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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Overkill and definitely OVER

Even though I thought everything ABOUT the Obama Presidential campaign was over the top .... four million on a last-minute infomercial. MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS on advertising .... and come on .... it's a ONE WORD sign ...... I think the message was easy .... and ..... so it's overkill ..
BUT .... there is something so OVER about this next shot ..... (see bottom right of photo)

I smiled ENORMOUSLY when I saw this. This gentleman (whose office I pass all but daily) supports every freakin neocon that comes down the pike.

OR carnery or former wrestler. NEO and OUTTA THERE county commissioner brian blair ...
Bad day for him. His freaks LOST.
So ... over the top doesn't work for me but .... you know ... snatching stuff FROM THEM totally DOES.

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"This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalised... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill."
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

CRUCIAL ACTION: Contact the House Judiciary Committee and Nancy Pelosi TODAY. Don't wait. One click. The momentum is on our side and the world is watching. Bush cronies WORLD WIDE declaring martial law. Nation of GA, Pakistan, Burma ... Mexico's election illegal and then the flooding. GETTING THEM OUT OF THERE IS AN EMERGENCY. Believe this. And help a country out here.
ADD ON: The Sunroof, teenage, bomb, blast, gunshot, LIES pertaining to the MURDER of Benazir Bhutto.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley

Get your ARREST BUSH Tshirt HERE!!
SQUELCH THE FCC's HIDDEN PLAN geez
Tampa Firemen and Other Firemen Fire Brigade: NeoNazis

Follow along with Tampa Stalking HERE.
Additional
data on GANG STALKING IN AMERICA and ELSEWHERE

KNOW WHERE YOU STAND AND STAND THERE
The DOCUMENTED TRUTH about Masons and Shriners (part of it )

Be the ONE MILLIONTH PERSON to sign the IMPEACH BUSH petition.
text "CHENEY" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BUSH" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BOTH" to 30644 if you think it would be strategically wise to go for the double play

The heart has it's reasons which reason knows nothing of.
*
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal

Here's the last 25 messages on the Impeach Cheney matter
No Excuses : Email any rep in the country. Go ahead. They have to answer you; it's what you pay them for. Compel them to uphold their oath to protect the Constitution of the United States of America.

The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Robert Browning

ANOTHER BUSH LIE

I've saved some sunlight
if you should ever need
a place away from darkness
where your mind can feed.
from Rod McKuen's "I've Saved The Summer"

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Make today COUNT.
Go to to find the phone numbers of your Senators and Representative.

Bill Nelson 202 224 5274

Kathy Castor 202 225 3376 (UPDATED NUMBER)

Mel Martinez 202224 3041

















Send a letter to the St.Pete Times
I don't care what you talk about but keep sending letters until they publish one. They're very selective with WHOM they publish because I see the same names over and over. Don't let a few people speak for ALL of us.

And call your congressman and talk to her of Inherent Contempt. Do it. And hug everyone you can reach.

North Jersey JUST DOIN it.

Headlights to Impeach
Turn them ON. PlEaSe ! Help a country out here. Also, click the link to sign the petition. Takes three seconds.

Live Vote for Impeachment

Vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll
Click Here

Bush Business (two states moving to convene grand juries)
Email your Congressman
Court of Impeachment and War Crimes

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The City of Tampa and it's assorted city-sanctioned gang members need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.

Some more threats from Tampa firemen (we'll just drive by your burning house if we know who you are) no kidding? I would NEVER have guessed that !
Stop Organized Stalking
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warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or
legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection
save to call for the impeachment of the current President.
ERACISM: ALL colors with love and respect.

