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Thank you for your interest in Trinity United Church of Christ and for your consideration of our member, Sen. Barack Obama, in the Democratic primary election. Due to the high volume of emails and inquiries, we are unable to respond to each one personally. We were overwhelmed with “hits” after Senator Obama’s historic victory in the Iowa democratic caucus.
Barack Obama has been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ for nearly two decades. As a young community organizer, new to Chicago, Barack met with Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Trinity’s Senior Pastor, seeking advice. He received good counsel about the complexities of life in Chicago and the challenges faced by residents in poor communities like South Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens.
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The majority of UCC members are white; the conference minister of the Illinois Conference of the UCC (Rev. Jane Fisler Hoffman) and her husband (both white) are members of Trinity (You can watch a video of Rev. Hoffman speaking at Trinity about her positive experiences there.); Trinity has been instrumental in working with and lending financial and staff support to the development of new UCC churches in Gary, IN (with the Indiana-Kentucky Conference of the UCC, Milwaukee, WI (with the Wisconsin Conference of the UCC), and Benton Harbor, MI (with the Michigan Conference of the UCC). There is no anti-American sentiment in the theology or the practice of Trinity United Church of Christ. To be sure, there is prophetic preaching against oppression, racism and other evils that would deny the American ideal. Trinity is “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian.”
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I am an American.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some Liberal governmental functionary be it Democratic or Republican!
I’m in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn’t make you a killer, it makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything.
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac, do it in English.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
I’ve never owned a slave, or was a slave, I haven’t burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you! So, shut up already.
I believe if you don’t like you don’t like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country! This is AMERICA.
If you were born here and don’t like it you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you.
Does this make me a Bad American?

“The weekend meeting of the Group of 20 national leaders has produced no noticeable improvement of sentiment on global financial markets.” http://www.680news.com/news/business/mor…

They ended up not accomplishing anything, do you think we can do this by teleconference next time to save the country some money? I mean how much do you think lunch cost us?

Mine Owner Rips Media, Liberals

August 7, 2007

RUSH: Cookie worked fast. We have these two sound bites, and the owner of the Murray Energy Corporation, the owner of the mine where the six miners are missing. I had gotten a heads-up that this guy launched against the media today for misreporting what’s happening out there by name and that he also started attacking the stupidity of energy legislation in this country. His name is Robert Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Corp. He held a press conference and explained what was going on in the rescue efforts. He started getting questions about things. These are two sound bites from the press conference.

MURRAY: Without coal to manufacture our electricity, our products will not compete in the global marketplace against foreign countries because our manufacturers depend on coal for low-cost electricity, and people on fixed incomes will not be able to pay foyer electric bills. And every one of these global warming bills that has been introduced in Congress today will eliminate the coal industry and increase your electric rates four to five fold. So we are an essential industry.

RUSH: Now, you might be saying, “Why the hell is he talk about this when they got six miners down there that were trapped?” Because he was asked about it, because he was asked, “What the hell are you in this business for anyway?” That was not an exact question, but it was something like, “Why do we have these mines open? They’re so dangerous, and coal is destroying the planet and coal’s this and coal’s that.” He fired right back at them, and of course this guy is a corporate interest, so he can’t be trusted, according to the left. These reporters had to be asking some of the most clichéd, stupid, uninformed, closed-mind questions. I have to tell you something. He’s right. I have to tell you a little story. On one these guy golf trips, and I go on a bunch of them during the summer. The first one was in the middle of June. I went up to a friend of mine’s place, I’m not going to mention where because his town will get mobbed with people wanting to find out where I was, and he’ll get hassled. But it was in Connecticut. We took his boat. He’s got a pretty nice boat. He took his boat over to Fisher’s Island and we played golf over there. From Fisher’s Island we went up to Newport to see another friend. We were going to play golf there the next day. As we pull out of the harbor with my friend lives, there’s this giant ship.

I’m not on the water much, so, I see things like I see tankers and stuff flying over them, like when I went into Dubai to negotiate the ports deal before I went into Afghanistan, but there was this huge cargo ship, and there were a bunch of smaller ships loading off of it. It was off-loading onto those smaller ships, and they were headed somewhere. I said, “What is that?” My friend said, “It’s a coal delivery.” He said, “Look over there,” and he pointed, and there was this giant power plant in Connecticut, and those of you who live there now know where I’m talking about. It has to be fed every day. It’s providing electricity. This guy is exactly right. The amount of coal that that cargo ship had to hold would boggle your mind. These are things that most people never see. You just go in the room, you flip the switch and the lights come on, but you don’t know how it happens, and this guy is operating a mine along with other people to bring coal up — it’s a dangerous, risky job — and you’ve got the global warming people trying to put it out of business. He’s right. If you do that, you’re going to have to have some other fuel for the power plants to fire their electricity with, and it is going to cost a tremendous amount of money. Here’s the next bite. He was just watching the coverage of the disaster, and he said this.

