What a scene in Berlin, 200,000 people cheering on a United States presidential nominee. U.S. flags waving in the air, like the reaching out of an olive branch. The German people have stood up and spoken to the U.S. and the world. This man, Barack Obama, is the WORLD's hope for the future. Here is the man that can bridge the gap between the still fighting races and religions of the world. Here is the man that will lead the world in going green with a commitment to safer environmental practices.  Here is the man that will lead the world into a new better age.

The site of Barack speaking to that MASSIVE crowd, on that amazing Berlin afternoon, was awe inspiring. You could feel the energy, love, hope and excitement beeming from the crowd. We can only  hope that same energy can be equaled here in the U.S. in the coming months.

This was an very important day in world history and we hope everyone realizes it!

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Best Metal Band

Red State Riot

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Quick, name the first three things that come to mind when you think of thrash metal. If your answers include animal sacrifice, Norse gods, and necrophilia, that's understandable. It's not like anyone listens to Slayer for its anti-war tunes. Well, maybe the guys in Red State Riot do. Sure, the trio is influenced by the usual denizens of dark metal, but that's more of a musical preference than a lyrical one. When it comes to topical fodder, the only Satan that vocalist Pete Gross sings about is the one in the White House. You can chalk that up to Gross' punk influences, like the Dead Kennedys and the Subhumans. In "Bring Down the Borders," Gross sings, "Republicans want war/defense contractor whores/Crash down the White House doors." So forget about devil's horns and goat heads. Red State Riot is after the real evil.

Red State Riot Debut CD  reviewed in The Broward /Palm Beach New Times.
New Times Review

http://www.newtimesbpb.com/Issues/2006-02-16/music/subtropical.html

Open Letter to George's Mama
by Cindy Sheehan

Dear Barbara,

On April 04, 2004, your oldest child killed my oldest child, Casey
Austin Sheehan.

Unlike your oldest child, my son was a marvelous person who joined
the military to serve his country and to try and make the world a
better place. Casey didn't want to go to Iraq, but he knew his duty.
Your son went AWOL from a glamour unit. George couldn't even handle
the Alabama Air National Guard. Casey joined the Army before your son
became commander in chief. We all know that your son was thinking of
invading Iraq as early as 1999. Casey was a dead man before George
even became president and before he even joined the Army in May of 2000.

I raised Casey and my other children to use their words to solve
problems and conflicts. I told my four children from the time that
they were small that it is ALWAYS wrong to kick, bite, hit, scratch,
pull hair, etc. If the smaller children couldn't find the words to
solve their conflicts without violence, I always encouraged them to
find a mediator like a parent, older sibling, or teacher to help them
find the words.

Did you teach George to use his words and not his violence to solve
problems? It doesn't appear so. Did you teach him that killing other
people for profits and oil is ALWAYS wrong? Obviously you did not. I
also used to wash my children's mouth out with soap on the rare
occasion that they lied?did you do that to George? Can you do it now?
He has lied and he is still lying. Saddam did not have WMDs or ties
with al-Qaeda and the Downing Street Memos prove that your son knew
this before he invaded Iraq.

On August 3rd, 2005, your son said that he killed my son and the
other brave and honorable Americans for a "noble cause." Well,
Barbara, mother to mother, that angered me. I don't consider invading
and occupying another country that was proven not to be a threat to
the USA is a noble cause. I don't think invading a country, killing
its innocent citizens, and ruining the infrastructure to make your
family and your family-friendly war profiteers rich is a noble cause.

So I went down to Crawford in August to ask your son what noble cause
did he kill my son for. He wouldn't speak with me. I think that
showed incredibly bad manners. Do you think a president, even if it
is your son, should be so inaccessible to his employers? Especially
one of his bosses whose life George has devastated so completely?

I have been to the White House several times since August to try and
meet with George and I am going back to Crawford next week. Do you
think you can call him and ask him to do the right thing and bring
the troops home from this illegal and immoral war in Iraq that he
carelessly started? I hear you are one of the few people he still
talks to. He won't speak to his father, who knew the difficulties and
impossibilities of going into Iraq and that's why he didn't go there
in the first Gulf War. If you won't tell him to bring the troops
home, can you at least urge him to meet with me?

You said this in 2003, a little over a year before my dear, sweet
Casey was killed by your son's policies:

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it's not
relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like
that?" (Good Morning America, March 18, 2003)

Now I have something to tell you, Barbara. I didn't want to hear
about deaths or body bags either. On April 04, 2004, three Army
officers came to my house to tell me that Casey was killed in Iraq. I
fell on the floor screaming and begging the cruel Angel of Death to
take me too. But the Angel of Death that took my son is your son.

Casey came home in a flag draped coffin on April 10th. I used to have
a beautiful mind too. Now my mind is filled with images of seeing his
beautiful body in his casket and memories of burying my brave and
honest boy before his life really began. Casey's beautiful mind was
ended by an insurgent's bullet to his brain, but your son might as
well have pulled the trigger.

Besides encouraging your son to have some honesty and courage and to
finally do the right thing, don't you think you owe me and every
other Gold Star parent an apology for that cruel and careless remark
you made?

Your son's amazingly ignorant, arrogant, and reckless policies in
Iraq are responsible for so much sorrow and trouble in this world.

Can you make him stop? Do it before more mothers' lives are
needlessly and cruelly harmed. There have been too many worldwide
already.

Sincerely,

Cindy Sheehan
Mother of Casey Sheehan
Founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace
Founder of Camp Casey Peace Foundation