"This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalised... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill."
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

CRUCIAL ACTION: Contact the House Judiciary Committee and Nancy Pelosi TODAY. Don't wait. One click. The momentum is on our side and the world is watching. Bush cronies WORLD WIDE declaring martial law. Nation of GA, Pakistan, Burma ... Mexico's election illegal and then the flooding. GETTING THEM OUT OF THERE IS AN EMERGENCY. Believe this. And help a country out here.
ADD ON: The Sunroof, teenage, bomb, blast, gunshot, LIES pertaining to the MURDER of Benazir Bhutto.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley

Get your ARREST BUSH Tshirt HERE!!
SQUELCH THE FCC's HIDDEN PLAN geez
Tampa Firemen and Other Firemen Fire Brigade: NeoNazis

Follow along with Tampa Stalking HERE.
Additional
data on GANG STALKING IN AMERICA and ELSEWHERE

KNOW WHERE YOU STAND AND STAND THERE
The DOCUMENTED TRUTH about Masons and Shriners (part of it )

Be the ONE MILLIONTH PERSON to sign the IMPEACH BUSH petition.
text "CHENEY" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BUSH" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BOTH" to 30644 if you think it would be strategically wise to go for the double play

The heart has it's reasons which reason knows nothing of.
*
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal

Here's the last 25 messages on the Impeach Cheney matter
No Excuses : Email any rep in the country. Go ahead. They have to answer you; it's what you pay them for. Compel them to uphold their oath to protect the Constitution of the United States of America.

The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Robert Browning

ANOTHER BUSH LIE

I've saved some sunlight
if you should ever need
a place away from darkness
where your mind can feed.
from Rod McKuen's "I've Saved The Summer"

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Make today COUNT.
Go to to find the phone numbers of your Senators and Representative.

Bill Nelson 202 224 5274

Kathy Castor 202 225 3376 (UPDATED NUMBER)

Mel Martinez 202224 3041





Send a letter to the St.Pete Times
I don't care what you talk about but keep sending letters until they publish one. They're very selective with WHOM they publish because I see the same names over and over. Don't let a few people speak for ALL of us.

And call your congressman and talk to her of Inherent Contempt. Do it. And hug everyone you can reach.

North Jersey JUST DOIN it.

Headlights to Impeach
Turn them ON. PlEaSe ! Help a country out here. Also, click the link to sign the petition. Takes three seconds.

Live Vote for Impeachment

Vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll
Click Here

Bush Business (two states moving to convene grand juries)
Email your Congressman
Court of Impeachment and War Crimes

Brought to you LIVE from THE TAMPA NAIL HOUSE ... : Proud members of the drive-by media (just like Thomas Paine, father of America)

... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.
The City of Tampa and it's assorted city-sanctioned gang members need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.

Some more threats from Tampa firemen (we'll just drive by your burning house if we know who you are) no kidding? I would NEVER have guessed that !
Stop Organized Stalking
More mention of Firefighter and Police participation in gang-stalking
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legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection
save to call for the impeachment of the current President.
ERACISM: ALL colors with love and respect.

"This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalised... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill."
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

CRUCIAL ACTION: Contact the House Judiciary Committee and Nancy Pelosi TODAY. Don't wait. One click. The momentum is on our side and the world is watching. Bush cronies WORLD WIDE declaring martial law. Nation of GA, Pakistan, Burma ... Mexico's election illegal and then the flooding. GETTING THEM OUT OF THERE IS AN EMERGENCY. Believe this. And help a country out here.
ADD ON: The Sunroof, teenage, bomb, blast, gunshot, LIES pertaining to the MURDER of Benazir Bhutto.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley

Get your ARREST BUSH Tshirt HERE!!
SQUELCH THE FCC's HIDDEN PLAN geez
Tampa Firemen and Other Firemen Fire Brigade: NeoNazis

Follow along with Tampa Stalking HERE.
Additional
data on GANG STALKING IN AMERICA and ELSEWHERE

KNOW WHERE YOU STAND AND STAND THERE
The DOCUMENTED TRUTH about Masons and Shriners (part of it )

Be the ONE MILLIONTH PERSON to sign the IMPEACH BUSH petition.
text "CHENEY" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BUSH" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BOTH" to 30644 if you think it would be strategically wise to go for the double play

The heart has it's reasons which reason knows nothing of.
*
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal

Here's the last 25 messages on the Impeach Cheney matter
No Excuses : Email any rep in the country. Go ahead. They have to answer you; it's what you pay them for. Compel them to uphold their oath to protect the Constitution of the United States of America.

