched a program to provide free legal assistance for people in filing pro se federal lawsuits.

"I'm really glad they did that," said Bradley, sitting at a computer terminal in the federal court building recently, looking up cases for a friend. "There needs to be something done to assist people like me. A lot of people can't afford an attorney, and they are afraid of this building because they don't know how things work."

Judges and lawyers here who advocated for the help-desk program -- which was launched early last month as the District Court Self-Help Assistance Desk -- describe it as a win-win situation for all. It serves as a filter, weeding out frivolous cases or cases that do not belong in federal court, while aiding people with legitimate complaints.

"Lots of times we've had pro se complaints that are literally gibberish," said District Judge William J. Hibbler, who was involved in founding the help desk. "Trying to make heads or tails of their complaints was a big effort. There might be a kernel of a case there, but it's so poorly articulated that it gets dismissed. People need technical help to formulate complaints in such a fashion that we can deal with them."

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Can the System of Justice for ALL - not just a FEW - be made Easier?

The Judges and Lawyers who care are listening too! Thank you for this has made my day and may help save millions of lives due to acts that need damages to be awarded!

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More News On Showings Of "Breaking The Silence: Children's Stories"

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It continues to show the darkness and the lack of love needed for our children from both parents involved...here is a bit of truth the States leaders are seeing as well - hopefully we will not be censored - for wishing only to share it:

PBS - Children's Stories Under Fire - and is Typical
The recent airing of the PBS documentary about Abuse appear to have backfired on the backers of the production and programming - as the latest court documents and testimony which becomes public record has shown.

Yet - the arguments needlessly continue from both sides against the other in an attempt to dis-credit each special interest groups' side in the matter.

To be balanced - it would appear that both the mother and the father due to the adversarial process we have put into place - have created the negative enviornment for the child - here is an short segment of one sides claims (see if you can pick up on what I mean):

Claim #5) Sadia individually and through Fatima has repeatedly described Scott Loeliger as an abusive husband and an abusive father. These claims have never been substantiated. Despite all the fury and accusations from Sadia and from Sadia through Fatima, neither one of them actually claims that Scott ever physically abused them. The entirety of their claims, even if we were to believe them, is "verbal" and "emotional" abuse. Sadia and Sadia through Fatima claim that Scott is a monster.

Claim #4) In addition to the documents and statements of Arellano and various social workers, therapists, and neutral professionals which detail the mother's - Sadia's - violence and abuse, we also posted a letter from Sara, Sadia's then 15 year-old niece. Sara lived under Sadia's care along with Fatima and her younger sister, and also provided extensive evidence of Sadia's violence and child abuse. In a long, heartbreaking letter written to her father in Kenya, Sara says she feared for her life from Sadia's abuse and tells her father that Sadia "isn't what you think she is." The letter can be read here.

Claim #3) In Sadia's new statement here she claims that the Tulare County Juvenile Court "made its findings despite the fact that both Fatima and I denied, and continue to deny that it [the abuse] actually happened."

A Marriage, Family, Child Therapist who has done investigations for Shasta County Child Protective Services reported "She [Fatima] told me she did not want to go home because she was afraid her mother was going to hit her. She said her mother hits her a lot." To learn more and read the document, click here.

Mary K. McDonald, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist who was Fatima's therapist between March of 1993 and December of 1994, reported "I am extremely concerned regarding recent reports that I have received from Fatima Loeliger that lead me to question whether this child is being abused in the care of her mother. On two separate occasions this child reported to me that she was burned 'with a match' my her mother, Sadia Ali Loeliger." To learn more and read the document, click here.

Randi Gottlieb Robinson of the Tehama County Department of Social Services in Red Bluff, California, testified as to the abuse Fatima reported to her at Sadia's Tulare County juvenile court trial for child abuse.

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This is what is being shown by both sides - needlessly - and in the current system the victims are the children involved. Isn't time we created a system whereby, the parents had EQUAL BALENCED LAW that stopped the fighting, and the violence - currently - and clearly shown by this PBS documentary.

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Both sides are / have clearly been making the case for the other.

Why NOW and other legal org's will not see the pain they and the current system - we have currently in place - is hurting NOT HELPING - our NATIONS children is beyond my comprehension - and why SHARED PARENTING is not being made law in ALL 50 US State escapes me after 40 years of therapy for our young and older adults who have been injured by the current system - and not helped the way I hope to someday SEE WE WILL?

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As everyone knows, health care spending has risen steadily. In 2004, it totaled 16 percent of national income, up from 7.2 percent in 1970. Spending will continue to rise, if for no other reasons than that the population is aging and the average annual health costs for someone 65 and older ($7,910 in 2003) are—surprise—more than twice those for someone 35 to 54 ($2,966). As health insurance becomes more costly, the number of uninsured, now about 46 million, may grow. Worse, health costs may depress wage gains, raise taxes and squeeze other government programs.

On a grander scale, that's our predicament. Americans generally want their health care system to do three things: (1) provide needed care to all people, regardless of income; (2) maintain our freedom to pick doctors and their freedom to recommend the best care for us; and (3) control costs. The trouble is that these laudable goals aren't compatible. We can have any two of them, but not all three. Everyone can get care with complete choice—but costs will explode, because patients and doctors have no reason to control them. We can control costs but only by denying care or limiting choices.

Here's the paradox: A health care system that satisfies most of us as individuals may hurt us as a society. Because insurance covers most of my medical bills, though, I don't have any stake in switching...[but the other 46 million out there might?]

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1. A NEW 12 hour EPIC Mini-SERIES by Steven Speilberg - "Into the WEST" -
showing the settlement struggles our Nation went thru from the EAST to the Oregon Trail and into the CA GOLD RUSH era.
2. A Video Documentary -
"PaperClip Project" what the inventors of the paperclip wore and why...?
3. A School Student Athlete Drama
"Coach Carter"
Why some groups are not learning and graduating to higher education in our Nation...?
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3. "Disclosure" - Michael Douglas / Demi Moore
4. "Fatal Attraction" - Michael Douglas / Glen Close
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Truth vs. Truthiness - Shared Parenting - It's Time has Come

Jan. 26 -
New York Times columnist and author, Maureen Dowd joined Countdown to discuss the Oprah / Frey controversy and what President Bush could learn from the talk show host's defense of truth.

Maureen Dowd, columnist of “The New York Times,” and author of “Are Men Necessary?” and “Bushworld” joined ‘Countdown’ on Thursday to explain why she feels Oprah’s only correct option now is to remove her endorsement, figuratively and literally, from Frey's book and comment on the growing struggle over spying for the Bush Administration.

To read an excerpt from their conversation, continue to the text & title above.
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The Truth will and shall be shared publicly - and in light of the present "cover up" of gender and civil rights violations against so many non-custodial parents here in the US. In what would be considered discrimination in any civilized society in the world - should it NOT be exposed clearly here in the US - even if there are many - who are involved NOW and wish to keep it from being so.

It is in OUR Sharing love for one another - and NOT EVER wishing to do another male parent - harm in any way - and in our SHEDING OF Light on & about the 300,000 plus non-custodial parents lost and many 1000's of children's lives lost - in the last 10 years - NO ONE WILL TALK ABOUT - due to the current Family Law industry - that this continues to really be ALL about?

SHOULD not NOW our children have equal rights too - and the same rights that has always been - and always should be - guaranteed by OUR founding fathers in OUR US constitution and Bill of Rights - I beleive it is.

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I hope Maureen and Oprah will / would feel the same if the shoe was on the other foot and agree shared parenting = equality for both genders as parents and for their children unselfishly.

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Corporate evangelists recruit customers who love to create buzz about a product
By James Pethokoukis

When Google hired Vint "Father of the Internet" Cerf last September, it gave him the ecclesiastical-sounding title of "Chief Internet Evangelist." His job, as Cerf himself has explained, is "helping people understand--both inside and outside of Google--what Google's potential is." Now to nontechnophiles or those residing outside Silicon Valley, the move might have seemed like another New Agey gesture by the search-engine superpower. This is, after all, a company with the it's-hard-to-keep-from-rolling-your-eyes corporate mantra of "Don't Be Evil." So, is chief Internet evangelist just an effort to apply a quasi-spiritual gloss on some glorified marketing position?

Don't be cynical. Google is only one of many companies, mostly in the technology sector, designating certain employees as "evangelists." Microsoft has technology evangelists reaching out to developers and consumers through company-sponsored Internet forums such as Channel 9 and The Hive. Some companies, such as Sun Microsystems, have even created the overarching position of "chief evangelist" who focuses more on trumpeting core values and vision. The word "evangelist" comes from the Greek word eu-angelos, meaning "bringer of good news." But the job of a corporate evangelist is about way more than preaching the wonders of a company to customers and clients. "Evangelism is about selling your dream so that other people believe in it as much as you do," says Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist for Apple Computer and one of the key people responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. "Those people then, in turn, get even more people to believe. Just like Jesus was an evangelist who recruited 12 more evangelists."

