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Syria misses United Nations deadline
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Best OFA Supporter (Bobby) Contributed Zero
Robert --

This can't be right.
Oh yes, it can!

We're just going through our records and -- even though you're one of our best supporters -- it looks like you're not a 2013 founding member.
No, I'm not. Not a founding member, either.

Nothing's changed: It still takes each of us chipping in what we can, when we can, to build the kind of grassroots movement that can win the big fights.
Hey, maybe there is something useful in this spam!

Please take a moment to review the supporter record associated with this exact email address:

-- OFA 2013 founding member: Pending
-- Suggested donation: $5

And make sure you become an OFA founding member by chipping in $5 or more today.

With all of us working together, we can accomplish a lot in the new year, but this is always going to be a team effort.
Of course, it's a lot easier if the media is on your side.

We need help from people like you.

Chip in $5 or more today and take your OFA status to the next level:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Deadline-Midnight
Oh, darn! I forgot to donate yesterday! I guess time is up! Too bad. Oh, wait. You can still take my money? What a relief!

Thanks,

Organizing for Action

P.S. -- Wait, there's more! Your donation today automatically enters you for a free trip to D.C. for you and a guest to come help OFA celebrate its birthday next month.
Fundraising with raffle tickets.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/02/2014 16:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fundraising with raffle tickets.
Out here in Pugetsoundistan, the State has pretty strict rules about conducting fundraising raffles: wonder what sort of rules the OFA has to follow?
Posted by: USN,Ret. || 01/02/2014 21:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
De Blasio Sworn In as Mayor of New York
[An Nahar] New York's new Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio was sworn in Wednesday promising to restore progressive ideals and end growing economic inequality in America's biggest city.

De Blasio, 52, who in November won a landslide election to become New York's first Democratic mayor in 20 years, took the oath of office one minute after midnight during a ceremony in front of his Brooklyn home, flanked by his wife Chirlane and their two teenaged children.

"This is the beginning of a road we will travel together," he told a few dozen supporters gathered outside his home, during a short speech ahead of a formal swearing in ceremony later Wednesday.
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They're doomed.
Posted by: gorb || 01/02/2014 1:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Ok New York dems, all together now:

“One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn’t the same.”

(Sung to the melody of the original Sesame Street song are, “One of these things just doesn’t belon
g.”)
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2014 3:05 Comments || Top||

#3  “Let the plantation called New York City be the city of God, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness,”.... “Elevate our valleys. Make low our mountains. Make our crooked places straight and our rough places smooth. Oh God, oh God, oh God, break every chain, break every chain, break every chain.”
~ Rev. Fred Lucas at the De Basio inauguration ceremony.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2014 3:33 Comments || Top||

#4  This is going to be much more fun for the spectators than it is going to be for the participants...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/02/2014 7:12 Comments || Top||

#5  So far he has vowed to ban all horse-driven carriages.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/02/2014 7:28 Comments || Top||

#6  More progressive ideas needed. HURRY !

During the 3½ years of WWII that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl
Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945.
The U.S. produced:
22 Aircraft Carriers
8 Battleships
48 Cruisers
349 Destroyers
420 Destroyer Escorts
203 Submarines
34 Million Tons of Merchant Ships
100,000 Fighter Aircraft
98,000 Bombers
24,000 Transport Aircraft
58,000 Training Aircraft
93,000 Tanks
257,000 Artillery Pieces
105,000 Mortars
3,000,000 Machine Guns
and 2,500,000 Military Trucks
We put 16.1 Million Men in uniform in the various Armed Services.
Invaded Africa
Invaded Sicily and Italy
Won the battle for the Atlantic
Planned and executed D-Day
Marched across the Pacific and Europe
Developed the Atomic Bomb
and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany

It’s worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, this current administration couldn't build a functioning website! Or I might add, make a decision on the Keystone pipeline.



Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2014 8:05 Comments || Top||

#7  restore progressive ideals and end growing economic inequality in America's biggest city

Following in the footsteps of Detroit.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/02/2014 10:53 Comments || Top||

#8  But in the New York Times, Andrew Rosenthal looks behind the Mayor’s claims:

Let’s not forget that tourists love the carriages and that locals make a living off them. And it’s worth noting that one of the big driving forces hiding behind the anti-cruelty front of the anti-carriage campaign are real estate developers. Is it possible they want to turn the stables in prime Manhattan locations into far more lucrative condos?

Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/02/2014 11:05 Comments || Top||

#9  for... any instance in which students citizens are required to evacuate the school building New York City, some typical rules and procedures may be no talking; walk in an orderly, single-file line; exit the building city; move to a designated place outside the building city and wait for further instructions.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/02/2014 11:34 Comments || Top||

#10  And it's worth noting that one of the big driving forces hiding behind the anti-cruelty front of the anti-carriage campaign are real estate developers. Is it possible they want to turn the stables in prime Manhattan locations into far more lucrative condos?

Wouldn't be the first time that sort of thing has happened. All you gotta do is follow the money.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 01/02/2014 12:14 Comments || Top||

#11  De Blasio has vowed to ban all horse-driven carriages. Posted by: Deacon Blues











Demoncrats put hard working Americans on the Unemployment Line
Posted by: George Alowishus Hatrack III || 01/02/2014 12:34 Comments || Top||

#12  Mr. Snake Plisskin to the white courtesy phone please...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/02/2014 15:47 Comments || Top||

#13  Let's see how mini Mussolini deals with tonight's snow storm.
Posted by: regular joe || 01/02/2014 16:16 Comments || Top||

#14  "snowfall, which is white, is racist, and unequal distribution is also racist."
Posted by: Frank G || 01/02/2014 16:33 Comments || Top||

#15  It's worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, this current administration couldn't build a functioning website! Or I might add, make a decision on the Keystone pipeline.

They've made a decision on the Keystone pipeline, but by pretending not to they don't have to take responsibility for it.

And the website may just be his way of burning the ships, like Cortez, so we can't go back to what we had before single payer. Now they have to implement some flavor or single payer, or _die_.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/02/2014 16:44 Comments || Top||

#16  Interesting, from Wikipedia: De Blasio's first job was part of the Urban Fellows Program for the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice in 1984. [14][15] In 1987, shortly after completing graduate school at Columbia University, de Blasio was hired to work as a political organizer by the Quixote Center in Maryland. In 1988, de Blasio traveled with the Quixote Center to Nicaragua for 10 days to help distribute food and medicine during the Nicaraguan Revolution. De Blasio was an ardent supporter of the ruling Sandinista government, which was at that time opposed by the Reagan administration.[15]
Posted by: Bobby || 01/02/2014 16:45 Comments || Top||

#17  They would have been better of with the Wiener and Huma. Funny that.
Posted by: Retied LEO || 01/02/2014 20:44 Comments || Top||

#18  Out of the frying pan and into the fire. More popcorn, please.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 01/02/2014 21:01 Comments || Top||

#19 
Elevate our valleys. Make low our mountains. Make our crooked places straight and our rough places smooth.


Sounds like a call to reduce everything to a featureless ball of mud.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/02/2014 23:04 Comments || Top||



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