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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:22:35 -0700

are you telling me that just listening to what they say doesn't convince you to withdraw from all sociopolitical involvement and get massively armed for the impending war of self defense against the state? gee, whiz.....

Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech

Published: August 28, 2008

The following is the transcript of Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, as recorded by CQ Transcriptions.
OBAMA: Thank you so much.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you very much.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you, everybody.
To -- to Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin, and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation, with profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for presidency of the United States.
(APPLAUSE)
Let me -- let me express -- let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and especially the one who traveled the farthest, a champion for working Americans and an inspiration to my daughters and to yours, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(APPLAUSE)
To President Clinton, to President Bill Clinton, who made last night the case for change as only he can make it...
(APPLAUSE)
... to Ted Kennedy, who embodies the spirit of service...
(APPLAUSE)
... and to the next vice president of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you.
(APPLAUSE)
I am grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night.
To the love of my life, our next first lady, Michelle Obama...
(APPLAUSE)
... and to Malia and Sasha, I love you so much, and I am so proud of you.
(APPLAUSE)
Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story, of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren't well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to.
It is that promise that's always set this country apart, that through hard work and sacrifice each of us can pursue our individual dreams, but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams, as well. That's why I stand here tonight. Because for 232 years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women -- students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors -- found the courage to keep it alive.
We meet at one of those defining moments, a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more.
Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit cards, bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.
These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush.
(APPLAUSE)
America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.
(APPLAUSE)
This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.
We're a better country than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment that he's worked on for 20 years and watch as it's shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.
We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty...
(APPLAUSE)
... that sits...
(APPLAUSE)
... that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.
(APPLAUSE)
Tonight, tonight, I say to the people of America, to Democrats and Republicans and independents across this great land: Enough. This moment...
(APPLAUSE)
This moment, this moment, this election is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive.
Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third.
(AUDIENCE BOOS)
And we are here -- we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight.
(APPLAUSE)
On November 4th, on November 4th, we must stand up and say: Eight is enough.
(APPLAUSE)

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Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:54:21 -0700

House Issues Formal Apology For Slavery and some background...
http://www.spvix.com/raceillusion.html

House Issues Formal Apology For Slavery
Unprecedented Resolution Apologizes For Slavery, Jim Crow

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(AP) The House on Tuesday issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.

"Today represents a milestone in our nation's efforts to remedy the ills of our past," said Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The resolution, passed by voice vote, was the work of Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, the only white lawmaker to represent a majority black district. Cohen faces a formidable black challenger in a primary face-off next week.

Congress has issued apologies before - to Japanese-Americans for their internment during World War II and to native Hawaiians for the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom in 1893. In 2005, the Senate apologized for failing to pass anti-lynching laws.

Five states have issued apologies for slavery, but past proposals in Congress have stalled, partly over concerns that an apology would lead to demands for reparations - payment for damages.

The Cohen resolution does not mention reparations. It does commit the House to rectifying "the lingering consequences of the misdeeds committed against African-Americans under slavery and Jim Crow."

It says that Africans forced into slavery "were brutalized, humiliated, dehumanized and subjected to the indignity of being stripped of their names and heritage" and that black Americans today continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow laws that fostered discrimination and segregation.

The House "apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow."

Today represents a milestone in our nation's efforts to remedy the ills of our past.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich, Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus
"Slavery and Jim Crow are stains upon what is the greatest nation on the face of the earth," Cohen said. Part of forming a more perfect union, he said, "is such a resolution as we have before us today where we face up to our mistakes and apologize as anyone should apologize for things that were done in the past that were wrong."

Cohen became the first white to represent the 60 percent black district in Memphis in more than three decades when he captured a 2006 primary where a dozen black candidates split the vote. He has sought to reach out to his black constituents, and early in his term showed interest in joining the Congressional Black Caucus until learning that was against caucus rules.

Another of his first acts as a freshman congressman in early 2007 was to introduce the slavery apology resolution. His office said that the House resolution was brought to the floor only after learning that the Senate would be unable to join in a joint resolution.

More than a dozen of the 42 Congressional Black Caucus members in the House were original co-sponsors of the measure. The caucus has not endorsed either Cohen or his chief rival, attorney Nikki Tinker, in the Memphis primary, although Cohen is backed by several senior members, including Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. Tinker is the former campaign manager of Harold Ford, Jr., who held Cohen's seat until he stepped down in an unsuccessful run for the Senate in 2006.