Bypassing ads. With corporate evangelism, the goal is to find and identify those customers who are already crazy about your product or service--who are actively talking it up in blogs or Web forums, for instance--and turning them with loads of personal attention into "customer evangelists" who then spread the word to others, who then--well, you get the idea. A more secular term for these superfans is "influentials," the people the rest of us seek out and trust for advice about what cars, computers, and clothing to buy. So evangelism is a way of actively creating word-of-mouth advertising or marketing, turning your passionate, influential customers into a volunteer sales force. "If word of mouth is the skeleton, then customer evangelism is the soul," says consultant Ben McConnell. He's coauthor, along with Jackie Huba, his wife, of Creating Customer Evangelists, a book documenting how companies like Southwest Airlines and Build-A-Bear Workshop have used evangelism to increase sales. Many CEOs see evangelism as a way of getting their corporate message through to an authenticity-craving public that seems ever more immune to traditional mass advertising, especially with the advent of commercial-skipping technology like TiVo. And companies ignore influentials at their own peril, especially the bloggers. "These people can either be evangelists for you or vigilantes against you," says Huba.

The importance of influentials as customer evangelists is why on this October morning Simon Phipps, chief evangelist at Sun Microsystems, is speaking at a downtown Chicago hotel to a small conference of technologists about Sun's corporate philosophy. Is it really worth it for Phipps to fly in from the Netherlands to speak to a few dozen conference attendees? It sure is, he says. "These are people who work on software that powers huge websites that millions of people around the world depend on," Phipps says. "There may not be many people in the room, but the effect they have on society is huge." Phipps doesn't really talk much about Sun products during his presentation. Instead, he talks about the company's long-term vision. "I'm the weaver of a coherent story to help our customers see how it fits together and to see that Sun is a company they can trust," he says.

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By almost every benchmark, boys across the nation are falling behind? Why?

What's wrong with Danny? By almost every benchmark, boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind. In elementary school, boys are two times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with learning disabilities and twice as likely to be placed in special-education classes. High-school boys are losing ground to girls on standardized writing tests. The number of boys who said they didn't like school rose 71 percent between 1980 and 2001, according to a University of Michigan study. Nowhere is the shift more evident than on college campuses. Thirty years ago men represented 58 percent of the undergraduate student body. Now they're a minority at 44 percent. This widening achievement gap, says Margaret Spellings, U.S. secretary of Education, "has profound implications for the economy, society, families and democracy."

With millions of parents wringing their hands, educators are searching for new tools to help tackle the problem of boys. Books including Michael Thompson's best seller "Raising Cain" (recently made into a PBS documentary) and Harvard psychologist William Pollack's definitive work "Real Boys" have become must-reads in the teachers' lounge. The Gurian Institute, founded in 1997 by family therapist Michael Gurian to help the people on the front lines help boys, has enrolled 15,000 teachers in its seminars. Even the Gates Foundation, which in the last five years has given away nearly a billion dollars to innovative high schools, is making boys a big priority. "Helping underperforming boys," says Jim Shelton, the foundation's education director, "has become part of our core mission."

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Child Online Protection Act - First Amendment concerns?

In 1998, Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal, the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon porn. In order to conduct a controlled experiment—to be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statistics—the DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its own searches, employing the different kinds of filters each search engine offers, in an attempt to quantify how often "material that is harmful to minors" might appear. Google contends that since it is not a party to the case, the government has no right to demand its proprietary information to perform its test. "We intend to resist their motion vigorously," said Google attorney Nicole Wong.

DOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting only the actual search terms, and not anything that would link the queries to those who made them. (The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched.) Originally, the government asked for a treasure trove of all searches made in June and July 2005; the request has been scaled back to one week's worth of search queries.

One oddity about the DOJ's strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the built-in filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites, the government will have wound up proving what the opposition has said all along—you don't need to suppress speech to protect minors on the Net. "We think that our filtering technology does a good job protecting minors from inadvertently seeing adult content," says Ramez Naam, group program manager of MSN Search.

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Bus Ride that Shook a Nation's Conscience - Dead Beat to Beat Dead Homeless in America - Can We Show We Care?

Lessons From Rosa Parks


Rosa Parks's historic action was a "simple refusal" to give up her rights to equality; it was/is in the simplicity of her refusal that I have always appreciated the WASH POST article entitled:

["Bus Ride that Shook a Nation's Conscience," front page, Oct. 25].

Yes, Mrs. Parks was combating racism and sparking the modern civil rights movement, but she also was asking people to follow a simple moral and ethical tenet:

Respect for one another...in a society that with each passing day seems to forget the lessons learned from our divine nation's history.
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"We are all human, none of us perfect, prone to making mistakes. But it is how we as a people re-act to them and help expose these basic human rights violations, if not, correct them, and modify those unethical acts...that truly matter." SRene2005
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1 Comments:
NYMOM said...
"Moms benefit when the father of their children is also able to help with responsibilities at home."

Really...
You mean like your son's mom benefitted when the courts allowed you to switch custody, after she lost her job and apartment after 9/11...

Now you're running all over the internet telling people she only used her son to get more child support from you? If you are representative of 'the future' of this country as you say, then we're in real trouble.
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NO - My Son was never taken away from his Mother nor would I ever ask a court for such an action - as it would hurt him and deprive him - of both his parents as is guaranteed by our Constitution and Bill of Rights provided by "Our Nations Founding Fathers."

9:49 AM, November 06, 2005

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Can the Family LAW Legal System be made easier Legally...YES!

A CHILD's BILL of RIGHTS is PARAMOUNT to our FUTURE

Disputes involving both parental and children's rights have escalated in EVERY State in the UNION in recent years.

So the legal, moral, and ethical question naturally arises:
How should Federal and State laws react to these events?

Such an inquiry requires us to examine HISTORY for a reasonable and balanced legal answer.

An understanding of American history would help. The journey of the Pilgrims to Massachusetts was a journey of religious conscience from the orthodoxy of Anglican England. So, too, was the journey of the Society of Friends to Pennsylvania.Harlan Fiske Stone, later to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, drew on this history when he wrote: "Both morals and sound policy require that the state should not violate the conscience of the individual. All our history gives confirmation to the view that liberty of conscience has a moral and social value which makes it worthy of preservation at the hands of the state. So deep in its significance and vital, indeed, is it to the integrity of man's moral and spiritual nature that nothing short of the self-preservation of the state should warrant its violation; and it may well be questioned whether the state which preserves its life by a settled policy of violation of the conscience of the individual will not in fact ultimately lose it by the process."

As a society, we have long recognized the truth of Stone's words, refusing even to compel the religious conscience of objectors to serve in wartime.

Is "Identity Politics" the politics of group-based movements?

The accepted definition of the term is: "Identity politics is the politics of group-based movements claiming to represent the interests and identity of a particular group, rather than policy issues relating to all members of the community. The group identity may be based on ethnicity, class, religion, sex, sexuality or other criteria."

Identity politics divides society into distinct political classes and declares them to be antagonistic to each other’s interests: blacks against whites, women against men, gays against heterosexuals. The focus is on the "rights" of the specific group— that is, those things the group claims to deserve and wishes to acquire by law. The "rights" are commonly based on the existence of historical oppression.

Identity politics is a sharp departure from the traditionally American ideal that rights are universal, not particular. That is, that all human beings possess the same rights, which are not determined by differences such as sex or race.

The presence of slavery in the United States into the 19th century reminds us that the ideal was not always realized, and sometimes not even closely. Nevertheless, it was the ideal of the Declaration of Independence—"all men are created equal" — toward which politics consistently moved.

The abolition of slavery said race was irrelevant to the rights an individual could claim. The enfranchisement of women said much the same thing. When Susan B. Anthony argued for women’s rights, she did not ask for special treatment, only for the full embrace of human rights. She wrote: "We [women] have stood with the black man in the Constitution over half a century…Enfranchise him, and we are left outside with lunatics, idiots and criminals."

Identical rights under the law carries a strong presumption that all individuals share the fundamental political interest of having those rights respected. Consider freedom of speech. A woman benefits from the protection of free speech no less than a man does. Arguably, a history of oppression makes freedom of speech more personally important to a woman; it is part of what will allow her to rise through education and merit.

By contrast, identity politics says that women and men do not share a similar interest in freedom of speech.

For example, if a man expresses perceived sexist views, he is said to "silence" women and, so, his speech should be restrained through policies such as sexual harassment laws or campus speech codes. Thus, freedom of speech is converted from a human right into a tool of oppression that must be blunted by force.