MURRAY: They know nothing about the natural disaster that occurred here. They know nothing about the damage in the mine, and the circumstances surrounding the trapped miners. I caution the media to very much question the veracity of these sources and their motivations. I particularly cite Mr. Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press for particularly bad reporting, and the Fox News network, on what has occurred here. Rather than utilizing the truthful statements that you heard here, Mr. Borenstein chose to use statements from Mrs. McAteer that were totally false and have nothing to do with or have any understanding of what’s happened here. And this morning, Fox News network was at it also. I hope you report that.

RUSH: Done, Mr. Murray.

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RUSH: By the way, even better is something I left out of the story about that giant ship out there in the Long Island Sound servicing the power plant. That coal was from overseas! It was not American. That was foreign coal, if you will. I love this Murray guy, because finally somebody is promoting the concept of continual access to sources of energy, for the necessity of this country to continue to grow. I love this guy, already.

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VIDEO: Mine Owner Denounces Global Warming Bills in Emotional News Conference
AP: Utah Mine Owner: Rescue Will Take 3 Days
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/4032.html

Do you remember when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had teleconferences to raise money for the families of the 9/11 highjackers, but Iraq is the real enemy right?

Imagine what we could do to change the opinions of the nations to be more favorable of us. I think it is going to take some time for us to heal the international diplomatic chaos, and since we know it is going to take such a long time, perhaps we could expedite the process by getting to the root of the issue and help the world where they need it. It seems so simple, child diplomacy. In order to bridge this communication gap we have between our society and others, we have to make an undeniable credible positive influence on a lot of people. If we made a commitment to help with education systems for one. Say, we start sponsoring global teleconferences between children of both countries.
On a national scale, weekly. Let our kids see their kids, let them laugh and talk with translators about what the lives are like. Share educational benefits like college libraries on line and online text books. If we start to learn with them our nation will become more sensitive in future generations as to the societal difference and the benefit of tolerance of other humans.
From time to time, we hear of a great story where a child who needs some specialty medical care gets it here in the states, flying from thousands of miles for a specialist. The first thing is if we do this for anyone else, this should be a common practice for right here. That being said, what if we offered that aide to nations that needed it. Perhaps we could do more for diplomacy if we built children’s hospitals in these war torn countries. Could you imagine what people would think of the US if we were known for taking care of the children of any nation who asks for it? I bet helping kids is more cost effective than war.
Would some food help?

I was wondering what the situation is with food in the war torn countries. Should we maybe be sending food over there or do they have enough to eat and the infrastructure to provide for all?

There is 40% unemployment, no wonder they are freaking out. We really should be opening up businesses that are viable there. They could make solar panels, silicon chips, they are even set up to supply opiates for pharmaceutical companies.

Do any of those ideas more cost effective than war to you? Do you have any ideas of your own how we could assist the emerging democracies without risking the lives of Americans?

polar bears? When Hillary suggests “limiting tourism”, can we expect that she and the Obama administration will quit flying all over the planet, and conduct business by teleconferencing?
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=ydSU8zIrkU

Aren’t they already in New York spewing hot air?

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/12/07/delegates-at-un-bali-climate-conference-take-bikes-buses/

And what about this sentence in the story?

The CNN announcer in the video also noticed that transporting thousands of delegates from all over the world did not help the climate. Teleconference or e-mail might be a better option next time.

Thompson LOST the nomination, why did he give a 30+ minute speech, while the leader of the party didn’t even bother to show up and only gave an 8 minute speech by teleconference?

twin: nice try. Bush should be giving the lead-in address to the McCain acceptance speech on Thursday night.

IS THERE A US COMMITMENT TO INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION?

Rogue Nation - Richard Du Boff

http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/Rogue.html

1. In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the
1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, gutting the landmark agreement-the first
time in the nuclear era that the US renounced a major arms control
accord.

2. 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention ratified by 144 nations
including the United States. In July 2001 the US walked out of a London
conference to discuss a 1994 protocol designed to strengthen the
Convention by providing for
on-site inspections. At Geneva in November 2001, US Undersecretary of
State John Bolton stated that “the protocol
is dead,” at the same time accusing Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya,
Sudan, and Syria of violating the Convention but offering no specific
allegations or supporting evidence.

3. UN Agreement to Curb the International Flow of Illicit Small Arms,
July 2001: the US was the only nation to oppose it.

4. April 2001, the US was not reelected to the UN Human Rights
Commission, after years of withholding dues to the UN (including current dues of
$244 million)-and after having forced the UN to lower its share of the UN
budget from 25 to 22 percent. (In the Human Rights Commission, the US
stood virtually alone in opposing resolutions supporting lower-cost
access to HIV/AIDS drugs, acknowledging a basic human right to adequate
food, and calling for a moratorium on the death penalty.)

