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Report of Third World Conditions in Alaska

By Evalyn Gossett - Sep 10th, 2008 at 11:44 pm EDT

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A friend sent this to me.

Subject: ALASKA IS A DISASTER

I am neither for nor against Sarah Palin, but this is an eye-opener. THANKS!

Alaska is a disaster

by Rob Rosenfeld

After 11 years working in rural Alaska , I feel obligated to share my observations regarding the Third World living conditions facing more than 200 rural Native communities, and the State of=2 0Alaska 's lack of attention to the many inequities they suffer.

While Governor Palin claims "exemplary leadership" and attempts to become Vice President of the United States , the truth is rural Alaska is a disaster in multiple areas: human health, lack of infrastructure, the environment, and the economy are equal to that of Third World countries. Sarah Palin is a single issue governor who fails to effectively address these critical needs. Alaska has the highest rates of homelessness per capita in the US , overflowing sewage lagoons in dozens of communities, and no running water in more than 150 villages – that's 25% of the population without running water.

Governor Palin has demonst rated how out of touch she is with Alaska while she continues to ignore the needs of the homeless, fails to recognize Third World living conditions in her home state, and ignores climate change victims, polluted waters, village health hazards and unattended military contaminate sites. Alaska is a barometer for climate change. Access to some remote communities has been cut off, villages are flooding, landfill contents and overflowing sewage lagoons are contaminating communities, and several villages are being forced to pack up and move. Governor Palin says she doesn't believe climate change is caused by humans. Regardless of the cause, she remains unresponsive to the needs of climate change refugees and victims in Alaska .

More than 200 landfills in rural Alaska lack liners to prevent seepage and dozens of sewage lagoons receive annual discharge permits to discharge untreated and untested sewage into Alaska 's salmon bearing rivers. 0A Alaska has the highest amount of military contaminant sites in the US with more than 500 sites that require extensive resources to assess, monitor and remediate. Alaska also has the highest rates of cancer per capita in the United States . Governor Palin is silent on this issue and is solely focused on the natural gas pipeline and oil drilling in protected and fragile places. While Palin asserts that resource extraction can be done responsibly, North Slope oil extraction has resulted in hundreds of spills and leaks monthly. On her watch, polluters have not been brought to justice and environmental regulations have been relaxed by her controversial appointee to head the Department of Environmental Conservation. Larry Hartig, Palin's pick for C ommissioner, was the lead lawyer defending Red Dog Mine (owned by Teck Cominco) which is rated as the worst mine in the country for discharging contaminants into the environment.

Red Dog Mine is number one on the national Toxic Release Inventory. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has continued to undermine the integrity of the Clean Water Act by ignoring the anti-degradation act, mixing zone laws and making discharge exemptions for oil companies allowing daily oil sludge discharge into the Cook Inlet resulting in millions of tons of contaminants in Alaska 's pristine waters. Palin sued the federal government for trying to protect the polar bear population and, contrary to her rhetoric, she did accept federal dollars for the Bridge to Nowhere. Alaska has the highest gas prices in the country, exceeding more then $9 per gallon in some villages.

Alaska also the highest unemployment in rates in the country as more than 150 villages face 50 to 80 percent rates of unemployment. Palin does not pay attention to any of the above realities as she fixates on the oil industry and has even created a Renewable Energy Fund that allows for natural gas extraction and coal bed methane; both of which are far from renewable resources and cause considerable environmental degradation. Beyond the pretty face of Governor Palin rests an unaware, out of touch, rape and pillage resource extractor who is doing the bidding for the leading oil companies in the world while trying to opennew areas for oil development. Rob Rosenfeld has a Masters Degree in International and Sustainable Development and has lived in Homer, Alaska since 1995, working primarily with rural communities. He is a long time advocate for human rights and fair distribution of government resources and opportunities. robrosey@xyz.com _______________________________________________________________________________

Contacts to confirm information:

anet Levin, Anchorage Homeless Coalition: Homeless facts - 907-272-0235 ()

Gershon Cohen Ph.D- Department of Environmental Conservation Facts - 907-766-3005

Bob Shavelson, Inlet Keeper 907- 235-4068 - 907-299-3277 (sludge discharge validation in the Cook Inlet and Dept. of Environmental Conservation laws being relaxed)