The demand by women to have their rights equally recognized so they were no longer in a separate legal category "with lunatics, idiots and criminals."

The early feminists who fought for true equality did not speak of "special interests." They spoke of human rights."

Aren't our Nation's CHILDREN deserving of a simplified and non-adversarial process of FAMILY LAW that encourages "EQUALITY / Balance, Love and Commitment to the CHILD not to ONE PARENT over an other, and that of fundamentally simple "truth and basic common sense?"

"So It Shall be Done on Earth - as it is in Heaven"

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"ONLY when "we as a people bound by love" truly start to help one another - we will in the end - ultimately - help ourselves." Be a Part of the Solution - Join Parents Who Care today!

A Twenty-First Century Problem - "Sharing love for one another and for our children ?

Annoying Online Posts Could Be Illegal
Free speech advocates say a new law geared could be cause for concern. (13-Jan-2006)

A Twenty-First Century Problem
McDermott's anticyberstalking legislation came about after the congressman learned about Seattle resident Joelle Ligon. Years after getting married, Ligon began getting anonymous and hard-to-track e-mail messages from someone she believed to be her ex-boyfriend, James Robert Murphy. The messages became increasingly disturbing and threatening. Eventually he sent e-mail to Ligon's coworkers accusing her of misrepresenting her résumé and making it appear she was sending them pornography.

Murphy was sending his e-mail from South Carolina, where it was difficult for Seattle police to pursue him. Eventually, Ligon's case was brought to Warma's attention. Warma was able to prosecute the case under the federal telecommunications law, which regulates telephone communications and protects against harassment. She interpreted the law to include the Internet, allowing the case to move to federal jurisdiction.

"The challenge we faced was that no one had ever prosecuted a crime like that under this statute," Warma says, adding that two South Carolina judges denied search warrants because they didn't know about or understand the legislation.

It was the first known instance of federal prosecution for cyberharassment, Warma's office said.

After FBI agents found copies of the e-mail messages on his computer, Murphy pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment and was sentenced to 500 hours of community service and five years probation.

Ligon says that the difficulty of prosecuting cyberstalkers makes it unlikely that officials will use the new law frivolously.

"It is so hard to get a cyberstalker prosecuted," Ligon says. "It took me years of heartache and effort. The idea that someone is going to be federally prosecuted for writing annoying blogs is ridiculous."
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But would the same law have been applied if a woman was suspect of doing the same to another woman / man or if it was a law firm in CT advising of this in violation of the law? Would telling a child that "Perjury to State and Local authorities" by one gender - be overlooked - and deemed perfectly okay then...?

Isn't the "use of present family law for parental alienation" the real motivation for this and so many other legal issues - involved in this today?
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The Truth will and shall be shared publicly - and the light of the present "cover up" of

gender and civil rights

discrimination exposed - even if there are those involved NOW who wish to keep it from being so.

Sharing love for one another - never wishing to do another harm in any way - and our light about the 300,000 non-custodial parents and children's lives lost in the last 10 years due to the current Family Law industry - is what this may really be about?

Is it not our children we should NOW have equal rights too - and has been - and always is - guaranteed by the founding fathers and our US constitution - I beleive it is.

The Federal Stats show this clearly, honestly, honorably, ethically, and morally on our web site - and more so than any other point - this should be the paramount issue we wish to resolve - and not continue to create legal conflict which ruin lives needlessly - can we NOW stop the needless conflict for and over legal fees when it comes to sharing and loving our children?

Can WE all NOW, along with the Family Law Legal industry who are starting to get it -finally come together - for a positive legislative change - and stop the "civil rights" hatred being legislated toward the other parent involved - for our children too...and finally realize what message this does send to our children and future generations of our society?

"It isn't ALL about just US or any one parent anymore...it is and always has been - about our children."
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Thank you for making the choice to show you are listening,

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Equality for ALL - not just a few - is what our Constitution...guarantees...
Why won't our opposition NOW SEE this as self-evident - simply and unselfishly.
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News Update: Yahoo Loses Appeal in Nazi Memorabilia Case
Federal court rules Yahoo not significantly harmed in case. (12-Jan-2006)

Wal-Mart fighting Good Medicine BILL - to share Generosity, Wisdom, Strength, Courage

Absent court intervention, the first requirement the bill places on Wal-Mart -- and any company with more than 10,000 employees in Maryland -- is a report due next January detailing employee health expenditures in 2005. Under the new law, any company whose spending fell short of 8 percent of its payroll will be required to pay the difference to the state's health program for the poor.

At least four companies of that size operate in Maryland, but Wal-Mart is the only one that has said it would not likely meet the target. The retailer has not made precise numbers public.

"We don't really know where they are," said Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Citizens Health Initiative, a group that lobbied hard for the override of Ehrlich's veto. "We don't know their internal numbers."

DeMarco said the company testified in 2004 that its health care spending amounted to about 5 percent of payroll. Last year, he said, they told lawmakers that it had risen to more than 7 percent. Recently, Wal-Mart began offering a more affordable benefits plan, costing as little as $23 a month for a single worker in Maryland.

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1. A NEW 12 hour EPIC Mini-SERIES by Steven Speilberg - "Into the WEST" -
showing the settlement struggles our Nation went thru from the EAST to the Oregon Trail and into the CA GOLD RUSH era.
2. A Video Documentary -
"PaperClip Project" what the inventors of the paperclip wore and why...?
3. A School Student Athlete Drama
"Coach Carter"
Why some groups are not learning and graduating to higher education in our Nation...?
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Adult Viewers Only
3. "Disclosure" - Michael Douglas / Demi Moore
4. "Fatal Attraction" - Michael Douglas / Glen Close
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Mideast history is instructive - The Bible tells us so...

Mideast history is instructive, with predictions often off the mark. But there are constants: U.S. efforts to maintain order and keep Israel and the Arabs on a peace track.

Sharon illustrates how events in the Middle East often defy expectations. The tough, unyielding ex-general wound up endorsing Palestinian statehood and withdrawing all Jewish settlers from Gaza and part of the West Bank.

Nearly three decades ago, Menachem Begin, another dedicated hardliner, agreed to relinquish Sinai to Egypt in exchange for a peace treaty.

The Arab leader he negotiated with, Anwar Sadat, had vowed only months before the accord that peace with Israel was a worthy objective, but not until the next generation.
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Are we not NOW in that next generation? Can our world leaders and theirs' finally make a peace accord on a higher level that works for all sides in a very heated debate?

If we can show these leaders "how to treat one another the way we - they - would wish to be treated" - it can and will happen for the many lives that we can truly help to save.

If we do - it may very well be our "very own sons and daughters" of this 21st century - whose lives we save. It is imperative that “a message of LOVE - never Hate nor violence” be shown - for one another - and that this be sent to "ALL listening and watching" in the region, in our institutions, and in the media around the world.

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A FEW GOOD - "IF's" - By "DR WAYNE"

Your Erroneous Zones -
Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking
and Taking Control of Your Life
By: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

From the author of the multirnillion-copy bestseller Pulling Your Own Strings, positive and practical advice for breaking free from the trap of negative thinking and enjoying life to the fullest.

A FEW GOOD - "IF's"

If you're plagued by guilt or worry and find yourself unwittingly falling into the some old self-destructive patterns, then you have "erroneous zones" -- whole facets of your approach to life that act as barriers to your success and happiness.

If you believe that you have no control over your feelings and reactions, you give up the many choices that are available to you. Dyer shows how you can take charge of yourself and manage how much you will let difficult times -- and people -- affect you.

If you spend more time worrying what others think than working on what you want and need, you will always be disappointed. Dyer shows that only you can make yourself happy and points the way to true self-reliance.

If you are still caught up in old labels for yourself and an out-of-date self-image, you cancel out your present potential. Dyer shows how you can break out the the patterns of the past to become fulfilled in the present.

If you depend upon others for your well-being, you lose yourself. Dyer shows how to take control of your own needs and learn to give and receive love without limits.
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Wayne Dyer is the author of Real Magic, You'll See It When You Believe It, and No More Holiday Blues. He is a frequent lecturer around the country and appears regularly on radio and television.
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QUOTE - Earl Nightingale in 1989 once said:
"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."
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Yes, that great optimism is back. Most analysts are painting ?

Yes, that great optimism is back. Most analysts are painting rosy scenarios for the world economy, particularly in emerging markets. In December Morgan Stanley said the global outlook for 2006 "is as sweet as it gets." Goldman Sachs estimated that emerging markets would have another great year, with growth of 6.6 percent, compared with 6.7 percent in 2005. The Institute of International Finance forecasts capital flows to emerging markets of well over $300 billion, 50 percent higher than those of a few years ago.