The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Robert Browning

ANOTHER BUSH LIE

I've saved some sunlight
if you should ever need
a place away from darkness
where your mind can feed.
from Rod McKuen's "I've Saved The Summer"

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Make today COUNT.
Go to to find the phone numbers of your Senators and Representative.

Bill Nelson 202 224 5274

Kathy Castor 202 225 3376 (UPDATED NUMBER)

Mel Martinez 202224 3041





Send a letter to the St.Pete Times
I don't care what you talk about but keep sending letters until they publish one. They're very selective with WHOM they publish because I see the same names over and over. Don't let a few people speak for ALL of us.

And call your congressman and talk to her of Inherent Contempt. Do it. And hug everyone you can reach.

North Jersey JUST DOIN it.

Headlights to Impeach
Turn them ON. PlEaSe ! Help a country out here. Also, click the link to sign the petition. Takes three seconds.

Live Vote for Impeachment

Vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll
Click Here

Bush Business (two states moving to convene grand juries)
Email your Congressman
Court of Impeachment and War Crimes

Brought to you LIVE from THE TAMPA NAIL HOUSE ... : Proud members of the drive-by media (just like Thomas Paine, father of America)

... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.
The City of Tampa and it's assorted city-sanctioned gang members need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.

Some more threats from Tampa firemen (we'll just drive by your burning house if we know who you are) no kidding? I would NEVER have guessed that !
Stop Organized Stalking
More mention of Firefighter and Police participation in gang-stalking
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Ralph's RIGHT as usual

November 5, 2008 www.votenader.org www.officialnaderstore.com

NEWS FLASH: Ralph has a cameo appearance on Conan O'Brien tonight. Check the Late Night website or your local listings for air time information.
Now, the latest developments:
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."-- Yogi Berra
In this case, at the end of the road that is the presidential election, we do actually come to a fork. It's called Congress -- the House and the Senate. And we should follow Mr. Berra's famous advice and take that fork.
Whomever President-elect Obama chooses for his various cabinet posts, chief of staff, and so on, he is now pretty much out of reach of the American people. To sway a vote to Nader/Gonzalez, one could speculate on Obama's potential appointees, given his campaign contributors, and the thick phalanx of former Clinton advisers and hawkish military types around him. Now is the time to rapidly shift the focus to Congress.
Bringing our efforts to bear on Congress is the only way we can achieve a single-payer system of health care, a living wage comparable to that at the end of the 1960s -- $10 -- and a less belligerent foreign policy. In each Congressional district we need to start organizing ourselves -- and quickly. Ralph Nader showed how much could be done in just a single day in Massachusetts with the marathon he did there of 21 campaign stops in 24 hours. And that was done with the tough goal of trying to convince voters to support his candidacy, which was overwhelmingly ignored by the news media.
Imagine a campaign for results that a majority of Americans already support before you start campaigning! We figure that it will take about 60 days to solidify this new effort.
But, clearly, it won't be easy, and we don't want to underestimate the task. Here's the thing: with your generous donations to the Nader/Gonzalez campaign, you helped us design systems of organizing (that's how you get on 45 state ballots) that lend themselves perfectly toward the idea of organizing around Congress to pass the major laws that we want, laws that respond to people's needs.
Though some of us are now involved with the new effort at November5.org, it's not part of the Nader/Gonzalez campaign. Please visit that website and sign up today. Let your friends and family know about it. We're all shifting direction, and the faster we go about it the better.
Regrouping Fast to Continue Onward,
The Nader Team


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suggested email signature: NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the NSA
may have read this email without warning,
warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or
legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection
save to call for the impeachment of the current President.
ERACISM: ALL colors with love and respect.

