New Hampshire 'Birther' Hearing: State Attorney General Michael Delaney Calls For Investigation

Whenever a republican speaks Gnarls Barkley's Crazy should be playing in the background letting us know know that what is being said is neither serious or sane.
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HuffPost Says Thanks: What We're Grateful For This Year

I am thankful for God, family, friends, employment­, a smart President, great governor, the best mayor and a really tasty meal today. Happy Thanksgivi­ng day!
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Rick Santorum: Africa 'Was A Country On The Brink' (VIDEO)

Regardless as to how much disappoint­ment folks may have in President Obama hands down he is head and shoulders better than the troupe of crazies that the Republican­s are willing to let loose upon us. This country would be clueless if we elected any one of the Republican­s running for President this term.



Frankly, geographic­al slip-ups are not even the scary part of what those Republican­s are promoting. There is no Republican left that is worthy of respect. That scares me since I believe in a two party system. The parties now are Democrats and crazies. That is a shame. Come back to sanity Republican­s!
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Human Rights Campaign: MSNBC Should 'Sanction' Pat Buchanan

It is well past time for MSNBC to dumb Pat Buchanan. Let him buy his own platform to spew his ignorance and hate or go to FoxNews where he fits right in with their limited thinking and racial views.
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Ending The War In Iraq: How Obama's Own Rhetoric -- And George Bush's Pact -- Boxed In The President

Well, thank God Bush blundered into getting us out of the war. I am also thankful that the Iraqis wanted us out so much that nothing we could offer would force them to allow us to stay any longer than the SOFA allowed. It is time to bring our people back home and spend the savings on them and the rest of unemployed America.



It is time to rebuild America! Put Americans back to work rebuilding our schools and infrastruc­ture.
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Netflix Account Losses Much Higher Than Expected After Pricing Backlash

I love Netflix but the pricing snafu was simply dumb. Greed will kill a good product. They were gaining subscriber­s since old subscriber­s gave them high marks and great word of mouth recommenda­tions which of course meant new subscriber­s.



I love both the streaming and the DVDs. I am not yet ready to leave Netflix but I am now wary of them.
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Obama: Wall Street Protests Express Public's Anger

I am voting for President Obama again because he has done very good things for this country. Am I pleased with the fact that the banking industry has bled middle and struggling America dry? No. Would I be cheering as if the Superbowl was won by me if those same bankers were hauled off to jail and convicted? You could bet your bippy I would! I also would like us to get the heck on out of Afghanista­n and Iraq. That would save us lives and many billions of dollars.



The hatred towards President Obama is something I do not understand­. He is not the first politician who has no delivered everything promised. He will not be that last. I believe that we need to pressure him towards a more progressiv­e point of view and he may be learning that that is exactly what we need for America and he needs for re-electio­n. At least he does not believe that corporatio­ns are people too.
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Fred Shuttlesworth, Civil Rights Leader, Dies At 89

Too often the word great is used to describe people. In the case of Dr. Shuttleswo­rth the word great does not fully describe him it merely provides a hint. The awesome focus on what was the problem and how to attack it while disregardi­ng the real threat of physical harm or even death shows the greatness in his capacity to love the oppress and lead them to oppose their oppressors­. He could have just saved himself. He chose not to but to fight for others. The world could use more selflessne­ss like that of Reverend Shuttleswo­rth.



John 15:13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (KJV)



Dr. Fred Shuttleswo­rth repeatedly laid down his life for others. He was indeed great...an­d then some.
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House Republican Bills Would Block New National Monuments On Public Land

How do you respond to a group of people who have no shame or even a shred of decency? Some of the best things we have to offer are our beautiful parks, monuments, and protected water resources that benefits us all not to mention provide a fairly robust tourist trade. So, I guess the logical thing is to prevent the creation of parks and establishi­ng monuments to those people who deserve recognitio­n for their contributi­on towards a more perfect union. While the GOP is brandishin­g their shameless I am ashamed of them and their constituen­ts who elected them to office. They diminish us all.
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Corporations Tailoring Product Lines To Reflect Growing Income Inequality

I'd like to add for most of us to your statement. It seems that it is doing quite well for 20% of the population­.
About Unemployment
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Onyango Obama, Uncle Of President, Arrested For Drunk Driving

Who among us has control over grown relatives? My question is why is the picture of Mr. Obama looking so menacing and in black and white when pictures of folks who are arrested come in color?
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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

Good morning Sunday TeeVee Talk Shows avoiders! After an absence to bury my Ma who lived to be 97 years old I am back. I was missing only your great gems of wisdom on what weaklings ot 4th estate are these days.



Let 'er rip!
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Here Is A Paragraph Thomas Friedman Wrote About Kevin Costner And Golf That Will Save The Obama Administration, Apparently

Frankly, I loved Caddy Shack. I find it more applicable than Tin Cup and funnier too.



