More good news for the first week of President Obama.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that promote or perform abortions, officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
More details at: Obama to reverse foreign abortion rule – White House- msnbc.com
Another test of Twitme after changing the text that is included in the Twitter notifications.
If everything works okay this post should generate a tweet on Twitter notifying people following me about a new post to the Soapbox.
EDIT: to see if edits generate Twitter notifications.
David Cameron gave a speech today on Progressive Conservatism. Still have to read it. I’ll comment on it if required after I read through it. You can read the whole thing at the URL below.
David Cameron: Making progressive conservatism a reality
From: The Conservative Party | News | Speeches | David Cameron: Making progressive conservatism a reality
This is brilliant news. Obama promised it on the campaign trail but it’s good to see it happen. This does not mean that all the people in the prison will just be turfed out the gates. Nor should it. It means that those that have charges to answer will be tried in proper courts with proper evidence. Guantanamo Bay, or what has gone on there, rather than the physical place, is a stain on the ideals that the USA used to stand for. Proper due process of the inmates will go a long way to restoring the reputation of the USA.
US President Barack Obama has ordered the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to be closed within one year.
More details at: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Obama orders Guantanamo closure
Just want to wish everyone who stumbles upon this blog a Happy 2009. If you want to be where the action is online in 2009 joint Twitter.
I think 2009 is going to be very historic for several reasons. Number 1 being the inauguration of Barack Obama. The fact that he is African American is an incidental in my opinion. The best thing about Barack Obama is that he is an intellectual. He gets that it is okay to listen to experts in various fields and that empirical evidence isn’t a taboo.
Other highlights in 2009 will be the 200 year anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of the publication of his seminal work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
The world has been on a path to a a better place after the work of Darwin, and Wallace it should be said.
Like a lot of other people I was really happy to see Barack Obama get elected the 44th President of the USA. I’ve been following Obama’s speeches and policy positions for the last 6 months or so and had come to the conclusion that he would be a breath of fresh air for the USA and the wider world. Hopefully he will be able to manoeuvre as he wants in the current economic crisis, and that he gets the full 2 terms. Heck I hope he is so successful that there is a popular uprising to set aside the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution that limits Presidents to 2 terms.
Looks like my Electoral College vote prediction was right on the mark 🙂 That prediction was built on the excellent information posted on the 538 site in the weeks running up the to the election.
Apple comes out publicly to oppose the Proposition 8 vote in California on November 4th. Prop 8 seeks to overturn the Californian Supreme Court ruling on same sex partnerships.
Apple donates $100,000 to fight Prop. 8Apple said it views Proposition 8 as a civil rights issue, not a political one and as such, is donating $100,000 to defeat the measure, it announced today. Prop. 8 is aimed at defining marriage as only between a man and a woman and preventing same-sex marriages.”Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights – including the right to marry – should not be affected by their sexual orientation,” the company said on its website today.
More at: The Technology Chronicles : Apple donates $100,000 to fight Prop. 8
Another nail in the McCain presidential campaign effort:
US President George W Bush’s first Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has endorsed Democratic election candidate Barack Obama for the White House.
From: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Colin Powell backs Barack Obama
Been critical of iBlogger on iPhone in the past. Testing again with the footer advertisement turned off.
Edit with Ecto: Seems to post okay without screwing up my (commercial, paid for) WordPress theme. Adding the location to a post does screw up the theme though. Not sure I’d use that feature.