Osama bin Laden on Twitter

May 1, 2011 - Tweeters fingers were at warp speed with news that Osama Bin Laden was dead. Cells phone and texting was primary everywhere - ball games, bars, restaurants, even sitting on the family watching breaking news. It was reported there were more than 4000 tweets per second.

Here are some of the late morning tweets from May 2, 2011 -

RT @brimamassie: Most GOP congratulate the forces and not the commander in chief Obama, when they do they include Bush as the one who lay the ground work.

RT @RES911CUE: US kills Osama bin Laden decade after 9/11 attacks: WASHINGTON     (AP) -- Osama bin Laden, the face of global ... http://apne.ws/kg6tBK

RT @ABitterMN: Now that Bin Laden is dead, the war is over . Right? #stribpol

RT @nytimes: Video: Mark Mazzetti's quick overview of how U.S. intelligence tracked Bin Laden and ultimately killed him. http://nyti.ms/mBkSd0

RT @BuzzEdition: ►Osama bin Laden shot in the head after he & his guards resisted U.S. http://wapo.st/k00DNy  by @washingtonpost

RT @RES911CUE: Video: Bin Laden death marks end of an era: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports on the life and death of the mos... http://on.msnbc.com/j19umc

RT @RES911CUE: Video: Will U.S. jubilation spark rage in the Arab world?: NBC’s Tom Brokaw and David Gregory, along with ... http://on.msnbc.com/jdkFxD

Pls retweet RT @UniBulCstSpprt: U.S. issues travel alert after bin Laden killing http://bit.ly/m8LvVL

RT @RES911CUE: Osama Bin Laden is dead Facebook Page goes viral: Within about two hours of reports first surfacing (and since c... http://bit.ly/mCSqGy 

RT @RES911CUE: Obama tells families of 9/11 victims that 'justice has been done': In direct and emotional terms, President Bara... http://bit.ly/lTUG4d

RT @mayhemstudios: I'm at On The Planet Osama Just Left (worldwide) w/ 2 others http://4sq.com/mw57Hf

RT @MyAgenda: Great morning, whew.. what a night! breaking news trending everywhere - Let's think of this as "beginning of peace" #usguys

RT @RES911CUE: Describing bin Laden's compound: Time's Omar Waraich describes the compound area in Pakistan where Osama bin Lad... http://bit.ly/lAW80N

RT @BuzzEdition: ►U.S. issues travel alert after Osama bin Laden killing http://bit.ly/mswwnP  via @cnnmoney

RT @Chriscarroll50: RT @idiplomats: Bush: 'America has sent an unmistakable message' http://bit.ly/ixnXzj

RT @davewiner: While the White House was planning the demise of Bin Laden, Republicans were plotting to shut down the US govt.  http://r2.ly/9mim

RT @davewiner: While White House was planning the demise of Bin Laden, Republicans were plotting to shut down the US govt  http://r2.ly/9mim

RT @TheNewsBlotter: Reuters Intl: CIA: al Qaeda will "almost certainly" try to avenge bin Laden http://bit.ly/jN9Xnh  #news

Glenn Beck's Fox Show Ending - One Drop Rule

Glenn Beck will end his Fox News Channel talk show, which has sunk in the ratings and has suffered from an advertiser boycott. Fans found his conservative ranting entertaining, while Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert described Beck's "crank up the crazy and rip off the knob" moments. He was popular with Tea Party drinkers and gathered thousands of people to the National Mall in Washington last August for a "restoring honor" rally. Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers

Glenn Beck killed himself when he said, President Barack Obama had "a deep-seated hatred for white people," last summer. Beck is so stupid he actually thinks that "Advertisers who get weak-kneed because some idiot on a blog site writes to them and says we need to stifle speech, I get a little frustrated by that."  No Glenn Beck you are the idiot! Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media)

President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people!" Really? President Obama would be a very sick man with serious mental illness if that statement where true. For one thing, Obama is not a Black man! Earth shaking breaking news. The President is biracial and has a brown complexion.