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Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:40:55 -0700

jason flores williams speaks about some stuff that needs to be heard. he is honest and becoming more accurate with each expression
don vance
::spvix::

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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:38:19 -0700

::as american as theft, fraud and murdeR::

i stumbled across some huffington post stuff while looking for obama's "patriotism" speech that the lunatics have been drooling so hard over for the last few seconds.
the obama speech follows, and it is almost incomparable idiocy, but it has the redeeming quality of being (almost) grammatically correct.
from the huffington post, i take the lesson that when greek pussy gets steamed, we should all prolly take a hard heed.
first up though, this is actually quite a fascinating article about the mechanism of verification on the interweb:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/08/maureen-dowd-becomes-fict_n_111509.html

and the fun stuff is here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/surge-amnesia-the-medias_b_111277.html

Text of Obama's Patriotism Speech - "The America We Love"
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama
The America We Love - as prepared for delivery
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Independence, Missouri

On a spring morning in April of 1775, a simple band of colonists - farmers and merchants, blacksmiths and printers, men and boys - left their homes and families in Lexington and Concord to take up arms against the tyranny of an Empire. The odds against them were long and the risks enormous - for even if they survived the battle, any ultimate failure would bring charges of treason, and death by hanging.

And yet they took that chance. They did so not on behalf of a particular tribe or lineage, but on behalf of a larger idea. The idea of liberty. The idea of God-given, inalienable rights. And with the first shot of that fateful day - a shot heard round the world - the American Revolution, and America's experiment with democracy, began.

Those men of Lexington and Concord were among our first patriots. And at the beginning of a week when we celebrate the birth of our nation, I think it is fitting to pause for a moment and reflect on the meaning of patriotism - theirs, and ours. We do so in part because we are in the midst of war - more than one and a half million of our finest young men and women have now fought in Iraq and Afghanistan; over 60,000 have been wounded, and over 4,600 have been laid to rest. The costs of war have been great, and the debate surrounding our mission in Iraq has been fierce. It is natural, in light of such sacrifice by so many, to think more deeply about the commitments that bind us to our nation, and to each other.

We reflect on these questions as well because we are in the midst of a presidential election, perhaps the most consequential in generations; a contest that will determine the course of this nation for years, perhaps decades, to come. Not only is it a debate about big issues - health care, jobs, energy, education, and retirement security - but it is also a debate about values. How do we keep ourselves safe and secure while preserving our liberties? How do we restore trust in a government that seems increasingly removed from its people and dominated by special interests? How do we ensure that in an increasingly global economy, the winners maintain allegiance to the less fortunate? And how do we resolve our differences at a time of increasing diversity?

Finally, it is worth considering the meaning of patriotism because the question of who is - or is not - a patriot all too often poisons our political debates, in ways that divide us rather than bringing us together. I have come to know this from my own experience on the campaign trail. Throughout my life, I have always taken my deep and abiding love for this country as a given. It was how I was raised; it is what propelled me into public service; it is why I am running for President. And yet, at certain times over the last sixteen months, I have found, for the first time, my patriotism challenged - at times as a result of my own carelessness, more often as a result of the desire by some to score political points and raise fears about who I am and what I stand for.

So let me say at this at outset of my remarks. I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign. And I will not stand idly by when I hear others question mine.

My concerns here aren't simply personal, however. After all, throughout our history, men and women of far greater stature and significance than me have had their patriotism questioned in the midst of momentous debates. Thomas Jefferson was accused by the Federalists of selling out to the French. The anti-Federalists were just as c

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Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:00:34 -0700

sy hersh has been telling the truth about the plans of the bush administration for years. this interview is less about that than the increasingly acute problems that face the publishing and news industry.
the problems he outlines, however briefly, are the same at root that have been the chief and possibly singular reason that the plans of the bush cartel have succeeded so well.
this is not for the faint of heart:
http://www.spvix.com/Hersh.mp3

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Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:59:24 -0700

even still, as i wear my younger man's clothes......

"war"

b. strong

bruce springsteeN 1985:

"if you grew up in the 60's, you grew up with war on the t.v.
every night.
a war that your friends were involved in. and
uh,...
i want to do this song tonight for all the young people
out there.
if you're in your teens....'cause i remember alot
of my friends,
when we were seventeen or eighteen, we didn't
have
much of a chance to think about how we felt about a lot
of things....and uh, ...
the next time, they're gonna be
lookin' at you...
and you're gonna need a lot of information

to know what you're gonna want to do....
because in 1985,

blind faith

in your leaders,

or in anything,

will get you
killed...."

how long before no one thinks that one is an acceptable casualty count?-::spvix::

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Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:01:29 -0800

