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A Reader’s Thoughts On Oprah

Posted by | Nov 7, 2008 | |

          I have been a loyal viewer for 12 years. Ever since my twin girls were born, I have been a stay-at-home-mom and a part-time Restaurant Manager. I remember around 12-18 months ago an episode called “Oprah and Gayle’s Cross Country Trip” which was amusing as well as enlightening. Oprah, Gayle and the crew were out west somewhere and Oprah proclaimed, “I am actually scared for our lives. I don’t think they have seen so many black people in one place at one time.”  I remember thinking, “Oh right, Oprah and Gayle are African American.” I never even thought of Oprah or Gayle as African American, I thought of them as just people; something I teach my children everyday, judge the inside, not the outside.  All is well with peace and harmony in the world. Then came the rally… for Barack in South Carolina.  I thought, “Oh God, please not another celebrity shoving their individual ideas down our throats.  I remember thinking please Oprah don’t go political on us.  We need you Oprah for our everyday wisdom and personal affirmation, not your politics. I remember thinking I don’t have a huge bank account with an accountant, I don’t have a private, famous doctor on call and I don’t have an audience to chant my views to. Though I still watched the Oprah show it wasn’t everyday, and I was...

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Time to pay the piper?

Posted by | Nov 6, 2008 | |

With the election over and Barack Obama scheduled to take up residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., some questions arise about his course for America. More importantly though, and far more numerous, are the “pipers” that now need to be paid.             Obama’s campaign raised $150 million in the month of September alone, that shattering his record of $65 million in August. His filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) showed a very sizable chunk of donations for both months were from donors who gave less than $200. Wow, you might say, that means he had a lot of donors. On paper you would be right, but Americans everywhere… …need to know that according to FEC rules, donors who give less than $200 do not have to be itemized. They are thrown together in the “un-itemized contributions” category. Really now. Furthermore, since they don’t need to be listed with the FEC, Obama won’t disclose the names. That means one of four things: 1. The economy wasn’t nearly as bad Obama said 2. The lists are with his birth certificate (the original), and “darn it we just can’t find THAT thing anywhere” 3. The lists are with his college transcripts, and “darn it we seemed to have misplaced those things” 4. There really weren’t THAT many donors, just a small number who sent in small amounts under false names, lots of...

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What is a vote?

Posted by | Nov 6, 2008 | |

THE FOUNDATION: CITIZENSHIP           “Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” –Samuel...

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“I am for doing good to the poor…

Posted by | Nov 5, 2008 | |

. . . but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”  Ben Franklin – On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November...

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