Unemployment rates: Department of Commerce in Alaska / Anchorage Sewage / Solid issues /

Climate Change: Joe Sarcone / EPA Alaska and Alaska Village Safe Water (907) 271-1316 or 907-677-8705

Discharge Permits: Tim Wingerter - Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation / Fairbanks or Anchorage

Pam Miller, Northern Center for the Environment in Fairbanks- Validation on 100's spills and leaks per month Pam Miller (different than above) - Alaska Community Action on Toxics -

Cancer rates and military site validation and information on Red D og Mine (907)222-7714

rian Hirsch Ph.D - Energy issues on renewable energy fund 907-299-0268 or 907-235-7164 Deborah Williams - Alaska Climate Change Solutions - 907- 929-9370 or 907-223-1518 (Polar Bear issues, Climate Change emergencies, flooding, villages having to move and village access facts and information (more contacts can be made available upon request) Eileen Grundstrom < FONT face=Calibri size=16>

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Palin's classmate said

By Evalyn Gossett - Sep 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm EDT

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> Subject: [BMC1968] John McCain's VP nominee
>
> Dear classmates -
>
> As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on Sarah
> Palin, Senator McCain's choice for VP. As an Alaska voter, I know more than
> most of you about her and, frankly, I am horrified that he picked her.
>
> The most accurate description of her is red neck. Her husband works in the
> oil fields of Prudhoe Bay and races snow mobiles. She is a life time member
> of the NRA and has worked tirelessly to allow indiscriminate hunting of
> wildlife in Alaska, particularly wolves and bears. She has spent millions of
> Alaska state dollars on aerial hunting of these predators from helicopters
> and airplanes, dollars that should have been spent, for example, on Alaska's
> failing school system.We have the lowest rate of high school graduation in
> the country. Not all of you may think aerial predator hunting is so bad, but
> how anyone (other than Alaska wolf-haters, of which there are many, most
> without teeth), could think this use of funds is appropriate is beyond me.
> If you want to know more about the aerial hunting travesty, let me know and
> I will send some links to informative web sites.
>
> She has been a strong supporter of increased use of fossil fuels, yet the
> McCain campaign has the nerve to say she has "green" policies. The only
> thing green about Sarah Palin is her lack of experience. She has
> consistently supported drilling in ANWR, use of coal-burning power plants
> (as I write this, a new coal plant is being built in her home town of
> Wasilla), strip mining, and almost anything else that will unnecessarily
> exploit the diminishing resources of Alaska and destroy its environment.
>
> Prior to her one year as governor of Alaska, she was mayor of Wasilla, a
> small red neck town outside Anchorage.The average maximum education level of
> parents of junior high school kids in Wasilla is 10th grade. Unfortunately,
> I have to go to Wasilla every week to get groceries and other supplies, so I
> have continual contact with the people who put Palin in office in the first
> place. I know what I'm talking about. These people don't have a concept of
> the world around them or of the serious issues facing the US. Furthermore,
> they don't care. So long as they can go out and hunt their moose every fall,
> kill wolves and bears and drive their snow mobiles and ATVs through every
> corner of the wilderness, they're happy. I wish I were exaggerating.
>
> Sarah Palin is currently involved in a political corruption scandal. She
> fired an individual in law enforcement here because she didn't like how he
> treated one of her relatives during a divorce. The man's performance and
> ability weren't considered; it was a totally personal firing and is
> currently under investigation. While the issue isn't close to the scandal of
> Ted Steven's corruption, it shows that Palin isn't "squeaky clean" and
> causes me to think there ay be more issues that could come to light. Clearly
> McCain doesn't care.
>
> When you line Palin up with Biden, the comparison would be laughable if it
> weren't so serious. Sarah Palin knows nothing of economics (admittedly a
> weak area for McCain), or of international affairs, knows nothing of
> national government, Social Security, unemployment, health care systems -
> you name it. The idea of her meeting with heads of foreign governments
> around the world truly frightens me.
>
> In an increasingly dangerous world, with the economy in shambles in the US,
> Sarah Palin is uniquely UNqualified to be vice president. John McCain is not
> a young man. Should something happen to him such that the vice president had
> to step in, it would destroy our country and possibly the world to have
> someone as inexperienced and inappropriate as Sarah Palin. The choice of
> Palin is a cheap shot by McCain to try to get Hillary supporters to vote for
> him. when McCain introduced her today, Palin had the nerve to compare
> herself with Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro. Sarah Palin, you are no Hillary
> Clinton.
>
> To those of you who, like me, supported Hilary and were upset that she did
> not get the nomination, please don't think that Sarah Palin is a worthy
> substitute. If you supported Hillary, regardless of what you think the media
> and the democratic party may have done to undermine her campaign, the person
> to support now is Obama, not Sarah Palin. To those of you who are
> independent or undecided, don't let the choice of Palin sway you in favor of
> McCain. Choosing her shows how unqualified McCain is to be president. To
> those of you who are conservative, I guess you have no choice for president.
> But please try to see how the poor choice of Palin tells us a great deal
> about McCain's judgment. While the political posturing inherent in the
> choice of Palin is obvious, the more serious issue is the fact that the VP
> is, literally, a heartbeat away from the presidency. Sarah Palin is totally
> and unequivocally unqualified to be vice president, let alone president.
>
> I know this is a lengthy and emotional email, but the stakes are high. I
> thought it might help for all of you, regardless of political affiliation,
> to know something about Palin from someone who has to live with her
> administration in Alaska on a daily basis.
>
> Jackie
>