Of course, any broad show of optimism only provokes a counterreaction. It's no surprise, then, that some experts are pointing to any one or a combination of events, none by themselves implausible. Interest rates could shoot up in the United States and suck out money from all over the world. Growth could slow in the United States and China, clobbering the vital exports of developing countries. Oil prices could turn up once more and hurt key energy-importing emerging markets. A few big corporate-governance scandals in emerging-market multinational companies could shake investor confidence. A flu pandemic could shut down world trade. In truth, a crisis never comes from where it is expected, but there is no lack of scenarios.

These concerns are reinforced by a sense that as 2005 ended, global investors had become too lax in their evaluation of emerging-market risk. Questions were being raised as to whether the emerging-market boom was based mostly on the huge amounts of cheap money sloshing around the global economy seeking any decent return, reinforced by the herd mentality of financial markets, and therefore easily subject to a major reversal. Exhibit A was the premium on Third World debt, lower in some cases than that on junk bonds in the United States, lower than those many developing countries had received since the 19th century. Kristin Forbes, an MIT economist and a former member of George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, captured the spirit of the pessimists. "I worry that there is a perfect storm coming from emerging markets," she recently told The Washington Post.
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Many online merchants reported record sales this past season?

Several online merchants reported record sales during the holiday shopping season, including online retail giant Amazon.com, which said popular items were iPod music players, video games, coats and jewelry.

Amazon said it had its best holiday sales season ever, with more than 108 million items ordered. The company's holiday statistics cover the period from Nov. 1 through Dec. 21.

The busiest day for the world's largest online store was Monday, Dec. 12, when more than 3.6 million items were ordered, or 41 items per second. The most expensive item purchased during the period was a pair of diamond earrings worth $94,000.

Overall, e-commerce was healthy in 2005, according to early returns. The U.S. Congress, meanwhile, spent at least a few minutes before heading off for its Christmas recess dealing with a bill that proposes sweeping changes to taxes imposed on online sales.

ComScore Networks reported that online retail spending between Nov. 1 and Dec. 21 totaled more than $17 billion, up 24 percent from a year earlier, while online spending for the week ending Dec. 18 rose nearly 30 percent from the same week a year earlier.

ComScore forecasts that online retail spending at U.S. Web sites will exceed $19 billion for the entire 2005 holiday season, representing growth of about 24 percent from the preceding year.

"We've had a nice holiday season," Overstock.com President Patrick Byrne said in a statement Tuesday, "just not as nice a season as we've had in the past or as I'd hoped for."
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New Years Resolutions for 2006 - Isn't It "Time to Share Our Love and Our Light" instead of...?

"Changing Lives for the Better Everyday for our children!"

"Together We Can Make a Difference - and - already Have "Saved Lives" in the Family Law System...and around the World...!"

"Thank you for listening, for doing the right thing to help, and for Saving a Life from being injured needlessly...as this is what truly matters...and always has!"

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Isn't it TIME we NOW show forgiveness for those individual(s) or
movement(s) which have the Nations' best interest and the right motive(s) in mind...

Isn't it TIME we NOW show that we wish to help those trying to help resolve these LIFE SAVING issues, and will never wish that another human being (parent or child) is ever hurt by the present system again?

Isn't it TIME we NOW show ALL are fairly treated "as is guaranteed by our Constitution" for ALL Persons equally under the law, without discrimination - hatred - and/or with mailice and aforethought to intentionally damage (financially) or injure (emotionally) another child or parent - anymore...?

Can WE NOW SEE and Can WE NOW HEAR the tears of our nations children and those who have done nothing wrong but share their thoughts and case stories and the legal issues openly and honestly before the MEDIA, our State / Federal Political Leadership, and the American People of our GREAT NATION?

Can WE Pardon Them from any further continued attack(s) on their right to preserve our Constitiution which has always guaranteed "life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness" with their children?

Can WE truly show we CARE about Peace, Joy and LOVE toward our children and our fellow man ALL YEAR round - not just during the annual Christmas Season?

I beleive WE CAN Make this a NEW YEARS Resolution for ALL to SEE and WITNESS!
Don't You?

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Hollywood’s Heroes - are Acting, Directing & Listening to Make a Difference Too...!

In NewMax’s “Hollywood’s Heroes” you’ll find out about the 25 stars who deserve acclaim for their courageous support of America and our troops. These are celebrities who live out the heartland’s values and stand up against Hollywood’s political correctness.

NewsMax’s “Hollywood Heroes” reveals America’s true role models, including:


Mel Gibson – what really happened to this megastar when he dared to produce “The Passion of the Christ.”

Tom Selleck – why he has not been afraid of standing up for Ronald Reagan, even when it wasn’t in vogue.

James Woods – he turned his back on Hollywood’s peaceniks to stand up for the war on terror.

Patricia Heaton – a crusader for family values, this actress would not give up her values for her career.
There are many more stars NewsMax salutes.

You’ll find their stories and why we rate them “America’s Best Stars.”

They include: Andy Garcia, Gary Sinise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, LL Cool J, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar, Dennis Miller, Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Catherine Bell, Danny Aiello, James Earl Jones, Ron Silver, Kelsey Grammer, Morgan Brittany, Ben Stein, Pat Boone, Kathy Ireland, Rick Schroeder and Bo Derek.
NewsMax Magazine is out and available at many bookstores (including many Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million stores) and on newsstands.
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Thank you again for your continued support of equality of life, liberty, and the pursuit of fundamental freedom(s) - to express our moral and constitutional beliefs in 21st Century America - as it was done in the 1st century in Rome - to save our Children and their Parents - wishing only to live lawfully and equally in our democratic society today...

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TOP 10 Most Wanted Christmas Movies & HealthCare Options for ALL of US this YEAR...

Animaniacs: Helloooo Holidays

Hands down, this is one of the funniest and most irreverent cartoons based on the antics of three inkblot siblings who've escaped from the Warner Bros. animation tower: Wakko, Yakko, and Dot. The Christmas episode serves up plenty of wacky, off-the-wall humor and riffs everything from "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to "A Christmas Carol." There are surprises, too. "A Gift of Gold" takes an existential look at the life of a piece of wrapping paper, from the store to one family's celebration.

What Parents Like: The humor is loaded with topical quips and one-liners. The gags include send-ups of studio heads, fruitcake, and Al Gore.

What Kids Like: Energetic, smart-alecky humor, including a musical performance of "Jingle Bells" belched onstage in formal attire.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Charlie Brown is down in the dumps. Lucy's remedy? Direct the school Christmas pageant. Along the way Schroeder plays Fur Elise, Sally pens a letter to Santa, and Linus recites the Gospel story of the baby Jesus' birth: "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you tidings of great joy!"

What Parents Like: The first Peanuts TV special is a classic for the way it touches upon the material and the spiritual. When Charlie Brown lugs home the scrawniest tree, it becomes a branch-laden metaphor for holiday hope and cheer.

What Kids Like: The kids are all right. As Sally writes to Santa, "Please note the size and color of each item, and send as many as possible. If it seems too complicated, make it easy on yourself: just send money."

A Christmas Story

All Ralphie Parker wants for Christmas is a BB gun -- to be precise, a Daisy Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. He is obsessed with it but meets opposition and disbelief from the adults, who lecture: "You'll shoot your eye out!" Even a visit to Santa's lap leaves him stammering. Sometimes Christmas can be the most surreal season of them all.

What Parents Like: The situations are very real -- and funny. Ralphie's parents are endearingly human and flawed. When Christmas dinner goes to the dogs, the family dines at a Chinese restaurant.

What Kids Like: The movie captures both the absurdity and wistfulness of childhood, when snowsuits resembled straitjackets and triple-dog dares led to somebody's tongue getting stuck to the flagpole.

Elf

Bright Lights, Big City: After crawling into Santa's sack, Buddy is raised by elves. Accident-prone and freakishly tall, he leaves the North Pole and sets out to look for his birth father in New York City. It doesn't take long for him to find his dad -- on Santa's naughty list.

What Parents Like: The action is never too cloying or sweet, thanks to Will Ferrell's innocent elf-child, who is sweet, hyper, and excitable. He confronts the fake department store Santa by yelling: "You sit on a throne of lies!"

What Kids Like: Children will love the sight of a very tall man jumping up and down and giddily running around like a little kid. Ferrell blankets the world in Christmas decorations, goes for extra spins in the revolving door, and eats way too much sugar and candy.

Frosty, Grinch, and Rudolph

The arrival of this trio of TV specials every year is comparable to the coming of the Wise Men. A magician's hat blows away and lands on top of a snowman, bringing Frosty to life. After being rejected by the other reindeer for his glowing nose, Rudolph saves Christmas by allowing Santa to deliver presents during a blizzard. And Dr. Seuss draws a gimlet-eyed thief with the perfect cover: pretending to be Santa.

