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*****YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT THE END***** A new day is dawning. Our country is at a turning point. This is a time of great possibility. Across the land, people are coming together to reshape our nation’s priorities to make government “of, by and for the people” a reality. From the Midwest to the South, from coast to coast, in big cities and rural communities voters have turned out in record numbers for change. A landslide vote on November 4 can open the way to recovery from the very deep wounds of the Bush adminstration and decades of corporate right-wing control. There is a crisis in every critical area of national life. Profits at the top are record high, but families can’t make ends meet. Trillions are squandered in Iraq, but 45 million are without health care. Billions are spent on tax breaks to the super rich, but working families are losing their homes and young people can’t afford higher education. Working people want bold new policies to end war, restore democratic traditions and create green living wage jobs, affordable housing, healthcare and quality education for everyone. Republican John McCain, the candidate of the military industrial complex, will continue the Bush agenda. “100 years” in Iraq, Social Security privatization, and tax cuts for the rich. His Republican partners in Congress have blocked, stalled or gutted every bill that benefits working people since they l ost majority control in 2006. Although the ultra-right is weakened and divided, they continue to push fear, division, racism and anti-immigrant bigotry in this year’s elections, aided and abetted by the corporate media. These multi-pronged poisonous tactics can only be overcome with unbreakable unity. The choice is clear. Stay with the Bush-McCain race to the bottom or raise up the whole country with a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4. Voters are demanding a new kind ofpolitics to rebuild our country for the comm on good. A democratic spirit of unity and hope is inspiring millions to get involved. During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, unemployed workers and their allies marched and organized until public works jobs, Social Security and New Deal programs were won. In the 1960’s the great civil rights movement won the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. In 2008, union members, African Americans, Latinos, youth and women, seniors, environmental and peace voters are forging a powerful new all encompassing movement that makes great changes possible. Help make histor y. Talk with co-workers, neighbors, friends and family. Volunteer to knock on doors, make calls, get online to turnout a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4, and keep the movement going. 1. Immediate Relief -- A moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Reset mortgages so payments are affordable. No bail outs for banks. Extend unemployment compensation, increase payments and eligibility. Increase food stamps, WIC, children’s health insurance, and low income energy assistance. Assist deficit-ridden state and local governments so they can preserve services and jobs. Fund “read y-to-go” infrastructure projects. 2. A Peacetime, Green Jobs Economy for All -- Enact massive public works job creation to make existing buildings energy efficient, construct new schools, hospitals, affordable housing, mass transit and bridges. Priority to areas hurt by loss of manufacturing, loss of family farms and highest unemployment areas including the Katrina-devastated Gulf Coast. Major clean, affordable energy development project for solar, wind and biomass electricity generation. Immediate program to cut greenhouse gas emissions and for environmental cleanup. Restore Federal energy regulation and encourage public ownership of utilities. Enact the Employee Free Choice Act to enable workers to form unions without intimidation and win higher wages and benefits, dignity and respect. Enact HR 676 the US National Health Insurance Act to provide universal health insurance with singlepayer financing. Fully fund public education from pre-school through higher education and technical training. No privatization of Social Security or Medicare. Expand and improve benefits. 3.Restore Civil Rights, the Bill of Rights and Sepa ration of Powers -- Restore Civil Rights Act enforcement, affirmative action in employment, education, and housing. End the “school to prison” pipeline. Outlaw hate crimes. Preserve Roe v. Wade. Pass immigration reform with legalization, a path to citizenship, due process, no militarization of the borders, and no exploitative guest worker programs. No human being is illegal. Repeal Patriot Act. Restore Habeas Corpus rights. No more torture. Investigate and prosecute Bush administration violations of the Constitution. Expand voting rights. Enact publicly financed elections, same day registration, voting r ights for ex-felons, verifiable voting equipment, and instant runoff voting. Restore Fairness Doctrine in media. 4. STRENGTH THROUGH PEACE -- Withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq with no bases or U.S. corporations left behind. Full care for returning veterans. No war on Iran or expansion of troops in Afghanistan. Assistance to Iraqi people to rebuild their country. Adopt a new foreign policy of diplomacy and respect for all nations, instead of preemptive war for corporate interests. Renew commitment to UN peace role. End trade policies that enrich corporations while destroying jobs. Ratify Kyoto Treaty and other climate change agreements. Enforce nuclear non-proliferation, work to abolish nuclear weapons. Cut Pentagon spending in half, close down US bases around the world. Defeating the right wing is the first step in the struggle to end exploitation, poverty, racism and war inherent in capitalism. The Communist Party USA and Young Communist League participate in today’s movements confident that they set the stage for more fundamental change tomorrow. Throughout our 88-year history we have defended the interests of the working class, fighting for unity and democratic rights. Today we are guided by our motto, “People and Nature Before Profits.” Our vision is a socialist USA, that opens the way for equality, world peace, real democracy, a society in which people control their own destinies in a sustainable world. For our full program visit http://www. cpusa. org We invite you to join us. Issued as a public service by the Communist Party USA< BR>For comments or more information call: 212-989-4994 or e-mail: politicalaction@cpusa.org