"This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalised... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill."
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

CRUCIAL ACTION: Contact the House Judiciary Committee and Nancy Pelosi TODAY. Don't wait. One click. The momentum is on our side and the world is watching. Bush cronies WORLD WIDE declaring martial law. Nation of GA, Pakistan, Burma ... Mexico's election illegal and then the flooding. GETTING THEM OUT OF THERE IS AN EMERGENCY. Believe this. And help a country out here.
ADD ON: The Sunroof, teenage, bomb, blast, gunshot, LIES pertaining to the MURDER of Benazir Bhutto.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley

Get your ARREST BUSH Tshirt HERE!!
SQUELCH THE FCC's HIDDEN PLAN geez
Tampa Firemen and Other Firemen Fire Brigade: NeoNazis

Follow along with Tampa Stalking HERE.
Additional
data on GANG STALKING IN AMERICA and ELSEWHERE

KNOW WHERE YOU STAND AND STAND THERE
The DOCUMENTED TRUTH about Masons and Shriners (part of it )

Be the ONE MILLIONTH PERSON to sign the IMPEACH BUSH petition.
text "CHENEY" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BUSH" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BOTH" to 30644 if you think it would be strategically wise to go for the double play

The heart has it's reasons which reason knows nothing of.
*
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal

Here's the last 25 messages on the Impeach Cheney matter
No Excuses : Email any rep in the country. Go ahead. They have to answer you; it's what you pay them for. Compel them to uphold their oath to protect the Constitution of the United States of America.

The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Robert Browning

ANOTHER BUSH LIE

I've saved some sunlight
if you should ever need
a place away from darkness
where your mind can feed.
from Rod McKuen's "I've Saved The Summer"

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Make today COUNT.
Go to to find the phone numbers of your Senators and Representative.

Bill Nelson 202 224 5274

Kathy Castor 202 225 3376 (UPDATED NUMBER)

Mel Martinez 202224 3041





Send a letter to the St.Pete Times
I don't care what you talk about but keep sending letters until they publish one. They're very selective with WHOM they publish because I see the same names over and over. Don't let a few people speak for ALL of us.

And call your congressman and talk to her of Inherent Contempt. Do it. And hug everyone you can reach.

North Jersey JUST DOIN it.

Headlights to Impeach
Turn them ON. PlEaSe ! Help a country out here. Also, click the link to sign the petition. Takes three seconds.

Live Vote for Impeachment

Vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll
Click Here

Bush Business (two states moving to convene grand juries)
Email your Congressman
Court of Impeachment and War Crimes

Brought to you LIVE from THE TAMPA NAIL HOUSE ... : Proud members of the drive-by media (just like Thomas Paine, father of America)

... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.
The City of Tampa and it's assorted city-sanctioned gang members need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.

Some more threats from Tampa firemen (we'll just drive by your burning house if we know who you are) no kidding? I would NEVER have guessed that !
Stop Organized Stalking
More mention of Firefighter and Police participation in gang-stalking
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ScARy words

One of the blurbs I read today and whatever cause I've been on nineteen different computers and don't have the link handy .. anyway, it said that congress would be controlled by moderate democrats which, IN MY OPINION means we might as well not call them democrats.

So, liberal and progressive democrats ... . STAND STRONG. The struggle continues.

And, look, my comment MADE IT.

whooo hoooooo

Congratulations Mr. Hooper and beloved Grandma. You know ... this journey began long before this day. This journey began with FDR ... I can only go back that far personally due to all the newspaper clippings from my family's days trolling the White House. In deference, will we call it the Black House? Just kiddin'.

But, Obama don't freakin enjoy yourself. INSTEAD WORK YOUR ASS OFF to be the best American you can be.

That's all anyone wants from a president of the united states of america.


Love, my family and I.

I'm actually pretty proud. Extremely apprehensive but pretty proud. And, it's proof positive that barriers?? They only EXIST IN YOUR MIND and in the mainstream media.


