YES HE IS!! :>)

YES HE IS!! :>)

That is soo wonderful. Enjoy it all. Soak it up and create more precious memories.

I wish I had my mother to enjoy with. I miss both my parents so much. I Love them.

God is good all the time & all the time God is good!

God is good!

LOL! :>)

Although Conserv will simply ignore all logic in your post. . . . but great points.

This whole Obama's trying to do too much needs to be challenged and countered. If you think Obama is trying to do too much here is one thing that I know. After the last eight years it is a bit unusual to have a president who can walk and chew gum at the same time, but that is exactly what this country needs right now. We all know that it's been 8 long years since Washington saw leadership from the White House that they are shocked by it, but that's exactly what the voters elected, and exactly what they are looking for. A president who is able to manage and lead this country on more than one issue at the same time. A president who does not take six weeks off in the middle of a crisis. A president who does not quit work at 5:00 in the evening. A president who is not, shall we say, out to lunch.

What I am guessing is that this line is from the people who think that Obama should focus on making the Wall Street bankers happy, and put off until later other problems. Do you think he should just let the health care crisis get worse for a few more years? Do you honestly believe that is what people really want? Why not we just let the education problem fester for a few more years? Is that what you believe the voters believed that Obama meant and said on the campaign trail? Is this the notion Obama should play the Washington game of we'll get to that later, when it's more politically acceptable? Well, I don't think the voters are willing to wait, President Obama obviously doesn't think the voters are willing to wait, and I think the voters are right in this case and these critics are wrong.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/...

“We''ve been hearing a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in recent days from pro-Obama corners — from celebrity investor Warren Buffett, from moderate conservative columnist David Brooks, from one of the Democratic Party's deepest thinkers, William Galston — all along the same lines. Put aside your plans, announced in your budget, for national health insurance, for a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases, for effectively abolishing the secret ballot in unionization elections. And, they might have added, for higher taxes on, and a reduction in, their charitable deductions to channel money away from charities and nonprofits and toward the government. Pay attention to the first thing on your platter and the nation's, Buffett and Brooks and Galston say: the financial crisis.”

http://kansascityteaparty.wordpress.com/2009/03...

“Kansas City, Missouri – The maturing Tea Party Protest Movement claimed its first victory this week when Senator Claire McCaskill, D, Missouri, voted against the Omnibus Spending Bill. McCaskill cited her opposition to earmarks in opposing the bill’s passage. “

Tax me if you can

“We're constantly told that taxes don't matter to business and investors, but listen to that noted supply-side economist, Alec Baldwin. The actor recently rebuked New York Governor David Paterson for threatening to try to help close the state's $7 billion budget deficit by canceling a 35% tax credit for films shot in the Big Apple.

“I'm telling you right now,” Mr. Baldwin declared, “if these tax breaks are not reinstated into the budget, film production in this town is going to collapse, and television is going to collapse and it's all going to go to California.” Well, well. Apparently taxes do matter, at least when it comes to filming “30 Rock” in Manhattan…..”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123698885439126...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/...

“We''ve been hearing a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in recent days from pro-Obama corners — from celebrity investor Warren Buffett, from moderate conservative columnist David Brooks, from one of the Democratic Party's deepest thinkers, William Galston — all along the same lines. Put aside your plans, announced in your budget, for national health insurance, for a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases, for effectively abolishing the secret ballot in unionization elections. And, they might have added, for higher taxes on, and a reduction in, their charitable deductions to channel money away from charities and nonprofits and toward the government. Pay attention to the first thing on your platter and the nation's, Buffett and Brooks and Galston say: the financial crisis.”

http://kansascityteaparty.wordpress.com/2009/03...

“Kansas City, Missouri – The maturing Tea Party Protest Movement claimed its first victory this week when Senator Claire McCaskill, D, Missouri, voted against the Omnibus Spending Bill. McCaskill cited her opposition to earmarks in opposing the bill’s passage. “

Tax me if you can

“We're constantly told that taxes don't matter to business and investors, but listen to that noted supply-side economist, Alec Baldwin. The actor recently rebuked New York Governor David Paterson for threatening to try to help close the state's $7 billion budget deficit by canceling a 35% tax credit for films shot in the Big Apple.

“I'm telling you right now,” Mr. Baldwin declared, “if these tax breaks are not reinstated into the budget, film production in this town is going to collapse, and television is going to collapse and it's all going to go to California.” Well, well. Apparently taxes do matter, at least when it comes to filming “30 Rock” in Manhattan…..”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123698885439126...

to take it up higher than personal, the potency of the stuff is increasing right along with demand and that gets no ink. but i work with and live around a lot of kids who aren't asleep on that, knowing more about it technically than the legalize it crowd. they're already bugged out on it. how will the law distinguish?

so for personal and public health reasons i'm against. but, yes, some good can come from legalizing, a stabilized market on the supply side, but i don't think that good outweighs the public nuisance argument (esp. re: children) or the potency argument. [if we can't barbecue in manhattan, then surely the weed spots will have tight regulation - but i think we'll have more illegal smokers than illegal bbqers as the urge to get high is too strong.]

now take todays harmless personal use of weed covered by the kind face of the northwest u.s. users where moms give it to their kids or the kind face of another chill evening in nyc – all this adds up to crazy demand behind those masks. legalization is what many world leaders are pushing. could work by crashing the profits as with alcohol… but use will go up and they leave out the problem of the new amped up stuff that ain't so harmless as that of 70's mythology.

leave your moral arguments out of this except as they concern how many folks die as our demand makes people fight hard to fill it and gets worse since the new stuff can go for premium. we might be our own new slave traders.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20007...

Beginning Sunday, the White House will harness every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans as reflexively political, according to party strategists.

A participant in the planning meetings described the push as a successor to Democrats’ message that Rush Limbaugh is the Republican Party leader. “We have exhausted the use of Rush as an attention-getter,” the official said.

David Plouffe, manager of Obama’s presidential race, helped design the strategy, which includes the most extensive activation since November of the campaign’s grassroots network. The database—which includes information for at least 10 million donors, supporters and volunteers—will now be used as a unique tool for governing, with former canvassers now being enlisted to mobilize support for the president’s legislative agenda.

Others involved in the planning included White House senior adviser David Axelrod; the DNC chairman, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine; and DNC Executive Director Jennifer O'Malley Dillon.

The plan follows the private complaints of some Democrats that Obama let the GOP get the better of him during the debate over pork in the budget bill he just signed, and growing concerns among some Democrats that charges of big spending could stick to the president.

Starting this week, President Obama will be “engaging directly with Congress more, and speaking more forcefully on behalf of his budget,” a top adviser said.

On Sunday morning, three top White House officials will appear on network interview shows to describe brighter days ahead for the nation’s economy, and make the case that the budget is an important part of the president’s overall recovery plan.