From the Restore Fairness blog.

We need your vote! Vote to Restore Fairness to our broken immigration system on Change.org’s Ideas for Change in America and take us one step closer to to ensure that 2010 is the year for immigration reform.

Ideas for Change in America is a competition that empowers citizens to build momentum for solutions to pressing problems facing us today. The 10 ideas with the maximum number of votes will go to Washington.

Immigration reform has been proven to benefit the livelihood and stability of all of us, leading to a vibrant and viable future. So vote now! Here’s our idea.

Unite to pass immigration reform this year that “Restores Fairness” to our broken immigration system

Today, a broken immigration system denies basic human rights and due process to people who live here.  In the aftermath of 9-11, immigrants have borne the brunt of harsh policies with the U.S. government allowing raids and arrests without warrants, holding thousands in inhumane detention conditions, and deporting people without a fair trial.

But there is hope. This year, people across America are coming together to ask for just and humane immigration reform, one of President Obama’s election promises. Right now, Senator Schumer is crafting a bill with Senator Graham to be introduced in the Senate after which it will move to the House. But there are divisive, nativist, voices out there that are trying to stop this.

Raise your voice for a just and humane immigration reform that:

1.  Creates a fair path to citizenship for the millions of hardworking individuals and families who live here.
2. Creates fair enforcement practices that include -

- creating legally enforceable detention standards and implementing secure alternatives to detention so that we stop locking up harmless individuals, children and people with severe medical conditions
- stopping indiscriminate raids and the continued use of local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law
- restoring the ability of immigration judges to consider individual circumstances before they detain and deport people

Immigration reform must also address border security, workers rights, family reunification and future flows of workers.

"Cheney Actively Seeking Book Deal On Bush Years"

So that's why we're now seeing and hearing so much from a man who seemed to have lived under a rock for eight years, emerging occasionally to guide the President in a disastrous direction.

Or maybe he lived under a bridge. Jon Stewart tellingly called Cheney a troll. Just today, Gail Collins wisely advised us to pay no attention to the former Vice President until he undergoes therapy.

I must say that his speech scared me with his 27 references to 9-11 and warnings of the clear and present dangers that he sees.

homer  www.altara.blogspot.com

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Slate has a beauty of a Hitchen's column. He says he is glad he voted for Bush because of 9-11.  Unbelievable: condition subsequent to justify antecedent action. The rationalization of all rationalizations. Then he engages in rank and unsupported speculation that Gore would have been worse for civil liberties.  Finally, he blames Saddam on Clinton (and not Bush 1) for allowing him to remain in power. First of all, the GOP, properly in my view, would have never authorized Clinton to go to war against Iraq  Second, CH pays lip service to the possibly nearly million dead Iraqis (no one knows the real number but estimates range from 150,000 to 1,000,000).  What a vanglorious self centered lying piece of scum human being.   The reason CH voted for W and not Gore was his uncontrollable hatred of Clinton, nothing more, nothing less.

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Barack Obama can actually take a bit of a page from George W. Bush.  Hard to believe I said that, but I think he can.  After 9-11 George Bush made a call to Americans to go shopping.  Granted it was clumsy, and the exact timing may not have been right.

But I know why he said it.  I know what he meant.  It was important that Americans get up and go out and have confidence at at time that we'd just been wounded on the ground in NY, PA, and DC, and seen the stock market take a dive.

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This is my response to someone on an Obama Email list who heard of folks stating they won't vote for Barack Obama because he's muslim.  Truth is - he's not, he's Christian, but someone asked why does it matter?  We have freedom of religion in this country.  Why does it matter?  What's written below is my response to that.

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