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Gustav

By Evalyn Gossett - Aug 31st, 2008 at 11:04 pm EDT

I am praying that everyone is safe. Other than that I am really speechless.

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Medicine admits PAST racism

By Evalyn Gossett - Aug 14th, 2008 at 8:53 pm EDT

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This is a beginning, Nursing needs to admit to the part it has played past and PRESENT.

http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/rooting-out-racism-in-medicine/

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More Republican smears

By Evalyn Gossett - Aug 9th, 2008 at 5:14 am EDT

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I rec'd this from the Women over 50 for Obama group

From: Women over 50 for Obama <Womenover50forObama@groups.barackobama.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:11 AM
Subject: Womenover50forObama Digest, August 9th
To: Women over 50 for Obama <Womenover50forObama@groups.barackobama.com>

To send a message to this group, email:
Womenover50forObama@groups.barackobama.com

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Today's Messages:

1. The "What a Disgrace" Obama-Bashing Email (Gail.King )

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Original Message: http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/Womenover50forObama/listserv-message/PwgGGDth
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:59:44 -0400
From: Gail.King <gking@allkindsofminds.org>
Subject: [Womenover50forObama] The "What a Disgrace" Obama-Bashing Email
Message-ID: <07D79D71B310A94DA9205799CD95EEF9056B4005@itexchange.ad.its>

Dear Women Over 50 for Obama.....

Yesterday, I received a Barack-bashing forward of an email from a friend
(it's below in blue), sans photos (I deleted them). Just in case you
get this same email, below is my response if you'd like to use it in
whole or in part (so you don't have to do the research and composition).

....gail

My response--

Thanks for your email....

You might want to visit the "snopes" Web page on this. The fact is that
there is no depiction of the American flag on the tail of John McCain's
campaign plane, either! The snopes page begins by discussing the
"'Disgrace' email" you forwarded to me, but then goes on to explain how
presidential nominees during the last few elections take these planes
and modify them to reflect their campaign logos, etc. There is a
picture of John McCain's campaign plane on the same Web page
(http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/airplane.asp
<http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/airplane.asp> ). Assuming they
both started with the same kind of plane, John McCain must have scrubbed
his flag off and replaced it with-his name. Would his action, then, be
viewed as equally "disgraceful?"

These are just the types of low-road, don't-stick-to-the-issues tactics
that Neo-Cons and the McCain campaign have been perpetrating since the
beginning of Obama's campaign. Among the lies spread about Obama are--

* He's a Muslim; that's a lie; Barack Obama is a Christian; he has
never been a Muslim.
* He wasn't born in the U.S; that's a lie; Obama was born in
Hawaii .
* He attended a madrassa; not true; he never did; Obama attended
an exclusive private school in Hawaii on scholarship; he also attended a
public school and a Catholic high school.
* Also, there are emails totally mangling Obama's voting records;
they've been disproven by several non-partisan fact-check organizations.