What Parents Like: Let Your Light Shine: It's your differences that make you unique. In the right circumstances, outcasts and misfits like Rudolph, Frosty, and even the Grinch can become heroes.

What Kids Like: Miracles happen. Rudolph saves the day, Frosty shows he has the white stuff, and even the smallest child will understand the transformation that takes place when the Grinch faces the tiny innocent, Cindy Lou Who.

Home Alone

When the youngest child in a large family gets left behind, he eats too much junk food and single-handedly defends his home against robbers. What could have been a nightmare -- being forgotten by your family -- turns into an adventure with slapstick farce.

What Parents Like: Oh, the clamor, the din, the confusion, and the mad rush that signifies the holidays. Admit it, it could happen, you could forget a few important details, like one of your kids.

What Kids Like: Kevin's ingenuity saves the day and puts the baddies away. Culkin is an impish delight, as he hatches booby traps and scatters toy trucks across the floor to trip up Pesci and Stern.

March of the Wooden Soldiers

A tall order: Instead of building "600 soldiers one foot high," Stan and Ollie build "100 soldiers six feet high." Their miscalculation comes in handy when mean Mr. Barnaby unleashes the Bogeymen on Toyland. He's put out because he didn't get to marry Bo-Peep.

What Parents Like: Those Bogeymen costumes are a low-tech marvel of shag carpeting and skirts.

What Kids Like: Kids will enjoy the physical slapstick and humor of Laurel and Hardy -- and the determined way the denizens of Toyland fight off the Bogeymen.

Miracle on 34th Street

Faith clashes with modern objectivity when Kris Kringle is hired to be Santa at Macy's. The real Santa gets a cold reception in the real world and is put on trial in the Supreme Court. Will he win people's hearts or be judged insane?

What Parents Like: The real insanity is letting cynicism and commercialism rule the day. Gwenn got an Oscar for his portrayal of a discredited and discounted Santa: "Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle."

What Kids Like: Seeing is believing. Children are natural-born skeptics. Wood is adorable as the doubting little girl who questions Santa's very existence.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Christmas gets a wicked makeover when Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown, crashes neighboring Christmastown. The haunting result is a fantastical brew of stop-motion animation and delightfully ghoulish surprises. Among the gifts director Tim Burton bears: skeletal reindeer, a sacked Santa, and a tree-eating snake.

What Parents Like: Adults will appreciate the naughtiness it takes to deliver such a subversive take on such a cheery time of year.

What Kids Like: The movie is a visual feast of quirky details, backed up by Danny Elfman's dark musical score.

The Santa Clause, The Santa Clause 2

A single dad must pick up the reins when he startles Santa off the roof -- and accidentally kills him. Reading the fine print of the job description and following the manual is no easy task. It takes a lot of work to make the world jolly.

What Parents Like: Allen fills out the red suit nicely -- making the transformation from harried single dad to harried Santa completely believable. Parents will relate to the white hairs and weight that Allen gains during the holiday season.

What Kids Like: What child hasn't felt neglected by stressed-out full time working parents during the holidays?

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President grants clemency to 11 convicted criminals in 2005

Updated: 8:07 a.m. ET Dec. 24, 2005

IN WASHINGTON - President Bush has granted 11 pardons, bringing to 69 the number of clemency orders he has issued since taking office five years ago, the Justice Department said.

Three moonshiners and a bank robber are among those pardoned, as is a Denver attorney with Republican political ties. The pardons were issued Tuesday, in keeping with a tradition of granting clemency during the holiday season.

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Isn't it TIME we NOW show the same forgiveness for those individual(s) or
movement(s) which have the Nations best interest and right motive(s) in mind...

Isn't it TIME we NOW show that we wish to help those trying to help resolve these LIFE SAVING issues, and will never wish that another human being (parent or child) is ever hurt by the present system again?

Isn't it TIME we NOW show ALL are fairly treated "as is guaranteed by our Constitution" for ALL Persons equally under the law, without discrimination - hatred - and/or with mailice and aforethought to intentionally damage (financially) or injure (emotionally) another child or parent - anymore...?

Can WE NOW SEE and Can WE NOW HEAR the tears of our nations children and those who have done nothing wrong but share their thoughts and case stories and the legal issues openly and honestly before the MEDIA, our State / Federal Political Leadership, and the American People of our GREAT NATION?

Can WE Pardon Them from any further continued attack(s) on their right to preserve our Constitiution which has always guaranteed "life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness" with their children?

Can WE truly show we CARE about Peace, Joy and LOVE toward our children and our fellow man ALL YEAR round - not just during the annual Christmas Season?

I beleive WE CAN Make this a NEW YEARS Resolution for ALL to SEE and WITNESS!
Don't You?

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Bush supporters believe in safeguarding national security

The tug over executive power traces back to the early years of the republic, and presidents have traditionally moved to expand their reach during times of war.

John Adams, fearing a hostile France, presided over the imprisonment of Republican critics under the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

Woodrow Wilson jailed Socialist Eugene V. Debs, who had run against him for president, for protesting the entry into World War I.

Franklin D. Roosevelt sent Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II.

Even Ronald Reagan circumvented a Cold War congressional ban on providing aid to contra rebels in Nicaragua.

The Bush administration rejects comparisons to such events and says its assertions of authority in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have been carefully tailored to meet the needs of a 21st-century war against a nebulous foe. At his news conference Monday, Bush bristled at the notion that he sought "unchecked power" and said he had consulted with Congress extensively.

Yet Bush supporters believe that other branches should take a subsidiary role to the president in safeguarding national security. "The Constitution's intent when we're under attack from outside is to place maximum power in the president," said William P. Barr, who was attorney general under President George H.W. Bush."

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The Truth Shall Set US Free...
Doing unto ourselves what was intended to prevent those wishing to harm our Nation and our Children here on our soil is what it was all about. Now we need to adjust and balance our actions equally so that it becomes a win-win for the Constitution, Congress, and the President.

We are getting it...we are making a positive difference...and are moving in the right direction, but NOW we must start to really show we are willing to comprimise, come to moderate agreement(s), and show we are helping those less fortunate who need our help to gainfully support and provide for their families...

Our Love, our Help, and our Support is something we can provide each and everyday...

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US Senate want hearings - Atty Gen Defends Actions taken ?

Specter wants hearings

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid disputed Bush’s contention that members of Congress had been informed.

Reid was one of several lawmakers of both parties who have backed a planned hearing on the issue by Specter, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Congress has not been involved in setting up this program. This is totally a program of the president and the vice president of the United States,” Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said on Fox. He said he was briefed on it only a few months ago, long after the program was reported to have been started.

Specter said he wanted to know what legal authority the White House had used. “Let’s not jump to too many conclusions. Let’s look at it analytically. Let’s have oversight hearings. And let’s find out exactly what went on,” he said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”


Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham
of South Carolina echoed the call for an investigation and said he knew of no legal basis for the White House to circumvent existing laws. “It is about winning the war, adhering to the values that we’re fighting for. And you can’t set those values aside in the name of expediency,” he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

McCain, Pelosi comment
Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said, “I take him (Bush) at his word” that the order was critical to saving lives and consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution.”

“The president, I think, has the right to do this, and yet, I don’t know why he didn’t go” through court procedures, McCain told ABC’s “This Week.”

“I know that the leaders of Congress were consulted, and that’s a very important part of this equation,” McCain said.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said she was advised of Bush’s decision “shortly after he made it” and had been given several updates.

But Pelosi, in a statement Saturday night, said that “the Bush administration considered these briefings to be notification, not a request for approval. As is my practice whenever I am notified about intelligence activities, I expressed my strong concerns during these briefings.”

On Saturday, the president said he had reauthorized the eavesdropping program 30 times since Sept. 11 and intends to continue it “for as long as our nation faces a continuing threat from al Qaeda and related groups.”

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But the real question is - is it legal - when it may have been used to adversely affect a call to "voice constitutional rights for family law change" and no other acts have been shown to warrant such neg actions taken "against a non-custodial parent wishing only to shed LIGHT" on these and other "constitutional freedom" issues?

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Forgiveness is what this should be ALL about and with NOW and Fathers Rights - Lawyers - working together to uphold the basic principles of the constitution
as outlined - honestly and ethically - on our web site...
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Democrats and liberal economic analysts also said the budget deal, although less dramatic than an earlier, House-passed version, would still allow states to impose significant new costs on health care for the poor, cut child support enforcement and foster care aid, and impose new work requirements on welfare recipients.

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Is there any big news TODAY in the CIA - NSA leak case(s)?