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Obama brought the world to grandmother's door
By Ernest Hooper, Times Columnist Posted: Nov 05, 2008 02:45 PM
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I made sure to call my grandmother Wednesday before 11 a.m., because she watches The Price Is Right at 11, and no one can interfere with that.
Luckily, I got her on the telephone before the show and before the television crew from India came by her Atlanta home. Crews from Britain, Japan and the NBC Nightly News also planned to pay a visit.
This is what happens when the personal story of a 106-year-old woman becomes interwoven with one of our nation's most historic moments. Yes, Barack Obama chose to include the remarkable story of my grandmother, Ann Nixon Cooper, in his victory speech Tuesday night.
"This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations," Obama told the 200,000 supporters at Chicago's Grant Park. "But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing. Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old."
Obama proceeded to build a historic time line around her life. He eloquently captured what I've known for so long but perhaps took for granted: My grandmother has witnessed an incredible transformation. She's seen this country go from a place that denied equality to blacks and women to a nation willing to place its trust in an African-American man by electing him to the highest office in the land.
As she watched the speech, well past her normal bedtime, she sipped wine and nibbled on Pepperidge Farm cookies. She couldn't help but take pride in knowing her vote helped put Obama in the White House.
"I thought it was just great," Grandmama said just before she settled into her chair Wednesday morning to watch Drew Carey greet his contestants.
She sounded bubbly, but I get the impression she's taking this newfound recognition in stride.
The genesis of this story starts with the fact she defied a number of health challenges — including two heart attacks — to make it to the polls. When she voted last month, television crews greeted her. You know, it's a big deal when a 106-year-old socialite arrives to cast her ballot.
Eventually, CNN anchor Don Lemon visited Grandmama at her home and produced a heartwarming profile. He brought her flowers and asked if he could be her date at the inauguration. It's a prophetic request given that campaign officials have spoken to her about being in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009.
About a week after the story aired, she received a telephone call from Obama. Of course, she was out riding with friends and missed the call.
Obama did leave a long message on her answering machine. CNN came out and documented that call. However, it wasn't until Tuesday night that she received a second call from the campaign saying she would be mentioned in the acceptance speech. Word quickly spread among me and her other 14 grandchildren.
I wasn't sure what constitutes a mention, and 14 minutes through the speech, I began to think he had decided to go in another direction. Then came the moment: The world's newest leader was talking about my dearest relative.
"So tonight, let us ask ourselves," Obama said. "If our children should live to see the next century, if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?
"This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment."
My moment actually came about six hours later. I woke up my three kids and showed them a replay of the speech on the Internet. To see the gleam in their eyes when they heard their great-grandmother's name was like watching them tear open a gift on Christmas. A gift from my grandmother and Barack Obama.
Ann Nixon Cooper's legacy lives in their hearts. She persevered through good times and bad — from hosting the Nat King Cole trio at her home to enduring racial slurs from an Atlanta streetcar driver — so all her offspring could relish a better life.
Thanks Grandmama. And thanks, Mr. President. [Last modified: Nov 05, 2008 04:38 PM]
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Comments on this article
by vox populi
Nov 5, 2008 4:38 PM
that's a wonderful story. My grandfather endured unspeakable torment to equalize the work places for all. He's white. We all have a place in progress.
by Nancy
Nov 5, 2008 4:38 PM
What a lovely story. Congratulations to you, Mr. Hooper, and congratulations to us all.
by Andrea
Nov 5, 2008 4:38 PM
I love the story.
by Tom
Nov 5, 2008 4:37 PM
Congrats Mr President-Elect. What an awesome piece of history to see in our life-time. And then the story of Ann Nixon Cooper, it sounds to me like God allowed her to live to see this bit of history made. God Bless Grandmama & Mr President...
by Holly
Nov 5, 2008 4:37 PM
Obama's win reminds me of the silly reasons that I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980. 1) He's was a Nuclear Physicist. 2) He came from a poor background. 3) He was NOT a career politican. Once again, history has just repeated itself.
by Lea
Nov 5, 2008 4:37 PM
Mr Hooper, your words were very moving -- as was the story woven by our new President in his speech last night. When you really think about it, the last 100 years have been amazing in so many ways. You're so lucky to have had such a role model
by joe
Nov 5, 2008 4:37 PM
Hoop--That story is pretty cool. Congrats on the victory.
by Betty
Nov 5, 2008 4:37 PM
That is a wonderful story, Ernest. Your Grandmama sounds like a terrific lady to know and I'm so glad she lived long enough to vote in such a historic election. Cheers to all of you.
by Lucia
Nov 5, 2008 4:37 PM
Obama's story reminded me of a wonderful movie called "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" that I saw on TV. It's nice to know that Ann Nixon Cooper was able to endure and see so much during her long lifetime. Way to go, Ms. Cooper!
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Tampa FIRE RESCUE NEVER GIVES UP