The real "disgrace" is the low road John McCain and the Republicans are
taking, and the lies like the ones above and others that--although known
to be absolute hogwash--they refuse to denounce. Conversely, no matter
what unfair hyperbole has been thrown at him, Barack Obama has
steadfastly remained on the high road.

It's good to know what's out there, though. Thanks again for thinking
of me, and have a great day. :-)

Below are some documented facts you might also find interesting....

Did you know? Disabled American Veterans give John McCain a 28% rating
on his voting record for veterans, the worst score among all 100
senators (http://tinyurl.com/5h7j7r), while Obama earned a 92% rating.
The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave McCain a "D" rating
(http://tinyurl.com/5wqrwo); they grade Obama a "B+." Vietnam Veterans
of America give McCain a 37% rating; Obama, a 92% rating.

Did you know? John McCain says he wants to save the environment, but the
League of Conservation Voters currently ranks him dead last among all
535 members of Congress, with a 0% rating (http://tinyurl.com/557d4g);
Obama ranks highest, with a 96%! McCain has failed to vote on the last
19 environmental bills in the Senate, dating back to 2005
(http://tinyurl.com/6lq6j4).

Did you know? Although they blatantly and disingenuously claim the
Obamas are "elitist," the McCains own ten homes, valued at more than $13
million, including two beachfront condos (http://tinyurl.com/63wssh),
and they failed to pay taxes on one of those beach homes for the past
four years (http://tinyurl.com/6mxchp). And the McCains have been known
to charge hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single month on their
credit cards (http://tinyurl.com/5hmyep). While I don't judge them for
these things, do you think this son of American aristocracy
(son/grandson of naval admirals) and millionaire Cindy can really relate
to the problems of working class Americans like us? Barack Obama is the
son of a single mom (raised mostly by his white, working-class Kansan
grandparents) and Michelle Obama's four-person family lived in a
one-bedroom apartment on the south side of Chicago when she was growing
up. Who do we think really understands what we're going through?

Did you know? John McCain will continue George W. Bush's
"rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer" fiscal policies. If you make under
$112,000 per year you will pay higher taxes under McCain's fiscal plan
than under Obama's. One quarter of McCain's proposed tax breaks will go
to people making more than $2.8 million per year
(http://tinyurl.com/3pycml).

Subject: WHAT A DISGRACE

Verified in snopes They spend a month doing this and a ton of money.

Obama The Patriot - Removes American Flag From His Plane

(There were pics of the Obama campaign plane here)

Barack Obama recently finished a $500,000 total overhaul of his 757. And
as part of the new design, he decided to remove the American flag from
the tail...
What American running for U.S. President would remove the symbol of his
country? And worse, he replaced the flag with it with a symbol of
himself...

(and more pics of the plane here)

Please forward this on if you're not ashamed of your country or it's
flag &think this is a disgrace!

(and a derogatory "all sizzle/no steak" logo here)

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Public perception of Nursing

By Evalyn Gossett - Aug 6th, 2008 at 11:31 pm EDT

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NOTE: To view the article with Web enhancements, go to:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/576950

Public Perceptions of Nursing Careers: The Influence of the Media and
Nursing Shortages

Karen Donelan, ScD; Peter Buerhaus, PhD, RN; Catherine Desroches, DrPH; Robert Dittus, MD; David Dutwin, PhD

