(we're all about bandwagons…)
Obama urges Americans to follow Lincoln’s example
The Associated Press – 43 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama called on Americans Thursday to follow Abraham Lincoln’s example of showing generosity to political opponents and valuing national unity – above all else.
Am I the only one who has a problem with this statement?
In a few minutes, I’m going to start my last Jet trip. I fly to Fort Wayne for tonight, back to ORD tomorrow and then a round trip to a city whose 3-letter code I do not recognize. Presumably I’ll have to figure it out before I get there.
Dash 8 training starts Monday. Sydney seems to think I’ve been less than clear on this. So there it is. It’s three weeks of ground school, then the rumor is that we’ll have a week off, then simulator training in Vancouver.
Then complain about the only ACTUAL campaign promise that Obama has broken thus far. I’m sure there will be many more, but this was was important to me, and I’m seriously annoyed.
Obama promised that we would all be able to review legislation on the white house website for 5 days *before* he signed it. Much of the crap the Bush administration did was signed into law before we ever got a chance to look at it, and Obama promised change. Thus far, Obama’s only signed one law into effect, and it wasn’t posted on the website until after he signed it.
Now, he’s poised to do the same thing again, though he’s promised that he does remain committed to enacting the policy, he just hasn’t gotten around to it yet. I’m not sure why it’s such a hard thing to do–it’s not like the SCHIP reform can’t wait 5 days. Instead, he’s published the Senate Bill. While that’s better than nothing, it’s bound to be different from the bill he signs into law, and we’re not going to have 5 days with it.
Does this really matter? Probably not, but Obama’s commitment to transparency is one of the biggest reasons I voted for him.
Here’s a few old songs re-recorded and a some fun toying with GarageBand.
All Songs by Joanna Elise are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Ryan Frederick was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on Thursday. He shot a police officer in self defense when the police, who failed to identify themselves in a “drug raid” (they didn’t find any drugs), broke into his house while he was sleeping in the wee hours of the morning. The police also shot at him, but later denied it, despite the evidence of bullet holes and shells collected by the police themselves that came from police rifles, not the handgun that Ryan Frederick possessed.
Here’s a guy whose dog was shot in another police raid. The police broke into his house silently, a precaution they say was necessary because they knew that the suspect was a legal gun owner. Apparently, knocking on someone’s door and shouting, “POLICE!” is a bad idea when you know someone has a gun. Instead, the police think that they should break into a gun owner’s house silently, because they’re less likely to get shot that way? The guy was not arrested and not charge with anything.
A town of 35,000 issues 40,000 traffic citations at one red light camera in the space of a year.
Here’s another botched police raid with two dead dogs, this time on a Maryland mayor.
This is a just a very, very small handful. It is highly unlikely that the police officers in any of these cases will be brought to justice. If you want more, check out Radley Balko’s site, The Agitator. Click on the “Police Professionalism” category, which has hundreds of these sorts of stories.