5. International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty, to be set up in The Hague
to try political leaders and military personnel charged with war crimes
and crimes against humanity. Signed in Rome in July 1998, the Treaty was
approved by 120 countries, with 7 opposed (including the US). In
October 2001 Great Britain became the 42nd nation to sign. In December 2001 the
US Senate again added an amendment to a military appropriations bill
that would keep US military personnel from obeying
the jurisdiction of the proposed ICC. [In fact advocating use of force
to "rescue" Americans charged with war crimes - RR]

6. Land Mine Treaty, banning land mines; signed in Ottawa in December
1997 by 122 nations. The United States refused to sign, along with Russia,
China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Egypt, and Turkey.
President Clinton rejected the Treaty, claiming that mines were needed to protect
South Korea against North Korea’s overwhelming military advantage.” He
stated that the US would “eventually” comply, in 2006; this was
disavowed by President Bush in August 2001.

7. Kyoto Protocol of 1997, for controlling global warming: declared
“dead” by President Bush in March 2001. In November 2001, the Bush
administration shunned negotiations in Marrakech (Morocco) to revise the accord,
mainly by watering it down in a vain attempt to gain US approval.

8. In May 2001, refused to meet with European Union nations to discuss,
even at lower levels of government, economic espionage and electronic
surveillance of phone calls, e-mail, and faxes (the US “Echelon”
program).

9. Refused to participate in Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD)-sponsored talks in Paris, May 2001, on ways to crack
down on off-shore and other tax and money-laundering havens.

10. Refused to join 123 nations pledged to ban the use and production
of anti-personnel bombs and mines, February 2001.

11. September 2001: withdrew from International Conference on Racism,
bringing together 163 countries in Durban, South Africa

12. International Plan for Cleaner Energy: G-8 group of industrial
nations (US, Canada, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, UK), July 2001:
the US was the only one to oppose it.

13. Enforcing an illegal boycott of Cuba, now being made tighter. In
the UN in October 2001, the General Assembly
passed a resolution, for the tenth consecutive year, calling for an end
to the US embargo, by a vote of 167 to 3 (the US, Israel, and the Marshall
Islands in opposition).

14. Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty. Signed by 164 nations and
ratified by 89 including France, Great Britain, and Russia; signed by
President Clinton in 1996 but rejected by the Senate in 1999. The US is
one of 13 nonratifiers among countries that have nuclear weapons or
nuclear power programs. In November 2001, the US forced a vote in the
UN Committee on Disarmament and Security to demonstrate its opposition to
the Test Ban Treaty.

15. In 1986 the International Court of Justice (The Hague) ruled that
the US was in violation of international law for “unlawful use of force” in
Nicaragua, through its actions and those of its Contra proxy army. The
US refused to recognize the Court’s jurisdiction. A UN resolution calling
for compliance with the Court’s decision was approved 94-2 (US and Israel
voting no).

16. In 1984 the US quit UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization) and ceased its payments for UNESCO’s budget, over the New
World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) project designed to
lessen world media dependence on the “big four” wire agencies (AP, UPI,
Agence France-Presse, Reuters). The US charged UNESCO with “curtailment
of press freedom,” as well as mismanagement and other faults, despite a
148-1 in vote in favor of NWICO in the UN. UNESCO terminated NWICO in 1989;
the US nonetheless refused to rejoin. In 1995 the Clinton
administration proposed rejoining; the move was blocked in Congress and
Clinton did not press the issue. In February 2000 the US finally paid
some of its arrears to the UN but excluded UNESCO, which the US has not
rejoined.

17. Optional Protocol, 1989, to the UN’s International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolition of the death penalty and
containing a provision banning the execution of those under 18. The US
has neither signed nor ratified and specifically exempts itself from the
latter provision, making it one of five countries that still execute
juveniles (with Saudi
Arabia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria). China abolished
the practice in 1997, Pakistan in 2000.

18. 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women. The only countries that have signed but not ratified are
the US, Afghanistan, Sao Tome and Principe.

19. The US has signed but not ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, which protects the economic and social rights of
children. The only other country not to ratify is Somalia, which has no
functioning government.

20. UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
1966, covering a wide range of rights and monitored by the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The US signed in 1977 but has not
ratified.

21. UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, 1948. The US finally ratified in 1988, adding several
“reservations” to the effect that the US Constitution and the “advice
and consent” of the Senate are required to judge whether any “acts in the
course of armed conflict” constitute genocide. The reservations are
rejected by Britain, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece,
Mexico, Estonia, and others.

22. Is the status of “we’re number one!” Rogue overcome by generous
foreign aid to given less fortunate countries? The three best aid
providers, measured by the foreign aid percentage of their gross
domestic products, are Denmark (1.01%), Norway (0.91%), and the Netherlands
(0.79), The three worst: USA (0.10%), UK (0.23%), Australia, Portugal, and
Austria (all 0.26).

rbd / 19 Dec 01
http://www.islamawareness.net/WarCrimes/American/

why in hell is Barry FLYING everywhere when our economy is in shambles? Can he do nothing via teleconferencing? Or does his *arrogant nature* make it OK for him to haul AF1 out every other day?