Posted 07/28/2008

Introduction

The public's long-standing esteem for registered nurses (RNs) is well documented in public opinion polls. Nurses and physicians
both rate highly with the public in trended national survey questions about trusted professions, prestigious occupations, and
"honesty and ethical standards" of the professions (Gallup Organization, 2007; Harris Interactive 2006, 2007). The high public
regard for nurses, however, has not necessarily translated into an adequate supply of individuals who are willing to be nurses.
The expected future demand for nurse labor challenges us to look more closely at the public's perceptions of nursing and
nursing careers, and consider how they are shaped by personal experience, media messages, and socio-demographic factors.
The best available evidence suggests that, barring a major reorganization of health care delivery in the next generation, our
society will need more nurses. Although the current nursing shortage that began in 1998 has begun to ease in recent years,
projections of the future supply of RNs consistently point to a substantial slow-down in the growth in the number of RNs in the
workforce over the next decade. Given current federal government projections of steady and strong growth in the future demand
for RNs as the Baby Boom generation ages, shortages of RNs are projected. The most recent projections suggest that a
shortage of RNs will develop midway into the next decade and that the deficit will grow to as many as 285,000 RNs by 2020
(Buerhaus, Staiger, & Auerbach, 2008). A shortage of this size would be nearly three times larger than any shortage
experienced in the United States during the past 50 years. If this future shortage materializes, it could cripple access, quality,
and safety to millions of Americans. Unfortunately, assuming that there is no let up in the demand for RNs, by 2025 the nursing
shortage is projected to reach 500,000 RNs. The impact of a shortage of this size is difficult to comprehend.
Promoting a stronger convergence between the public's esteem for and interest in the nursing profession is also important in
light of the changing demographic make-up of both the population and the nursing workforce. As the composition of our society
has changed, growing older as 78 million American Baby Boomers age, the demographic composition of the nursing workforce
has also changed. A considerable influx of second career workers has changed the face of the nursing student, but not the face
of the active workforce. In particular, the nursing workforce has become older, with the average age of employed RNs at 43.7
years in 2007 (Buerhaus et al., 2008). Projections suggest that by 2012, the largest age group of the RN workforce will be over
the age of 50 years. The workforce has become more racially and ethnically diverse, in part through substantial growth in the
proportion of foreign-born RNs. Still, the profession is disproportionately comprised of non-Hispanic whites (79%) and females
(91% of the current workforce).

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This blogger has some valuable comments regarding Healthcare

By Evalyn Gossett - Jul 30th, 2008 at 4:33 pm EDT

Also listed in: Northwest Indiana Nurses for Obama | Nurses for Barack Obama!

My Opinion on Health Care Issues and Possible Reforms By Beverly - Jul 26th, 2008 at 8:55 pm EDT Also listed in: 10 groups 1 - Long term, the current health care system cannot be maintained because many of the current processes/procedures are not curative.

We need to think out of the box and start using more alternative health care which is curative. For example Oriental Medicine (i.e. Acupuncture/TCM) has been shown to cure and help cure many pathologies and without the use of expensive pharmaceuticals and their negative side affects. These same pharmaceuticals long term create other pathologies which need to be treated thus increasing the cost of health care even more.

MDs/DC/etc who are not also licensed L.Ac.'s (they have only a couple hundred hours of training at most) are not trained enough to truly heal patients using acupuncture. Some of them actually do more harm then good (I see this every day when patients come in because or a treatment from a practitioner who was not fully trained)

By adding Acupuncture administered by licensed acupuncturists (in other words fully trained L.Ac.'s with 3,500+ hours of training) to the current health care system including Medicare would significantly reduce costs as people would actually get better and not have to take expensive drugs that sometimes do more harm than good. The type of patient I am referring to are people with chronic conditions. Acute conditions are well served by Western medicine.

2 - I also feel that insurance companies need to take anyone who applies (no matter what their current health) and not be allowed to decide who does/does not get health care, everyone gets treated. Nor should they be allowed to deny care, reduce care, drop patients, or to require the patient repay past benefits just because they may not have declared everything on an application (who can remember everything). This would give everyone coverage and eliminate a lot of law suits and aggravation that thousands of people endure every year.

Everyone gets car insurance. If they are too high a risk their resident state has a fund which covers them regardless of their income. This would help.

In Arizona the only way to get state aide is to have no resources at all even though you cannot be insured. Yet thousands of Mexican's who are not US residents get state provided health care just because they have nothing. This is just not equitable. They have no more entitlement to health care than tax paying residents that own a house and an IRA (which makes them ineligible because they have assets).

3 - I feel the profits and executive salaries/benefits of Insurance companies should be limited. The executives walk away with all the money and the paying patients get no medical care. This system is really broken.

4 - All malpractice issues should go through arbitration and not the courts - we have too many law suits (some bogus, some legitimate) that only clog the courts and make lawyers rich. The money would be better spent on patient health care. The cost of malpractice drives up the cost of health care and in the some cases drives good doctors out of business or out of practices. Modalities like OB-GYN have limited qualified doctors in some states just because they cannot afford the escalating malpractice insurance.