Prejudice America has the One-Drop Rule. Historically, the United States designates a Black person as any person with any known African ancestry.  Legally the definition varied from state to state. Thomas Jefferson had slaves who were legally white (less than 25% Black) and legally slaves (50% Black). The  results of the one drop rule was uniting the African American community and preserving an African identity. Some of the most prominent civil rights activists were multiracial, and advocated equality for all.

Enters Barack Hussein Obama II born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital  in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas. Dunham was mostly of English descent. Her family traces to Germany and Ireland.  Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born in County Offaly, Republic of Ireland. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. So Barack Obama is 50% white, not just 50% Black.

Ann Dunham with her father and children

Deep-seated hatred of white people - that would mean he hated the white woman (his mother) that raised him. That would mean Obama hated his white maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Armour Dunham,who raised him when he went back to Hawaii. Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971. That would make him ten years old. Not a lot of Black African influence! Don't believe the Dunhams lived in a Black neighborhood.

Therefore, if Glenn Beck is correct and President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people" he learned it from his white relatives. Or he was so poorly treated by his white relatives, he developed a "deep-seated hatred for white people." Or even though his relatives were white, they had a deep-seated hatred for white people," and passed the prejudice to the child Obama. So what's the answer Glenn Beck? Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Enough of Health Care Repeal

Tuesday January 25, 2011 President Obama gave his second State of the Union.  One of the biggest topics mentioned was the Republicans desire to repeal the Health Reform Law.  The text of the official Republican response to the State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, can be found at the link.

Enough with false promises from the Republicans. As President Obama noted in his speech, it makes no sense to spend another two years with legislation, because repeal is not going to happen.  Better for all of us if Congress fix problems and move on.  The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care





Nancy Reagan at Bethesda Naval Hospital, MD

Another solution – let the Republicans and Democrats against Health Care Reform decline to participate in Government sponsored health care like the bill proposed H.R.3937, Latest Title: Simple Universal Healthcare Act of 2009 Sponsor: Rep Terry, Lee [NE-2] (introduced 10/27/2009) Cosponsors (None), Latest Major Action: 12/8/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. The bill covered the President, Vice-President and members of Congress, plus individuals not covered under the The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program.  

Under FEHB, those eligible for coverage pay an annual premium matched by the government. Since there are millions of civilian employees across the United States, territories and overseas, the health program has hundreds of program from which to choose.  But unlike regular employees, Congressmen can receive care at military hospitals such as Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Both hospitals have VIP wards/units for high profile people such as presidents, cabinet members, members of Congress, diplomats and eligible family members. The units have special staff which includes private chef.  VIP ward at Walter Reed gets scrutiny story with pictures.

Official text for H.R. 3937.

A bill to establish a health benefits program, based on the Federal employees health benefits program, to provide health insurance coverage for the President, Vice President, and Members of Congress, and citizens not eligible for coverage under the Federal employees health benefits program; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.



The 2011 salary for Congress is 2011 -- $174,000 per annum with Senate leaders -- majority and minority leaders, and the president pro tempore -- have received higher salaries than other members. Currently, leaders earn $193,400 per year, and Speaker of the House $223,500.  A cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) increase takes effect annually unless Congress votes to not accept it. The Working Poor: Invisible in America 

Many Congressmen were lawyers before arriving at Congress which should have netted a good income. U.S. Congressmen Tim Murphy, PhD. (R-PA) and Phil Gingrey, M.D. (R-GA) announced the formation of the GOP Doctors Caucus for the 111th Congress with 13 members. Do these Republicans propose to provide health care for all Americans as good as they get?



Resources:

http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/senate_salaries.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Senators_by_age_and_generation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Representatives_by_age_and_generation

http://www.narmc.amedd.army.mil/Lists/NARMCNews/DispForm.aspx?ID=88