A new game...guess what industry segment is moving up today on the stock market....that's right...drug companies...what a coincidence....

Dan

A key sector benefiting from Bush's lead was major pharmaceutical companies, with Pfizer Inc. (PFE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) shares up more than 3 percent before the

Daniel Hines
todaysseniorsnetwork.com
Missouri

We need to get the blogs working very quickly on impeachment...

There is little doubt that there is enough evidence to make the case for impeachment, on more than one charge.

I say we impeach Bush on the internet, then let them take our blog-fueled case and run with it.

Lets turn the internet into an impeachment machine.

Lets have a "Public Impeachment." Whether our lawmakers take it up or not doesn't matter as muh as making the case for history to judge. We don't have to worry about supporting Kerry now, so we can concentrate on exposing Bush without having to fight that fight, too..

Remember Monica

IMPEACH BUSH!!!!

John Patterson
California

Dear friends,

Well, we gave a good go! We all worked hard, but there are more thinking Oregonians than there are Americans!

I went to bed last night and had bad dreams. This morning I found the dreams were true. Even here in Oregon Bush received 47% of the vote.

I am definitely out of step! I cry for the world.

thanks,

Gwen Curran
Oregon

OK, I'M SO DEPRESSED I'D LIKE TO HIDE IN BED FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.
WHY DID BUSH WIN? DON'T PEOPLE HAVE ANY BRAINS??

I UNDERSTAND THE GOOD OL' BOYS IN FL. THE MANY DIDN'T WANT TO VOTE FOR KERRY BECAUSE HE ISN'T GOOD LOOKING. SOME JUST WANT WAR, ANY WAR. KILL THE MIDDLE EAST....TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

BUT JOBS-MEDICAL CARE, GAY RIGHTS, WOMENS RIGHTS??? WHY DON'T THEY UNDERSTAND? BACK TO THE DARK AGES.

ROSE RUBIO
Florida

Hello everyone,

It is with profound disappointment and sadness that I send this note. Today, the day after, we awaken, yet again, to a nation and world divided. Yesterday's election has proven beyond a doubt that America is solidly divided. We remain a nation and world in crisis. A new vision, compass, and leadership seem to await another time.

I have not, precisely, decided what I, personally, can and will do to carry on the fight to right America. But this much I know, we must continue the fight. We can not be dissuaded by the fear and rancor of those who would silence us and our message. If we are to remain a great nation, dissent, diversity, and tolerance must prevail.

Finally, I want to take this opportunity to thank each of you for having read my emails over the past months. I hope you found them helpful. I wish each and everyone of you all the blessings that life has to offer. I wish you strength and comfort in the knowledge that we have fought "the good fight"; we are right to be concerned for America and our role in leading the world.

Pax vobiscum,
...mark

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" The risk of going nowhere is the greatest risk of all...
On the other side of doubt is faith
On the other side of pain lies strength [...]
On the other side of fear is love."
Joie Scott/ Richard Wold
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Mark F. Rabideau
Franktown, Colorado

George W. Bush stumbled through tonight's debate in the same way he has stumbled through his Presidency. His message of fear is misleading. His message on Iraq is based on lies. His lack of message on the erosion of our civil rights is terrifying.

Senator John Kerry stepped forward tonight with a clear message of hope for America and the World, in the same way he has stepped forward for public service all of his life. He is a man of peace who has already been tested in war. He is a Senator who has a clear record on the environment, civil rights and education.

It is now time for the American Public to step forward to put our Country back on course under a new, smarter, more compassionate administration that respects other Nations, and the intelligence and the civil rights of the American People.

Most of all, it is time to elect a President who tells us the truth.

Howard Vicini
San Francisco

I have (or had?) two very Christian, conservative (Republican) friends. One out of state, the other in San Diego. Thus our primary means of communication is e-mail. One has stopped all communication with me. The other, for lack of a better term, has turned condescending or benignly tolerant. Meanwhile, a very Catholic cousin (in Arizona) has refused to exchange one e-mail on the subject.

