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THE PARTY OF NOBAMA.

Illustration by Mike Scott

A FEISTY PRESIDENT = AN ENERGIZED BASE.

Last Friday we saw an amazing thing. We saw a glimpse of what we voted for. President Obama going head-to-head with a room full of GOP congressman. Without notes. Without a teleprompter. Answering every question thrown at him with an amazing amount of factual detail. Calling them out on their lies and "party of no" obstructionism. He showed us he's the right man right now for this job.

Since then, he's continued to do this in many appearances around the country. Yesterday he appealed to Dems to "Finish the Job On Health Care" and not take the easy way out. Today he spoke out against Birthers at the National Prayer Breakfast saying, "Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Civility is not a sign of weakness. Now I am the first to confess I am not always right. Michelle will testify to that. But surely, you can question my policies without questioning my faith. Or for that matter, my citizenship."

Could it be that he's "campaigning" so we can keep our majority this November? Will he continue these televised debates with both the GOP and the Democratic Party?

We hope so.

A twitter hashtag #questiontime and a petition has been started to support creating regular Q&A sessions with the President, similar to how they do Question Time in the British Parliament. The White House has already said they feel the spontaneity of last Friday's event would be destroyed if the Q&As were held on a regular basis. We'll see what happens... READ MORE

COME ON DOWN... TO THE WHALE SANCTUARY.

What an amazing thing Bob Barker did! Bob Barker, retired television host and life-long animal rights activist, recently donated $5Million to the Sea Shepard Conservation Society for a new ship, aptly named the Bob Barker. Best known from their reality series "Whale Wars", Sea Shepard is a group of volunteers led by Captain Paul Watson who go into the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in Antarctica every year to try and stop the Japanese from illegally slaughtering whales. The sanctuary is a 50 million square kilometer area surrounding Antarctica where the International Whaling Commission has banned all types of whaling. The Japanese claim they are whaling for "research", when in reality they are selling the meat.

Yesterday the other new vessel in the Sea Shepard's fleet, the former global racing boat Ady Gil, was deliberately rammed by the Japanese whaling boat Shonan Maru 2. 6 people were thrown into freezing waters and the boat sunk. Watch the video below.

Keep up the good work Sea Shepard... we hope you're all safe and okay.

HEMPY HOLIDAYS! NOW LET'S LEGALIZE IT.

 
Thanks to Current for all of their great info on legalizing medical marijuana and recent scientific findings about the plant. Check out the posts on their Make Marijuana Matter group.

The country could make up to $7 billion a year if they legalized medical marijuana and taxed it nationwide. It is already legal in 14 states, but why not make it a federal law? Since marijuana has many health benefits, particularly for people who have terminal illnesses, we can't think of a better way to add to the health care budget int his country.

To find out more about reforming marijuana laws, visit NORML.

10/24 : INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION

Tomorrow on October 24th, the grassroots movement for Climate Change called 350 will engage people across the globe in hopes of getting our leaders to pay attention and craft policies to stop Climate Deterioration. If we don't do something RIGHT NOW, places like the Maldives will be under water due to rising sea levels, with millions of people needing to relocate.

350 is the most important number in the world. It's what scientist say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Right now the concentration of CO2 is 390 particles per million. This is way too high and is why the ice is melting, drought is spreading, forest are dying, etc. We need to stop putting CO2 in the air.

Read about it and Sign the petition!

REVISIONIST HISTORY GETS CALLED OUT.

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GO CHRIS MATTHEWS! GO RON REAGAN!  This is worth watching...

Right-wing neoconservative Frank Gaffney went on "Hardball" last night to defend Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby receiving a "Service Before Self" award for their work in "protecting the nation." I guess being a felon and committing treason are cause for adolation and reward.

After a heated exchange with Ron Reagan on the war in Afghanistan, Gaffney gave up on arguing and went for a personal attack. "Your father would be ashamed of you," he told Reagan, whose father was the late president.

"Oh, Frank," Reagan replied, "you better watch your mouth about that, Frank.

THE NEED FOR MORE SPEED.

It took the House & Senate 2 days to vote for revoking federal funds for ACORN, but it's taking 30 years to get American's affordable Health Care.

Whenever there's a scandal which could cause politicians to lose future elections, they REACT and do something quickly about it. But when there's something good which will help the American People, something that requires real Action, they dilly dally, argue, negotiate, compromise, take lobbyist money and get nothing done.

The Tortoise and the Hare,
illustrated by Milo Winter, 1919

WHO'S PAYING TO KILL HEALTH REFORM?

A very cool chart by Campaign for America's Future which really explains it all.

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IS BIPARTISANSHIP A DELUSION?

Is it worth the struggle for President Obama to get a bipartisan Health Insurance Reform Bill passed? The Republicans have come out and said they will oppose any bill, one that includes a Public Option, a Co-Op, whatever. Now he has the opposition of the Blue Dogs in his own party to deal with. Since we voted President Obama into office along with a democratic majority in both the House and Senate, do the people even care about bipartisanship? At what point does the President say screw them.. let's use our majority and just push through a good Bill for the People?

Political Cartoon by Arash Banisafar