Here is a guest blog from the good folks at Connect and Join. It is one of our newest resources in Support and Defend, to make it easier for you to make a difference. Please check it out.
Being around the military and military families for years and as a publisher of educational and computer-based craft magazines, we felt there was a way to provide military families with the ability to communicate online and create digital scrapbooks when family members were apart. This initial idea came to fruition with Connect And Join, a subscription-based family website community, allowing private, frequent and meaningful interactions between a deployed family member and their family members at home.
Connect And Join has been in development for just a few short years and is now ready for public consumption. We have tested the site with military families and seen the power of communication at work in families who before had a hard time communicating or sharing events. It has been a whirlwind experience. In this time we have joined America Supports You and created military children crafting areas at the Joint Services Open House and at several National Guard events. We have also started an education program for schools called "Connect with the Troops." This program offers a free web site that includes templates for creating scrapbook pages for creating the world's largest scrapbook to be presented to the troops.
Connect And Join, America Supports You, and KandCompany have also developed a patriotic scrapbook, available on the Connect And Join web site or through Michaels stores, in which proceeds go to support military families.
Through Connect And Join, we hope to provide military families with the communication tools to keep them connected during deployment and help with the reintroduction into family life upon their return.
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some may think the GOP has owned the judiciary, congress, and the oval office for six years, however that's not true. Coservatives are still six years into the Bush 43 Era, the minority on the U.S. Supreme Court,obviously the 9th Circuit as well as the Florida and New Jersey State Supreme courts. Just this year, use of state vouchers were repealed in the Sunshine State, and a Gay Mariage case, in New Jersey, where that court legislated from the bench and is demanding the state legislature to pass a law that sounds like it is supposed to be legalization of civil unions with equal marraige rights for gay couples, and conservatives opposed that ruling, as well as the Lawrence v. Texas U.S. Supreme Court which in 2003 legalized sodomy, and again
by legislating from the bench a right that is not in the constituiton, and we certainly opposed that ruling as well.
Posted by: Scott Adenauer on November 17, 2006 17:22
I have no problem with the judiciary legislating from the bench, provided it is accordance with my views.
Now be honest Scott Adneauer. Let's call a spade a spade. The American Governmental system comes down to being a team sport. If you honestly believe that judges do not have an agenda then you believe that all priests are holy and teachers and professors teach only the facts. I am sick and tired of the party that is not in power wanting everyone to "play fair" and then when given power...plays to win. (read Republicans).
War may not be a sport, but politics is.
The end result is that there are winners and there are losers. The Republicans must be defeated at every turn, (unless a Republican win helps the Dems in the overall end-game) and a judiciary must be installed that keeps the Democratic majority and their laws in place.
Once you admit that politics and American governance is partisanship by another name, then you will not be dismissed as just another whiner, outwardly pretending to want parity, inwardly desiring dominance.
I have taught classed in public administration, and the first thing I tell the class is that if they believe that administration of public policy is nuetral, they need to find another line of work.
Pick a side and be a team player. Pick a side that matches you morally and perform, or you will be principaled, but unemployed. That is true from you local dog catcher to the head GSA administrator.
Its just like the war on terror. Once you understand that there are no rules, you are on your way to victory. The East and the Republicans know this. The West and the Dems have yet to discover this. There is much in common between the foes and much to learn from the mistakes and successes of each. If we don't learn now, it will be too late. To know this and to practice this is virtu.
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