Stimulus Funds Will Rebuild Ty'Sheoma Bethea's School (Update)

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Tuesday January 26, 2010 · 7:42 PM PST

2010/01/26 · 19:42

Everyone remembers Barack Obama's first address to congress where he introduced a lovely young lady named Ty'Sheoma Bethea after she wrote a letter about her broken down school in South Carolina.

"We are just students trying to become lawyers, doctors, congressmen like yourself, and one day president, so we can make a change to not just the state of South Carolina, but also the world," the president read from Bethea's letter as she looked on, standing next to Michelle Obama. "We are not quitters."

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 2:34 PM PST

2010/01/21 · 14:34

I'm going to be honest and say I that I have to get this out.

We preach to the choir too much while the church around us burns down. Now some may complain about making that comparision but I think it is apt.

That goes for anybody. Pro-Obama. Anti-Obama. Third party people. Whatever. We are just sitting here and talking and arguing to ourselves while everything goes to shit around us. Talking over one another instead of getting out there and actually changing the narrative to the issues that matter to us. This is not to say that Dailykos isn't a great avenue of progressive thought or can't clarify issues through argument or debate. This is not even a full indictment to those who go out everyday and work hard to improve their communities and use DK as a way to also organize effectively.

But I have been troubled the last few weeks, days, and hours in watching the debate turn into "We're all screwed. Forget about it." Or being angry at voters for voting the way they did. Or being defeatist in the face of enormous odds.

Niwind

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Monday April 06, 2009 · 12:46 PM PDT

2009/04/06 · 12:46

From CBS News:

The Saudi Arabian newspaper al-Watan reported today that Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian origins Friday in connection with a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama during his current visit to Turkey.

The man, who was carrying an Al-Jazeera TV ID card in the name of M.G., confessed after his arrest that he was planning on stabbing the U.S. president with a knife during the Alliance of Civilizations summit held in Istanbul, adding that he had three other accomplices to help him execute his plan.

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Saturday April 04, 2009 · 12:58 PM PDT

2009/04/04 · 12:58

As a disclaimer I will point out that I am in favor of nationalization and believe that it will be what happens eventually because we will have no choice in the matter. That being said, I believe one of the biggest aspects of what is being left out of the discussion are why nationalization is probably the weapon of last resort.

The person who should know best of the situation is the current head of the FDIC, Sheila Bair.

Niwind

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Monday March 30, 2009 · 6:46 PM PDT

2009/03/30 · 18:46

In Seymour Hersh's new article about how Syria could be the key to Middle East peace, he drops a bombshell about the Gaza offensive that sheds light one what was going on during that crisis right before Barack Obama's inaugration.

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Obama Adminstration pushing to give FDIC control of failed companies

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Wednesday March 25, 2009 · 5:52 PM PDT

2009/03/25 · 17:52

Interesting news about the Obama's administrations attempts to gain powers from congress to place hedge fund and insurance company's into recievership. Their plan now includes the FDIC taking complete control of those companies on the word of the Federal Reserve as well as the President and Treasurary Secretary.

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Can the FDIC handle the big banks?

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Monday March 23, 2009 · 2:28 PM PDT

2009/03/23 · 14:28

In my earlier diary I went over the reason I believed temporary nationalization (or more accurately recievership) could still be on the table. In this diary I wanted to go over why I think the FDIC, The Obama Administration, and Congress may have been hesistant to nationalize these big banks and why I believe in the future the government may need a superFDIC to break them apart.

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Is Nationalization Still On the Table?

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Sunday March 22, 2009 · 10:32 AM PDT

2009/03/22 · 10:32

When reading through two articles from The Washington Post and The New York Times something was missed in both articles that I think deserve some serious discussion. While both articles focused on regulationg bonuses, I think they both glossed over what could possibly be the biggest story concerning the administration's thoughts and possible future actions.

I think that the administration has a plan B. And that plan B might be temporary nationalization of not only banks, but corporations that are deemed too big to fail.

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The story of how health care got in the budget

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Wednesday March 18, 2009 · 10:14 AM PDT

2009/03/18 · 10:14

While there is a fight about AIG bonuses and who should blame who to get what, there is a fascinating article in The New Republic about how health care became a priority for this year and what it says about the importance Obama places on it.

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Obama to use OFA to push budget

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Sunday March 15, 2009 · 3:35 PM PDT

2009/03/15 · 15:35

In an effort to push for his budget bill, Barack Obama will officially begin to use his online grassroots support to influence legislation.

David Plouffe, campaign manager for Obama's presidential bid and an adviser to Organizing for America, called this effort the "first major engagement" of OFA in the legislative process, adding that the group will call on supporters "to help the President win the debate between those who marched in lockstep with the failed Bush economic policies and now have no new ideas versus the Obama agenda which will help us manage the short term economic crisis and puts us on the path to long term prosperity."

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MLK Jr and "The Birth of a New Nation"

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Monday December 22, 2008 · 10:54 AM PST

2008/12/22 · 10:54

I have been examining the conflict that had been ravishing this board since Rick Warren's announcement. There is righteous anger. There is bitterness at the unfairness of this process. There are understandable feelings on betrayal. And all of it is something that I can understand and appreciate as someone who is for full equality of all citizens.

In this reflection I have gone into my own self reflection about the Civil Rights Movement that has brought us to this moment where we are about to swear in a man of color on January 20th. Just a year ago I doubted Obama had much of a chance. Not in this country. White people weren't ready. It would take more years for this to happen. I always thought that someone of hispanic orgin would get it before a black person. Or a woman. But I felt that the nation wasn't ready for it. That maybe we would never be ready for it.

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Sunday December 21, 2008 · 8:16 PM PST

2008/12/21 · 20:16

When I was a young child, my parents gave me a children's bible that had illustrated pictures of biblical stories. One of my favorite characters in the bible was King David. I would pour over stories of his adventures and imagine him slaying Goliath or battling Saul. When I was much older I began to read the adult bible.

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