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60 Minutes with President-Elect Obama

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Sebastien Centomo

Rick Kozak

ok so maybe i'm a little obsessed ~but in a good way!

Shine Down ~ I own you~

"I Own You"

Come on in, take a seat.
Tell me how you feel this weak.
Are you cursed? Are you blessed?
Are you still inside the mess?
All those feelings wrapped around you,
Hold you down so you can't break through.
Its a trap, so don't ask. Its a shadow on
Your back. It don't burn, it don't bleed,
Still it cuts you at the knee.
All this pressure that surrounds you,
Holds you down but you know you
Gotta break through.

[Chorus:]

Hey, c'est la vie.
Remember me?
I made you, dressed
And trained you.
Hey, it's bitter sweet.
You can't kill me with kindness,
I don't buy it.
Strip down, show me flesh and bone.
(Strip Down.)
'Cause now I own you.

Take a breath, hold it in.
Now look up, let's begin.
Lesson learned, take a turn.
Now you come around again,
All those feelings wrapped around you,
Hold you down so you can't break through.
Time is up, take your shot.
'Cause your story's all you got.
Don't back down, don't say no.
Just stay still and let go.
All this pressure that surrounds you,
Holds you down but you know
You've gotta break through.

[Chorus]

(You can't kill me with kindness, no I don't buy it.)
Strip down, show your flesh and bone.
'Cause now I own you.

[Chorus]

Now I own you. [x3]
You know I own you.

We Need More Pirates!

You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

(No I don't mean the modern Somali type of pirates! )

Our Military troops need help!

The (very) active military:
Of the Army’s 44 combat brigades, all but the one that is permanently based in South Korea have been deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan. Of the 43 brigades:
12 brigades have served one tour
20 brigades have served two tours
9 brigades have served three tours
2 brigades have served four tours

Source: The Center for American Progress

Tapping Reserves:

More than 434,000 National Guard and Reserve members have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and more than 20 percent of them have been deployed more than once. This large-scale reliance on the Guard and Reserve — with about 60,000 on the ground at any given time — represents a shift away from the services’ traditional dual role — aiding in domestic crises, such as natural disasters or civil unrest, and standing by as a strategic reserve force, to be deployed in later stages of a conflict if needed.

Source: Department of Defense and National Guard and Reserve

Indeed, the whole approach to providing manpower for this conflict differs from that of the Vietnam War, from 1964-1975. Then, a much larger active military — 8.7 million troops — was bolstered by a draft that added 1.7 million more soldiers to the ranks, according to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. More than 640,000 of the draftees served in Vietnam, constituting about one-quarter of the total U.S. force there, the VFW said.
But the draft ended in 1973, and the active military now numbers about 1.4 million, according to the Department of Defense.

In order to sustain troop levels in what has become a much more prolonged conflict than originally anticipated, the military has relied on repeated deployments, and a far heavier use of “weekend warriors.” More than 434,000 National Guard and Reserve members have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, about one-quarter of them more than once, according to the Pentagon. In comparison, about 340,000 Guard and Reserve troops were deployed during the Vietnam conflict.

Extended tours of duty in the combat zone — some as long as 18 months — also are a departure from the past. In Vietnam, the standard tour of duty was 12 months. If a soldier was to be redeployed to the combat zone, Army policy mandated a 24-month period of recuperation or retraining between tours, said Larry Korb, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank.

While military families’ views of the war vary, many feel that too few are being asked to sacrifice too much — a prominent theme among those who shared their thoughts with msnbc.com.
“If this "War on Terror" is the "War of this Generation" and Washington is not going to change that mission, then … Washington needs to mobilize this nation through national service (conscription),” wrote a Gut Check America reader in Baton Rouge, La., who asked that his name be withheld because of concern that his remarks might cause trouble for his son, now in his second deployment to Iraq. “To have 1 percent of this nation's citizens bear 100 percent of that burden is morally reprehensible. ‘Support the Troops’ needs to be more than words to the other 99 percent of this nation's citizens.”

“Our experience is that it’s two different worlds — the one for everybody else, and the one for military families and service people,” agreed Laura Stranlund of Amherst, Mass., whose son, Army Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Miller, is on his third deployment since 2001. “Unless you’ve got skin in the game or know someone who does, it just doesn’t seem to matter. America is at the mall.”

Mr. President-Elect Barack Obama

YES!!!!!!!

I got a thank you letter from our soon to be president, Mr Barack Obama. I cried when I was listening to his speech, I cried again today when I read it. I'm just so relieved and I feel the beginnings of hope. It's overwhelming. Of course, nobody knows what the future holds, Mann tracht und Gott lacht ~ Man Plans, God Laughs..... but this is just an astounding, beautiful, amazing time in history no matter what!

Barack Obama to me 12:05 AM (15 hours ago)
Courtney --
I'm about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.
We just made history.
And I don't want you to forget how we did it.
You made history every single day during this campaign -- every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it's time for change.
I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.
We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next.
But I want to be very clear about one thing...
All of this happened because of you.
Thank you,
Barack

Cameron's 4th Grade Figurative Language Project

If the world could vote

There is a nifty map that shows the results from votes recieved world wide. Really cool check it out!

http://iftheworldcouldvote.com/
"November 4th 2008 the American people will choose a new president. The president of the United States of America is the most powerful person in the world.

We would like to know who would be the next president of the United States of America - if the world could vote!

In the presidential election in 2004 122,267,553 people voted. 6,500,000,000 people did not.
Our mission is to get more people to vote than voted in the last election. Mission impossible, we know, but still, wouldn't it be great to see what the whole world thinks? "

Barack Obama
87.2% (705,642 votes)
John McCain
12.8% (103,458 votes)

as of this time:

Total number of votes:
809,132
Countries voted from:
212
Votes received the last...
Hour:
7,740
24 hours:
91,506
7 days:
308,786

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