The last big news in the CIA leak case is the announcement, late yesterday, of Judy Miller’s retirement from the New York Times. The Washington Post features an interview with Miller, the reporter jailed for refusing to provide information to a grand jury. In the blogosphere, Powerline asks interesting questions about anomalously weak CIA controls of comments and publications by Joseph Wilson, another key figure in the case.

Speaking of anomalies - When leaks of information are traced to a whistleblower, the employee typically is fired, often without due process. But, a gentler approach to leaking prevails in the White House, where the staff are receiving ethics lessons and remedial training in the handling of classified information. Antiwar.com wonders why the President “gets to cut class.”

Curiously, there is no bar on staff contributions of money to Lewis Libby’s legal defense fund. In the federal civil service, gifts to coworkers are severely restricted, to avoid any perceived conflicts of interest. Libby is no longer on the staff, of course; but, that does not erase the perceived conflict of interest, i.e., that contributions might serve as “hush” money.

MediaChannel reports that Helen Thomas and others sought to prompt Scott McClellan to explain the apparent contradiction between the President’s claims that the U.S. does not engage in torture and Vice President Cheney’s request for a CIA exemption from torture prohibitions.

It remains a mystery. But is it really that much of a secret - anymore?
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I have posted this to start a real debate about the following. It will and has been placed on as many blog posts - as possible - if it saves just one child from losing another parent in our present current system:

I can only hope we are not again hoping to find in ALL a perfect leadership without fault or any imperfection (Dem or Rep) - as many lawyers in Wash and around the country - not in Wash DC - are all 1 step away from dis-barment themselves each day. Just “because someone has achieved a law degree does not make them above the law” and they must hope they are not subject to the same level of standards - they and we impose upon those in public life today…?

Just a thought as we move forward into another New Year…

Thank you for positing my comments and my movement toward equality and shared parenting for our children - although met with resistance N.O.W. we hope to work together peacefully - for “equal rights for all” as these must be upheld - if the other side ever wants to be taken seriously “when preaching equality for other rights in our nation” - as it is N.O.W. our children who should have equal access to both parents without killing another parent - who adversarily loses their child (or Mom or Dad) in any other future ABA Family Law decision.

Can we NOW do the Right Thing for our Children - Can We Stop the Anger and the Hatred?

Please Forgive as this is what this time of year is ALL about. Lest them who feels they can cast the 1st stone...and show the WORLD they are perfect and without sin...?


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Comment by Stephen Rene — November 26, 2005 @ 10:56 am

Fathers and Parents ask to Forgive those who can NOW do the Right Thing for our Nation

The New York Times notes that the White House asked the Times not to run their report about Bush-authorized NSA eavesdropping, “arguing that it could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny. After meeting with senior administration officials to hear their concerns, the newspaper delayed publication for a year to conduct additional reporting.”

The AP lists the 16 measures in the Patriot Act that are set to expire on December 31, if not reauthorized by Congress.

Bloomberg notes that at least four Republicans support a filibuster, meaning that the help of nine Democrats is required to head it off.

"If Democrats filibuster the current bill and Republicans refuse to accept a short-term extension, the Patriot Act that is now on the books will expire in two weeks," says the Washington Times. "Further complicating matters is that even if a compromise is reached in the Senate, it will have to be approved by the House... Privately, Republicans say they are astonished Democrats would consider filibustering the Patriot Act and leave themselves vulnerable to future political attacks...

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As a Father and Caring Parent who has admonished only love for my child and the other children crying out for fairness in our Family Court System needing reform, and wishing only to promote equal parenting rights the following may be relevant to this story - and may involve personal injury damages in order to affect a simple change for my son - Dane.

Since placing my website www.PARENTSWHOCARE.us (formerly FATHERSWHOCARE.org) up for debate and political consideration - as well as the Apr 2005 CA "Shared Parenting Bill" being introduced in Sacremento - the following actions (and others) were taken against me and my child only to achieve a sustained lack of success for voluntary support of my son this year and for the last 7 years without "wage garnishment" being needed - and as I have shown and experienced these intentional blocks to my financial success by:

Bank of America - in June 05 (Letter sent to Pres NY, NY) - corrected immed
FL Realtors Assoc - in Nov 05 (Letter sent to Pres and Gov - FL)
Verizon - in Nov 05 (Letter sent to Legal in CA) - corrected immed
SBCGlobal / Yahoo - in Nov 05 (Letter sent to Legal in CA) corrected immed
and NOW even - BidPay.com - in Dec 05 (Letter sent to Legal)
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which can ALL NOW be shown to have been designed intentionally to "inflicit emotional distress, block and violate the legal rights" of other Parents / Children's Rights advocates and their constitutional free speech and other protected "civil rights" illegally. ALL this just to affect their legal rights to support any child free of torture or any negative governmental interference by Federal Law - equally and voluntarily under the law.

Please release any blocks currently involved in my ability to work honestly and earn a decent living for my child - here in our country - the United States of America...

If we will only do unto others that which we wish done unto US we will do the Right Thing in addressing these issues legally and ethically under our 200 plus years of US Constitutional Law.

Thank you, again, for your prompt attn to this matter.

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Should the Patriot Act's roving wiretaps and secret warrants be allowed under US Federal law?

This is / was a Live Vote - by the "People of the United States of America"

Should the Patriot Act's roving wiretaps and secret warrants provisions be renewed for four more years? * 861 responses

- Yes, letting down America's guard leaves us vulnerable to preventable terrorist attacks.
23%

- No, giving those powers to the government is an infringement on citizens' rights and privacy.
77%

Although this is not a scientifically valid survey.
Click to learn more.

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House renews Patriot Act, but Senate could balk

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The House voted 251-174 to approve a House-Senate compromise that would modify and make permanent most of the Patriot Act’s 16 expiring provisions. But a group of Republican and Democratic senators is lobbying for more time to add additional safeguards on the law.

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Please remember those slain by those in the 1960's and what it was and why they died for their country - Senators.
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"Freedom, Liberty, and Equality does not exist in a democratic society without legal restraint, judicial oversight and responsibility to protect and to serve the people's rights as a government under our US Constitutional law."

Checks and Balances - are what we were afforded by our Founding Fathers - please do not forget about them.


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"Is it not NOW the Time ALL Good Men/Women in leadership come to the defense and aid of our US Constitution..."

“We do this for our children,” and for "those less fortunate than themselves."

“We do this for our children,” Maria, 39, says of having left Houston in a run-down minivan with the hope that Jose Luis, 49, could cash in on the Katrina work boom that has drawn countless Hispanics to the hardest hit areas.

The family made it to Waveland, thinking a friend here would line up work hanging sheetrock for Jose Luis, but the jobs never came through.

Maria recalls that after a first night in a hotel charging $300 for one bed, the family spent several nights in their car, then in a small tent on a strip of grass along Highway 90.

Sandra Reed, an administrator at the Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District, was handing out tents to homeless families with school-age children when she and a Spanish-speaking teacher came across the Martinez family.

“They couldn’t even stand up in it,” she says of the pup tent they were living in. The family received a stand-up tent and the educators saw to it that the eldest child, Julissa, 7, got enrolled in school. “The need was just so stark,” Reed says of the effort expended to help the family.

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Thank you MSNBC - As New Orleans and other areas hit by these natural disasters show how they are really struggling to try to survive, and the kind of organization needed to stay there to document and employ people where they are needed down there is staggering, if not overwhelming.

The only hope they / we have in any real sustained recovery is thru donations of our time and money sent down by those who wish to help - "those less fortunate than themselves."

Click here for a Slideshow of just some of the Devastation

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Age Discrimination Gets Younger - Right When Our Support is Needed Most?

Not long ago, age discrimination was mostly associated with those getting close to retirement. But as the economy changes and the Baby Boomer generation ages -- the youngest Boomers turned 40 in 2004 -- age discrimination is affecting more workers who are nowhere near the end of their careers.

In fact, many managers in their 40s may feel like they're just hitting their stride in terms of professional accomplishment.

"Age bias seems to almost be acceptable, and that's a real problem," says Dan Kohrman, senior attorney for AARP and an expert on age discrimination. "In some cases, employees are being let go, and they don't realize what was done to them -- that they were discriminated against because of their age."

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 is designed to protect those age 40 and older. According to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), age discrimination complaints have been increasing steadily since 1999, especially among those between the ages of 40 and 50. And a survey conducted by ExecuNet in February 2005 revealed that 89 percent of those polled, who represented a cross-section of white-collar workers aged 30 to 60, were concerned that they may soon be discriminated against for age-related reasons.

Educate Yourself

So what can you do if you feel you're a victim of age discrimination? If you have recently been fired or laid off, talk to others who were recently let go and look for possible patterns. What sort of anecdotal evidence can you dig up? Does the company have a history of discrimination, not just by age, but also by race, gender or other factors? Also, contact an employment lawyer or the EEOC, which has a section of its Web site on age discrimination.