(artists) ::pussy is good::

wanted:
contributors and venue resources for a global art exhibit
featuring all media works.
contact me via this site or directly at:
spontvix@yahoo.com

the show's theme is to be:
the value of womaN to the glory of maN

::pussy is good::

and it seems as though a great many need to be reminded of this.
thanks and let's rock,
don vance
::spvix::

* it's ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:06:00 -0800

::a moment::

for those who are unfamiliar with me(don vance ::spvix::), i am 38 yrs old and what alot of people typically identify as, "Negro". this is actually a meaningless term in my lexicon but this does not stop anyone from exercising whatever specious prejudices they choose to capitulate their reasoning mind to.
i have done more "good" for the world than any saint or police officer can ever hope to imagine and yet i am accorded all of the respect for my personal human dignity which i would expect due to some pernicious virus, whose sole aim is to abraid the skin.
you may understand the horror and outrage that i intermittently experience when confronted by armed morons, while walking down the streets of my childhood, and threatened with imprisonment for failing to present my branding documentation(i.d.). this is inevitably accompanied by caustic insults that my enemies, even, know better than to tender upon me because at the bottom of their distaste for me, they harbor some hope of achieving my respect.
my friends love me and my enemies avoid me but it is only the police who insult me, and in this i have too much company.
i saw a bulletin posted that exhorted me to "support our troops and our police" and i revisited my valid reaction to the encounters that have recurred between myself and the officers of authority for the better part of twenty-five years.

anyone on this "friends" list who ever posts any bulletin or any such note to me personally will be removed from said list; with prejudice.
that's really all i have to say about it.
thanks and stay well,
don vance
::spvix::

::interviewees needed::
this is an open call for interviewees:
the Rape Declaration Forum is a call-in radio live broadcast, which allows the abused to freely relate their stories to a wide and diverse audience over the airwaves in the New York region, and globally on the internet. It is aired monthly on 99.5 fm WBAI.

Each broadcast typically features a pre-taped interview with an abused person who is given free space to explain, in depth, the trauma of their abuse and subsequent results, and perhaps lessons learned. This is followed by anyone who calls in to add or respond to the issues raised during the set up piece. The number to call on the night is 212-209-2900.

please pass this on to any and all interested parties to contact me directly in regards.
thanks and stay well all,
don vance
nyc

:::another moment:::

jesus fucking christ. i don't need any fucking help to hold my views on police, but i suppose god has to show me love every once in a while......

NYPD detective accused of pimping teen

By MARCUS FRANKLIN, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago

NEW YORK - A police detective and a woman forced a 13-year-old runaway to work as a prostitute at parties around the city, telling her that if she tried to escape the officer would make her sell herself on the streets, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Wayne Taylor, 35, and Zelika Brown, 29, were arrested on charges of kidnapping, promoting prostitution, assault and endangering the welfare of a child, the Queens district attorney's office said.

Taylor, a 14-year New York Police Department member assigned to the housing bureau, was suspended without pay, the department said. Both he and Brown pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

Taylor's attorney, Peter Brill, told reporters his client "has the right to have the case proven against him beyond a reasonable doubt." Randall Unger, an attorney for Brown, did not immediately respond to an after-hours phone message seeking comment.

Taylor and Brown each face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. They were each being held on $250,000 bail, prosecutors said.

According to prosecutors, the teenage girl ran away from her Brooklyn home on Jan. 10 and met someone who offered to get her a job dancing for money at parties. That person then introduced her to Brown, who told the girl that she had bought her for $500 and that she had to work off the debt, prosecutors said.

Taylor instructed the girl to tell people that she was 19 years old and that she charged $40 to $80 for sexual acts, prosecutors said.

Taylor and Brown took the girl to parties throughout the city where she was told to have sex with about 20 men in exchange for money given to the pair, prosecutors said.

While holding the girl against her will, Brown chided her for not earning enough money and slammed her head into the floor, prosecutors said.

Taylor told the victim that if she failed to earn more money or tried to leave, he would force her to work as a prostitute on the streets, prosecutors said. He told the girl an alarm on the house would alert him if she tried to leave, they said.

A 17-year-old girl was also being held on charges of promoting prostitution, assault and endangering the welfare of a

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:38:41 -0800

model wanted
::female model sought for adult artwork::

manhattaN, nyc
pinup art- fantasy style -

digitally manipulated, graphic photography.
not for commerce, yet.

$unpaid-tfcd-barter. i do it because i love it.
you have your own
reasons for getting to me.
::model wanted::

::spvix::

::i am the reason and the way::