I'd say 'never says DIE' but that would have some significance for they as they say it A GREAT DEAL. Not just in my family.

Anyway, yes I AM going to still electrify the outbuilding. Yes I DO get the name connection. Yes you can keep right on threatening me. It's a free country.

Seriously, by now even the LOWEST SLUG would have looked through the bats in their belfry and realize yall can't keep this up and keep absorbing the losses. And besides that you're starting to look really f'ing stupid. More so than ever.

Oh and Mr. Big Lots (drink much???) yes that WAS ME/. Yes you ARE the big man ... and yes I DO know you from somewhere and yes I am not afraid of you and YES you did behave VERY oddly and yes it is weird when the stalked becomes the stalker.
AND you should see her eyes. That is NOT the one to go around doing time for. I know you wish you had someone pretty. Watch their eyes watch their eyes.

AND here's the funny thing: Today it's fire pig after fire pig running around with obama stickers. I mean LAUGHING MY ASS OFF. It was the same thing after Charlie won. I mean LAUGHING MY ASS OFF.

Public service reminder: ya lost. DeAL WITH IT.

Oh yeah and I will be putting the video of that alcoholic and the biker that stalked me down dale mabry today.

Dang. Do yall have ANYONE on board with a brain intact?

Ain't no pussy worth all that and like I said ... I see what yer layin up with.

Definintely not worth degrading yourself to stalk someone you'd much rather have clingin to your arm.

I get it.

You chose it.

Just change.

And, don't forget.

WE'RE IN CHARGE NOW BITCHES>

Such as it is.

LMAO !!!!


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November 05, 2008
No one injured in Tampa storage building fire
TAMPA -- A two-story storage building behind a Tampa home caught fire early this morning, according to Tampa Fire Rescue. No one was inside, and no one was injured.

About 2:15 a.m., firefighters responded to smoke and flames from a garage apartment behind 1401 S Moody Ave
. The apartment was vacant, and the garage was used for storage. The names of the owners of the Moody home and the garage were not available.

The fire was under control in about 90 minutes. A Tampa Fire Marshals Office investigator determined that the blaze was caused by an electrical problem. Damage was estimated at $75,000.
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Some amazing marshalls we got. Most of them spend a lot of time at international mall with my friends. BUT, it's right magical that they discovered the problem ON SITE.
ON SITE AT THAT VERY MOMENT. To HELL with investigations. All that paperwork and time wasted just to cover up for a fucking meth lab. Damn, we in a HURRY we ain't got no time for that bullshit.

Anyway, it's magical and all.

Magic dust.

Yall are grinding your poor members INTO THE DIRT.

Just stop.

Seriously.

By now someone has to realize that I am not afraid of a bunch of drunks that maim and murder others and send out bald (is this what happens to guys that can't handle hair loss???) idjits to stalk me? Noddin at me ...
gd bobbleheaded stalkin bald bitches. bitches bitches. whatev.
Hey it'd be different if we could get you pussies into prison for THE MURDERS you commit. Barring that I guess we'll have to take what we can get. I wouldn't have wished that on anyone but you know it's really incorrect behavior to bash people over the head and burn their houses down and toxify their property. SO, you go right ahead and you watch us roll out all over your dirtbag shit.