It's a trickier situation if you are employed but concerned about age discrimination in your workplace. In this case, you should educate yourself on all the different shapes age discrimination can take, advises Kohrman. Have you seen colleagues get passed over for promotions and raises because of their age? Has the company recently begun using evaluations such as "forced rankings"? Age discrimination experts say this rating system, which can be used to assign poor performance ratings to previously high-performing employees, is one tactic used to create a paper trail that can protect a company from a potential age discrimination lawsuit.

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Discriminatory Practices- Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), it is illegal to discriminate in any aspect of employment, including:

hiring and firing;
compensation, assignment, or classification of employees;
transfer, promotion, layoff, or recall;
job advertisements;
recruitment;
testing;
use of company facilities;
training and apprenticeship programs;
fringe benefits;
pay, retirement plans, and disability leave; or
other terms and conditions of employment.
Discriminatory practices under these laws also include:

harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age;
retaliation against an individual for filing a charge of discrimination, participating in an investigation, or opposing discriminatory practices;
employment decisions based on stereotypes or assumptions about the abilities, traits, or performance of individuals of a certain sex, race, age, religion, or ethnic group, or individuals with disabilities; and
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Katrina Victims Need Our Help from "Infliction of Emotional Distress"

"It's like living in the Twilight Zone," said Candace Cutrone, who as assistant coroner for mental health in Orleans Parish has the overwhelming task of evaluating psychiatric cases for local hospitals. "The whole world changed overnight."

Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said he does not have statistics for the city, because many deaths -- including nine by gunshot -- remain a mystery. He knows of at least one woman who killed herself recently. New Orleans emergency personnel have responded to at least six suicides and nearly two dozen suicide attempts since Katrina. The tightly knit community of Academy of the Sacred Heart, the Rosary, is coping with two suicides, headmaster Timothy M. Burns said. Shortly before Thanksgiving, a woman with young children took her life. Last week, the father of a Sacred Heart student was buried.

And with so few medical services available in the region and the slow pace of rebuilding, experts expect the psychological toll to grow far worse.

"I think the whole city's grieving," said Alvin M. Rouchell, chairman of the psychiatry department at the Oschner Clinic Foundation in neighboring Jefferson Parish. "I've seen a lot of post-traumatic stress disorder. People who had emotional disorders before the hurricane have a worsening of conditions, and some people for the first time are having panic attacks, depression, PTSD."

Calls to a national suicide-prevention hotline skyrocketed from the typical 100 to 150 a day to more than 900 in the immediate aftermath of Katrina before leveling off to about 210 a day now, said Charles G. Curie, administrator of the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

In a clinical survey of Orleans and Jefferson parishes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 45 percent of the residents were experiencing "significant distress or dysfunction" and 25 percent had an even "higher degree of dysfunction," said Dori Reissman of the CDC. Nearly half of those interviewed reported feeling isolated, and a quarter believe at least one family member needs counseling. On Wednesday, the Bush administration plans to distribute public service announcements to 11,000 media outlets advertising a confidential toll-free number for individuals or family members who may have been psychologically impacted by the storm and its aftermath.

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Can we "NOT now SEE" from this example how the effects of a neg Family Law legal action can ruin good lives and certainly "take its toll" by having a very neg impact on a child and non-custodial parent alike? - especially when they are separated and affected so adversarial in this process - and by the current legal system of Family Law in place?

Do we "NOT now SEE" the need for helping those in this relief effort with keeping families strong and bonded together? - not devastated by the dis-ruption of communication and the bonds established between a parent and a child so loved by them - simply due to continued needless court action(s) - and pass legislation that encourages those custodial parents involved to do the right thing too...for our children...?

Isn't it time WE SEE that based on our nations founding fathers documents that - We as a people come together and "Be a Part of the Solution - Making a Difference" and helping to care enough to want to Save lives - and not continue the arguments which injure them and we "NOW" know is both a violation of moral and sound judgement?
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This Christmas, no prayers will be said - Why?

This Christmas, no prayers will be said in several megachurches around the country.

Even though the holiday falls this year on a Sunday, when churches normally host thousands for worship, pastors are canceling services, anticipating low attendance on what they call a family day.

Critics within the evangelical community, more accustomed to doing battle with department stores and public schools over keeping religion in Christmas, are stunned by the shutdown.

It is almost unheard of for a Christian church to cancel services on a Sunday, and opponents of the closures are accusing these congregations of bowing to secular culture.

“This is a consumer mentality at work: ‘Let’s not impose the church on people. Let’s not make church in any way inconvenient,”’ said David Wells, professor of history and systematic theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a leading evangelical school in Hamilton, Mass. “I think what this does is feed into the individualism that is found throughout American culture, where everyone does their own thing.”

These megachurches are not alone in adjusting Sunday worship to accommodate families on Christmas. But most other congregations are scaling back services instead of closing their doors.

First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Fla., led by the Rev. Bobby Welch, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will hold one service instead of the usual two. New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., led by the Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, will hold one Sunday service instead of the typical three.

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Has the Spirit of Christmas been lost from it's truly historical origins?
The choice is yours - and choice - is really what it is all about - isn't it?
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EU to probe reports of secret CIA prisons

Prisoners flown to Poland and Romania, Human Rights Watch says


BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union officials said Thursday they would investigate a report that the CIA set up secret jails in Eastern Europe to interrogate top al-Qaida suspects. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch in New York said it has evidence indicating the CIA transported suspected terrorists captured in Afghanistan to Poland and Romania.

That conclusion is based on an analysis of flight logs of CIA aircraft from 2001 to 2004 obtained by the group, said Mark Garlasco, a senior military analyst with the organization.

Poland and Romania were among about a dozen nations that denied having CIA facilities in their territory.

In Poland, an aide to President Aleksander Kwasniewski said authorities there had "no information" of such facilities existing there.

"I repeat: We do not have CIA bases in Romania," the country's prime minister, Calin Popescu Tariceanu, said.

Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Georgia and Armenia also issued denials.
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Pressure to catch terrorists led agency to make arrests with little evidence

In May 2004, the White House dispatched the U.S. ambassador in Germany to pay an unusual visit to that country's interior minister. Ambassador Daniel R. Coats carried instructions from the State Department transmitted via the CIA's Berlin station because they were too sensitive and highly classified for regular diplomatic channels, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation.

Coats informed the German minister that the CIA had wrongfully imprisoned one of its citizens, Khaled Masri, for five months, and would soon release him, the sources said. There was also a request: that the German government not disclose what it had been told even if Masri went public. The U.S. officials feared exposure of a covert action program designed to capture terrorism suspects abroad and transfer them among countries, and possible legal challenges to the CIA from Masri and others with similar allegations.

The Masri case, with new details gleaned from interviews with current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials, offers a rare study of how pressure on the CIA to apprehend al Qaeda members after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has led in some instances to detention based on thin or speculative evidence. The case also shows how complicated it can be to correct errors in a system built and operated in secret.
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Holocaust Paper Clip Project ties in to many issues facing America TODAY

This after-school project involves eighth grade students who are learning about the Holocaust and how prejudice and power in the wrong hands can be catastrophic. We have a project that we would like your help on.

We are trying to have 6,000,000 paper-clips sent to our school to represent the 6,000,000 victims of the Holocaust.
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It is truly in these unethical acts "we as a people need and should speak out about" in order to share with our children how even human leaders can over re-act when faced with un-precedented challenges - but we must ALSO remember that no human being is perfect - YET can tell by their actions and thier deeds when they are honest about making mistakes and are now on a more positive course to correct them for the American people.

I am confident that if we work together - they will in the end make even better decisions that are for the best for the country and our people - especially - if we will share our thoughts and our prayers with them - not to criticize them - as to do so - might only delay what could be positive signs for our children's future!

Does anyone possibly fear that we are in or on the brink of WWIII - if we do not choose a more politically prudent way of dealing with our enemies at home and abroad who are filled with such hated for our Nation - as we occupy theirs - what might a few minutemen have done in our nations past...?

I truly fear that if we do not change our current course - my son may not ever enjoy the lifetime of opportunity we have here in the US - and I would only wish him to experience - and unless we change in a few positive ways the direction we are headed in the future...so many might not get the chance to serve our nation in so many positive ways...

My commentary on this is not / was not EVER meant to be - in any way a direct comparison - or EVER should be - in any way construed as a comparison - between Japanese detainees or Jewish Holocaust detainees - during WWII - other than to point out the negative effect this has on the perception it shares with the rest of the World. I hope this helps dispel any connection to having any feelings of dis-crimination against any gender, race, religion, or creed "as is" protected by our US Constitution.

