Happy Veterans Day everyone. On this day, I honor the men in my life and all other men and women that have served our country in the United States Armed Forces.

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I came across this last night. A 5 day projection for Hurricane Gustav. I am sending thoughts and prayers to everyone that has or may be impacted by the hurricane. I watched the news yesterday and I was really surprised and amazed that despite the outcome of Hurricane Katrina, there are still [...]

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This is truly going to be an exciting election. I enjoyed the Democratic Convention this week. I may just have watch the Republicans to see what they are up to.
Here is future President Barack Obama’s speech that he spoke to the Democratic National Convention last night.
“Barack Obama: To Chairman Dean and my great [...]

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Dear Missnexus.com readers,
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, there’s finally a bill in Congress that will give Katrina survivors a fair chance to rebuild their lives. But it won’t become law if enough representatives don’t stand up to support it.
The Gulf Coast Civic Works Act would hire 100,000 Gulf Coast residents and evacuees, providing them with [...]

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A friend of mine forwarded this on to me in an email.  I already know who I am voting for, but here are a few reasons why you should not vote for John McCain.  Interesting stuff.  Watch this video:

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This is an excerpt from a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called Loving Your Enemies, presented on November 17, 1957.

…So I want to turn your attention to this subject: “Loving Your Enemies.” It’s so basic to me because it is a part of my basic philosophical and theological orientation—the whole idea of love, the whole philosophy of love. In the fifth chapter of the gospel as recorded by Saint Matthew, we read these very arresting words flowing from the lips of our Lord and Master: “Ye have heard that it has been said, ‘Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.’ But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.”

…Now first let us deal with this question, which is the practical question: How do you go about loving your enemies? I think the first thing is this: In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self. And I’m sure that seems strange to you, that I start out telling you this morning that you love your enemies by beginning with a look at self. It seems to me that that is the first and foremost way to come to an
adequate discovery to the how of this situation.

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Dear Senator Hillary Clinton,

Congratulations on you winning the New Hampshire primaries.

It looks like all of the mudslinging at Barack Obama is paying off. Keep up the good work. Bill must have learned it from the best.

Other than that, I just wanted to inform you that you still suck and no matter what, you will never get a vote from me. Even if I have to vote Republican.

Sincerely,

Rashaan (aka Proud Registered Voter)

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Thank you JT and Papa… the love of my life and my maternal grandfather, who served in the United States Navy and United States Army during the Persian Gulf War and World War II, respectively.

Thank you to all other veterans for protecting our freedom and serving your country with honor.

Happy Veterans Day.

Presidential Proclamation for Veterans Day 2007: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071031-6.html

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Dear Missnexus.com Readers,

Finally, there’s a bill in Congress that would help some of the hardest hit Katrina survivors come back home. Unfortunately, it is about to die because some members of the Senate think it’s fine for certain New Orleanians–specifically those who are Black and poor–to be shut out of the city.

I just called on my senators to support the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007 (S. 1668). It would re-open desperately needed housing and make sure there is no loss of affordable public housing in New Orleans. Please join me by contacting your senators and check out powerful videos about the housing situation in New Orleans created by Brave New Foundation and as part of the Voices from the Gulf Project. It takes just a moment:

http://www.colorofchange.org/s1668/?id=1815-298172

Saving Affordable Housing in New Orleans

New Orleans public housing residents have been fighting for over two years to return to apartments that were minimally damaged by the storm. But the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has shut them out, because it wants to demolish most of the available public housing units–and replace them with far fewer mixed-income housing. The vast majority of the most affordable public housing units, pushing thousands of mostly Black low-income residents out of the city.

S.1668 honors the right to return of all New Orleans public housing residents. It requires the re-opening of at least 3,000 public housing units and ensures that there is no net loss of units available and affordable to public housing residents. It also designates $1.7 billion for rental housing assistance and earmarks millions for community development programs, which will benefit an even larger segment of the lower income population. But the bill is in danger of dying — because some senators are opposed to preserving affordable public housing.

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You may have heard about this video by now as it is the number one video on Google Video. Titled, Hillary! Uncensored - Banned By The Media, it features entrepreneur Peter Paul releasing the truth about Hilary Clinton to the public.

At time stamp 2:50 into the video, Peter Paul states that, “his interest in supporting Hillary Clinton was specifically to hire Bill Clinton… and concocted a big fund raiser for Hilary.” This concocted fund raiser brought in more than tens of thousands of dollars the Clinton campaign. Clinton conveniently left out millions of dollars that were donated to the 2000 Senate campaign. In 2006, Federal Election Commission, in response to a Judicial Watch complaint, fined Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign group $35,000 for failing to accurately report $721,895 in contributions from former Judicial Watch client Peter Paul.

Peter Paul does not have such a clean history himself, but I am not here to judge him. What I am trying to do is spread knowledge so people will know that the Clinton Campaign has a shady past and appears to have done everything they could to cover it up. I sincerely doubt that you will be seeing a video in this nature on any major network such as ABC, CBS or NBC evening news, anytime soon.

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