5 - Pharmaceutical companies should not be allowed to advertise prescription drugs, this just entices people to think that the drugs will actually help them. Only a licensed physicians (MD/DO/ND etc) should be allowed to decide on and prescribe drugs. People should be able to get a pharmacist's advice on alternatives like generic versions once they have a diagnosis and prescription. People hear these ads and when they cannot get the prescription from a doctor they just order it from Mexico or wherever and take the drugs without supervision. This just causes more health care problems and increases long term costs. I know this because I treat people like this every day.

6 - The AMA and its lobbyists have, for almost 100 years, controlled the health care system. They openly try to put alternative medical practitioners and alternative medical schools out of business. This lobby should "not be listened to" as their agenda just drives up the cost of health care. In my opinion the AMA is a major detractor from health care alternatives that actually help people to heal. They are about the money for MD's et al.

I am not saying that Western Medicine i.e., MDs and their work is bad, Western Medicine has its strengths and saves a lot of lives. It also has its weaknesses and those weaknesses are the strengths of alternative medicine. We need both types of medicine. Even in China they use both Western Medicine and their own traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). They have blended the practices in their schools and hospitals.

By providing access to alternative medicine in the US the strengths of these alternatives practices can help reduce health care costs as well as provide expanded/affordable health care to everyone.

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Local Nurses meet

By Evalyn Gossett - Jul 24th, 2008 at 10:50 pm EDT

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I want to thank Michael Daniels the Organization Fellow and Greg Gershuny the Community Organizer for their support and guidance and keeping the group on track and focused on the Obama Plan. As you know there are so many issues related to delivery of Healthcare in America.

Priscilla Herochek, Marsha Bennett, and Evalyn Gossett have agreed to begin canvassing our nursing publications and local nursing organizations for upcoming scheduled meetings and identify any groups who would have us come out and discuss the Obama Health plan, and answer their questions regarding implementaion of this plan.

More to come.

Fired up and ready to go.

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Prayer

By Evalyn Gossett - Jun 15th, 2008 at 1:12 am EDT

Also listed in: Northwest Indiana Nurses for Obama

Post from BJ N's Blog: I Am Not Too Inspired Today,Senator By BJ N - Jun 13th, 2008 at 8:31 am EDT Comments | Mail to a Friend |

Sorry Senator, I'm just not too inspired today, there are just so many horrible and sad things happening in my life as well as the world, that I am not overly inspired. I hope you are having a better day than I am.

I am going to just offer a short prayer today.

Please Lord keep Sen. Obama in your care through out the day, place joy, peace, favor, hope and inspiration before as he goes along on his journey to the White House. Bless he and his family and all those who are involved in his campaign, especially those who protect him.

O God who sits high and looks low, please help our fellow countrymen who have been hit by life's challenges because of the weather. Only you know each of them need to cope with what they are facing, I ask you to be the provider I know you are. Please God hear and answer my pray in Jesus name, amen.

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Obama does 'work day' with nurse

By Evalyn Gossett - Jun 12th, 2008 at 2:19 am EDT

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http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/06/obama_does_work.html

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On to the General Election

By Evalyn Gossett - Jun 9th, 2008 at 9:15 pm EDT

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I want to thank David Ploufe, and everyone who is working as Senator Barrack Obama's advisors, strategist, the web master for myspace.com, facebook and and youtube (where he beats the rock stars in videos watched) mybarrackobama.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. You are doing a most excellent job.

Obama has started his national tour and I love the fact that he is remaining so very focused on the facts and issues which must move this country forward.

He speaks of his vision, he is leading already.

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History - Yes We Can

By Evalyn Gossett - Jun 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm EDT

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I am a 51 year old African American Female, Veteran, and Nurse. I never thought I would be so proud to be an American as I am today. History. Senator Barrack Obama will be the first African American Democratic Presidental Nominee. I did not know I would live to see this.

Of course there is so much history before this. I remember when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. Although, I was quite young then I knew it was so important.

When Nelson Mandela was released, even the Berlin Wall. But this is so phenomenal.

Now.

On to the White House.

Go Obama Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VOTE - IT IS THE LEAST YOU CAN DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama for Change we can believe in. (We need more positve change).

Brings Tears of joy for me.