I know what you did to her child. I KNOW.

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Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

CRUCIAL ACTION: Contact the House Judiciary Committee and Nancy Pelosi TODAY. Don't wait. One click. The momentum is on our side and the world is watching. Bush cronies WORLD WIDE declaring martial law. Nation of GA, Pakistan, Burma ... Mexico's election illegal and then the flooding. GETTING THEM OUT OF THERE IS AN EMERGENCY. Believe this. And help a country out here.
ADD ON: The Sunroof, teenage, bomb, blast, gunshot, LIES pertaining to the MURDER of Benazir Bhutto.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley

Get your ARREST BUSH Tshirt HERE!!
SQUELCH THE FCC's HIDDEN PLAN geez
Tampa Firemen and Other Firemen Fire Brigade: NeoNazis

Follow along with Tampa Stalking HERE.
Additional
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KNOW WHERE YOU STAND AND STAND THERE
The DOCUMENTED TRUTH about Masons and Shriners (part of it )

Be the ONE MILLIONTH PERSON to sign the IMPEACH BUSH petition.
text "CHENEY" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BUSH" to 30644 to impeach him first, or text "BOTH" to 30644 if you think it would be strategically wise to go for the double play

The heart has it's reasons which reason knows nothing of.
*
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal

Here's the last 25 messages on the Impeach Cheney matter
No Excuses : Email any rep in the country. Go ahead. They have to answer you; it's what you pay them for. Compel them to uphold their oath to protect the Constitution of the United States of America.

The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Robert Browning

ANOTHER BUSH LIE

I've saved some sunlight
if you should ever need
a place away from darkness
where your mind can feed.
from Rod McKuen's "I've Saved The Summer"

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Make today COUNT.
Go to to find the phone numbers of your Senators and Representative.

Bill Nelson 202 224 5274

Kathy Castor 202 225 3376 (UPDATED NUMBER)

Mel Martinez 202224 3041





Send a letter to the St.Pete Times
I don't care what you talk about but keep sending letters until they publish one. They're very selective with WHOM they publish because I see the same names over and over. Don't let a few people speak for ALL of us.

And call your congressman and talk to her of Inherent Contempt. Do it. And hug everyone you can reach.

North Jersey JUST DOIN it.

Headlights to Impeach
Turn them ON. PlEaSe ! Help a country out here. Also, click the link to sign the petition. Takes three seconds.

Live Vote for Impeachment

Vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll
Click Here

Bush Business (two states moving to convene grand juries)
Email your Congressman
Court of Impeachment and War Crimes

Brought to you LIVE from THE TAMPA NAIL HOUSE ... : Proud members of the drive-by media (just like Thomas Paine, father of America)

... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.
The City of Tampa and it's assorted city-sanctioned gang members need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.

Some more threats from Tampa firemen (we'll just drive by your burning house if we know who you are) no kidding? I would NEVER have guessed that !
Stop Organized Stalking
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Okay, tell me if this sounds mercenary. I'm leaving out names and identities for now, and even some words to protect those who frankly don't deserve protection but having never been a RAT (like some) I just don't feel good about spilling people's filthy sides of their lives onto the WWW...

However -- (you knew this was coming, right??) -- I'm willing to disclose same for a fee. In fact, I'm going to disclose some of this in a book which will definitely be for sale very soon but if you'd like to know if your name or some similar aspect that identifies your smarmy and illegal acts towards me and my family have been mentioned I'd be happy to negotiate a fee with you. For the record, save your pennies if I've known you longer than thirty years. Out of respect for you and your family I'll leave your names out. Out of respect for you and your family I have remained silent. Apparently this same respect was not inbred in you. That's a pity but you and yours are safe with me. The ones who took it upon themselves to do your bidding against an innocent family are wide open just like they've left MY family wide open. Herewith I refer to my extended family and network many of whom are currently suffering at your hands. Be on notice.

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Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
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