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Listed below are comments made by BienvenueEnLouisiana between Friday, 20th November 2009 and Sunday, 29th November 2009.

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A very different Black Friday 00:26am on 29 Nov 2009 I dont usually do my shopping the day after Thanksgiving; the malls and outlets are just too crowded for my taste. I prefer to do my shopping on the following weekends.
Getting to grips with Thanksgiving Day 2:51pm on 26 Nov 2009 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Is Obama serious about climate change? 04:19am on 26 Nov 2009 Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
Washington, DC—October 3, 1863

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well as the iron and coal as of our precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October, A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.
Abraham Lincoln

By the President:
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State.
Britain: Putting the bite on the States 5:50pm on 25 Nov 2009 Fluffy and DC:

Please read this article "New Orleans: A city without Charity":

http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/07/post-46.html
State dinner: the hottest ticket in town 5:41pm on 25 Nov 2009 President Obama just pardoned the Thanksgiving Turkey from North Carolina named Courage. Appropriate name don't ya think.
Afghanistan troops: Decision time for Obama 5:19pm on 25 Nov 2009 I personally think he took too long to make this decision, but we don't know a whole lot about his decision-making process yet.

I'm going to wait and see what he says first before I make any meaning remarks on the substance of his policy changes in Afghanistan.

However, I do feel that at this point we either need to commit whatever is needed to bring a satisfactory end to the war or start preparing to leave because I cannot support half measures that won't accomplish much.
Britain: Putting the bite on the States 00:55am on 24 Nov 2009 I'm sorry, DC, but you're missing the point.
This is not some privately owned hospital in the unprotected marshes or batture lands.

This is a state owned public use hospital, managed by the Louisiana State University system in Downtown New Orleans that was flooded because the levees that were built by the Feds miles away were substandard. In otherwords, it's the Feds fault and they should pay for the damages to this multi-million dollar facility.

It's no different than you getting into a car accident where you are at fault and your insurance has to pay for the damages to someone else's car; in this case, the Army Corps of Engineers is at fault and FEMA is their insurance company that stubbornly refuses to pay out.

How some of you can't understand the difference between a public use facility and Obama's people based healthcare plan is beyond me.
I guess public schools, VA hospitals, libraries, police and fire stations, and other civic buildings aren't considered by y'all to be public use infrastructure either.

DC, you are right about this not really pertaining to the topic, but if you scroll up you'll be able to see how this topic developed.
Britain: Putting the bite on the States 6:45pm on 23 Nov 2009 287 Fluffy:
Hey DUDE,

We are talking about a building here, a hospital, not Federally funded insurance plans; in other words public infranstructure of the type explicited mentioned in the Constitution owned by the state.

We are also talking about a building that is a historic landmark from the 1930s that was flooded because of shoddy levees built by the Army Corps of Engineers.

This is money that FEMA is supposed to pay, but they are purposely dragging their feet and looking for any way to not pay the amount necessary to repair the building.

You ask, why should you pay to repair this building?
You should and you will regardless of the amount eventually paid out because it is the just thing to and it is the government's job to do; it'd be no different than the situation you'd be faced with if Oregon was hit by an earthquake and or a tidalwave, or if the rivers flowing through Portland broke through substandard Federally built levees, flooding otherwise dry land.
Britain: Putting the bite on the States 8:09pm on 20 Nov 2009 220:
Yes, I remember Harry Potter; a few old crazies didn't like the message, but there was never a movement to ban the movies or the books.
I thoroughly enjoyed everyone of em.
EU back to the future? 7:20pm on 20 Nov 2009 I still think European Federalism is unavoidable now that the EU has a President. Power will eventually gravitate to the top; it may take decades or even another referendum on the structure of the EU, but it will happen because power almost always trends towards to top.

The EU today is not really comparable to the US Federal government today, but to this American, the EU looks an awful lot like the US did over 200 years ago under the Articles of Confederation.

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