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Whitwell Middle School Paper-Clip Project

This after-school project involves eighth grade students who are learning about the Holocaust and how prejudice and power in the wrong hands can be catastrophic. We have a project that we would like your help on.

We are trying to have 6,000,000 paper-clips sent to our school to represent the 6,000,000 victims of the Holocaust.


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"We chose paper-clips for a special reason. During World War II, Norwegians wore paper-clips on their clothes to show their opposition to Nazism and anti-Semitism. ”


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Whitwell Middle School is a small rural middle school located in eastern Tennessee. Our student body consists of about 425 students who are mostly Christian with very little cultural diversity. In our entire student body, we have only 5 African-American students. Those 5 students represent all of the cultural diversity in our school.

It is for this reason that we decided that our students needed to be prepared to handle the diverse world that they will be charged with leading in the future.

However, when we mentioned that 6,000,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, our students could not believe that that many people were killed and no one did anything to stop it. So, to show them just how many 6,000,000 is, we came up with the paper-clip project.
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IF we can only see how the lives of these were lost in vain and how the hatred toward a certain few caused it, then how hard we faught to end their suffering and their pain in WWII...?

Can we not also see how 1000's lives are being lost (non-custodial parents and their children) everyday based on similar hatred shown by one parent against the other - is THIS ACTION not the same as the paper clips of this project - and simply show that life, liberty and the pursuit of family togetherness / happiness is what is so needed in our society historically - as well as - today.

"Lest we never forget them" - as well as - "those who have made a positive difference in sharing their love and their light" in the founding principals of our country's spirtual diversity - and in always knowing and "doing unto others as we would wish done unto ourselves."

"May my son be raised up in this spirit - and when he needs me - he will know always that I am there with him...in spirit - if I cannot be with him in person..."


Merry Christmas 2005
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WASH Post on Xmas (not to be confused w/ Xbox) - I'm Giving the Gift of Affordable HealthCare

Consumer spending represents two-thirds of the economy, and the frantic month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is prime time for retail sales -- for some merchants, up to one-quarter of their yearly total. It has penetrated the national consciousness that how well the nation's retailers do during the Christmas season is seen as a powerful indicator of America's economic health.

All weekend, there were breathless reports on the news: Huge crowds waiting for the stores to open on Friday! Disappointing sales at the end of the day, down 1 percent from last year! A big rebound over the weekend, with total sales up 22 percent from last year! But maybe only the big discount chains did well, and the specialty stores are quiet as a tomb. Or maybe it's just electronic goods that are selling like hotcakes, and everything else is gathering dust on the shelves. Or maybe not.

Each of us has to bear part of this burden, and I resent it. I almost feel that if I don't shop enough between now and Christmas, the children of merchants will go hungry -- but then I think about it, and I realize that whatever worries the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Sam Walton might have, caloric intake probably isn't one of them. I almost feel that if I don't whip out the credit cards fast enough, China will take over the world -- but then I remember that everything in the stores is made in China, which must mean that China is inevitably going to take over the world anyway. But maybe the Chinese will take over the world sooner if I don't shop.

Of course, the other reason the Chinese are taking over the world is that they have such a high savings rate. We Americans spend money as fast as we make it -- sometimes faster. The whole thing has the whiff of a giant Ponzi scheme. We spend our money so that the economy can create jobs so that we can be employed so that we have more money to spend. Some of the money leaks out to China, but the Chinese return the favor by financing our huge fiscal deficits, which is in their interest since China needs a healthy U.S. market to buy its goods. Round and round it goes, and everything is fine as long as nothing interrupts the flow.

As I said, this basically has nothing to do with the "real" spirit of the Christmas season. That's something every family and every individual must find within, and it has nothing to do with how big those credit card balances are a month from now.

No, this is about the economic spirit of Christmas, and who wants to be responsible for contributing to national decline? So, despite my shameful performance so far, I promise to go out and spend. And I'm going to try my very best to ignore the fact that the morning after Christmas, all that stuff will go on sale . Every last bit of it.

Let that be our little secret. Don't tell anybody, especially China.

eugenerobinson@washpost.com

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Great Article - But being without the income due to starting my own healthcare business I needed to sustain any Christmas shopping of any consequence this year, I wonder if, those I truly care about will notice my presents (& my presence) this year are much less - than in prior ones - and that I truly would have wished them to be?
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QUOTE OF THE DAY - from Walt Disney

QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Get a good idea and stay with it.
Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right.
--Walt Disney

Homeless Man Saves Cop's Life - Does the Right Thing

Two weeks after police have credited [a homeless man] with saving the life of one of their own, he is still there, in the parking lot, downplaying his actions as police drive by every so often to offer thanks or donations.

Bret Smith, the commander of Northeast Precinct, where Off Tobey is assigned on the graveyard shift, hopes to find Whitman [some] transitional housing - another way of showing gratitude. "He deserves that and anything else we can do for him," Smith said.

Off Tobey said "he could not find words that expressed the depth of his feelings" for the [homeless man]. "He was a blessing to me, simply," he said. "A guy was beating on me and wouldn't have stopped unless [Whitman] pulled him off - I'm sure of that."

But Whitman, 53, doesn't think of himself as any kind of hero. Home for him is a 1977 Lincoln Versailles, faded pastel yellow, with tags that expired in December 2003.

But to Portland cops, his actions are a big deal. Wednesday night, about 15 officers and sergeants from the graveyard shift drove from the precinct to the bar parking lot after graveyard-shift roll call with a carload of blankets, long johns and food. They also came with money left in an envelope put out at two Northeast Precinct roll calls, which they thought would add up to $30 or $40, enough for a few nice meals.

"It turned out to be about $250," Teig said. "People from every precinct have been giving us stuff for this guy, so I think we'll be making more trips out to see him. We couldn't fit everything in the car."

Whitman said what he really needs is a secure job. He was in the Navy from 1971 to 1974, he said, then got jobs doing custom woodwork, later building exhibits at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry. Heart and prostate problems forced him to cut back his hours, he said. Then, a year and a half ago, he said, he got laid off.

"I just can't hump sheets of plywood anymore, but I'd love to be doing something, y'know?" he said. He seemed taken aback that anyone would want to know more about him.

"I didn't do nothing special," he said.

"You would be surprised," Teig said, "how many people don't step up [when they are needed]."

"In this neighborhood, people should know what this guy did for one of our guys and that we got his back," Teig said. "I hope nobody tries to lay a hand on him except to shake his hand."

"That would be nice, real nice," [Whitman] said. "[I] Don't know what all this fuss is about, though. I don't want anybody to make a big deal."

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Thank You MsNBC as this is another prime example of those in need of our help - who show they can and want to save the lives of others - everyday - if given the chance - and who are in need of our assitance too - as they continually have and will show, "again and again" they always "try to do the right thing for others instead of just themselves."

It is in ALL of US...and shines the bright "light of awareness" on the problems we must N.O.W. face in our country and in our society - for Equality - for Freedom - and by simply showing and sharing these stories of un-selfish acts of love for one another - no matter what our gender or economic status in life...
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Wash Post on Endangered Journalists

Tuesday, November 22, 2005; Page A28

IT'S A MEASURE of the political dangers facing journalists in much of the world that two of the four winners of this year's International Press Freedom Awards couldn't make it to New York City to pick up their prizes tonight. A third will be there, but doesn't dare go home. And the fourth is, for the first time in the history of the awards, not a journalist at all, but a media lawyer from a nation that basically has no more free journalists to honor. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), in choosing this year's honorees, not only highlighted the almost unimaginable bravery of reporters and their advocates seeking to work in repressive environments; it also demonstrated that, in too many of those environments, the repressers are winning, at least for now.

One absent winner will be Shi Tao, 37, a Chinese journalist serving a 10-year sentence for "leaking state secrets abroad." The "secrets" he posted on the Internet were from a Propaganda Department memo telling Chinese journalists how to cover (or not) the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. In other words, Mr. Shi was imprisoned for reporting on how the Chinese government keeps other journalists from doing their jobs. His case, sadly not surprising under the current Chinese regime, was made possible by cooperation between Chinese police and the U.S. company Yahoo, eager to maintain access to China's market.

Also missing from tonight's award ceremony will be Lcio Flvio Pinto, 56, a newspaper editor in Brazil's Amazon region. He's not in prison, but the corrupt businessmen and local officials he writes about have filed so many harassing lawsuits against him that he dare not leave his home: One missed court appearance would give authorities an excuse to put him in jail, according to the CPJ. Meanwhile, Uzbekistan's Galima Bukharbaeva, 31, who bravely reported on a May 13 massacre of civilians in the city of Andijan, cannot return to the former Soviet republic still ruled by its old communist boss, for fear of impriso