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DNC

By Evalyn Gossett - May 31st, 2008 at 7:40 pm EDT

I hope the DNC will follow their own rules and not change the rules in the middle of the (end of the game). It is awful that MI and FL have gone thru so much to get early primary election dates and then later be penalized if the DNC will not seat those delegates. But It is very unfair and seems to me to be cheating if the DNC allows HRC 70 delegates from MI based on votes for her. She did not follow the rules and allowed her name to remain on the ballot when the other Dems removed theirs.

I think the delegates should be equally divided. Which would not give an advantage to either candidate at this point.

HRC clearly wants an advantage which BHO would not have.

On to the election in Puerto Rico and South Dakota and Montana

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The Media

By Evalyn Gossett - May 29th, 2008 at 8:33 pm EDT

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We don't really want the media of any sort to ENDORSE OBAMA. We want the media to report the news and that is all

I found this on Digg

To the Rudolph Murdoch's of the world...STOP BIG MEDIA!

The Senate voted in overwhelming numbers to reject an FCC ruling that would unleash a new wave of media consolidation across America. More than a quarter-million people took action and sent a powerful message to Washington: Big Media is big enough.

The fight now moves to the House, where a bipartisan version of the Senate "resolution of disapproval" (H.J.Res.79) needs your support.

Tell your representative to vote for H.J. Res. 79 and Stop Big Media...!!

https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=dis ...

sign the petition!

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You tube and Senator Barrack Obama

By Evalyn Gossett - May 25th, 2008 at 6:47 pm EDT

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Do I need to tell you that Senator Barrack Obama has reached far beyond rock star status.

There are well over 130,000 videoes of him on YOU Tube , and the number of views per video is unbelievable.

Go Obama Go. Will i am video gets a tremendous amount of views (over 1 million) also.

Thank you Will i am.

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Senator Barrack Obama Security

By Evalyn Gossett - May 25th, 2008 at 11:22 am EDT

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Well security for Senator Barrack Obama was always a real concern. But a prayerful, and unspoken concern.

A concern because: he is the first Black Presidential candidate AND he represents so much hope and change. Which is what was taken away from us in the 60's with Martin, Robert and John.

Now -- because of HRC and her insensivitive, self centered and desperate attempts to win the Dem Nomination -- security is a big write up. So many blogs are writing about this issue. Well so am I. Oh yeah -- these are some great shots.

Great shots of Obama campaigning and really great shots of these Secret Service agents for the Renegade. They are vigilante. Thank you.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/02/25/us/politics/20080225SECURITY_index.html

http://cryptome.org/obama-protect/obama-protect.htm

http://cryptome.org/obama-protect2/obama-protect2.htm

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HRC a vulture

By Evalyn Gossett - May 24th, 2008 at 2:21 am EDT

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So now HRC is a vulture. She is hanging around and holding on in the campaign until June because ??????

Unspeakable, certainly not a real campaign manuever. To many boomers around that know what happened back then. Today she has really opened an awful bag of worms.

HRC - go away and stay away. The American public is really sick of this now. We really want a leader who has vision, who can inspire hope, who will inspire the masses to work for change, productivity and LIFE, LIBERTY and the PURSUIT Of HAPPINESS.

John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy are rolling over in their graves that you would attempt to pawn this off as a noble campaign. You are sickening. SHUT UP, GO AWAY.

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By Evalyn Gossett - May 23rd, 2008 at 11:23 am EDT

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Do something

we do not want HRC to be VP. When she could have been a team player she became an attack dog. No pit bulls in office. It reminds me of the Newt Gingrich era. He has been lurking around lately too.

How awful.

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Star Tribune Comic

By Evalyn Gossett - May 22nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm EDT

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http://www.cagle.com/news/HillaryKeepsGoing/images/sack.jpg

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Oregon and Kentucky

By Evalyn Gossett - May 20th, 2008 at 4:46 pm EDT

It seems that Senator Barrack Obama will win Oregon and HRC may win Kentucky. But Obama only needs less than 20 delegates.

The news reports are that she has an insurmountable climb at this point to win the nomination. The question is being asked "Did being a woman hurt HRC?" NO - HRC hurt HRC. The American voter, the world wants positve change. NO MORE LIES, POLITICS, PACS, SPECIAL INTEREST, ETC.

For the people, by the people.

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