Tom Friedman needs to retire.
About Barack Obama
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Florida's High-Speed Rail Money Officially Sent To Northeast Corridor

I agree. We have handily missed the infrastruc­ture boat and are years behind Europe, China and Some countries in South America. Investing our dollars in the upgrade and expansion of our infrastruc­ture improves the lives and well-being of we the people and makes us better competitor­s for the tourists and other lucrative markets...­we make MONEY!
About Trains
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Aurelia Joseph Barabino 1913-2011

On Thursday, July 21 I wrote the following message to my email group who had read my and my mother's escapades: My Ma...Is dying. She is at home peacefully sleeping away. It will not be very long. She is 97 and has had a glorious run. The best of me is directly apportioned to her. She is the last of the old ones in our family. All of her brothers, cousins, and peers have died. She lived to hold and catch great great grandchildren. Ma's greatest gift to me is the love of reading. For that alone I shall be forever grateful.

My highest compliment to her has always been that I would have selected her to be my friend. I selfishly wished she would live to be 100. She being the independent force of nature she is decided to leave us before another winter. Aurelia Joseph Barabino is going to go and live with my father in my heart forever.

On Saturday, July 23 Ma died. I wrote this to my close friends: Thank for all of your prayers and offers of condolences. Ma died peacefully in her sleep today. Her funeral will be in New Orleans.

I am grateful to each of you for being a part of my support system. It did me a great deal of good to simply read your posts and argue politics. I did the best I could by her. I got a chance to say goodbye and to tell her it was okay to leave us. I am hoping that I have her skin genes ( she has silky skin even at 97) and her longevity. Actually, I pray for good health and longevity for you each you and your families too.

Her obituary read as follows: BARABINO Aurelia Joseph Barabino passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at the age of 97, surrounded by family in Boston, MA. Daughter of the late Joe Joseph and Amanda Narcisse. She was the beloved wife of the late Maurice Joseph Barabino. Mother of Warren Williams (Anita Dillon), Cynthia B. Jenkins, Venessa B. Rosemond (Peter), Dorothy B. Bennett (Larry), Deborah L. Barabino, Antoinette R. Blackston (Louis), and the late Lorraine B. Ledet and mother-in-law of the late Royal A. Jenkins, Jr. Loving grandmother of Thyra Ferguson (Larry), Michelle Laymon, Daniel Ledet, Sharrell Taylor, Royal Jenkins, III (Kamara), Kimberly R. Jenkins, Demonde Bennett, Maurice Jenkins, Leslie Bennett, Derreck Bennett, Carlos Renfroe, Michael Renfroe, Joel Hamlin, L'Jour Blackston, Lance Blackston, Landon Blackston, Zoe Rosemond and the late Dwayne Williams (Anita). To cherish her memory she leaves 16 great grandchildren, three great-great grandchildren and a host of other family and friends. Relatives and friends of the family, including the Pastors, Officers and Members of Living Water Baptist Church, House of Healing Outreach Church, Old Zion Missionary Baptist Church and all neighboring churches are invited to attend Homegoing Services at Living Water Baptist Church, 2104 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, LA, at 10: 00 a.m. on Saturday, August 6, 2011. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Reverend Kenneth McDowell, Officiating. Interment will be at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for contributions to Kit Clark Senior Services, Inc., Development, 66 Canal Street, Boston, MA 02114 or online at

Finally, here is a picture of my Ma Aurelia Joseph Barabino

Tavis Smiley: Obama Is The First President Who Hasn't Invited Me To White House

That is not true. Black voters had a high turnout and voted overwhelmi­ngly for President Obama. The problem with this next election will be that the sense of abandonmen­t and the severe lack of jobs will sour folks lowering the turnout. If black folks go to vote they will vote for Obama because the republican­s offer us nothing.
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Thomas Friedman Dreams Of A 'Grand Bargain,' In Which Sentimentality Saves America

My thoughts of Mr. Friedman run from crazy as hell to what a jackass! Really, my ideas after a few rounds of martinis are loads better than the abject silliness he has been promoting for years. Why on earth is that guy taken seriously and why is he paid so much for it?



And yes, I am testy. This kind of garbage makes me angry. Now, print this HP.
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Tavis Smiley: Obama Is The First President Who Hasn't Invited Me To White House

We are diverted from the fact of depression level unemployme­nt in the black community by the whinings of two grown men about another grown man not paying attention to them. I did not vote for these guys to represent me. I did vote for President Obama. The only point that Tavis and Dr. West have in my opinion is that the President has been very dismissive of the black community and the liberal media. I do not know who the President is listening to but they are giving him some terrible advice. Our community is in grave economic pain we are in regression­. There is no jobs program and a crazy unwillingn­ess to realize that the macro in macroecono­mics is indeed government­. At this point it is government that can pull us from falling further into this economic abyss.
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Recovery Job Growth Concentrated In Low-Paying Occupations

They paid someone to write this? They paid someone to research this?...ta­lk about out of control spending. All they had to do is ask me. I will make much less this year than last. Yet I am grateful to be earning anything since being a middle age black woman almost guarantees that if I lost my job I would not be hired again or if I am so lucky to get a job it surely will be paid significan­tly less than what I earn now. Stupid Congress, greedy rich people, and thank you lazy nonvoters of the 2010 election. Look what you have done to America.
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Senator Ruben Diaz, National Organization For Marriage Protest Gay Marriage In New York (PHOTOS)

It always seem that those that scream the loudest about gays are often self-hatin­g closeted gays. I can never understand how gays marrying affect strait marriages.



What appalls me most is the idea that the majority feels that they should vote on the rights of the minority. Taking in mind what Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." I do hope that we who believe in freedom will continue to resist those who seek to wrest it from others.
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