GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





Registration deadline is TODAY!!!!

Tuesday (Oct. 9) is the last day to update voter registration information or to register to vote in the Nov. 6 elections.

Voter registration forms may be found at most post offices and libraries and online at http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections.





C-Span will broadcast live from the LBJ Library...

...at 7 p.m. (CDT) on Friday, Oct. 12, as part of its "Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered" series.

If you missed any of the programs that have been shown (Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy) you can view them online at http://www.c-span.org/presidentiallibraries/


AUSTIN, TX - October 4, 2007 - Today, organizers of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Centennial, commemorating the 100th birthday (August 27, 1908) of the 36th President, announced that the official Centennial celebrations will begin January 1, 2008, with a year-long tribute to the LBJ legacy. To kick off the Centennial celebrations, seven LBJ-affiliated groups and GSD&M's Idea City unveiled a Centennial logo and website (http://www.LBJ100.org). A series of programs and events in Texas and Washington, D. C., will highlight the Centennial salute.





Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. (Address, May 31, 1954)





Florida group to protest Muslim day at Six Flags

By SCOTT FARWELL / The Dallas Morning News
10:23 PM CDT on Friday, October 5, 2007

The Muslims say they are not terrorists.

A Florida-based group called Americans Against Hate plans to protest a Muslim Family Day at Six Flags Over Texas later this month because it says the Islamic organization sponsoring the event supports terrorism.

Local Muslims called the accusation a lie.

"They have an agenda and they have a focus, and that is to absolutely tear down any Muslim organization that has any level of promise in America," said Khalil Meek of Plano, president of the Muslim Legal Fund of America. "I'm not surprised they're doing it, and I don't even want to talk about them because the more hype they get, the more voice they get. I'd rather just ignore them and pray they grow up and learn how to become responsible people."

http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/100507kvuemuslimday-mm.141457345.html#





SLOW CITIES: Taking Life Easy in Urban Italy
SPIEGEL ONLINE - October 5, 2007, 05:39 PM

By Stephan Orth in Orvieto, Italy

Supporters of Italy's "Slow City" movement are trying to develop liveable cities, banning cars from city centers and blocking McDonald's branches and supermarkets. The movement is spreading across Europe and is now taking off in Asia.

It's not easy to be punctual for a meeting with Stefano Cimicchi. Parking places are hard to come by in Orvieto, even if cars are still legal. Cars in the city center stick out like a sore thumb among strolling pedestrians, who move to the sides of the streets with studied slowness. After a couple of twisty laps though the narrow medieval alleyways of the old town center, you might find a parking place on the edge of the small Umbrian town -- and pay handsomely for the privilege of parking.

Cimicchi was mayor of Orvieto from 1991 to 2004, and for several years he was president of the "Slow City" movement, an outgrowth of the successful "Slow Food" concept. "Slow City" advocates argue that small cities should preserve their traditional structures by observing strict rules: cars should be banned from city centers; people should eat only local products and use sustainable energy. In these cities, there's not much point in looking for a supermarket chain or McDonald's.

URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,509189,00.html





Commentary: What Do the Zealots on the Religious Right Want? Their Very Own American Taliban

By: Deborah Mathis, BlackAmericaWeb.com
Date: Monday, October 08, 2007

Thank heavens not all of the religiously devout -- not even all of the religiously fanatical -- are holier-than-thou because there are enough of that type to incessantly annoy every pocket of the country, day in and day out. We need fewer, not more.

I speak of certain sanctimonious persons from the religious right, which is saber-rattling, as it does around every election season, but doing so more and more with tin swords.

They just don’t have the umph they used to. And that, dear friends, is a good thing. The country could use a good, long dose of minding one’s own business.

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/mathis1008





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Bryan Texas 77805
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman, Democrat, President of the United States of America