Time to call SNOPES

WRITTEN BY A 15 yr. Old SCHOOL KID IN ARIZONA : New Pledge of Allegiance (TOTALLY AWESOME) ! Since the Pledge of Allegiance And The Lord's Prayer Are not allowed in most Public schools anymore Because the word 'God' is mentioned... . A kid in Arizona wrote the attached NEW School prayer : Now I sit me down in school Where praying is against the rule For this great nation under God Finds mention of Him very odd. If Scripture now the class recites, It violates the Bill of Rights. And anytime my head I bow Becomes a Federal matter now. Our hair can be purple, orange or green, That's no offense; it's a freedom scene. The law is specific, the law is precise. Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice. For praying in a public hall Might offend someone with no faith at all. In silence alone we must meditate, God's name is prohibited by the state. We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks, And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.. They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible. To quote the Good Book makes me liable. We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen, And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King. It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong, We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong. We can get our condoms and birth controls, Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles. But the Ten Commandments are not allowed, No word of God must reach this crowd. It's scary here I must confess, When chaos reigns the school's a mess. So, Lord, this silent plea I make: Should I be shot; My soul please take! Amen If you aren't ashamed to do this, Please pass this on. Jesus said, 'If you are ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you before my Father.'

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*****I FOUND THIS ON THE NET. THOUGHT IT WAS AN INTERESTING ENDING TO AN INTERESTING SONG AND STORY. ALTHOUGH THE SONG SPELLED THE NAME BILLIE, IT WAS SPELLED BILLY IN THE MOVIE***** *AUTHOR UNKNOWN* It's been a real long time, Billie Joe...more'n thirty years since I been back to Choctaw Ridge, I reckon. It ain't changed much. I ain't changed much neither, apart from being a good deal older and a might wiser than I was then. I see they ain't done a lick to clean up the river. It's still as muddy as it ever was. I hung around for a couple of years after it happened. I didn't feel right going nowhere while Mama were still alive. I was hoping perhaps my brother and Becky...Becky Thompson that was. Did you know they got hitched in the summer of '62, shortly after Papa died? I saw 'em maybe five or six years ago. They're grandparents now, Billie Joe. Hard to imagine, ain't it? Anyways, I thought maybe they'd take Mama with them to Tupelo when they bought that convenience store, but they didn't even offer. Guess they figured she was my responsibility...me being the daughter of the family and all. Mama never were the same after Papa passed away. Didn't never make another apple pie. No buttermilk biscuits neither. Papa sure was partial to them buttermilk biscuits. Seems like he was a-pouring gravy over a heap of 'em when Mama mentioned she'd heard you done jumped off the bridge. I won't tell you what he said about you, Billie Joe. It weren't so flattering. I eventually got to Vegas, Billie Joe. Remember we used to talk about that? I worked the blackjack tables. Good money, not to mention the tips. Met this gal there. She was a dancer but wanted to be...you know...one of them pop singers. Called herself Bobbie something-or-other. Don't quite recollect the last name, but it don't matter none 'cos it weren't her real one anyway. Well, we got to talking some and I told her what happened here in Choctaw Ridge. Oh...don't go churning up them waters now. I didn't tell her everything. She wrote a song about it, Billie Joe. I do believe it was on the top of them hit parade charts for about a month. That would have been '67, if memory serves. Kinda made you a household word for a while and had everybody speculating. That gal changed a few things though. I guess it's what they call "poetic license." Said it happened in June and that my brother was baling hay...like he ever baled hay in his life! She also said Papa died of a virus. Fact is, he just went to bed one night and never woke up. Mama put her foot down about doing any cutting on him to see why he died, so I suppose nobody will ever know for sure. Not necessarily a bad thing. He wouldn't have liked it. Still, a lot of what she wrote were true. Like that conversation we had after church on the Sunday before you jumped off this here bridge. Thought they'd never quit questioning me about that. I didn't give nuthin' away though, just like I promised. Course, you know Preacher Taylor thought he saw you and me up here throwing something into the river? Didn't think they'd ever stop badgering me about that neither. In the end, I told them it weren't me. There were lotsa girls in Choctaw Ridge at the time who were about my size with long, brown hair...right, Billie Joe? Know what I find so strange? That nobody ever did wonder what you was doing up at the sawmill the day before...not even after my brother told everyone he'd seen you. I mean, you had no reason to be there. No good one, anyhow. They never did put two and two together. Still, that fact don't surprise me none really. Simple arithmetic always did elude most folks in these parts. Oh, now don't go getting in a snit, making them eddies in the water and disturbing all that nice, thick river mud. Never know what you might stir up there, Billie Joe. That's another thing that ain't changed none. You sure ain't mellowed out over the years, boy! Take it easy, honey pie. You ain't got no cause to worry. As long as you keep my secret safe, Billie Joe, then I'm honor bound to keep yours.
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