Good Day marjorie, Yah! I do not know how I feel about this either. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I think we are about to see Pop Culture meet Presidency, not sure where that leaves me either.

Giving Heart, What A beautiful name… I am fortunate in that I do not like Soda pop. But I find The Merchandising Of America very interesting. I think that this could be seen as disrespectful. Or as a alarming sign of selling of The Presidency. Or a Good Thing that maybe that’s liking the President is part of Pop Culture. Still not sure what to make of this…

Ladies, Here is the Cnn link to their web page Words Of The Past. Each and every Speech , George Washington to George Bush.Those that have been captured on film are available as well. There really is a lot to be said for History, especially from Our own. We are such a young Nation, with such broad shoulders.” One Nation Under God with Liberty and Justice for All…” http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/speechlibrary… I personal would like to see this as a permanent page. I Believe that The People Of America( and yes their will always be those that object to those words , but it is the Whole that makes up Our Heart. ) It is every Good and wonderful moment that we share and build upon that brings us closer and closer to actualizing Our Founding Father’s Dream, and The Dream that so many others have carried us to: to this new Mountain Top to Reach. I see these Troubled Times as “Labor Pains”( Boy you can take that in two ways) I Trust in All The Grace I see. I am so Blessed and I am Blessed to Be living where I do.

Hello Tee Zee, I did not know you are a fellow NOLA gal. Is it not amazing to see all these experts on our lives? I am just really glad that because of Katrina and boy their is still so much to come out to the Mass public about her and what really went down and what is happening . I am just glad that the response to those natural disaters has been markedly improved for others. And Livin is our Spirits that will rebuild the Entire area, starting with the Barrier Islands and our wetlands! Did you see the news cast at the 17th street levee, when the Corp stood there and said it was rebuilt to code and then some guy slit it open and decaying newspaper fell out, channel 6 gotr it on film. You can see it on their web site…HAPPY MARDI GRAS …The Celebration is a good long one this year!

Sometimes you get to tare it down to build it right! The whole Financial System is one big PONZI… We need to really face the facts and get back to common sense…And Self Responsibility. Values outside of Greed…Put our Value in what is really important to our lives and happiness. Buy Local and build our communities. Re issue The American Currency, to rid it of imaginary funds, off shore accounts and illegal funds…

WOW! I agree with Julia… What about Martha Stewart, she went to Jail for a questionable 34,000… but After I get those thoughts out of the way, I think possible that they really do not want to jail him at this point in time, in Hopes of getting cooperation from him. I have the feeling their are some very big fish yet to enter this boiling pot! Where is The Money? Belize???

Rocky, Hello, hope all is well with you and yours. I agree on Biden, He was my choice for Pres. I was thrilled when Obama choose him.

Why does anyone? EGO EGO EGO… As far as feeling safer, I feel less safe with each and every bomb, rocket and gunfire that takes place anywhere in this world. I believe violence begets violence. I look forward to the day when all Nations have rising or evolved to Higher Grounds for solving their disputes.

Hello Sandbee, I have been looking out for a post from you. And of course it is a good one. How are you and your Kitty? and How is your area doing in rebuilding issues? Never hear anything about The Gustav- Ike Recovery!

The full version of Martin Luther King’s Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk and this is the written version…. What a nice thing it is, you will be doing, Thank You…. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: “For Whites Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”¹ I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest — quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”2 This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

With Great Hope! I unfortunately will be at the Doctors on Tuesday. But I am sure I will catch the vibe from the wOw posters. And no doubt they Media will replay it all over and over again! Hey what do People Think about the Merchandising of Obama, right down to the new Pepsi ads?

Miracle on the Hudson, followed with such amazing stories of response. Makes us all feel uplifted to know of such positive moments. That regardless of our “vehicles”, be it their shapes, gender, sex, colors , nationalities, or creeds. There are shinning examples for us…Thank You Brittany for Being A Bright Shinning One.

Greetings C jay, Here is a place to bring Ideas…This is from a recent email… Dear Friend, We wanted to tell you about a new feature on Change.gov which lets you bring your ideas directly to the President. It’s called the Citizen’s Briefing Book, and it’s an online forum where you can share your ideas, and rate or offer comments on the ideas of others. The best-rated ones will rise to the top, and after the Inauguration, we’ll print them out and gather them into a binder like the ones the President receives every day from experts and advisors. If you participate, your idea could be included in the Citizen’s Briefing Book to be delivered to President Obama. http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ “It’s time we tackled questions we can actually do something about…”

Elaine, Thank you for sharing your heart strings. I was really moved by your posts. It got me thinking about what a good book it would make to have the stories of our Rescued Kids (with photos). And have the proceeds go to Rescue programs. Question, did you get to see more than the Thai pic? Just curious about how the new feature from Myspace works..God Bless them all and Endless Blessings to you and yours…