I see them as being very symptomatic of the middle America, agrarian and/or Southern states that staunchly support Bush. Damn the torpedoes or reason or logic or anything. He is a Christian! And that seems to be the end of it. Discussion over. That is what we are fighting. And to fight that kind of thinking is to be a heathen or a liberal California nut, etc.

I am frustrated and angry and have often been amazed and awed. Point by individual point, there is no meaningful response to the specific issuses, re: Iraq, the economy, etc. But because Bush and the GOP have claimed religion, excuse me - "Christianity," I presume those folks believe he is on God's side and, thus, must be retained. It is awesome, but more significantly, it is frightening.

This is one ultra important reason Thomas Jefferson very clearly separated church and state in Virginia and then in the Constitution. But these people see only the heathen judges and media as the cause for taking religion and morality away from us.

Sorry to rant like this, but I'm feeling so Damned angry! I don't find anything in the Seniors for America or the Democratic party or Anywhere - that has any response, much less an effective response, to this twisted thinking. I fear our society is not all that much different from the fundamentalist Muslim dominated countries. I also fear that the kind of politics currently practiced by the GOP is destroying or has destroyed the kind of Democracy we'd like to think we have in this country.

Thanks for reading this.
Wayne Gonzalez
San Jose

Summary

The Media For America (MFA) campaign is working closely with inter-faith church groups, media educators and seniors to involve one million additional citizens in the growing public lobby for media reform by engaging them in specific activities associated with the 2004 presidential election campaign. The MFA website is constructed for use by people with no knowledge whatsoever about media reform and encourages them to support the immediate re-appointment of Jonathan Adelstein to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Background

Revelations in the past year that major news organizations have failed to adequately cover several serious issues such as the war in Iraq and further relaxation of media ownership rules have created an unprecedented opportunity to make media reform an election year issue with great implications for the revitalization of republican democracy.

Media policy, normally an obscure issue prone to special interest manipulation, has suddenly become an issue in this year’s election for three key reasons:

1. More than 2 million citizens expressed strong opposition to the FCC and Congress following the controversial 2003 media ownership ruling.
2. Citizens in ever-greater numbers are attending local meetings organized via the Internet and becoming involved in grassroots political activities.
3. Least known but most significant of all: For the first time in seventy years, not one but TWO FCC commissioners have taken a spirited stand for media rules and regulations in the public interest.

MFA was launched by John Boyer and Henry Kroll after teaming up at the National Media Reform Conference held in Madison, Wisconsin last November. After initial involvement in public affairs programs for PBS, both have extensive experience in media education, media policy reform and community outreach. For more information about them and the MFA campaign, go to www.mediareform.org.

Action Plan

MFA was established in February, 2004, to encourage many more concerned citizens to join the remarkable public lobby of roughly 3 million supporting media reform during the months before the November election by working with all members of the newly formed Public Interest, Public Airwaves Coalition (PIPAC) to re-appoint Jonathan Adelstein to a full term on the FCC.

MFA is also working with three key groups, Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC), the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME), and Seniors For America (SFA) to:

1. Convene local meetings with members of other church groups, citizen organizations, and media activists to start a letter writing / e-mail / telephone campaign urging the reappointment of FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein.
2. Using toolkits provided by PIPAC and others, form small working groups to visit their local broadcast TV stations, cable TV companies, and radio stations seeking a formal pledge to devote more resources and airtime to covering candidates and issues in this year’s election, and find out how much money they are making on political advertising.
3. Report back their findings for Internet dissemination and discussion.
   

I'm wondering if you might want to feature a link to this site as a way for
folks to find Assisted Living communities near them.


Assisted Living Federation of America


It's a searchable directory of all those facilities that belong to the Assisted Living Federation of America; it's not comprehensive in the sense of many smaller Mom & Pop assisted living places(many of which are being renamed Board & Care Homes), but it has many, many of the newer "purpose built" AL communities.

Joe Angelelli
State College, Pennsylvania